DESERTER RECOVERED. 
Ill 
had failed, and that unless I could do something by 
individual persuasion I must give up my scheme of a 
closing exploration to the north. I learned too that 
Godfrey was playing the great man at Etah, defying 
recapture; and I was not willing to trust the influence 
he might exert on my relations with the tribe. I 
determined that he should return to the brig. 
“ I began by stratagem. I placed a pair of foot-cuffs 
on Metek’s sledge, and, after looking carefully to my 
body-companion six-shooter, invited myself to ride back 
with him to Etah. His nephew remained on board in 
charge of Hans, and I disguised myself so well in my 
nessak that, as we moved off, I could easily have 
passed for the boy Paulik, whose place I had taken. 
“ As our eighty miles drew to an end, and that which 
we call the settlement came close in view, its popula¬ 
tion streamed out to welcome their chief’s return. 
Among the first and most prominent was the individual 
whom I desired to meet, waving his hand and shouting 
‘Tima!’ as loudly as the choicest savage of them all. 
An instant later and I was at his ear, with a short 
phrase of salutation and its appropriate gesture. He 
yielded unconditionally at once, and, after walking and 
running by turns for some eighty miles before the 
sledge, with a short respite at Anoatok, is now a pri¬ 
soner on board. 
“My remaining errand was almost as successful.” 
