In Search of an Unknown Race — page 238: what you’re looking at

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224 VAN, ne came to be in his present predicament, and that he was no less a prisoner than the rest, This seemed t? tbe duly interpreted by the Kroo to the others. The black then went on to explain, in the extracr- dinary jargon used by this strange branch of th African race, and he himself had left an American whaler atthe island of New Hebrides. With a few others he was kidnapped by Captain Phillips of the brig Allie Rowe, and afterwards transferred with eleven others, as we have seen, te the schooner Rattler, in exchange for provision. While the Kroo was thus exolaining, the noise of the contending elements overhead grew louder and fiercer. ‘Fhe thunder peals had become almost deafening, and the flashes of lightning momentarily illumined every nook and crevice of the dungeon-like hold. Suddenly and without a moment's warning, the fury of the coming gale struck. Over went the schooner on her side, while the pile of old sails and the manacled prisoners went sliding to- gether to leeward. That the Rattler had been thrown on her beam ends was self-evident, and it was a question for some little time in Van’s mind whether she would be able te right herself. Luckily the buik of the cargo amidships had been well atored, so that there was no shiftage—in which case the schooner must have gone down for a certainty. Gradually she began to rise, and was put before the vale, as Yan knew by her tremendous onrush through the seas, which had risen with inconceivable velocity. ‘*Say, white fellow !” Eomichbooksne