The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-27

canoes, but no good against prahus-
! they run at canoes and cut them in
I half; bur will come to help if English
attack. He does not know where pra-
hDs are. Begs captain 10 attack these
first, it is they that make Sehi master
| of the river. If they destroyed, other
chiefs not afraid of Sehi. and he might
/ get some Of them to join against him.
! HaSSan said tell Harry and Dick and
/ doctor he does not forget their kind
| ness, and will do what he can to watch
over them Such is Hassan's mes
sage"
Ask him when he is going back to
/ his chief" the captain said.
He go now" the interpreter said.
after asking the question. He get as
far as he can before morning. He sure
many eyes watch ship night and day to
see that no message comes, or any
/ word of what raiah is doing. He float
/ down stream in sampan some distance,
! then paddle to opposite bank, then
keep in shadow of bushes up the river
and hide away till night comes again"
Very well, then. Tell him that he is
! to thank his master for sending his
warning; that We had already found
/ out that what he had told us before he
went away was true, and that Sehi is
a very bad man. Say that we are not
afraid of prahus, and will make short
work of them when we get a chance.
Tell him we will take great care, and
not let ourselves be surprised, and that
when we have finished with this fellow
here, the ship will come as far up the
river as she can go. and show the chiefs
that the English have no evil inten-
tions against them, and will send his
three friends with a strong boat party
to pay him a visit. BY the way, ask
the man if he knows this part of the
country"
Yes, captain; he says that he has
been since his boyhood a boatman, and
has worked for some years with a
trader, who used to go up the creeks
and trade with the villagers"
ASK him II he knows a creek that
turns off from the river about four or
five miles above this; it is a very small
one, but ii leads into a pool on which is
large village.
TIE MAJ nodded at once when the
question was put, then spoke for min
ute or two.
He says, captain, that he knows the
pool and village, but that he has never
been up the small creek that you speak
OF. DID not know that a boat could
get through. He has been there by a
large creek that runs into the other
branch OF the river, the one that turns
of Il miles below this: from that river
it is an hours paddle in a sampan to
the oooi.''
How should we know the entrance?''
the captain asked.
Entrance difficult to find the native
replied; strip of land runs out from
both sides, covered with trees. One goes
little beyond the other. so that any
one who did not know it would pass the
entrance without noticing it. 1t is just
wide enough Tor a large craft TO go in
and out. There is a village STANDS 100
yards below the entrance: it would be
known by big tree that grows before
a large house close TO the bank The
water is deep on that side. You have
only, after passing the village, to keep
close inshore, and you will then see the
entrance to the creek. II is called ALI
gator creek. because, more than any
other place, it swarms with these crea-
lures"
Thank you" said the chief. VIII
you tel the chief that / say you have
rendered IRE ? valuable service?" He
opened case in which he kept presents
intended for the chiefs. and took out a
brace of handsome pistols, powder
flask and bullet mold Take these,
he said. in token of the service you
have rendered. When l see your chief
you shall be well recomDensed for the
risk that you have run in bearing me
his message
The Malay looked longingly at the
pistols. and then said: i came by order
of my chief, and not for reward"
quite SO. l understand that, and am