RESCUE OF HANS. 



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all their household goods. The old woman and bright- 

 eyed boy cried to be taken along ; but I had no fur- 

 ther room, and we had to leave them to the care of 

 the remainder of the tribe, who, about twenty in 

 number, had discovered the vessel, and came shout- 

 ing gleefully over the hill. After distributing to them 

 some useful presents, we pushed off for the schooner. 



Hans was the only unconcerned person in the 

 party. I subsequently thought that he would have 

 been quite as well pleased had I left his wife and child 

 to the protection of their savage kin ; and had I 

 known him as well then as, with good reason, I knew 

 him afterward, I avouM not have gone out of my way 

 to disturb his barbarous existence. 



