Ensign Merrill — page 130: what you’re looking at

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j re . ‘ * ED GOES: ON AN | ‘EXPEDITION. Pai air, FP eiciedintoly followed by a pistol-shot. i around a dense thicket half-closing the little roadway, U; the middy came upon a thrilling scene. On the right of the path a crevice opened from the | | edge, extending back some hundreds of feet. Growing at — | intervals on thesioping face were scraggy bushes, and, | hanging to one of these was the remaining Chinaman, his face blanched to the whiteness of paper, and a Running stream of blood trickling down his neck. Just over- head a jagged hole, large enough to admit a man’s body could be seen, and leading up to it was a notched _tree-trunk now partially displaced. All this Gage saw in one rapid glance, then grasping lend a hand in rescuing the terrified wretch. from no desire to save the assassin’s worthless life, simply in obedience to an order of Mark’s to try and bring a prisoner on board. The sailors demurred at the command, but a few authoritative words from their leader caused them to obey. It was only a dozen feet to the limb from which » : - the situation, he sternly ordered some of the sailors to lt was but _he was hanging, so by placing the primitive ladder fur- ther over, one of the men was able to climb up and grasp him by the arms. After several minutes of ? the Celestial was lowered to the path. | work, during which he was handled none too gently, Ned tied up the wound in his neck, a mere scratch of the flesh, and ordered- him securely bound. coast natives. shouldered, and possessed a powerful frame. It was easily seen their captive was not one of the ordinary Unlike them, he was tall and broad His face was repulsive, and displayed little intelligence, and the expression of brutal cunning about his eyes showed that mn Cc no quarter could be expected from him, or his class if | the circumstances were reversed. Gage recognized in 000 cS Col | co