16/28 We could hear them shouting, screaming, and jabbering, and the dogs barking. Guard looked off and growled slightly, turning his great dark eyes inquiringly to our faces. There are quantities of skins, tents, harpoons, &c. There! they are all starting up from the water, loaded down with trumpery,--going off from the shore toward the middle of the island." They had not seen us; and, after watching them disappear among the barren hillocks, we went back to our camp for dinner. |