308 CRUSOK’S STRATAGEM,

    

“OPMLEY STARTED UP AT TIME NOISK,”

in this desolate place, with these
two men with me; one my mate,
the other a passenger, where we expected to perish, believing the
place to be uninhabited, and know not yet what to think of it.”

“ Where are those brutes, your enemies?” said 1; “do you know
where they are gone ?”—* There they lie, sir,” said he, pointing
toa thicket of trees. “ My heart trembles for fear they have seen
us and heard you speak ; if they have, they will certainly murder
us all,”

* Have they any firearms?” said 1. He answered they had only