They were in a little stable with a partition through the middle of it--one horse in each apartment.

Mr.L.examined one of them critically through a window (the Kanaka's "brother" having gone to the country with the key), and then went around the house and examined the other through a window on the other side.

He said it was the neatest match he had ever seen, and paid for the horses on the spot.

Whereupon the Kanaka departed to join his brother in the country.

The fellow had shamefully swindled L.