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shower bath, without any cessation, so that I 
w r as worse off than ever. I stuck it out, how¬ 
ever, till morning. In the meantime 1 became 
aware that I was being watched by the Moham¬ 
medans, who had spotted me, but none would 
give me shelter or assistance. 
The storm at length subsided, and I took my 
course to the village, knowing that I would be 
informed of on the first opportunity. At the 
village I found a man who was about to put 
off fishing. I offered him a shilling to take me 
to an American schooner then lying in the offing. 
He agreed to do so, and I got on board undis¬ 
covered, the man who had the anchor watch 
being fast asleep. 1 accordingly proceeded to 
the forecastle, and told the crew of my situation 
and they agreed to conceal me. 
When it came morning of the next day the 
captain of my ship came aboard, as the captains 
of the respective ships in the harbor were con¬ 
tinually exchanging visits, and passing a good 
part of the day and night in sampling each 
other’s best brand. The captain inquired if a run¬ 
away sailor had come on board, and received the 
reply that I had not been seen from the captain 
of the American schooner, who of course was 
innocent of any knowledge of my being on his ship. 
In succession my captain visited every ship, 
swearing excessively at his being unable to find 
his man. Meanwhile I remained on board my 
ark of safety till dark. Then I took it into my 
head to go on board another vessel, which was 
to sail in a day or two, while the one wherein 
I was concealed would not go until she received 
her cargo of molasses, which would not be for 
some time. 
Fearing that I would be discovered by wait¬ 
ing for an indefinite time, I got on a boat that 
came off with things for the crew, and was put 
on board the whaler at dusk undiscovered. 
The men agreed to conceal me, but after the 
boat that brought me put off, they said they must 
ask the mate. I said, “If you do, my cake is dough. 
Why didn’t you tell me before the boat left?” 
This mate, when the men informed him of 
my presence, said he was willing I should re¬ 
main, but he must ask the captain. The captain 
gave me up to the other whaling captain, who 
whaled me well as soon as I was handed over 
to him. I was then put below, and orders given 
if I put my head above the hatchway to brain 
me with a handspike. Then he said to me, 
“Here, you have delayed me two or three days.” 
So that at every port we touched after that 
I was put in irons until we finally reached Aus¬ 
tralia. There I left the ship, as did many of 
the crew with me, except the cook, who had a 
comparatively easy berth and resolved to stay. 
[to be continued.] 
Nessmuk the Indian. 
Harding, Mass., Aug. 21. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: Apropos of the autobiographical frag¬ 
ments by dear old Nessmuk, lately published in 
your very interesting number of Aug. 16, I send 
this cutting from a recent daily paper: 
BUT ONE SURVIVOR OF NIPMUCK TRIBE. 
Mendon, Aug. 3.— Miss Mary Gertrude Wil¬ 
bur, a descendant of the Nipmuck tribe of In¬ 
dians, who occupied the territory around Mendon 
200 years ago, and, with the exception .of her 
sister, Miss Alice May Wilbur, the last known 
survivor of the tribe, died to-day at her home 
on the Hartford turnpike, at the age of fifty- 
six. She was born in this town, lived here all 
her life, and had made her home with her sister 
for many years. Interment will be at Swandale 
Cemetery to-morrow afternoon. 
Nessmuk said: “The best Indian of the 
band was “Injun Levi," as the whites called him. 
He was known among his tribe as Nessmuk, and 
1 think lie exerted a stronger influence on my 
future than any other man. As a fine physical 
specimen of the animal man I have seldom seen 
his equal. As a woodsman and a trusty friend 
he was as good as gold, but he could not change 
the Indian nature that throbbed in every vein 
and filled his entire being.” 
Edward French. 
Forestry for Lighthouses. 
BY U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The Federal Lighthouse Bureau and the 
Forest Service are co-operating in forest work. 
Though this sounds strange, it becomes a very 
simple fact, as pointed out by the officials of 
the bureaus, that the co-operation is confined to 
the lighthouse districts on the shores of the 
Great Lake in the lumber States of Michigan 
and Wisconsin. The lighthouse reservations here 
include a total of nearly 5,500 acres and range 
in size from thirty acres at Grand Island, Mich., 
to 1,040 acres at Grand Marais. 
An examination is just being started to de¬ 
termine the best forest methods to pursue on 
the reservations. On some, from which the tim¬ 
ber has been cut, white pine and Norway pine 
will be planted. On others the timber already 
growing will be preserved through use. On two 
of the reservations, the forest experts point out 
the opportunities are excellent for growing 
cedar and pine for spar buoys and piling, to be 
used in the work of the lighthouse bureau itself. 
All parts of the reservations cannot be de¬ 
voted to forests. Some areas will have to be 
left clear for protection from fire, while others 
immediately adjacent to the beacons themselves 
will have to be left bare in order that the lights 
may not be obscured. 
Piqua, Ohio, July 29.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Inclosed find postoffice order of five 
dollars for two years’ subscription to your 
charming paper, Forest and Stream. I have 
not seen a cleaner sportsman’s paper since I 
saw the first in 1S77, and I have been a con¬ 
tinuous reader ever since. F. W. Tharuber. 
Boston, Mass., Aug. 18.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Thanks most heartily for the old 
friends in the current issue, and especially for 
that significant line at the end of Kingfisher’s, 
“to be continued.” John Preston True. 
Remarkable Multiplication of House Flies. 
Individual flies have lived in captivity 
for sixteen weeks. Flies which have been 
caught and marked and then liberated have 
been found within forty-eight hours a mile 
away from the point of liberation. The dis¬ 
tance which flies may travel, therefore, carry¬ 
ing with them whatever foulness they may be 
possessed of, is almost unlimited. 
A number of investigators have shown 
that the germs with which every fly is prob¬ 
ably loaded remain active for a material 
length of time; for a longer period when 
taken into the insect with its food and carried 
within it until re-ejected than when merely 
attached to it externally. A fly which had 
been fed on the bacilli of tuberculosis was 
found still to contain the bacilli after fourteen 
days. Also the bacilli, having been taken into 
the fly and subsequently excreted, remained 
virulent for fifteen days after ejection. By 
merely making a casually caught fly walk over 
a nutrient culture a really astounding number 
of colonies of bacteria may be developed. A 
single fly caught at a refuse can in a suburb 
of London gave no fewer than 116 colonies 
of bacteria and ten colonies of fungi, the 
germs having all been carried on the bristles 
of the insect’s legs and body or on its pro¬ 
boscis, as gathered while feeding on the refuse 
in the can. 
That flies are every day similarly collect¬ 
ing germs and subsequently walking not on 
well-guarded cultures, but on children’s bread 
and butter and on the eatables in shops and 
kitchens and on our tables, is obvious. Nor 
are household refuse cans the worst places 
which flies visit or in which they feed and 
breed. It is probable that a large proportion 
of the deaths from typhoid, both in the South 
African war and in the American war with 
Spain, were due to the instrumentality of the 
flies that swarmed about the camps; and it is 
equally likely that they bear a share in numer¬ 
ous lesser outbreaks of typhoid, of which the 
cause is never known. In addition to typhoid, 
it is also believed that flies are active carriers 
of tuberculosis, ophthalmia, anthrax, cholera 
and other terrible maladies, besides the in¬ 
fantile diarrhea or enteritis which causes so 
heavy a mortality among the children in our 
cities every summer. 
The house fly breeds with an almost ap¬ 
palling rapidity, the entire life cycle, from the 
laying of the egg to the maturity of the per¬ 
fect insect, taking, under favorable conditions, 
no more than from three weeks to a month; 
and a few days after the perfect insect 
emerges from the pupa it is ready to lay again. 
“It has been calculated,” says Mr. Hewitt, 
“that if the progeny of a single pair of flies, 
assuming that they all lived, were pressed 
together at the end of a summer, they would 
occupy the space of about a quarter of a 
million cubic feet.” Without pretending to 
follow or venturing to dispute the calculation, 
what is evident is that, taking 600 eggs as a 
reasonable number (as it seems to be) for a 
single fly to lay, the progeny of a pair, if all 
survived, would at the end of three months, 
amount to some 54,000,000.—London Times. 
Hardships of a Career. 
Said old Bill Jones to Ezra Bings 
“My friend, you just watch me! 
I’m going to do a lot of things 
You’ll be surprised to see. 
I’m going to lead a movement great 
And lift my voice on high 
And rank with those who legislate 
In Congress, by and by!” 
And o'd Bill Jones he went ahead 
And did exactly as he said. 
lie sits in Congress, day by day 
And stays awake at night 
To study out what he must say 
To set the nation right. 
All summer long he’s up in arms 
For every kind of strife, 
While Ezra Bings enjoys the charms 
Of simple placid life. 
And all that keeps old Bill afloat 
Is Ezra’s influential vote. 
—Washington .'Star. 
