The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-05-27

nh that strange creature. No
Wiz wiz deserved his name He must
have bean SIX feet high, bat vas 81
iank loose, fabby. and jumoleu up
that it was hard to even guess at us
stature. His Iegs we're long anu
Iank. sud his hands hung down ~
bis knees A b1istly suock CT req
hair grew nearly down to his eye
brows, and bis head slanteo oacR "
q point, sugar-loat fashion, nis
chin reemed TO hava slid back iuto
his Iapk. fabby neck, and hIs lace
Looked "a if it stupped at The round
rel elobbering mouth. Ills nose
was not remarkably large D9t tne
sIoping way OF all the fdclai lines
f-om H. a, from central point, gave
his nasal organ an expression OF
n n.p prominence and. signif
rsUce when be walked every bone
en6 n,rssle aDout him dropped for
wsrd as if he we're about TO fall lace
foremost, and traEel Win his han e
and feet,
8rjefy I explained what had hap
nened. and thereuLon Du CHEN,
who seemed TO be a man OF few words
said:
for a minute" Then he started of
at bis singulsr dog-trot pace, and
followed the edge Of the water all the
way around. just as I had done,
lightly. bot with wonderful CELEBRITY
Then he came hack to us looking
much puzzled | handed him the
coarse, dirty handkerchi { which l
bad taken from the dead wumsn's
mouth, and Du Chen Immediately
buried that wonderful nose of his in
Il and snufed at it long and vigor-
ously. Having apparently satisfied
biz self, he removed the dirty rag
from bis iacs, and said;
Niger"
No" said I, thinking of Celia,
and looking Du CHEN in his little,
round. deep,set eyes; "a mulatto."
NO" he answered, with quiet as
sursnce; "no mulatto; niger; black,
wool-headed, and oId-a buck mig
GER"
What can you 90" said I.
Wait a minute" said Du CHEN.
Then he started of again TO make a
circuit OF the peninsula, but more
slowly and deliberately than at first.
He threw his head from side to side,
Ike a hound, and smeIled at every
tree and shrub. He had got about
half way around when be reached q
mighty tree that grew On the edge OF
the swamp, leaning out over the
water where it Wsa narrowest and
deepest, and seemed to mingle its
branches with the branches of an
other tree of a similar gigantic
growth that grew upon the other
side. He walked up to this tree, say
ing; Niger went up herep' and at
once began to climb. Ihe inclina-
ton OF the great trunk and loWness
ofthe branches made the task az
easy one. Almost instantly Captain
Martas, |, and two or three soldiers
followed Du CHEN up the tree. Du
Onien had gone up some thirty feet
into the dense foliage, when all at
once be left the body of the tree, and
began TO slide slOng great limb that
extended out over the water, holding
to the branches around and above
him until he got into the lateral
branches of the tree on the opposite
side, and thence to the trunk OF that
tree, down which he glided, and
stood upon the opposite bank waiting
for US to follow. We did 90 as speed
lily as possible, and as soon as We
we're eafely landed: by his aide, Du
CHEN sal. Single file, ALL" SSand
started of, smelling the trees and
bushes as he went.
The spot at which We had des-
cended seemed to be a hummock SIM
liar 10 that on the other side, but less
regular in its outline; and soon the
way by which Du Ohien led us be
came more and more difficult and im-
passable. Often it seemed that the
next step would take us right into
the dark and sluggish water, but Du
Chieh, almost without pausing at all
would smell at the leaves and bran
ches and hurry on, now planting his
loot upon clod jus! rising out of the
water, now stepping upon a fallen
and half-rotted log, now treading 6
fringe of more solid ground skirting
the dreary lagoon, but going every
moment deeper and deeper into the
most painless and inaccessible por-
tons Of the swamp.
For nearly two hours this strange
man followed the trail, and We fol
lowed him. At last we came to a
considerable elevation of ground IN
der which opened a little V-shsped
valley made by the water Of branch
which drained the high land into the
swamp, This valley was rather more
than two acres in extent, and seemed
to be a clearing. But there was q
thick-set growth of sweet gum, holly,
ana magnolia across the opening to-
wards the swamp, beyond which we
could rot see.
With quickened steps, and with
many ofthe same signs Of excitement
manifested by @ hound when the
trail grows hot, Du Ohieu followed
along this edge-Iike line OF un-
derbEusb, and at its further end stop
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