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Mi-yo, and his two sons. Teo had ah^eady seen 

 many summers, and was infirm ; he was, moreover, 

 quite lame, having received a disabUng wound in 

 bygone years from Mooldooyah, who in some 

 quarrel had bitten him desperately in the leg, and 

 crippled him for life. Teo was deaf and taciturn, and, 

 when he spoke, articulated with hesitation and 

 difficulty, being apparently afflicted with palsy or 

 paralysis. He was, notwithstanding, a very pleasant 

 and well-disposed old gentleman ; a little crusty at 

 times, perhaps, but very well in all. He brought some 

 handsome presents for the captain — among others, a 

 sealskin tanned and bleached perfectly white, orna- 

 mented all over in painting and staining with figures 

 of men, boats, animals, and delineations of whale 

 fishing, &c., — a valuable curiosity. 



Enoch, his son, was in many respects a type of his 

 father ; but qualities which in the elder might pass 

 for wisdom and deliberation were in the son but 

 apparent indications of a sordid nature ; and such 1 

 believe was the case. No athletic exercises for Enoch, 

 no employments and amusements, such as the young 

 men of his own age practised, — these were rarely his 

 occupations. Rather would he sit the livelong day in 

 his compartment of his father's yarang, fingering and 

 fussing over his queer little two-stringed fiddle, or 



