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172 THE papoosb's first ride. i^w them." Soon afterwards the captain called 4r?^ the speaking tube for the engineers to give her !ldbre speed. At this juncture one of ^e Esquimaux ((to states the Professor) must have conjectured that the steamer was trying to run off from them, so he actually paddled afound the prow of 1^ ship, thus making the monster steamship appear behind the times for speed; and mind you, it was going about 'twelve knots an hour (6083 ft. is a knot,or 1.15 stat- ^ifce miles)., so the ship was going nearly fourteen miles an hour. Talk about your Yale and Harvard, and Oxford and Cambridge crews! Why, they would not b^ in it. _ ~ The party is having considerable fun, especially the children, for Alonso has Ysopete to talk with the young people who take very kindly to our hero: who gets off his horse and sets four boys astride; and in heaven upon earth the young ones are, as well as their fathers and mothers, for are they not on the fly- ing animal which they wiU remember all their hves? And Monte's mule was not idle, for, having its pack transferred to the dogs, it was able to carry numer- ous babies. ' , Before reaching the city of Harahey, Chief Tatar- rax met our party with 200 warriors, and as Jaramillo states, "All naked, with bows and some sort of things on their heads, and their privy pai-ts shghtly covered. He, the chief, was a very big Indian, with large body and limbs, and well-proportioned." At the ap- proach of the chief and his 200 men the Spaniards, at the command of their general, lined up in military or- der, visors down, lances set, the colors of Spain float-