The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-17

me where nobody could see them; and, as
had begun 10 pick up native, and most
OF them had word or two of English. I
began TO hold little odds and ends of con-
versation. not TO much purpose to be sure,
but they took Off the worst of the feeling,
for its a miserable thing to be made a
leper Of
1t CHANGED one day, toward the end of
| the month. that ! was sitting in this bay
in the edge of the bush, looking east.
with kanaka. l had given him I'LL of
tobacco, and We We're making out to talk
as best we could; indeed, he had more
English than most.
l asked him if there was no road going
eastward.
''one time one road" said he. Now
he dead"
Nobody he go there?" 1 asked.
NO good, said he. Too much devil
he stop there"
., Ohio" &C Rh s says I, "got-um plenty devil.
Man devil, woman devil; too much
devil" said my friend. stop there
all-e-time. Man he 60 there, no come
back"
l thought if this fellow was so we'll
| posted on devils and spoke of them so
| free, which is not common. had better
| fish for little information about myself
| and Una.
| You think me one devil?' asked
mo think devil" said he, soothingly.
"Think all-e-same fool"
| luna, she devil ?" asked again.
mo, no: no devil. Devil stop bush,"
| said the young man.
! bay, and saw the hanging front of the
| woods pushed suddenly open, and Case,
/ with gun in his hand, step forth into
| the sunshine on the black beach. He was
| got up in light pyiamas. near white, his
| gun sparkled he looked mighty conspicu-
= he fo,} 10, III g.
| round him to their holes.
"Hullo! my friend" says l, ''you no
| talk all-e-same true. Ese he 60, he come
| back"
''Ese no al-e-same; Ese Tiapolo." says
my friend; and. with Goodbye" skunk
/ of among the trees.
| | watched Case all round the beach,
where the tide was low; and let him pass
| me on the homeward way to Falesa. He
| was IN deep thought. and the birds seemed
10 know II. trotting quite near him on the
sand. or wheeling and calling in mis- ears.
| When he passed me | could see by the
| working OF his lips that he was talking 10
/ himself. and what pleased me nightly he
/ had still my trademark on his brow I
tell you the plain truth: had a mind 10
give him gunful IN his ugly mug, but !
| thought better of it.
All this time. and all the time was fol-
| lowing home kept repeating that native
! word, which | remembered by Polly put
the kettle on and make US all some tea,
tea-a- polio.
Una" says I, when got back, what
! does 'Tiapolo' mean"
Devil" says she.
Il thought alta vas the word for that"
! l said.
"Aitu mother kind of devil" said she;
stop bush, eat kanaka. Tiapolo big
chief devil, stop home, all-e-same Chris
! tian devil"
We'll, then" said 1, I'm no farther
forward. How can Case be Tiapolo?'
No all-e-sane, " said she. Use belong
Tiapoio; riapolo too much like: Ese allie
! same his son. suppose Use he wish some
thing. Tiapolo he make him"
That's mighty convenient for Ese, "
! says |. And wha, kinds of things does
/ he make for himf"
| Well, ont came rigmarole Of all sorts
OF stores, many OF which t.ike the dollar
/ he took from Mr.. Tarleton's headl were
/ plain enough 10 me, but Others could
/ make nothing Of; and the thing that most
| surprised the kana&as was what sur
prlSed me least-namely, that he would
| so in the desert among all the
/ GftuS. Some Of the holdest. however. had
| accompanied HIM, and had heard him
| speak with the dead and give them orders.
/ ana, safe IN MS protection. had returned
| unscathed. Some said he hal a church
: there. VI here he worshipped Ti4po.o. and
/ Ilapolo appeared To HIM; others ssore
/ thar there was no sorcery al ali, tina, he
! performed his miracles by the power OF
/ prayer, and the church mas no church. but
| prison. in which he had confined a dan
seroas aitu. Manu- had been III the bush
Win ham once, and returned g!oriiyins