He had to be got up on deck in a chair, and it was two or three days before he was himself again.

When he got round he set to work again more earnestly than ever; and I believe that if we had stopped in the West Indies long enough, there would not have been a shark left in those waters." "It was a capital plan, Davis, and if we ever take possession of these rivers, we shall have to do something of that sort to get rid of the brutes.

Are the Malays afraid of them ?" "I don't know, Mr.Parkhurst, but I think they are.

I had a chat with a mate I met in the Myrtle, which went home the day after we relieved them here.

He had been up some of the rivers, and told me that every village had a bathing place palisaded off so that the alligators could not get at the bathers." "Well, there is one thing--we shall have to be very careful when we are out in boats, for if we were to run upon a sunken log and knock a hole in the boat's bottom, there would not be much chance of our ever reaching the shore." "You are about right there, sir.