Young Briton, No. 422 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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August 4, 1877. “Let him, Icare not,’’ grinned Bungerloo. “Twill avenge his death by eating them all up. Ha, ha, what do you think of that, ou? ” ** But, at all events, let me go back just to tell them of my fate,” said Sam Small. ** We will let them know after we haye eaten you,’ repiied the king; ‘*then we shall be able to say how we liked you. Take him away. I begin to feel hungry, so make haste.’’ Finding that all his arguments were vain with the king, Sam turned to his wife. * Beautiful creature,’ he exclaimed, throwing himself at her feet; ‘* dearest one, listen. to me. **Get along, you nasty man,’’ said the lady, ** go and be cooked quietly.” * Be not hard-hearted, fair one; remember, I | am your husband, and——”’ Hie paused, for the lady opened her huge jaws and showed such a terrible row of teath, all filed toa sharp point, after the approved fashion of the cannibals, and such a cavernous throttle, that Sam dared not go on, > .“ Blessed if ever I saw such a mouth,’’ he groaned ; ‘‘ my heart sinks within me, and for all I know, it will sink within her soon. It’s really terrible, that’s what it is, and no mis- take!” ‘Come along to the kitchen,’ said Paupuk- ~keewiesnutmee, ‘‘ I will cook you so beautiful.”’ It was no good expostulating; the king had given his orders, and they must be obeyed. ‘* You need not be in a hurry,” said Sam Small, as the little fat man hurried him along. ‘‘ The king said he was very hungry,’ said ' Paupukkeewissnutmee, with a grin. ‘* You were not so impatient to oblige him when he talked of eating you,’’. grumbled Sam. ‘* Ha, ha, that berry different matter. I shall enjoy you. Here’s the kitchen.’’ He drafged Sam into a stone hut, and shoved him down in a corner. “‘QOb! if Thad only my hands at liberty,” thought Sam, “ wouldn’t I give it to you, my 3 lad,’’ : baughing and ocierenall the time, Paupuk- eewissnutmee lit a fire under-what appeared to be a huge copper, which he then partly fil'ed with water. : ‘*Now for the vegetables,’’ said the little . wretch. ‘' You make good soup; not too fat,’’ As he spoke he brought out a number of roots,. . Which he sliced up in the pot. ieee He then put in a number of herbs, al waich had been dried, like those used by cooks in England. Having completed this, he blew up his fire until] it blazed merrily under the pot, which very soon began to simmer. ca * Fla! ha!’’ cried the litt'e fat wretch, as he tasted the liquor; ‘'good—yery good. Soon boil now.’’ Sam know that this would be the signal for his death, and therefore became desperate, Silently, but fiercely, he struggled with his cords, and at last managed to free his arms, At that moment Paupukkeewissnutmee was leaning over the copper, trying the soup. Sam crawled up close behind this terrible cook... ‘The liquor dem good,’’? cried Paupuk. keewissnutmee. *' Ail ready for the man now.” “Then here isthe man for it,’ cried Sam, and seizing the fat man’s heele, he tossed them up in the air, plunging the unhappy little wretch into the boiling fluid. ‘“‘ [t's very terrible,’’ said Sam with a shudder, “very ; but of two evils choose the least, And I’d sooner boil the whole tribe of these cannibals than let them boil me.”’ He crept cautiously out of the stone kitchen, and to his joy discovered that no one was watch- ing it. ‘‘Now for a good run,” he said to himself. ‘Tf I am taken now I shall be done for, so I will die fighting if the worst comes to the worst. They shall not take me alive.”’ Bending down low, Sam started off ata tre- mendous rate for the coast. He had not proceeded far when a terrible yell from the direction whence he had come told him that the remains of Paupukkeewissnutmee had _ been discovered, and that he was pursued. Never did man run faster than Sam Small did from the savages, — | A YOUNG GENTLEMAN’S JOURNAL, He reached the sands, and looking back beheld King Bungerloo, Moselekatze, and the savage warriors coming after him as fast as he could. Away, away sped Sam, until at last he reached the *‘ Hetty Brewer.”’ He was about to climb up the prow when a musket barrel was placed close to his head, and a stern voice bade him halt if he valued his life ‘Oh! Mr. Bull, for the love of merey do help me on board the ship.’’ “Why, Sam Small!” exclaimed Jobn Ball, “how came you in that disguise.” * [ll tell you all about it whea I am safe. Only do let me got up.” “Wait a minute and I will throw you a rope,” said our hero. This wa3 soon done, and Sam Small found himself oncé more with his friends, ‘*Oh ! T have had such a narrow ercspe,’” arid Sam. ‘‘T have nearly been made soup of. Oh! a I shall never like soup again as long as I v6.’ ‘*Botare these people friendly to us?’ de- manded Mr, Freelove. “Friendly! So friendly, sir, that they will nearly beat you to death, and the ladies get so fond of their husbands that they will eas then u ve ‘‘See—here they come in full force. Look to your Weapons lads,”’ cried John Bull. ** Woolly-woolly-woolly-woo !’’ yelled the savages, as they rushed at the ship. A well-direc’ed fire made some half-dozen bite the sand, and the rest paused. “Ah, you dem thief!’ cried King Bungerloo, as he caught sight of Sam—“ come here!’’ ‘¢ Thank you very mucb, sir, but I can not think of sucha thing. How did you like the soup ! “Soup, we will have you all in the goup,’’ yelled the king. Brandishing his club, he called upon his chiefs to attack the ship. Whatever faults the savages mizht have, cowardice was not one of them. On they rushed, determined to take the ship by storm; but Jack and his friends kept up such a constant.fire that the savages were forced to re- treat. ee But they soon recovered their courage and re- commenced the attack. The slaughter was very great amongst the savages, While Jack’s psrty had not a wound. ‘Hurrah, hurrah!’’ cried Jack. ‘Keep steady boys; we will beat them yet.’’ They were proparing for another attack, when the savages suddenly halted and sent up & shout of triumph. “ Why, what can they mean by that now P”’ exclaimed Green. ‘I think they are mad.” * Look! ” cried Gianhare, seizing Jack’s arm— ‘the ship is on fire!” Slowly from the after part of the vessel arose a dense column of smoke. Then a fierce flame shot up into the sky, and in a few seconds the whole of tho after part of the vessel was a sheot of fire. “‘Confusion!”’ cried Jack; ‘it is that eon- founded black fellow we held as hostage for Sam has done this. See, there he goes; he has dropped out of one of the stern ports and is swimming to the shore.” The savage reached tho land, and was about to rusiiup to his friends when Green raised his rifle; there was @ flash, astiarp report, and the savage leaped into the air and fell dead upon the gands., A yell of hatred and defiance rose from the favages, who rushed at the ship with redoubled fury, brandishing their war-clubs and hurling their spears at the enemy. _. ‘‘ Keep up a good fire on them,” said Mr. Free- love; “we cannot escape them, but we will peris'1 in the flames sooner than fall into the hands of such wretchos.” ‘s Gianhare,” said Jack, as he tenderly kissed his wife, ‘‘if I fall, and the rest are overpowered, do not let yourself he taken prisoner by these /brutes. Death is preferable to dishonour.’’ ‘‘Fear not, my love,” replied Gianhare, as she returned the embrace, “this shall release me.’’ As she spoke she placed her hand upon a smail dagger she wore by her side. ‘6 See |” cried Mr. Freelove, *‘ here they come! 83 4 They know we must perish in those flames or surrender, and therefore they are determined to wait until we are destroyed or forced to yield ourselves up to them.” “That we shall never do. I’d sooner feed the fishes than those brutes,’’ said O’ Rourke. ‘' *‘ Keep on firing as long as we ean,” otied J ack 5 ‘‘at all events we will kill as maby as we can. They poured ina volley, and, to Sam’s delight, King Bangerloo and his beautiful daughter rolle over in tho sand, never to rise again; at lenst, they did not rise up then, Fatious at their dearly-beloved king being thus bowled over, the savages formed into a densé crowd, and prepared to rush down to the ship and take it by storm. ‘‘Now, may Heaven send us aid,’’ said Mr. Freelove; ‘if not, we must perish,” Searcely. had he said the words when the report of a cannon wa3 heard, and a large cacnon~ball tore throueh the crowd of savages, scattering them like chaff before the wind, ‘Hurrah!’ cried Jack, leaping up on the gunwale; ‘* we are saved, We aré saved,” A small rakish schooner, painted black and) flying a black flag, had, ungereeived by the com- batants, shore, rapid and well-directed fire on the savages. Yelling with fear, the cannibals fled, leaving at least half their number dead on the sands. But now our hero and his party had another terrible danger to encounter. The fire had spread rapidly, and had already made the planks on which they were standing so hotias almost to be unbearable, Jack hurried aa far aft as he could to signal the the schooner, but he turned back in all haste, crying out— * Qaick, quick !—jump on shore !—throw yours selves into the water—any where! ”’ ‘‘ Why, what on earth is up now?” demanded Green.—.‘‘ That vessel must be friendly.” ‘' Yes, yes; but the powder-magazine has caught fire. To the shore, or we perish.”’ lt needed no s*cond warning. Ina minute they had thrown themselves into the sea and waded ashore. Suddenly a fearful report shook the earth, a fiercé flash shot up into the sky followed by a eoluran of dense smoke, which stood for a moment quite atationary, then it cleared slowly away, leaving theeea atrewn with fragments of what had once been the good ship * Hetty Brewer.’’ ‘* May heaven be praised ! We have escaped that fearful fate,’’ said Mr. Freelove. The black sebooner came to anchor, and as she slowed round on her cable Jack read her name. lt was the ‘* Kldorado.’’ A boat was lowered and manned, and a young fellow dressed in s blue frock-coat with gold bnitons, a Spanish flap hat, white trousers over which heavy sea-boots were drawn, leaped into the boat which was then immediately pulled to the shore. Asthe young offizer leaped on to the sands he took his hat off and bowed politely to Jack, ** By the body of Bacchus, sir,’’ said the young fellow laughingly, ‘*I thiok we only just arrived iD time. Youseem to have had hot work here,’’ he contioued, ashe pointed to the slain savages. ** As I live, there is old Bungerloo dead and his lovely daughter Moselekatze, who was always so fond of her husbands that she devoured them.” ‘‘We must indeed thank you for having saved us,’’ said Jack, “for had you not arrived we should have perishedin the burning ship.’’ “ By St. Jago, you are right,” said the young man, ‘* You must now, if you please, give me your names and ranks, Also tell me what cotntry you belong to and where bound.” John Ball made answer to all these questions, and the young officer wrote down the replies in his tablets. : ‘¢ | must now trouble you to come with me into my ship, the ‘ Eidorado,’ said the officer. ‘* Are we, then, to consider ourselves prisoners? ”” said Jack ‘Well, not precisely, and yet I cannot: say you are quite free.” “Pardon me, but I don’t quite understand you,” said Jack, hastily. “No? Well, I will put itin another way. 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