Beadle's Dime Novels No. 87: On the Deep — page 64: what you’re looking at

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66 ON THE DEP. mate, contrived to arrange a mass of brushwood in such a manner that, while it concealed the entrance to their retreat, it yet admitted light enough to enable them to see each other's faces. One of the men, who, while among the banana plants, had filled a large canvas bag with the fruit, now poured the - “golden treasures” upon the ground. Of these the party made a hearty meal, afterward regaling themselves with the milk of the cocoanut. They heard nothing to cause alarm until many hours had passed, when a sudden rustling in the shrubbery near the caye made them all start.. Peering through small openings in the artificial screen, Capstan beheld the hideous face of a savage within a few yards of him. The native kept turning his eyes from side to side in an eager, sus- picious manner, as though he felt convinced that the fugitives were not far off. Very soon, all were startled upon seeing the piercing orbs of the islander become fixed with a search- ing gaze upon the small twigs and branches by which they were concealed, Grace felt her heart beat loud and fast: it seemed to her that the man must see them now. There he stood, bending eagerly forward, with his long spear in one hand and a heayy clubin the other. He was tall and athletic, with shoulders of herculean breadth, and very long arms. His face, painted and covered with scars, was more hideous than any she had yet seen.. She was, therefore, much relieved when the native, after continuing his survey several minutes longer, turned round and walked off quite leisurely, as though he had seen nothing to excite his suspicions. “A narrow escape, that,” whispered Block. “I thought we would sartainly be individualized by that lubber’s imper- ceptible glances.” “Tam not so sartain that he did not discover us!’ said Capstan, uneasily. ‘ P’r’aps he knows we are here, and, has gone off to inform some of his brethren,” “Oh, dear me! yes,’ said the professor, “that is quite likely, for, of course, he would not have ventured to attack us alone.” “In that ease, the sooner we leave. this place. the better,” responded the skipper. ‘It is nearly twilight already, and we'll soon be a-having the night shadows to help us.” “Suppose I go to reconsider,’ said the mate. “TI think comicbooks.conn