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I? vpAloliril t.nrwlrofl nnil ton nraini tl Ills Uiiir xvu Kluky nua uej:rolil, and be HI was black. He was peculiarly black. II lie wuh ueltbcr blue-bluck uor puri'leII I.lu. lr Ilia Muuiiit uim um was tue son or a enter, lie bud three tambo$. Tambo Is Melan- ' eslan for taboo, auiT is first cousin to that Polynesian word. Maukl's three tambot were ns follows: First, be must never shake bunds with a woman, nor have a woman's bund touch him or any Of bis pergonal belonging. Secondly, be muMt never eat clunis nr any food from a fire lu which clams bud been ctniked. Thirdly, be must never touch a crocodile, uor travel lit a ennoc thnt curried nny iurt of a crocoilile, eveu If only us la rue as a tooth. Of a different bluck were his teeth, which were !evblin k. or, perhaps better, auip-black. They bud Ihi-u uniile so l:i a sIukIu uljcut. by his mother, who ! r. tl coinprerited iiiMKit them n Mwderel mlnerul which vii s dux from tho landslide buck of Tort Adums. I'crt Ad:u::s i a sulfwater vllliige ou Malalta, and rialaltu Is t!:o m;:ct :uvnso lsl:uid In i!ie ftolouioH--:i navaKO that no truders nor planters bnvo yet gained n foothold ou It: while, from tbe time of the'"eirrltst bcrl.c-dc-mer fuliers and nnndulwood traders down to the latest lnlor recruiters equlpied r.'ltb automatic rifles and (tnsollno engines, scores' of whkc.ndvantnrcrs hnve been Mtcd out by tomahawks r:id soft-mmed Hnlder ballets. Mnuki's enrs were pierced, not In one place, nor two place s, but In n i ouple of dozen phi res. I n one of tlie r:nnller holes he carried n slny plie. The larger liolen were too large for such Ufe. The bowl of the pipe would have fulleu through. In fact. In the largest hole hi ench ear he habitually wore round,' wooden plugs that were rn even four Inches In diameter, lionjhly speaking, the circumference o' sold holes was twelve and one. lirlf Inches. Mankl was catholic In Ms tnpten. In the mrlons smaller lolo be carried snvli things as ciupty rifle cartridges, horseshoe rnlls, cepivr screws, pieces of string, bmlds cf s?r.r.lt. rtrlps of green leaf, md. In tlio co. of t!ie day, scarlet hibiscus Cowrs. MhuUI's fufacr was chief over the ' village nt I'crt Adams, und thus, by I Irtb a si.lt-v.oter man, Maukl was l.alf-nmphlblr.u. Ho kew the way rf tbe fishes nnd oysters, nr.d the r-ef wus na o;ie: lKok to blm. , Canoes, also, he kuew. He learned , tn swim when he was a year old. At seven years h could hoM his I renth - a fnll minute nnd swim i trnlght down to bottom through thirty feet of water. And nt seven years he was stolen by the bnshmen, who cannot even swim and who are 1 rfrald of sslt water. Thereafter . Mnukl ssw the sen only from a distance, through rifts in the Jungto nnd from often spaces on the hlgu mountain sides. He became the slave of old Fanfon. H head chief over a score of scattered Wl,ltv Jr" bush Tillages on the range-lips of Malaita. the smoke of which, on calm mornings, is about the only evidence tbe seafaring white men bare of th teeming luterior population. For tbe whites do not penetrate Malaita. When Maukl was young man of seventeen. Fanfoa rft out of tobacco. He got dreadfully out of tobacco, .'t was hard times in all his villages. He bad been r unty of mistake. Puo was a harbor so small that large schooner could not swing at anchor In It.' It ras surrounded by mangroves that overhung the deep rater. It was a trap, and into the trap sailed two vhlte men, In a small ketch. They were after recruits, . :id they possessed much tobacco and trade goods, to r-y nothing of three rifles and plenty of ammunition. Now there were no salt-water men living at Sno. and it was there that the bushraen could come down to te sea. The ketch did a splendid traffic. It signed rn twenty recruits the first day., E-en old Fanfoa flgned on. And thnt same day the score of new rerults chopped off' the two white men's beads; killed the boat's crew, and burned the ketch. Thereafter, and for three months, there was tobacco and trade goods In plenty nnd to spare lu all the bush villages.' Then came the man-of-war. that threw fihells for miles Into the hills, frightening tbe people out of their villages aud Into the deeper bush. Next the man-of-war cent landing parties ashore. The villages were all burned, along with the tobacco and trade stuff. , It taught Fanfoa a lesson, but In tbe meantime he was out of tobacco. Also, his young men were too frightened to sign on with the recruiting vessels. That wus why Fanfoa ordered his slave. Maukl. to be car- . tied down and signed on for half a case of tobacco udvance, along with knives, axes, calico and beads, which be would pay for with his toil on tbe plantations. Mauki was sorely frlr htened when they brought blm on board the schooner. He was a lamb l?d to the slaughter. ! White men were ferocious creatures. They had to be. or els? they would not make a practice of venturing along (t'jc Malaita coast and Into all Ji arbors, two on a schooner, wheu each schooner carried from fifteen to twenty blacks ns boat's crew, andoften as Msh rs sixty or seventy black recruits. After many days on the schooner, and after behold -Irg more land nr.d Islands thau he hud ever dreamed of, be was !:iudcd on New Georgia nnd pift to work In the field !." ring jungle and cutt:.:- cane grass. For tue first time ti? ku:r vhat work wau: Even as a slave to Fanfoa he b." not worited like fills. And he did not like work. It vs ; dawn and In at dark. cm two meals a day. And t'v food was tiresome. For weeks at a time tccr v,- r -'-en nothing but sweet potatoes to eat end for veeks tt a time it would be nothing but rice. Among other things be learned brchfdr-mrr English, with which he could talk "ith all white men. and with all recrnlts who otherwise would have talked In thousand different dialects. Also, be learned certain things about the white men, principally that they kept their word. If they told a boy he was going to receive a stick of tobacco, he got it. If they told a boy

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they would knock seven bells out of him if he did a certain thing, when he did that thing seven bells invariably were knocked out of blm. Maukl did not know what seveu bells were, but they occurred in bcchc-de-mcr, and he imagined thein to be the blood and teeth that sometimes accompanied the-process of knocking out Beven bells. One other thing he learned ; no boy was struck, or punished unless he did wrong. Even when tho white men were Jrunk, as they were frequently, they never struck unless a rule bud been broken. Maukl did not like the plantation. He bated work, and he was the sou of a chief. Furthermore, it was ten years since he hud been stolen froai Tort Adams by Fanfon, 'and be was homesick. He was even homeHick for the slavery under Fanfoa. Solo ran away. He struck back iuto the bush, with the idea of working southward to the beach and stealing a canoe in which to go home to Port Adams. Put the fever got Do ThrV VTouM Knock Kcrrn Bella Out of Him, Seven Bella were Knocked Out of II Im. him. and he was captured and brought back more dead than alive. A second time he ran away, in the company of two Malaita boys. They got down the coast twenty miles, and were hidden in the hut of a Malaita freeman, who dwelt in that village. ' But In tbe dead of night two white men came, who "were not afraid of all the Tluage people and who knocked seven bells out of the three runaways, tied them like pigs, and tossed them into t.e whaleboar. But the man in whose house they had hldden--seven times seven bells must hnve been knocked out of him from the way the hair, skin and teeth flew, and he was discouraged for the rest, of bis natural life from harboring runaway laborers. For a year Mnukl toiled on. Then he was made a house boy, and had good food and easy times, with llgat work In keeping the bouse clean and serving the white men .with whisky and beer at all hours of the day and most hours of the night. He liked it, bnt he liked Port Adams more. He had two years Jonger to serve, but two years were too long for him In the throes of home-sickness. He had grown wiser with his year of service, and being now a house boy, he had opportunity. He had the cleaning of the rifles, and he knew where the key to the storeroom was hung. He planned the escape, and one night ten Malaita boys and one boy from San Cristoval sneaked from the barracks and dragged one of the whaleboats down to the beach. It was Mauki who supplied the key that opened tbe padlock on the boat, and it was Mauki who equipped tbe boat with a dozen Winchesters, an immense amount of ammunition, a case of dynamite , with detonators and fuse, and ten cases of tobacco. The northwest monsoon was blowing, and they fled south In the night time, biding by day on detached and uninhabited islets, or dragging their whalcboat into tbe bush on tbe large islands. Thus they gained Guadalcanar, skirted halfway along it. and crossed the Indispensable Straits to Florida Island. It was here that they killed the San Cristoval boysaving bis head and cooking and eating the rest of him. '.. The Malaita coast was only twent --miles away, but the last night a strong current and baffling winds prevented them from gaining across. Daylight found them still several miles from their goal. : But daylight brought a cutter, la which were two white men who were not afraid of eleven Malaita men armed with twelve rifles. . - - Maukl and bis companions were carried back to Tulagl. where lived the great white roaster of all the white men. And the great white master held, a court, after which, one. by one. the rfjpaways were tied np aud given twenty lashes each, and sentenced to a of fifteen dollars. Then they were, cent back to N'r-.v Georgia, where the white men knocked seven rf!"u rut of tbera ell around and p-:t them to work. T --. Mfwkl was no longer house boy. Tfe was put In V.:y road-making gang. The fine of fifteen dollars bad been paid by the white men from whom he had run away, and he was told that he would have to

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work It out. which meant six months' additional toil. Further, bis share of tbe stolen tobacco earned him ' another year of toiL Port Adams was now three years and a half away, so he stole a canoe one night, hid on the islets In Manning Straits, passed through tbe Straits, and began working along tbe eastern coast of Ysabel. only to be captured, two thirds of the wa; along, by the white men on Merlnge Lagoon. After a week he escaped from them and took to the bush. There were no bush. nattVes on Ysabel, only salt-water men who were all Christians. The white men put 'up a reward of five . hundred sticks of tobacco, nnd every time Mauki ven-. tured dows to the sea to steal a canoe be was chased by the sujt-water men. . 4 Four mouths of this passed, when, the reward having been raised to a thousand sticks. Ire was caught and c2:t buck to Xew Georjria and the road-building cang. Now a thousand sticks are worth fifty dollars, and Mr.uk! had to pay the reward himself, which' required a year nnd eight months labor. . So Port Adams wus now five years away.His homesickness v.t.s greater than ever, and it did not a p ten I to hiia to settle-dowu and be good, work out his four years, and so ho:ue. The next time he was caught in the very act cf running away. His case was brought before Mr. Haveby, the island manager of the Moonglecr.1 Sor.p Company, who adjudged him an incorrigible. The company had plantations on the Santa Cruz islands, hundreds of miles across the sea. and there it sent its Solomon Islands' incorrigibles. And there Ufanti was sent, though he never arrived.' The schooner stopped at Santa Anna, and in the night Mauki sircni nrhore. where he stole two Ti3es nsd a case of tobacco from the trader and sot away In a canoe to Cristoval. i Malaita was cow to ths north, fifty or sixty. wiles away. But whea he attempted the passage fee was, caught by a light gala and driven back to Santa Anna, where the trader clappedhlm in irons and held, him against the return of tho schooner from Santa ST nu. The two rides the trader 'recovered, but 'the case of tobacco was charged up to Mauki at the rate of another yee.r. The sum of years be now owed the company wok six. - ' '-'-- ' -. "' i On the way back to New Georgia ! the Schooner . dropped anchor in Mania Sound, which lies at the southeastern extremity cf Guadalcanar. Mauki swam ashore with handcuffs on his wrists and got away to the bush. .The schooner went on. but the Moon.ilenm trader' cshore oCcrcd a thousand sticks, and to him Mauki was brcusht by the Imshmen with a year and

eight months tacked on to hi account. -'Again, and before the schooner called in. he sot away, this time ,in a whalcboat accompanied by a case of the trader's tobacco. But a northwest pale wrecked him upon Ugl, where the Christian natives stole his tobacco nnd turned him over to the Moongleam trader who resided there. The tobacco the natives stole meant another year for him, and the tale was now eight years and a half. "We'll send him to Ldrd Howe," said Mr. Haveby. "Bunster is there, and we'll let them settle It between them. It will be a case. I imagine, cf Mauki getting Bunster. or Bunster getting Mauki, and good riddance in either event-" Nobody ever conies to I.ord Howe, or Ontong-Java, as It is sometimes called. Thomas Cook & Ron do not sell tickets to It and tourists do not dream of Its existence. Not even a white missionary has landed on Its shore. Its five thousand natives are ns peaceable as they are primitive. Yet they were not always , iteaceable. The "Sailing Directions" speak of thcra as JS.1.1. an,treb,rpi-s. But the men who compile the "Sailing Directions' have never heard of the change that was worked la the hearts of the Inhabitants, who, not many years ago, cut off a big bark nnd killed nil bands with the exception of the second mate. This survivor carrled'the news to' his brothers. The captains of three trading schooners returned with him to Lord Howe. Tbey sailed their vessels right into the lagoon and proceeded to preach the white man's gospel thnt only white men shall kill white men, and that the lesser breeds niv.st keep hands off. The schooners sailed up and down the lagoon, harTying and destroyp.13. There was no escape from the narrow sand circle, no bush to which to Cee. , The men were shot down nt sight, and there was no avoiding being sighted, f The villages were burned. the canoes smashed, the chickens nnd piss killed, and the precious cocoanut trees chopped down. For a month this continued, when the schooners sailed away ; but ' the fear of tbe white man had been seared, into the souls of the islanders and never again were they rash enough to barm one. Max Bunster. was the one whitet man on Lord Howe, trading in the pay of the ubiquitous Moongleam Soap Company. And the company billeted him on .Lord Howe, because, next to getting rid of him. it was the most out-of-the-way place tobe found. That the company did not get rid of him wes due to the difficulty of finding another man to take his place. He was a strapping big German, with something wrong In his brain. Semi-madness would be a charitable statement of bis condition. He was a bully and a coward, and a thrice bigger savage than any savage on the island. Being a coward, his brutality was of the cowardly order. - 1 When he first went Into the company's employ he : was stationed on Savo. When a consumptive Colonial v was sent to take his place, he beat him up with his fists and sent him off a wreck lu the schooner that brought him. ' v - Mr. Haveby next selected a ,young Yorkshire giant to relieve Bunster. The Yorkshire man had a repu- , tation f.s a bruiser and preferred fighting to eating. But Bunster wouldn't fight. He was a regular little lamb for tea days, at the end of which time the Yorkshire man was prostrated by an attack of fever. Then Bunster went for him, among other things getting him down and jumping on him a score or so of times. Afraid of what would happen when his victim . recovered, Bunster fled away in a cutter to Guvutu. where he signalised himself by beating up a young Englishman -already crippled by a Boer bullet through both hips. Then It was that Mr. Haveby sent Bunster to Lord Howe, the falling-off place. He celebrated his landing by mopping up half a case of gin and by thrashing the elderly and wbecsy mate of the schooner which had brought him. When the schooner departed he called the kanakas down to the beach and challenged -them to throw him in a wrestling bout, promising a case of tobacco to the one who succeeded- Three kanakas he threw, but was promptly thrown by a fourth, who. instead of receiving the tobacco, got a bullet through his lungs. ' '- And fo bean Bnnster's reign on Lord Howe. Three thousand eople lived in the principal village; but it was deserted, even In broad day. when he passed ' throo.-rh. Men. women and child -en fled before him. Even the dors and pigs got onfef the way. while the king was not above hiding under a mat. The two Twjme ministers lived in terror of Bunster. who never disewsed any moot subject, but struck oat with his fists instead.. Mauki had nr Idea of the sort of master he was to work for. lie had had no warnings, and he had eoneluded, as a matter of co?!w. that Bunster would be

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like other white men, a drinker of much .whisky, a ruler and a. lawgiver who always kept his word aud who never struck a boy undeserved. Bunster had the advantage. He knew all about Maukl, and gloated over the coming into possession of hi l. The last cook was suffering from a broken arm aid a dislocated shoulder.- so Bunster made Mauki . cook and general house boy. ' . And Maukl soon learned that there were white men r.nd white men. On the very day the schooner departed he was ordered to buy a chicken from Samisee. the native Tmgan missionary. But Samisee had sailed across the lagoon and woulc not be back for three days. Maukl returned with the information. He climbed the steep stairway (the house stood on plies twelve feet above the sand) and entered the living room to report.. The trader demanded the chicken. Mauki opened liis mouth to explain the missionary's absence. But Bunster did not care for explanations. He struck out with his fist. Te blow caught Mauki on the mouth and lifted him into the air. Clear through tbe doorway he flew, , across the narrow veranda, breaking the top railing, and down to the ground. v.His lips were a contused, shapeless mass, nnd his mouth was full of blood and broken teeth. That'll teach you that back talk don t go with me," the trader shouted, purple with rage, peering down at , him over the broken railing. Maukfhad never met a white man like 'this, and he resolved to walk small. He saw the boat boys knocked about and one of them put in irons for three days, with nothing to eat. for the crime of breaking a rowlock while pulling. Then, too. be henrd tbe gossip of the village and learned why Bunster had taken a third wife by force, as was well known. The first nnd second wives lay in the raveyard. under the white coral sand, with slabs of coral rock at heads' .and feet. They had died, it was said, from beatings he had given them. The third wife was certainly 111- " used. "as Maukl could see for himself. ; But there seemed no way by which to avoid offending the white man, who seemed offended with life. When Maukl kept silent he was struck and called a r sullen brute. When he spoke he. was struck for giving back talk. When he was grave, Bunster accused him of plotting and gave him a thrashing in r.dvance; and when he strove" to be cheerful and to cmile, he was charged with sneering at his lord and n:aster and given a taste of stick. Bunster was a devii. The rillrge would have done for --him, bad it not remembered the lesson of the three schooners. It might have done for him anyway, if there had been a bush' to which to-flee. ; As it was, the murder of the white man, of any white man. would bring a man-of-war that Mould kill the offenders and chop down the trectous cocoa ni.it trees. Then. there were the boat boys, with minds fully made up to drown him by acclident at the first '..opportunity to capsi7 the cutter. Only Bunftsr et.w to it that the ' oat did not capsize. Mauki was of -a -different breed, and, escape being impossible while Bunster lived, he was resolved to get the white man. The trouble .was that ; he could never find a chance. Bunster was always on guard. Day n-d night his revolvers were ready to band. He permitted nobody to pass behind his back, as Maukl learned after having been knocked down several times. Bunster knew that he had more to fear from the goodr.atured,eve:i sweet-faced, Malaita boy than from the entire population. of Lord Howe; and It gave zest to the programme cf torment be was carrying out. And Mauki walked small, accepted bis punishments, and waited. . All nthor whlto man had rMnartnl hi tnmhfm. hnt not so BuD1,ter. Maukl's weekly allowance of tobacco wnj. twA gHk. Rl,nster missed them to his woman t -At Such Time a the Huah of Death Falls on the and ordered Mauki to receive them from her hand But this, could not be, and Mauki went without his tobacco. In the same way he was made to miss many a meal, and to go hungry many a day. He was ordered to make chowder out of the big clams that grew in tbe lagoon. This he could not do. for clams were .tambo. Six times in succession he refused to touch the clams, and six times he was knocked sense I. Bunster knew that tbe boy would die first, but called his refusal mutiny and would have killed him had there been, another cook to take Jis place. One of the trader's favorite tricks was to catch MauKi'a kinky lock and bat his head against the wall. . Another trick , was- to , catch Maukl unawares ' and thrust the live end of a cigar against his flesh. This Bunster called vaccination, and Ma ' was vaccinated a number of times a week. Once, in a rage. Bunster ripped the cup handle from Mauki'a nose, bearing tbe hole clear out of the cartilage. "Oh what a mug ! was his comment, when he survered the damage he had wrooeht. The kin of a shark in like sandpaper, but the skin cf y flsh is like a rasp. In the South Seas the

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natives use it as a wood file lu smoothie" dowa cauoe.v and puddle. Bunster had a mlttet made of vray-fisu skin. The first time he tried it on Maukl, with one ' sweep of the hand It fetched the skin oC hi? back from neck to arm pit. Bunster was delighted. Ie gave bis wife a taste of the mitten, aud tried it thoroughly on the boat boys. The prime. mlnis'trs came In for a stroke each, and they had to grtu aud take It for a joke. "Laugh, curse you, laugh ! was the Am he Rove. Mauki came in for the largest share of the mitten. Never n day passed without a caress from it. There were times when tbe I068 of so much cuticle kept him awake at nijrht. aud ofteu the half-healed surface was raked raw afresh by the facetious Mr. Bunster. Maukl ! continued his patient wait, secure In ', knowledge that sooner or later his time would come. : And he knew just what he was going to do when the time did come. One morning Bunster got np in a mood for. knocking seven bells, out of the universe.; He began or Mauki and wound up on Maukl. In the interval knocking down his wife and hammering all the boat boys. At breakfast, he called the, coffee j. lops and threw tbe scalding contents of the cup into Maukl's face. By ten o'clock 'Bunster was shivering with ague, and half an hour later he was burning with fever. It was no ordinary attack.. It quickly became pernicious, and develojed into black-water fever. The days . passed, and he grew weaker and weaker, never leaving his . bed. Maukl waited and watched, the while hia skin grew intact once more. He ordered the boys to beach the cutter, scrub her bottom, and give her a general overhauling. They thought the order emanated from Bunster and they obeyed. But Bnnster at -the time .was lying unconscious and giving no orders. This was Maukl's chauce, but still hex waited. When the worst was past, and Bunster lay con-' valesceut and conscious, but weak as a baby, Maukl packed his few trinkets, includlns the china cup handle, into his trade box. Then he went OTer to the village and Interviewed tbe king and hia two prtmemlnlsters. "This fella Bunster, him good fella you like too, much?" he asked. They explained In one voice that they liked the trader not at all. The ministers poured forth a recital of all the indignities and wrongs that had been heaped upon them. The king bioke down and wept. , Mauki Interrupted, rudely; 'You sawe me me big fella marster my country. You no Jike 'm this fella white marster. Me no like m. Plenty good yow put hundred cocoanut. two ; hundred cocoanut. three hundred cocoanut along cutter. Iflm finish, you go sleep 'm good fella. - Altogether kanaka sleep m good fella. BIme by big fella noise- along house, you no saw hear 'm that fella noise. You altogether sleep strong fella too much." , . In Jike manner Maukl Interviewed the boat, boysThen he ordered Bnnster's wife to return to her family house, Had she refused he would baTj been in a quandary, for jhls torn bo would not have permitted him to lay hands on her. .The house deserted, he entered the sleeping room, where the trader lay in a dote. rfauki first remoTed the revolvers, then placed the ray-fish mitten on his hand. Bnnster's first warning was a stroke of tho mitten that removed;, the skin the full, length of hw . nose. "Good 'fella, eh r Mankl grinned. between two strokes, one of which swept the forehead bare and the other of which cleaned off one aide of bis face. "Laugh, curse, you. laugh Maukl did' his work thorough!-, and the kanakas, hiding ro their bouses, beard tbe "big fella noise .-. tbat Bunster made and continued tos

make for an hour or more. f,Wben Mankl was done, he carried the boat compass and all the rifles and 'ammunition down to the cutter, which he proceeded to ballast with. ;; .ases of tobacco. It was while engaged in this that a hideous, sklnless thing came out of the house and ran screaming down the beach tlU.lt fell in the sand and mowed and gibbered under the scorching son. ? Mankl looked toward If and hesitated. Then he went over and removed the head, which be wrapped in a mat and stowed In the sternlocker of the cutter. So soundly did tbe kanakas sleep through that long, hot day that they did " not see - the cutter run ont through the passage and bead south, close-hauled on the south-east trade. 3 Nor wa tbe cutter ever Righted, on that long tack to the shores of Ysabel. and during tbe tedious headbeat from there to Malaita. He . landed at Port Adams with a wealth of rifles and tobacco snch as no one man had ever possessed before. But he did not atop there He bad taken a white man's head, and only the . bush could shelter blm. t 80 back ho went to tbe bush villages, when he , shot old Fanfoa and half a dozen : of -tbe chief men, and made himself ; tbe chief over all the Tillages. When . his father died. Maukl's : brother ruled la Port Adams, and. Joined together, salt-water men and busbmen. the resulting combination was' the strongest of the ten-score fighting tribes of Malaita. v More than his fear of the British Government wns Maukl's fear of the nil-powerful Moongleam Soap .Company: and one day a message-came nn - to him in tbe bush, reminding blm that he owed tbe comnany eight . and one-half years of labor. He sent back a i favorable answer, -and then appeared the inevitable white Village. man. the cantaln of the schooner, the only white man during-Maukl's reign who ventured tbe bush and came out alive. This man not only came out. but he brought with, him seven hundred and fifty dollars- m gold rovereiras the money price of elefat years and a half of labor pins the cost price of rifles) nnd cases of tobacco. , Mankl no lonrer weighs one hundred and ten' rontids. His stomach is three times its former girth, end he has four wires. He has manv other thingsrifles and rerotrers. the hfdle of a china ctro. and an excellent collection; Irrjshrwn'! beads. But mor preHow thn the entir collection fs another heed, nerfectlr dr'ed end enred. with randr hair and a yellowish beard, which Is kent wrapp 1 In the finest 00 fiber lava-lava. When Mac!:! to war with Tillages berond bis rwOm he InvsiMy rets ont thin head. ari. rnVm jn j,f WT1,pm hiU contemplates !' long and tl.nir. At wtcf, tln th hwh f deattt falls on the ville, nvA not em e nlffcanlnny dares Jt .TJ!.,". Th" V"'"1 ' e-twl the most powerJlZlSr1.." to the possession of U Is ascribed all of Mank!s rreetnem ' Copvriffht 1C10. y Metroptton Veeapap BraDmU,

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