The weekly sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1851-1869, 1861-12-07

shut out the aea-iine, and, being low water al
the time II Was plain enough now why Jones
wished to keep the white streiks overnight;
for where the riIgy -coloured ripplea m slted on
the other side tOwaid the blue, you coul seq by
the tots Of foam and the C1etnish breaks here
ana there ia the suffice tar all that coast Of tho
i,lud was one network Of shoals aud reefs,
af,e,,hinr out YOU didnt know how wide.
Whitewater Hand In fact, was merely the
bead Of them-the milky stream mat had %
startled us Just washing round the dccp end ct
II, and edging far along the side q the rori',
with few c eeks sent in amongst them, rs 10
were, like fe,lers, ere il Aou cd the o'her wa;
we touldn hrrwise haze got ~ nea, as VIC
were But the island itself was the sight to fast
90 You asthe lovely green Of it ahOno ont IN the
mon ing sun, covering the most part OF !. close
over, and tipping up beyond the hare break
wi il was steepest, with clump Of tall co.
Cuas shooting every here and here out of the
thick bush; indeed, there was Apparently A sat
Of split lenWhwsys, through tbs mills whor,.
nTon only walking to the schoo1er's bow, ono
could sec the bright greenwood sinking down
to a hollow out Of sight, under tho clelr gu.h
Of The breeze III dark blue patch Of the sci
that hung beyond il ike q s1gc. As the til
made over the long reefs, till the last line of
surf on them vanished, 1t went up tho lit le
sandy cove opposite Us web pash on tn, '1ch
that you could hear the place was Just what a
sailor may have hal q notion oi ali his lif,, with
out exactly seeing it till then and though ~
yet, one Lad rough guess Of It's size, why, IL
tOll'n't h. less than couIIe OF mil from end
10 end, with moro than that breadth perhaps,
al the low aide toward the Iecl.. Not soul
HmUnprl the man-O -warsmen, ! dire-ay "a
they pressed together IN the schuoavr's bows to
se INTO IT,, Tut would have taken his rap, that
moment, IL III told him. and < nc ashore on Ito
81 ancc Of passing hi, days there; 80 II wasn't
hard COZ ceiye, on the state it seemed to put
/ their rough sun-burnt fac = in, honest rs they
lo' E,d, how similar fancy would work with
Ma ter Harry Foster, CycI i, i tried his virtue
| a little.
| bad no more doubt IL my own mint, by
| this time, It's being the fellows intended
h rmiisge," than had Ofit's Icing The same
Whitewater Island hld heard of myself, or Q
| sIUt which Jones seemed TO know 50 we'll
| twas likely the fore mast-man la got iukllg
| of it someway IN tue way dill and lying. ~
! II happened 10 co, bc,weeH no less than three
! channels which The lndiaman might tak', at cr
4 uUdgiug u IA this fashion round the lpiy Clus-
| ter oi the Muliivcs, she couldn't mako NORM
Westward again ior the open sea, without set
| ting Foster aud h's mites pretty we'll upon
| their trip. Indeed, IL shs were to eastward u
| the chain Of present, IA was greatly inclined
/ ~ believe, the course of the breeze male u inn
i possible for her TO do 9th, rwise but there WIS
one thing always kept lurking a. gu. my
| mind, lisc cover TO something lar
worse that didn't venture TO dwell
1 uIOl1-=Ilanf w wat NAn'hlu ilAll
might get wind Of their purpose, and
dive them on another tack hy Knocking 's on
The he'd. either al the time or beforehand,
will bout the courage TO settle them. Nolhhlg ~
the world would have pleased uicc o"'er ln ~
o poul CO upon ugly Harry, at his frat
| fat ashore here but the bare horizon, and The
| quiet look OF the ilind since ever We hove in
light of il, showed this wasn't 90 he. At any
rate, however, | was bent on escing how the
II l.
| accordingly, az soon rs the hand Ia got break
fast, Wcstwood ana | at once pulled ashore with
a boats crew well armed, to overhaul it. We
/ found the sandy beach covered, for a good way
| mp, with itOthv -lime hat, no doubt. came
lrum the water ON that side, vii ever 30 many
different kinds of blulhor, sea jelly, star
/ lish, and shell while tho o'kv edge round
20 wiidwnId was hung with weed that made tho
| blocks below 1t seem 10 Ise oit of every sur .',
| like green headed whtC--Dcarlcd mcrmen bath
| inr.
Glad CROUCH We were IN &c. out of the
queer sulphuIy smell all tbs stuff gav1 ont
i ia no heai-lctting the men ke every one his
| own way into the bushes which they Ynjovyd
Ike many school oys, and making ourselves,
| iiSut for the hi hest point. Here We saw over
| through the Cu,Oi-nut trees and wild trailing
plants below, down upon Urom bushy level
| toward the reefs. II was far ,hn widest way oil
the leland indeed making l. apparently sever
L
| M the II en- were TO hold right to win1w ard, an
meet ag,in after Boating the ertirc groluj,
| W,siwooi ard j struck fair tIfJIgh amongst
| the tanplo of VOID, 20 Sc the ia below. We
| reused o"' good many small birds AMI plro-
| uu,.. ar1 several goats could be- noticed look.
| log at u of the grassy bits Of c-ag above The
trees. though they didn't scclg 20 know what
we were. A. for most OF the wood, il was main.
| " such bushes aud brush rs thiya with
out water, with bright lrcan iu.h Of
grass a'1 plants at g. The rain at the
4 mot soon, the priokly par creeping oyci
! the san~v parts, I'll W. cimc a. a track
where s',ne spring or otter arp .rcntly ollc
l down from the light, sNNkirs IN lutte rank
| spots amonl:s' the ground leaves, with here and
there a small rusy splash about the grass'
| blades, as II hero wee tar Or iron in II. Here
there we're taller trees Of different kinds on both
sides, dwirdling of in the lower bush, while,
| to my surprise, some of them were such Us you'd
never have inspected to meet with on an is-
land 81 the ii e. or 50 far oil the land-blnana-,
mangocs a shIldnck or two, and few more,
common eI gu Ga 10 Indil though here ihoy
must cvil,ntly have been planted, the cosol'
b.ing the On'y sort natural to the plac,
| End Of them th-ro were plcn'y below,
"a ldenly it led down TO u shady hollow,
out Of Sight Of tho sea altogether where
We came on what seemed to have been 4 psrte
| garden some time or other; there were two ar
three large brOad-lcaved shaddovk trees, aud
| one or two others with heap ui RUBBISH IN The
midst Of the wild Indian corn and long grass
some broken hamboo stakes standing besides a
piece of plank scattered hero aud there about
the bushes. Right under tie shade of the trees
was 4 hole like the mouth OF a dr,w-well, more
thar hIimiul at the time with the water from
the spiing for, owing to the late rains, it made
a pool close by the side, and went trlcklng
away down amongst tho hrusbwOOl. Every
twig and leaf grew straight up or out
save in narrow track toward the ri
sing GROUNDING doubt made by tho goats
/ "a we noticed the prints Of their hooii
on the wet mud. Twas evident no human be-
ing had been there for heaven knew how long
since, by the care that bad been taken wi h III,
place Il was probably tho only spring in thu
ishnd-pcIhaps for leagues and leagues round
Indeed. Trees, branches, green grass and al
they had such a still mOyeless air under th'
heat and light, in the lee Of tho high ground
with just blue spot or two Of the sea sccl
high up through the sharp shlddock leaves
and the cool looking splash Of water below
them, that WcstwoOd and sat down 10 wal
till We heard the men. Still there was a terribly
distinct particular cast about the Who'll,
, spot, which, taken together with the ruin
, ana confusion, US well as the notion OF Foste
and his shipmales actually plotting to com,
there, gave one almost an idea Of the whole sto
~ beforehand, dim as that was the longer yJJ
looked the more hOrrid il seemed. Neither ma
iives nor single man could have brought tn,
different trees TO the island, or cOniTved a tank
well Of the kind, seeing it was Apparently desT
enough 10 supply ships casks while, at th,
same time, couldn't help thinking some one
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