The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-03-21

don't know Joseph he quietly remarked.
'Whippey; runaway sailor; you
don't happen to belong to the Nantucket
Whippey, do your"
by the umpin' General jackson,
but that is the identical place where in
the name of all that's human do you be-
Ions, and who are your he shouted, thor
oughly excited.
"I belong in Boston, but l have
taught school in your home,' l answered.
For few moments he seemed lost in
thought, and then for a long time piled
me rapidly with questions about his ma
tive place, to all of which l answered
freely as well as l was able When he
concluded, he said, Mr.. Seymour, you
are in for it with vengeance if you do
not work for them they'll eat you, and
the best thing you can do is to get on
their right side by becoming too valuable
for them to dispose of you. If you do
not want that woman l will tell the chief
that for two years you must be single or
your god will MAIN you so as to be unable
to work, and at the end of that time you
will take several, so as to make up for
lost time for if any one, after arriving at
maturity on these islands, unless he be-
comes priest, when he can do as he
pleases, does not marry, they strangle
him as Of no account, and likely to be
burden on the tribe; we have no old
maids or bachelors here he added with
a grin.
"'How came my vessel to lose her
hostages, and go away and leave me p l
inquired.
"'I'll find out before | leave. | only
know that they sent for me to come here
and talk to you, he answered. AS he
said this he arose, and going out to where
the king had stationed himself few
yards from the house, they conversed to-
gether torso time, the king apparently
dissenting from what was said; but finally
the objections, whatever they were, were
withdrawn, for the king came quickly
into the hut, and saying few words to
the woman she quietly gathered up her
things and left me, her face beaming
with smiles.
"Soon after she had gone, young lad
of about sixteen made his appearance,
and Whippey told me he was to be my
man Friday, for the next two years, and
his name was Kaloo.
The next day l began, with Whippeys
assistance, to build blacksmith's forge
out of nothing I say nothing, because
we had no tools of any note to work with,
and nothing to use after forge should
be made. However, the king sent a
party of over five hundred to hunt for old
iron, and while then were gone we pro-
ceeded to make me a fireplace, which was
accomplished nicely, with mud chimney.
While they were doing this, / was pre-
pairing to make pair of bellows, by cut
ting pine plank which | fortunately
found, in halves with my knife, and using
some canvas for the sides. AS the plank
was only about twenty inches in width,
| had to make up that deficiency in the
length of it.
"Towards afternoon the messengers
for iron began to arrive with their old
junk, and one of the first ones CHANGING
to bring part of gun barrel, was en-
abled to finish my bellows at once, which
l did by covering the canvas all over with
some gum that exuded from tree near
by, and then mailing it temporarily with
wooden skewers until | could manufac-
ture some iron nails.
4" ] had finally got my forge arranged,
and although the bellows were little
leaky, | thought it would answer we'll
enough until | could repair it.
"While l was looking for a suitable
stone for an anvil, two natives came drag
ging part Of an anchor with the fuke to
it, and that was a prize. sure. Under
the direction of Whippey, the natives be-
gan polishing it with stones, and though |
it was as deeply pitted with the rust as a
small pox patient is with disease, they
never left offuntil it was as smooth as
glass, as many as five hundred having had
a turn at it,
"We then procured large block, and
finding saw in the pile of iron that now
began to accumulate, | let it into the |
wood firmly, and had the satisfaction of
having solid anvil, if it was rough |
one.
" Finally the head ofa cooper's ham
mer was brought in, and now | was made.
| soon had whitfield out handle, and a
chief seeing me make fire in the forge,
using for the purpose some charcoal from
a place where | judged they had been
holding a human barbecue, pointing sig
nifcantly at the ashes and gave ghastiy |
urin hoWever he soon hrou0bt mo a A;nt