Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-11-21

who had never seen tobacco and knew
not the virtues Of smoking. their friend
liness, the deeper penetration of the
interior around the TANKS Of the Lions
Head. the bush sores and the fevers OF
the white men. and their madness in
trusting the bushmen. One morning
Binu Charley noticed that the women
and children had disappeared. Tudor.
at the time, was lying In a stupor with
fever In 4 late camp five miles away,
the main camp having moved on those
i've miles in order to prospect an out
crop OF likely quartz. Binu Charley
was midway between the two camps
when the absence of the women and
children struck him as suspicious.
my word" he said, ''me savvee too
much trouble close up. Me run. My
word, me run"
Tudor, quite unconscious, was slung
across his shoulder and carried a mile
down the trail. Here. hiding new trail
Binu Charley had carried him for a
quarter Of a mile into the heart OF the
deepest jungle and hidden him in big
banyan tree. Here. and from the direc'
ton Of the main camp, he had heard
two rifle shots. And that was all. he
had never seen the white men again.
There Is only one thing to d." Shell
don said to Joan. I'm start the hrst
thing in the morning"
We'll start" she corrected. Il can
get twice as much out of my Tahitians
as you can, and. besides. one white
should never be alone under such cir
eumstances."
Sheldon sent for a gang boss and
told him to bring ten of the biggest.
best and strongest Poonga-Poonga
men.
mot salt water boys" Sheldon eau
toned. "but bush boys-leg belong him
strong fella leg. Boy no savvee mus
ket, no good. You bring IN shoot
musket strong fella."
They were ten picked men that filed
up on the veranda and stood in the
glare Of the lanterns. Their heavy.
muscular legs advertised that they
were bushmen. Killing was their nat
ural vocation. not weed cutting: and.
while they would not have ventured
the Guadalcanar bush alone, with a
white man like Sheldon behind them,
and white Mary such as they knew
Joan to be. they could expect a safe
snd delightful time. Besides, the great
master had told them that the eight
gigantic Tahitians were going along.
':Plenty strong fella f1ght." Sheldon
warned them in conclusion.
They grinned and shifted delighted.
y.
''s'pose bushmen kai-kai along your"
he queried.
mo fear" answered their spokes-
man, one Koogoo, a strapping, thick
Tipped Ethiopian looking man. "s'pose
Poonga-Poonga boy kai-kai bush boy?"
Sheldon shook his head, laughing.
and dismissed them and went to over
haul the dunnage room for small
shelter tent for Joan's use. ".
It was quite formidable expedi-
ton that departed from Berande at
break Of day next morning in feet
Of canoes and dingeys. There were
Joan and Sheldon. with Binu Charley
and Lalaperu, the eight Tahitians and
the ten Poonga-P oonga men, each
proud in the possession Of bright and
modern rife.
Binu Charley led the way onward
into the rolling foothills, following the
trail made by Tudor and his men
weeks before. That night they camp
Cd well into the hills and deep in the
tropic Jungle. The third day found
them on the runways Of the bushmen
-narrow paths that compelled single
dle and that turned and twisted with
endless convolutions through the dense
Here, in the midmorning, the first
occurred. Binu Charley had
dropped behind for a time and Koogoo,
the Poonga- Poonga man who had
boosted that he would eat the BUSH
men, was in the lead. Joan and Shell
don heard the twanging thrum and