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LIID LIONHEELSJHE YOUNG TIGER FIGHTER; Tfffiiifm

BY ROG-ER STABBUCK,

AUTHOR OF “OLD TAB KNUCKLE AND HIS BOY CHL‘MS.” Era, ETC.

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.AUTHOR or “ runner CORAL FISHERS,” “OLD

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Lud Lionheels,
The Young; Tiger Fighter;

F, .
The Man Monster of the Isle.
BY ROGER STARBUCK.
rim KNUCKLEs,” arc, n'rc.

CHAPTER I.
A rmumus ENCOUNTER.

,A LOW, gasping noise, then a half-smothered
voice asof. some person suffocating, were the
sounds that greeted the ears of a flue-looking
youth of eighteen, as he peered into a dark hole
among the tallreeds near the banks. of a muddy ‘
stream or. the Isle of Sumatra, sofne miles from
the coast The boy was Will Warner—the same
who, more than two years before, had flshed for
coral off the island, as described in “THE BOY
CORAL FISHEKS," (No. 4? of the Bov’s LIBRARY.)

After his return home to Boston, he had re-
lated his stirring adventures to a friend named
Jonas Punk—a professor of natural histor . He
had not failed in this account to mention the

 

nese native of Sumatra, had pesitively‘asserted
was provided with a tail like a wild beast, and
whom he declared he had actually seen among

the island. -

The professor smiled and shook his head ~in-
credulously. He said that the native must have
been mistaken—that he had meant an ourang-
outan , or some such animal, but Will replied
that oco was a person to be relied on, and that
at all events he must have seen some brute crea-
tor: more like a man than any of the monkey
tri s.

This greatly impressed Professor Punk, and

and provisioned aschooner, the Arrow by name,
to go in search of the monster alluded to, accom-
p‘anled by Will Warner, whose chum, Frank

entworth, also wanted to go, but could not,
as he was now in business with his father.

In due time the schooner arrivad oil? the north—
east coast of Sumatra, near the very place
where, ei hteen months before, the two chums
had flshe for coral.

Here Moco, the Acheenese diver, so queer-look-
ing with his big head and slender limbs, was
again met with, and also Amone, the pretty
Malay irl, his niece, whoae black eyes beamed
with easure at again seeing the handsome
Amer can boy. v .

Moon, in his broken English, firml reiterated
his assertion about the tailed human ing, when '
spoken to by the professor on the, subject, and
agreed to guide him and *ng to ,the interior,
where he could see the “ won er.” ‘ 1

The schooner having been left in ammo -
, on '

captain, the three one fine morning , ,
their journey.

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or_ c Yity in. the ground, and
it he hearalshaotrange noises already

“Perhaps the girl is in the e', and the ground
has caved in upon her,” he muttered. ' .
He crawled into the hole. The ground was
soft and muddy. Pulling a tin safe from his
list, he lighted one of- the matchestit con-
ined. As he did .so he again heard the gasp-

, ingnoise’, "The light of the match fell upon a

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terrible object, so close to him that it made his
blood hurdle. In fact, he~ now beheld the huge
open mouth and scaly, speckled head of a
crocodile, directly in front of him. The two
long rows of sharp fangs in the jaws were
plainly revealed, and the dull eyes, bloodshot
and evil, were turned full upon him. The ani-
mal had evidently moved toward him when he
entered, but had paused within a foot of him.
It was the sudden gleam of the match upon its
eyeballs that had arrested its progress, and thus
for the instant saved the venturesome youth
from a horrid fate, the monster having been
about to seize him with its fangs!

Will dropped the match and roceeded to
scramble Out of the hole. But e heard the
gliding motion of the huge reptile behind him,
and knew it was in pursuit. Drawing his re—
volver, he fired at random a few shots behind
him. As he approached the opening of the
hole, feeling assured of his escape, he uttered an
exultant cry. But the next moment his heart
sunk like lead. Another and smaller crecodile
had appeared at the aperture, and was about to
thrust its horrid, elongated» head into it.

“I'm in a bad fix 1” gasped the youth; but his
courage rose with the occasion, and be resolved
to struggle desperately for his life.

Taking good aim with his rifle, he fired, but
the bullet glanced harmlessly over the scales of
the creature’shbdy. = 2

Meanwhile he peered through the darkness
behind him, and saw the outlines 0f the larger
crocodile’s form as it still came toward him.
III: resolved at once to make a bold dash for his
1 e.

Cree in forward until within a foot of the
crocodi e a the entrance, he paused.

The animal. as he had expected it would do,
opened its ugly jaws. It was about to advance,
when the boy sprung forward, thrust the muz-
zle of his rifle down its throat, and quickly flredl

With a loud, gurgling sort of noise, the croc-
odile fell on its side, and commenced to thrash
the ground in the agonies of death.

Will was thus enabled to spring past it un-
harmed, just in time to avoid the other mon~
ster, which had been about to seize him.

Thus he succeeded in saving his life, but at
the expense of his ride, the crocodile into whose
throat he had fired having shut its teeth down
on the piece and crushed it in its agony.

Once out of the hole, the boy soon met his
friends, who, hearing the noise of his firing, had
hurried to see what the matter was.

“A crocodile,” said the rofessor when the

outh had explained. ' “0h! ow I wish I had

een there to See itl”

CHAPTER II.
. THE VAMPIRE.

THE trio watched for the larger crocodile, the
professor hoping to see it reappear from the
muddy waters of the stream into which it hpd
plunged; but the animal did  1 show t-
self. :‘1_ Z5 " ' ‘

“ Come.” said Mooo, “  have eats. Den‘
little while ' e belly rest-«ion on a in.
Not gbelly, ,too‘much after eats."

“ I Llfibnd,” said ~Punk,i“aud.
r .ficli-"_ . '
_, erh‘tree enjoying their re-‘

1finishedthey m’sumea- their

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coo-ow o  easan

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moo stood the

. ‘- A storm was
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"thunder crashed and
, .w woods ,, a deafen-
‘ :y 'WBI.‘ “How are the
“nearly soaked through.”

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 era was; ’ pose. g

 ~  me,”tho ghtthe boy.

is, ‘ * ‘ “out of the ten“, and a

r wad him that the other tents, as

eir occupants, were gone.

. He ran about the woods looking for his com-

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rubber coat, moving along ahead of him, a lan~
tern in one hand, a rifle in the other.

Will overtook him. ~

“ Where is M000?” he inquired.

“ I don’t know,” answered Punk. “ I am
looking for him., A few minutes ago, just be—
fore this storm came on, I was awakened by a
horrible shriek. Snatching up my lantern and
seizing my rifle, I rushed out of my tent. At
the same moment the storm broke forth. 1 can
see nothing of the native, Moco, but I am afraid
he has been attacked unawares and dragged all
by some wild beast—perha s a. tiger!”

“God help the poor fe low!” cried Will, in

great distress.
. The two looked in vain for the native. The
further they went the deeper did they seem to
become entangled in the mazes of the dark
forest. .'They shouted again and again, but
there was no response. ,/

“I hope that we will find 'our way at day-
light," said Warner. 4‘ Cheer up, sir, and don’t
let us be downhearted.”

“My young friend,” said the profess “r, “it is
not for myself that I am anxious; it is more on
your account. M love of the science to which
I am devoted will uoy me up, as we will doubt.
less see many strange creatures while lost in the
woods. Besides, i am strong, and I have been
in worse positions than the present in the course
of my travels. Ihave sufl’ered both fatigue and
hunger at such times, but it has not injured me.
You, my friend, are young and are growing,
and you will feel the hardships before us.”

Erect and calm stood the professor as he
spoke, seeming scarcely to feel the fatigue of
his late exertions.

The boy, who was very tired, could not
help admiring his powers of endurance.

‘ Things may not turn out so badly,” he said.

The professor shook his head. " To be lost
here in the wilds of this island is no light mat-
ter 1” he said.

They kept on a short distance further when
they came to an open piece of ground. - On one
side of it they discovered a large tree, the
hanging fibers of which had taken root in the
ground for some distance around it, thus form-
ing a closely~woven canopy, which would afford
good shelter. I

“The celebrated banyan tree,” remarked the
professor, as be held up his lantern. “ Here we
will make a pause—a halt until morning.”

As the storm was over, the" two found a good
resting-place. Punk, spreading out his rubber
coat, they lay down upon it, and after a while
fell asleep.

The naturalist had taken off his wet shoes and
stoekings: his naked feet were pressed against
one side of the tree. In about an hour after
closing his eves, he began to groan and talk in
his sleep. This awoke Will, who sat up, and,
by the lantern’s light, looked at him.

“ Professor, have you the nightmare?" in~
quired the boy. i .

“There it is,” muttered.Punk. “The mil is

would like to cut it 03 and examine it closely,
but the man is so rest a curiosity that I can-
not bear to take 0 the caudal appendage."

_ Will smiled. The sleeper was evidently

“dreaming of the monster with a tail. '

All at once another long,,mournful moan es-
caped him. i ,

The boy felt alarmed. He was about to
awaken his friend and ask him if he was ill,
when he heard a. singular noise. It was like
that of some person sipping} glass of Wine or a

on of ' . = .
fie rose and‘looked'rouud on that side of the
tree where the naturalist had placed his feet,
to behold an un ted vision.
A large but 0 the vampire species, with

' wingsupward of twenty-five inches in extent,

such there. . ,
Slowlymoving his enormous wings to andfm,

,he appeared to be fanning Punk’s feet, as If to
first. how them cool." ,
fastasle'epfi

Again Punk emitted a dolorous  .

. Warner leaned over, and, takin a closer 11b
speotion of the bat, erceived tbs the creature
was slowly and stea ilysucking the blood from
the rofessor’s great we. r‘ . '
a e all bats, this one s a hideous-looking
creature, its body, 5563!; you inches long, be-
ing shaped like that oft! mouse. As it continued
its friezhtlul employment, its form kept swelling;~

" to ball—like proportions.

Will, in leaning ever, could uotavoid pressing
the sleeper’s leg. _ .

“ What’s this? What’s the matter?" inquired
Punk, awakening. v

“ Matterenough, sir, I should think,”said the

boy. “ Here’s a bat bleedingyoul”

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. of my revolver and your rifle.

“ Hahl” cried Punk, “ you don‘t sa so! Don’t
disturb the bird; it will give me t e greatest
pleasure to watch its movements.” ‘ ‘

So saying, he raised himself cautiously to a
sitting posture, without moving his feet, and
took a survey of the. bat as it continued todraw
the blood from his toe. '

“ What a nerve you must have, sir,” remarked
Will, in admiration. .

“Hold up the lantern a little,” said the nat-
uralist. “There! that will do; now I can see
the creature better.” , _

“Are you not afraid it Will weaken you by
taking away so much of your blood?”

“ It must not be allowed to take enough for
that,” said the professor, who was watching the
bird with the most intense interest.

“My young friend,” he added, addressing the
boy, “ you now see before you a specimen of the
Specter Vampire, as it is sometimes called. Ob-
serve the great breadth of the wings, and I
would remark that in the skin of these are situ—
ated the organs of feeling. When attacking
human beings, it first bites from the toe a small
piece of flesh, no larger than the head of a pin,
and it is from this orifice that it draws the
blood.” »

“ is it not very painful?” .

“ No, there is no feeling of pain at all. By
tanning with its wings, the animal keeps the toe
cool. It is a curious creature.
remains torpid. It has been found in strange
places—inclosed, for instance, in the trunks of
trees, where it has been discovered alive, al—
though shut in from the outer air. ”

As the professor spoke, be dealt the hat a
smart blow with a stick he had picked up,
when, spreading its wings, the bird slowly flew
off toward the woods.

The naturalist took a small vial from his
pocket, and bathed the wounded member with
a liquor it contained.

“ There! my toe will soon heal now,” he said.
“ I always keep this liquid about me that I may
have it ready in case of stings from bees or
bites from reptiles.”

CHAPTER III.
A TERRIBLE DEATH. . ‘
As it was now nearly morning, Warner an

 

_ the professor did not again lie down.

At last the sunrose in an mclouded sky. The
drops of rain on the leaves shone like diamonds.
The woods were full of melody. The bright
wings of the bird songsters were seen gleaming
through the branches.

“ What a noble tree!” cried Will.

The trio, standing under the leafy canopy of
the banyan, saw around them its numerous
trunks all formed from the shoots of a single
tree, and covering a space of at least two hun—
drad feet. In fact a whole regiment might have
encamped in its shade. .

“The shoots of this kind of tree spread won-
derfully,” said the professor, “each shootltak-
ing root in the ground and forming a new tree.

one is nothing to another of the same
species which I saw on the island of Narbedda,
in India. It was .called “,Cubbeen Bur,” the

'spaee it covered was two thousand feet in cir-

cumference. its trunks numbered 350, and 7-,000
persons could find room in its shade.”

“ What a noble place for a picnic,” said
Warner, “which reminds me that I am very
hun .ry. But we have left all our provision be-
hin us, and our arms, too, with the exception

“Behold our breakfast!” said the professor,
pointing up among the bright green leaves of
the banyan, where gleamed small fruits of a
rich scarlet color. “There you see a. species
of fig, which is of a delicious taste.”

Warner scrambled up the tree and threw
dawn anumber of figs. U on these the two
regaled themselves, after w '01: enough were
left for each .to fill his pockets.

They now renewed the search. for Moco, but

without success. In the dark depths of the
woods they finally paused. ,
The fact Couldnot longer be doubted. They
were really lost'm the wi ds of Sumatra!
“Hark!” cried .Warner,
fancied I heard a vows.” .
The two listened. to .hear ayeice, evidently
that of a human bemg. in the distance.
“ It may be Moco," said :Will, Joyfully. , /
They hastened in the direction of the voice,
and are long they came upon the person who
had shouted—a native of the isle fastened with
ropes to a tree. He held out his hands to them,
and his eyes bulging from his face, had a pigeons
expression. _
“ Savee me!” be said. “ Battasabad men—-
beentake me pris’ner! Tie me to tree. Gone

suddenly. “ I

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off for little while! Come again! Kill with
lance and knife!”

“Yes. I have heard of the cruel customs of
the Battas," said Punk, With a shudder. “ I
will free you at once.” .

He was about to pull out his knife for this
purpose, when the shrubbery behind him parted,
and a dozen people burst forth, surrounding
him and his companions. These persons were
of low stature, with fairer complexions than
those of Malays. They wore trowsers and man—
tles of colored cotton, and strange looking hats
made from the bark of trees. They were armed
with long knives and sharp bamboo lances.

“ Who you? What do here?” inquired one.

“ Berry good! Englees good friends to Batta!
Batta no harm Englees."

The professor now spoke in behalf of the
bound native, but the Battas could not be per-
suaded to set him free.

“If you reuse, i will have you punished. I
will, on reaching the first English fort, give an
account of your cruelty,” said the naturalist.

At this, the two were seized and tied hand
and foot with thongs, but not until the plucky
professor had knocked down one with his rifle,
and had also blackened one pair of eyes. VVar-
ner, too, had fought, but his revolver had been
wrenched from him.

Now. bound like sheep, the two lying upon
the ground, witnessed a horrid scene.

The Battas, taking a. position about twenty
paces from their intended victim fast to the
tree, commenced to hurl at him their long bum»
boo lances.

The screams of the poor wretch as lance after
lance pierced diiferent parts of his body, were
terrible to hear. He writhed——he twisted him-
self in vain to escape those dreadful weapons,
one of which finally passed through his breast in
such a way as to pin him to the tree.

And new, according to their custom, the
ferocious Buttes ran up to the dying prisoner,
and commenced to cut slices from his body with
their knives. Thesepieces of human flesh they
dipped in some salt and lemon juice, carried by
one of the part , after which, kindling a fire,
they broiled an ate them!

"Horrible!" ejaculated the professor, in a
stern deep’voice,

“ i hope they will not conclude to serve us in
the same Way,” remarked W'aruer.

“No,” replied the naturalist, “they would
not dare to.. But I am afraid they mean to
{reipyus prisoners. That will be so much time
0s .

The Battas soon commenced to dance about
their victim, whose remains. were still fast to
the tree. At length they. paused, and, direct—
ing a careless glance at the two bound persons on
the round, de Jarted, disappearing in the dense
shru lbery of t e forest. i

“They mean to leave us here to starveh—to
die!" cried Warner. '

“ So it would seem,” said the professor, “ but
I am in hopes that we can contrive to free our-
selves.”

“ I can think of no way. sir."

” I believe you have sharp teeth,” said Punk. ‘
“You can gnaw the cord from my arms, after
which the rest will be easy enough. The ropes
will not to be bardto sever, for, as you can
see, they are loosely stranded and are soft, hav-
ing pnrobably been made from the- bark of some

ren. .

Warner at once applied his teeth to the rope
on the professor’s am. As he hit at t e
strands, they exuded a yellowish juice, the
taste of which was so disagreeable that he has
obliged to pause and spit it out before he could

pVainlv he endeavored to bite through the
rope, which, soft as was the substance of which
it was composed, was yet, like the hickory,
verv tough. .

He continued his exertions until his jaw was
fairly cramped. without making any impres
sion on the woody fibers.

It was now late in the afternoon and the two
felt very hungry and tbirsty.‘

They vainly worked at their cords to free
themselves.

The darkness of night began to close around
them. Through an opening-among the trees,
they saw the moon come up. It threw a faint
light upon them, and also upon the hideous ob-
ject still fast to the tree. ..

Strange noises filled the woods.

Blended with, the harsh cries of the coo—ow,
were heardthe chatter of apes and the occa‘
clonal dull hum of insects. '

.All at once cries were heard in the distance

 

like the moaning of human beings.

"Do you think those are natives we hear!”
inquired Warner of the professor, who looked
very uneasy. '

“ They are natives,” said the naturalist,
gloomily, “ but I fear they are not the kind you
suppose. THEY ARE HYENAS!”

CHAPTER 1V.
LUD LIO NHEELS.

“THEY are coming this way i” cried Warner,
in dismay.

“Yes, attracted by the remains still fast to
the tree!”

Both were startled. Bound as they were,
there was apparently not the smallest chance
gf escape. They would fall a prey to the hungry

casts.

"What shall we do?” gasped Warner.

“We can, I believe, do nothing,” said Punk,
coolly, “ hut sit here and await our fate.”

“ Horrible!" cried Will, “ to have to sit here,
and be torn to pieces with the clawsw”

“ No,” interrupted the professor, “ the hyena
has no claws—at least none sharper than those
of the dog or the wolf. He does the mischief
with his fangs—his long, sharp teeth."

In spite of his perilous situation, the natural-
ist warmed with his subject, and would doubt
less have given a long description then and there
of these savage beasts, had not three of the latter
now made their appearance from the dense
shrubbery.

In the dim light they looked even more hid—
eous perhaps, than they would have done, if
mor plainly seen. They walked with a sort of
limp, as if their hind legs Were broken, keeping
their heads down, their thick manes flowing
about their crooked necks, their mouths open,
disclosing their fangs, and their fierce blue eyes
gleaming with that bloodthirsty sidelong look
peculiar to this animal. ‘

“ They are stripvd byenus,” said the natural— . , ,

ist. “ I may add that the striped ones are per-
haps more ferocious than the spotted ones, for
the latter are capable of being tamed.”

“So much the worse for us,” said Warner.

At present, however, the two were hardly no-
ticed by the savage beasts, which, elevating
their bristly manes, threw themselves upon the
rlemains, and, with dismal grunts, devoured
t iem.

As each only obtained a small portion, its
hunger was not appeased, both now approached
the bound ersons upon the ground.

“God be p us!” cried Will. '

The hyenas cam; limping on, uttering cries
between a. bark and a moan.

The helpless twain shudderingly awaited the
terrible fate that seemed‘in store for them.

The ferocious animals, showing their fangs,
were within a few feet of the two, when-the
professor. rolling over, and applying his mouth
to the hollow of a small tree near him, set up a.
most hideous howl. At first Will was startled,
for the voice passing through the hollowof the
tree, seemed to proceed from some point on the
otper sideiof ill: h sea, ,‘ d 

nstanty t e yenas u an an to
snuflf the air. As already; said, the professor
had a remarkably deep, strong voice. was
moreover a good imitator, and now the noise he
made was so much like a tiger‘s howl thata
hunter of that animal might have been de-
ceived.

“I would remark, . my young friend,” said
the naturalist. raising his head and keeping an
eye on the fierce brutes near—” that lhe 11mm
which, as you can now hear, is making a
ing sound, is allied to the dog, and yet has for
that animal a most remarkable aversion. It
will attack any dog and quickly devour it. It

also has an' aversion to the tiger, but this comes ‘

from frar._ Of all wild beasts, except the lion.
it dreads the tiger most, and, on hearing it, it
will lose -no time in fleeing, for the tiger is a
much swifter runner and can easily overtake it
and make it his prey. It now affordsrne the
most intense pleasure, to perceive the eflect of
the imitation, of the tiger’s voice, which  have
’ust made. 0f its entire success, however, I

ave my doubts, for there are few quadrupeds
that can be deceived in this way. ,A peculiar
instinct seems to inform them of the diflerence .
between tbevoioe of man, how Well, soever, it ,‘
me ,be’ disguised, and that of the lower ani-
ma r. ’

Again the professor ut his mouth to the
“tree tube ” and began bowl.

The 11 enas, sanding the air, grunting, hark-
ing, an’ moving uneasily to and fro, seemed
doubtful and perplexed. ..

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pimps and glaring wistfully at the coveted vic—
‘IlXIS. '

It was a horrid situation, to which ’was added
the torture of anxiety and suspense. The
naturalist'continued to howl in i1 he had an
haunted himself, by which time the hyenas
seemed to have had enough of it. No longer
deceived, they sprung toward the prostrate
couple.

The foremost one fastened his teeth on the
professor‘s arm, but the naturalist rolling over
quickly, now found the arm free, the beast with
its sharp fangs having severed the rope fast
toit.

In a moment he whipped his knife out of the
belt around his waist, and drove it into the eye
of the beast. Confused by this unexpected as.
sault, the animal, grunting with rage, threw up
its head and turned half round.

This gave Punk a chance to sever the cords
about his ankles, and he sprung to his feet.
Dim as was the light, he could determine at
once the location of thecreatm-e’sheart, andwith
a rapid movement he drove his knife to the haft
in that part of the savage brute.

The latter dropped dead upon its side, and
now the professor sprung toward the othertwo,
which, however, although kept back a few mo—
ments by the loud cries uttered by Will, were
close upon him.

The hyenas turned upon the naturalist. He
aimed his knife at the heart of one, but, with a
tremendous blow of its powarful paws, it be-
numbed the limb, cousin the weapon to drop
from his grasp. It knoc ed him down at the
same timepand its fangs already touched his
throat when two sharp, distinct reports were
heard, and both animals fell dead as a bullet
crashed through the brain of each. ,

Emerging into the ciearin from the shrub~
bery, his smoking rifle care essly held in one
hand, came a. youth of about nineteen. Over
six feet in bight, he was long in the limbs, as
straight as a pine, and very broad heroes the
shoulders. He wore deerskin leggins, reaching
nearly to the knees, and shoes covered with
hair, made of the skin of some wild beast. A
short [frock of brown cloth covered his tapa-
oious chest, and was girdled about the waist
with a belt in which was thrust a long knife,
partially hidden by a large pouch slung over

is shoulders. His face, brown and ruddy from
constant exposure, was frank and honest in

expression rather than handsome, the eyes,"

'r of, a light gra color, being large and piercing.
From under is round, peaked cap, made of
some liiht material, his long black air fell to

his use , listening in the moonlight like the

‘maue of a orse.

At first he said not_a. word, but halting and
leaning on his long rifle. he stood quietly sur—
veying the professor and the bound boy.

Them he moved to the side of thb latter, and
with two blows of his knife, severed the cords
that held his wrists and legs. '

Punk and Warner cordially thanked him for
his timely assistance.

“ Good gracious! No! I reckon an man
.. would ’a’ done the same by you under t e sar—

oumstancos!” answered the youth, in a clear,
ringing voice, " but how did you git in seen an

" infu'mal hornet's nest?”

The professor soon explained.
“Hard lines, ther’s a fact: I heerd them
hyeuees. and thinks I ther’s somethin’ on-
,oommon oin’ on. So I skurried along thar
' through 12 em woods, whar I Was trackin a big
- tiger, and seeiu' the cussed hyenees;and you
fiwipe to be chawed by ’em, I tuck’ aim and .let
V. l
‘ “I am surprised aswcll as pleased to meet
one of my countrymen in these wilds,” said the

rofesaor. “ Have you been long on this
island?"

‘ “Goin’ on three years. I come from the
south part of Tennessee. When Iwas a little
chap no big er’n a chicken, I‘ was taken away
with an one e to hunt Wars and buflelers, and

tbcrs and though‘I hairi’t meanin’ to boast,
was told that I was oncommon smart at the
lateness. Arter- a whilo'I got so dratted tired of
home t at I thought I’d make a voyage to the
East n log. Iwas wrecked of! this island. We
was all saved by Dutchmen from a fort. The

' rest went away |v’urtenvards aboard a ship bound

home; but I staid to hunt wild beasts, for so

much a head which is id to me by the Dutch

Governor. I like it a on better’n anythln’ I

ever tackled afore, fur i’a excitin’, and yer

blood is k ’ up most 0’ the time."
r " I ahoul say it was perilous work,” remarked

on . ,
“Thar’s what the fun comes in! Powars of
gearthl A tiger’s a worse critter to handle, or

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’ , Lud Lionhe

. “I don’t like his looks!

 

course, than a anther; but I’m gittin’ used to
it, and can say ’ve fou’t with six on ’em sense
I commenced at the bisnessl My name is
Ludlow Lyonrecl; but the natives call me Lud
Lionheels, because I wear shoes made of lion
skin, which I bought of a Hottentot aboard
ship, and because they say I’m strong and
swift in the heels, and good at wrastling with
wild beasts.”

CHAPTER V.

TRACKING THE DEAD.

LIoNHEELs, to whom the forest was pretty
well known, conducted Punk and Warner to a
sheltered spot in a small cave or hollow, Where
they could seek that repose of which they were
so much in need.

First, however, he treated them to some dried
venison, which he took from his pouch, and to
some water dipped from a spring, not far off,
with a cup which had been made of the hollowed
halt a cocoanut.

The two were soon fast asleep. Liouheels,
leaning on his rifle, watched Will Warner with
peculiar interest. The moonlight falling slightly
on the boy’s face. showed that it was of a. singu—
lar ashen hue. His lips twitched convulsively,
and his eyelids quivered.

“ Poor chap.’ muttered the young hunter.
I reckon his hardships
has played the blazes with him, andI’m afeared
there‘s a. case of delir’um comin’.”

Feeling thirsty, the speaker walked off a few
yards to 'the spring, whence he had previously
obtained the water, and where a. sort of cata-
ract dashed down a rocky gully fully seventy
feet deep.

Lionhoels leaning over the edge of the deep
ravine, was filling his cup, when, all at once,
with a‘most unearthly shriek, a form 8 rung
upon his back and clutched him by the t root.

The youth must have been thrown off his
balance, and have fallen into the ravine, had
he not reserved suificient presence of mind to
throw imself quickly backward. This partly
loosened the clutch of the person who had
grasped him, and on quickly turning round, be
perceived, to his unbounded sur rise that his
assailant was no other than Will arnerl

“Hillol Why, good gracious! What’s up?”
cried Lud. ,

As he spoke, Warner, quickly lifting himself,
fairly jumped upon the young hunter, and
drawing his knife with one and, raised it, aim-
ing a blow at the other’s heart. But Lionhoela
caught his arm with an iron gri . with a single
exertion of his strength, hurled Eim lightly over
on his side, pinned with his knee the arm that
held the knife, and by the col ar of his coat
which be grasped wit both hands, kept him
rising, whi a he looked down upon him.

“Thunder and blazusl What or swim to
do?” he shouted. “ Would yer st ck the Ieller
that saved yer from being chawed?”

By the dim light, he could see that Warner’s
fact! was 'of a ghastly hue, his eyeballs rolled in
his head with a greenish luster, and he gnashed

his teeth.

“A cage of p‘izen, I should say! What yer
been satin?” cried the young hunter.

Just then the prufesnor, who had been awak-
ened by the noise, came running up.

Lion eels quickly ex lained.

“He has eaten nothip
said Punk. ‘

Meanwhile, Warner twisted, writhed and
shriekod. His knife dropped from his sp,

ng hurtful, I am sure,”

nnd he lay'there on the ground in convulsions.

“I once see’d a teller not just so afore," re-
marked Lionheels, “arter he‘d wallered by
mistake the juice of a upas tree.” ‘ »

A sudden light seemed to flash on the pro-
fessor’s mind.

“Good God! What were those ropes made
of with which we were lashed?” A ‘

“ 0f the upas, I reckin, as I know them Bat-
has use that to make the’r ropes.”

“ Then it is plain that my 1' young friend
has been poisoned,” said Pun . “for he chewed
the ropesin an effort to liberate me.” The hun—
ter su idenly hurried oil.

“ Where are (you going to?” called Punk.
;‘ Foyr; God’s sake, don’t leave us at a time like

his! ' '

“Take keer of the boyl”called the other as
he disappeared in the shrubbery. -

Warner’s convulsions became every moment
more violent. ,

All at once he sprung up, and would have
leaped into the dark chasm near which he had
lain had not the professor seized and held him.

The boy writhed in his urns , and had well~
nigh bro on 10098, when Lion eels reappeared

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with a root in his hand. With his knife be
scraped off some of the root and forced it into
the mouth of the raving youth. The latter spit
it out, but as fast as he did so, Lionhcels would
thru~t more of it into his mouth, and as it
exuded a sort of sticky juice, ,Waruer could not
help swallowing‘some of it.

“Thar! he’s got enough to cure a rigimont,”
said the young hunter. . 1

“ It does not seem to have any efiect,” asserted‘r‘
Punk,“mournfully. . f

Lionhecls assisted to hold the raving boy. '

At last the struggles of the latter seemed'to
relax. The greenish hue gradually faded from
his eyeballs. His whole frame trembled and,
with a moan, he sunk upon the round, where
he finally lay, apparently motion ess.

“ HE Is DEAD!” groanod the professor.
“Thar you mistake; he’s asleep,” ans a; cred
the other. ~

Punk applied his ear to the breast of the
youth and could hear his heart beat.

To his great joy the heating was steady and
natural.

“ God bless, you, my friend, you have saved
him i” said Punk, grasping the other‘s hand.

The hunter shook it cordially; his tawny‘face
beamed with joy. /

“I see’d the remedy plied once afore,” he
said, “ by a native doctor on a Dutch trader,
who had chawad by mistake some of the upas.
tree bark. I got him to show me thewonder-
ful root, and I tuck rtikelar notice of it then
and arterwards. so t at I’d know it anywhnr as
quick as a coon’s tail.”

“ Well, my friend, and what may be the
name of this wonderful root?”

“My Lord! professor, I wouldn’t ’tempt to
tellyer', it sounds sort 0’ like radish-tuck-a-
ridev, or some secb confounded name,”

“The radix toxican'a, was it not?" said

unk. -

“ Hello! blazes! ther you’ve hit it, sir, as
neat as a cowcurnberl”

“ I shall not forget it, and now, if you would
like to lie down and sleep, I will stand watch.”

“ Git out your own sleep, sir. I kin stan’ watch
all night.” -

But Punk said he could sleep no more if he
tried. His late excitement would keep him
awake. _

Accordixwly, surrendering his rifle to_ the
professor, Lionheels stretched his long limbs
out on the ground and with his_pouch for a
pillow, dropped to sleep in a few minutes.

He awoke at daylight. Wamer‘ was up,
talking to Punk, and, excepting a slight pale-
ness, looked as well as ever. I

The youn hunter sprung to his feet, stretched
his arms an chest, and drew along breath. ’

Warner held out his hand to him.

“I owe you an apology,” he said, f‘ for the
strange way I actedtoward you last night. But.

was delirious and did not know whatl was.
about.” i _ .

1Lionheols grasped his band watha Vise-like
c as .
“€th gracious, don’t mention it. Yerneed n’i;
’pologize at all. Whewl arter chawin' that
unas, it’s awonder yer didn’t cut up like old
Nick hisselfl” ‘

After a fru breakfast of venison the three,
with Lionhee s as guide, started, in search of
Moco. The hunter said he had seen (his son
occasionally and was slightly acquain with
him and he felt interested as wellas his com-
panions in his fate.

They had walked a few miles when the hun-
ter suddenly stopped. ’ , '

“ Good Lord 1” he ejaculated, drawmg a hand
across his eyes. , '

“ What is it?” inquired Warner.

“ Sec thar!” answered Lion’heels, pointin to
the leaves of some bushes, the twigs of wfiich
were broken here and there. On some of the
leaves were dark red stains.

“ What singular leaves—deep green, streaked
with red,” said Punk. ‘ ~

“Well enough, if it was nateral,” said Lion-
he‘e‘ls: ‘I‘Hbut it hain’t. Them streaks is blood!”

“ The ti er’s passed this way with somethin’
in its mou h. I m atearecl it was M0001? .

He moved rapidly forward. fOHOWmZ the
trail he had discovered ,wlth amazing celerity:

Suddenl he paused, pointing to‘a hollow m
the groan . There, sure enough, were all that
remained of poor Moco~a few bones and the
naked skuill’ There could be no doubt they
were his, (or pieces of his clothing were snat-
tered about, to other with earrings he had
worn and the ‘andle of his kreese with his
name inscribed upon it! '

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at these poor remnants of the noble fellow, who
had been so good a friend to him.

“ Yes, the cussed tiger’s done his work,” said
Lionheels. “ In my ’pmion ’twas the very beast
I’ve been trackin’. He and I’ll have a ’count to
settle, shore enough, if we ever meet!”

And as he spoke be significantly glanced at
his rifle. .

‘ CHAPTER VI.

A TOUGH SUBJECT.

A CONSULTATION was now held as to whether
Lionheels should guide the professor and War-
m-r back to their vessel or onward toward the
Googon country. '.

“ Ther‘ may be sich a thing as a monster thar,
like a man with a tail, though I kin say I never
heard of sicb an outlandish critter,” remarked
the hunter; “and it’s my ’ inion, professor, that
you’ll be disapp’inted. ut 1’ve never been
nearer than a. hundred mile to that place, and
as thar’s more wonders on this yearth th in yer
kin count hairs on a b’ar, and as I know Moco
was no liar, ther’ must be somethin’ thar, I
.reckon, sort 0’ like what he told yer ’bout.”

“We will keep on,” said the professor, his
eyes glistening. “I suppose we will come in
time to some settlement, where I can procure
provisions and ammunition."

“Yes, ’bout two days’ journey from beer
that’s 8. English settlement called Natal, whar
yer kin load up."

“Then we will proceed—that is, if you are
willing to guide us for a sum which~”

“ Hello! stop tharl” interrupedr Lionheels.
“ Don‘t talk of payin’ me, sir. I take no money
from friends in distress, and I'll jest stick to
yer and see yer through. Besides, I kin own
that my kerosity is sort 0’ stirred up, too, ’bout
the wonderful critter you're arter.”

The three new kept on through the Woods.
Toward noon Lionheels shot a turkey, and in
short space he plucked it and had it roasting
over a fire. The three made a good meal and

 

,. then continued their way.

At last they came to a broad and rapid
stream, on the bank of which they supped off
another partridge. Here they rested until next
nnrning. . '

From acove among Some tall reeds Lionheels
at length pulléd forth a small rude canoe.

“ is that‘vour boat?" inquired Warner.

“Yes. - I keep it beer to use when I need it.
We must drift down-stream and then cross,
arrer which we'll be a day’s walk from Natal.”

They entered the canoe, which they noticed
contained, among .other things, several good
,harpoons. As they were carried on by a rapid
current, the prof-ssor loode at the water, on
the watch for some curiosity of the fish tribe.

Warner resolved to play him a joke.

In the bow of the canoe where he sat there
wasasmall Swab with which Lionheels some—
times cleaned out the canoe. Long strands of
spunyaru projected out from an oval piece of
light-colored cloth, which was the fragment of
ejacke and on the top of which was a glisten-
ing blac button resembling an eye.

To the swab Warner, unobserved, contrived
to fasten the end of a string he had with him.
and also a small stone. the latter of which would
cause it to sink a little beneath the surface—
enough to make it slightly indistinct.

Holding to one end of the string, the boy,
leaning over the bow, thrust the swab into the
water. '

It drifted under the very place where the pro-

feésor was leaning over, and at Once caught his ‘

gaze.

Could he believe his own eyest—he now be- ’

held an object which appeared to be neither fi=h,
S*31'l-lent nor crab. and yet which seemed to par-
”take of the nature of each!

There was a flat, oval head. with one eye in
the top and numerous tentacles floating out from
each side of the _ ,

Like a flash Punk mentallv ran Over all the
names of the fish tribe, and, to his intense de-
light, he concluded he had dis-covered a creature
hitherto unknown The glorious conviction al—
most overpowered him. Further and further
he leaned across the Side of the canoe, until his
s-n dropped off 1115 hearl.

lie made a frantic clutch at it. lost his bal-
ancp, and away he wont, falling headlong into
the stream. ,

Warner, with a cry of. dismay, for he ,knew
that Punk could not swnn, plunged in to his
rescue.

The professor had grasped the end of a twi
Which, from a tree on the bank, nearly touches
the water, and to this he clung. '

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with a few powerful strokes; but, at the same
moment, the slender twig broke.

The youth clutched the drowning man by the
hair with one hand and endeavored to work his
way to the shore, but the current carried the
two rapidl along. '

Meanwhile Lionheels, whose canoe had been
carried far down-stream by the swift tide, had
directed the light craft to land, and having
taken out his rifle. be fastened the warp to a
tree-stump. He then tried to reach the point
opposite to the struggling twain to render as-
Sistance, but the soft, marshy nature of the
ground at this place greatly impeded him. He

sunk to his knees in the sticky mud, and was I

now making vain efforts to extricate himself.

“ Ti underation! Coons and blazes!” be roared.
“ They’ll be drowned afore I kin so much as git
near ’em !”

Warner was having a hard time of it. At
length the current carried him opposite to
what looked like a large, smooth black rock
stretching out into the deep water from the
shore.

“ Hold on to me, sir, and when we reach that

rock I will throw myself toward it, and you

must try to climb upon it,” he gasped.

“Very well,” said the professor, “I will do
my best."

When close to the projection spoken of War~
her was glad to find himself in shallow water,
which was about up to his waist.

He let 0 the professor, who, however, was
about to c utch the black mass near him, when,
to his dismay, it suddenly moved and thrust a
horrible-looking head and thick neck above the
water! ,

“A hippopotamus l” shouted Punk.

Such, in fact, the animal was discovered to
be. It was about the size of a bull, with a
thick, dark skin, slightly' wrinkled about the
neck. Nothing could have been more hideous
than the appearance of its rough jaws wide
open, disclosing long. crooked fangs, While its
eyes blazed with fury, and'the hairs about its
snout bristled like a porcupine’s.

With a loud, gurgling roar it rushed toward
the professor and his companion, dashing the
water to foam as it came.

“ Hello, that! blazes! run fur yer life!”
yelled Lionheels, who had by this time got out
of 'the mud. Hepull‘ed from the canoe a strong
harpoon, and ’with panther‘like strides hurried
along the shore.

The professor and Warner sprung for the
land, but ere they could reach it the monster
caught the boy’s jacket with its fangs and
jerked him back.

As Will felt himself going he drew his knife
and tried to plun e it into the neck of the
beast, but the bla ebroke u on the tough hide
without piercing it, and the rate was about to'
crush the youth in its jaws when the ring of
Lionheel’s rifle smote the air, and a' bullet
passed through the animal’s left eye. Half

linded and confused, the creature flung War-
ner away from it, when, seizing him by the col-
lar, Punk drew him to land. The enraged
“ hippo” caught sight of the two with its unin-
jiwed eye. and sprung toward them. At the
same moment something came whiriiu and
whizzing through the air, followed by the voice
of Lionhrels. ' .

“ Away yer go, professer, and leave the‘crit-
ter to me. Ther’s sharp work to be done, shore
enough!”

The whizziug noise heard had been made by
the Imrpoon he carried, and whith he had
Iiurledinto the creature’s body with such force
that the barb had penetrated the tough skin to
the depth of half a foot.’ The warp which was
attached to the weapon he now fastened about
the trunk of a tree on the bank.

“ Stan’ clear the tree l” he shouted to the pro-
fessor and Will, who stood near, the boy so
da‘zed and confused by his late rough treatment
that he cbuld hardly‘keep his feet.

With another hideous roar the hippopotamus
sprung to ward Lionlieels, who stood coolly load-
ing his rifle.

The Warp, which was a strong one, fetched
tent, and would have broken had not the tree
given way and fallen with a crush, drawn up by
the roots, as the brute strove to reach the
“hunter, who was beyond the length of the rope.

With roar after roar escaping its throat, the
beast made tremendous efforts to reach its foe,
flinging itself forward and sideways in its strug-
gles to get clear of the barponn. The tree
which it had to drag impeded! its movements,
but so tremendous was its strength that it drew
the trunk and branches with it along the

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ground. A
\ “ Look out, friends!” cried Liouheels, “ I sw’nr

 

to gracious if I don’t think the critter'll git out
of limbo ’fore I kin fix his taters! Whoop!
thunder! take that, yer bu’ster!”

«As he spoke, With a nim‘ble spring he placed
the muzzle of his rifle close to the uninjured eye
and fired slantin 1y. so that his shot might pen—
etrate the animal ’s brain.

With a crash the monster fell on its side in :i
death-struggle, but as it went it made a snap : t
ist adversary, hooking one of its fangs in ff:

9 t.

With a limber twist Lionheels threw himself
round upon the back of the brute, and drawing
his long knife drew it rapidly to and fro news:
the animal’s neck.

“Thar. old chunk?” he cried, “cannon bal‘s

V is nowhar ‘longside 0’ curtin’ the jugular of y! r

cussed thick neck. Yer kin give up the ghOst
now quick as yer like!”

In' fact, its jugular ligament being out, He
head of the brute went down to the ground llk'?
3 weight of lead, and in a. few moments i: was

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CHAPTER VII.
'rnn SULPHUR PIT.

PUNK came up and'iuspected the beast from
head to foot with great interest.
” It is not a very large one,” he said.

“ Right, rofesser, and lucky it hain't. I
reckon we’ of had a b’ilin’ time of it if so be it
had been. I kin say it’s big enough to suit me."

“Observe the thickness of the hide. which a
musket ball, nay, even a cannon ball can hardly
penetrate,” said Punk to Warner.

“ These animals are very bold, and will
often lay waste whole fields before they are
driven ofi. They sometimes approach C]! so to
the houses of the natives, who have to light fires
and make a great noise to keep them away.

“ Thar you’re most right," said Lionhecls, as
be wiped his knife and readjusted his belt. “ But

the raskils hain’t alu'ays afraid 0’ fire. ’specially ,

when hungry. I was once cookin’ bufi‘elei' meat
in a field, and I left it jest to go a little way to
git water. When I come back, if thar wasn’t a
big hippopot’ draggin’ my meat 03' the fire as
cool as a greenerdeer. ‘ Halt. ther!‘ see I, ‘ buf-
feler meat is scars’ 'est now.‘ But the cussed
critter looked roun at me. bellered out a sort
0’ horse la’rf, and away he went like blazes,
cockin? up his stump of atail at rm, and a kinder
dancin’ like, as if he ‘joyed the joke. Thar was
no help fur it, far he went off like a steam in-
jen'.

“ A curious incident. I must remember to
make a. note of it,” said the professor.

The three now made their way back .toward
the canoe, Warner as they did so explaining to
Pauli): the trick he had played him with the
swa .

The professor was much disappointed, t he
never got angry at little jokes, althou this
one he well-nigh roved fatal. , '

They were soon 11 the canoe, continuing their
journey. Two days later they reached the set-
tlement. where they remained for a. week to
rest after their hardships. . Here they purchased
rifles, taking Lionheels with them to select good
weapons. , They also stocked their haversacks
with provisions, and stufled their wallets with
ammunition. v

One bright morning, refreshed and strength—
ened, they resumed their journey. -

By the morning of the next day they were
deep in the woods, beyond which they could see
the lofty, rugged line of a mountain range.

11 at once away went Professor Punk, start-
ing in pursuit of a curious bird of which lashed
caught sight. ‘

Lionheels called him back, but the professor
heeded him not.

" I’ll go after him,” said Warner.

“Ther’ll be the mischief to pay if he goes

too far 011' thar, whar thar’s any number

‘of pitfalls which has been dug by the natives to

ketch hippopots.” .
Away went Will in pursuit of Punk, the
young hunter remaining to cenk a turkey which,
he had lately shot. -
Will soon lost sight of the professor in the
shrubbery. At last, emerging in an open plain,
beyond which was a detached lhdge of the
mountain range, he vainly locde for his friend.
Thinking he was among the hollow»: of the
rocks at the base of the ledge. IVill went there.
“ Professor, are you there?” he called, peering
into a hollow. ‘ ‘ ‘
He fancied he heard a faint response, and, he
crept into the hollow. But be had not ad-
vanced three feet when he felt himself going
down a steep, rocky decline, on his be ck‘.
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descended thirty or forty feet ere he touched
bottom. ,

He looked round him in astonishment, for the
rocky walls of this pit filistened as if sprinkled
with patches of quicke ver!

It threw a weird light about him, and be per-
ceived that he was alone; it was plain the pro-
fessor had not come this we . When he
shouted it was the dying echo of ' own voice
he had heard. _ .

He now attemptedtoget out of the it by

. climbing the side of the rock down which 6 had
slid, but, to his dismay, he found this to be im-
possible, owing to its steepness.

He shouted, hoping Punk might be passing
and would hear him, but there was no reply.

At one end of the pit was a hole—a wide
crevice in the rock.

He peered into it, but it was so dark he could
see nothing. All at once a puff of warm wind
seemed to issue from the hole, and Will drew
back, clapping a hand to his head as he inhaled
the strong fumes of sulphur!

I It came out of the crevice stronger ever
moment, and but for the opening of the pit
above, the youth could not have lived half an
hour in this terrible atmosphere. He soon be-
came aware that a vapor like steam was issuin
from the crevice, accompanied with a. sort 0
boiling, splashing noise. The silver light on
the rocky walls around him gradual y assumed
a. yellowish tint, and seemed to emit a. soft,
bright gleam like that of phosphorus.

To his horror the youth also noticed that the
ground under his feet was becoming softer, as
if about to give way!

In fact. the boy 'was in one of those dangerous
pits, under the mountains, from which the
natives are wont to procure large quantities of
sul hur. '

tie pen is thus em loyed have to work care-
fully, as t 6 ground 3 a mere crust, which, at
an moment, is liable to cave in.

Warner knew this, and comprehended the full

' extent of his peril. ~

Already he could feel the soft clay sinking
under his feet.-

Agaiu he sprung to the steep, inclined wall,
and now felt for some fissure in which he might
obtain foothold.

In the dim light he saw the end of along
slender tendril hanging down from a crevice

above. He grasped the end and twisted it about
his wrist, Just as that rt of the round on
which he stood crack an opene beneath

him. emitting a‘column of warm steam, which
almost suffocated him. '

As soon as he could regain his breath, he
shouted for help. ' "

Meanwhile he climbed the ten ril Which for-
tunately was astron one, and w on he reached
the ‘crevice from .w ich it hung. he was then
able to obtain a foothold, and by lying flat
:1 alas: the rocky wall. he kept his position.

3But be upward gushing masses of vapor and
steam, with the smell of sulphur and hydrogen
gas. weakened him more and more. Near!
suffocated, his limbs trembling, his brain res -
lug he knew that he must soon fall.

issenses were becoming confused. and he

was almost read , to drop nto the death-trap
beneath him, w on through the rolling vapor,
he descried a tawny face at the opening far
above him. I

“Wboo ! hell'o! are yer thar, friend?” _

“ Yes— elp me quick, or I am one!” an‘
swered Warner, with all the strengt of voice
hebouldmuster. ) V
'h “IWhegvli «fthuaderationw fejaculfited Lion-

ees,an is we 'sappeared romt en ti ng.

“. For God’s sake don’t leave mel’Pecried
Warner.

A moment later Lionheels res. peered.

“ How are yer, down their? uld yer tie a
lo ilround yer breast!”

lit Warner’s voice now was too faint to
reach the speaker.

The end of a rope fell against the boy. He
endeavored to tie it round him, but was too
weak to do so. ‘

.“ Waite. bit! I reckon two heads is better’n
one! Good graci us! it‘s like as if 01d Nick
was b‘ilin’ his pot down that!” ,

As he spoke the long panther-like form of
Lionheels lightly (and swiftly descended the

ro .
" gantin his feet in the crevice, the hunter
fastened t e rope about Warner’s breast, under
the shoulders. Then he made all haste to as-
,cend. the rocky ‘wall against which he could
brace his feet, assisting him.

Reachin the top of the pit, he hauled the boy
uickly an safely out of t e hole. The moment

8 felt the pure air, Will revived.

 

“ Again you have saved’ my life,” he said.

“ Lord, yes; but it was a narrer escape. Yer
was gone so long, I went to look fer yer. . I
follered yer tracks, heerd yer holler and got to
this place. The rope is one, 1 got from a but
near here, whar the workmen keep the’r tools to
be ready when they come here arter sulphur.”

“Have on seen anything of the professor?”
inquired arner.

5‘ Here he comes now,” replied Lud.

Punk walked up to the twain, saying he had
been unable to find the bird he had looked for.

Warner then described his late perilous ad-
venture. .

The naturalist peered at his face with great
interest.

“ He’s all right now, I reckin,” said Lion-
heels. "‘ He’s had an onmnrciful shake up, and
is ale, but it’ll soon pass off.”

ith his nail the professor scraped from
Warner’s face into the palm of his hand a
small, black bug, something of the shape of a
glow-worm. It was this creature, not Will’s
paleness, that had attracted his attention.

“ How singular!” he remarked. “ Here is an
insect that must have got on you in the sulphur

h “lTher’s plenty of ’em down thar’,” said Lion-
ee 8.
‘ ‘ “Is that possible?” said the professor, in sur-
prise. “Here then is an insect, evidently of the
species F. pyrrhorynchus, which, wonderful to
relate, can exist in an atmosphere of sulphur
and hydrogen! I am certainly lad, my young
friend,” he added to Warner, ‘ that you have
been the means of bringing tome-this treasure.”
So saying the professor took from his pocket
8. small box, in which he deposited the bug.

CHAPTER VIII.
' mssnn.

BY the time the trio gained the spot Where
Lionheels had roasted the turkey Warner was
well enough to feel a good ap tite.

He was, however, too was to continue the
journe that day, and so the trio rested until
the fol owing morning. They had selected for
their sleeping-place a spot in a small glade un-
der the shade of a spreading tree. At the set-
tlement the professor had bought acurious tent,
which, made of closely-woven cocoanut fibers,
was impervious to dew or rain. It was easy to
carry, as it could be rolled up in a small bundle,
and could be slung over the shoulders. With
his rubber coat spread over some dry vase, he
and Warner found a comfortable cone in the
tent, but Lionheels preferred to sleep outside.

He and Punk took turns at watching.

v “Please to keep a good lookout professor,”
said the hunter, as Punk relieved im before
midni ht. “ Ther‘s so many uncomfortable
prowl n’ critters’ ’bout these diggin’s that a
cha 's got to uint round him sharp."

” on can re y upon me," answered Punk, as
he walked to and fro, with his rifle over his
shoulder.

Lionheels dropped to sleep almost as soon as
he'touched the ground.

Half an hour later the professor became
aware of a peculiarly pleasant odor in the air.
He snuffed vigorously.

“A rivet cat!" he muttered. “I recognize
the perfume at once. I would like to see one of
these animals in its wild state.”

Ke<9pin his nose on a line with the direction
whence t e perfume seemed to come, Punk
moved along, gazing keenly ahead of him at the
ground and the trees.

Had he looked behind him he would have seen
a small serpent—a cobra di ca ello—Which had
emerged from the underbrus near the tent,
stud with elevated head was new looking around
i .
crawled toward the spot where Lud lay asleep,
and coiled itself upon the breast of the young
hunter, without disturbin him!

A few minutes later it s ightly shifted its po-
sition, getting nearer to the sleeper’s neck,
which one of ts shining coils touched.

Lionhcels opened his eyes in an instant.
flrst object that greeted his gaze was the cobra,
which his movement on awaking had caused to
elevate its head.

It now emitted a hissing sound, as if annoyed
at being disturbed, and fixed its little glittering
eyes on the youth evidently about to spring
and coil itself about his throat!

“ Hello! good gracious I" muttered Lionheels.
“ I wonder Whar the professer is! I’m in a bad
flx, seein’ as I kin neither mave nor holler, fur
fear of gittin’ the critter round my neck l”

He lav motionless, save that his hand crept
stealthin toward the heft of the knife in his
belt. He kept the blade keen and sharp, and

i

A moment it remained stationary, then it .

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he knew that one swift blow with it on the
cobra’s back would kill it.

But it was now plain that the serpent would
not put off the attack long enough for him to
grasp his knife.

Just as his hand touched the weapon, the
cobra sprung for his neck, and would have in—
flicted a. mortal bite had he not caught the crea-
ture by the body and flung it to the ground.

Grasping his rifle, he sprung up, and raising
the weapon by the barrel, he aimed a blow of
the creature with the stock of the piece. The
wily serpent gliding aside, avoided the'biow,
then, with a hiss, it coiled itself to spring upon
the hunter.

At that critical instant an animal hearing
some resemblance to a lean wolf, but much
smaller, and having along, bushy tail, sprung,
with a sharp screech, from a branch of the tree,
and, catching the cobra by the throat, made off
with it into the shrubbery.

“Hello! yer was welcome, jest then—thar’s
a. fad!” cried Lud, as he darted toward the
shrubbery, where the noise of a. combat now
was heard.

The ichneumon, for such was the animal
which had seized the serpent, was tearing its
throat with its sharp fangs. The cobra wound

itsle about the neck of its foe, and tried to .

choke it, but, before it could hurt its nimble
adversary, the latter succeeded in killing it.
With. its prey it darted off, but all at once it
reappeared, running in an opposite direction
from that it had first taken—the hairs upon its
body and tail erect, and its ears elevated.

‘.‘I kin read that sign as plain as u hornet’s,
nest,” muttered Lionheels. “That little ani-~
mile didn’t run back for notliin’. It’s either a
bear or a tiger, shore, that it’s scented!”

With his rifle at a half-cock, the hunter
stealthily and swiftly advanced. He had pro-
ceeded about fifty yards when he came upon
Punk seated on the stum of a tree, intently
examining a bug which ad ali hted on his
hand. He was in a small opening in the woods,
where the moonlight fell full upon him and on
the surrounding shrubbery. In the letter, a
few yards behind the naturalist, the quick gaze
of Lionheels detected two brl ht objects like
balls of fire, turned fiercely an steadily on the
professor. Lud stopped, raised his rifle. and
was about to pull trigger, when the two fire-
balls disa peered, and a rustling in the bushes
betoken that something was making off.

Lookin up and seeing the rifle aimed, as he
thought, ward him Punk had uttered a cry
of surprise and dismay. '

But- Lud now lowered his weapon.

“Yer’ve had a narrcr escape, professer,” he

said as be advanced.

“I?” (

“Yes: thar was a big tiger in the bushes
about to spring on yer, and it would ’a’ been up
with yer cakes had not the critter seen me.”

“Why, how strange! I must be.more_on my
guard in future. But is it not a little singular
that the creature should have run away when-
you came? The tiger is not usually so easily

frightened.” .
“Right, fesser, right; but the animilc
must have n eatin’- is fill somewhar else.
put hisself to much.

and wasn’t partikelar to
trouble jest now.”

The two returned to the spot where they had
stopged for the night. "'

‘ o to sleep, professer, and-leave the lookout
to me,” said the hunter. _

Punk was about tocreep into thetent when
an exclamation of surprise esca (1 him. _

“ Where is my young friend timer?” he 1nd
quired.

“ Thunder!
in the tent?” .

“ No; I see nothing of him i"

Lionheels looked in the tent and discovered
that the boy was indeed gone!

He noticed that he had taken his rifle with. v

Yer don’t mean to say he hain’t

him.
‘ “The thing’s plain enough. He woke, and.
missjn’ us, has gone to look for us. Hello tler

Warner! come back!" he shouted, with all his -

might. . _

On receiving no reply the huntershrugged his.
shoulders. _

“ What can have become of him?” cried
Punk. ' '

“ The Lord only knows! Good racions, it‘
hain’t safe for the ho to be abroa With that
infurnal tiger lurkin’ about the woods. ”

“ We must go in search of him.” .

“Stay heer, professer, and I’ll go,” said Lion-
heels.  .

He felt more anxious about the youth than
he was willing to own.

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Iiud Lionheels, the'Young Tiger Fighter. ‘ ' ‘7

Warner could not by this time be out of hear-
ing, and et he had not replied to the hunter’s
cull. Ha nothing serious happened, Lud na-

turally concluded that he would have answered
hi .

m.

“ Thor’s prospec’s that the tiger’s already got
him and made off with him,” was the thought
that flashed across his mind.

Looking round him, he saw by the appearance
or the bushes indications of the direction the
boy had taken and shoulderi'ng his rifle, he
re idly followed the trail.

e had not proceeded far when he beheld in
the shrubbery the marks cwdently of a strug»
gle. The twigs were trampled as it b some
creature that had made a spring and ragged
something olf with it.

Lionheels shuddered. .

“I’m afeared it‘s all up with the lad," he
muttered; “that’s sartiu, if the tiger has him.”

.He kept on, swiftly following up the marks

he saw; but at length he paused, baffled and!
Vpumled.

The trail disappeared in a broad stream, the
waters of which were gliding swiftly along-in
the light of the moon. The tiger would natur—
ally have swum across the stream with its vic-
tim, and et Lionheels saw no sign of its having
reached t e opposite bank. Thinking it might
have drifted a little with the tide ere landing,
he followed the course of the stream, but he
saw no indications of the tiger’s havmg gone
over. .
“It’s enough to pumle an Injun,” muttered
Lud; “but 111 foller up the stream, and if I
don’t strike a trail some :vhar, I’ll think this
vearth is comin’ to an send 1"

CHAPTER 1X.
TIGER—BOUND.

LIONBEELB had been ri ht in his surmise that
\Varner had gone in searc of his missing com
panions.

The boy, on eme '11:; from the tent and see—
ing no one near, h slung his rifle across his
back, and moved off into the shrubbery.

He had ed only a few yards. and was
about to call his friends, when something struck
film on the head with a force which stunned

1m. ' t

The truth was that the small- branch of a tree

above had broken with the wei ht of a huge

ourung-cutang, which had drop upon it from
a leftier bong .
The monster, after falling ii 1: Warner,

rolled off, landing on its feet. he creature,
which was about five feet long. wasof a reddish-
brown color, and its eyes, protruding fromunder
its hairy brows, were expressive of a terrible
ferocity. _

Half-raising itself, the animal glared at the
senseless boy a moment, then showing its horrid
fangs, seemed about to spring upon him and
tear him to pieces. '

All at once it drew back, inclining its head in
a listening attitude and snulfiug the air, which
bore to it the well-known scent of the tiger.

As if determined that the latter should not
cometo snatch from it its intended victim, the
ourang-outanz caught up the boy. lifting him
With its tremandouastren‘fih as easily as if he
was a child, and moving with him.

It soon came to the bank of the stream, and
was apparentl about to cross when it caught
si ht o a log rifting along with the current.

bably that it might thus the better avoid
the tiger’s scent, the brute sprung with its bur-
dgn on the log, and allowed itself to drift with
t e tide.

The face of the youth had meanwhile come in
contact with the water, which soon brought him
to his sonsesfi . .

011 opening his eyes, and finding himself in
the grasp of the animal, Will could not suppress
a cry of terror. .

'ThlS seemed to enrage the brute, which struck
him sharply on the ear. «

The boy, 586% those round eyes glaring into
his face, expec . that the beast would at once
proceed t? 3811? him to pieces.

Mastering all his resolution, he drew his knife
and plunged it to the heft in the hairy breast of
the monster. _

The latter, pierced to the heart, let go his hold
on the youth, and fell over into the stream
stone dead. ,

Warner clutched the log, and clung to n; as it
drifted. -

L Suddenly the piece of wood was caught by a
mass of rocks, among which the water foamed
and tumbled. The boy got upon one of the rug—
ged projections, and moved on until he found
himself in a cave, where he sunk down taunt

' and exhausted.

"would have

 

‘His head pained him severel ., and as his
senses were somewhat confused, is resolved to
wait here until daylight ere he attempted to
leaves. retreat wmch appeared to be located
among roaring, tumbling waters.

The moon was now down, and in the gloom
he could scarcely see around him. He crept
deeper into the cave and sat down on a rocky
projection, where he fell asleep—the blow from
the ourangroutang having had the offset of mak—
ing him feel drowsy.

When he awoke the sun was shining brightly.
He went to the entrance of the cave to per-
ceive that the rock was surrounded by water at
a point where the stream broadened, and fell in
roaring, foaming sheets into another stream be—
low, formin a cataract, the noise of which
rowned his voice had he shouted.

He had a little provision in the haversack
slung over his shoulders. He ate sparingly, and
took a draught of water from a spring that
trickled from the rock. Then he looked about
him for some means of gaining the shore. He
saw no way to reach it, for an attemptto swim
through those rushing waters must have result-
ed in his being borne over the cataract and
dashed upon the rocks below. He climbed to the
summit of the rock and discharged his rifle sev—
eral times, hoping that the report might be dis-
tinct enough above the roaring of the cataract
for his friends to hear it. ..

But the day passed without his seeing a hu--

man being.- Again he entered the cave, and
there he passed another night, sleeping tolerany
well in spite of his situation.

Next morning, just as he finished his scant
breakfast. he heard udesp rowl rising above
the noise of the water. On coking toward the
shore he beheld an enormous tiger moving to
and fro along the bank, and apparently enraged
because it could find no means of reachin the
cave. The creature was about sevsn feet on ,
with its los<y stripes slightly stained with r -
dish cart and mud. Its head was broad and
massive, and the width of its paws indicated the
terrible length and strength of its claws.

On seeing Warner it commenced lashing its
tail more furiously than ever, showing its fangs
and glaring fiercely at the boy, whom it was
unabe to reach through those rushing waters,
which, in spite of its great strength, would have
borne it over the cataract, .

“ Ha»! my friend!” muttered Warner. “ It
appears to me that I have things pretty muclr
my own way.” . ,

His rifle, which he had carefully dried after
his adventure with the ourang-outang, was load-
(gl. dHe took aim at the head of the tiger and

re .» '

But it chanced that the brute had moved to
one side just as the wee on went off, so that the
bullet slantineg struc his flank, inflicting a
slight wound. .

The fierce animal roared and gnashed its teeth

:gd its eyes flashed with rage as it glared at the

is if aware” that the youth was reloading,
and would fire again, it gave one last growl of
gamed rage and made oiltbrough the shrub-

el‘y. ’ . .

“Good riddance,” muttered Will; “ but I
wish I had killed it."

In the course of the day the wind blew a heavgr
gale. The roaring of the forest trees, blen —
ing with that of the cataract. made a deafening
noise. Now and then the youth could hear the
crashing of falling trees.

in the afternoon the wind abated. Warner
saw a long tree drifting down the stream to-
ward him. It had been torn u by the roots,
and, evidently being on the ban of the stream,
it had fallen into the. water.

Soon it struck the rock on which the boy
stood, and being thus held, one end of it swung
round against another rock close tothe bank,
thus forming a bridge.

“Good!” cried Warn 1'. ' " Now, then, I have
the means of leaving t is place to look for my
friends."

He slung his rifle across his back, and was
half-way across the trunk of the tree, when the
same tiger he had wounded, came bounding from
the shrubbery beyond the bank!

With its flank i‘eddened by the blood from
the wound Will had inflicted, the hairs about
its head bristling, its eyes bulging, and ugly
wrinkles about its nostrils showing just above

its long fangs, the creature presented a terrible

aspect.

It made a spring for the tree. and the startled
boy knew there was no time to lose. He quickly
unslung his rifle, and getting down on his knees
to steady himself, for the trunk was very shaky,
he beck quick aim and tired.

A hideous yell escaped the red throat of the
beast; with the blood streaming from one side
of its jaw, it made a tremendous bound which
brought it within a few yards of Warner. V

The latter, endeavoring to reload his piece,
had retreated back toward the rock, but tie he
could fire again, the tiger, which had crouched
fin the tree- trunk for another spring. must reach

1m.

With a terrible growl the creature came
whirring through the air; but at the same mo.
ment the sharp [kal of a rifle from the shrill};
her was heard, and the monster came down
on its side Within a foot of the youth, who had
dodged it with a bullet in its side. ‘

“lil-yah! hi~yahl Whoop! tharl Top 0’ the
rock, friend, so I kin give the critter some
more 1” came the voice of Lionheels, as he bound—
ed lightly from the bushes. I .

The tiger was on its feet in an instant; with
open jaw—furious—bloody—terrible in its rage,
it was about to spring (n the boy, when being!
went the other barre of the hunter’s rifle, and
down sunk the brute, struck by another bullet.

“Thar, yer greaser, ye’r’ a gone coon now, ‘
shore! Yer mought as well leave my friend
alone 'est to ’blige me I” cried the hunter, as he
darte along the trunk of the tree. .

Warner h . d gained the top of the rock. The
tiger was making furious hut vain efforts to
follow him, when Lionheels came up, his long *
knife in his right hand, as he had not had time
to reload. .

Confronting the savage beast, the hunter
aimed a swift, strong blow at the monster, as
it sprung toward him. The keen blade sunk to
the butt in the animal’s breast; at the same mo-
ment be step nimbly to onelside, and drove
the knife again into the brute’s body. But now,
with a lightning-like movement, the tiger,
whirling round, knocked the youth down,
planted its claws in his breast, and its teeth
must have torn his throat to pieces had he not
driven his knife into its nee . At the same
moment, Warner, who had had a chan e to re-
load, sent a bullet throu -h the animals heart.
Its claws relaxed their ho d of the hunter, who
sprung quickly to his feet. .

“Yer shot didn’t go right,” said Lionheelsto
Warner. “You fired too near the top 0’ the
critter’s head; his brain hain’t tedied i"

In fact the brute now rising on its hind feet,
made another snap at Lionheels, who, however,
again planted his kniie in its breast. As it
dropped, the creature flinging out its claws,
caug t the young hunter and dragged him
down with it.

For a few seconds, the twain rolling over and _.
over, struggled there on the rock; '

f‘ Blames! Thunderationl Ker—whoa ec—pl ,
Thar yer have it! I kin make yer  fly;
Ugh! Lord! May the yeerth open and _
yer! 'Keep {er dratted claws to yerself-i Good
gracious! ta, e that~and that-and 
ether, now, it’s all up with yer goose!”

Thus exclaiming as he taught the tiger,
assisted by Warner, who again and againdrove
his knife into the body of the beast, 
finally sprung up, his hunting-shirt nearly tam ,
from his body, which was covered with '
scratches. . , _ _ ‘

The tiger on its side was now drawing its last
breath and soon, with one spasmodic roll of its
eyeba _, it expired. I . - .

CHAPTER X.
301mm. /
“ YER kin be shore that you‘ve had a nutter

’scape this time,” said the hunter,“ the two

boys shook hands. “That ti may be the

same that chawed oco, and e mought have

served you up too, adn t I heerd his infurnal
growlin’ a few minutes sence. fesser

has been much consumed ’bout yer, ind we‘ge

been s’archin’ for yer, but as ther’ was no trail

to strike, we couldn’t find head not tail of when

case, when ’wa down-stream We saw the y
of a ourang, w ich had been stabbed to death, ,
and seein’ which set me this way}: ‘

Warner now gave an account of his adventure-
with the ourang-outang. ‘ \

He repeated the story on reaching the place
in the woods, where Lionheels, on this day, had
left the professor. , ‘

The latter listened attentively. ,

“ The ourang-outan ," he then remarked, “is
a very powerful anima —-—much stronger than he
looks to be. I have heard of this creature pulling
up small trees by the roots. It is seldom that
he moves along the ground as he is better fitted
for climbing. Seldom either is he s“ edto
assume a perfectly erect position, is arms -
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young friend, can you inform me how he?

carried you?"
“Being stunned at the time I cannot tell.

When I came to, it held me on the drifting log .

With one of its arms, and was, I belieVe, in a
squatting posture.” . .
"I am sorry I was not there to see his posi—

tion when he sprung with you, as he must have ,

done, upon the drifting log. It appears to me
he could not have done this without keeping
nearly upright. I will make a note of that.”

The ‘ hardships through which Werner had
lately passed had. weakened him so that the trio
thought it best to halt a week before continuing
their journey.

On the eighth day after the combat with the
tiger. as they were passing through a valley at
night, Warner stumbled over something, which
he at first fancied was a log.

The professor holding up the lantern he.
carried, the rays fell upon the form of a dead
man—evidently a native.

He lay on his back, his head nearly severed
from his body, a broken knife clutched in one
hand. *

“Thar ver are; another robbery,” said Lion-
heels. “ The chap has been murdered by thieves
for his gold-dust. The traders come this way
with that gold-dust, and sometimes the robbers
lie in wait to waylay ’em.”

Warner shuddered.

“The deed has not long been done,“ he re«
marked. “ It must, I should think, by the
looks of the dead, have happened within a few
hours.” I

“ Right, friend, yer kin be shore of that, and
we mought as well. have our rifles ready.”

“ You don’t think thieves 'will attack us?” said
the rofesser.”

“ hey mought or they mought not. They
know yer have plenty of money about yer, pro—
fessor. - V

’1 We will give them ahot reception if they
molest us.” said Warner. '

“We’ll need to. The raskils go in troops like
wolves, and they're slyer than weasels. They
lie in wait like sarpints. to pounce on such na-
tives as ass with their little bags made of blad-
ders, ful 'of gold-dust.”

“ The banditri you speak of are, I believe,
mostly Javanese,” remarked Punk.

“ Right, sir. lf‘ ther’ wasn’t any of them
Javans on this island, ther’d be no robberies,
t’other chaps not being given to highway thiev-

int”

The
whenythey arrived before a narrow defile or

rge between two'ridges of rock. Here Lion-

eels used. He had detected dark forms on
one o ‘ tbe- ledges. remaining visible only an in—
stant and then vanishiu .

“If I’m not mistook t ethi ves is about,” he
said. “I reckin they’re tryi ’ to catch us in
that gorge, so that they kin blaze away at us.
We‘ll, est stop the? little game for em. We’ll
keep ong on each of them ridges, two of us on
one side, and t’other on the other. They
mot: ‘ht’gnot be thieves-at all, but it’s best to be

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“‘ I’ll take one of the ledges,” said the pro‘

lessor, "and you and Warner can take the
other"

“Well, yer kin take the righthand one. I
don’t thin thar‘s any of the raskils thar. I
b’lieve they're all on the left side. ”

“In that case I'll take the left side,” said
Punk.

"T’other’s better for you, professor, seeiu' as

, you’re the one they want to rob, so the further

you" keep from ’em the better. Besides, it’s
portant one on us should scout thar, as ther’
mou’ght be some of the (biases thar, too.”

The professor examined his rifle carefully, to
make sure it was in good condition.

, The three then started, Warner and the
hunter hscend'in the left-hand ridge, and'Punk
the one on the ght.

Ad they moved forward, the chasm separating
them not more than five feet wide, was nar-
row enough for them to see each other in the
gloom. '

By Lionheels’s advice the professor had extin-
guished his lantern, which otherwise might

ave Served as a. target for the thieves.

“ I think I saw a figure just now,” said Warner
to his com union.

‘hWh r ’ /

The boy pointed to a clump of bush-cs, about , .
Q urdly gang that they were fairly panic stricken!
along as you’re goin’ and have '
yer eye on he professor, while I go to that ‘

twent yards from the edge of the ravine.
“ ell, kee

clump.”
So so ing Llonheela walked carelessly toward

had proceeded about a mile further,

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The night was dark,,but throuflgh the gloom I
the hunter could see crouching gures behind
the twigs and leaves. »

All at once there was a flash, followed by the
report of a musketoon, and Lud heard the whist-
ling of a bullet close to his ears.

“ Hello! thar they are—the infernal musk-
rats i” cried the hunter.

With a single bound the naturalist cleared the
chasm, and, with Warner, ran toward the

' speaker.

“ Hold on, thar, professer—not too fast!” said
Lionheels, as Punk was about to blaze away at
the bushes. “Don’t waste yer lead!"

“Surely you would not have us run from
those mean scoundrels?" cried the professor, in-
dignantly, as Lud drew back, motioning to his
companions to follow.

“ No—no—thar’s no use 0’ runninfiil answered
the hunter, quietly. ’Twould be shore to make
matters worse. There’s ’bout a dozen Javans
behind that bush, but, fortunitly for us, I reckin’
only a few of ’em hns musketoons. Thar’s one
now on a. line with yer head, professor,” he
coolly added.

As uick he thought, while speaking, he raised
his ri e and fired.

A wild scream was heard". The outline of a
dark form was seen tovleap upward, and then
sink back upon the ground.

“ He'd 0’ settled yer taters fer yer, professor,
hadn’t Ipsrvented him," said Lionheels, as he
now drew Punk behind some rocky bowlders,
near the edge of the chasm.

“A good place for a stand,” remarked War-
ner. .

“ Yes, here’s whar we must fight from," said
Lionheels, as be reloaded the discharged barrel
of‘his rifle.

“ You have saved my life, and I thank you,”
said Punk, cordially. ‘

“ Don‘t mention it, professer. Lord bless you,
thar’ll be lives enough to save ’fore we git
through.”

“Shall I fire, now?" inquired Punk, as be
aimed his rifle at the clump of shrubbery.

He pulled trig er ere the hunter could reply,
the leaves
and twigs of the bushes in all directions.

“Hah! a magnificent shot!" he cried, triumv

“ Good raciousl Yes, the shot was good
enough, on y yer sent it the wrong way,” said
Lionheels.

He pointed as he spoke to the outlines pf dark
forms creeping along a hollow some paces from
the bushes, which they had quitted about a
minute before the professor fired. v

“ Now, then,” continued Lionheels, ” the
faster we fire at them forms yer see, the better.
They’re creepin’ along, thinkin’ to ’scape our
shots and git at us, unbeknowin’. Let ’em have
it, taking keer to fire low!” v

His own rifle run as he spoke, and there was
another yell from t e robbers.

The ofessor and Warner also fired, the for-
merhe ping to frighten the enemy if he did not
hit them. '

Witha loud cry, the party, numbering eight,
rushed toward the trio. Two had musketoons,
the rest were armed with spears and kreeses.

As they came, several spears whistled along
and a musketoou was fired.

One of the spears struck Punk’s rifle, knock-
ing it from his asp, as he was‘about to fire.
The weapon wen off between his'legs, and the
professor naturally hopped up uickly, perform-
ing a on r as this he ned. he consequence
was the his‘heel struc a stone, he fell, and. be-
ing close to the edge of the gully, he rolled Into
it while trying to get up. The distance was
only eight feet, and landing upright, he was un-
hurt. But now the terrible conviction forced
itself on his mind that his friends would think
he had purposely abandoned them at this, their
most trying moment—that he had dropped into
the gully to be out of danger!

The thought was maddening.

“ It was an accident l" he shouted: " an acci-
dent! an accident! my brave friends! I am
with you again! I am coming!”

He ran round to the end of the gully and
fairly hounded along toward the bpwlders, but
his gallant career was suddenly stopped bV his
falling lump into the arms of one of the ava-
nese. all of whom had fled before the close,
deadly fire of Lionheel’s rifle, and also War—
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bugs dancin before his vision. ~

‘ What? ow? Halloa! Who are you?” he
cried, still confused, as his senses returned.

The robber had also recovered from the
shock. At the same moment several more came
up and stopped, speaking hurriedly.

At this the one who had collided with Punk,
seized the latter by the throat and pulled a knife
from his belt.

The professor drew oil.‘ and dealt him a sound-
ing thump with his fist between the eyes, knock-
ing him over on his back.

“ There, you nasty thief, take thatl” he cried.

Then he drew his revolver as the others closed
round,him.

“Back!” he cried, sternly, “ or you are all
dead men!’ ,

He pulled trigger, but unfortunately he had
forgotten, when he previousl loaded the wea-
pon, to cap it. The robbers urled him down,
and one was about to draw a huge knife across
his throat, when, with ready presence of mind,
the professor said:

“ f you kill me I cannot tell you where my
money is. Meanwhile you will oblige me by
telling me what has become of my friends.”~

“ Him go ’nothcr wa y after robbers who run
dat way. Come back soon. No wait for to
come back. You go with us.” '

They dragged the professor into the woods,
and having vainly searched his pockets, asked
him fiercely where his money was.

“ It is in the bank,” answered Punk.

“ How! What mean ?”

“Let go of me and I will tell you.”

They who held him let go. Thereupon he
kicked over the one on his right, knocked down
another with a blow of his revolver, which had
not et been taken away from him, and with a
sud en bound dashed 01! into the shrubbery and
the gloom. I

The robbers pursued a short distance and
Punk heard them close to him, when he darted
into a hollow tree, and commenced to climb it
by the protuberances inside. He went as far up
us he could. When he heard his’pursuers going
off, he descended. v

Now he endeavored to find his way back to
the gully, but could not. He got lost in the
woods, and his further progress was sudden]
stopped by a swamp into which he sunk to his
hips and would have gone over his‘ head had he
not clutched a. hanging branch. Having for

some time vainly striven to pull himself out by

this, he took his belt from hiswaist andcon‘
trived to strap one if his arms firml to the
branch, for the limb ached so that he cared his
hand might slip from its hold. '

With all his might be now called his friends,
but he heard no reply. Many hours passed. His
painful, prolonged situation was more than he
could bear and his consciousness left him.

Meanwhile his two friends were looking for
him. When they fled the roblers had sepa-
rated in different directions. ,

Lionbeels and Wamerpursued them a short
distance At length, giving up the chess, they
sought the gully, where they hoped to see the
prof? ssor waiting for them. ~

Not finding him there, they commenced a
search. It was a fruitless one. Devlin came:
neither‘had thought of $199 and both were
nearly exhausted. At last order slept while
the hunter watched. Then it wasvrbe other’s
turn, and thus they obtained a few hours’ re-
pose, which greatly strengthened them to con-
tinue the search. Lionheels at length saw the
trail of the robbers, and followed it. It
turned oil? in different directions. He was
puzzled to know which way to go. _

“You .think the robbers have captured the
professor?” said Warner, aghast.’

“ Yes, yer kin be shore of it.”

“Then they have killed him!” cried the boy,
sadly.

“ It mought be and posserbly it moughtn’t.”
All at once he stared at the ground. A long,
white liuewa whole army of urge white ants
was there, moving straight forward, all the
insects apparently going in one direction.

“I don't like to see that," said Lionheels.
shaking his head. “ It 'mought mean nothing
partikelar, but I’m afeared it does.”

"What do you think?” i

“ I reckon them littie critters are after st "‘6-
thin’nsomethin' more than common—m dead
body, p’r’haps.”

“Good Heavens! the professor!”

“I’m afeared so, but let‘s hope not. We‘ll
foller the track of them-ants.”

They did so, walking a quarter of a mile PI‘P
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' something sticking up from the swamp.

“ Is that a human body i” cried Warner.

From the top downward the object was
covered with white ants, so that its surface was
indistinguishable.

“Good Lord! yes,” replied Liouheels, “it’s
a human body shore enough but them critters
will have it if we let ’em. I've known ’em to
make away with a chunk of bufleler meat in
two nights.” _ '

“ Don’t for God‘s sake tell me this is the pro-
fessor.” -

“I’m afeared it is, or all that’s left of him!

.‘How much that is, we kin only find out by

lookin’.”

So saying, the hunter mounted the tree to
which the professor bad lashed his arm, broke
oflfa branch, and crawling out on the bough,
commenced to brush off the ants.

They seemed in no hurry to let go their hold,
3111!: at last the unconscious man was cleared of

em.

“Thar yer are! Fortunitly they haven’t, I
should say, but jest commenced, so that ’ceptin’
a few bites the professor’s not harmed by
thom !”

“ But he seems to be dead," cried Warner.

“ I hope not. We kin find out.”

Warner, who had climbed the tree, was soon
assisting the hunter. Finally the naturalist was
pulled out, and with some difficulty was raised
upon the branch.

Lionheels sprinkled his face with water from
his canteen, and Punk came to. As soon as
possible he was assisted to the ground. A little
brandy from a flask which the hunter had with
him, helped to revive the exhausted naturalist,
and he was at length assisted to the ground.

His story was soon told, but, even as he spoke,
his gaze was fixed upon the white ants which
were now moving off.

“My friends,” he said, addressing his com-
panions, “You came in good time. These ants
(salads) neuropterous insects, are very destruc-
tive, very dangerous. They destroy merchan-
dise, linen, chairs, tables, even houses. In Some
countries, criminals who are bound and exposed
to them, are consumed to the very bones in a
few daysl” \

Supported by Warner and the hunter, the
naturalist repaired to a stream and the mire
was washed from his clothing. Exposure to
the rays of the sun soon dried im thoroughly,
but he had suffered too ‘much to continue the
journey that day.

Passing through the gully, the three finally
halted in a deserted but, where they remained a
couple of days, by which time the professor was
asptrong and Well as ever. '

hey then kept on their way, but they had
not proceeded far. when they heard a great
noise in the shrubbery ahead of them.

It was a trampling as of some beast rushing
through the hosts , while in the distance came
the shouts and yells of natives.

“ A deer-hunt,” said Lionheels. “ I kin Smell
the animile, which has a strong scent.”

“I also recognize the well-known scent," said
the profeSsor; spoiling the air.

The hunter cocked his rifle.

The trampling of the cumin beast drew
nearer. .All at once he came brea ing from the
shrubbery, showmg himself to hen stag of large
size, measuring about sixTeet. .

Lionheels aimed his rifle. pointing it straight
toward the snout of the brute. , ,

The report of the piece rung sharply, and the
animal fell. . ..

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CHAPTER XII .
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The professor, drawing his knife, bounded
toward theoreature, but the latter Sprung up
and drove his antlers toward the naturalist.

. “Back‘ that. QTOIBSSer, backl” cried Lion-
‘Yer kin do nothin’ yet with yer
knife!” ‘

But the beast had already hooked one of its
horns in Punk’s coat, and he was hurled down.

In a few seconds the animal wquld have gored
him to death had not the hunter sent a bullet;
from his rifle through lbs head.

The creature fell upon the-prostrated man, but
even while dying it got Its antlers Over his
stomach, and was about to dig them into his
flesh whenhLionheels drovevthe pomtroi'. his
knife into its throat, and With a quick move-
ment inflicted a fatal gash. .

This finished the brute, and the Professor, at
yetunhurt, Was helped to his feet.

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“An ugly beast,” he remarked, looking down
at the animal. ,

Meanwh lo the shouts of the pursuing natives
had been drawing nearer.

All at once an enormous animal came flying
along like a thunderbolt from the shrubbery.

It was a wolfsdog—a fierce-looking creature,
as block as night, with eyes like redrhot coals
and fangs long and sharp.

In an instant the professor raised his rifle and
point (1 it toward the beast.

“ Hold up thar, friend 1" cried Lionheels.

“ That critter is tam»: enough; it won’t hurt
yer; it’s after the stag."
’ In fact, had the naturalist stopped to take no«
ticc he would have seen that there was a. slender
rod collar around the throat of the dog But in
his hurry be neither heeded this not the words
of his companion.

“Crack!” went his rifle and down went the
dog sprawling on its back as the bullet passed
through its head.

“ Thar now, professor, I’m afeared yer have
got us into a hornet’s nest by that shot. Heer
comes a rajah with his men, and the critter be-
longed to him.”

In fact, the rajah, spear in hand, was seen
fast approaching. He wore a red cotton sack,
loose trowsers, a. sash and a skull-cap. Behind
him came about thirty natives, also armed with
spears. ‘

The rajah stopped in front of the trio and

looked at his dead dog.

Then he scowled and shook his clinched fist at
the travelers. /

“ Why kill him—be no hurt,” he said.

“ It was through a mistake,” said Lionheels.
“One of our party thought it was mad. Yer
have no bisness to have each fierce critters run—
nin’ a", large, an way,

“ Which one kill my dog?" inquired the rajah
fiercely.

“ That I don’t- keer to tell.
seein’ as he’s done for."

“ I killed the animal,” spoke up the professor
in a firm voice, “ killed it thinking this animal
was a mad one. While I regret I made the mis-
take, I' must agree with my friend Liouheels
that such ferocious‘looking creatures should not
be allowed to run at large. ”

The rajah said something to his followers in
be native tongue. Then, as if satisfied with
Punk’s explanation, be advanced and looked

It don’t mattfir,

down at the stag, taking no further notice of the

whites.

The latter continued their way, but now and
then Lionheels would direct a sidelong glance
behind him.

“We had no trouble with those people after
all.” said the naturalist.

“ Not jest now, but or don’t know them ra-
‘ahs as well as I do. or kin be shore we hain’t

eerd the last about that dog yet.” .

“They show no intention of following us,”
remarked Warner, looking behind him., ‘ They
are moving on."

“ Yes, and ther may be no .trouble; but, skin
me (or a coon, if I don’t reckin ther’ Will be.”

So dense was the shrubbery, and so many
were the swamps they were obliged to pass
round, that the'trio made but little progress that

day. ,

At night, which was a dark one, they halted
near the edge of a valley» ,

The naturalist and armor took the first
watch. Lionheels, who now felt the necessity
of keeping a sharp lookout, had told them to
wake him if they heard any suspicious noiss.

The boy and his companion were walkin to
and fro, when, sudden] , the former fancier? he
heard a slight rustling in the shrubbery a few
yards oflf. ' >

“ Did you hear‘that, professor?” he said.

“Yes; crhaps the wind—perhapsa bird or
other sma 1 animal.”

“I am goin to see if I can what made that
noise,” said arner, cocking his rifle.

“ if you must go I will go with you,” said the
professor.

The two glided toward the thicket. They
peered into it, but they could see nothing in the
de'ip gloom.

ey entered the thicket, and had moved for-
ward a few paces, when both were seized. hurled
down and bound with thongs.’

Before they c0uld_cry out strong cloth bands
were tied over their months, they feltthem-
selves lifted upon a art of rude litter, and borne
ra idly forward. I ,

,I‘heir abductors carried them a mile before
they stopped. In the darkness they could see
only the outline of these people, but they judged
them to be the followers of the rajah.‘ ‘ '

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by side, and the bandages were removed fro n
their months Then each of them felt the end
of a rope fastened about his neck.

“Is it possible they are going to hang us?"
said the professor.

“It appears so!" cried Warner, in dismay.

“How unreasonable!" ejaculated the natur-
alist. “What monsters the island tribes are!
The races here have some of the characteristics
of creatures but little removed from the gorilla.
In fact Buifon, and with him—"

“They are tying another ro .. to my feet.
How is it with you, sir?” said arner'at that
moment. -

" I believe they are hitching one to mine-
also,” said Punk.

The natives now walked away from the two.

“ What on earth are they' going to do with
us?” cried Warner.

Just before dawn they heard a heavy tramp,
and dimly saw two enormous dark bodies go
past the spot where they lay.

Warner strained his eyes to make out what
the two passing objects were. but in vain. The
darkness was so great that he could not even
detect their outlines.

At dawn he saw them plainly enough. The
were\ two monstrous elephants, round wbic
were collected, with the same rajah whose dog
had been shot, by the naturalist, about twenty
of his followers. ,

Presently one of the brutes was led to a spot
about fourteen paces beyond the two prisonersl
feet. the other animal was posted the same dis
tance beyond their heads. Then the further
ends of the ropes which had been fastened to
their breasts and necks, were secured to the
hind legs of the animals.

“ It is easy to see now what they mean to do,”
said the professor. ‘

“ God help us!” 'cried Werner. “I believe
they are going to make those beasts pull on the
re s, so as T0 man us snarl”

‘lam afraid so; it is a terrible we to die,
but we must try to meet our fate Ii e brave
men. ,

Warner could not but admire the firm, ccm— .
posed manner of his companion in this trying
situation.

The voices of the natives were now heard as
they endeavored to drive each of the ele hunts
forward. The animals seemed at first ow to
obey, but finally they started. ' '

The ropes began to tauten, and the two beasts
moving in opposite directions, it seemed as if
the doom of the prisoners was certain~thet the
body of each would be torn asunder in the most _
horrible manner! .

CHAPTER XIII.
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AT this critical moment an agile form came
boundin from a thicket which lay a few yards '
to the le t of the prostrate couple. ‘

“ Hello! Blaaesl By the powers‘of this mor—
til yearth! What yer tryin’ to (lo—yer, cussed
Greasers?” . _’ 7,

It was Lionheols who spoke. With his knife,
he first severed the two ropes tied to his friends;
then he cut loose their bonds.

The next moment the trio were making for
the thicket, Lionheels going backward, so as to. ,.
cover the retreat, his ready rifle in his hands.‘

80 quickly had all this been done that the ..
rajah and his people, at first taken by surprise,
stood like statues. ' ”

But the angry voice of the chief soon was '
heard, and ha f a dozen .musketoons were dis-
charged at the fugitives, fortunately without ef~

foot.

The dead] rifle of the hunter replied, and“
the rsjah fel wounded. At him Lionheels bad
aimed. for he knew that the fall of this'person
would create a confusion which would greatly
delay the pursuit. In fact all the natives
gathered about their chief, and, for‘ some min—
utes as they dashed through the woods, the
three heard nothing to show they were being
followed. ’ ' r_ _ -

All at onca a tremendous trampling, crashing
noise sounded behind them. ..

“An elephantl" said Lionheelsz “ We kin
never beat that chap! ‘The natlves has/got
atop of him, I reckin, and is pnrsuin’ us that

way!” -
‘ .You are right,” said the professor. “ No .
human being can outrun an elephant, which
takes tremendous strides. The ancients under~
stood this fact, and a retreating enemy—3" ,
“Beg pardon, professor,” interrupted Lion-
heels, “ but we must stick to our tracks End
speak of present consarns. Now, heer’s my plan.
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that bridge, and if they try to it the critter
through the water, it’ll take time. ’

They soon gained the bank of the stream, and
crossed the bridge. ,

Then Lionheels pulled away the trees and
allowed them to drift with the torrent.

Beyond them there was an impenetrable
swamp] They could not follow the course of
the stream; because, a few ards along the
bank the ground had asharp event of about
Here there was a cataract, where
the water ed down a mass of steep rocks.

In the other direction the jungle, full of
sharp thorns and hriers, was too thick to pene-

, trate.

“it a pears tome we are cornered. What
can we 0 now?” inquired the professor. as he
glanced around him.

The hunter pointed to a tree near them with
thick branches, some of which grew near the
ground.

“ We must shin up than The leaves will hide
us, and I’m in hopes the infurnal varmints will
not ”see us and will be puzzled to know w bar we
are.

The three were soon up in the tree, screened
by the leaves and twigs. Through interstices
there they presently saw the elephant as itcame
striding on, with twenty armed natives on its
back. The riders looked about them, puzzled
to know the direction the fugitives had taken.
Tansy stopped the elephant and gazed around
t em ‘

Unfortunately the professor, seeing a curious
fly’ on a leaf, leaned over so far that his head
was for a moment visible to one of the natives.
He said something to the rest, and the elephant
was kept on toward the stream.

“ They’ve see’d us!" said the hunter. “ Yer
head’s a. good one, professor. but you oughtn’t
to have showed it to the raskils jist now.”

As he spoke Lionheels raised his rifle, and a
torrent of fire seemed to pour from the tree.

The sharp tin of the piece was followed by
the tumbling 0 one of the natives from the
back of the elephant. The hunter’s eagle glance

'had detected the man about to point his muske-

toon toward the tree.

The rest of the natives. probably thinking
they were too conspicuous as marks for the
deadly rifle, sprung from the back of the ani—
mal, and kept behind him as they drove him
forward.

“19’: ’in} my princi les to shoot a. noble
animile e the ,” said onheels, looking to-
ward the elephant, “butI kin see no help for

' it now!”

Again and again the crack of his long ride
rung upon the'air, until the whole tree seemed
to spout smoke and fire.

Ten times had he fired and each time had he
put abullet in the animal, but the latter came
tram ng steadily on.

“ he strength and vitality of the elephant is
truly remarkable,” said the professor. “It has
been known to recover after receivin thirty
bullets in the fleshy part of its body. at ow-
in to the thickness of its skin, the bullets do
no netrate very far.”

“fight, professer. I have been tryin’ to git

throng: the critter’s‘e e into its brain,

butit seems know what ’m at and keeps
tum? its head sideways.” A

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sking its ‘trunk through the 'ir, it

tremble under its feet. As it knowing whence
every shot came, it made a straight line for the

tree.
‘ Meanwhile the natives had screened them—
selves behind some mounds of earth, whence
the kept up a fire with their musketoons,
wh ch however, were badly aimed.
The an or of the ole hant having been
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on its way without guidance.
reaching the stream the monster never
paused, and so tremendous was its strength,

7 that the current scarcely interfered with its

p Lionheels could no longer fire at it. It was
now so near that the branches interposed be-
twnen his rifle and the beast.

Rushing straight at the tree, the gigantic

. brute, seized it with his trunk, and pulled at it.

It was alarge tree, but it rocked like a ship’s
mast in a go 9.

“Hahl hshl” laughed the professor. “I
have heard of your pulling up trees by the

‘ roots.- Master Elephant, but not such a big one

as this, so you may as well give it it up.”
,“1 hain’t so there of that, professer,” re-
marked Lionheels. “Yer kin feel that the

hant now appeared to be in la terrible

 

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roots of this tree is not very sound. The
ground’s too soft.”

“ If you will lend me our rifle,” said War-
ner to the hunter, “I wil go and try to shoot
the elephant in the eye.” ‘

“ i reckin’ Pd 0’ done that myself, had ther
been any way,” said the hunter.

“That critter’s trunk would be round yer in
a minit, crushiu’ the life out of yer, ’fore yer
could reach the round.”

“’;I‘rue,”said unk. “But what are we to

“'Stay whar we are. Thar‘s nothin’ better
offers at present. When .the tree falls, which it
sartinly will, it’ll go over, toward the stream,
on the elephant, pnshin’ the critter into the wa-
ter. The animile will break the fall. As it is
we’re only ’bout twenty feet from the ground.
With this big tree on the elephant, p’raps ther’ll
be a chance of our gittin’ ofi‘."

Even as he s oko the three felt the tree going.
It struck the e ephant with a violence that sent
him down on his side in the water. The shock
was greater than the hunter had expected, and
he and his companions were buried into the
stream. The professor contrived to clutch a
rock and‘get upon it, but \Vurner and Lionhecls
were whirled alon straight toward the cata-
ract, to go over w ich upon the rocks far be—
low must result in their being dashed to death.

But 'ust as he gained the brink of the cuta~
ract, ionbeels, with one hand succeeded in

aspiug a branch of the tree which the ele hunt
in its struggles, had caused to swin ronn .

Warner also tried to clutch the ranch; but
he missed his hold, and in another second he
would have been carried over the falls had not
the young hunter seized him with his disengaged
hand and held firmly to his collar.

Gradually, and by exerting tremendous
strength, Lionheels drew the boy near enough
to the branch for him to grasp it.

‘ “ Now then, we kin git on the tree,” said Lud.
“Good gracious! how the elephant is squirmin’
and tearin' about!”

This made the tree very unsteady, but the
twain got upon it.

Lionheels crept along rapidly until opposite
to Like professor, whom he also helped to the
run .

“ Now for the bank,” he said.

As the three made their way toward the bank
opposite to the one from which the tree had
fallen, and which its further end touched, the
struggling elephant flun its trunk wildly about
in the air, so near the na uralist’s head that he
was obliged to dodge it rapidly.

“Ishould say the trunk of this animal is
seven feet in length,"he remarked, when nearly
out of danger. “Sometimes the trunk of the
elephant is eight feet long. Cuvier reckons the
number of muscles controlling its action not far
from 40,000. Its sense of smell is very acute,
and that is why it knew so well where to track
us. I would here remark that there is a slight
difference between the fndian and the African
eleplhant, the latter having Larger ears and a.
big or back, also—-” '

Here the elephant gave the tree so tremendous
a swing that t e professor was flung head over
heels into the water.

Lionheels quickly helped him up, and the three
were soon on the bank. ‘

They saw nothing of the natives, for these
people, thinking their enemies would be carried
over the falls, had run to the bottom of the de-
clivity where the cataract fell. .

“ Ther’s no time to lose,” said Lud, “ ’specially
as this friend of mine hain‘t worth sbucks at
present, arter the duckin" it’s bad.”

He tap ed, as he spoke, his rifle, which he had
slun§ to is back before he fell.

” or your ammunition either, I suppose,”
said the professor.

“Thar yer mistake, sir. The powder’s par-
feckly dry, as l kee it in a water-ti ht pouch.”

He led the way a on the bank. hen some
distance elf, the three coking behind them saw
tlfie elephant get out of the stream onto the
s or".

“The water was not deep enough to drown
the creature,” said Warner.

“ My young friend,” said the professor, “ the
elephant would not have drowned in water ever
so'deep, for he is an excellent swimmer; in fact,
bathing and swimming are among his chief en—
joyments.”

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CHAPTER XIV.
A TIMELY snor.

Tm: three travelers made good p . On
the next day they arrived at a small guwh set-
tlement, where the professor and Warner pro-

 

cured new rifles, 0. stock of ammunition and
provisions enough to last them for a few days.
Having rested here nearly a week, they kept

(:n.

The countr became wilder and wilder as they
advanced. hey encountered dark forests, so
full of shrubbery that they had hard work to
force a way through, dee long valleys, mount-
ain ridges, and here an there rapid streams
which were dimcult to cross.

On the second night after leaving the settle-
ment, they gathered a number of cocoanuts,
with which they meant to refresh themselves
on the following morning.

Making their way to a sheltered hollow in a.
mountain ridge, which they would be obliged
to cross, they here concluded to pass the nig t.

The cocoanuts were placed on a flat rock a
few feet from the hollow.

“If yer beer any animile or thing of that
sort, wake me,” said Liouheels to lVarner, who
was to have the first watch.

So saying, the hunter stretched himself out,
not far from the professor, and he and the latter
were soon fast as eep. .

With his rifle over his shoulder, Warner was
walkin to and fro, when he fancied he heard a.
crunching, cracking noise not far oii‘. .

The air was misty, but the moon was shining,
hanging like an inverted canoe above the top-
most ridge of the mountain. I

The bo_ , cocking his rifle, walked in the di-
rection o the noise he heard. Ahead of him he
could dimly see the outlines of a dark object.
When still nearer, he discovered that it was a,
large black bear, which was. making great havoc
with the cocoanuts on the flat rock. The ani-
mal would crack the shell with its teeth, and
then holding the parted fragments with its
paws,would gnaw the sweet white kernel greed-

) y.

“I’ll soon settle you, you black thief,” mut-
tered Warner.

He took aim with his rifle, when, looking u ,
tit); bear saw him, and, with a low growl, ma e
o .

Determined to have a- shot at him, Warner
endeavored to keep him in sight. ‘

At length he saw him moving among the rocks,
near the summit of the elevation, and takin aim,
he fired. The bear disappeared, and anger
searched for him. At last he sat down near
the edge of the recipice to rest. At that mo-

ment he saw a ark object approaching briskly.

“Halloa! the bear again! cried the boy.
“ So I did not hit him. after all 1”

He took careful aim and fired, but the bear
was not touched, and, with a deep grow], it
came on. '

Before the boy could reload itwss close to
him. He struck at it with the butt of the piece,
but the creature caught the weapon with its
strong teeth, and jerked it from his grasp,
throwing it on the rock. '

Warner drew his knife. and tried to get away
{rem the edge of the precipice. The bear headed
him off. He aimed a blow at it with his knife,
but the monster knocked the weapon from his
hand with one stroke of its paw. Thus de-
prived both of his rifle and knife, the boy
glanced quickly along tbewall of the precipice,
thinking ‘he might descend it. There was a
parently a rock projection just beneath e
edge, upon whic he thought he might mans e
to crouch and thus escape the bear, which c d
not reach him there.

Quickly clutching a little ridge on the edge
of the elevatiqn, he dangled down and touched
with his feet what had seemed tube a rocky shelf,
but which now crumbled under him, affording
him no sup rt, for it was in reality.merely
some loose as th, sticks'and stones, which had
collected about a crevice.

A thrill of horror went through himl

There he hung, fully three hundred feet above
the ground, with a black bear ready to spring
upon him! '

The animal, With a fierce growl, advanced,
and Warner realized that he must either let so
his hold, to be dashed to pieces so far below, or
have his skull crushed by the fangs of the mon—
ster! r

At that monent he heard thefamiliar voice of
Lionheels ringing in his ears:

“ Thunderation, boy! Hold on, that, hold on
like blazes, or you’re a gone coonl” '

“What can you do?” come the _voxce.of the
rofessor. “ His head ,is on a lme With the
car’s. We cannot shont the bear through the

head without hitting him, and yet there seems
to be no time to lose.”

“ Thar you’re right, but, for the Lord’s sake
professer, don’t you try to firel Jest leave it all
to me.” .

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As he spoke. Liouheels, who was about twen-
ty paces behind the bear, took aimand fired.

It required the nicest precision to hit the
bear without harming the boy, and yet so cor-
rect and steady was the hunter’s aim, that his
bullet passed throu h the head of the animal,
and just grazin arner’s ear, rattled against
the opposite wal of rock.

The bear fell over on its side, and to make
quick and sure work, Lionheels, knife in hand,
bounded upon it and cut its throat Wlth the
keen blade.

Warner now climbed upon the edge of the
elevation to shake hands with the professor,
who had also arriVed.

“ Yer should have waked me the moment yer
hcerd the animile," said Lionheels. “ Only them
that’s used to b‘ars and sech critters kin do good
work ag’in”em. It was yer rifle that waked
me in time to come to yer help.”

“What a splendid shot you fired,” said
Warner.

“ I reckin it wasn’t had. A b’ar doesn’t often
‘scnpe me when I git sight 0’ one; but good
gracious! friend, yer must 0’ sweat some, hang-
in’ thar to that precipice.”

“ True; I never felt so frightened in my- life,”
acknowledged the boy, laughin .

“ Well, well, ther's the way,‘ said Lionheels,
“of them that goes lookin‘ for monstrosities of
human hater with tails to’eml Yer mought be
shore ther’ was plenty of narrer ’scapes in store
for yer, and ther‘ may be more yet ’l‘ore we find
what we are arter."

“True,” said the professor, thoughtfully.
“ But I trust we are now close upon the Googon
country."

“If we meet no‘ ohstikles, yer kin reckin on
bein’ thar in ’bout two days. "

“Good,” said the naturalist.

Then he laid a hand on the body of the bear.

“ It is not so large as the bl wok hear of
America or Siberia,” he remarked. “ When
hungry, these creatures are very bold. They
will approach close to, and have even been
known to enter, a settlement. Although very
fond of flesh, they will greedin devour fruits
and vegetables.” ,

“ Thor’s not a feat many of the critters on
this island,” said ionheels, “ which, I neckin, is
on account of the tigers. They're afeard 0’
ti tars, which kin settle the’r ’tatersin no time.”

. ext morning, after breakfast, the three pur-
sued their way. v _ ‘

At night they selected a resting—place not far
from the shores of a small lake. 0n one'side
of the lake there was a. large rock, in which was
a cavern, half concealed by shrubbery.

Warner had strolled to this spot, away from
his companions, who were screened from his
gaze by a line of tall bushes. He stood looking
at the water which wasilighted by the rays of

the moon, when he heard a sort of grunt issuing .

from the month of the cave.
His curiosity being aroused, be cooked his
rifle, and advancing, peered into the hollow.

It was dark, but the boy could distinguish the‘

outlines of- an uncouth head and along, curved
born. there was a heavy tramp, and a
dark form of monstrous size, came rushing out
of {go cave]; d  kl

arner a step quic back, and now
as the light fell upon the aniiml, he could disI
tinctly make out its enormous proportions. and
plainly sue the long born projecting from its
nose.

It was coming straight toward him, its eyes
gl aringl fiercely.

“Ha loal Lionheels, this we l" he shouted.
and. taking aim with his rifle, e discharged it
at the beast.

But the bullet seemed to have no effect upon
the tough hide of the monster. On it came,
bellowmg like a bull.

Warner avoided it by springing to one side;
then he climbed to the top of the rock, which
was too steep for the unwieldy animal to as-
cend. At the base of the rock it stood, looking
up at him and tearing as if in a re e.

Again the boy loaded and fired, but be per-
coéived as bef0re that the bullet did not take
6 Pct.

“Look out, thar, look behind you!" shouted
Lionheels, who, followed by the professor, was
now approaching. _

The youth turned his head, to behold an
enormous striped tiger, CI‘OUChed uPM) a rising
pin-co of ground, apparently about to spring
upon him. ‘

“Jpljusaleml I’ve had enough

of tigers!” ejac.
mated the boy.

He gave one leap which brought him l"-0 the,

g"an on that side where stood the. horned uni.
am“ He landed a few yards from it.

 

“This way, for your life 1” shouted Lionheels.
“ Look out for the rhinoceros l”

The boy started to run, but the huge beast
came dashing toward him with lowered head.

“ Thar! I’m afeared he’s a gone coon!” cried
the hunter, who was still some yards off.

But as the great horn of the brute was

.thrust at him, Warner dropped upon the ground

and rolled over, barely avoiding it. Before he
could rise, he would have been gored by the
savage beast, but for an unexpected interposi-
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CHAPTER Xv.
A WILD BATTLE.

WHEN the boy sprung from the rock, the
ti'ver came bounding through the air.

its horrid yell was now blended with the
roar of the rhinoceros, as if it was remonstrating
with the latter for trying to cheat it of its in-
tended prey;

On hearing the voice of the tiger, its inveter-
ate enemy, the rhinoceros, answering with a
sullen roar, turned and faced its foe, seated on
the rock which it was furiously lashing with its
tail. Taking advantage of this diversion, War—
ner sprung up and soon joined Liouheels and
the professor, who then stood motionless, watch-
ing the two animals.

“Good gracious!”rried the hunter, “thar’ll
be some fun soon. Yer’ll see the fur fly l”

“The tiger is in no hurry to attack the rhi—
noceros,” remarked the professor. “ In fact,
with all its during, it seldom does so. The horn
is a terrible weapon of defense.”

“You’re right, professor: but thar’s now a
sort of challenge from that rhi’. and I reckin
the tiger won’t stand that. He’d sooner see the
yearth open and swaller him.”

In fact the ti er was already crouched for a
spring, and the unter had hardly ceased talk-
ing when its agile form clove the air.

The sturdy ‘rbinoceros received the body
upon its horn, but the wily foe had contrived
to avoid the point, and as,it rolled over it
clutched the thick neck of its adversary and
drew itself up on his back. It was about to dig;
its claws into the moneter’s e es, when the rhi—
noceros flung itself down an turned over.. To
avoxd bein pinned to the ground by that lruge
form the tiger let go its hold, retreated a. few
paces, and crouched for another spring. But
up rose its enemy and dashed strai ht at it,
making a lunge with his horn. he other
avoided it and again sprung at the eyes of its
opponent, when, quickl turning his head, he
drove his long, pointed cm deep into the belly
of the tiger.

'Such a yell as escaped the latter made even
Lionheels start. The tiger, transfixed by the
terrible horn, writhed and squirmed and twisted
itself in all directions in a vain effort to get
clear, the rhinoceros meanwhile, with deep, gut—
tural roars, shaking it to and fro.

Gradually the efforts of the dying animal
became weaker, when. with a sort of contempt-
uous grunt, the victor tosaed it away from him
upon the ground, where it soon expired. .

“ I must be sure to make a note of this aflair,”
remarked the professor, as he ran toward the
tiger. '

“Hold on. tharl Whar yer goin’?” cried the
hunter. “ That rhi’ will be at yer, if ‘yer don’t
look out I”

But Punk was already within a few feet of
the tiger, and now, with a. fierce roar, the rhi-
noceros dashed toward him with lowered born.

In a few moments he would have been killed
had not Liouheels sprung forward to his res
cue. , -

The hunter, crouching, aimed for the belly of
the brute and fired, ,on which the creature
stopped and turned toward this new adversary.

~ ‘ Thar! he’s got one load pill in him, which
hain’t easy to dergest, and beer goes another!”
cried the hunter.

Bang! went the rifle again, and a second bul-
let entered the monster’s belly. This seemed to
render his progress slower, and in a few min—
utes’ loading and firing, as he stepped backward,
Lionheels ended the life of the great beast,
which fell on its side with a crash.

“Your shots were delivered in the right
quarter,” remarked the professor. “The bein
is the only part of this beast in which a bullet
can take effect. The natives kill it in the Same
way. I wonder what animal we will see next?”

“Not many more, I reckin, seein’ as we are
now close on the Groogon country,” said Lion-
heels. “ We will reach it by tomorrow." .’

The professor seemed greatly eluted at this,
and shook hands with the daring young guide.

“I am really in a hurry to get there,” he

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said. “ Could we not make a good deal of ro_-_
gross by traveling on for a few hours to—mg t?"

“ Yes, but I thought yer monght be too tired,
and so didn‘t propose it.” .

The three deciding to keep on a. little further,
were soon moving forward. .

As they advanced, Lionheels, happening to
turn his head as they entered a thicket, saw
some dark forms dodge back behind trees. I

“ Please keep yer eyes behind yer,” he said to
Warner. “ I’m afeared them critters, whoever
they are, is follerin’ us!"

“ Who are they, natives?” inquired the boy.

“ I couldn’t make ’em out in the dark. It
seemed to me that ther was amost onnateral
lot of hair on ’em, but they was strai ht up and
down, so I take ’em to be human bein s.”

“ I will go and see if I can get a close look at
them,” said Warner. ‘

“ No, friend, yer better not, as we thought
lose time.” ,

“ So I think,” said. the professor. “In my
opinion the persons you saw are natives who
have been drawn this way by the report of
your rifle. They doubtless know what has taken
place and are after the rhinoceros, the flesh of
which is eaten by these people.”

, The trio proceeded some distance further,
when, reaching a small deserted hut, they re-
solved to there pass the night.

The hut was situated on the bank of a stream,
into which fell the waters of a small rent.
that descended down the side of a high oil" .

The rofessor stood the first watch outside,
while {ionheels and Warner lay down and
slept.

The hunter was the firstto awaken.

Rising and glancing toward the doorway, he
was surprised to perceive that it was blocked up
with large pieces of rock!

On trying to move them, he found that he
could not.

“Good gracious!” he cried, “thar’s been foul
play heer. It must have been done by them
chaps we saw in the woods.” .

\Varner, awakened byvhis exclamation, also
arose.

“ What can have become of the professor?”
he said, when Lionheels showed him the barrier
against the doorway. -

“ The Lord only kn0wsl Thor’s only one way
to git out, as thar’s no window beer. We must.
{Dry toflbatter away the woodwork with our rifle—

utts.

This they endeavored to do. But even while-
they were beating at the wood they became
aware of a smell of smoke. A crackling sound
heard at the same moment indicated that the
but was on fire

“Thunder! we must work sharp to ’git out-

I

’fore the fire makes corn-cakes of ,us cried
Lionheels.
But in ite of the eflerts of the two it

seemed psi they were doomed to be burned to
death before they could make an o hing large
enough to enable them to get out the hut!

CHAPTER XVI.
A D I: a 'r K '1‘ RA r . I

SMOKE and flames rolled into thoroom; the
two occupants were suflocating. 

Warner nearly overpowered, had dropped
exhausted. .

Outside yells and screeches were heard. ,
Through the crevices already made, menheels-
could now see several strange, hairy beings,
armed with rude spears, oapen'ng about in the
lurid light. . '

“By all the owers of .this yearthl” gasped.
the hunter. “ he cussed woodwork shall go,
it thar‘s any virtue in my heels!”

So saying, he threw himself down on his back,
and drawing up both legs, be dashed his heels
against the already loosened planks with the
force of a battering-ram.

Instantly with a crash‘ a couple of boards
gave way, leaving an opening large enough for
the two 0 crawl through. ’

Lud rushed out.

" Cl’ar the way. you cussed monkeys!” he
cried, pointing his rifle at the hairy natives, who
at once took to their heels.

He then drew out the half unconscious
Warner, and supported him to a. position away
from the fire. ~

The boy soon fully recovered his senses.

“I am afraid those people have killed the
professor,” he said.

Even as he spoke the two fancied they heard
a voice not far ofl'.

“ Help, my friends, help, or I shall, he
drowned l” _ ’

On searching they found the naturalist lashed
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was fast rising, and must soon have overflowed
his head.

They got him on dry land. Punk then shook
himself and advanced near enough to the fire
for it to dry his saturated clothing.

“ I s’pose them cussed hairyskms put yer thar
in the water, professor?" said Lionheels.

“ Yes. I was standing with my rifle over my
shoulder, when they came up behind me, and

jsnatchlng away the gun, seemed to inquire how
I came there, although I could not understand
,them, as they spoke in their native tongue. I

,‘ endeavored to make them comprehend by signs
that we came on a peaceable errand—to find
the reported monster man with a tail. They
must have misunderstood me, for they rudely
dragged me to the stream, and made me
fast to the rock where you found me. Then
they rolled some rocks down against the door-
way, thus blockin it up, after which they set
the but on fire. l’gMeanwhile I kept shouting.
hoping to awaken you, but I suppose the noise
of the torrent drowned my voice so that it could
not reach you.” v

“Them chaps must be grogons,” said the
hunter. “ Thar’s not much prospect of our
flndin’ the tall man with sech folks to deal with.
P’r’a 3, though, we kin find one who kin speak
a litt e English, and thar’s our only hope.”

“Yes, we must persevere, by all means,” re-
sponded Punk. “ We must not be discouraged.
1 must own that the sight of those strange men
has whettcd my curiosity to see more of
them."

“We mought See more of ’em than we like,
but I’m willin’ for all that to keep on, and do
the best I kin.” . '

“J deeply regret the loss of my rifle," said
Punk. “ But I still have a revolver, which, for-
tunate! , was in my coat-pocket, out of sight.”

The three passei the rest of the night on an
elevated shelf of rock, whence a good defense
Could be made if necessary.

At da'wn they took a survey of the country,
but they could see no signs of the Googons.

After breakfast they moved forward, Lion-

. heels now and then running on ahead to recon-

noiter as they advanced.
ll at once the hunter paused.

From a thicket ahead of them a short native,
whose form, naked everywhere except about
the middle, was covered with hair, and whose
face was shaped like a‘gorilla’s, advanced, hold-
ing up a spear from which hung the skin of

‘1 some wild beast.

“ The critter wants to'speak to us,” said the
hunter. “We kin go and see what he has to
say, but he must .come nearer ’fore we do, as
thar’s about a hundred of his people hidden be-

' ’ .rhind’him in them woods."

So saying, he motioned to the Googon to come

nearer.

The man hesitated, but, finally, he advanced

about thirty yards.

The trio soon reached him. As they ap~
roached he had been about to mn.‘but Lion-
‘eels contrived to reassure him by making

8) s.

‘ ,sl’ngular person,” remarked the professor,
.as he surveyed the man. “ He appears to be but
little removed from the ape.”

“Well, Goo,” cried Lionheels, as he brought
the butt- of his rifle to the ground, “ what have

' yer to say for gar-self? Speak English?" ‘

“Me speak~ ‘ en ’mong Englis
Few cdders me people 3 sh Eu lis’."

“80 Ishouid say by t 9 way t ey‘ treated us.
'Why, marcifjul heavens! they was goin’ to roast
us last night, if yer’ll believe me!”

“ Berry wrongi But me come to ‘poiogol
(apologize). Dem men t’ink you come to ’teal—
‘dat’s why like to burn—roast all do ’teai out,

. ' idem t’ink.”

, “So the critters was mistook! But what on
yearth have yer got that we kin steal l”

“Betta come and say you want to ’teal
Bumoo.”

“t What is that?"

“ Him great wonder—him more dan native—
hlm come from dere."

The man solemnly pointed upward as he
spo e.
“I reckin I take yer ‘meanin’—it’s a sort 0’
wooden image yer worship.”

‘f No—not wood—saliva Him body short, but
him hub long tail l”

‘ The professor fairly gisve a yell of joy, and
sprung up, clapping his ands.

“ At last- found at last!" he cried. “ So there
really is such a marvel—such a wonder, after
all! Ahl-“this indeed pays us for all the hard-

our journey! My good
friend,” he added, almost embracing the natiVe
In his joy, “you are entirely mistaken“ We

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have no wish to take away your Bumoo, as

you call him. I am a naturalist. and as such

have come thousands of miles to find yourtailed

lwoody. I merely want to see, but not to harm
im.

But the native shook his head doubtfully.

“Me understan’. Yua bug—catcher. you stick
pin through back, and make fast to board-kill

ird and stuff him—not for cats, but to put in
caserdat’s how you want to. serve man wid
tail.

“Upon my word, you are mistaken,” said the
professor. “Not for worlds would I harm a
hair either of the head or the tail of your
Bumoo.”

“ Come, Goo!” cried Lionheels, in a hearty
voice. “ Ycr kin be shore the professor means
what he says?”

“ I certainly do," said Punk. “ And now, my
friend, take us at once to Bumoo. I will re-
ward you handsomely."

“ Don’t t’ink Bumoo like white people see
him! But me go and speak him. f he say
yes, you may come.” -

“ Meanwhile," said Lionheels, “ yer better re-
turn the professer’s rifle, which one of yer peo—
ple stole from him las‘ night.”

“ No been see rifle—don’t know where is.”

An angry flash lighted the hunter’s eyes; he
caught the Googon by the throat—won d have
shaken him had not the naturalist interposed.

“No! no!" he said, trembling, lest, after all,
the native should prevent his seeing the tailed
phenomenon. "Never mind the rifle! In this
happy moment I feel as if I could lose all.”

Jest as yer say, professer,” cried Lionheels,
“ but if the rifle was mine, yer kin b‘lieve I’d
have it, bv hook or crook.”

The natives in the thicket had seen the hun-
ter’s aggro sive movement, av (1 a simultaneous
bowl of rage was heard. The man who had
acted as spokesman also appeared to be angry,
and edged away toward the woods.

At tli \ same moment, a shower of arrow
whizud over the heads of the trio. v

“This is too had,” said the naturalist. “We
have, I fear, lost forever the chance of seeing
that wonder. «My friend, you were too rash.”

“Powers of yearthl I don’t think so. Yer
kin be shore thar’s no sech thing as a livin’ man
critter with a tail; the chap was a liumhug!”

“ It is possible, and yet, I hardl know what
to think. Two persons, Moco an this native,
have asserted that there is such almarvell At
all events, whatever it may be, I shall not be
satisfied until I see it."

“One thing’s shore," said the hunter, “ it’s
’bout time we was makin’ tracks. Them cussed
hair men is com‘in’ for us now. Whar ,we kin
go to, the Lord only knows, but we must find
some good place for a rousinl fight with ’em,
’specially as thar’s about filty of ’em in all!”

Betreating with their faces to their foes,
Lionheels and Warner kept up a rattling fire
with their rifles, as fast as the could load.

The Googons, from behin trees, how and
then responded with their arrows. _

For some time, owing to the trees being in the
way. Lionheeis was unable to reach his foes.

At last, one of them exposed just the edge of
his eyebrow, as he fitted an arrow to a string,

In an instant, up went the hunter’s deadly
rifle, the flash and the report followed, and the
native was seen to reel from behind the tree and
fall to the ground.

CHAPTER XVII.
A HTRANGE OBJECT!

STILL firing, and thus keeping the nativesin
Cllt-‘ltk, although thv-ir poisoned arrows, tipped
with the deadly juice of the upas. whistled on
all sides of them, Lionheels and Warner, with
the professor now and then using his revolver,
continued to retreat. '

In this way they had passed through a thicket,
which screened them from their foes, and were
in a small clearing, when, suddenly. on stepping
back a few more paces, they felt themselves
going downward.

They alighted upon their feet in one of those
pits which are used by the natives for ihsnaring
their enemy—the hippopotamus.

The hole was about tWenty feet in circum—
ference and ten deep—the top having been cov-
ered over with long twigs, having turf so art-
fully laid upon them that it was apt to escape
detection. The trio had fallen through a net-
work of limber stems, which sprunx‘back to
their first position after having been (11. placed.

“Coons and blazes!” ejaculated Lionheels.
“ Heer we are caught like ’possnms! The ras-
kils  they find.us, will have a4ngtl show,
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“ Perha they will pass without noticing the
pit,” said arner.

“ It won ht be so, but I reckin’ that’s rayther
onsartin. e must keep as quiet as mice, and
if ther’s any vartue in silence, them hair people
mgy pass us.” .,

he shouts of the approaching natives could
be heard. Finally, as the trio had hoped, they
passed without thinking to look in the pit,
which some of their own people had made.

“ We are safe for the present,” remarked the
professor. “ But how unfortunate that we have
been obliged to leave the very place we have
been so long striving to reach.”

“ I reckin it’s still more onfortunit we got
in h’eer. How we gwine to git out again, beats
me.

“ Could we not stand on each other’s shoul-
ders, and thus reach the top of the pit?” in-
quired the naturalist.

“ No, yer couldn‘t git high enough, that way.
The pit’s about fourteen feet deep.”

Several hours passed. Fortunately the three
had enough provisions .with them in their haver-
sacks to last a couple of days. They madea
fnigal meal, after which they tried to think of
some plan for getting out of the hole. . ,

“ Hark!” said the professor, suddenly. " I
fancied I heard a noise.” ‘

The three listened, to hear a sound like that
of something approaching at a swxft pace. it
was followed by a loud grunt, and the next
moment a large, dark body crashing through
the twigs above, fell headlong into the rit. It
narrowly missed the professor’s head, which it
would have struck had not Lionheels quickly
draw him to one side.

The animal hastily rose, revealing a form
nearly six feet long, a head shaped like a hog’s,
with fierce, bloodshot eyes, and formidable
tusks in each jaw, nearly a foot long.

“ Hah. Here we have a specimen of the wild
boar i” cried the naturalist.

“ This creature—3’ ,

The boar at that moment, with a savage
grunt, rushed at the speaker. The latter en—

eavol‘ed to use his revolver, but the animal
caught it from his grasp. Lionheels placed the
muzzle of his rifle close to its eye and pulled
trigger, but his weapon did not go off, for, un-
known to himself, the nipple had became clogged
with dirt when he fell.

Warner then tried his weapon, but this prov—
ed to be in the same condition.

Mean while the boar had knocked the professor
down, and with its tasks it would have gored
him to death had not Lionheels, and Warner at-
tacked it with their knives. ‘

Warner’s blade catchir. in, the creature’s
teeth, broke short 03 near t e handle, but that
of the hunter penetrated the thick skin. far
enough to add to the brute’s fury. ,

Turning from the professor it now threw itself
upon Licnheels, who metjt with a swift, lpgwer—
l’ul thrust of his knife in its throat. fore.
the toughness of the hide deadened the force of
the blow. ‘ : _

The creature drove its tasks full at the hunter’s
stomach. but the youth dodged, while at the
same time Warner dealt it a heavy stroke with
the butt of his rifle across the head. This served
to confuse the beast, and stoopin quick] Lion-
hefils now thrust his knife severe times to its
be y. x ‘
Another blow from Warner’s piece. ended the
life of the brute. ' ' ‘ ' r '

“ Blazes! thar you are! The critter’s gone at
last! If my rifle hadn‘t served me so, Pd 0’
made shorter work of him." - _

“A formidable animal this. of the hog kind,"
remarked the professor. “ It has great vitalit
~—will survive serious wounds. When pursue ,
the female has been known to take up some of
her young and eat them, sooner than to have
them fall into the hands of the hunter.”

“The animal has done us no good—tumbling
into this place,” said Warner.

“Thar you mistake, friend." said Lionheels.
“It has done us a heap 0’ good See that!”

As he spoke he pointed to a long tendril,
which had become entangled about one of the
hoar’svhind lcg’s when he. fell. The upper part
of the tendril was held above .by a deep root
which grew near the edge of the pit. .

“You are right,” said Warner. “If it will
hold. we can climb up out of this place by it.

“Let us tr at once," said the professor.

. He seized the tendril and bad {climbed a few
feet, when his hands slipped from their grasp,
and down he came, falling upon his seat within
half an inch of one 'of the tnsks of the {lead

r. -
“Hello! Blazes'!"‘~crierl the hunter. as he
assisted’him to his feet.

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rer escape. sir. If that tusk had got into
yer, yer wouldn’t have keered to sit down again
for some time, yer kin believe.”

“True; the tusk of the bear is quite long, and
would have made a serious wound.”

Slinging his rifle to his back, Lionlieels, brac-
ing his feet against the side of the pit, easin
climbed to the top.

“Thanks to gracious!” he cried, as he threw ‘

a rapid glance around him, “ thar’s none of the
hairy men near jest now."

The professor, imitating the hunter's manner
of climbing, was soon by his Side. Warner next
came up. v _

It was now nearly night. The trio continued
on their we a short distance, when, as they
entered a thicket a gleam of lurid light illumi-
nated the dark depths.

“ Quick—this way i" muttered the hunter, “ or
the ‘ hairys ’ will see us.”

He dodged behind a large tree as he spoke;
the others crouched near him.

They all perceived that the light was caused
by the sudden kindling of a fire abouts. hundred
yards ahead of them. Near this fire were col—
lected about fifty Googons—evidently their late
pursuers.

Upon a broad stump close against the base of
a tree, with knees doubled up to the chin, was
seated another figure. This, ike the others, was
covered with hair, but the face could not be
seen as it was bowed upon the arms, which were
crOSsed.

“What them imns is up to beats me,” mut~
tered Lionheels. “ Yer kin be shore thar’s some-
thin’ more’n common about goin’ on.”

Very soon all the natives formed a wide ring,
and, joining hands, circled round and round the

«stump, upon which was the figure, uttering a

wild chorus as they moved.

“ Wonder what the critter is on that stump?"
said Lion heels.

“It looks something like abear," said War-
ner.

“No, it’s human: them things crossed on its
brofist, thin as they hrs, is human arms.”

The professor’s curiosity was aroused.

“ Let us get nearer,” he said.

“ We kin do it, but it’s risky, and we must be
moughty keerful,” said Lionheels. “ ls yer
rifle cl’ar, friend?” he added, turning to ar-
ner.

"Yes, I have cleared the nipple, and I don’t
think it’ll miss next time.” '

i‘ And yer revolver, rofesser—how’s that?"

“In excellent condition, I think,” said the
naturalist.

Lionheels took the weapon from him and scru-
tinized it. .

“Good Lord. sir, yer’ve got ’bout half a
pound 0’ dirt in the muzzle!” he remarked.

With the ramrod be cleaned it out; than he
extracted the charge, and carefully reloaded the
wee n, and returned it to its owner.

“ ow, then," he said, “ fuller me, and we’ll
try to git as close as we kin to that critter on
the stum ,”

.On his ends and knees Lionheels, followed by
his companions, crept stealthin and swiftly
along behind a. son circle of shrubbery, one
part of which was near the stump.

The trio reached this place without being dis—
covered; and now, in his ardor. the professor
would have raised his head to take a closer in.

tion of the strun object before him, had
not the hunter grasps his-arm.

“No—no, yer must lie close, sir. If yer pop
up yer head, thar‘s an eend to all futur' investi-
ga'inl'll

Through small openings in the bushes the
naturalist looked at the occupant of the stump.
The Profile of the creature was all he could see
from his present position.

Its, head face and form were shaped like a
mu 3, and’ yet is was so thickly covered with
half that 1‘ also resembled a wild beast.

“That ‘3 .117.” Whispered Punk. “Yes, I am
almost (‘ODVU-wed that is the wonder we are in
search of l’.’

“ 31“? Wharys “.19 tam" inguired Lionheels.

“True, where is the tail?” repeated the natur-
aliiti: h 'c ‘ coiled up M be

‘ 01' S 1 15 ‘1 or t creature
so that w?cannot see it,” said Warner. ’

“B all the powers 9f Yam!!! yer’ve hit it,
trier: . [kin see the tail now." ,

urge“; wade?” inquired Punk, intensely
exci .

v I kin seethe and of it—not all of it,” an.
swered the hunter. _

A careful scrutiny from his poailrlon enabled

the professor to see the end of what 3%-.
t e

entlv W88 3 tall hanging over one side 0
stump.

: hands, thus making a slight noise with his el— ,1 I ‘ i .
:_ the prostrate figure With lively curiOSity.

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CHAPTER XVIII. ’
THE PURSUIT, AND A NEARER WE‘V.

Lud Lionheels, the Young‘rigenrigntgxf.

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“ Thar yer are, professor! Now look yer fill

, while yer kin, for the screechin’ of the critter

This discovery thrilled the professor with a.  must have been heerd by his friends, who’ll be

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joy so intense that he started and rubbed
bow, which came in contact with the bushes.

Instantly the creature on the stump turned its
head in that direction.

The heavy, beetling brows, the eyes round, .
black and piercing. and glittering like coals of ,
fire, the projecting jaw. the huge teeth, and the
hair bristling round the cheeks, were something
like those of a gorilla; yet the whole expression
of the face was human.

Not hearing the noise again, the monster

tion.

All at once, raising both slender arms, to
which were attached hands covered with hair
and yet shaped like those of a human being, the
creature uttei ed some words in a shrill voice.

In a moment the fire was extinguished, and
the trio behind the bushes found themselves in
almost total darkness.

Through the gloom they saw the dim outline
of the creature who had been on the stump mak-
ing 011‘ in an upright position.

“ We must follow it,” said the professor.
“For heaven’s sake don’t let us lose this chance
of tracking and seeing more of it. ”

“If we’re keerful we kin foller it,”said Lion-
heels. “The ‘Googs’ has now squatted on the
ground, and is holdin’ a sort 0’ pow»wow. Come
on—heer we 0.” ,

As he spo e, ‘the hunter, on his hands and
knees, crept swxftly yet noiselessly after the
‘curiosity’ ahead. . he professor and Warner
following, the three were far enough from the
googons to render it safe for them to get on their
eat.

On went the mpnstera short distance, his fol-
lowers keeping him in sight until he suddenly
disappeared.

On reaching the lace where he had vanished
the found themse ves near a clump of high
bus es.

Warner and the professor would have moved
on into a deep thicket they saw ahead of
them, but Lionheels, steeping, felt of the
bushes.

“ Good Lord! beer we are! heer’s a rod: with

a hole in it. Yer kin be shore the critter is in
them.”
. He entered the hole, followed by his compen—
ions, andthe three then found themselves in a
cave, which, on feeling of the sides, they con-
cluded was about seven or eight feet high.

In. his eagerness the professor darted on ahead
of his friends, to suddenly feel himself clutched
with an iron (grip by two hairy lands, while a
pair of roun , burning e es. like those of an

end. glared at him throng the gloom.

“This way, friends, this way!” he called.
“ Here he is! I have him at last.”

With one powerful'eifort the monster dashed
him to the ground, threw itself upon him, and
gras him by the throat. In a few minutes
Pun would have been throttled, in spite of the
stout resistance he made, had not Lionheels,
who had lighted a small lantern he carried,

sprung to his eid.

“_ Hellol hold up, tbar! What yer wine to
do? That gentleman’s a professer o nateral
hist’ry, and don’t want to hurt yer, but only to
look at yer !" *

As he spoke the hunter, seizing the monster
by the hair of thehead with one hand, and plac—
ing his knee a inst the small of the back, gave
him so power ul a jerk that he instantly let go
of the pmstrate professor, who then struggled
to his feet“

With shrill cries. that were almost deafening.
the creature drawing a knife from a belt about its
1whilst, sprung, 'with a tiger—like bound, at Lion—

ee s

The latter dashing the knife from his assail—
ant sgrasp by a blow with his rifle, grappled
With him.

The inonter, in spite of its lean arms, was
possessed of prodigious strength, but was no
match to? a man Who had actually wrestled
with a tiger. Had Lionheels made use of his
knife, he would soon have killed his assailant.
but. for the professor’s sake he was careful not
to hurt him,

Bracing his lengthy limbs, he twisted his left
19 about that of be other, and, with one mus-
cu or effort, whirled him over upon his back.
There, however, he struggled and kicked so
furiously, while keeping up a. mont- unearthly
screeching that the assistance of Warner. was
necessary secure him. The hunter and the
boy succeeded at last in tying his hands behi

 

m, and in fastening his ankles. '

comin’ this way.”

The overjoyed naturalist looked down 11 on
he
strange being was about five feet five in liighr,

1’ covered from head to foot with hair. and wearing

a piece of cotton cloth about his middle. Frrm
under this, to his astonishment, the professor

1, really beheld a tail like that of a tiger project—

ing behind.

" The strangest, the most wonderful creature
I ever saw!” he cried. “Witness, all of you.
that this phenoménon has a tail l"

“ Ther’s no gittin’ over that,” said Lionheols;
“ thar is thc tail, plain enough, but kin it be,

roi’essor, that this is a human bein’——that- it
ain’t some queer specimen of a trained mon—
key, or—”

“So far as I can judge, it really is a human
being! You heard it speak to the naiives— you
saw it draw its knife, just now—you can see that
its face and form are like ti ose of the other
Googons, with the exception of a thicker coat
of hair and a tail !"

“It must be human,” said Warrior.

“Then ther’ never was secb another human
before, and ther’ never will he!” cried Lionheels,
em hatically.

eanwhile the monster kept up so incessant a.
screeching that the three were obliged to fairly
scream to make themselves beard.

“ ‘Ve’d better be makin’ tracks,” continued

the hunter. “I think I kin hear the voices of
them ‘ Goo ’ close by l”
” Must then leave this interesting~ihis

wonderful subject?” cried the naturalist, regrefr

fully. “Ah! if we could only have him with us!"

h “Come, sir, that’s no time to lose,” said Lion-
eels.

But the professor still lingered/and Warner
and the. hunter were obliged to grasp his arm
before he could bring himself to quit the cave-

On emerging from it, Lionheels perceived at
once that they were too late to escape.

The space before them swarmed with natives,
some curr ing torches, and others flourishing
knives an ears!

As the lig t flashed u
iiio. the wild men utter
a rush toward him.

Up went his rifle. but. ere he could fire, it
was quickly jerked from his grasp by the tailed
“ wonder,” who had worked itself clear of its
lashings.

Warner‘s piece, however, rung u on the air,
and a so the rep' rt of the professor ‘ phol.

Neither of the bullets took effect, and, in an-
other moment, the fh ee were surrounded and
captured by the olives, who hurled them

n the forms of the
fierce cries and made

down, fastened their arms and legs with thongs:

and carried them into the cave.

“I’m sorry to say. professor, that this comes:
I do. ’t want to
rarious, we-

of er l‘arned investigatin’.
fin fault with yer. sir, but good
inrugbt have got it if you’d hurrird matters.
Now. I reckin’lher’ll be some skinnin’ and cute
tin’ done upon us i the infurnal critters l”

The monster wit the tail came and glared
down at the prisoners.

He helda spear, which was tipped with the‘

juice of the u s.

Uttering a orrid screech, he‘ placed the point,

of the spear against the hunter 5 stomach, and
held it as if about to drive it through its body!

Under similar circumstances most men would
have shown some sign of fear, horror, or dis—
may, but no such look disturbed the grave,
manly serenity of Lionheel’sv He looked
the crealnre squarely in the face with calm, un~
flinching one.

As be ad thought might be the case, the
monster had made the movement only to ter-
rify him. ,

He finally drew back the spear, and com-
mence} to converse with the natives around
him, all of whom seemed to pay him the great~
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CHAPTER XIX.
CONCLUSION.

THE three bound prisoners were carried next
morning to the village of the Googons. The
dwellings of these people were small, and were
rudely named with logs. and were roofed with a
vegetable substance called rjoo which looks
some‘ hing like horse-hair.

f‘ I wonder what they mean to do with us?”
said the professor.

“ The Lord only knows,” responded Lionheels.
“ Judgin' from ’pearunces, I neckin’ they won’t
khaki: 0! very easy."

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murmur of voices outside, but us yet no person
had entered since they were left in the but.

Finally the man who had acted as spokesman
appeared, followed by a dozen of the natives,
some of them bearing rude stretcliers.

“ We speak ’bout you," he said. “ You come
here to kill poor Googon—to take away Buinoo.
You mus’ die!"

"Thar yer mistake," said the hunter. “ We
defended ourselves when we was tackled, and
ther’s the whole amount of it. we had no ’ten-
tion of harmin’ yer people nor Bumoo, either.
“My, good gracious! the professor’s as inner-
centas an unborn babe. and——"

“Mus’ die,” interrupted the native. “ No
use beg for life 1”

“May the yearth open and swaller yer! I
hain’t beggin’ for life! I was only puttin’ fan’s
as they be.”

The native made a signto his followers, who
placed the three prisoners on the stretchers.

They were takento a s ot not far from the
village, where a deep, wi e bole had been dug.

On seeing this the three at once guessed what
was to be the manner of their death.

They were to be buried alive!

“ This is horriblel" cried the professor.

“ 1t sartinly is,” said Liouheels. “ The raskiis
nought at least have killed us first.”

Warner said nothing, but he shuddered while
he strove to muster resolution to meet his fate
like a brave man. Many natives, men, women
and children, were there, all making a great
clamor and all apparently eager to see the exe-
cution. -

At length the person previously alluded to,
and who seemed to be the chief, said something
in a loud voice.

The prisoners, one after the other were then
lowered by ropes into their intended gguve, so

‘that they lay side by side.
hThe first 5 ovelful of earth was thrown upon
1; eml « '

Even Lionheels shuddered when he felt it
strike bis breast.

Another mass of earth was thrown upon the
prostrate forms!”

“ The eend is near!" ejaculated the young
hunter. “ Coons and blazesl I wish the infur—
nal raskils would hurry it up, now that thar’s
no hope for us.”

At that moment loud cries were heard. The
men who had thrown down the dirt were seen

to pause. . ,
A light form bounded to the edge of the

. grave and looked into it.

“Amonel” cried Warner at once recognizing

’ ’Moco’s niece the beautiful Malay girl.

“ Yes it s that ‘person, sure enough!” cried
the pro essor. .

The girl turned to the Googon chief and spoke
rapidly to him in the Malay tongue. He seemed
tounderstand her, and to be much affected by
what she said. After afew moments of appar-
ent 'irresolution he addressed the people who
had assembled.

Shouts and strange cries were heard on all
sides. The natives ran hither and thither, from
one to the other, all seeming to talk at once.

Soon after the three prisoners were freed
from their bonds and were helped from the

it.
p Amone, laid both hands on Warner's shoul-
ders. her 9 cs beaming with joy. \

." So gla me in time to save you i” she cried.

“ Yes, we owe our lives to you' but how hupv
pens it that you are here?" said Warner.

“Me wanted to go. Uncle no let. Bum—by
natives in woods find~uncle’s rifle broke in two.
Find adder thugs—clothes and cap covered with
blood. Natives come to me and show dese
t’in Den me know uncle been kill. Me
’fra you been kill too. Me could not rest.
Got natives to go wid me to look for you. Dcy
get on Kyour track. Look long time, but could
not flu . But we keep on, and we reach G00-
gon villa dis clay. - Den. me hear what Googon

I going to o ‘wid you—bury ulive, and me hurry

to save you.”
“But how did you save us? What did you
say to the chief to cause him to spare our lives?”
“Me tell. Few year ago me and uncle here.
Uncle come, to trade with English in fort, not
'fargfrom here. We etc 'here. Chile of one
gon near woods. i er come, and would
have kll chile but for unc 9, who was not far
OE. and whoshot tiger. Den tiger attack uncle,
but he shoot again an’ killu‘, Fndder an’ mudder
of chile berry full of t’ank. Fodder chief. He
.ople to help uncle
whenebber'have chance. a say if he or any
of his pen is ebberhiirm Moco’s ‘ends dev
nebber ha, luck after dlt. but al be struck
down by lightning. Dot why, when me come

 

an’ tell chief not to harm hair of your head, be-
cause you were friends, he let you out."

“ Yer’ve done us a good turn. gal, and no mis-
take,” said Lionheels.
and if ever yer git into trouble and Want a pur-
tccter don‘t hesitate to look for me.” I

The natives were now as kind to the travelers
as they had previously been hostile.

They were conducted to a but and were
treated to bread-fruit, yams, cocoanut sauce and
other delicacies.

The professor was delighted.

“What happiness,” he cried. “I trust I will
now be permitted to make a, careful examina—
tion of that strange human monster with a tail.”

Amone at once said something to the chief,
who, when the naturalist bud finished his meal,
took his arm. ‘

“ Me take you to Bumoo,” be said. “ Now
me undorstan you no want to carry off. You
can look at as much as like.”

The chief conducted Punk to a. hut in which,
on a rude high sent, was the distinguished
Bumoo, who had just been fed by some at-
tendants.

He uttered a shrill cry, and, jumping down,
grasped both hands of the professor, shaking
them as if they were pump-handles, to show his
friendship.

The chief made known the naturalist’s er-
rand, on which Bumoo at once nodded his con—
sent.

The professor, loosening the cloth around the
creature’s loins, perceived that the tail was at-
tached to his back, between the hips. All
around the flesh from which it projected, there
were livid scars, and the skin presented n’ribbed
appearance. Punk inspected it narrowly, and
was much puzzled. For hours he continued his
investigation.

At last he returned to his friends.

“Well,” said Warner, observing his puzzled
look. “ Did you see the wonder?”

“ I certainly saw him.” ‘

“ And what mougbt be the result?” inquired
Lionheels. “ Ther’ kin be no question as to the
critter‘s bein’ tailed—that’s shore, but .is he a
r’al huinin bein’ in every sense 0’ the word '4”

“ Ho isa human being; I am sure of that.”

“ Powers of yeurthl I’m ready to b’lieve any-
thin arter this I”

“ es, Bumoo'lsa human being, but whether
he is aspecimen of one of those strange mal~
formations called ‘ Monsters,’ which we Oc-
casionally see, or whether the tail was attached
to him after his birth I cannot decide. There
are marks around the root of it, which might
have been made by fastening it to the flesh. The
chief ositively asserts that he was born so—
that t e tail has grown longer since his birth,
which it could not have done, of course, had it
been in any manner tied to the body.”

“Thar’s a heap o’ lyin’done by the natives
in these parts,” said Lionheels, “ but it looks as
if the chap told the truth in this case. Don’t
you think so, professer?"

“ I am greatly puzzled,” re lied the natural‘
ist. “A surgeon might be a is to decide with
certainty. by using the knife; but when I hinted
at this, Bumoo to whom the chief translated
what I said, declared that he would never sub-
mit to such an examination.”

“Pity yer couldn’t persuade the critter to go
home with yer professor. Sech an onnateral
Osity would make folks star’ some, I reckin!”

“ Yes, I spoke of that; but the chief said that
ngitl’i’er Bumoo nor his peOple would consent to
t is. '

Days passed before the professor could tear
himself away from a lace in which lived so
singular a creature as t e tailed phenomenon.

Again and again did he make an examina—
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the village. he could not decide to a certainty
Whether the tail had in some way been fastened
on, or had grown from the body.

At all events, his curiosity to see the,“mon‘
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sions of the most profound gratitud‘e that, on
finally arriving near the coast, he took leave of
Lud Lionbeelsgthe brave young island guide.

A few days later Warner bade adieu to the
weeping Amone aboard the. schooner which
was to'oonvey him and the professor to the
United States.

There they safely arrived, and the professor
lost no time in publishing an account of the sin-
gular being be ad seen on the island.

Some ears later a party of scientific men

went to t e Googon village tolook at and study ‘

the “tailed wonder.” But he~was dead. He

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61 The Merry Rangers.

mnntic and Adventurous Life of Dr. D. F: ank Powell, known on the
Border as “ Fancy Frank,” “ Iron Face.”  By Col. P. Ingraham.

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Among the F1105. By C. Dunning Clark.

The Young Bear Hunters. A Story of the flaps and Mishaps
of a Party of Boys in the Wilds of Michigan. By Morris Redwing.
The Lost Boy Whalers; or. In the Shadow of the North Pole.
By T. C. Harbaugh.

Smart Sim, the Lad with a Level Head: or, Two Boys
who were “Bounced.” By Edward Willett.

Old Tar Knuckle and His Boy Chums; or, The Monsters
of the Esquimaux Border. By Roger Starbuck.

The Settler’s Son: or, Adventures in Wilderness and Clear-
ing. By Edward S. Ellis.

Night-Hawk George, and His Daring Deeds ard Adventures
in the Wilrls of the South and West. By Col. Prentiss Ingraham.
The Ice Elephant: or. The Castaways of the Lone Coast. By
Captain Frederick W'hittaker.

The Pampas Hunters; or, New York Boys in Buenos Ayres.
By T. C. Hni'haugh.

The Young Land-Lubber: or, Prince Porter’s First Cruise.
By C. Dunning Clark.

Bronco Billy, the Saddle Prince.

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By Colonel Prentiss

By Barry
De Forrest.

45 Jack, Harry and Tom. the Three Champion Brothers; 01;,

Adventures of Three BI‘UVP Bv-ys with the Tattooed Pirate. By
Captain Frederick Whittaker.

The Condor Killers; or, Wild Adventures at the Equator.
By T. C. Harhaugh.

The Boy Coral Fishers; or, The Sea Cavern Scourge. By
Roger Starbuck.

Dick. the Stowaway; or, A Yankee Boy’s Strange Cruise,
By Charles Morris.

Tip Tressell, the Floater; or, Fortunes and Misfortunes on
the Missisbinpi. By Edward Willem.

The Adventurous Life of Nebraska Charlie, (Chas E.
Burgess.) By Colonel Pl'elltle: lngraham.

The Colorado Boys; or, Life on an Indigo Plantation. By
Joseph E. Badger, Jr.

Honest Harry; or, The Country Boy Adrift in the City. By
Charles Morris.

The Boy Detectives; or, The Young Californians in Shanghai,
By T. C. Harhaugh.

California Joe, the Mysterious Plainsman.
Ingraham.

Barr Somers, the Sailor-Boy Magician. By S. W. Pearce.
Nobo y’l Boys; or, Life Among the Gipsies By J. M. Hoff-
man.

Th Menagerie Hunter; 0T, Fanny Hobart, the Animal
Queen. By Major H. Grenville, “ Sca Gull."

Lame Tim, the Male Boy of the Mines; or, Lite Among the
Black Dian‘lnnds. By Charles Morris.

Lud Lionheela, the Young Tiger Fighter. By Roger Starbuck.
The Young Trail Hunters; 01“, New York Boys in Grizzly
Land. By T. C. Harhuugh.

By Col. Prentiss

By C. Dunning Clark.
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