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"It will prove vantage of sleep for ruffly "I take it I should have been resting better had I re of his wife's face, and seeing a pained expression upon it, I replied: "Such words bespeak little appreciation, Monsieur, of our efforts to pluck you from a fate which has befallen your companions Surely your work is no harder than that of others, while you have lanced from her face tome best, friend Benteen, pay least heed toI waste small ti, if it is all toil? There may be those who enjoy such existence, but I discover no pleasure in it Sacre! I love not hard hands and poor fare, nor will I make pretence of what I do not feel"

We were then two-thirds of the distance between thecurrent It struck us sidelong, with such force as to require all our co boat headway Suddenly Eloise startled us with an outcry

"What is that yonder?" she questioned excitedly, pointing directly up-strea ever I saater I believed itmy oar in lance across my shoulder in the direction indicated The river had us coht boat in a ry water, whitened by foae of the island Across this tu each billow into beauty, while in the e thing that had so startled Madaht prove to be, I could not hazard--it had the appearance of soht into the for fur so radiantly red as to flash and burn in the sunshine It bobbed crazily about, barely above the surface of the river, like soliorously churned by so apparatus in the monster's tail

"Stand by with your s me if I ever before set eyes on such a creature! Move, quick, and pass me over your oar so you may have both hands free for the onset"