Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-04-16

tell you, III VIII De most deSlra bic
kingdom"
lob seems to have imagined himself
king of the Tin Islands with much
reality"
He sighed little. I'm truth I did,
and there is no denying it; and 1 tell
you plain, there is not another man
living that I would have broken this
voyage for but Deuealion. But don't
think 1 regret it, and don't think I
want to push myself above my place.
This breeze and the ebb are taking the
old ship finely along her ways. See
those fire-buckets OH the harbor forts?
We're abreast of them now. Well
have dropped them and the city out of
sight by daylight, and the flood will
not begin to run up till then. But 1
fear unless the wind hardens down
with the dawn We'll have to bring up
to an anchor when the flood makes.
Tides run very hard in these narrow
seas. Aye, and there are some shrewd-
ish tide-rips round my Tin islands, as
you shall see when we reach them"
There were many fearful chances
backward when day came and showed
the waters, and the burning mountains
that hemmed them in beyond the
shores. All seemed to expect some
navy of Phorenice to come surging up
to take them back to servitude and
starvation in the squalid wards of the
city; and / confess ingenuously that |
was with them in all truth when they
swore they would fight the ship till
she sank beneath them before they
would obey another of the commands
of Phorenice. However, their brave
heroics were displayed to small pur-
pose. For the full flow of the tide we
hung in our place, barely moving past
the land, but yet not seeing either
oar or sail; and then, when the tide
turned, away we went once more with
speed, nightly comforted.
Tob'S woman must needs bring drink
on deck, and bid all pour libations to
her as future queen. But lob cuffed
her back into the aftercastle, slam
ming to the hatch behind her heels,
and bidding the crew send the liquor
down their dusty threats. eve are
done with that foolery," said he. "My
Lord Deucalion will be king of this
new kingdom we shall build in the Tin
islands, and a right proper king he'll
make, as you untraveled ones would
know if you'd sailed the outer seas
with him as I have DONE" Beneath
which l read a regret, but said moth
ing, having made my plans from the
moment of stepping on board, as will
appear on later sheet.
So on down the great estuary we made
our way, and though it pleased the
others on board when they saw that
the seas were desolate of sails, it sad
dened me when [ recalled how once
the waters had been whitened with the
glut of shipping.
They had started off on their voyage
with bare two days provision in their
equipment, and so, of necessity, even
after leaving the great estuary, we
were forced to voyage coastwise, put
ting in every likely river and sheltered
beach to Stay fish and meat for future
yictualing. "And when the winter
comes comes" said lob. las it's gales will
be heavier than this old ship can
stomach, had determined to haul up
and make a permanent camp ashore,
and get a crop of grain grown and
threshed before setting sail again. 1t
is the usual custom in these voyages.
And I shall do it still, subject to my
lords better opinion
So here, having by this time COM
pleted two-months' 1eisurely journey
from the city, I saw my opportunity
to speak what had always carried in
my mind. "Tob," said, 81 am poor,
weak, defenseless man, and am quite
at your mercy; but what if do not
voyage all the way to the Tin islands
and GUST you of this kingship?"
He frightened perceptibly. "Aye,"
he grunted, ''you are very weak, my
lord, and mighty defenseless. Weknow
all about that. But what's else? You
must tell all your meaning plain. I'm
common mariner, and understand
little of your fancy talk"
"Why, this. That it is not my wish
to leave the continent of Atlantis. If
you will put me down on any part of
this side that faces Europe, will COM
mend you strongly to the gods. L
would L could give you money, or (bet-
ter stilD articles that would be useful
to you in your colonizing; but as it is,
you see me destitute
"As to that, you owe me nothing,
having done vastly more than your
share each time we have put in shore
for the hunting. But it will not do,
this plan of yours. I will shamedly
confess that the Sound of that kinu