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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Jarwin and Cuffy, by R.M. Ballantyne
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+Title: Jarwin and Cuffy
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+Author: R.M. Ballantyne
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+Release Date: June 7, 2007 [EBook #21742]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JARWIN AND CUFFY ***
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+Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England
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+JARWIN AND CUFFY, BY R.M. BALLANTYNE.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER ONE.
+
+ADRIFT ON THE OCEAN.
+
+On a certain morning, not very long ago, the sun, according to his
+ancient and admirable custom, rose at a very early hour, and casting his
+bright beams far and wide over the Pacific, lighted up the yellow sands
+and the verdant hills of one of the loveliest of the islands of that
+mighty sea.
+
+It was early morning, as we have said, and there was plenty of life--
+animal as well as vegetable--to be seen on land and sea, and in the
+warm, hazy atmosphere.  But there were no indications of man's presence
+in that beautiful scene.  The air was perfectly calm, yet the gentle
+swell of the ocean terminated in great waves, which came rolling in like
+walls of glass, and fell on the coral-reef like rushing snow-wreaths
+with a roar as loud as thunder.
+
+Thousands of sea-birds screamed and circled in the sky.  Fish leaped
+high out of their native element into the air, as if they wished to
+catch the gulls, while the gulls, seemingly smitten with a similar
+desire, dived into the water as if they wished to catch the fish.  It
+might have been observed, however, that while the fish never succeeded
+in catching the gulls, the latter very frequently caught the fish, and,
+without taking the trouble to kill them, bolted them down alive.
+
+Cocoanut-palms cast the shadows of their long stems and graceful tops
+upon the beach, while, farther inland, a dense forest of tropical
+plants--bread-fruit trees, bananas, etcetera--rose up the
+mountain-sides.  Here and there open patches might be seen, that looked
+like fields and lawns, but there were no cottages or villas.  Droves of
+pigs rambled about the valleys and on the hill-sides, but they were wild
+pigs.  No man tended them.  The bread-fruits, the cocoanuts, the
+bananas, the plantains, the plums, all were beautiful and fit for food,
+but no man owned them or used them, for, like many other spots in that
+sea of coral isles and savage men, the island was uninhabited.
+
+In all the wide expanse of ocean that surrounded that island, there was
+nothing visible save one small, solitary speck on the far-off horizon.
+It might have been mistaken for a seagull, but it was in reality a
+raft--a mass of spars and planks rudely bound together with ropes.  A
+boat's mast rose from the centre of it, on which hung a rag of sail, and
+a small red flag drooped motionless from its summit.  There were a few
+casks on the highest part of the raft, but no living soul was visible.
+Nevertheless, it was not without tenants.  In a hollow between two of
+the spars, under the shadow of one of the casks, lay the form of a man.
+The canvas trousers, cotton shirt, blue jacket, and open necktie,
+bespoke him a sailor, but it seemed as though there were nothing left
+save the dead body of the unfortunate tar, so pale and thin and ghastly
+were his features.  A terrier dog lay beside him, so shrunken that it
+looked like a mere scrap of door-matting.  Both man and dog were
+apparently dead, but they were not so in reality, for, after lying about
+an hour quite motionless, the man slowly opened his eyes.
+
+Ah, reader, it would have touched your heart to have seen those eyes!
+They were so deep set, as if in dark caverns, and so unnaturally large.
+They gazed round in a vacant way for a few moments, until they fell on
+the dog.  Then a gleam of fire shot through them, and their owner raised
+his large, gaunt, wasted frame on one elbow, while he gazed with a look
+of eagerness, which was perfectly awful, at his dumb companion.
+
+"Not dead _yet_!" he said, drawing a long sigh.
+
+There was a strange, incongruous mixture of satisfaction and discontent
+in the remark, which was muttered in a faint whisper.
+
+Another gleam shot through the large eyes.  It was not a pleasant look.
+Slowly, and as if with difficulty, the man drew a clasp-knife from his
+pocket, and opened it.  As he did so, his brows lowered and his teeth
+became clenched.  It was quite plain what he meant to do.  As he held
+the open knife over the dog's head, he muttered, "Am I to die for the
+sake of a _dog_!"
+
+Either the terrier's slumbers had come to an end naturally, at a
+fortunate moment, or the master's voice had awakened it, for it opened
+its eyes, raised its head, and looked up in the sailor's face.  The hand
+with the knife drooped a little.  The dog rose and licked it.  Hunger
+had done its work on the poor creature, for it could hardly stand, yet
+it managed to look in its master's face with that grave, simple gaze of
+self-forgetting love, which appears to be peculiar to the canine race.
+The savage glare of the seaman's eyes vanished.  He dropped the knife.
+
+"Thanks, Cuffy; thanks for stoppin' me.  It would have been _murder_!
+No, no, my doggie, you and I shall die together."
+
+His voice sank into a murmur, partly from weakness and partly from the
+ideas suggested by his concluding words.
+
+"Die together!" he repeated, "surely it ain't come to that _yet_.  Wot,
+John Jarwin, you're not goin' to give in like that, are you? to haul
+down your colours on a fine day with a clear sky like this overhead?
+Come, cheer up, lad; you're young and can hold out a good while yet.
+Hey, old dog, wot say _you_?"
+
+The dog made a motion that would, in ordinary circumstances, have
+resulted in the wagging of its tail, but the tail was powerless to
+respond.
+
+At that moment a gull flew towards the raft; Jarwin watched it eagerly
+as it approached.  "Ah," he muttered, clasping his bony hand as tightly
+over his heart as his strength would allow and addressing the gull, "if
+I only had hold of _you_, I'd tear you limb from limb, and drink your
+blood!"
+
+He watched the bird intently as it flew straight over him.  Leaning
+back, he continued slowly to follow its flight, until his head rested on
+the block of wood which had served him for a pillow.  The support felt
+agreeable, he forgot the gull, closed his eyes, and sank with a deep
+sigh into a slumber that strongly resembled death.
+
+Presently he awoke with a start, and, once more raising himself, gazed
+round upon the sea.  No ship was to be seen.  How often he had gazed
+round the watery circle with the same anxious look only to meet with
+disappointment!  The hills of the coral island were visible like a blue
+cloud on the horizon, but Jarwin's eyes were too dim and worn out to
+observe them.
+
+"Come," he exclaimed, suddenly, scrambling to his feet, "rouse up,
+Cuffy; you an' I ain't a-goin' to die without a good fight for life.
+Come along, my hearty; we'll have another glass of grog--Adam's grog it
+is, but it has been good grog to you an' me, doggie--an' then we shall
+have another inspection o' the locker; mayhap there's the half of a
+crumb left."
+
+The comparatively cheery tone in which the sailor said this seemed to
+invigorate the dog, for it rose and actually succeeded in wriggling its
+tail as it staggered after its master--indubitable sign of hope and love
+not yet subdued!
+
+Jarwin went to a cask which still contained a small quantity of fresh
+water.  Three weeks before the point at which we take up his story, a
+storm had left him and his dog the sole survivors on the raft of the
+crew of a barque which had sprung a leak, and gone to the bottom.  His
+provision at the time was a very small quantity of biscuit and a cask of
+fresh water.  Several days before this the last biscuit had been
+consumed but the water had not yet failed.  Hitherto John Jarwin had
+husbanded his provisions, but now, feeling desperate, he drank deeply of
+the few remaining drops of that liquid which, at the time, was almost as
+vital to him as his life-blood.  He gave a full draught also to the
+little dog.
+
+"Share and share alike, doggie," he said, patting its head, as it
+eagerly lapped up the water; "but there's no wittles, Cuffy, an' ye
+don't care for baccy, or ye should be heartily welcome to a quid."
+
+So saying, the sailor supplied his own cheek with a small piece of his
+favourite weed, and stood up on the highest part of the raft to survey
+the surrounding prospect.  He did so without much hope, for "hope
+deferred" had at last made his heart sick.  Suddenly his wandering gaze
+became fixed and intense.  He shaded his eyes with one hand, and
+steadied himself against the mast with the other.  There could be no
+doubt of it!  "Land ho!" he shouted, with a degree of strength that
+surprised himself, and even drew from Cuffy the ghost of a bark.  On the
+strength of the discovery Jarwin and his dumb friend immediately treated
+themselves to another glass of Adam's grog.
+
+But poor Jarwin had his patience further tried.  Hours passed away, and
+still the island seemed as far off as ever.  Night drew on, and it
+gradually faded from his view.  But he had unquestionably seen land; so,
+with this to comfort him, the starving tar lay down beside his dog to
+spend another night--as he had already spent many days and nights--a
+castaway on the wide ocean.
+
+Morning dawned, and the sailor rose with difficulty.  He had forgotten,
+for a moment, the discovery of land on the previous night, but it was
+brought suddenly to his remembrance by the roar of breakers near at
+hand.  Turning in the direction whence the sound came, he beheld an
+island quite close to him, with heavy "rollers" breaking furiously on
+the encircling ring of the coral-reef.  The still water between the reef
+and the shore, which was about a quarter of a mile wide, reflected every
+tree and crag of the island, as if in a mirror.  It was a grand, a
+glorious sight, and caused Jarwin's heart to swell with emotions that he
+had never felt before; but his attention was quickly turned to a danger
+which was imminent, and which seemed to threaten the total destruction
+of his raft, and the loss of his life.
+
+A very slight breeze--a mere zephyr--which had carried him during the
+night towards the island, was now bearing him straight, though slowly,
+down on the reef, where, if he had once got involved in the breakers,
+the raft must certainly have been dashed to pieces; and he knew full
+well, that in his weak condition, he was utterly incapable of contending
+with such a surf.
+
+Being a man of promptitude, his first act, on making this discovery, was
+to lower the sail.  This was, fortunately, done in time; had he kept it
+up a few minutes longer, he must inevitably have passed the only opening
+in the reef that existed on that side of the island.  This opening was
+not more than fifty yards wide.  To the right and left of it the
+breakers on the reef extended, in lines of seething foam.  Already the
+raft was rolling in the commotion caused by these breakers, as it
+drifted towards the opening.
+
+Jarwin was by no means devoid of courage.  Many a time, in days gone by,
+when his good ship was tossing on the stormy sea, or scudding under bare
+poles, had he stood on the deck with unshaken confidence and a calm
+heart, but now he was face to face with the seaman's most dreaded
+enemy--"breakers ahead!"--nay, worse, breakers around him everywhere,
+save at that one narrow passage, which appeared so small, and so
+involved in the general turmoil, as to afford scarcely an element of
+hope.  For the first time in his life Jarwin's heart sank within him--at
+least so he said in after years while talking of the event--but we
+suspect that John was underrating himself.  At all events, he showed no
+symptoms of fear as he sat there calmly awaiting his fate.
+
+As the raft approached the reef, each successive roller lifted it up and
+dropped it behind more violently, until at last the top of one of the
+glittering green walls broke just as it passed under the end of the raft
+nearest the shore.  Jarwin now knew that the next billow would seal his
+fate.
+
+There was a wide space between each of those mighty waves.  He looked
+out to sea, and beheld the swell rising and taking form, and increasing
+in speed as it came on.  Calmly divesting himself of his coat and boots,
+he sat down beside his dog, and awaited the event.  At that moment he
+observed, with intense gratitude to the Almighty, that the raft was
+drifting so straight towards the middle of the channel in the reef, that
+there seemed every probability of being carried through it; but the hope
+thus raised was somewhat chilled by the feeling of weakness which
+pervaded his frame.
+
+"Now, Cuffy," said he, patting the terrier gently, "rouse up, my doggie;
+we must make a brave struggle for life.  It's neck or nothing this time.
+If we touch that reef in passing, Cuff, you an' I shall be food for the
+sharks to-night, an' it's my opinion that the shark as gits us won't
+have much occasion to boast of his supper."
+
+The sailor ceased speaking abruptly.  As he looked back at the
+approaching roller he felt solemnised and somewhat alarmed, for it
+appeared so perpendicular and so high from his low position, that it
+seemed as if it would fall on and overwhelm the raft.  There was,
+indeed, some danger of this.  Glancing along its length, Jarwin saw that
+here and there the edge was lipping over, while in one place, not far
+off, the thunder of its fall had already begun.  Another moment, and it
+appeared to hang over his head; the raft was violently lifted at the
+stern, caught up, and whirled onward at railway speed, like a cork in
+the midst of a boiling cauldron of foam.  The roar was deafening.  The
+tumultuous heaving almost overturned it several times.  Jarwin held on
+firmly to the mast with his right arm, and grasped the terrier with his
+left hand, for the poor creature had not strength to resist such furious
+motion.  It all passed with bewildering speed.  It seemed as if, in one
+instant, the raft was hurled through the narrows, and launched into the
+calm harbour within.  An eddy, at the inner side of the opening, swept
+it round, and fixed the end of one of the largest spars of which it was
+composed on the beach.
+
+There were fifty yards or so of sandy coral-reef between the beach
+outside, that faced the sea, and the beach inside, which faced the land;
+yet how great the difference!  The one beach, buffeted for ever, day and
+night, by the breakers--in calm by the grand successive rollers that, as
+it were, symbolised the ocean's latent power--in storm by the mad deluge
+of billows which displayed that power in all its terrible grandeur.  The
+other beach, a smooth, sloping circlet of fair white sand, laved only by
+the ripples of the lagoon, or by its tiny wavelets, when a gale chanced
+to sweep over it from the land.
+
+Jarwin soon gained this latter beach with Cuffy in his arms, and sat
+down to rest, for his strength had been so much reduced that the mere
+excitement of passing through the reef had almost exhausted him.  Cuffy,
+however, seemed to derive new life from the touch of earth again, for it
+ran about in a staggering drunken sort of way; wagged its tail at the
+root,--without, however, being able to influence the point,--and made
+numerous futile efforts to bark.
+
+In the midst of its weakly gambols the terrier chanced to discover a
+dead fish on the sands.  Instantly it darted forward and began to devour
+it with great voracity.
+
+"Halo!  Cuffy," shouted Jarwin, who observed him; "ho! hold on, you
+rascal! share and share alike, you know.  Here, fetch it here!"
+
+Cuffy had learned the first great principle of a good and useful life--
+whether of man or beast--namely, prompt obedience.  That meek but jovial
+little dog, on receiving this order, restrained its appetite, lifted the
+fish in its longing jaws, and, carrying it to his master, humbly laid it
+at his feet.  He was rewarded with a hearty pat on the head, and a full
+half of the coveted fish--for Jarwin appeared to regard the
+"share-and-share-alike" principle as a point of honour between them.
+
+The fish was not good, neither was it large, and of course it was raw,
+besides being somewhat decayed; nevertheless, both man and dog ate it,
+bones and all, with quiet satisfaction.  Nay, reader, do not shudder!
+If you were reduced to similar straits, you would certainly enjoy, with
+equal gusto, a similar meal, supposing that you had the good fortune to
+get it.  Small though it was, it sufficed to appease the appetite of the
+two friends, and to give them a feeling of strength which they had not
+experienced for many a day.
+
+Under the influence of this feeling, Jarwin remarked to Cuffy, that "a
+man could eat a-most anything when hard put to it," and that "it wos now
+high time to think about goin' ashore."
+
+To which Cuffy replied with a bark, which one might imagine should come
+from a dog in the last stage of whooping-cough, and with a wag of his
+tail--not merely at the root thereof, but a distinct wag--that extended
+obviously along its entire length to the extreme point.  Jarwin observed
+the successful effort, laughed feebly, and said, "Brayvo, Cuffy," with
+evident delight; for it reminded him of the days when that little shred
+of a door-mat, in the might of its vigour, was wont to wag its tail so
+violently as to convulse its whole body, insomuch that it was difficult
+to decide whether the tail wagged the body, or the body the tail!
+
+But, although Jarwin made light of his sufferings, his gaunt, wasted
+frame would have been a sad sight to any pitiful spectator, as with
+weary aspect and unsteady gait he moved about on the sandy ridge in
+search of more food, or gazed with longing eyes on the richly-wooded
+island.
+
+For it must be remembered that our castaway had not landed on the island
+itself, but on that narrow ring of coral-reef which almost encircled it,
+and from which it was separated by the lagoon, or enclosed portion of
+the sea, which was, as we have said, about a quarter of a mile wide.
+
+John Jarwin would have thought little of swimming over that narrow belt
+of smooth water in ordinary circumstances, but now he felt that his
+strength was not equal to such a feat.  Moreover, he knew that there
+were sharks in these waters, so he dismissed the idea of swimming, and
+cast about in his mind how he should manage to get across.  With Jarwin,
+action soon followed thought.  He resolved to form a small raft out of
+portions of the large one.  Fortunately his clasp-knife had been
+attached, as seamen frequently have it, to his waist-belt, when he
+forsook his ship.  This was the only implement that he possessed, but it
+was invaluable.  With it he managed to cut the thick ropes that he could
+not have untied, and, in the course of two hours--for he laboured with
+extreme difficulty--a few broken planks and spars were lashed together.
+Embarking on this frail vessel with his dog, he pushed off, and using a
+piece of plank for an oar, sculled himself over the lagoon.
+
+It was touching, even to himself, to observe the slowness of his
+progress.  All the strength that remained in him was barely sufficient
+to move the raft.  But the lagoon was as still as a mill-pond.  Looking
+down into its clear depths, he could see the rich gardens of coral and
+sea-weed, among which fish, of varied and brilliant colours, sported
+many fathoms below.  The air, too, was perfectly calm.
+
+Very slowly he left the reef astern; the middle of the lagoon was
+gained; then, gradually, he neared the island-shore, but oh! it was a
+long, weary pull, although the space was so short, and, to add to the
+poor man's misery, the fish which he had eaten caused him intolerable
+thirst.  But he reached the shore at last.
+
+The first thing that greeted his eye as he landed was the sparkle of a
+clear spring at the foot of some cocoanut-trees.  He staggered eagerly
+towards it, and fell down beside a hollow in the rock, like a large cup
+or bowl, which had been scooped out by it.
+
+Who shall presume to describe the feelings of that shipwrecked sailor as
+he and his dog drank from the same cup at that sparkling crystal
+fountain?  Delicious odours of lime and citron trees, and well-nigh
+forgotten herbage, filled his nostrils, and the twitter of birds
+thrilled his ears, seeming to bid him welcome to the land, as he sank
+down on the soft grass, and raised his eyes in thanksgiving to heaven.
+An irresistible tendency to sleep then seized him.
+
+"If there's a heaven upon earth, I'm in it now," he murmured, as he laid
+down his head and closed his eyes.
+
+Cuffy, nestling into his breast, placed his chin on his neck, and heaved
+a deep, contented sigh.  This was the last sound the sailor recognised,
+as he sank into profound repose.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER TWO.
+
+ISLAND LIFE.
+
+There are few of the minor sweets of life more agreeable than to awake
+refreshed, and to become gradually impressed with the conviction that
+you are a perfectly free agent,--that you may rise when you choose, or
+lie still if you please, or do what you like, without let or hindrance.
+
+So thought our hero, John Jarwin, when he awoke, on the same spot where
+he had thrown himself down, after several hours of life-giving slumber.
+He was still weak, but his weakness did not now oppress him.  The slight
+meal, the long draught, and the deep sleep, had restored enough of
+vigour to his naturally robust frame to enable him, while lying on his
+back, to enjoy his existence once more.  He was, on first awaking, in
+that happy condition of mind and body in which the former does not care
+to think and the latter does not wish to move--yet both are pleased to
+be largely conscious of their own identity.
+
+That he had not moved an inch since he lay down, became somewhat
+apparent to Jarwin from the fact that Cuffy's chin still rested
+immovable on his neck, but his mind was too indolent to pursue the
+thought.  He had not the most remote idea as to where he was, but he
+cared nothing for that.  He was in absolute ignorance of the time of
+day, but he cared, if possible, still less for that.  Food, he knew, was
+necessary to his existence, but the thought gave him no anxiety.  In
+short, John and his dog were in a state of quiescent felicity, and would
+probably have remained so for some hours to come, had not the setting
+sun shone forth at that moment with a farewell gleam so intense, that it
+appeared to set the world of clouds overhead on fire, converting them
+into hills and dales, and towering domes and walls and battlements of
+molten glass and gold.  Even to the wearied seaman's sleepy vision the
+splendour of the scene became so fascinating, that he shook off his
+lethargy, and raised himself on one elbow.
+
+"Why, Cuffy!" he exclaimed, to the yawning dog, "seems to me that the
+heavens is a-fire!  Hope it won't come on dirty weather before you an' I
+get up somethin' in the shape o' a hut.  That minds me, doggie," he
+added, glancing slowly round him, "that we must look after prokoorin' of
+our supper.  I do believe we've bin an' slep away a whole day!  Well,
+well, it don't much matter, seein' that we hain't got no dooty for to
+do--no trick at the wheel, no greasin' the masts--wust of all, no
+splicin' the main brace, and no grub."
+
+This latter remark appeared to reach the understanding of the dog, for
+it uttered a melancholy howl as it gazed into its master's eyes.
+
+"Ah, Cuffy!" continued the sailor with a sigh, "you've good reason to
+yowl, for the half of a rotten fish ain't enough for a dog o' your
+appetite.  Come, let's see if we can't find somethin' more to our
+tastes."
+
+Saying this the man rose, stretched himself, yawned, looked helplessly
+round for a few seconds, and then, with a cheery "Hallo!  Cuff, come
+along, my hearty," went down to the beach in quest of food.
+
+In this search he was not unsuccessful, for the beach abounded with
+shell-fish of various kinds; but Jarwin ate sparingly of these, having
+been impressed, in former years, by some stories which he had heard of
+shipwrecked sailors having been poisoned by shell-fish.  For the same
+reason he administered a moderate supply to Cuffy, telling him that "it
+warn't safe wittles, an' that if they was to be pisoned, it was as well
+to be pisoned in moderation."  The dog, however, did not appear to agree
+with its master on this point, for it went picking up little tit-bits
+here and there, and selfishly ignoring the "share-and-share-alike"
+compact, until it became stuffed alarmingly, and could scarcely follow
+its master back to the fountain.
+
+Arrived there, the two slaked their thirst together, and then Jarwin sat
+down to enjoy a pipe, and Cuffy lay down to suffer the well-merited
+reward of gluttony.
+
+We have said that Jarwin sat down to enjoy a pipe, but he did _not_
+enjoy it that night, for he discovered that the much-loved little
+implement, which he had cherished tenderly while on the raft, was broken
+to atoms in his coat-pocket!  In his eagerness to drink on first
+landing, he had thrown himself down on it, and now smoking was an
+impossibility, at least for that night.  He reflected, however, that it
+would not be difficult to make a wooden pipe, and that cigarettes might
+perhaps be made by means of leaves, or bark, while his tobacco lasted;
+so he consoled himself in the meantime with hopeful anticipations, and a
+quid.  Being still weak and weary, he lay down again beside the
+fountain, and almost immediately fell into a sleep, which was not at all
+disturbed by the starts and groans and frequent yelps of Cuffy, whose
+sufferings could scarcely have been more severe if he had supped on
+turtle-soup and venison, washed down with port and claret.
+
+Thus did those castaways spend the first night on their island.
+
+It must not be supposed, however, that we are going to trace thus
+minutely every step and sensation in the career of our unfortunate
+friends.  We have too much to tell that is important to devote our
+"valuable space" to everyday incidents.  Nevertheless, as it is
+important that our readers should understand our hero thoroughly, and
+the circumstances in which we find him, it is necessary that we should
+draw attention to some incidents--trifling in themselves, but important
+in their effects--which occurred to John Jarwin soon after his landing
+on the island.
+
+The first of these incidents was, that John one day slipped his foot on
+a tangle-covered rock, and fell into the sea.  A small matter this, you
+will say, to a man who could swim, and in a climate so warm that a dip,
+with or without clothes, was a positive luxury.  Most true; and had the
+wetting been all, Jarwin would have had nothing to annoy him; for at the
+time the accident occurred he had been a week on the island, had managed
+to pull and crack many cocoa-nuts, and had found various excellent
+wild-fruits, so that his strength, as well as Cuffy's, had been much
+restored.  In fact, when Jarwin's head emerged from the brine, after his
+tumble, he gave vent to a shout of laughter, and continued to indulge in
+hilarious demonstrations all the time he was wringing the water out of
+his garments, while the terrier barked wildly round him.
+
+But suddenly, in the very midst of a laugh, he became grave and pale,--
+so pale, that a more obtuse creature than Cuffy might have deemed him
+ill.  While his mouth and eyes slowly opened wider and wider, his hands
+slapped his pockets, first his trousers, then his vest, then his coat,
+after which they fell like pistol-shots on his thighs, and he exclaimed,
+in a voice of horror--"Gone!"
+
+Ay, there could be no doubt about it; every particle of his tobacco was
+gone!  It had never been much, only three or four plugs; but it was
+strong, and he had calculated that, what with careful husbanding, and
+mixing it with other herbs, it would last him for a considerable length
+of time.
+
+In a state bordering on frenzy, the sailor rushed back to the rock from
+which he had fallen.  The "baccy" was not there.  He glanced right and
+left--no sign of it floating on the sea.  In he went, head foremost,
+like a determined suicide; down, down to the bottom, for he was an
+expert diver, and rioted among the coral groves, and horrified the fish,
+until he well-nigh burst, and rose to the surface with a groan and
+splutter that might have roused envy in a porpoise.  Then down he went
+again, while Cuffy stood on the shore regarding him with mute amazement.
+
+Never did pearl-diver grope for the treasures of the deep with more
+eager intensity than did John Jarwin search for that lost tobacco.  He
+remained under water until he became purple in the face, and, coming to
+the surface after each dive, stayed only long enough to recharge his
+lungs with air.  How deeply he regretted at that time the fact that
+man's life depended on so frequent and regular a supply of atmospheric
+air!  How enviously he glanced at the fish which, with open eyes and
+mouths, appeared to regard him with inexpressible astonishment--as well
+they might!  At last Jarwin's powers of endurance began to give way, and
+he was compelled to return to the shore, to the great relief of Cuffy,
+which miserable dog, if it had possessed the smallest amount of
+reasoning power, must have deemed its master hopelessly insane.
+
+"But why so much ado about a piece of tobacco?" we hear some lady-reader
+or non-smoker exclaim.
+
+Just because our hero was, and had been since his childhood, an
+inveterate smoker.  Of course we cannot prove our opinion to be correct,
+but we are inclined to believe that if all the smoke that had issued
+from Jarwin's lips, from the period of his commencing down to that
+terrible day when he lost his last plug, could have been collected in
+one vast cloud, it would have been sufficient to have kept a factory
+chimney going for a month or six weeks.  The poor man knew his weakness.
+He had several times tried to get rid of the habit which had enslaved
+him, and, by failing, had come to know the tyrannical power of his
+master.  He had once been compelled by circumstances to forego his
+favourite indulgence for three entire days, and retained so vivid a
+recollection of his sufferings that he made up his mind never more to
+strive for freedom, but to enjoy his pipe as long as he lived--to swim
+with the current, in fact, and take it easy.  It was of no use that
+several men, who objected to smoking from principle, and had themselves
+gone through the struggle and come off victorious, pointed out that if
+he went on at his present rate, it would cut short his life.  Jarwin
+didn't believe _that_.  He _felt_ well and hearty, and said that he "was
+too tough, by a long way, to be floored by baccy; besides, if his life
+was to be short, he saw no reason why it should not be a pleasant one."
+It was vain for these disagreeable men of principle to urge that when
+his health began to give way he would not find life very pleasant, and
+then "baccy" would fail to relieve him.  Stuff and nonsense?  Did not
+Jarwin know that hundreds of thousands of _old_ men enjoyed their pipes
+to the very last.  He also knew that a great many men had filled early
+graves owing to the use of tobacco, but he chose to shut his eyes to
+this fact--moreover, although a great truth, it was a difficult truth to
+prove.
+
+It was of still less use that those tiresome men of principle
+demonstrated that the money spent in tobacco would, if accumulated, form
+a snug little fortune to retire upon in his old age.  John only laughed
+at this.  "Wot did he want with a fortin in his old age," he would say;
+"he would rather work to the last for his three B's--his bread and beer
+and baccy--an' die in harness.  A man couldn't get on like a man without
+them three B's, and he wosn't goin' for to deprive hisself of none of
+'em, not he; besides, his opponents were bad argifiers," he was wont to
+say, with a chuckle, "for if, as they said, baccy would be the means of
+cuttin' his life short, why then, he wouldn't never come to old age to
+use his fortin, even if he _should_ manage to save it off his baccy."
+
+This last argument always brought Jarwin off with flying colours--no
+wonder, for it was unanswerable; and thus he came to love his beer and
+baccy so much that he became thoroughly enslaved to both.
+
+His brief residence on the south-sea island had taught him, by painful
+experience, that he _was_ capable of existing without at least two of
+his three B's--bread and beer.  He had suffered somewhat from the change
+of diet; and now that his third B was thus suddenly, unexpectedly, and
+hopelessly wrenched from him, he sat himself down on the beach beside
+Cuffy, and gazed out to sea in absolute despair.
+
+We must guard the reader at this point from supposing that John Jarwin
+had ever been what is called an intemperate man.  He was one of those
+honest, straightforward tars who do their duty like men, and who,
+although extremely fond of their pipe and their glass of grog, never
+lower themselves below the level of the brutes by getting drunk.  At the
+same time, we feel constrained to add that Jarwin acted entirely from
+impulse and kindly feeling.  He had little to do with principle, and did
+not draw towards those who professed to be thus guided.  He was wont to
+say that they "was troublesome fellers, always shovin' in their oars
+when they weren't wanted to, an' settin' themselves up for better than
+everybody else."  Had one of those troublesome fellows presented John
+Jarwin with a pound of tobacco in his forlorn circumstances, at that
+time he would probably have slapped him on the shoulder, and called him
+one of the best fellows under the sun!
+
+"Cuffy, my friend," exclaimed Jarwin at last, with an explosive sigh,
+"all the baccy's gone, so we'll have to smoke sea-weed for the futur'."
+The terrier said "Bow-wow" to this, cocked its ears, and looked earnest,
+as if waiting for more.
+
+"Come along," exclaimed the man, overturning his dog as he leaped up,
+"we'll go home and have summat to eat."
+
+Jarwin had erected a rude hut, composed of boughs and turf, near the
+fountain where he had first landed.  It was the home to which he
+referred.  At first he had devoted himself entirely to the erection of
+this shelter, and to collecting various roots and fruits and shell-fish
+for food, intending to delay the examination of the island until his
+strength should be sufficiently restored to enable him to scale the
+heights without more than ordinary fatigue.  He had been so far
+recruited as to have fixed for his expedition the day following that on
+which he sustained his irreparable loss.
+
+Entering his hut he proceeded to kindle a fire by means of a small
+burning-glass, with which, in happier times, he had been wont to light
+his pipe.  Very soon he had several roots, resembling small potatoes,
+baking in the hot ashes.  With these, a handful of plums, a dozen of
+oyster-like fish, of which there were plenty on the shore, and a draught
+of clear cold water, he made a hearty repast, Cuffy coming in for a
+large share of it, as a matter of course.  Then he turned all his
+pockets inside out, and examined them as carefully as if diamonds lurked
+in the seams.  No, not a speck of tobacco was to be found!  He smelt
+them.  The odour was undoubtedly strong--very strong.  On the strength
+of it he shut his eyes, and endeavoured to think that he was smoking;
+but it was a weak substitute for the pipe, and not at all satisfying.
+Thereafter he sallied forth and wandered about the sea-shore in a
+miserable condition, and went to bed that night--as he remarked to his
+dog--in the blues.
+
+Reader, it is not possible to give you an adequate conception of the
+sensations and sufferings of John Jarwin on that first night of his
+bereaved condition.  He dreamed continuously of tobacco.  Now he was
+pacing the deck of his old ship with a splendid pipe of cut Cavendish
+between his lips.  Anon he was smoking a meerschaum the size of a
+hogshead, with a stem equal to the length and thickness of the
+main-topmast of a seventy-four; but somehow the meerschaum wouldn't
+draw, whereupon John, in a passion, pronounced it worthy of its name,
+and hove it overboard, when it was instantly transformed into a shark
+with a cutty pipe in its mouth.  To console himself our hero endeavoured
+to thrust into his mouth a quid of negro-head, which, however, suddenly
+grew as big as the cabin-skylight, and became as tough as gutta-percha,
+so that it was utterly impossible to bite off a piece; and, stranger
+still, when the poor sailor had by struggling got it in, it dwindled
+down into a point so small that he could not feel it in his mouth at
+all.  On reaching this, the vanishing-point, Jarwin awoke to a
+consciousness of the dread reality of his destitute condition.  Turning
+on his other side with a deep groan, he fell asleep again, to dream of
+tobacco in some new and tantalising form until sunrise, when he awoke
+unrefreshed.  Leaping up, he cast off his clothes, rushed down the
+beach, and plunged into sea, by way of relieving his feelings.
+
+During the day John Jarwin brooded much over his dreams, for his mind
+was of a reflective turn, and Cuffy looked often inquiringly into his
+face.  That sympathetic doggie would evidently have besought him to pour
+his sorrows into his cocked ears if he could have spoken; but--alas! for
+people who are cast away on desert islands--the gift of speech has been
+denied to dogs.
+
+Besides being moody, Jarwin was uncommonly taciturn that day.  He did
+not tell Cuffy the result of his cogitations, so that we cannot say
+anything further about them.  All that we are certainly sure of is, that
+he was profoundly miserable that day--that he postponed his intended
+expedition to the top of the neighbouring hill--that he walked about the
+beach slowly, with his chin on his breast and his hands in his pockets--
+that he made various unsuccessful attempts to smoke dried leaves, and
+bark, and wild-flowers, mixing with those substances shreds of his
+trousers' pockets, in order that they might have at least the flavour of
+tobacco--that he became more and more restive as the day wore on, became
+more submissive in the evening, paid a few apologetic attentions to
+Cuffy at supper-time, and, finally, went to bed in a better frame of
+mind, though still craving painfully for the weed which had enslaved
+him.  That night his dreams were still of tobacco!  No lover was ever
+assailed more violently with dreams of his absent mistress than was John
+Jarwin with longings for his adorable pipe.  But there was no hope for
+him--the beloved one was effectually and permanently gone; so, like a
+sensible man, he awoke next morning with a stern resolve to submit to
+his fate with a good grace.
+
+In pursuance of this resolution he began the day with a cold bath, in
+which Cuffy joined him.  Then he breakfasted on chestnuts, plums,
+citrons, oysters, and shrimps, the former of which abounded in the
+woods, the latter on the shore.  Jarwin caught the shrimps in a net,
+extemporised out of his pocket-handkerchief.  While engaged with his
+morning meal, he was earnestly watched by several green paroquets with
+blue heads and crimson breasts; and during pauses in the meal he
+observed flocks of brightly-coloured doves and wood-pigeons, besides
+many other kinds of birds, the names of which he did not know, as well
+as water-hens, plover, and wild ducks.
+
+"Lost your appetite this morning, Cuff?" said Jarwin, offering his
+companion a citron, which he decidedly refused.  "Ah!" he continued,
+patting the dog's sides, "I see how it is; you've had breakfast already
+this morning; bin at it when I was a-sleepin'.  For shame, Cuffy!--you
+should have waited for me; an' you've bin an' over-ate yourself again,
+you greedy dog!"
+
+This was evidently the case.  The guilty creature, forgetful of its past
+experiences, had again gorged itself with dead fish, which it had found
+on the beach, and looked miserable.
+
+"Well, never mind, doggie," said Jarwin, finishing his meal, and rising.
+"I'll give you a little exercise to-day for the good of your health.
+We shan't go sulking as we did yesterday; so, come along."
+
+The sailor left his bower as he spoke, and set off at a round pace with
+his hands in his pockets, and a thick stick under his arm, whistling as
+he went, while Cuffy followed lovingly at his heels.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER THREE.
+
+COMMUNINGS OF MAN AND BEAST.
+
+It would appear to be almost an essential element in life that man
+should indulge in speech.  Of course we cannot prove this, seeing that
+we have never been cast alone on a desert island (although we _have_
+been next thing to it), and cannot positively conclude what would have
+been the consequences to our castaway if he had rigidly refrained from
+speech.  All that we can ground an opinion on is the fact that John
+Jarwin talked as much and as earnestly to his dog as if he knew that
+that sagacious creature understood every word he uttered.  Indeed, he
+got into such a habit of doing this, that it is very probable he might
+have come to believe that Cuffy really did understand, though he was not
+gifted with the power to reply.  If it be true that Jarwin came to this
+state of credulity, certain it is that Cuffy was deeply to blame in the
+matter, because the way in which that ridiculous hypocrite sat before
+his master, and looked up in his face with his lustrous, intelligent
+eyes, and cocked his ears, and wagged his tail, and smiled, might have
+deceived a much less superstitious man than a British tar.
+
+We have said that Cuffy smiled, advisedly.  Some people might object to
+the word, and say that he only "snickered," or made faces.  That, we
+hold, is a controvertible question.  Cuffy's facial contortions looked
+like smiling.  They came very often inappropriately, and during parts of
+Jarwin's discourse when no smile should have been called forth; but if
+that be sufficient to prove that Cuffy was not smiling, then, on the
+same ground, we hold that a large proportion of those ebullitions which
+convulse the human countenance are not smiles but unmeaning grins.  Be
+this as it may, Cuffy smiled, snickered, or grinned amazingly, during
+the long discourses that were delivered to him by his master, and indeed
+looked so wonderfully human in his knowingness, that it only required a
+speaking tongue and a shaved face to constitute him an unanswerable
+proof of the truth of the Darwinian theory of the origin of the human
+species.
+
+"Cuffy," said Jarwin, panting, as he reached the summit of his island,
+and sat down on its pinnacle rock, "that's a splendid view, ain't it?"
+
+To any one save a cynic or a misanthrope, Cuffy replied with eye and
+tail, "It is magnificent."
+
+"But you're not looking at it," objected Jarwin, "you're looking
+straight up in my face; so how can you tell what it's like, doggie?"
+
+"I see it all," replied Cuffy with a grin; "all reflected in the depths
+of your two loving eyes."
+
+Of course Jarwin lost this pretty speech in consequence of its being a
+mute reply, but he appeared to have some intuitive perception of it, for
+he stooped down and patted the dog's head affectionately.
+
+After this there was a prolonged silence, during which the sailor gazed
+wistfully round the horizon.  The scene was indeed one of surpassing
+beauty and grandeur.  The island on which he had been cast was one of
+those small coral gems which deck the breast of the Pacific.  It could
+not have been more than nine or ten miles in circumference, yet within
+this area there lay a miniature world.  The mountain-top on which the
+seaman sat was probably eight or nine hundred feet above the level of
+the sea, and commanded a view of the whole island.  On one side lay
+three lesser hills, covered to their summits with indescribably rich
+verdure, amongst which rose conspicuous the tall stems and graceful
+foliage of many cocoanut-palms.  Fruit-trees of various kinds glistened
+in the sunshine, and flowering shrubs in abundance lent additional
+splendour to the scene.  On the other side of the mountain a small lake
+glittered like a jewel among the trees; and there numerous flocks of
+wild-fowl disported themselves in peaceful security.  From the farther
+extremity of the lake flowed a rivulet, which, from the mountain-top,
+resembled a silver thread winding its way through miniature valleys,
+until lost in the light yellow sand of the sea-shore.  On this beach
+there was not even a ripple, because of the deep calm which prevailed
+but on the ring or coral-reef, which completely encircled the island,
+those great "rollers"--which appear never to go down even in calm--fell
+from time to time with a long, solemn roar, and left an outer ring of
+milk-white foam.  The blue lagoon between the reef and the island varied
+from a few yards to a quarter of a mile in breadth, and its quiet waters
+were like a sheet of glass, save where they were ruffled now and then by
+the diving of a sea-gull or the fin of a shark.  Birds of many kinds
+filled the grove with sweet sounds, and tended largely to dispel that
+feeling of intense loneliness which had been creeping that day over our
+seaman's spirit.
+
+"Come, my doggie," said Jarwin, patting his dumb companion's head, "if
+you and I are to dwell here for long, we've got a most splendid estate
+to look after.  I only hope we won't find South Sea niggers in
+possession before us, for they're not hospitable, Cuffy, they ain't
+hospitable, bein' given, so I'm told, to prefer human flesh to most
+other kinds o' wittles."
+
+He looked anxiously round in all directions at this point, as if the
+ideas suggested by his words were not particularly agreeable.
+
+"No," he resumed, after a short survey, "it don't seem as if there was
+any of 'em here.  Anyhow I can't see none, and most parts of the island
+are visible from this here mast-head."
+
+Again the seaman became silent as he repeated his survey of the island;
+his hands, meanwhile, searching slowly, as if by instinct, round his
+pockets, and into their most minute recesses, if haply they might find
+an atom of tobacco.  Both hands and eyes, however, failed in their
+search; so, turning once more towards his dog, Jarwin sat down and
+addressed it thus:--
+
+"Cuff, my doggie, don't wink in that idiotical way, you hanimated bundle
+of oakum! and don't wag yer tail so hard, else you'll shake it off some
+fine day!  Well, Cuff, here you an' I are fixed--`it may be for years,
+an' it may be for ever'--as the old song says; so it behoves you and me
+to hold a consultation as to wot's the best to be done for to make the
+most of our sukumstances.  Ah, doggie!" he continued in a low tone,
+looking pensively towards the horizon, "it's little that my dear wife
+(your missus and mine, Cuff) knows that her John has fallen heir to
+sitch an estate; become, so to speak, `monarch of all he surveys.'  O
+Molly, Molly, if you was only here, wot a paradise it would be!  Eden
+over again; Adam an' Eve, without a'most no difference, barrin' the
+clo'se, by the way, for if I ain't mistaken, Adam didn't wear a straw
+hat and a blue jacket, with pumps and canvas ducks.  Leastwise, I've
+never heard that he did; an' I'm quite sure that Eve didn't go to church
+on Sundays in a gown wi' sleeves like two legs o' mutton, an' a bonnet
+like a coal-scuttle.  By the way, I don't think they owned a doggie
+neither."
+
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+
+At this point the terrier, who had gradually quieted down during the
+above soliloquy, gave a responsive wag of its tail, and looked up with a
+smile--a plain, obvious, unquestionable smile, which its master believed
+in most thoroughly.
+
+"Ah, you needn't grin like that, Cuff," replied Jarwin, "it's quite
+certain that Adam and Eve had no doggie.  No doubt they had plenty of
+wild 'uns--them as they giv'd names to--but they hadn't a good little
+tame 'un like you, Cuff; no, nor nobody else, for you're the best dog in
+the world--if you'd only keep yer spanker-boom quiet; but you'll shake
+it off, you will, if you go on like that.  There, lie down, an' let's
+get on with our consultation.  Well, as I was sayin' when you
+interrupted me, wot a happy life we could live here if we'd only got the
+old girl with us!  I'd be king, you know, Cuff, and she'd be queen, and
+we'd make you prime minister--you're prime favourite already, you know.
+There now, if you don't clap a stopper on that ere spanker-boom, I'll
+have to lash it down.  Well, to proceed: we'd build a hut--or a palace--
+of turf an' sticks, with a bunk alongside for you; an w'en our clo'se
+began for to wear out, we'd make pants and jackets and petticoats of
+cocoanut-fibre; for you must know I've often see'd mats made o' that
+stuff, an' splendid wear there's in it too, though it would be rather
+rough for the skin at first; but we'd get used to that in coorse o'
+time.  Only fancy Mrs Jarwin in a cocoanut-fibre petticoat with a
+palm-leaf hat, or somethink o' that sort!  An', after all, it wouldn't
+be half so rediklous as some o' the canvas she's used to spread on
+Sundays."
+
+Jarwin evidently thought his ideas somewhat ridiculous, for he paused at
+this point and chuckled, while Cuffy sprang up and barked responsively.
+
+While they were thus engaged, a gleam of white appeared on the horizon.
+
+"Sail ho!" shouted the sailor in the loud, full tones with which he was
+wont to announce such an appearance from the mast-head in days gone by.
+
+Oh, how earnestly he strained his eyes in the direction of that little
+speck!  It might have been a sail; just as likely it was the wing of a
+sea-gull or an albatross.  Whatever it was, it grew gradually less until
+it sank out of view on the distant horizon.  With it sank poor Jarwin's
+newly-raised hopes.  Still he continued to gaze intently, in the hope
+that it might reappear; but it did not.  With a heavy sigh the sailor
+rose at length, wakened Cuffy, who had gone to sleep, and descended the
+mountain.
+
+This look-out on the summit of the island now became the regular place
+of resort for Jarwin and his dumb, but invaluable companion.  And so
+absorbed did the castaway become, in his contemplation of the horizon,
+and in his expectation of the heaving in sight of another sail, that he
+soon came to spend most of his time there.  He barely gave himself time
+to cook and eat his breakfast before setting out for the spot, and
+frequently he remained there the livelong day, having carried up enough
+of provision to satisfy his hunger.
+
+At first, while there, he employed himself in the erection of a rude
+flag-staff, and thus kept himself busy and reasonably cheerful.  He cut
+the pole with some difficulty, his clasp-knife being but a poor
+substitute for an axe; then he bored a hole at the top to reave the
+halliards through.  These latter he easily made by plaiting together
+threads of cocoanut-fibre, which were both tough and long.  When ready,
+he set up and fixed the staff, and hoisted thereon several huge leaves
+of the palm-tree, which, in their natural size and shape, formed
+excellent flags.
+
+When, however, all this was done, he was reduced to a state of idleness,
+and his mind began to dwell morbidly on the idea of being left to spend
+the rest of his days on the island.  His converse with Cuffy became so
+sad that the spirits of that sagacious and sympathetic dog were visibly
+affected.  He did, indeed, continue to lick his master's hand lovingly,
+and to creep close to his side on all occasions; but he ceased to wag
+his expressive tail with the violence that used to characterise that
+appendage in other days, and became less demonstrative in his conduct.
+All this, coupled with constant exposure in all sorts of weather--
+although Jarwin was not easily affected by a breeze or a wet jacket--
+began at last to undermine the health of the stout seaman.  He became
+somewhat gaunt and hollow-cheeked, and his beard and moustache, which of
+course he could not shave, and which, for a long time, presented the
+appearance of stubble, added to the lugubriosity of his aspect.
+
+As a climax to his distress, he one day lost his dog!  When it went off,
+or where it went to, he could not tell, but, on rousing up one morning
+and putting out his hand almost mechanically to give it the accustomed
+pat of salutation, he found that it was gone.
+
+A thrill of alarm passed through his frame on making this discovery,
+and, leaping up, he began to shout its name.  But no answering bark was
+heard.  Again and again he shouted, but in vain.  Without taking time to
+put on his coat, he ran to the top of the nearest eminence, and again
+shouted loud and long.  Still no answer.
+
+A feeling of desperate anxiety now took possession of the man.  The bare
+idea of being left in utter loneliness drove him almost distracted.  For
+some time he ran hither and thither, calling passionately to his dog,
+until he became quite exhausted; then he sat down on a rock, and
+endeavoured to calm his spirit and consider what he should do.
+Indulging in his tendency to think aloud, he said--
+
+"Come now, John, don't go for to make a downright fool of yerself.
+Cuffy has only taken a longer walk than usual.  He'll be home to
+breakfast; but you may as well look a bit longer, there's no sayin' wot
+may have happened.  He may have felled over a precepiece or sprain'd his
+leg.  Don't you give way to despair anyhow, John Jarwin, but nail yer
+colours to the mast, and never say die."
+
+Somewhat calmed by these encouraging exhortations, the sailor rose up
+and resumed his search in a more methodical way.  Going down to the sea,
+he walked thence up to the edge of the bush, gazing with the utmost
+intensity at the ground all the way, in the hope of discovering Cuffy's
+fresh footsteps; but none were to be seen.
+
+"Come," said he, "it's clear that you haven't gone to the s'uth'ard o'
+yer home; now, we'll have a look to the nor'ard."
+
+Here he was more successful.  The prints of Cuffy's small paws were
+discovered on the wet sand bearing northward along shore.  Jarwin
+followed them up eagerly, but, coming to a place where the sand was hard
+and dry, and covered with thin grass, he lost them.  Turning back to
+where they were distinct, he recommenced the search.  No red Indian, in
+pursuit of friend or foe, ever followed up a trail with more intense
+eagerness than poor Jarwin followed the track of his lost companion.  He
+even began to develop, in quite a surprising way, some of the deep
+sagacity of the savage; for he came, before that day was over, not only
+to distinguish the prints of Cuffy's paws on pretty hard sand, where the
+impressions were very faint, but even on rough ground, where there were
+no distinct marks at all--only such indications as were afforded by the
+pressure of a dead leaf into soft ground, or the breaking of a fallen
+twig!
+
+Nevertheless, despite his care, anxiety, and diligence, Jarwin failed to
+find his dog.  He roamed all that day until his limbs were weary, and
+shouted till his voice was hoarse, but only echoes answered him.  At
+last he sat down, overcome with fatigue and grief.
+
+It had rained heavily during the latter part of the day and soaked him
+to the skin, but he heeded it not.  Towards evening the weather cleared
+up little, but the sun descended to the horizon in a mass of black
+clouds, which were gilded with [a] strange lurid light that presaged a
+storm; while sea-birds flew overhead and shrieked in wild excitement, as
+if they were alarmed at the prospect before them.  But Jarwin observed
+and cared for none of these things.  He buried his face in his hands,
+and sat for some time perfectly motionless.
+
+While seated thus, a cold shiver passed through his frame once or twice,
+and he felt unusually faint.
+
+"Humph!" said he, the second time this occurred, "strange sort o'
+feelin'.  Never felt it before.  No doubt it's in consikince o' goin'
+without wittles all day.  Well, well," he added, with a deep long-drawn
+sigh, "who'd have thought I'd lose 'ee, Cuff, in this fashion.  It's
+foolish, no doubt, to take on like this, but I can't help it somehow.  I
+don't believe I could feel much worse if I had lost my old 'ooman.  It's
+kurious, but I feels awful lonesome without 'ee, my doggie."
+
+He was interrupted by the shivering again, and was about to rise, when a
+long low wail struck on his ear.  He listened intently.  No statue ever
+sat more motionless on its pedestal than did Jarwin during the next
+three minutes.
+
+Again the wail rose, faint and low at first, then swelling out into a
+prolonged loud cry, which, strange to say, seemed to be both distant and
+near.
+
+John Jarwin was not altogether free from superstition.  His heart beat
+hard under the influence of a mingled feeling of hope and fear; but when
+he heard the cry the third time, he dismissed his fears, and, leaping
+up, hurried forward in the direction whence the sound appeared to come.
+The bushes were thick and difficult to penetrate, but he persevered on
+hearing a repetition of the wail, and was thus led into a part of the
+island which he had not formerly visited.
+
+Presently he came to something that appeared not unlike an old track;
+but, although the sun had not quite set, the place was so shut in by
+tangled bushes and trees that he could see nothing distinctly.  Suddenly
+he put his right foot on a mass of twigs, which gave way under his
+weight, and he made a frantic effort to recover himself.  Next moment,
+he fell headlong into a deep hole or pit at the bottom of which he lay
+stunned for some time.  Recovering, he found that no bones were broken,
+and after considerable difficulty, succeeded in scrambling out of the
+hole.  Just as he did so, the wail was again raised; but it sounded so
+strange, and so unlike any sound that Cuffy could produce, that he was
+tempted to give up the search--all the more that his recent fall had so
+shaken his exhausted frame that he could scarcely walk.
+
+While he stood irresolute, the wail was repeated, and, this time, there
+was a melancholy sort of "bow-wow" mingled with it, that sent the blood
+careering through his veins like wildfire.  Fatigue and hunger were
+forgotten.  Shouting the name of his dog, he bounded forward, and would
+infallibly have plunged head-foremost into another pit, at the bottom of
+which Cuffy lay, had not that wise creature uttered a sudden bark of
+joy, which checked his master on the very brink.
+
+"Hallo!  _Cuff_, is that you, my doggie?"
+
+"Bow, wow, _wow_!" exclaimed Cuffy in tones which there could be no
+mistaking, although the broken twigs and herbage which covered the mouth
+of the pit muffled them a good deal, and accounted for the strangeness
+of the creature's howls when heard at a distance.
+
+"Why, where ever have 'ee got yourself into?" said Jarwin, going down on
+his knees and groping carefully about the opening of the pit.  "I do
+believe you've bin an' got into a trap o' some sort.  The savages must
+have been here before us, doggie, and made more than one of 'em, for
+I've just comed out o' one myself.  Hallo! _there_, I'm into another!"
+he exclaimed as the treacherous bank gave way, and he slipped in
+headlong, with a dire crash, almost smothering Cuffy in his fall.
+
+Fortunately, no damage, beyond a few scratches, resulted either to dog
+or man, and in a few minutes more both stood upon firm ground.
+
+It would be vain, reader to attempt to give you in detail all that John
+Jarwin said and did on that great occasion, as he sat there on the
+ground caressing his dog as if it had been his own child.  We leave it
+to your imagination!
+
+When he had expended the first burst of feeling, he got up, and was
+about to retrace his steps, when he observed some bones lying near him.
+On examination, these proved to be the skeleton of a man.  At first
+Jarwin thought it must be that of a native; but he was startled to find
+among the dust on which the skeleton lay several brass buttons with
+anchors on them.  That he stood beside the remains of a brother seaman,
+who had probably been cast on that island, as he himself had been,
+seemed very evident, and the thought filled him with strange depressing
+emotions.  As it was by that time too dark to make further
+investigations, he left the place, intending to return next day; and,
+going as cautiously as possible out of the wood, returned to his abode,
+where he kindled a fire, gave Cuffy some food, and prepared some for
+himself; but before he had tasted that food another of the shivering
+fits seized him.  A strange feeling of being very ill, and a peculiar
+wandering of his mind, induced him to throw himself on his couch.  The
+prolonged strain to which body and mind had been subjected had proved
+too much for him, and before morning he was stricken with a raging
+fever.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER FOUR.
+
+HOPES AND FEARS AND STERN RESOLVES LEAD TO VIGOROUS ACTION.
+
+For several days the sailor lay tossing in helpless misery in his bower,
+without food or fire.  Indeed he could not have eaten even if food had
+been offered him, and as to fire, there was heat enough in his veins,
+poor fellow! to more than counterbalance the want of that.
+
+During part of the time he became delirious, and raved about home and
+sea-life and old companions in a way that evidently quite alarmed Cuffy,
+for that sagacious terrier approached his master with caution, with his
+tail between his legs, and a pitiful, earnest gaze, that was quite
+touching.  This was partly owing to the fact that Jarwin had several
+times patted him with such painful violence as to astonish and render
+him doubtful of the affection displayed by such caresses.  Jarwin also
+recurred at these times to his tobacco and beer, and apparently suffered
+a good deal from dreams about those luxuries.  In his ravings he often
+told Cuffy to fill a pipe for him, and advised him to look sharp about
+it, and he frequently reproached some of his old comrades for not
+passing the beer.  Fortunately the fountain was close at hand, and he
+often slaked his burning thirst at it.  He also thought frequently of
+the skeleton in the thicket, and sometimes raved with an expression of
+horror about being left to die alone on a desert island.
+
+By degrees the fever reached its climax, and then left him almost dead.
+For a whole day and night he lay so absolutely helpless that it cost him
+an effort to open his eyes, and he looked so ill that the poor dog began
+to whine piteously over him, but the day after that a sensation of
+hunger induced him to make an effort to rouse up.  He tried to raise his
+head--it felt as if made of lead.
+
+"Hallo!  Cuffy, somethin' wrong I suspect!"
+
+It was the first time for many days that Jarwin had spoken in his
+natural tones.  The effect on the dog was instantaneous and powerful.
+It sprang up, and wagged its expressive tail with something of the
+energy of former times; licked the sick man's face and hands; whined and
+barked intelligently; ran away in little bursts, as if it had resolved
+to undertake a journey off-hand, but came back in a few seconds, and in
+many other ways indicated its intense delight at finding that Jarwin was
+"himself again."
+
+But alas!  Jarwin was not quite himself yet, and Cuffy, after his first
+ebullition, sat looking in surprise at the invalid, as he strove to turn
+on his side, and reach out his heavy hand and skinny arm towards a few
+scraps of the last meal he had cooked before being struck down.  Cuffy,
+after eating the portion of that meal that suited his taste, had left
+the remnants there as being unworthy of notice, and catered for himself
+among the dead fish cast up on the beach.  Although lying within a yard
+of his couch, Jarwin had the greatest difficulty in reaching the food;
+and when he did at length succeed in grasping it, he fell back on his
+couch, and lay for a long time as if dead.  Soon, however, he recovered,
+and, with a feeling of gratitude such as he had never before
+experienced, began to gnaw the hard morsels.
+
+"I'm in a bad way, Cuff," he said, after satisfying the first cravings
+of hunger.
+
+Cuffy gave a responsive wag with his tail, and cocked his ears for more.
+
+"Hows'ever, seems to me that I've got the turn; let's be thankful for
+_that_, my doggie.  Wonder how long I've bin ill.  Months mayhap.  Don't
+think I could have come to be sitch a skeleton in a short time.  Ha!
+that minds me o' the skeleton in the wood.  Have 'ee seed it, Cuff,
+since I found 'ee there?  Well, I must eat and drink too, if I would
+keep the skin on _my_ skeleton.  Wish you had hands, doggie, for I'm
+greatly in need o' help just now.  But you're a comfort, anyhow, even
+though you hain't got no hands.  I should have died without you, my
+doggie--you cheer me up, d'ee see, and when it's nigh low water with a
+man, it don't take much to make him slip his cable.  The want of a kind
+look at this here time, Cuffy, would have sent me adrift, I do believe."
+
+It must not be supposed that all this was spoken fluently.  It came
+slowly, by fits and starts, with a long pause at the end of each
+sentence, and with many a sigh between, expressive of extreme weakness.
+
+"I wish I had a drink, Cuffy," said the invalid after a long pause,
+turning a longing look towards the spring, which welled up pleasantly
+close to the opening of the hut.  "Ay, that's all very well in its way,
+but bow-wowin' an' waggin' yer tail won't fetch me a can o' water.
+Hows'ever, it's o' no manner o' use wishin'.  `Never say die.'  Here
+goes."
+
+So saying, he began slowly and painfully, but with unyielding
+perseverance, to push, and draw, and hitch himself, while lying at full
+length, towards the spring, which he reached at last so exhausted, that
+he had barely put his lips to it and swallowed a mouthful, when his head
+dropped, and he almost fainted.  He was within an ace of being drowned,
+but with a violent effort he drew his face out of the spring, and lay
+there in a half unconscious condition for some time, with the clear cool
+water playing about his temples.  Reviving in a little time, he took
+another sip, and then crawled back to his couch.  Immediately he fell
+into a profound slumber, from which Cuffy strove in vain to awaken him;
+therefore, like a sagacious dog, he lay down at his master's side and
+joined him in repose.
+
+From that hour Jarwin began to mend rapidly.  In a few days he was able
+to walk about with the aid of a stick.  In a few weeks he felt somewhat
+like his former self, and soon after that, he was able to ascend to the
+top of the island, and resume his watch for a passing sail.  But the
+first few hours of his watch beside the old flagstaff convinced him that
+his hopes would, in all probability, be doomed to disappointment, and
+that he would soon fall back into a state of apathy, from which he might
+perhaps be unable to rouse himself, in which case his fate would
+certainly be that of the poor sailor whose remains he had that day
+buried in the pit near to which they had been discovered.  He resolved,
+therefore, to give up watching altogether, and to devote all his
+energies in future to devising some plan of escape from the island, but
+when he bent his mind to this task he felt a deep sinking of the heart,
+for he had no implements wherewith to construct a boat or canoe.
+
+Suddenly it occurred to him, for the first time in his life, that he
+ought, in this extremity, to pray to God for help.  He was, as we have
+said, a straightforward man, prompt to act as well as ready to conceive.
+He fell on his knees at once, humbly confessed his sin in depending so
+entirely on himself in time past, and earnestly asked help and guidance
+for the future.  His prayer was not long--neither was the publican's--
+but it was effectual.  He arose with feelings of strong resolution and
+confidence, which appeared to himself quite unaccountable, for he had
+not, as yet, conceived any new idea or method as to escaping from the
+island.  Instead of setting his mind to work, as he had intended, he
+could not help dwelling on the fact that he had never before
+deliberately asked help from his Maker, and this raised a train of
+self-condemnatory thoughts which occupied him the remainder of that day.
+At night he prayed again before laying down to rest.
+
+Next morning he rose like a giant refreshed, and, after a plunge in the
+sea and a hearty breakfast, set out with Cuffy for a meditative walk.
+
+Great were the thoughts that swelled the seaman's broad chest during
+that walk, and numerous, as well as wild and quaint, were the plans of
+escape which he conceived and found it necessary to abandon.
+
+"It's harder work to think it out than I had expected, Cuffy," he said,
+sitting down on a cliff that overlooked the sea, and thinking aloud.
+"If you and I could only swim twenty miles or so at a stretch, I'd risk
+it; but, as nothin' short o' that would be likely to be of sarvice, we
+must give it up.  Then, if I could only cut down trees with my shoe, and
+saw planks with my jacket, we might make a boat; but I can't do that,
+and we haven't no nails--except our toe-nails, which ain't the right
+shape or strong enough; so we must give that up too.  It's true that we
+might burn a canoe out of a solid tree, but who's to cut down the solid
+tree for us, doggie?  I'm sure if the waggin' of a tail could do it you
+wouldn't be long about it!  Why on earth can't 'ee keep it still for a
+bit?  Well, then, as we can't swim or fly, and haven't a boat or canoe,
+or the means o' makin' em, what's the next thing to be done?"
+
+Apparently neither man nor dog could return an answer to that question,
+for they both sat for a very long time in profound silence, staring at
+the sea.
+
+After some time Jarwin suddenly exclaimed, "I'll do it!"
+
+Cuffy, startled by the energy with which it was said, jumped up and
+said, "That's right!"--or something very like it--with his eyes.
+
+"Yes, Cuffy, I'll make a raft, and you and I shall get on it, some day,
+with a fair wind, and make for the island that we think we've seen so
+often on the horizon."
+
+He alluded here to a faint blue line which, on unusually fine and clear
+days, he had distinguished on the horizon to the southward, and which,
+from its always appearing on the same spot, he believed to be land of
+some sort, although it looked nothing more than a low-lying cloud.
+
+"So that's settled," continued Jarwin, getting up and walking smartly
+back to his hut with the air of a man who has a purpose in view.  "We
+shall make use of the old raft, as far as it'll go.  Luckily the sail is
+left, as you and I know, Cuff, for it has been our blanket for many a
+day, and when all's ready we shall go huntin', you and I, till we've got
+together a stock of provisions, and then--up anchor and away!  We can
+only be drownded once, you know, and it's better that than stopping here
+to die o' the blues.  What think 'ee o' that, my doggie?"
+
+Whatever the doggie thought of the idea, there can be no question what
+he thought of the cheery vigorous tones of his master's voice, for he
+gambolled wildly round, barked with vociferous delight, and wagged his
+"spanker boom" to such an extent that Jarwin warned him to have a care
+lest it should be carried away, an' go slap overboard.
+
+In pursuance of the designs thus expressed, the sailor began the
+construction of a raft without delay, and worked at it diligently the
+remainder of that day.  He found, on examination, that a considerable
+portion of the old raft yet remained stranded on the beach, though all
+the smaller spars of which it had been composed had been used for
+firewood.  With great difficulty he rolled these logs one by one into
+the sea, and, getting astride of each, pushed them by means of a pole
+towards a point of rocks, or natural jetty, alongside of which the water
+was deep.  Here he fastened them together by means of a piece of rope--
+one of the old fastenings which remained to him, the others having been
+used in the construction of the hut.  The raft thus formed was, however,
+much too small to weather a gale or float in a rough sea.  In whatever
+way he placed the spars the structure was too narrow for safety.
+Seeing, therefore, that it was absolutely necessary to obtain more logs,
+he set brain and hands to work without delay.
+
+Many years before, he had seen an ancient stone hatchet in a museum, the
+head of which was fastened to the haft by means of a powerful thong of
+untanned hide.  He resolved to make a hatchet of this sort.  Long did he
+search the beach for a suitable stone, but in vain.  At last he found
+one pretty nearly the proper shape, which he chipped and ground into the
+rude form of an axe.  It had no eye for the handle.  To have made a hole
+in it would have weakened the stone too much.  He therefore cut a groove
+in the side of the handle, placed the head of the stone into it, and
+completed the fastening by tying it firmly with the tough fibrous roots
+of a tree.  It was strongly and neatly made, though clumsy in
+appearance, but, do what he would, he could not put a sufficiently fine
+edge on it, and although it chipped pretty well when applied to the
+outside of a tree, it made very slow progress indeed as the cut
+deepened, and the work became so toilsome at last that he almost gave it
+up in despair.  Suddenly it occurred to him that fire might be made use
+of to facilitate the work.  Selecting a tall cocoanut-tree, he piled dry
+wood all round the foot of it.  Before setting it on fire he dipped a
+quantity of cocoanut fibre in the sea and tied a thick belt of this
+round the tree just above the pile, so as to protect the upper parts of
+the spar from the flames as much and as long as possible.  This done, he
+kindled the pile.  A steady breeze fanned the flame into an intense
+fire, which ere long dried up the belt of fibre and finally consumed it.
+The fire was pretty well burnt out by that time, however, so that the
+upper part of the stem had been effectually preserved.  Removing the
+ashes, he was rejoiced to find that the foot of the tree had been so
+deeply burned that several inches of it were reduced to charcoal, which
+his stone hatchet readily cut away, and the operation was so successful
+that it only required a second fire to enable him to fell the tree.
+
+This done, he measured it off in lengths.  Under each point of
+measurement he piled up dry wood--which consisted merely of broken
+branches--with belts of wet fibre on each side of these piles.  Then,
+applying a light to the fires he reduced the parts to charcoal as
+before, and completed the work with the hatchet.  Thus, in the course of
+a single day, he felled a tall tree and cut it up into six lengths,
+which he rolled down to the sea and floated off to the end of the jetty.
+
+Next day Jarwin rose with the sun, and began to make twine of twisted
+cocoanut fibre--of which there was great abundance to be had everywhere.
+When a sufficient quantity had been made he plaited the twine into
+cords, and the cords into stout ropes, which, although not so neat as
+regular ropes, were, nevertheless, sufficiently pliable and very strong.
+Several days were spent over this somewhat tedious process; and we may
+mention here, that in all these operations the busy seaman was greatly
+assisted by his dog, who stuck close to him all the time, encouraging
+him with looks and wags of approbation.
+
+After the ropes were made, the raft was put together and firmly lashed.
+There was a mast and yard in the centre of it, and also a hollow, formed
+by the omission of a log, which was just large enough to permit of the
+man and his dog lying down.  This hollow, slight though it was,
+afterwards proved of the utmost service.
+
+It is needless to recount all the details of the building and
+provisioning of this raft.  Suffice it to say that, about three weeks
+after the idea of it had been conceived, it was completed and ready for
+sea.
+
+During his residence on the island, although it had only extended over a
+few months, Jarwin had become very expert in the use of a sharp-pointed
+pole, or javelin, with which he had become quite an adept in spearing
+fish.  He had also become such a dead-shot with a stone that when he
+managed to get within thirty yards of a bird, he was almost certain to
+hit it.  Thus he was enabled to procure fish and fowl as much as he
+required and as the woods abounded with cocoa-nuts, plums, and other
+wild fruits, besides many edible roots, he had no lack of good fare.
+Now that he was about to "go to sea," he bethought him of drying some of
+the fruits as well as curing some fish and birds.  This he did by
+degrees, while engaged on the raft, so that when all was ready he had a
+store of provisions sufficient to last him several weeks.  In order to
+stow all this he removed another log from the middle of the raft, and,
+having deposited the food in the hollow--carefully wrapped in cocoanut
+leaves and made into compact bundles--he covered it over by laying a
+layer of large leaves above it and lashing a small spar on the top of
+them to keep them down.  The cask with which he had landed from the
+original raft, and which he had preserved with great care, not knowing
+how soon he might be in circumstances to require it, served to hold
+fresh water.
+
+On a fine morning about sunrise, Jarwin embarked with his little dog and
+bade farewell to the coral island, and although he had not dwelt very
+long there, he felt, to his own surprise, much regret at quitting it.
+
+A fresh breeze was blowing in the direction of the island--or the
+supposed island--he wished to reach.  This was important, because, in
+such a craft, it was impossible to sail in any way except before the
+wind.  Still, by means of a rude oar or paddle, he could modify its
+direction so as to steer clear of the passage through the reef and get
+out to sea.
+
+Once outside, he squared the sail and ran right before the breeze.  Of
+course such a weighty craft went very slowly through the water, but the
+wind was pretty strong, and to Jarwin, who had been for a comparatively
+long time unaccustomed to moving on the water, the speed seemed fast
+enough.  As the island went astern, and the raft lifted and fell gently
+on the long swell of the ocean, the seaman's heart beat with a peculiar
+joy to which it had long been a stranger, and he thanked God fervently
+for having so soon answered his prayer.
+
+For a long time he sat reclining in the hollow of the raft, resting his
+hand lightly on the steering oar and gazing in silence at the gradually
+fading woods of his late home.  The dog, as if it were aware that a
+great change was being effected in their destiny, lay also perfectly
+still--and apparently contemplative--at his master's feet; resting his
+chin on a log and gazing at the receding land.  It was evident, however,
+that _his_ thoughts were not absent or wandering, for, on the slightest
+motion made by his master, his dark eyes turned towards him, his ears
+slightly rose, and his tail gave the faintest possible indication of an
+intention to wag.
+
+"Well, Cuffy," said Jarwin at last, rousing himself with a sigh, "wot
+are 'ee thinking of?"
+
+The dog instantly rose, made affectionate demonstrations, and whined.
+
+"Ah, you may well say that, Cuff," replied the man; "I know you ain't
+easy in yer mind, and there's some reason in that, too, for we're off on
+a raither uncertain viage, in a somewhat unseaworthy craft.  Howsever,
+cheer up, doggie.  Whoever turns up, you and I shall sink or swim
+together."
+
+Just then the sail flapped.
+
+"Hallo!  Cuff," exclaimed Jarwin, with a look of anxiety, "the wind's
+going to shift."
+
+This was true.  The wind did shift, and in a few minutes had veered so
+much round that the raft was carried away from the blue line on the
+horizon, which Jarwin had so fondly hoped would turn out to be an
+inhabited island.  It blew lightly, however, and when the sun went down,
+had completely died away.  In these circumstances Jarwin and his dog
+supped together, and then lay down to rest, full of sanguine hope.
+
+They were awakened during the night by a violent squall, which, however,
+did no further damage than wash a little spray over them, for Jarwin had
+taken the precaution to lower and make fast the sail.  He now turned his
+attention to preparing the raft for rough weather.  This consisted in
+simply drawing over the hollow--in which he, his dog, and his provisions
+lay--a piece of canvas that he had cut off the sail, which was
+unnecessarily large.  It served as a tarpaulin, and effectually shielded
+them from ordinary sprays, but when the breeze freshened to a gale, and
+green seas swept over the _raft_, it leaked so badly, that Jarwin's
+cabin became a salt-water bath, and his provisions by degrees were
+soaked.
+
+At first he did not mind this much, for the air and water were
+sufficiently warm, but after being wet for several hours he began feel
+chilled.  As for poor Cuffy, his trembling body bore testimony to the
+state of his feelings; nevertheless he did not complain, being a dog of
+high spirit and endurance.  In these circumstances the seaman hailed the
+rising sun with great joy, even although it rose in the midst of lurid
+murky clouds, and very soon hid its face altogether behind them, as if
+it had made up its mind that the state of things below was so bad as to
+be not worth shining upon.
+
+All that day and night the gale continued, and they were driven before
+it.  The waves rushed so continuously and furiously over the raft, that
+it was with the utmost difficulty Jarwin could retain his position on
+it.  Indeed it would have been impossible for him to have done so, if he
+had not taken the precaution of making the hollow in the centre, into
+which he could crouch, and thus avoid the full force of the seas.  Next
+day the wind abated a little, but the sea still rolled "mountains high."
+In order to break their force a little, he ventured to show a little
+corner of the sail.  Small though it was, it almost carried away the
+slender mast, and drove the raft along at a wonderfully rapid rate.
+
+At last the gale went down, and, finally, it became a dead calm, leaving
+the raft like a cork heaving on the mighty swell of the Pacific Ocean.
+Weary and worn--almost dead with watching and exposure--John Jarwin lay
+down and slept, but his slumber was uneasy and unrefreshing.  Sunrise
+awoke him, and he sat up with a feeling of deep thankfulness, as he
+basked once more in its warm rays and observed that the sky above him
+was bright blue.  But other feelings mingled with these when he gazed
+round on the wide waste of water, which still heaved its swelling though
+now unruffled breast, as if panting after its recent burst of fury.
+
+"Ho!  Cuffy--what's that?  Not a sail, eh?" exclaimed Jarwin, suddenly
+starting up, while his languid eyes kindled with excitement.
+
+He was right.  After a long, earnest, anxious gaze, he came to the
+conclusion that it _was_ a sail which shone, white and conspicuous, like
+a speck or a snow-flake on the horizon.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER FIVE.
+
+JARWIN AND CUFFY FALL INTO BAD COMPANY.
+
+Immediately on discovering the sail, Jarwin hoisted a small canvas flag,
+which he had prepared for the purpose, to the mast-head, and then sat
+down to watch with indescribable earnestness the motions of the vessel.
+There was great cause for anxiety he well knew, because his raft was a
+mere speck on the great waste of waters which might easily be overlooked
+even by a vessel passing at a comparatively short distance, and if the
+vessel's course should happen to lie across that of the raft, there was
+every probability she would only be visible for a short time and then
+pass away like a ray of hope dying out.
+
+After gazing in perfect silence for half-an-hour, Jarwin heaved a deep
+sigh and said--
+
+"She steers this way, Cuffy."
+
+Cuffy acknowledged the remark with a little whine and a very slight wag
+of his tail.  It was evident that his spirits had sunk to a low ebb, and
+that he was not prepared to derive comfort from every trifling
+circumstance.
+
+"Come, we'll have a bit of summat to eat, my doggie," said the sailor,
+reaching forward his hand to the provision bundle.
+
+Thoroughly understanding and appreciating this remark, Cuffy roused
+himself and looked on with profound interest, while his master cut up a
+dried fish.  Having received a large share of it, he forgot everything
+else, and devoted all his powers, physical and mental, to the business
+in hand.  Although Jarwin also applied himself to the food with the
+devotion of a man whose appetite is sharp, and whose strength needs
+recruiting, he was very far indeed from forgetting other things.  He
+kept his eyes the whole time on the approaching sail, and once or twice
+became so absorbed and so anxious lest the vessel should change her
+course, that he remained with his mouth half open, and with the
+unconsumed morsel reposing therein for a minute or more at a time.
+
+But the vessel did not change her course.  On she came; a fine large
+schooner with raking masts, and so trim and neat in her rig that she
+resembled a pleasure-yacht.  As she drew near, Jarwin rose, and holding
+on to the mast, waved a piece of canvas, while Cuffy, who felt that
+there was now really good ground for rejoicing, wagged his tail and
+barked in an imbecile fashion, as if he didn't exactly know whether to
+laugh or cry.
+
+"We're all safe now, doggie," exclaimed Jarwin, as the schooner came
+cutting through the water before a light breeze, leaving a slight track
+of foam in her wake.
+
+When within about two or three hundred yards of the raft, the castaway
+could see that a figure leant on the vessel's side and brought a
+telescope to bear on him.  With a feeling of irrepressible gladness he
+laughed and waved his hand.
+
+"Ay, ay, take a good squint," he shouted, "an' then lower a boat--eh!--"
+
+He stopped abruptly, for at that moment the figure turned towards the
+steersman; the schooner's head fell away, presenting her stern to the
+raft, and began to leave her behind.
+
+The truth flashed upon Jarwin like a thunderbolt.  It was clear that the
+commander of the strange vessel had no intention of relieving him.  In
+the first burst of mingled despair and indignation, the seaman uttered a
+bass roar of defiance that might have done credit to the lungs of a
+small carronade, and at the same time shook his fist at the retiring
+schooner.
+
+The effect of this was as sudden as it was unexpected.  To his surprise
+he observed that the schooner's head was immediately thrown up into the
+wind, and all her sails shook for a few moments, then, filling out
+again, the vessel bent gracefully over on the other tack.  With
+returning joy the castaway saw her run straight towards him.  In a few
+minutes she was alongside, and her topsails were backed.
+
+"Look out! catch hold!" cried a gruff voice, as a sailor sent a coil of
+rope whirling over the raft.  Jarwin caught it, took a turn round the
+mast, and held on.
+
+In a minute the raft was alongside.  Weak though he was, Jarwin retained
+enough of his sailor-like activity to enable him to seize a rope and
+swing himself on board with Cuffy in his arms.
+
+He found himself on the pure white deck of a craft which was so well
+appointed and so well kept, that his first impressions were revived--
+namely, that she was a pleasure-yacht.  He knew that she was not a
+vessel of war, because, besides the absence of many little things that
+mark such a vessel, the few men on deck were not clothed like
+man-of-war's-men, and there was no sign of guns, with the exception of
+one little brass carronade, which was probably used as a signal-gun.
+
+A tall stout man, in plain costume, which was neither quite that of a
+seaman nor a landsman, stood with his arms crossed on his broad chest
+near the man at the wheel.  To him, judging him to be the captain or
+owner of the vessel, Jarwin went up, and, pulling his forelock by way of
+salutation, said--
+
+"Why, sir, I thought 'ee was a-goin' to leave me!"
+
+"So I was," answered the captain, drily.  "Hold on to the raft," he
+added, turning to the man who had thrown the rope to Jarwin.
+
+"Well, sir," said the latter in some surprise, "in course I don't know
+why you wos a-goin' to leave a feller-creetur to his fate, but I'm glad
+you didn't go for to do it, 'cos it wouldn't have bin Christian-like.
+But I'm bound for to thank 'ee, sir, all the same for havin' saved me--
+and Cuffy."
+
+"Don't be too free with your thanks, my good man," returned the captain,
+"for you're not saved, as you call it, yet."
+
+"Not saved yet?" repeated Jarwin.
+
+"No.  Whether I save you or not depends on your keeping a civil tongue
+in your head, and on your answers to my questions."
+
+The captain interlarded his speech with many oaths, which, of course, we
+omit.  This, coupled with his rude manners, induced Jarwin to suspect
+that the vessel was not a pleasure-yacht after all, so he wisely held
+his peace.
+
+"Where do you belong to?" demanded the captain.
+
+"To Yarmouth, sir."
+
+"What ship did you sail in, what has come of her, and how came you to be
+cast adrift?"
+
+"I sailed in the _Nancy_, sir, from Plymouth, with a miscellaneous cargo
+for China.  She sprung a leak in a gale, and we was 'bliged to make a
+raft, the boats bein' all stove in or washed away.  It was barely ready
+when the ship went down starn foremost.  Durin' the gale all my mates
+were washed off the raft or died of exposure; only me and my dog left."
+
+"How long ago was that?" asked the captain.
+
+"Couldn't rightly say, sir, I've lost count o' time, but it's more than
+a year gone by anyhow."
+
+"That's a lie," said the captain, with an oath.
+
+"No, 'taint, sir," replied Jarwin, reddening, "it's a truth.  I was nigh
+starved on that raft, but was cast on an island where I've bin till a
+few days ago ever since, when I put to sea on the raft that now lays
+a-starn there."
+
+For a few seconds the captain made no rejoinder, but a glance at the
+raft seemed to satisfy him of the truth of what was said.  At length he
+said abruptly--
+
+"What's your name?"
+
+"John Jarwin, sir."
+
+"Well, John Jarwin, I'll save you on one condition, which is, that you
+become one of my crew, and agree to do my bidding and ask no questions.
+What say you?"
+
+Jarwin hesitated.
+
+"Haul up the raft and let this man get aboard of it," said the captain,
+coolly but sternly, to the seaman who held the rope.
+
+"You've no occasion to be so sharp, sir," said John, remonstratively.
+"If you wos to tell me to cut my own throat, you know, I could scarce be
+expected for to do it without puttin' a few questions as to the reason
+why.  You're a trader, I suppose?"
+
+"Yes, I'm a trader," replied the captain, "but I don't choose to be
+questioned by you.  All you've got to do is to agree to my proposal or
+to walk over the side.  To tell you the truth, when I saw you first
+through the glass, you looked such a starved wretch that I thought you'd
+be of no use to me, and if it hadn't been for the yell you gave, that
+showed there was something in you still, I'd have left you to sink or
+swim.  So you see what sort of man you've got to deal with.  I'm
+short-handed, but not so short as to engage an unwilling man, or a man
+who wouldn't be ready for any sort of dirty work.  You may take your
+choice."
+
+"Well, sir," replied Jarwin, "I've no objection to take service with
+'ee.  As the sayin' goes, `beggars mustn't be choosers.'  I ain't above
+doin' dirty work, if required."
+
+John Jarwin, in the simplicity of his heart, imagined that the captain
+was in need of a man who could and would turn his hand to any sort of
+work, whether nautical or otherwise, on board ship or ashore, which was
+his idea of "dirty work;" but the captain appeared to understand him in
+a different sense, for he smiled in a grim fashion, nodded his head,
+and, turning to the seaman before mentioned, bade him cut the raft
+adrift.  The man obeyed, and in a few minutes it was out of sight
+astern.
+
+"Now, Jarwin, go below," said the captain; "Isaacs will introduce you to
+your messmates."
+
+Isaacs, who had just cut away the raft, was a short, thick-set man, with
+a dark, expressionless face.  He went forward without saying a word, and
+introduced Jarwin to the men as a "new 'and."
+
+"And a green un, I s'pose; give us your flipper, lad," said one of the
+crew, holding out his hand.
+
+Jarwin shook it, took off his cap and sat down, while his new friends
+began, as they expressed it, to pump him.  Having no objection to be
+pumped, he had soon related the whole of his recent history.  In the
+course of the narrative he discovered that his new associates were an
+unusually rough set.  Their language was interspersed with frightful
+oaths, and their references to the captain showed that his power over
+them was certainly not founded on goodwill or affection.  Jarwin also
+discovered that the freeness of his communication was not reciprocated
+by his new mates, for when he made inquiries as to the nature of the
+trade in which they were engaged, some of the men merely replied with
+uproarious laughter, chaff, or curses, while others made jocular
+allusions to sandal-wood trading, slaving, etcetera.
+
+"I shouldn't wonder now," said one, "if you was to think we was
+pirates."
+
+Jarwin smiled as he replied, "Well, I don't exactly think _that_, but
+I'm bound for to say the schooner _has_ got such a rakish look that it
+wouldn't seem unnatural like if you _were_ to hoist a black flag at the
+peak.  An' you'll excuse me, shipmets, if I say that yer lingo ain't
+just so polished as it might be."
+
+"And pray who are _you_, that comes here to lecture us about our lingo?"
+cried one of the men fiercely, starting up and confronting Jarwin with
+clenched fists.
+
+"Why, mate," replied Jarwin, quietly folding back the cuffs of his coat,
+and putting himself in an attitude of defence, "I ain't nobody in
+partikler, not the Lord Chancellor o' England, anyhow still less the
+Archbishop of Canterbury.  I'm only plain Jack Jarwin, seaman, but if
+you or any other man thinks--"
+
+"Come, come," cried one of the men in a tone of authority, starting
+forward and thrusting Jarwin's assailant violently aside, "none o' that
+sort o' thing here.  Keep your fists for the niggers, Bill, we're all
+brothers here, you know; an affectionate family, so to speak!"
+
+There was a general laugh at this.  Bill retired sulkily, and Jarwin sat
+down to a plate of hot "lob-scouse," which proved to be very good, and
+of which he stood much in need.
+
+For several days our hero was left very much to himself.  The schooner
+sped on her voyage with a fair wind, and the men were employed in light
+work, or idled about the deck.  No one interfered with Jarwin, but at
+the same time no one became communicative.  The captain was a very
+silent man, and it was evident that the crew stood much in awe of him.
+Of course Jarwin's suspicions as to the nature of the craft were
+increased by all this, and from some remarks which he overheard two or
+three days after his coming on board, he felt convinced that he had
+fallen into bad company.  Before a week had passed, this became so
+evident that he made up his mind to leave the vessel at the very first
+opportunity.
+
+One day he went boldly to the captain and demanded to know the nature of
+the trade in which the schooner was employed and their present
+destination.  He was told that that was no business of his, that he had
+better go forward and mind his duty without more ado, else he should be
+pitched overboard.  The captain used such forcible language when he said
+this, and seemed so thoroughly in earnest, that Jarwin felt no longer
+any doubt as to his true character.
+
+"I'll tell you what it is, my lad," said the captain, "my schooner is a
+trader or a man-of-war according to circumstances, and I'm a free man,
+going where I choose and doing what I please.  I treat my men well when
+they do their duty; when they don't I make 'em walk the plank.  No doubt
+you know what that means.  If you don't we shall soon teach you.  Take
+to-night to think over it.  To-morrow morning I'll have a question or
+two to ask you.  There--go!"
+
+Jarwin bowed submissively and retired.
+
+That night the moon shone full and clear on the wide ocean's breast, and
+Jarwin stood at the bow of the schooner, looking sadly over the side,
+and patting his little dog gently on the head.
+
+"Cuffy, you and me's in a fix, I suspect," he murmured in a low tone;
+"but cheer up, doggie, a way to escape will turn up no doubt."
+
+He had scarcely uttered the words when his eye fell on the distant
+outline of land on the lee bow.  He started, and gazed with fixed
+intensity for some minutes, under the impression that it might perhaps
+be a fog-bank lighted by the moon, but in a short time it became so
+distinct that there could be no doubt it was land.  He pointed it out to
+the watch on deck, one of whom said carelessly that he had seen it for
+some time, and that there were plenty more islands of the same sort in
+these seas.
+
+Jarwin walked aft and stood near the lee gangway contemplating the
+island in silence for some time.  A small oar lay at his feet.  Suddenly
+he conceived the daring idea of seizing this, plunging overboard and
+attempting to swim to land.  He was a splendid swimmer, and although the
+island appeared to be more than two miles distant, he did not fear
+failure.  A moment's reflection, however, convinced him that the men on
+deck would certainly hear the plunge, heave the ship to, and lower a
+boat, in which case he should be immediately overtaken.  Still, being
+resolved to escape at all hazards, he determined to make the venture.
+Fastening a rope to a belaying pin, he tied the oar to it and lowered it
+over the side until it trailed in the water, he then lifted Cuffy, who
+was almost always near him, on to the side of the vessel, with a whisper
+to keep still.  The watch paced the weather side of the deck conversing
+in low tones.  The steersman could, from his position, see both
+gangways, and although the light was not strong enough to reveal what
+Jarwin was about, it was too strong to admit of his going bodily over
+the side without being observed.  He, therefore, walked slowly to the
+head of the vessel, where he threw over the end of a small rope.  By
+means of this, when the watch were well aft, he slid noiselessly into
+the sea, hanging on by one hand and supporting Cuffy with the other.
+Once fairly in the water he let go, the side of the vessel rubbed
+swiftly past him, and he all but missed grasping the oar which trailed
+at the gangway.  By this he held on for a few seconds to untie the rope.
+He had just succeeded and was about to let go, when, unfortunately, the
+handle of the oar chanced to hit the end of Cuffy's nose a severe blow.
+The poor dog, therefore, gave vent to a loud yell of pain.  Instantly
+Jarwin allowed himself to sink and held his breath as long as he
+possibly could, while Cuffy whined and swam on the surface.
+
+Meanwhile the men on deck ran to the side.  "Hallo!" cried one, "it's
+Jarwin's little dog gone overboard."
+
+"Let it go," cried another with a laugh; "it's a useless brute and eats
+a power o' grub."
+
+"I say, wot a splashin' it do kick up," he added as the little dog was
+left astern making vain efforts to clamber on the oar.  "Why, lads,
+there's somethin' else floatin' beside it, uncommon like a seal.  Are
+'ee sure, Bill, that Jarwin hasn't gone overboard along with his dog?"
+
+"Why no," replied Bill; "I seed him go forward a little ago; besides it
+ain't likely he'd go over without givin' a shout."
+
+"I dun know that," said the other; "he might have hit his head again'
+somethin' in tumblin' over."
+
+By this time the objects in question were almost out of sight astern.
+In a few minutes more a dark cloud covered the moon and effectually shut
+them out from view.
+
+Just then the Captain came on deck, and asked what was wrong.
+
+"Fools!" he exclaimed, in a voice of thunder, on being told, "lower the
+gig.  Look sharp!  Don't you see the land, you idiots?  The man's away
+as well as the dog."
+
+In a few seconds the topsails were backed and the boat lowered, manned,
+and pushed off.
+
+But Jarwin heard and saw nothing of all this.  He was now far astern,
+for the vessel had been going rapidly through the water.
+
+On coming to the surface after his dive he caught hold of Cuffy, and,
+with a cheering word or two, placed him on his back, telling him to hold
+on by his paws the best way he could.  Then grasping the end of the oar,
+and pointing the blade land-wards, he struck out vigorously with his
+legs.
+
+It was a long and weary swim, but as his life depended on it, the seaman
+persevered.  When he felt his strength giving way, he raised not only
+his heart but his voice in prayer to God, and felt restored each time
+that he did so.  Just as he neared the shore, the sound of oars broke on
+his ears, and presently he heard the well-known voice of the Captain
+ordering the men to pull hard.  Fortunately it was by this time very
+dark.  He landed without being discerned.  The surf was heavy, but he
+was expert in rough water, went in on the top of a billow, and was
+safely launched on a soft sandy beach, almost at the same moment with
+the boat.  The latter was, however, at a considerable distance from him.
+He crept cautiously up the shore until he gained a thicket, and then,
+rising, he plunged into the woods and ran straight before him until he
+was exhausted, carrying the little dog in his arms.  Many a fall and
+bruise did the poor fellow receive in his progress, but the fear of
+being retaken by the pirates--for such he felt convinced they were--lent
+him wings.  The Captain and his men made a long search, but finally gave
+it up, and, returning to the boat, pushed off.  Jarwin never saw them
+again.
+
+He and Cuffy lay where they had fallen, and slept, wet though they were,
+till the sun was high.  They were still sleeping when a native chief of
+the island, happening to pass along the beach, discerned Jarwin's
+footsteps and traced him out.  This chief was an immensely large
+powerful man, armed with a heavy club.  He awoke the sailor with a kick,
+and spoke in a language which he did not understand.  His gestures,
+however, said plainly enough, "Get up and come along with me," so Jarwin
+thought it best to obey.  Of course whatever Jarwin thought, Cuffy was
+of precisely the same opinion.  They therefore quietly got up and
+followed the big chief to his village, where they were received by a
+large concourse of savages with much excitement and curiosity.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER SIX.
+
+OUR HERO BECOMES A FAVOURITE, AND ENTERTAINS HOPES OF ESCAPE.
+
+The sufferings which Jarwin with his little dog had hitherto undergone
+were as nothing compared to those which he endured for some months after
+being taken prisoner by the savages.  At first he gave himself up for
+lost, feeling assured that ere long he would be sacrificed in the temple
+of one of their idols, and then baked in an oven and consumed as food,
+according to the horrible practice of the South-Sea Islanders.  Indeed
+he began to be much astonished that, as day after day passed, there was
+no sign of any intention to treat him in this way, although several
+times the natives took him out of the hut in which he was imprisoned,
+and, placing him in the centre of a circle, held excited and sometimes
+angry discussions over him.
+
+It was not till months afterwards, when he had acquired a slight
+knowledge of their language, that he came to understand why he was
+spared at this time.  It appeared that four shipwrecked sailors, who had
+been cast on a neighbouring island, had been killed, baked, and eaten,
+according to usage, by the chief and his friends.  Immediately
+afterwards, those who had partaken of this dreadful food had been seized
+with severe illness, and one or two had died.  This fact had been known
+for some time to Jarwin's captors, and the discussions above referred to
+had been engaged in with reference to the question whether it was likely
+that the flesh of the white man who had been thrown on their island
+would be likely to disagree with their stomachs!  It was agreed that
+this was highly probable, and thus the seaman's life was spared; but he
+was sometimes tempted to wish that it had not been spared, for his
+master, the Big Chief, was a very hard man; he put him to the most
+toilsome labour, and treated him with every sort of indignity.
+Moreover, he was compelled to be a witness of practices so revolting and
+cruel, that he often put the question to himself whether it was possible
+for devils to display greater wickedness and depravity than these
+people.
+
+Jarwin was frequently tempted to resent the treatment he received, but,
+fortunately, he was prudent enough to bear it submissively, for it is
+certain that if he had rebelled he would have been slain on the spot.
+Moreover, he set himself to carry out his favourite maxim--namely, that
+it was wise in all circumstances to make the best of everything.  He
+laboured, therefore, with such goodwill, that he softened the breast of
+the Big Chief, who gradually became more amiable, and even indulgent to
+him.  Thus he came to know experimentally the wisdom of that Scripture,
+"Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good."
+
+John Jarwin possessed a remarkably fine sonorous bass voice, which, in
+former days, had been a source of great delight to his messmates.
+Although strong and deep, it was very sweet and tender in its tones, and
+eminently suited for pathetic and sentimental songs.  Indeed Jarwin's
+nature was so earnest, that although he had a great deal of quiet humour
+about him, and could enjoy comic songs very much, he never himself sang
+anything humorous.  Now, it chanced that the Big Chief had a good ear
+for music, and soon became so fond of the songs which his slave was wont
+to hum when at work, that he used to make him sit down beside him
+frequently and sing for hours at a time!  Fortunately, Jarwin's lungs
+were powerful, and his voice being full-toned and loud, he was able to
+sing as much as his master desired without much exertion.  He gave him
+his whole budget which was pretty extensive--including melodies of the
+"Black-eyed Susan" and "Ben Bolt" stamp.  When these had been sung over
+and over again, he took to the Psalms and Paraphrases--many of which he
+knew by heart, and, finally, he had recourse to extempore composition,
+which he found much easier than he had expected--the tones flowing
+naturally and the words being gibberish!  Thus he became a sort of David
+to this remarkable Saul.  By degrees, as he learnt the native tongue, he
+held long conversations with the Big Chief, and told him about his own
+land and countrymen and religion.  In regard to the last the Chief was
+very inquisitive, and informed his slave that white men had been for
+some time in that region, trying to teach their religion to the men of
+an island which, though invisible from his island, was not very far
+distant.  Jarwin said little about this, but from that time he began to
+hope that, through the missionaries, he might be able to make his escape
+ere long.
+
+During all this time poor Cuffy experienced a variety of vicissitudes,
+and made several narrow escapes.  At first he had been caught and was on
+the point of being killed and roasted, when he wriggled out of his
+captor's grasp and made off to the mountains, terrorstruck!  Here he
+dwelt for some weeks in profound melancholy.  Being unable to stand
+separation from his master any longer, he ventured to return to the
+village, but was immediately hunted out of it, and once again fled in
+horror to the hills.  Jarwin was not allowed to quit the village alone,
+he therefore never saw his little dog, and at length came to the
+conclusion that it had been killed.  When, however, he had ingratiated
+himself with his master, he was allowed more freedom, and one day,
+having wandered a considerable distance into the mountains, he came
+suddenly and unexpectedly upon Cuffy.  Having experienced nothing from
+man of late but the most violent and cruel treatment, Cuffy no sooner
+beheld, as he supposed, one of his enemies, than, without giving him a
+second glance, he sprang up, put his ears back, his tail between his
+legs, and, uttering a terrible yell, fled "on the wings of terror!"  But
+Jarwin put two fingers in his mouth and gave a peculiarly shrill
+whistle, which brought the dog to a sudden stop.  He looked back with
+ears cocked.  Again Jarwin whistled.  Instantly Cuffy turned and ran at
+him with a series of mingled yells, whines, and barks, that gave but a
+faint idea of his tumultuous feelings.  It would scarcely be too much to
+say that he almost ate his master up.  He became like an india-rubber
+ball gone mad!  He bounded round him to such an extent that Jarwin found
+it very difficult to get hold of or pat him.  It is impossible to do
+justice to such a meeting.  We draw a veil over it, only remarking that
+the sailor took his old favourite back to the village, and, after much
+entreaty and a good deal of persuasive song, was permitted to keep him.
+
+About ten months after this event, war broke out between the Big Chief
+and a neighbouring tribe of natives, who were a very quarrelsome and
+vindictive set.  The tribe with whom Jarwin dwelt would gladly have
+lived at peace, but the other tribe was stronger in numbers and thirsted
+for conquest--a consequence of strength which is by no means confined to
+savages!
+
+When war was formally declared, the Big Chief told Jarwin to prepare
+himself for battle.  At first our hero had some qualms of conscience
+about it, but on reflecting that on the part of the tribe to which he
+belonged it was a war of self-defence, his conscience was pacified.
+
+The Big Chief ordered him to throw away his now ragged garments, smear
+his whole body over with oil and red earth, paint black spots on his
+cheeks, and a white streak down his nose, and put on warrior's costume.
+In vain Jarwin begged and protested and sang.  The Big Chief's blood was
+up, and his commands must be obeyed, therefore Jarwin did as he was bid;
+went out to battle in this remarkable costume--if we may so style it--
+and proved himself such a prodigy of valour that his prowess went far to
+turn the tide of victory wherever he appeared during the fight.  But we
+pass over all this.  Suffice it to say, that the pugnacious tribe was
+severely chastised and reduced to a state of quiet--for the time at
+least.
+
+One day, not long after the cessation of the war, a canoe arrived with
+several natives, all of whom wore clothing of a much more civilised
+description than is usually seen among South-Sea savages.  They had a
+long, earnest talk with the natives, but Jarwin was not allowed to hear
+it, or to show himself.  Next day they went away.  For some time after
+that Big Chief was very thoughtful, but silent, and Jarwin could not
+induce him to become confidential until he had sung all his melodies and
+all his psalms several times over, and had indulged in extempore melody
+and gibberish until his brain and throat were alike exhausted.  The Big
+Chief gave way at last, however, and told him that his late visitors
+were Christians, who, with two native teachers, had been sent from a
+distant island by a white chief named Williams, to try and persuade him
+and his people to burn their idols.
+
+"And are 'ee goin' to do it?" asked Jarwin.
+
+"No," replied the Chief, "but I am going to Raratonga to see Cookee
+Williams."
+
+Of course they conversed in the native tongue, but as this would be
+unintelligible to the reader, we translate.  It may also be remarked
+here that "Cookee" signified a white man, and is a word derived from the
+visit of that great navigator Captain Cook to these islands, by the
+natives of which he was ultimately murdered.
+
+Jarwin had heard, while in England, of the missionary Williams.  On
+learning that he was among the islands, his heart beat high, and he
+begged earnestly that he might be allowed to go with the chief and his
+party to Raratonga, but his wily master would not consent "You will run
+away!" he said.
+
+"No, I won't," said Jarwin, earnestly.  Big Chief shook his head.  "They
+will take you from me," he said, "when they find out who you are."
+
+"I'll not let 'em," replied Jarwin, with pathetic sincerity, and then
+began to sing in such a touching strain, that his master lay back on his
+couch and rolled his large eyes in rapture.
+
+"You shall go, Jowin," (that was the best he could make of the name),
+"if you will make me a promise."
+
+"Name it, old boy," said Jarwin.
+
+"That you will go dressed like one of my young men, and never open your
+lips to speak a word, no more than if you were dumb, whether the Cookees
+speak to you or not."
+
+Jarwin hesitated, but reflecting that there was no chance of his seeing
+the missionary at all if he did not give this promise, he consented.
+
+A week after that all the preparations were made, and four large canoes,
+full of well-armed men, set out for Raratonga.
+
+At the time we write of, the island of Raratonga had been recently
+discovered by the missionary Williams.  The success of the labours of
+that devoted man and his native teachers, is one of the most marvellous
+chapters in the history of the isles of the Pacific.  At Raratonga, God
+seemed to have prepared the way for the introduction of the Gospel in a
+wonderful manner, for although the native teachers who first went ashore
+there were roughly handled, they were enabled, nevertheless, to
+persevere, and in not much more than a single year, the Gospel wrought a
+change in the feelings and habits of the people, which was little short
+of miraculous.  Within that brief period they had given up and burnt all
+their idols, had ceased to practise their bloody and horrible rites, and
+had embraced Christianity--giving full proof of their sincerity by
+submitting to a code of laws founded on Scripture, by agreeing to
+abandon polygamy, by building a large place of worship, and by leading
+comparatively virtuous and peaceful lives.  And all this was begun and
+carried on for a considerable time, not by the European missionaries but
+by two of the devoted native teachers, who had previously embraced
+Christianity.
+
+The extent of the change thus wrought in the Raratongans in so short a
+time by the Gospel, may be estimated by a glance at the difficulties
+with which the missionaries had to contend.  In writing of the ancient
+usages of the people, Mr Williams, [See Williams' most interesting
+work, entitled "A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South-Sea
+Islands"], tells us that one of their customs was an unnatural practice
+called _Kukumi anga_.  As soon as a son reached manhood, he would fight
+and wrestle with his father for the mastery, and if he obtained it,
+would take forcible possession of the farm belonging to his parent, whom
+he drove in a state of destitution from his home.  Another custom was
+equally unnatural and inhuman.  When a woman lost her husband, the
+relatives of the latter, instead of paying visits of kindness to the
+fatherless and widow in their affliction, would seize every article of
+value belonging to the deceased, turn the disconsolate mother and her
+children away, and possess themselves of the house, food, and land.  But
+they had another custom which caused still greater difficulties to the
+missionaries.  It was called "land-eating"--in other words, the getting
+possession of each other's lands unjustly, and these, once obtained,
+were held with the greatest possible tenacity, for land was exceedingly
+valuable at Raratonga, and on no subject were the contentions of the
+people more frequent or fierce.
+
+From this it will be seen that the Raratongans were apparently a most
+unpromising soil in which to plant the "good seed," for there is
+scarcely another race of people on earth so depraved and unnatural as
+they seem to have been.  Nevertheless, God's blessed Word overcame these
+deep-rooted prejudices, and put an end to these and many other horrible
+practices in little more than a year.
+
+After this glorious work had been accomplished, the energetic
+missionary--who ultimately laid down his life in one of these islands
+[_The Island of Erramanga_] for the sake of Jesus Christ--resolved to go
+himself in search of other islands in which to plant the Gospel, and to
+send out native teachers with the same end in view.  The record of their
+labours reads more like a romance than a reality, but we cannot afford
+to diverge longer from the course of our narrative.  It was one of these
+searching parties of native teachers that had visited the Big Chief's
+island as already described, and it was their glowing words and
+representations that had induced him to undertake this voyage to
+Raratonga.
+
+Big Chief of course occupied the largest of the four canoes, and our
+friend Jarwin sat on a seat in front of him--painted and decorated like
+a native warrior, and wielding a paddle like the rest.  Of course Cuffy
+had been left behind.
+
+Poor Jarwin had, during his captivity, undergone the process of being
+tatooed from head to foot.  It had taken several months to accomplish
+and had cost him inexpressible torture, owing to the innumerable
+punctures made by the comb-like instrument with which it was done on the
+inflamed muscles of his body.  By dint of earnest entreaty and much
+song, he had prevailed on Big Chief to leave his face and hands
+untouched.  It is doubtful if he would have succeeded in this, despite
+the witching power of his melodious voice, had he not at the same time
+offered to paint his own face in imitation of tatooing, and accomplished
+the feat to such perfection that his delighted master insisted on having
+his own painted forthwith in the same style.
+
+During a pause in their progress, while the paddlers were resting, Big
+Chief made his captive sit near him.
+
+"You tell me that Cookee-men" (by which he meant white men) "never lie,
+never deceive."
+
+"I shud lie an' deceive myself, if I said so," replied Jarwin, bluntly.
+
+"What did you tell me, then?" asked the Chief, with a frown.
+
+"I told you that _Christian_ men don't lie or deceive--leastwise they
+don't do it with a will."
+
+"Are _you_ a Christian man, Jowin?"
+
+"I am," replied the sailor promptly.  Then with a somewhat perplexed
+air, "Anyhow I _hope_ I am, an' I try to act as sitch."
+
+"Good, I will soon prove it.  You will be near the Cookee-men of
+Raratonga to-morrow.  You will have chance to go with them and leave me;
+but if you do, or if you speak one word of Cookee-tongue--you are _not_
+Christian.  Moreover, I will batter your skull with my club, till it is
+like the soft pulp of the bread-fruit."
+
+"You're a cute fellar, as the Yankees say," remarked Jarwin, with a
+slight smile.  This being said in English, the Chief took no notice of
+it, but glanced at his slave suspiciously.
+
+"Big Chief," said Jarwin, after a short silence, "even before I was a
+Christian, I had been taught by my mother to be ashamed of telling a
+lie, so you've no occasion for to doubt me.  But it's a hard thing to
+stand by a countryman, specially in my pecooliar circumstances, an' not
+let him know that you can speak to him.  May I not be allowed to palaver
+a bit with 'em?  I wont ask 'em to take me from you."
+
+"No," said the Chief sternly.  "You came with me promising that you
+would not even speak to the Cookee-men."
+
+"Well, Big Chief," replied Jarwin, energetically, "you shall see that a
+British seaman can stick to his promise.  I'll be true to you.  Honour
+bright.  I'll not give 'em a word of the English lingo if they was to
+try to tear it out o' me wi' red hot pincers.  I'll content myself wi'
+lookin' at 'em and listenin' to 'em.  It'll be a comfort to hear my
+mother-tongue, anyhow."
+
+"Good," replied the Chief, "I trust you."
+
+The interval of rest coming to an end at this point, the conversation
+ceased and the paddles were resumed.
+
+It was a magnificent day.  The great Pacific was in that condition of
+perfect repose which its name suggests.  Not a breath of air ruffled the
+wide sheet of water, which lay spread out like a vast circular
+looking-glass to reflect the sky, and it did reflect the sky with such
+perfect fidelity, that the clouds and cloudlets in the deep were exact
+counterparts of those that floated in the air, while the four canoes,
+resting on their own reflections, seemed to be suspended in the centre
+of a crystal world, which was dazzlingly lit up by two resplendent suns.
+
+This condition of calm lasted the whole of that day and night, and the
+heat was very great; nevertheless the warriors--of whom there were from
+forty to fifty in each canoe--did not cease to paddle for an instant,
+save when the short spells of rest came round, and when, twice during
+the day, they stopped to eat a hasty meal.
+
+When the sun set they still continued to paddle onwards, the only
+difference being that instead of passing over a sea of crystal, they
+appeared to traverse an ocean of amber and burnished gold.  All night
+they continued their labours.  About daybreak the Chief permitted them
+to enjoy a somewhat longer period of rest, during which most of them,
+without lying down, indulged in a short but refreshing nap.  Resuming
+the paddles, they proceeded until sunrise, when their hearts were
+gladdened by the sight of the blue hills of Raratonga on the bright
+horizon.
+
+"Now we shall soon be at the end of our voyage," said the Chief, as he
+pointed to the distant hills, and glanced at Jarwin as he might at a
+prize which he was much afraid of losing.  "Remember the promise, you
+Christian.  Don't be a deceiver, you `Breetish tar!'" (He quoted Jarwin
+here.)
+
+"Honour bright!" replied our hero.
+
+The savage gazed earnestly into the sailor's bright eyes, and appeared
+to think that if his honour was as bright as they were, there was not
+much cause to fear.  At all events he looked pleased, nodded his head,
+and said "Good," with considerable emphasis.
+
+By this time the hills of Raratonga were beginning to look less like
+blue clouds and more like real mountains; gradually as the canoes drew
+nearer, the markings on them became more and more defined, until at last
+everything was distinctly visible--rocky eminences and luxuriant
+valleys, through which flowed streams and rivulets that glittered
+brightly in the light of the ascending sun, and almost constrained
+Jarwin to shout with delight, for he gazed upon a scene more lovely by
+far than anything that he had yet beheld in the Southern Seas.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER SEVEN.
+
+OUR HERO IS EXPOSED TO STIRRING INFLUENCES AND TRYING CIRCUMSTANCES.
+
+When the four canoes drew near to the island, immense numbers of natives
+were seen to assemble on the beach, so that Big Chief deemed it
+advisable to advance with caution.  Presently a solitary figure, either
+dressed or painted black, advanced in front of the others and waved a
+white flag.  This seemed to increase the Chief's anxiety, for he ordered
+the men to cease paddling.
+
+Jarwin, whose heart had leaped with delight when he saw the dark figure
+and the white flag, immediately turned round and said--
+
+"You needn't be afraid, old boy; that's the missionary, I'll be bound,
+in his black toggery, an' a white flag means `peace' among Cookee men."
+
+On hearing this, the Chief gave the order to advance, and Jarwin,
+seizing a piece of native cloth that lay near him, waved it round his
+head.
+
+"Stop that, you Breetish tar!" growled Big Chief, seizing a huge club,
+which bristled with shark's teeth, and shaking it at the seaman, while
+his own teeth were displayed in a threatening grin.
+
+"All right, old codger," replied the British tar, with a submissive
+look; "honour bright, honour bright," he added several times, in a low
+tone, as if to keep himself in mind of his promise.
+
+We have already said that our hero and his master talked in the native
+tongue, which the former had acquired with wonderful facility, but such
+familiar expressions as "old boy," "old codger," etcetera, were
+necessarily uttered in English.  Fortunately for Jarwin, who was by
+nature free-and-easy, the savage chief imagined these to be terms of
+respect, and was, consequently, rather pleased to hear them.  Similarly,
+Big Chief said "Breetish tar" and "Christian" in English, as he had
+learned them from his captive.  When master and slave began to grow fond
+of each other--as we have seen that they soon did, their manly natures
+being congenial--they used these expressions more frequently: Jarwin
+meaning to express facetious goodwill, but his master desiring to
+express kindly regard, except when he was roused to anger, in which case
+he did not, however, use them contemptuously, but as expressive of
+earnest solemnity.
+
+On landing, Big Chief and his warriors were received by the Reverend Mr
+Williams and his native teachers--of whom there were two men and two
+women--with every demonstration of kindness, and were informed that the
+island of Raratonga had cast away and burned its idols, and now
+worshipped the true God, who had sent His Son Jesus Christ to save the
+world from sin.
+
+"I know that," replied Big Chief to the teacher who interpreted;
+"converts, like yourself, came to my island not long ago, and told me
+all about it.  Now I have come to see and hear.  A wise man will know
+and understand before he acts."
+
+Big Chief was then conducted to the presence of the king of that part of
+the island, who stood, surrounded by his chief men, under a grove of
+Temanu trees.  The king, whose name was Makea, was a handsome man, in
+the prime of life, about six feet high, and very massive and muscular.
+He had a noble appearance and commanding aspect, and, though not so tall
+as Big Chief, was, obviously, a man of superior power in every way.  His
+complexion was light, and his body most beautifully tatooed and slightly
+coloured with a preparation of tumeric and ginger, which gave it a light
+orange tinge, and, in the estimation of the Raratongans, added much to
+the beauty of his appearance.
+
+The two chiefs advanced frankly to each other, and amiably rubbed noses
+together--the South Sea method of salutation!  Then a long palaver
+ensued, in which Big Chief explained the object of his visit, namely, to
+hear about the new religion, and to witness its effects with his own
+eyes.  The missionary gladly gave him a full account of all he desired
+to know, and earnestly urged him to accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
+and to throw away his idols.
+
+Big Chief and his men listened with earnest attention and intense
+gravity, and, after the palaver was over, retired to consult together in
+private.
+
+During all this time poor Jarwin's heart had been greatly stirred.
+Being tatooed, and nearly naked, as well as painted like the rest of his
+comrades, of course no one took particular notice of him, which
+depressed him greatly, for he felt an intense desire to seize the
+missionary by the hand, and claim him as a countryman.  Indeed this
+feeling was so strong upon him on first hearing Mr Williams's English
+tone of voice--although the missionary spoke only in the native tongue--
+that he could scarcely restrain himself, and had to mutter "honour
+bright" several times, in order, as it were, to hold himself in check.
+"Honour bright" became his moral rein, or curb, on that trying occasion.
+But when, in the course of the palaver, Mrs Williams, who had
+accompanied her husband on this dangerous expedition, came forward and
+addressed a few words to the missionary in English, he involuntarily
+sprang forward with an exclamation of delight at hearing once more the
+old familiar tongue.  He glanced, however, at Big Chief, and checked
+himself.  There was a stern expression on the brow of the savage, but
+his eyes remained fixed on the ground, and his form and face were
+immovable, as though he heard and saw nothing.
+
+"Honour bright," whispered Jarwin, as he turned about and retired among
+his comrades.
+
+Fortunately his sudden action had only attracted the attention of a few
+of those who were nearest to him, and no notice was taken of it.
+
+When Big Chief retired with his men for consultation, he called Jarwin
+aside.
+
+"Jarwin," he said, with unusual gravity, "you must not hear our
+palaver."
+
+"Why not, old feller?"
+
+"It is your business to obey, not to question," replied Big Chief,
+sternly.  "Go--when I want you I will find you.  You may go and _look_
+at the Cookee missionary, but, remember, I have your promise."
+
+"Honour bright," replied Jarwin with a sigh.
+
+"The promise of a Breetish tar?"
+
+"Surely," replied Jarwin.
+
+"Of a _Christian_?" said Big Chief, with emphasis.
+
+"Aye, that's the idee; but it's a hard case, old boy, to advise a poor
+feller to go into the very jaws o' temptation.  I would rather 'ee had
+ordered me to keep away from 'em.  Howsever, here goes!"
+
+Muttering these words to himself, he left his savage friends to hold
+their palaver, and went straight into the "jaws of temptation," by
+walking towards the cottage of the missionary.  It was a neat wooden
+erection, built and plastered by the natives.  Jarwin hung about the
+door; sometimes he even ventured to peep in at the windows, in his
+intense desire to see and hear the long-lost forms and tones of his
+native land; and, as the natives generally were much addicted to such
+indications of curiosity, his doing so attracted no unusual attention.
+
+While he was standing near the door, Mrs Williams unexpectedly came
+out.  Jarwin, feeling ashamed to appear in so _very_ light a costume
+before a lady, turned smartly round and walked away.  Then, reflecting
+that he was quite as decently clothed as the other natives about, he
+turned again and slowly retraced his steps, pretending to be interested
+in picking stones and plants from the ground.
+
+The missionary's wife looked at him for a moment with no greater
+interest than she would have bestowed on any other native, and then
+gazed towards the sea-shore, as if she expected some one.  Presently Mr
+Williams approached.
+
+"Well, have you been successful?" she asked.
+
+"Yes, it has been all arranged satisfactorily, so I shall begin at
+once," replied Mr Williams.  "The only thing that gives me anxiety is
+the bellows."
+
+Poor Jarwin drew nearer and nearer.  His heart was again stirred in a
+way that it had not been for many a day, and he had to pull the rein
+pretty tightly; in fact, it required all his Christianity and
+British-tar-hood to prevent him from revealing himself, and claiming
+protection at that moment.
+
+As he raised himself, and gazed with intense interest at the speakers,
+the missionary's attention became fixed on him, and he beckoned him to
+approach.
+
+"I think you are one of the strangers who have just arrived, are you
+not?"
+
+This was spoken in the language of Raratonga, which was so similar to
+that which he had already acquired, that he opened his mouth to reply,
+"Yes, your honour," or "Your reverence," in English.  But it suddenly
+occurred to him that he must translate this into the native tongue if
+his secret was to be preserved.  While he was turning over in his mind
+the best words to use for this purpose he reflected that the
+imperfection of his knowledge, even the mere tone of his voice, would
+probably betray him; he therefore remained dumb, with his mouth open.
+
+The missionary smiled slightly, and repeated his question.
+
+Jarwin, in great perplexity, still remained dumb.  Suddenly an idea
+flashed across his mind.  He pointed to his mouth, wagged his tongue,
+and shook his head.
+
+"Ah! you are dumb, my poor man," said the missionary, with a look of
+pity.
+
+"Or tabooed," suggested the lady; "his tongue may have been tabooed."
+
+There was some reason and probability in this, for the extraordinary
+custom of tabooing, by which various things are supposed to be rendered
+sacred, and therefore not to be used or touched, is extended by the
+South Sea Islanders to various parts of their bodies, as for instance,
+the hands; in which case the person so tabooed must, for a time, be fed
+by others, as he dare not use his hands.
+
+Jarwin, being aware of the custom, was so tickled by the idea of his
+tongue being tabooed, that he burst into an uncontrollable fit of
+laughter, to the intense amazement of his questioners.  While in the
+midst of this laugh, he became horrified by the thought that _that_ of
+itself would be sufficient to betray him, so he cleverly remedied the
+evil, and gave vent to his feelings by tapering the laugh off into a
+hideous yell, and rushed frantically from the spot.
+
+"Strange," observed the missionary, gazing after the fugitive mariner,
+"how like that was to an English laugh!"
+
+"More like the cry of a South Sea maniac, I think," said Mrs Williams,
+re-entering the house, followed by her husband.
+
+The matter which the missionary said had been arranged so
+satisfactorily, and was to be begun at once, was neither more nor less
+than the building of a ship, in which to traverse the great
+island-studded breast of the Pacific.
+
+In case some one, accustomed to think of the ponderous vessels which are
+built constantly in this land with such speed and facility, should be
+inclined to regard the building of a ship a small matter, we shall point
+out a few of the difficulties with which the missionary had to contend
+in this projected work.
+
+In the first place, he was on what is sometimes styled a "savage
+island"--an island that lay far out of the usual track of ships, that
+had only been discovered a little more than a year at that time, and was
+inhabited by a blood-thirsty, savage, cruel, and ignorant race of human
+beings, who had renounced idolatry and embraced Christianity only a few
+months before.  They knew no more of ship-building than the celebrated
+man in the moon, and their methods of building canoes were quite
+inapplicable to vessels of large capacity.  Besides this, Mr Williams
+was the only white man on the island, and he had no suitable implements
+for shipbuilding, except axes and augurs, and a few of the smaller of
+the carpenter's tools.  In the building of a vessel, timbers and planks
+are indispensable, but he had no pit-saw wherewith to cut these.  It is
+necessary to fasten planks and timbers together, but he had no nails to
+do this.  Heavy iron forgings were required for some parts of the
+structure, but, although he possessed iron, he had no smith's anvil, or
+hammer, or tongs, or bellows, wherewith to forge it.  In these
+circumstances he commenced one of the greatest pieces of work ever
+undertaken by man--greatest, not only because of the mechanical
+difficulties overcome, but because of the influence for good that the
+ship, when completed, had upon the natives of the Southern Seas, as well
+as its reflex influence in exciting admiration, emulation, and
+enthusiasm in other lands.
+
+The first difficulty was the bellows.  Nothing could be done without
+these and the forge.  There were four goats on the island.  Three of
+these were sacrificed; their skins were cut up, and, along with two
+boards, converted into a pair of smith's bellows in four days.
+
+No one can imagine the intense interest with which John Jarwin looked on
+while the persevering but inexperienced missionary laboured at this
+work, and tremendous was the struggle which he had to keep his hands
+idle and his tongue quiet; for he was a mechanical genius, and could
+have given the missionary many a useful hint, but did not dare to do so
+lest his knowledge, or voice, or aptitude for such work, or all these
+put together, should betray him.  He was, therefore, fain to content
+himself with looking on, or performing a few trifling acts in the way of
+lifting, carrying, and hewing with the axe.
+
+His friends frequently came to look on, as the work progressed, and he
+could not help fancying that they regarded him with looks of peculiar
+interest.  This perplexed him, but, supposing that it must result from
+suspicion of his integrity, he took no notice of it, save that he became
+more resolute than ever in reference to "honour bright!"  Big Chief also
+came to look on and wonder, but, although he kept a sharp eye on his
+slave, he did not seem to desire intercourse with him.
+
+When the bellows were finished, it was found that they did not work
+properly.  The upper box did not fill well, and, when tried, they were
+not satisfied with blowing wind out, but insisted on drawing fire in!
+They were, in short, a failure!  Deep were the ponderings of the
+missionary as to how this was to be remedied, and small was the light
+thrown on the subject by the various encyclopaedias and other books
+which he possessed; but the question was somewhat abruptly settled for
+him by the rats.  These creatures devoured all the leather of the
+bellows in a single night, and left nothing but the bare boards!
+
+Rats were an absolute plague at that time at Raratonga.  Mr Williams
+tells us, in his interesting "Narrative," that he and his family never
+sat down to a meal without having two or more persons stationed to keep
+them off the table.  When kneeling at family prayer, they would run over
+them in all directions, and it was found difficult to keep them out of
+the beds.  On one occasion, when the servant was making one of the beds,
+she uttered a scream, and, on rushing into the room, Mr Williams found
+that four rats had crept under the pillow and made themselves snug
+there.  They paid for their impudence, however, with their lives.  On
+another occasion, a pair of English shoes, which had not been put in the
+usual place of safety, were totally devoured in a night, and the same
+fate befell the covering of a hair-trunk.  No wonder, then, that they
+did not spare the bellows!
+
+Poor Jarwin sorrowed over this loss fully as much as did the missionary,
+but he was forced to conceal his grief.
+
+Still bent on discovering some method of "raising the wind," Mr
+Williams appealed to his inventive powers.  He considered that if a pump
+threw water, there was no reason why it should not throw wind.
+Impressed with this belief, he set to work and made a box about eighteen
+or twenty inches square and four feet high, with a valve in the bottom
+to let air in, a hole in the front to let it out, and a sort of piston
+to force it through the hole.  By means of a long lever the piston could
+be raised, and by heavy weights it was pushed down.  Of course
+considerable power was required to raise the piston and its weights, but
+there was a superabundance of power, for thousands of wondering natives
+were ready and eager to do whatever they were bid.  They could have
+pumped the bellows had they been the size of a house!  They worked
+admirably in some respects, but had the same fault as the first pair,
+namely, a tendency to suck in the fire!  This, however, was corrected by
+means of a valve at the back of the pipe which communicated with the
+fire.  Another fault lay in the length of interval between the blasts.
+This was remedied by making another box of the same kind, and working
+the two alternately, so that when one was blowing the fire, the other
+was, as it were, taking breath.  Thus a continuous blast was obtained,
+while eight or ten grinning and delighted natives worked the levers.
+
+The great difficulty being thus overcome, the work progressed rapidly.
+A large hard stone served for an anvil, and a small stone, perforated,
+with a handle affixed to it, did duty for a hammer.  A pair of
+carpenter's pincers served for tongs, and charcoal, made from the
+cocoanut and other trees, did duty for coals.  In order to obtain
+planks, the missionary split trees in half with wedges and then the
+natives thinned them down with adzes extemporised by fitting crooked
+handles to ordinary hatchets.  When a bent or twisted plank was
+required, having no apparatus for steaming it, he bent a piece of bamboo
+to the required shape, and sent natives to scour the woods in search of
+a suitable crooked tree.  Thus planks suited to his purpose were
+obtained.  Instead of fastening the planks to the timbers of the ship
+with iron nails, large wooden pins, or "trenails," were used, and driven
+into augur holes, and thus the fabric was held together.  Instead of
+oakum, cocoanut husk was used, and native cloth and dried banana stumps
+to caulk the seams, and make them watertight.  The bark of a certain
+tree was spun into twine and rope by a rope-machine made for the
+purpose, and a still more complex machine, namely, a turning-lathe, was
+constructed for the purpose of turning the block sheaves; while sails
+were made out of native mats, quilted to give them sufficient strength
+to resist the wind.
+
+By these means was completed, in about three months, a decked vessel of
+from seventy to eighty tons burden--about sixty feet long by eighteen
+broad.  She was finally launched and named _The Messenger of Peace_.
+And, truly, a messenger of peace and glad tidings did she afterwards
+prove to be on many occasions among the islands of the Southern Seas.
+
+But our hero, John Jarwin, was not allowed to remain to see this happy
+consummation.  He only looked on and assisted at the commencement of the
+work.
+
+Many and many a time did he, during that trying period, argue with
+himself as to the propriety of his conduct in thus refusing the means of
+escape when it was thrown in his way, and there was not wanting, now and
+then, a suggestion from somewhere--he knew not where, but certainly it
+was not from outside of him--that perhaps the opportunity had been
+_providentially_ thrown in his way.  But Jarwin resisted these
+suggestions.  He looked _up_, and reflected that he was there under a
+solemn promise; that, but for his promise, he should not have been there
+at all, and that, therefore, it was his peculiar duty at that particular
+time to whisper to himself continually--"honour bright!"
+
+One morning Big Chief roused Jarwin with his toe, and said--
+
+"Get up.  We go home now."
+
+"What say 'ee, old man?"
+
+"Get ready.  We go to-day.  I have seen and heard enough."
+
+Big Chief was very stern, so that Jarwin thought it wise to hold his
+tongue and obey.
+
+There was a long animated palaver between the chief, the missionary, and
+the king, but Jarwin had been carefully prevented from hearing it by his
+master, who ordered him to keep by the canoes, which were launched and
+ready.  Once again he was assailed by an intense desire to escape, and
+this sudden approach of the time that was perchance to fix his fate for
+life rendered him almost desperate--but he still looked up, and "honour
+bright" carried the day.  He remained dumb to the last, and did not even
+allow himself the small comfort of waving a piece of native cloth to the
+missionary, as he and his captors paddled from the Raratonga shore.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER EIGHT.
+
+DESPAIR IS FOLLOWED BY SURPRISES AND DELIVERANCE.
+
+At first John Jarwin could not quite realise his true position after
+leaving Raratonga.  The excitement consequent on the whole affair
+remained for some time on his mind, causing him to feel as if it were a
+dream, and it was not until he had fairly landed again on Big Chief's
+island, and returned to his own little hut there, and had met with
+Cuffy--whose demonstrations of intense delight cannot by any possibility
+be described--that he came fully to understand the value of the
+opportunity which he had let slip through his fingers.
+
+Poor Jarwin! words fail to convey a correct idea of the depth of his
+despair, for now he saw clearly, as he thought, that perpetual slavery
+was his doom.  Under the influence of the feelings that overwhelmed him
+he became savage.
+
+"Cuff," said he, on the afternoon of the day of his return, "it's all up
+with you and me, old chap."
+
+The tone in which this was uttered was so stern that the terrier drooped
+its ears, lowered its tail, and looked up with an expression that was
+equivalent to "Don't kick me, _please_ don't!"
+
+Jarwin smiled a grim yet a pitiful smile as he looked at the dog.
+
+"Yes, it's all up with us," he continued; "we shall live and die in
+slavery; wot a fool I was not to cut and run when I had the chance!"
+
+The remembrance of "honour bright" flashed upon him here, but he was
+still savage, and therefore doggedly shut his eyes to it.
+
+At this point a message was brought to him from Big Chief requesting his
+attendance in the royal hut.  Jarwin turned angrily on the messenger and
+bid him begone in a voice of thunder, at the same time intimating, by a
+motion of his foot, that if he did not obey smartly, he would quicken
+his motions for him.  The messenger vanished, and Jarwin sat down beside
+Cuffy--who looked excessively humble--and vented his feelings thus--
+
+"I can't stand it no longer Cuff.  I _won't_ stand it!  I'm goin' to
+bust up, I am; so look out for squalls."
+
+A feeling of uncertainty as to the best method of "busting up" induced
+him to clutch his hair with both hands, and snort.  It must not be
+supposed that our hero gave way to such rebellious feelings with
+impunity.  On the contrary, his conscience pricked him to such an extent
+that it felt like an internal pin-cushion or hedgehog.  While he was
+still holding fast to his locks in meditative uncertainty, three natives
+appeared at the entrance of his hut, and announced that they had been
+sent by Big Chief to take him to the royal hut by force, in case he
+should refuse to go peaceably.
+
+Uttering a shout of defiance, the exasperated man sprang up and rushed
+at the natives, who, much too wise to await the onset, fled in three
+different directions.  Instead of pursuing any of them, Jarwin went
+straight to his master's hut, where he found him seated on a couch of
+native cloth.  Striding up to him he clenched his fist, and holding it
+up in a threatening manner, exclaimed--
+
+"Now look 'ee here, Big Chief--which it would be big thief if 'ee had
+yer right name--I ain't goin' to stand this sort o' thing no longer.  I
+kep' my word to you all the time we wos at Raratonga, but now I'll keep
+it no longer.  I'll do my best to cut the cable and make sail the wery
+first chance I gits--so I give 'ee fair warnin'."
+
+Big Chief made no reply for some moments, but opened his eyes with such
+an intense expression of unaffected amazement, that Jarwin's wrath
+abated, in spite of his careful nursing of it to keep it warm.
+
+"Jowin," he exclaimed at length, "you Christian Breetish tar, have your
+dibbil got into you?"
+
+This question effectually routed Jarwin's anger.  He knew that the
+savage, to whom he had spoken at various times on the subject of satanic
+influence, was perfectly sincere in his inquiry, as well as in his
+astonishment.  Moreover, he himself felt surprised that Big Chief, who
+was noted for his readiness to resent insult, should have submitted to
+his angry tones and looks and threatening manner without the slightest
+evidence of indignation.  The two men therefore stood looking at each
+other in silent surprise for a few moments.
+
+"Big Chief," said Jarwin at last, bringing his right fist down heavily
+into his left palm, by way of emphasis, "there's no dibbil, as you call
+him, got possession o' me.  My own spirit is dibbil enough, I find, to
+account for all that I've said and done--an' a great deal more.  But it
+_has_ bin hard on me to see the door open, as it were, an' not take
+adwantage of it.  Howsever, it's all over now, an' I ax yer parding.
+I'll not mutiny again.  You've been a kind feller to me, old chap--
+though you _are_ a savage--an' I ain't on-grateful; as long as I'm your
+slave I'll do my duty--`honour bright;' at the same time I think it fair
+an' above board to let you know that I'll make my escape from you when I
+git the chance.  I'm bound for to sarve you while I eat your wittles,
+but I am free to go if I can manage it.  There--you may roast me alive
+an' eat me, if you like, but you can't say, after this, that I'm sailin'
+under false colours."
+
+During this speech a variety of expressions affected the countenance of
+Big Chief, but that of melancholy predominated.
+
+"Jowin," he said, slowly, "I like you."
+
+"You're a good-hearted old buffer," said Jarwin, grasping the Chief's
+hand, and squeezing it; "to say the truth, I'm wery fond o' yourself,
+but it's nat'ral that I should like my freedom better."
+
+Big Chief pondered this for some time, and shook his head slowly, as if
+the result of his meditation was not satisfactory.
+
+"Jowin," he resumed, after a pause, "sing me a song."
+
+"Well, you _are_ a queer codger," said Jarwin, laughing in spite of
+himself; "if ever there was a man as didn't feel up to singin', that's
+me at this moment.  Howsomedever, I 'spose it must be done.  Wot'll you
+'ave?  `Ben Bolt,' `Black-eyed Susan,' `The Jolly Young Waterman,' `Jim
+Crow,' `There is a Happy Land,' or the `Old Hundred,' eh?  Only say the
+word, an' I'll turn on the steam."
+
+Big Chief made no reply.  As he appeared to be lost in meditation,
+Jarwin sat down, and in a species of desperation, began to bellow with
+all the strength of his lungs one of those nautical ditties with which
+seamen are wont to enliven the movements of the windlass or the capstan.
+He changed the tune several times, and at length slid gradually into a
+more gentle and melodious vein of song, while Big Chief listened with
+evident pleasure.  Still there was perceptible to Jarwin a dash of
+sadness in his master's countenance which he had never seen before.
+Wondering at this, and changing his tunes to suit his own varying moods,
+he gradually came to plaintive songs, and then to psalms and hymns.
+
+At last Big Chief seemed satisfied, and bade his slave good-night.
+
+"He's a wonderful c'racter," remarked Jarwin to Cuffy, as he lay down to
+rest that night, "a most onaccountable sort o' man.  There's sumthin'
+workin' in 'is 'ead; tho' wot it may be is more nor I can tell.  P'raps
+he's agoin' to spiflicate me, in consikence o' my impidence.  If so,
+Cuff, whatever will became o' you, my poor little doggie!"
+
+Cuffy nestled very close to his master's side at this point, and whined
+in a pitiful tone, as if he really understood the purport of his
+remarks.  In five minutes more he was giving vent to occasional mild
+little whines and half barks, indicating that he was in the land of
+dreams, and Jarwin's nose was creating sounds which told that its owner
+had reached that blessed asylum of the weary--oblivion.
+
+Next day our sailor awakened to the consciousness of the fact that the
+sun was shining brightly, that paroquets were chattering gaily, that
+Cuffy was still sleeping soundly, and that the subjects of Big Chief
+were making an unusual uproar outside.
+
+Starting up, and pulling on a pair of remarkably ancient canvas
+trousers, which his master had graciously permitted him to retain and
+wear, Jarwin looked out at the door of his hut and became aware of the
+fact that the whole tribe was assembled in the spot where national
+"palavers" were wont to be held.  The "House" appeared to be engaged at
+the time in the discussion of some exceedingly knotty question--a sort
+of national education bill, or church endowment scheme--for there was
+great excitement, much gesticulation, and very loud talk, accompanied
+with not a little angry demonstration on the part of the disputants.
+
+"Hallo! wot's up?" inquired Jarwin of a stout savage who stood at his
+door armed with a club, on the head of which human teeth formed a
+conspicuous ornament.
+
+"Palaver," replied the savage.
+
+"It's easy to hear and see that," replied Jarwin, "but wot is it all
+about?"
+
+The savage vouchsafed no farther reply, but continued to march up and
+down in front of the hut.
+
+Jarwin, therefore, essayed to quit his abode, but was stopped by the
+taciturn savage, who said that he must consider himself a prisoner until
+the palaver had come to an end.  He was therefore fain to content
+himself with standing at his door and watching the gesticulations of the
+members of council.
+
+Big Chief was there of course, and appeared to take a prominent part in
+the proceedings.  But there were other chiefs of the tribe whose
+opinions had much weight, though they were inferior to him in position.
+At last they appeared to agree, and finally, with a loud shout, the
+whole band rushed off in the direction of the temple where their idols
+were kept.
+
+Jarwin's guard had manifested intense excitement during the closing
+scene, and when this last act took place he threw down his club, forsook
+his post, and followed his comrades.  Of course Jarwin availed himself
+of the opportunity, and went to see what was being done.
+
+To his great surprise he found that the temple was being dismantled,
+while the idols were carried down to the palaver-ground, if we may so
+call it, and thrown into a heap there with marks of indignity and
+contempt.
+
+Knowing, as he did, the superstitious reverence with which the natives
+regarded their idols, Jarwin beheld this state of things with intense
+amazement, and he looked on with increasing interest, hoping, ere long,
+to discover some clue to the mystery, but his hopes were disappointed,
+for Big Chief caught sight of him and sternly ordered him back to his
+hut, where another guard was placed over him.  This guard was more
+strict than the previous one had been.  He would not allow his prisoner
+even to look on at what was taking place.
+
+Under the circumstances, there was therefore nothing for it but to fall
+back on philosophic meditation and converse with Cuffy.  These were
+rather poor resources, however, to a man who was surrounded by a tribe
+of excited savages.  Despite his natural courage and coolness, Jarwin
+felt, as he said himself, "raither oncomfortable."
+
+Towards the afternoon things became a little more quiet, still no notice
+was taken of our hero save that his meals were sent to him from the
+Chief's hut.  He wondered at this greatly, for nothing of the kind had
+ever happened before, and he began to entertain vague suspicions that
+such treatment might possibly be the prelude to evil of some kind
+befalling him.  He questioned his guard several times, but that
+functionary told him that Big Chief had bidden him refuse to hold
+converse with him on any subject whatever.
+
+Being, as the reader knows, a practical, matter-of-fact sort of man, our
+hero at last resigned himself to his fate, whatever that might be, and
+beguiled the time by making many shrewd remarks and observations to
+Cuffy.  When the afternoon meal was brought to him, he heaved a deep
+sigh, and apparently, with that effort flung off all his anxieties.
+
+"Come along, Cuff," he said in a hearty voice, sitting down to dinner,
+"let's grub together an' be thankful for small mercies, anyhow.  Wotever
+turns up, you and I shall go halves and stick by one another to the
+last.  Not that I have any doubts of Big Chief, Cuffy; you mustn't
+suppose that; but then, you see, he ain't the only chief in the island,
+and if all the rest was to go agin him, _he_ couldn't do much to save
+us."
+
+The dog of course replied in its usual facetious manner with eyes and
+tail, and sat down with its ears cocked and its head turned expectantly
+on one side, while the sailor removed the palm-leaf covering of the
+basket which contained the provisions sent to him.
+
+"Wot have we here, Cuffy?" he said soliloquising and looking earnestly
+in; "let me see; bit of baked pig--good, Cuff, good; that's the stuff to
+make us fat.  Wot next?  Roast fish--that's not bad, Cuff--not bad,
+though hardly equal to the pig.  Here we have a leaf full of plantains
+and another of yams,--excellent grub that, my doggie, nothing could be
+better.  What's this?  Cocoanut full of its own milk--the best o' drink;
+`it cheers'--as the old song, or the old poet says--`but it don't
+inebriate;' that wos said in regard to tea, you know, but it holds good
+in respect of cocoanut milk, and it's far better than grog, Cuffy; far
+better, though you can't know nothin' about that, but you may take my
+word for it; happy is the man as drinks nothin' stronger than cocoanut
+milk or tea.  Hallo! wot's this--plums?  Why, doggie, they're oncommon
+good to us to-day.  I wonder wot's up.  I say--" Jarwin paused as he
+drew the last dish out of the prolific basket, and looked earnestly at
+his dog while he laid it down, "I say, what if they should have taken it
+into their heads to fatten us up before killin' us?  That's not a wery
+agreeable notion, is it, eh?"
+
+Apparently Cuffy was of the same opinion, for he did not wag even the
+point of his tail, and there was something dubious in the glance of his
+eye as he waited for more.
+
+"Well, well, it ain't no use surmisin'," observed the seaman, with
+another sigh, "wot we've got for to do just now is to eat our wittles
+an' hope for the best.  Here you are, Cuff--catch!"
+
+Throwing a lump of baked pig to his dog, the worthy man fell to with a
+keen appetite, and gave himself no further anxiety as to the probable or
+possible events of the future.
+
+Dinner concluded, he would fain have gone out for a ramble on the
+shore--as he had been wont to do in time past--but his gaoler forbade
+him to quit the hut.  He was therefore about to console himself with a
+siesta, when an unexpected order came from Big Chief, requiring his
+immediate attendance in the royal hut.  Jarwin at once obeyed the
+mandate, and in a few minutes stood before his master, who was seated on
+a raised couch, enjoying a cup of cocoanut milk.
+
+"I have send for you," began Big Chief with solemnity, "to have a
+palaver.  Sit down, you Breetish tar."
+
+"All right, old chap," replied Jarwin, seating himself on a stool
+opposite to his master.  "Wot is it to be about?"
+
+"Jowin," rejoined Big Chief, with deepening gravity, "you's bin well
+treated here."
+
+Big Chief spoke in broken English now, having picked it up with amazing
+facility from his white slave.
+
+"Well, y-e-es, I'm free to confess that I _has_ bin well treated--
+barrin' the fact that my liberty's bin took away; besides which, some of
+your black rascals ain't quite so civil as they might be, but on the
+whole, I've been well treated; anyhow I never received nothin' but
+kindness from _you_, old codger."
+
+He extended his hand frankly, and Big Chief, who had been taught the
+meaning of our English method of salutation, grasped it warmly and shook
+it with such vigour that he would certainly have discomposed Jarwin had
+that "Breetish tar" been a less powerful man.  He performed this
+ceremony with the utmost sadness, however, and continued to shake his
+head in such a melancholy way that his white slave began to feel quite
+anxious about him.
+
+"Hallo! old feller, you ain't bin took bad, have 'ee?"
+
+Big Chief made no reply, but continued to shake his head slowly; then,
+as if a sudden idea had occurred to him, he rose, and, grasping Jarwin
+by his whiskers with both hands, rubbed noses with him, after which he
+resumed his seat on the couch.
+
+"Just so," observed our hero with a smile, "you shake hands with me
+English fashion--I rub noses with you South-Sea fashion.  Give an' take;
+all right, old codger--`may our friendship last for ever,' as the old
+song puts it.  But wot about this here palaver you spoke of?  It warn't
+merely to rub our beaks together that you sent for me, I fancy.  Is it a
+song you wants, or a hymn?  Only say the word, and I'm your man."
+
+"I s'pose," said Big Chief, using, of course, Jarwin's sea phraseology,
+only still farther broken, "you'd up ankar an' make sail most quick if
+you could, eh?"
+
+"Well, although I _has_ a likin' for you, old man," replied the sailor,
+"I can't but feel a sort o' preference, d'ee see, for my own wife an'
+child'n.  There_fore_ I _would_ cut my cable, if I had the chance."
+
+"Kite right, kite right," replied Big Chief, with a deep sigh, "you say
+it am nat'ral.  Good, good, so 'tis.  Now, Jowin," continued the savage
+chief, with intense earnestness, "you's free to go when you pleases."
+
+"Oh, gammon!" replied Jarwin, with an unbelieving grin.
+
+"Wot _is_ gammon?" demanded Big Chief, with a somewhat disappointed
+look.
+
+"Well, it don't matter what it means--it's nothin' or nonsense, if you
+like--but wot do _you_ mean, old man, `that's the rub,' as Hamblet, or
+some such c'racter, said to his father-in-law; you ain't in airnest, are
+you?"
+
+"Jowin," answered the Chief, with immovable gravity, "I not onderstan'
+you.  Wot you mean by airnest?"  He did not wait for a reply, however,
+but seizing Jarwin by the wrist, and looking into his eyes with an
+expression of child-like earnestness that effectually solemnised his
+white slave, continued, "Lissen, onderstan' me.  I is a Christian.  My
+broder chiefs an' I have watch you many days.  You have always do wot is
+right, no matter wot trouble follers to you.  You do this for love of
+your God, your Saviour, so you tells me.  Good, I do not need much
+palaver.  Wen de sun shines it am hot; wen not shine am cold.  Wot more?
+Cookee missionary have _say_ the truth.  My slave have _prove_ the
+truth.  I love you, Jowin.  I love your God.  I keep you if possible,
+but Christian must not have slave.  Go--you is free."
+
+"You don't mean _that_, old man?" cried Jarwin, starting up with
+flashing eyes and seizing his master's hand.
+
+"You is free!" repeated Big Chief.
+
+We need not relate all that honest John Jarwin said and did after that.
+Let it suffice to record his closing remarks that night to Cuffy.
+
+"Cuff," said he, patting the shaggy head of his humble friend, "many a
+strange thing crops up in this here koorious world, but it never did
+occur to my mind before, that while a larned man like a missionary might
+_state_ the truth, the likes o' me should have the chance an' the power
+to _prove_ it.  That's a wery koorious fact, so you an' I shall go to
+sleep on it, my doggie--good-night."
+
+
+
+CHAPTER NINE.
+
+THE LAST.
+
+That Jarwin's deliverance from slavery was not a dream, but a blessed
+reality, was proved to him next day beyond all doubt by the singular
+proceedings of Big Chief and his tribe.  Such of the native idols as had
+not been burned on the previous day were brought out, collected into a
+heap, and publicly burned, after which the whole tribe assembled on the
+palavering ground, and Big Chief made a long, earnest, and animated
+speech, in which he related all that he had seen of his white slave's
+conduct at the island of Raratonga, and stated how that conduct had
+proved to him, more conclusively than anything else he had heard or
+seen, that the religion of the white missionaries was true.
+
+While this was being spoken, many sage reflections were passing through
+Jarwin's mind, and a feeling of solemn thankfulness filled him when he
+remembered how narrowly he had escaped doing inconceivable damage by
+giving way to temptation and breaking his word.  He could not avoid
+perceiving that, if he had not been preserved in a course of rectitude
+all through his terrible trial, at a time when he thought that no one
+was thinking about him, not only would Big Chief and his nation have
+probably remained in heathen superstition, and continued to practise all
+the horrid and bloody rites which that superstition involved, but his
+own condition of slavery would, in all probability, have been continued
+and rendered permanent; for Big Chief and his men were numerous and
+powerful enough to have held their own against the Raratongans, while,
+at the same time, it was probable that he would have lost his master's
+regard, as he would certainly have lost his respect.
+
+He could not help reflecting, also, how much the cause of Christianity
+must often suffer in consequence of the conduct of many seamen, calling
+themselves Christians, who visit the South-Sea Islands, and lead
+dissolute, abandoned lives while there.  Some of these, he knew, brought
+this discredit on the name of Jesus thoughtlessly, and would, perhaps,
+be solemnised and sorry if they knew the terrible results of their
+conduct; while others, he also knew, cared nothing for Christianity, or
+for anything in the world except the gratification of their own selfish
+desires.
+
+While he was yet pondering these things, Big Chief advanced towards him,
+and, taking him by the hand, led him into the centre of the concourse.
+To his great surprise and confusion the tall chief said--
+
+"Now, Jowin will palaver to you.  He is one Breetish tar--one Christian.
+He can tell us what we shall do."
+
+Saying this, Big Chief sat down, and left Jarwin standing in the midst
+scratching his head, and looking with extreme perplexity at the vast sea
+of black faces and glittering eyes which were directed towards him.
+
+"W'y, you know, old man, it ain't fair of you, this ain't," he said,
+addressing himself to Big Chief; "you've took me all aback, like a white
+squall.  How d'ee s'pose that _I_ can tell 'ee wot to do?  I ain't a
+parson--no, not even a clerk, or a parish beadle!"
+
+To this Big Chief vouchsafed no further reply than--"Palaver, you
+Breetish tar!"
+
+"Wery good," exclaimed Jarwin, turning round, and looking full at his
+audience, while a bright smile lit up his sunburnt countenance, as if a
+sudden idea had occurred to him, "I'll do my best to palaver.  Here
+goes, then, for a yarn."
+
+Jarwin spoke, of course, in the native tongue, which we translate into
+his own language.
+
+"Big Chief, small chiefs, and niggers in general," he began, with a wave
+of his right hand, "you've called on me for a speech.  Good.  I'm your
+man, I'm a `Breetish tar,' as your great chief says truly--that's a
+fact; an' I'm a Christian--I _hope_.  God knows, I've sometimes my own
+doubts as to that same; but the doubts ain't with reference to the
+Almighty; they're chiefly as regards myself.  Howsever, to come to the
+point, you've gone and burnt your idols--"
+
+"Ho!" exclaimed the whole assembly, with a degree of energy that made a
+deep impression on the sailor--just as one might be impressed when he
+has been permitted to become the happy medium of achieving some great
+end which he had never dreamed of being privileged to accomplish.
+
+"Well, then," continued Jarwin, "_that_ is a good thing, anyhow; for
+it's a disgrace to human natur', not to speak o' common-sense an' other
+things, to worship stocks an' stones, w'en the Bible _distinctly_ tolls
+'ee not to do it.  You've done right in that matter; an' glad am I to
+hear from Big Chief that you intend, after this, to foller _the truth_.
+Old man, an' niggers," cried Jarwin, warming up, "to my mind, the
+highest thing that a man can dewot his-self to is, the follerin' out an'
+fallin' in with _the truth_.  Just s'pose that chemists, an' ingineers,
+an' doctors was to foller lies!  W'y, wot would come of it?  Confoosion
+wus confounded.  In coorse, therefore, they carefully _tries_ to foller
+wots _true_--though I'm bound for to say they _do_ git off the track now
+an' then.  Well, if it's so with such like, it's much more so with
+religion.  Wot then?  W'y, stand by your colours, through thick an'
+thin.  Hold on to the Bible!  That's the watchword.  That's your
+sheet-anchor--though you haven't seed one yet.  It's good holdin' ground
+is the Bible--it's the _only_ holdin' ground.  `How does I know that?'
+says you.  Well, it ain't easy for me to give you an off-hand answer to
+that, any more than it is to give you an off-hand answer to a
+complicated question in the rule o' three.  A parson could do it, no
+doubt, but the likes o' me can only show a sort o' reflected light like
+the moon; nevertheless, we may show a true light--though reflected.
+Chiefs an' niggers, there's asses in every generation (young asses
+chiefly) as thinks they've found out somethin' noo in regard to the
+Bible, an' then runs it down.  An' them fellers grow old, an' sticks to
+their opinions; an' they think themselves wise, an' other people thinks
+'em wise 'cause they're old, as if oldness made 'em wise!  W'y are they
+asses?  W'y, because they formed their opinions _early_ in life, in
+opposition to men wot has studied these matters all through their lives.
+Havin' hoisted their colours, they nails 'em to the mast; an' there
+they are!  They never goes at the investigation o' the subject as a man
+investigates mathematics, or navigation, or logarithms; so they're like
+a ship at sea without a chart.  Niggers, no man can claim to be wise
+unless he can `render a reason.'  He _may_ be, p'raps, but he can't
+_claim_ to be.  _I_ believe the Bible's true because o' two facts.  Fust
+of all, men of the highest intellec' have found it true, an tried it,
+an' practised its teachin's, an' rested their souls on it.  In the
+second place, as the parsons say, _I_ have tried it, an' found it true
+as fur as I've gone.  I've sailed accordin to the chart, an' have struck
+on no rocks or shoals as yet.  I've bin wery near it; but, thank God, I
+wasn't allowed to take the wrong course altogether, though I've got to
+confess that I wanted to, many a time.  Now, wot does all this here come
+to?" demanded Jarwin, gazing round on his audience, who were intensely
+interested, though they did not understand much of what he said, "wot
+_does_ it come to?  W'y that, havin' wisely given up yer idols, an'
+taken to the true God, the next best thing you can do is to go off at
+once to Raratonga, an' git the best adwice you can from those wot are
+trained for to give it.  I can't say no fairer than that, for, as to
+askin' adwice on religious matters from the likes o' me, w'y the thing's
+parfitly ridiklous!"
+
+Jarwin sat down amid a murmur of applause.  In a few minutes an old
+chief rose to reply.  His words were to the effect that, although there
+was much in their white brother's speech beyond their understanding--
+which was not to be wondered at, considering that he was so learned, and
+they so ignorant--there was one part of it which he thoroughly agreed
+with, namely, that a party should be sent to Raratonga to inform the
+Cookee missionaries as to what had taken place, to ask advice, and to
+beg one of the Cookees to come and live permanently on their island, and
+teach them the Christian religion.  Another chief followed with words
+and sentiments to much the same effect.  Then Big Chief gave orders that
+the canoes for the deputation should be got ready without delay, and the
+meeting broke up with loud shouts and other pleasant demonstrations.
+
+Matters having been thus satisfactorily arranged, Jarwin returned to his
+hut with a grateful heart, to meditate on the happy turn that had taken
+place in his prospects.  Finding the hut not quite congenial to his
+frame of mind, and observing that the day was unusually fine, he
+resolved to ramble in the cool shades of a neighbouring wood.
+
+"Come, Cuff, my doggie, you an' I shall go for a walk this fine day;
+we've much to think about an' talk over, d'ee see, which is best done in
+solitary places."
+
+Need we say that Cuffy responded with intense enthusiasm to this
+invitation, and that his "spanker boom" became violently demonstrative
+as he followed his master into the wood.
+
+Jarwin still wore, as we have said, his old canvas trousers, which had
+been patched and re-patched to such an extent with native cloth, that
+very little of the original fabric was visible.  The same may be said of
+his old flannel shirt, to which he clung with affectionate regard long
+after it had ceased to be capable of clinging to him without patchwork
+strengthening.  The remnants of his straw hat, also, had been carefully
+kept together, so that, with the exception of the paint on his face,
+which Big Chief insisted on his wearing, and the huge South-Sea club
+which he carried habitually for protection, he was still a fair specimen
+of a British tar.
+
+Paroquets were chattering happily; rills were trickling down the
+hillsides; fruit and flower trees perfumed the air, and everything
+looked bright and beautiful--in pleasant accordance with the state of
+Jarwin's feelings--while the two friends wandered away through the woods
+in dreamy enjoyment of the past and present, and with hopeful
+anticipations in regard to the future.  Jarwin said something to this
+effect to Cuffy, and put it to him seriously to admit the truth of what
+he said, which that wise dog did at once--if there be any truth in the
+old saying that "silence is consent."
+
+After wandering for several hours, they came out of the wood at a part
+of the coast which lay several miles distant from Big Chief's village.
+Here, to his surprise and alarm, he discovered two war-canoes in the act
+of running on the beach.  He drew back at once, and endeavoured to
+conceal himself, for he knew too well that this was a party from a
+distant island, the principal chief of which had threatened more than
+once to make an attack on Big Chief and his tribe.  But Jarwin had been
+observed, and was immediately pursued and his retreat cut off by
+hundreds of yelling savages.  Seeing this, he ran down to the beach,
+and, taking up a position on a narrow spit of sand, flourished his
+ponderous club and stood at bay.  Cuffy placed himself close behind his
+master, and, glaring between his legs at the approaching savages,
+displayed all his teeth and snarled fiercely.  One, who appeared to be a
+chief, ran straight at our hero, brandishing a club similar to his own.
+Jarwin had become by that time well practised in the use of his weapon;
+he evaded the blow dealt at him, and fetched the savage such a whack on
+the small of his back as he passed him, that he fell flat on the sand
+and lay there.  Cuffy rushed at him and seized him by the throat, an act
+which induced another savage to launch a javelin at the dog.  It grazed
+his back, cut it partly open, and sent him yelling into the woods.
+Meanwhile, Jarwin was surrounded, and, although he felled three or four
+of his assailants, was quickly overpowered by numbers, gagged, lashed
+tight to a pole, so that he could not move, and laid in the bottom of
+one of the war-canoes.
+
+Even when in this sad plight the sturdy seaman did not lose heart, for
+he knew well that Cuffy being wounded and driven from his master's side,
+would run straight home to his master's hut, and that Big Chief would at
+once suspect, from the nature of the wound and the circumstance of the
+dog being alone, that it was necessary for him and his men-of-war to
+take the field; Jarwin, therefore, felt very hopeful that he should be
+speedily rescued.  But such hopes were quickly dispelled when, after a
+noisy dispute on the beach, the savages, who owned the canoe in which he
+lay, suddenly re-embarked and pushed off to sea, leaving the other canoe
+and its crew on the beach.
+
+Hour after hour passed, but the canoe-men did did not relax their
+efforts.  Straight out to sea they went, and when the sun set, Big
+Chief's island had already sunk beneath the horizon.
+
+Now, indeed, a species of wild despair filled the breast of the poor
+captive.  To be thus seized, and doomed in all probability to perpetual
+bondage, when the cup of regained liberty had only just touched his
+lips, was very hard to bear.  When he first fully realised his
+situation, he struggled fiercely to burst his bonds, but the men who had
+tied him knew how to do their work.  He struggled vainly until he was
+exhausted.  Then, looking up into the starry sky, his mind became
+gradually composed, and he had recourse to prayer.  Slumber ere long
+sealed his eyes, setting him free in imagination, and he did not again
+waken until daylight was beginning to appear.
+
+All that day he lay in the same position, without water or food, cramped
+by the cords that bound him, and almost driven mad by the heat of an
+unclouded sun.  Still, onward went the canoe--propelled by men who
+appeared to require no rest.  Night came again, and Jarwin--by that time
+nearly exhausted--fell into a troubled slumber.  From this he was
+suddenly aroused by loud wild cries and shouts, as of men engaged in
+deadly conflict, and he became aware of the fact that the canoe in which
+he lay was attacked, for the warriors had thrown down their paddles and
+seized their clubs, and their feet trod now on his chest, now on his
+face, as they staggered to and fro.  In a few minutes several dead and
+wounded men fell on him; then he became unconscious.
+
+When John Jarwin's powers of observation returned, he found himself
+lying on his back in a neat little bed, with white cotton curtains, in a
+small, comfortably-furnished room, that reminded him powerfully of home!
+Cuffy lay on the counterpane, sound asleep, with his chin on his
+master's breast.  At the bedside, with her back to him, sat a female,
+dressed in European clothes, and busy sewing.
+
+"Surely it ain't bin all a long dream!" whispered Jarwin to himself.
+
+Cuffy cocked his ears and head, and turned a furtive glance on his
+master's face, while his "spanker boom" rose with the evident intention
+to wag, if circumstances rendered it advisable; but circumstances had of
+late been rather perplexing to Cuffy.  At the same time the female
+turned quickly round and revealed a brown, though pleasant, face.
+Simultaneously, a gigantic figure arose at his side and bent over him.
+
+"You's bedder?" said the gigantic figure.
+
+"Hallo!  Big Chief!  Wot's up, old feller?" exclaimed Jarwin.
+
+"Hold you's tongue!" said Big Chief, sternly.  "Go way," he added, to
+the female, who, with an acquiescent smile, left the room.
+
+"Well, this _is_ queer; an' I feels queer.  Queery--wots the meanin' of
+it?" asked Jarwin.
+
+"You's bin bad, Jowin," answered Big Chief, gravely, "wery bad.  Dead
+a-most.  Now, you's goin' to be bedder.  Doctor say that--"
+
+"Doctor!" exclaimed Jarwin in surprise, "_what_ doctor?"
+
+"Doctor of ship.  Hims come ebbery day for to see you."
+
+"Ship!" cried Jarwin, springing up in his bed and glaring at Big Chief
+in wonder.
+
+"Lie down, you Christian Breetish tar," said the Chief, sternly, at the
+same time laying his large hand on the sailor's chest with a degree of
+force that rendered resistance useless.  "Hold you's tongue an' listen.
+Doctor say you not for speak.  Me tell you all about it.
+
+"Fust place," continued Big Chief, "you's bin bad, konsikince of de
+blackguard's havin' jump on you's face an' stummick.  But we give 'em
+awful lickin', Jowin--oh! smash um down right and left; got you out de
+canoe--dead, I think, but no, not jus' so.  Bring you here--Raratonga.
+De Cookee missionary an' his wife not here; away in ship you sees im
+make.  Native teecher here.  Dat teecher's wife bin nurse you an' go
+away jus' now.  Ship comes here for trade, bound for England.  Ams got
+doctor.  Doctor come see you, shake ums head; looks long time; say he
+put you `all right.'  Four week since dat.  Now, you's hall right?"
+
+The last words he uttered with much anxiety depicted on his countenance,
+for he had been so often deceived of late by Jarwin having occasional
+lucid intervals in the midst of his delirium, that his faith in him had
+been shaken.
+
+"All right!" exclaimed Jarwin, "aye, right as a trivet.  Bound for
+England, did 'ee say--the ship?"
+
+Big Chief nodded and looked very sad.  "You go home?" he asked, softly.
+
+Jarwin was deeply touched, he seized the big man's hand, and, not being
+strong, failed to restrain a tear or two.  Big Chief, being _very_
+strong--in feelings as well as in frame--burst into tears.  Cuffy, being
+utterly incapable of making head or tail of it, gave vent to a
+prolonged, dismal howl, which changed to a bark and whine of
+satisfaction when his master laughed, patted him, and advised him not to
+be so free in the use of his "spanker boom!"
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Four weeks later, and Jarwin, with Cuffy by his side, stood, "himself
+again," on the quarterdeck of the _Nancy_ of Hull, while the "Yo, heave
+ho!" of the sailors rang an accompaniment to the clatter of the windlass
+as they weighed anchor, Big Chief held his hand and wept, and rubbed
+noses with him--to such an extent that the cabin boy said it was a
+perfect miracle that they had a scrap of nose left on their faces--and
+would not be consoled by the assurance that he, Jarwin, would certainly
+make another voyage to the South Seas, if he should be spared to do so,
+and occasion offered, for the express purpose of paying him a visit.  At
+last he tore himself away, got into his canoe, and remained gazing in
+speechless sorrow after the homeward-bound vessel as she shook out her
+topsails to the breeze.
+
+Despite his efforts, poor Jarwin was so visibly affected at parting from
+his kind old master, that the steward of the ship, a sympathetic man,
+was induced to offer him a glass of grog and a pipe.  He accepted both,
+mechanically, still gazing with earnest looks at the fast-receding
+canoe.
+
+Presently he raised the glass to his lips, and his nose became aware of
+the long-forgotten odour!  The current of his thoughts was violently
+changed.  He looked intently at the glass and then at the pipe.
+
+"Drink," said the sympathetic steward, "and take a whiff.  It'll do you
+good."
+
+"Drink! whiff!" exclaimed Jarwin, while a dark frown gathered on his
+brow.  "There, old Father Neptune," he cried, tossing the glass and pipe
+overboard, "_you_ drink and whiff, if you choose; John Jarwin has done
+wi' drinkin' an' whiffin' for ever!  Thanks to _you_, all the same, an'
+no offence meant," he added in a gentler tone, turning to the astonished
+steward, and patting him on the shoulder, "but if you had suffered all
+that I have suffered through bein' a slave to the glass and the pipe--
+when I _thought_ I was no slave, mark you, an' would have larfed any one
+to scorn who'd said I wos--if you'd see'd me groanin', an yearnin', an'
+dreamin' of baccy an' grog, as I _have_ done w'en I couldn't get neither
+of 'em for love or money--you wouldn't wonder that I ain't goin' to be
+such a born fool as to go an' sell myself over again!"
+
+Turning quickly towards the shore, as if regretting that he should, for
+a moment, have appeared to forget his old friend, he pulled out his
+handkerchief and waved it over the side.  Big Chief replied
+energetically with a scrap of native cloth--not having got the length of
+handkerchiefs at that time.
+
+"Look at 'im, Cuff" exclaimed Jarwin, placing his dog on the bulwarks of
+the ship, "look at him, Cuff, and wag your `spanker boom' to him, too--
+ay, that's right--for he's as kind-hearted a nigger as ever owned a
+Breetish tar for a slave."
+
+He said no more, but continued to wave his handkerchief at intervals
+until the canoe seemed a mere speck on the horizon, and, after it was
+gone, he and his little dog continued to gaze sadly at the island, as it
+grew fainter and fainter, until it sank at last into the great bosom of
+the Pacific Ocean.
+
+The next land seen by Jarwin and Cuffy was--the white cliffs of Old
+England!
+
+
+
+
+
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