and parade they selected midnight for the time and our tiny cabin for the place they were from two to three inches long there were hundreds of them and they walked all over us when we attempted to pursue them they left solid footing rose up in the air and fluttered about like humming birds they were much larger than on the but ours are young yet and haven t had a chance to grow the of the also the has big ones six inches long we kill them occasionally usually in s i ve been bitten twice by them both times while i was asleep but poor martin had worse luck after being sick in bed for three weeks the first day he sat up he sat down on one sometimes i think they are the wisest who never go to later on we returned to picked up seven up anchor and started to beat out the treacherous entrance the wind was about the current upon the ugly point of setting strong just as we were on the verge of clearing it and gaining open sea the wind broke off four points the attempted to go about but missed stays two of her had been lost at her one remaining anchor was let go chain was let out to give it a hold on the coral her fin struck bottom and her main and shivered as if about to come down upon our heads she fetched up on the slack of the anchor at the moment a big smashed her the chain parted it was our only anchor the swung around on her heel and drove headlong into the reigned all the below and afraid of the sea dashed panic stricken on deck and got in everybody s way at the same time the boat s crew made a rush for the they knew what going ashore on meant � one hand for the ship and the other hand to fight off the natives what they held on with i don t know and they needed to hold on as the lifted rolled and on the coral the clung in the in the too to watch out for the the whale boat was run out with a tow line in a way to prevent the from being flung farther in toward the while captain and the mate the latter pallid and weak with fever were a scrap anchor from out the and up a stock for it mr with his mission boys arrived in his whale boat to help when the first struck there was not a in sight but like down out of the blue began to arrive from every quarter the boat s crew with at the ready kept them lined up a hundred feet away with a promise of death if they ventured nearer and there they clung a hundred feet away black and ominous crowded with men holding their with their on the perilous edge of the breaking surf in the meantime the were down from the hills armed with arrows and clubs until the beach was with them to matters at least ten of our had been from the very ashore who were waiting for the of the tobacco and trade goods and all that we had on board the was honestly built which is the first essential for any boat that is on a some idea of what she endured may be gained from the fact that in the first twenty four hours she parted two anchor chains and eight our boat s crew was kept busy for the and bending new lines there were times when she parted the chains with and yet she held together tree trunks were brought from ashore and worked the of the under her to save her and but the trunks were and and the ropes that held them to fragments and still she and held together but we were than the a big which had gone ashore on several months previously and been promptly hen of � rushed by the natives the captain and crew succeeded in getting away in the whale boats and the and salt water men her clean of everything after driving wind and blinding rain smote the while a heavier sea was making the lay at anchor five miles to but she was behind a point of land and could not know in the of our at captain s suggestion i wrote a note to captain asking him to bring extra and gear to our aid but not a could be persuaded to carry the letter i offered half a case of tobacco but the grinned and held their bow on to the breaking seas a half a case of tobacco was worth three pounds in two iu even against the strong wind and sea a man could have carried the letter and received in payment what he would have labored half a year for on a plantation i managed to get into a and out to where mr was running an anchor with his whale boat my idea was that he would have more influence over the natives he called the up to him and a score of them clustered around and heard the offer of half a case of tobacco no one spoke i know what you think the missionary called out to them you think plenty tobacco on the and you re going to get it i tell you plenty on you no get tobacco you get bullets at last one man alone in a small took the letter and started waiting for relief work went on steadily on the her water were emptied and sails and started there were lively times on board when the rolled one down and then the other a score of men leaping for life and legs as the trade boxes and pigs of iron rushed across from rail to rail and back again 