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One end of this was plugged with a piece of pith, and this he drew out, and then from inside, neatly rolled up and quite dry, a little piece of paper. "You Cap-tain Smit-ter?" said the Malay. "No, my man, that is the captain," said the lieutenant, pointing. "Cap-tain Smit-ter. Ali Rajah send," said the man, holding out the paper. "Did Ali send us this?" said the captain, eagerly.
"Cap-tain Smit-ter, Ali Rajah send," said the man again. "Where did you leave him?" said the captain. "Cap-tain Smit-ter, Ali Rajah send," repeated the man, parrot fashion, showing plainly enough that he had been trained to use these words and no more. Captain Smithers unrolled the scrap of native paper to find written thereon, "Found the party. Fighting for life in a stockade.
Send help in steamer up right river. Ali." "Have you come straight from him?" exclaimed the captain, eagerly. "Cap-tain Smit-ter, Ali Rajah send," said the man again. "Where is Wilson?" cried the captain, "or Gray? Ah, you are here, Gray. You have made some progress with the Malay tongue. See what this man knows."
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