The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-01-20
/ bTkp1t1N41 ADVENT y I'LL


Struthers had knocked about Contra
America for almost four months on ,
vain quest for adventures which would
make hiscollege vacation a unique one
md Gil his room at the s'Halr will
trophies and the boys ears with thrill
ing stories.
4 Bones was beginning to rebel at the
society of native ours, whose combined
forces did not suffice to give him a
semblance of the delightful scrim-
images he was wont to have in Cam
bridge
i Struthers latest vagary and owing
to his fathers liberality he was able to
Indulge in many such-was the charter
ing of small native schooner With
q crew of six black Caribs he was now
4 skirting the Mosquito shore Of Hon
duras on his way to Cabo Gracios a
/ Dios, where he expected to catch a
homeward bound steamer
] He yearned for the delights of civil
| cation and ice, and felt that, after all,
the conventional pleasures of tennis,
canoeing and dancing at Bar Harbor
were perhaps preferable to the I'M
certain joys Of mule back and hunting
in the wilds OF Central America
Tho outfit, or what remained of it.
was rusty and bnttered, but the hard
ships which had wrought this change
in his 'isnpedimenta" had been vastly
beneficial to the owner in hardening
his muscles and broadening his shout
ders.
With Bones things had not gone so
well; an almost steady diet of bananas
had made him thin. and between the
clligoes and garrapatas very little Of
his glossy coat was left, save in shreds
and patches.
It's too bad, Bones. old fellow; they
haven't left you much hair said
Struthers. Never mind, your troubles
will soon be over. say, Ossorio" turn
ing wrathfully upon the Calib captain,
what is this beastly old country of |
yours good for, anyway I haven't had
q decent adventure or seen anything |
worth telling, in the whole length and |
breadth Of itl''
s'You haven't seen him all, Buckra,
replied the Carib, asplendid specimen of
that race of semi-civilized black snug
glers, who dart along the Caribbean
coast in their swift dories.
Way yonder," he continued, point
ing toward the west, lis de lam ub de
WailSas; plenty fun dere; but white man
no sabez him. No white men dere, not
eben Spanish man, only Waikas,
Buckra, only Wail1as''
perhaps you're right, Ossorio, about
The plenty fun. At any rate, I'll have
another try at amusement before l cut
he country; SO put about and make for
'oine river you think your friends, the
'Failas. may live near. =
Soon they were sailing along the low $
andy coast which lay to the left, and
S they rounded little cape Struthers {
ried out: Look. there's the mouth of I
he river $
II see him." answered the Carib, a
make we put in dere tink me, '
'raps, see Wailsa town soon BY"
The Caribs supposition was correct, &
or the schooner was soon near enough a
or them to perceive the high-pealzed ,
latched roofs and bamboo walls of Il
&c native houses nesting among the
aving palms and plumy cocoanut v
ees which lined the river bank D
lie 'cHoCuer YVES over Inc oar anQ !
breast of the village before the ma
yes were aware of their presence W
Then they came running and iuHip- a.
G down to the river Lank like so
any children, in high glee over the I'll
rival Of strangers and the possibility "
beads, and perhaps little rum tn
The landing was soon made, and
e Carib, polyglot that he was, m
ted as interpreter in presenting sc
ruthers to the old chief. Damu Pisano, az
10 at once bid the strangers welcome m
d conducted them to his watla, or err
use.
installed in a wide hammock within by
, semi-darkncss of the watla, and WI
arge gourd of cool pineapple mishla
his side, Struthers forgot his discon- WI
t and asked many questions of th'
ano through the Carib hi
lie learned that the music they had lnt
srd was part of the ceremony attend
upon the death of an old sulia or brt
edicine man" whose funeral was to the
held on the following day bu
Tomorrow, at first sun up, de pul
raj begins. Dana Pisano asks you wa
on wan to see him-better you do gil
ybe it muse you,' said the Carib, yea
b unconscious sarcasm. /
t sunrise the next morning he was in ;
1enly aroused by the rattle of mus par
y, followed by doleful bowls and cor
int
,sbinc ont Of the watt. ,vha 10 ems
spent the night, he saw a large pit 1
(dugout) coming slowly down the spu
+, while on the bank abreast of it the.
ched two columns of Wailzas, the tore
constituting one column, the WON dug
he other. L
the ritpan was tbe dead r,ed;o;ra risk
his three, widows and a sol;t.,.,T a dc
Ter. y
e pitpan made landing, and the take