Part 58 (1/2)
”Give you up? Not I I've nothing to do with it; youchief excitedly
”That isn't his name, is it?” said Jem
”No Nonsense! Pakeha means white man I was a pakeha once”
”Let erly
”My pakeha! My pakeha!” said the chief, as if putting in a personal claim, and ready to resist Je hi
”Jeht, Mas' Don We're in the canoe”
”Hah!” ejaculated Don; and he shuddered as if chilled ”Where are the boats?”
”Miles away,” said the tattooed English I know nothing about you two”
”My pakeha! My pakeha!” cried the chief
”Lookye here,” cried Je in the irritable fashi+on of those just rescued fro, '_My pakeha_' atway, I shall hit him in the lishman ”Man always is when he's been under water”
”I dunno what yourusty,” said Jem snappishly ”What I say is, leave a lish mate?”
”My head aches dreadfully,” said Don; ”and there's a horrible pain at the back of o off,to do?”
”Do?” interrupted Jeive us up, do you?”
”I don't ,” said the man ”Your skipper'll come to me to-morrow if he don't think you're drowned, or--I say, did you feel anything of 'e--of what?” said Don
”Sharks, my lad The shalloaters here sith them”
”Sharks!” cried Don and Jeotten all about the sharks, Jem,” said Don
”So had I, my lad, or I dursen't have swuht about 'eot all about 'e; ”what an escape!”