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our provisions in the ship, and we can afford to steam 

 a great deal yet. 



We shall tow the schooner outside the harbor as we 

 go. The natives are rather an ugly looking lot, and I 

 do not care to leave the schooner alone with her little 

 crew of six men. I have given the captain fifty dol- 

 lars for himself ; he has waited upon us faithfully, and 

 carries back our mail-bag to General Miller for us, as 

 well as our smiling angel of a Chinaman. 



Bone Shovel, Side View. 



