Hassan had evidently been watching for them, for he came out of his house, which was next to that which they occupied, holding his little girl's hand.

She at once ran up to them, saluting them by their names.
"Bahi very glad to see you," she said, "very glad to see good, kind officers." The child had picked up, during her month on board the ship, a great deal of English, from her constant communication with the officers and crew.
"Bad men wound Dick," she went on pitifully.

"Wicked men to hurt him." "Bahi, will you tell your father how much we are obliged to him for having come to our rescue.

We should have been killed if he had not come." The child translated the sentence.

The chief smiled.
"Tell them," he said, "that Hassan is glad to have been able to pay back a little of the obligation he was under to them.