Beadle's Dime Novels No. 87: On the Deep — page 63: what you’re looking at

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AN EXCELLENT IDDBA. 65 CHoArLutm Vit. LOKO! Loxo! LoKxo! “] BELIEVE you are right,’ said Capstan, “after all. And now,” he added, “ we will continue our way, and try if we can’t find some better hiding-place than is afforded by this valley. The natives will be sure to look for us here, before long. Accordingly, the party rose from the rock upon which they had been sitting, and striking into a narrow path that led through a miniature grove of banana plants, moved on, in single file, Grace occupying the center, between Block and Capstan. They had not gone far, when they saw smoke rising above the tops of a thick mass of bread-fruit trees, about a hundred yards ahead. The foremost man stopped, and turning, motioned to the rest to halt. “T see a cluster of huts,’ he whispered, “and men, women, and children.” ‘We must try another direction, then,” said the skipper. “We will file to the right.” They did so, and after they had pursued their new course for a mile, they found themselves in another valley. It’s sides were thickly covered with brushwood, which, in some places, almost concealed the entrances to the caves and hol- lows among a confused pile of rocks. “We will go no further, Block,” said Capstan, halting the party. “IfI mistake not we’re now close upon the beach that borders the strait. Here we'll hide ourselves until night, when we'll make for the beach, from which I shall send you and the men to the other island to see whether or not the cut- ter is safe and sound. If it is, you shall launch it and bring it to the beach where Grace and I will be a-waiting for you.” “ An excellent idea!” cried Block, “if we can once get hold of the cutter again we may Contrive easily ey to preclude the vigilance of our enemies and get away.” So saying, he followed the rest of the patty into a cave in one of the rocks. The skipper, with the assistance of his - conmicloooks. com