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be in England in the spring As for you, Tollemache, surely you will

say that our prospects are 'fair,' at the least"

"I would say more than that if it were not for these poisonous

Indians," replied Tollemache "Here they come nohole canoe load

of 'em I have never seen such rotters"

And, indeed, Francisco Suarez, detailed to keep watch and ward over the

ship until noon, ran up the companion and cried excitedly: "Four head men have just put off from Otter Creek They have o back I beseech you, señor

captain, not to give h

my miserable heart"

"Tell him to calm himself," said Courtenay, coolly, when Christobal had

translated this flow of guttural Spanish "He has no cause to fear

them now; let him nerve hi that can happen We must display all the arht show

the your

caood picture of

themselves it would scare them to death"