. Arktis Erkundungen: Die zweite Grinnell Expedition auf der Suche nach Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. t McGary, trotzdem, erwischt den unverbesserlichen scamps Diebstahl einer Kohle-barrel asthey Butler Insel vergangen, und ihre journeyhomeward durch Brennen unter Ihnen eine Gebühr von smallshot beschleunigt. Noch immer, eine eigentümliche würdig - wir dachten, es muss die ehrwürdige Havebeen der Partei, den ich nach - Gemeinde als stanch Freund, alten Shang-huh-verwalteten Vermittlung Runde in westlicher Richtung kannte, und schnitt zu piecesmy Indien - Schlauchboot, die auf der Herrn floesince Brookss Katastrophe gelassen worden war, und zu tragen, aus jedem Pa

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. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. t McGary, nevertheless, caught the incorrigible scamps stealing a coal-barrel asthey passed Butler Island, and expedited their journeyhomeward by firing among them a charge of smallshot. Still, one peculiar worthy—we thought it must havebeen the venerable of the party, whom I knew after-ward as a stanch friend, old Shang-huh—managed towork round in a westerly direction, and to cut to piecesmy India-rubber boat, which had been left on the floesince Mr. Brookss disaster, and to carry off every par-ticle of the wood. A few days after this, an agile, elfin youth drove upto our floe in open day. He was sprightly and good-looking, and had quite a neat turn-out of sledge and 212 MYOUK DETAINED. dogs. He told his name with frankness, ^^Myouh, I am, — and where he lived. We asked him aboutthe boat; but he denied all knowledge of it, and re-fused either to confess or repent. He was surprisedwhen I ordered him to be confined to the hold. Atfirst he refused to eat, and sat down in the deepest. grief; but after a while he began to sing, and then totalk and cvj, and then to sing again; and so he kepton rehearsing his limited solfeggio, — :^ and crying and talking by turns, till a late hour of the ins ESCAPE. 213 niglit. When I turned in, he was still noisily discon-soLate. There was a simplicity and honliommie about thisboy that interested me much; and I confess thatwhen I made my appearance next morning—I couldhardly conceal it from the gentleman on duty, whomI affected to censure—I was glad my bird had flown.Some time during the morning-watch, he had succeededin throwing off the hatch and escaping. We sus-pected that he had confederates ashore, for his dogshad escaped with as much address as himself I wasconvinced, however, that I had the truth from him, where he lived and how many lived with him; mycross-examination on these points having been verycomplete and satisfac

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