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The young man wondered during all his ten-mile return-trip if Lahoma had fallen ill; and after reaching the log cabin, he kept looking at the slim missive, and turning it over, with vague uneasiness. Brick and Bill had ridden far, and it was dusk before they reached home with a deer slung over one of the horses.
In that interval he had learned about hyenas at first hand, through the plight of Beatrice Hichens and the children; also his servant Bhanah had come to him, and the Great Dane, Nels; still it had been a vague stretch of days, in retrospect. It was during the return-trip to Hurda that the thing happened which held him now as he lay broad awake.
Marie, popularly known as the "Soo," and during the two days that the steamer waits at Duluth before the return-trip Lake Superior will prove not an unattractive spot to paddle about in.
Two steam-boats, the "Royal George" and "Forester," leave it daily for Peterborough, distant twenty-five miles, making their return-trip the same day. Another steamer is being constructed to run from the village of Keane, on the Indian river in Otonabee down the Trent as far as Heely's Falls and back to Gore's Landing.
He spoke of Sydney Smith as the greatest English wit, and of Selwyn as next to him, and described Macaulay's memory as unequalled in conversation. For the return-trip, the donkeys generally were preferred.
These casks serve as ballast on the return-trip, when the vessel is without her freight, and then they are kept full generally with salt-water, as this in most ports is more conveniently got at; and on the coast of Africa, as the place of embarkation is usually a river, the salt-water is easily emptied out and fresh substituted.
What a pity we can't scare up a livin' 'un that 'ud be a nice cargo for our return-trip, w'udn't, my lad?" "Yes," I answered, mechanically, without hearing what Ben said; for I was at that moment thinking of something else. We had observed how the carcass of the antelope for antelope it was had been mangled and half eaten by some preying creature. Ben said it was wolves or jackals.