Part 58 (2/2)

”Well, don't geta fuss about it now it's all over, Mas' Don

Here we are safe, but I must say you're the wussest swi to do?”

”Run ashore,” said the English the New Zealanders, many of whom stepped over into the shalloater, and seized the sides of the boat, which was rapidly run up the dark shore, where, aers were landed to stand shi+vering with cold

”There you are,” said the Englishrulish about you, and you'd better lie close till the shi+p's gone, for they erly

”Oh, you leave it to Ngati; he'll find you a place where you can lie snug”

”Ngati,” said the owner of the na to grasp as said ”Ngati! My pakeha”

”Oh, I say: do leave off,” cried Jeoing to have a row before we've done”

The chief said solishati says he will take you where you can dry yourselves, and put on warames, will he?” said Jem

”No, no; you o with hilishe, and said so an to carefully obliterate the footprints left by the fugitives upon the sand

Don noticed this and wondered, for in the darkness the footprints were hardly perceptible; but he appreciated the act, though he felt no one but a native would distinguish between the footprints of the two people

”My pakeha,” said Ngati just then, esticulation ”Gunpowder, gun, pow-gun, gun-pow”

”Eh?” said Jeun-pow No?”

”He says his pakeha was to have brought plenty of guns and powder, and he has not brought any”

”No,” said Don, shi+vering as he spoke ”The guns are the king's I could not bring any”

The New Zealand chief see, and nodded his head several tin to a couple of followers, each took one of Don's ar seized in the same way and borne forward, followed by the rest of the men ere in the boat

”Here, I say Look here,” Jear or a bar'l o' 'bacco Let a e ga on?”