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I ought to be with him in his trouble. Besides, the time must be almost up, so he could come back to civilization again." "I hope you do find him," said the semi-Indian. "I wish you could help me, John." "I wish so, too. Perhaps I can. But you'd better get to bed now. We don't want Grimm coming around again."
Jack was much puzzled at this, and more, when it developed that John had been kidnapped by some mysterious men. At last the semi-Indian lad was saved by Jack and Nat. John Smith told Jack as much of the secret as he knew.
"But that is a thing of the past now," he added, with satisfaction. "And now for home!" cried Nat, the next day. "Won't we have lots to tell when we get there!" "I'll be glad to see Washington Hall again," said John. "Yes, indeed!" answered Jack. "But I'm going home to Denton first, and you must come along, John." "Very well, I will," said the semi-Indian youth.
They stood in the open space by the fire, three lean and sunburned men dressed in semi-Indian costume with their powder-horns slung from their shoulders and long sheath-knives in their beaded belts. One after the other they addressed the crowd and each gave it as his opinion that the short cut was impractical. The country was too rough, they said.
But the place remained, when I left it in 1859, pretty nearly what it was when I first arrived in 1850 a semi-Indian village, with much in the ways and notions of its people more like those of a small country town in Northern Europe than a South American settlement.
Steamboat Travelling on the Amazons Passengers Tunantins Caishana Indians The Jutahi The Sapo Maraua Indians Fonte Boa Journey to St. Paulo Tucuna Indians Illness Descent to Para Changes at Para Departure for England November 7th, 1856-Embarked on the Upper Amazons steamer, the Tabatinga, for an excursion to Tunantins, a small semi-Indian settlement, lying 240 miles beyond Ega.
"Sago sago," cried my uncle, as we came quite near, seeing no risk in using that familiar semi-Indian salutation. "Sago, sago, dis charmin' mornin; in my tongue, dat might be guten tag."
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