e rescued boys were wonderfully recuperated by the influence of two days of good food and the peace of m

seen the natives use, and one specimen which had a long, tapering root. "Here is

It is a species of Salsify, or vegetable oyster, and by

f the same kind down near the South River." George produced a plant with

m one of the small trees, but they grow to considerable height, and many of the trees

a curiosity than anything else." He drew forth a stem with a number of

8. Sa

y don't you remember, Ralph, we saw these branches in the savag

n. Among the savages these leaves are plucked as charms, and the more distinctly they are marked the more potent they consider them. It is

9. Ru

, so the yaks were constantly urged to go on, and it frequently made traveling difficult for those who were walking. Ralph and Tom were

, proudly floating, was the flag. When the attention of the

was Tom's comment, as he tried to brush away somethi

m home, but the hill is thre

Carricatu

Professor and John were in the wagon, and Harry asked the Professor to take the reins, and before any of

ssion that gave great pleasure to the Professor, a

listless, and often entirely without any indications of what was going on all about him. The only characteristics were shown at intervals, where he would, probably, recall something, or instincti

pened the door, and stood ready to rec

e of the Professor, made a like obeisance, and this act, so gracefully performed, was such a wonderful and startling thing that the boys were comp

ions, make any allusion to him, as there was an evident dawning of his intellect,

stigated every corner. Wasn't that a boyish trait? When the whole house had been exhausted, he was over at the water wheel, and the boys followed, but th

ilding these things? And just to think of it, we were so near you, and in misery all the

o run the sawmill, or to turn the lathe, but he did the next best thing, he jumped on the grindstone and sent it spinning whil

exhibitions, and that it was only the act of an animal, it would not have convinced the boys. From the shop they visited t

telligence directed from the first. How different had they utilized the intervening time.

d Ralph, as he grasped the Professor's hand. "All this around here is certainly worth seei

ently he has urged us to carry out this work, you would almost wish, as has been our desire many times, never to leave this place; but-of course, we-we

it is their work. I have felt ashamed, sometimes, to know how little has been the work of my hands. Occasionally they have been directed, but it is because they wanted to know so many things and the reasons for everything they started out to do. You can see, therefore, that if they had not possessed the spi

The house, which had been built up in sections, so to speak, contained three rooms, one, the

the other side, and as the family grows, enclosing the lean-to to make another room, and then adding to that, and so on, until the whole mass makes a more or less picturesque structure, and a fine thing for artists to rave over. But the interior comfort is quite another thing. We should change that in this civilized community, and put up a bu

tions: "We have about everything we need

we left in the b

ten into it and ca

the Professor. "Fortunately we haven't threshed out one of th

k of barley here?" was

make the finest kind of bread. I

had tasted bread that its

gs. His wounds were progressing favorably, and he was now able to stand on one leg without much pain. At the suggestion of the Professor, Harry made a pair of crutches, which were brought in early the next morning,

for the first step, and a look of surprise came over him. It was a revelation to his poor untutored mind. It lighted

saw the busy workshops and the surroundings of the home to which he had been so unwillingly brought? At every opportunity the Professor cultivated hi

to learn what "Yes" and "No" meant, and when handed anything particularly appetizing it was fina

cked up and fondled one of the flails, like a child caressing a new toy, but he did not have the remotest idea wha

in motion and the upper stone began to whirr, he stood with mouth and eyes open, and watched the meal running from the spout like one entranced. Us

finally deposited on the table, it was some time before he could gain sufficient composure to taste it. When h

s. Ralph had the spirit of adventure, and was the counterpart of George, who liked to investigate.

feet of George in an instant. Tom could not keep his hands still, as he had also learned to play the instrument, and ventur

ople of that island. At first Chief could not understand it. He tried to see where the wailing noise came from and pressed closer and close

ot distinguished by them. The beating of their crude tom toms is the only thing that appeals to their ears. That is s

is that dancing is such a un

Exodus, where Miriam the prophetess, sister of Moses, took a timbrel in her hand and went out with the other women with timbrels and dances. The Hebrews had a regular chorus in the Temple, with dancing performers of women; and the dance was adopted as a fit

in these western islands use th

d, associate these dances with religion, with war, and with some festive commem

by the savages who captured us, as I related in my story the other day. The other tribe

the best known, which I might mention, are the tarantella of the Neapolitans, the bolero and fandango of the Spaniards, the mazurka and cracovienna of Poland, the cosack of Russia, the redowa of Bohemia, the quad