The Shasta courier., 1862-08-30
A Strange Story,

ty years, embarked in the Downs on the good
ship called the Archilles, bound for the West
Indies, on the 10th of June, 1874. in order
to improve his fortune by trade and merch-
andise. Our adventurer was the third son
of an eminent citizen, who had taken par
ticular care to instill into his mird an early
love of gain by making him perfect mas
ter of numbers, and consequently giving him
quick view of loss and advantage, and
preventing the natural impulse of his pas
sion, by prepossesson toward his interests.
With mind thus turned, young Inkle had
a person every way agreeable, ruddy Wig
or in his countenance. strength i'll his limbs,
with ringlsts of fair hair loosely flowing on
his shoulders. 1t happened in the course of
the voyage, that the Archilles, in some dis
tress, put into creek on the main of Amer
lea in search of provisions. The youth, who
is the hero of my story, among Others went
ashore on this occasion. From their first
landing they were observed by party of
Indians, who hid themselves in the woods
for that purpose. The English unadvisedly
marched great distance from the shore in
to the country, and were intercepted by the
natives, who slew the greatest number of
them. Our adventurer escaped among 9TH
ers by flying into forest. Upon his coming
into a remote and patbless part of the wood,
he threw himself, tired and breathless, on a
little hillock. when an Indian maid rushed
from thicket behind him. After the first
surprise they appeared mutually agreeable
to each other. If the European was highly
charmed with the limbs, features, and wild
grace of the naked American, the American
was no less taken with the dress, complex
ion and shape of European, covered from
frN TO f,a TkaT Ind,
diately enamored of him, and consequently
desirous of his preservation. She, there
fore, conveyed him to cave, where she gave
him delicious repast of fruits, and led him
to stream to slake his thirst. In the
midst Of these good Offices she would some
times play with his hair, and delight in the
opposition of its color to that of her fingers ;
then open his bosom, then laugh at him for
coveringit,
She was, it seems, a person of distinction,
for every day she came to him in differ
ent dress, Of the most beautiful hpgles,
shells and beads. She likewise brought him
o great many spoils which her other lovers
had presented t. her. so that his cave was
richly adorned with all the spotted skins of
beasts, and most fancy-colored feathers of
fowls which that world afforded To make
his confinement mo e tCiefa.5.e, Sue would
carry him in the dusk uf the evening, or by
the favor of moonlight, to unfrequented
groves and solitudes, and show him where
to lie down in safety, and sleep amidst the
falls of the waters and melody Of nightin-
gales. Her part was to watch and hold him
awake in her arms, for fear of her country
men, and awaken him on occasion to consult
his safety In this manner did the lovers
pass lway their time, till they had learned
language of their own, in which the voyager
communicated to his mistress how happy he
should be to have her in his country, where
she should be clothed in such silks as his
waisteoat was made of, and be carried in
houses drawn by horses, without being ex
posed to wind or weather. All this he prom
ised hsr the enjoyment of, without such fears
and alarms as they were tormented with
In this tender correspondence these lovers
lived for many months, when Yarlco, in
strpeted by her lover, discovered a vessel on
the coast, to which she made a signal and
in the night, with the utmost joy and salts
fsction, accompanied him to ships crew
of his countrymen bound for Barbadoes.-
When vessel from the main arrives il that
island, it seems that the planters come down
to the shore, where there is an immediate
market of the Indians and the other slaves,
as with US with horses and oxen,
To be short, Mr.. Thomas Inkle, now COM
ing into English territories, began seriously
to reflect upon his loss of time, and to weigh
with hims6lf how many days interest of his
money he had lost in his stay with Yarico.-
This thought made the young man very PEN
sive, and careful what account he should
give to his friends of his voyage. Upon
which consideration, the prudent and frugal
young man sold Yarico to Barbadian mer-
chant