The weekly sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1851-1869, 1861-10-26

brown hair Of hst's, shining suddenly In
4 ths sun Ike elk. when the judges voice
! tang "a; .ha'p ffor tie Oboe stair, "Vi0et,
/ child you1l nave a sun trpa0. Kitmagar, you
scoundrel, besJes sal'b Iunkah lao, Hrrdh' |
held ON TO the telescope - grim death, while
that eternal punkah was boosted over US both,
the Judge eyeing me 5omep hat coolly for the
6rst moment. "Well, we'll, M. Westwocd,"
said he, however, you've got rid OF that
proud freak Of yours such behavior as yours
| YESTERDAY, assure YOU, shouldn't have en-.
dured from any one else, young man But
my dear toy" aided he, suddenly, from
| what can gather, indeed "a v my4,h last night,
1 am eonV'ncoa We owe you very great deal
| even, fuspect, the safety Of tho entire YES
sci Mss Hyde had left OFT using the plas..
and, as ! s'.i up, she gave me a qli K
stsmmered. why said Sir Chules, ~ saw
! you At tho y'"srage in the middle Of the hurri-
csi" when Dsl,eve the actual officers OF the
1 ship had lett II Ia dlsuay tell you what, Mr..
Westwood, you're a bold fellow; and your uncle
and must see in India IL We can Z reward YOU in
| some way, my dsar boyl" All this f6ndling
styl. u thing, and for little more than piece Of
luck, would have disguised me- If hadn't been
more taken up with watching the side Of
Violet Hydes face, as she listened for
sounls in the woods ashore. " Strange,
| wasn't IL, Violet, my dear" continued
he to bis daughter, "that my friend the Coun-
cillor's nephew should have gone out in the
| same 1ndiaman, 80 fortunately - though Ct
course, after all, II Dds the Il At this season"
'Ah ~ said she, starting, 81 beg pardon, papa,
| what did yOu-weren't you talking Of the
river1" Don't you hear, child" said tho
Judge, 81 said II was curious coincidence,
Mr.. Westwood's going in this vessel" "Oh
yes, indeedl" answered she, and couldn't
| help looking down a little COMPOUNDED. But
the lsdy's-maid was putting % her tiny slip
| per, which had come Of, while her father men
toned that OF course I'd had practical rca-
| sons for not owning my profession hther-
10 ;-meaping, | suppose, that didn't speak
| for fear Of having TO work, like the monksys-
| though the sharp cid lawyer must have hal
better guess by this time and queer enou Oh IL
must have been TO see her face, listening TO him
a. he explained it all. I stood biting my lips,
meanwhile-two or three times on the point Of
telling him Il waa all nonsense about my being
q nephew Of any hanged old nabob whatever
when Sir Charles said eafelessly he should leave
tho Seringapatan, IL possible, at the Cape Of
Coed Hop, as he couldn't trust safely TO tho
present officers.
just then up got the merry chant of tie men
running round With the csp'tan-bars to got up
/ snchor the chief officer wishing, as it was
found 10 carry her farther into the river With the
breeze for the sake OF filling our wafer casks
the easier, according 20 him, but more likely
out OF sheer spite at what had been done with
| out him.
Suddenly we heard the splash Of paddle' Ia
/ the water, with hail In sumo foreign tongue
| OF other, and hurried on deck in body where
We found the ship tding It slowly up,
under jus and fOretopsall, and beginning
| to open longer reach where tho river
seemed to narrow in A black eyed, black
bearded te loS, with tsllowy, yellow, sweaty
,ort Of CONF EXON, IN dirty jacket, drawers,
| and short bUots, and an immense grass hat,
shouting Portuguese louder and louder into
the first mates ear till no actually
| put both hands together and roired through
| them, POINTING TO himself now and then,
90 IL surprised tbat he wasn't known.
| AZ one Of the cadets aud | knew a little Portu.
guese, We managed together TO get some hing
out Of the fellow on deck though AT noticing
me for the first time that morning. ] saw Finch
! turn red with surprise. We und 'rstOod the
man TO ask II we wanted no. Ting particular in
4 the river, the meaning Of Wnicu ! saw better
| on bcthinking me OF the tire ana., the bash in
| side the headland that h adj let mo see the marks
Of i;-no doubt a signal 20 soms shaving craft
| they had tai en- US for. However. so som "A he
| heard we needed no more han water AMI spars,
/ sitter musing minute, and speaking again 10
| Rodriguez, ~ he called the mulsttO, he said he
| would pilot us to n convenient berth himself
| for two or three dollars Notwithstanding his
title was, as no said, Don Jose Jsronimo Santa,
somebody, commandant Of the Portuguese fort
or something else
| AS hAOU Us hHo XVI pIotN lHoh bllh oloIof
about quarter OF n mile from the mouth Of
| what seemed wide creek, gittering ~ be-
| tween high fringe Of cana and bamboo clumpI,
he had this rails Glued up, single anchor let
90 in four or five fathoms, and our Portuguese
friend got his money and bundled over the side,
pulling quietly ashore.
The tide by this time was quito still, and tho
breeze sank almost AZ Oncs, ~ we were shut in
from the sea; when He were surprised To 500
the striped Por ugusse flag rise Off tall bsm
boo stick among the bushes ON the open shore,
nearly abreast of us; where low, muddy like
we'll was TO be made out, with some-
hing Il 'hltched roof or two, and
Aort o. rrd. ..1oN ''''v running before
padding out Agsi., .C' .ut 40 .... .... 'l.n'
with on Old cooked hal %" ,Ncusing .I.uissA
fer no. having fired gun-uhch was 20 save
us expense, he remarked, being particular
friends-seeing that he'd got 10 demand twelve
dollars Of hArb,r du, and duties, whereas, If he
saluted, he must have charged fourteen. The
cool impotence Of this brought the chief
officer from the oapstan; but the steady face Of
the fellow, and the glance he took round
the deck when the c .det told him he'd
better be Off at once made me think he
had something or other TO back him,
Mr.. Finch, as usual, funnel up into a ps-
sion, and told the men to ding him over into
HIS canoe, which they accordingly did, with
out the as, nicely about il tho Portuguese
s'rsight, with the look of a perfect devil, as he
,ook his fist at the whole ship, while tho canoe
slid off to the shore.
Bulge even 80 much as a single faith
ON, at present, We could not. How
ever, all hands from the cabin were mad
already To get ashore somewhere, and the Ca
dets bristling with fov Inns, pieces and rifles
each singing out that he was ready to SUPP "
the whole Snip with fresh meat. Before the
two large quartz r-boats could lie got ready {, I
the ladies and tho rest Of US, in fact we near d
tine gig full Of writers and cadets beginning TO
pop asay at everything they "a alive, out Of
sight from the ship till at last we were aAoat,
too, pulling slowly into the middle Of the stream m,
and the men cycling us lazily as the
, turned-to about the rigging TO sen
up new tpIs in place d those lost
For my own part, | should have had rather
suspicion how absurd 1t was TO 90 plelsuring
| in an African river we knew nothing abolt
espeC ally when | saw that day or two 30 long
, sfer tho rains mil ut suck it up, daring ehh
into pretty narrow mid-channel all though,
Of was, however, that | was steering the boa
with Violet Hyde in it, the ktmeRar holding
:. is gaudy puDkah over her before me, while
the Judge with his gun in his hand, was look
ing out as eagerly, for the tine as the iOuI
| griiius were pu.lang furiously, in spite OF the
D | heat that made the sweat run into their eyes.
; The other party were soon oiY ahead OF u "a
b the main river, under care Of tho Scotch sur
r eeOn, laughing, talking, and he, LONG in chas
Q Of the cadets VINO had hrst loIt. Howe. or. 81