ARRIVAL OF THE HEADMAN.’' 
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were poling her along then shoved in to the beach, when 
one of them strapped on his parang and came forward 
to meet me. He approached without distrust, evidently 
regarding his parang as equal to my Sharpe’s rifle, and, 
after making their usual salam, put his hand on his pa- 
rang and gazed inquiringly at me, 
“I replied to his look by holding up two fingers, then 
pointing to myself, and finally to the jungle. I wanted 
him to infer that two of my countrymen were lost in the 
latter, and he seemed to comprehend at once. He held 
up one finger, touched his face, and then the brown 
stock of the rifle ; after which he held up a second finger, 
touched my shirt-wristband, and pointed up the beach. 
From this I understood that he had seen two men, one 
white and the other brown, and that they were farther up 
the beach. How, as one of the missing men was white, 
and the other a mulatto, the men he had seen must be 
those we were in search of ; I threw up my cap and gave 
a whoop that reached the stragglers along the beach and 
was echoed back by their joyful reply. 
“When they came up, Stevens took his seat under a 
large tree near the jungle, and awaited the approach of 
‘the headman’ of the party, who had for some time been 
running toward us from the more distant phrau. The 
interpreter stationed himself at his side, and our party 
in general cast themselves upon the grass for another 
rest. 
“Wlien the headman arrived, he bent on one knee 
before the captain, made the same salam, and shook his 
outstretched hand with marked respect. Then he turned 
to the interpreter and spoke with great volubility for as 
