The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-19
PART I.

PART I.
wehave been cruising for four months
in the waters of the eastern Archipela-
60 and for nearly a week we had been
among the Ladrones, group of Islands
with perhaps as bad a reputation as
any even in that part of the world The
group is a considerable one. We had
already visited two trading stations be-
longing to the owners of the brig, and
one evening we found ourselves drift
ing rather than sailing between two
romantic-looking islands whose peaks,
rising sharp and sudden. separated by
deep and narrow valleys, Choked with
dense masses of tropical vegetation.s suf-
1iCiently proclaimed their volcanic ori-
gin.
Tom Madison and I We're seated idly
on the bulwark, our eyes wandering
lazily-we had just finished good sup
perform the purple tints of the shore
past which we We're drifting, to the
still more wonderful colors of the sea
and sky, now bathed in the light of the
almost level sun. / had been asking
Tom, who was an old hand in these
waters, having acted as supercargo for
the owners for years, how this par
ticular group of islands had gained so
bad q reputation as to be named The
Robbers" hereabouts where all natives
seemed to he thieves.
"ThieNeS,' said Tom, well | don't
know that for that matter they de-
serve 1t either better or worse than their
nelghbOrS. It's only a question OF OPP
purtunitN, | take it, with any OF them,
as 1t Is with good many other people
who don't hail from the Ladrones."
But surely there must have been
some reason, | said why they got
the name from the Spahlafds' Or Who-
ever 1t was that gave 1t them
'oh, yes, OF course, thoush very likely
II originated IN mistake, ana lts just
as hkely as not they nave peeh the VIC
TINS OF sllght MISUNDERSTANDING by
the ny the Whole tililS TOOK place CLOSE
pE mere IL l III not Hllstakeh,
zen us the yarll' loil' saIu'
the very Time ana place lof soou,
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s'ois, vague ana merely suggested as
~ H"u peel', lau a"aketleu huHu'eu
memories OF tales OF sunkeh treasure
Sh'PS anu thelr fortunate recoVerers'
ana as we turned Slowly INTO the pay,
my eyes were eagerly hNeu on the
CLASSY waters now cleaning with
'housahu tlhts feHecteu from the SKY
oNe[heau.
we drhted round the point and into
the pay our sails hardly lifting to the
scafcelE perceptible evening breeze,
ana our course marked only by the
1aihtest ripple on the CLASSY water. AS
leaned over and gazed tiXedly down.
wards into the depths below in the eff
Tort to penetrate the secrets which
that transparent liquid, glowing with
the color of the dying day, had kent
so safely and so long, | felt my eyes