After a time the blacks never troubled that part.

So many of them had been killed that they got a superstitious fear of the man, and believed he was possessed of an evil spirit; and I don't believe twenty of them, together, would have dared to attack him.
"At last, from some of the half-tamed blacks in the settlement, he got to hear some sort of rumour that there was a white girl, living with one of the tribes far out in their country, and he set out.

He was away four months, and he never said what he had been doing all the time.

In fact, he started almost directly for the port, and went home by the next ship.
"However, he brought his child back with him.

It was four years since she had been carried off, and she was a regular little savage, when she arrived in the settlement with him.