Plainly, then, the cook had been a Chinaman; and, if so, who was Jos.

Amalu?
Or had Jos.

stolen the chest before he proceeded to ship under a false name and domicile?
It was possible, as anything was possible in such a welter; but, regarded as a solution, it only led and left me deeper in the bog.

For why should this chest have been deserted and neglected, when the others were rummaged or removed?
and where had Jos.

come by that second chest, with which (according to the clerk at the What Cheer) he had started for Honolulu?
"And how have YOU fared ?" inquired the captain, whom I found luxuriously reclining in our mound of litter.