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strange country whose language he could not speak — that he 

 himself go down to the shore and persuade the sailors to leave 

 their boat, so that the natives could seize their arms and Idll 

 them as soon as they should be taken off their guard. The 

 lively debate that followed was decided by an appeal to the 

 god of the island, and the auguries favoured Lay's scheme. 



They greased him from head to foot with coconut oil, and 

 gave him strict orders concerning his behaviour. Then, 

 followed by a hundred islanders, the boy went out on the 

 beach, face to face for the first time in two years with a number 

 of men of his own blood. 



Hailing the boat in English, which, of course, the natives 

 could not understand, he warned her men of the plot, and 

 made sure that they were well armed; then, as they landed, he 

 ran up to the officer in command, who grasped his hand and 

 asked if he had been in the crew of the Globe. 



With the white men he retreated into the boat, while all the 

 natives remained seated on the beach in accordance with his 

 plan, except Lay's master, an old fellow whom he had called 

 father, who rushed after him and tried to drag him back, until 

 the boat's crew threatened the old man with a pistol. 



The vessel. Lay now learned, was the U. S. schooner Dolphin, 

 which had sailed from Chorillos, near Lima, on August 17, 

 1825, by order of Commodore Isaac Hull, to find and bring back 

 the survivors of the Globe. With Lay as guide and interpreter, 

 her officers and men in short order forced the natives to give up 

 Hussey, whom they had concealed. After exploring the Mul- 

 grave Islands, where they rewarded the natives for their care of 

 the two boys and reprimanded them for massacring the others, 

 all hands set sail for the Sandwich Islands, and thence for 

 Valparaiso and Callao. There the crew and passengers of the 

 Dolphin transferred to the man-of-war United States, in which 

 they returned to New York and, on April 28, 1827, anchored 

 opposite the West Battery. 



Under Gilbert Smith's command the Globe, after a rough and 

 tedious passage, had arrived safely at Valparaiso, where the 



