The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-08
IL. A long shallow net four feet deep

2. A long shallow net four feet deep
cocoa hOre ,..-.
3. A great quantity of stout grass
rope, and light but close mating fol
the roof. and some cOcOa-nut mating
tor the ground, and to go under the
had learned to plait,-rather clumsily
and he had hand in the mating.
Hazel in the mean time heightened
his own mud banks in the centre, and
set up brick fire places with hearth and
chimney, one on each side; and now
did all the cooking; for he found the
smoke from wood made Miss ROllestou
cough. He also made n number oil
pigeon-holes in his mud-walls and
dried with fire, and made a pottery
door to it, and there kept the lucifer-
box. He made vast number of bricks,
but did nothing with them. After sew
eral failures he made two large pots,
and two great pans, that would all four
bear fire under them, and in the pans
he boiled sea-water till it all evaporated
and left him a sediment of salt. This
was a great addition to their food, and
he managed also to put by little. But
it was slow process.
He made a huge pair of bellows, with
little assistance from Miss Rolleston ;
the spout was a sage stick, with the
pith driven out, and the substitute for
leather was the skin of a huge eel he
found stranded at the east point.
Having got his bellows and fixed
them to post he drove into the ground,
he took for his anvil huge flint stone,
and smaller one for hammer; heat
ed his old iron to white heat, and
hammered it with world of trouble
into straight lengths; and at last with
portion of it produced long saw
without teeth, but one side sharper
than the other. This by repeated ex-
periments of heating and immersing in
water. he at last annealed, and when
he wanted to saw, he blew his embers
to white heat Che kept the fire alive
night and day;) heated his original saw
redhot, and soon sawed through the
OlenCinous woods OF that island. II he
wanted to cut down tree in the Jungle,
he put the bellows and pot of embers
on his cart with other fuel, and
came and lighted the fire under the tree
and soon had II down. lie made his
picEnXe in half an hour, bus with his
eyes rather than his lands. He found
n young tree RToWinE on the rock, or at
least on soil so shallow that the root
was half above ground and ut right
angles to the stem. lie got this tree up.
shortened the stem, shaped the root.
shod the point with some of his late old
l
a thick stake baked at the point, he
opened the ground to receive twelve
stout uprights, and he drove them with
n tremendous mallet made upon what
might be called the cOmpendiOuS or
uaZelian method; ii WAS section ola
hard tree with thick shoot growing
out of it, which shoot, being shortened,
served for the handle. BY these arts he
ut last saw a goal to his labOrS. Animal
food, oil, pitch, ink, paper. were still
wanting; but fish were abundant, and
Dlantains and cocoa-nuts stored. Above
all, Helen's but was now weather-tight.
Stout horizontal bars were let into the
trees, and, being bound to the uprights,
they mutually supported each other;
smaller horizontal bars at intervals
kept the prickly ramparts from being
driven in by a sudden gust. The canvas
walls were removed, and the nails
stored in a pigeon-hole, and stout
substituted, to which huge
plantain leaves were cunnlngly fasten-
c l with pIantain- thread. The roof was
double: first that extraordinary mass Of
spiked leaves which the four trees
threw out, then several feet under that
the huge piece of mating the pair had
made. This was strengthened by dOu-
bic strips OF canvas at the edges and in
the centre, and by single strips in
other parts. a great many cords and
strings made of that wonderful grass
was sewn to the Observation-Disclosures
edges, and so 1t was fastened to the
trees, and fastened to the horizontal
bars.
When this work drew close to its
completion, Hazel could not disguise
his satisfaction.
But he very soon had the mortifica-
ton of seeing that she for whom it was
NIL done did not share his cOmplacency.
A change took place in her; che often
LET her work fail, and brooded. She
spoke sometimes sharply to Mr.. Hazel,
and sometimes with strained civility.
She wandered away from him, and
from his labOrs for her comfort, and
passed hours at Telegraph Point, eye
ing the illimitable ocean. She was
Riddle. All sweetness at times, but at
others irritable, moody, and scarce mis-
tress of herself. Hazel was sorry and
and often expressed Il fear
She was i'll. The answer was always in
the negative. He did not press her, but
worked on for her, hoping the mood
would pass. And so lit would no doubt,
if the cause had not remained.
Matters were still in this uncOmFOrt-
able and mysterious state when Hazel
put his finishing stroke to her abode.
He was in high spirits that evening:
for he had made IL discovery he had
at last found time for a walk, and fol-
lowed the river to its source, very re-
markable lake in billy basin. Near
this was pond, the water of which he
had tasted and found it highly bitumi-
nous and making further researches,
he had found at the bottom of rocky
ravine Il very wonderful thing, a dark
resinous fluid bubbling up in quite IA
which, however, fell down
again as it rose, and hardly any over
flowed. 1t was like thin pitch.
OF course, in another hour he was
back there with great pot, and half
filled it. 1t was not like water; it did
not bubble so high, when some had
been taken; so he just took what he
could get. Pursuing his researches
little farther he found a range of rocks
with snowy submits apparently; but
the snow was the guanO of centuries.
He got to the western extremity of the
island, saw another deep bay or rather
branch of the sea, and on the other side
of it q tongue of high land running out
to sch, on that prOmonOtory stood
gigantic pRlm-tree. He recognized that
with a certain thrill, but was in Il great
hurry to get home with his pot of pitch;
for it was in truth a very remarkable
discovery, though not without paral-
lei. He could not wait till morning, so
with embers and cocoa nut he made
ii re in the bower, and melted his pitch
which had become nearly solid, and
proceeded to smear the inside of the
mating in places, to make it thorough
ly water tight.
Helen treated the discovery at first
with :mortifying Indifference; but he
hoped she would appreciate natures
bounty more when she saw the practi-
cal use of this extraordinary prOduc-
ton. He endeavored to lead her to that
view. She shook her head, sorrowful-
lV. He persisted. She met him with