The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-02
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I I was remembering my uncle's
rsck-gray face and faxed lips.
"If put any water down him,
Blair said, "up she comes, and he's
bleeding again. don't know If !
could have got boat through into
the bay or not. II don't look like it.
But was going to try it."
4 asked whether Clyde knew
anything about 81, IRIS plan to take
him down the rivei.
2 SHE knew it yesterday" Blair as
serted. 81 don't know if he knows
nothin' today. Even yesterday he
didn't know what he was saying,
much. I asked him if it was all
right to try the river. What do you
think he said? He says, Send word
| to Rentongen that | give him one
chance to surrender That's him!"
knew then what I was going to
do. Look here" | said, "the river
is open tonight. We didn't get q
challenge as we came up"
81 know you didn't"
"Blair, what the DEVILS hap
pened here?"
"I'll be damned IL I can make
out what's happened. They've been
having trouble over there for three
or four days. It started off with
some kind OF fighting back in the
bush, and they was beginning to
be split up against each other.
Then yesterday we began missing
a lot of 'em, or thought we did-it
looked to us like a whole lot Of
their Dyak friends had pulled out.
And then today. about three bells
in the morning watch, we began
noticing something else. There was
a bunch Of shouting and l1ell-rais-
ing and excitement, and we figured
they was going to rush"
But they had not rushed. Down.
river, as Ciyde's beleaguered men
could plairly see, some of the praus
had taken to the water, packed
to pull out. The Malays at one
place along the shore had charged
their own Dyaks. 'ssfsr
at looked like the Malays split
up with what Dyaks they had"
Blair said.
They're watching Us
DUT once the Malays had turned,
- Blair continued, the whole
mess OF Dyaks began to take to
the bush. Then in the afternoon,
along about the dog-watch. after
they had quieted down and it
looked as If the remaining tribes
were going to stay, another row
had gone up, and the Dyaks
dropped everything they were do
ing and ran. yelling.
Gould you hear what they were
yelling?" -
Il don't savvy this chop suey
talk. The guard said they was
running from the Tuan Hurrah.
What's a .hurrah' in this crazy Ian,
guage? It's an elephant. isn't it?"
That's pretty close"
Suddenly he ierked around to
peer at me hard "Sayl This Tuan
Hurrah--is thai yoil2 "Ma -
It gave me my first real grin in
a long time. Sure it's me. You
know where those Dyaks went? I
ran them home. Me-" ). ,"I
Blair thought that over. well, =
he said. you don't look like hllr-
rah to me. More of bean pole,
like" 50 be- tsisl'"5
BLAIR" said slowly. "I'm afraid
to move him.
"Sure. And I'm afraid to stay
here. Look over there. across the
river, at them houses . s'a
l stared into the darkness. /
couldn't see any buildings, but I
knew where they were. Perhaps
some movement was going on over
there, of blackness in blackness:
! could not have sworn there was
not, but | could not have said that
there was. either.
They're watchin' u.s." Blair said.
That's what they do. They always
watch US from over. there for q
while. IL they're fixin' to make a
night rush. Those Dyaks that
ganged up with Rentongen are out
of this. but the Malays amt;
they're just drawn back into Balm
gong. What I'm afraid Of Is that
they'll get smart. II they circle
around US and take hold of the mar
rows again, it's awful bad. We
could probably get through the
jungle to che bay, now that the
Dyaks are gone. But We can't carry
Clyde any such way--if we try It
he's dead for sure. So.
| made my, decision. Wen get
him into a boat. What boats have
you here?"
"One-the whaleboat." He went
on to say that Rentongen had raid
ed Clyde's boats of the beach be-
fore they could be hauled into the
stockade. The Malays had been
forced to leave three Of Clyde's
bankongs on the beach. but had
smashed them up with lantakas
later. They had smashed up the
whaieboat too. but Blair had fixed
il
Its down on the beach already
he ended. The Tenyalangs have
three-four canoes they rugged up. I
was fixin' to pull out when you
come"
Then. let's CO.
We went inside and finished rig.
ging the stretcher that Blair had
begun. When We stood over Clyde,
ready to lift him. almost gave up
my plan, for his head had fallen
70 one side. and from the corner
Of his mouth a thread OF blood
was srllnning through the stubble
Of his beard.
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