THF.Y OBJKCT TO MATINAL BATHIXO 
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summit just in time to see some forty or tifty others 
scampering away among the bushes. They had surrounded 
us without our being aware of it, although the “marinixcd 
scamstcr” did hold out that, if there loas any direction in 
which he had watched, that was it. 
True to their promise, they did return the next morn- 
ing, and at a most fortunate moment. The day was just 
breaking; it had come on to blow since midnight; the 
launch was gradually dragging in the heavy surf, and wc 
had either to haul her up on the beach or put out into 
the bay. As- it was still very foggy, the former was 
determined upon, in spite of the danger attending it, and 
they arrived just in time to assist us. They found twelve 
of us up to the neck in the surf, while the remaining two 
guarded the arms; and, though the most violent panto- 
mime failed to induce them to take to the water, while 
assisting us to haul, they nevertheless did good service at 
the end of the boat*s painter. They seemed perfectly 
reconciled to our stay, and the head-officer laughed 
heartily when asked as to the method he had adopted 
in rejoining his head to the trunk. 
They partook sparingly of our breakfast, evinced the 
usual curiositj^ in regard to every thing in our possession, 
understood with apparent pleasure that we were making 
charts of their islands, praised the accuracy of the sketches 
which the yeoman of the ship (who accompanied us) had 
made, and finally begged that we would fire one of the 
rifles at a mark. 
Fortunately, one of the boat’s crew was a really fine 
marksman, and there was no objection to gratifying their 
curiosity; so, a piece of drift-wood being put up some 
