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Updated: June 4, 2025
"This is a friend," said the latter in explanation, laying his hand on the negro's shoulder. "But tell me, chief, we are impatient for to know, where learned you that song?" "From one who is mad," replied the chief still gazing earnestly at Orlando. "Mad!" repeated the youth, starting up and trembling with excitement "how know you that? Who where is he? Ask him, Waroonga."
He was by no means properly into the garment, and his look of solemn inquiry said as much to the missionary. "Try another heave, my friend," said Waroonga, in a tone of encouragement. Buttchee tried, with the result of a mysterious and incomprehensible noise at his back. "What is that?" he said quickly, with looks of alarm, as he endeavoured to glance over his shoulder.
Immediately four canoes full of natives put off to visit the stranger; but on reaching her they were sternly told to keep off, and the order was silently enforced by the protruding muzzle of a carronade, and the forbidding aspect of several armed men who looked over the side. "We are men of peace," said Waroonga, who was in the foremost canoe, "and come as Christian friends."
Great, therefore, was their satisfaction when their mourning, at the prospect of losing Waroonga, was turned into joy by the decision of the young native teacher, who volunteered to take his place and remain with them as their permanent instructor in the way of Righteousness.
Jest move a leetle to look like drownin', an' w'en he long way astern, he slew round, off wid de hanky fro hims eyes an' larf to hisseff like one o'clock. Den he swum'd to a island an' git ashore, and climb up de rocks, an' sit down an' an' dat's all." "What! be that all?" asked Waroonga. "Dat's all," repeated the negro.
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