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skeptics on the subject to “old Frj'bark” himself. I 
myself believe that the price was as he stated. 
And now, if tlie reader will imagine twenty-four liours 
passed, (during which time the governor had returned to 
the inner settlement, leaving his aide to assist “old Fiy- 
bark*’ in entertaining us,) and pretty much the same 
party reassembled in our host's “second-floor sitting- 
room," in company with Turkish pipes and tobacco, nu- 
merous bottles of “twenty drops," and the prospective 
supper which was at length at baud, — if he will imagine 
us in that room, I say, and himself as a listener, he will 
hear what we listened to upon tliat occasion, and doubt- 
less be as much surprised as we were. 
“You talk about beef!" said “old Frybark,” as he 
refilled his huge pipe and drew a match across the bottom 
of the box. “You say you had too much yesterday, and 
yet you want whole bullocks now to take on board ship ! 
Well, the natives will drive three in for you this evening. 
"When the English came we had to drive them all back 
into the country.” 
lie lit his large pipe and puffed away complacently, 
with his gaze riveted upon the bottle of “twenty drops" 
as Dickens says old John Willett was wont to admire the 
kitchen boiler. 
“You talk about eating and drinking as if we ate and 
drank a gi'eat deal,” he at length continued: “you 
should see one of these Tongouse [Tongouse Indians] 
drink butter if you want to see how much a man used 
to cold weather can drink.” 
‘^Drink butter!” exclaimed one of the party. “Why 
don't they eat it?" 
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