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 IN CAFTIVITY. 4OI stufFs destineci to be seiit into '■■orytobe exported. The ->wded as it had been, in a diRercnt hut ik their meals iif tnutton or
 * ii! native fruits.
 * innimîcation,but

■id offto attend to iiLss an attachment -incore. A i[i;il liouse în thc dépôt,
 * ii|)i;arance of cîther Harrîs

. :i much surprise and per- 1 lier troubles, too, shc was liic anxiety her husband must
 * t. Unaware of her having em-

■ l'ilgrîm," at first he would bave iicr steamer arrivingat San Francisco ^i while the " Pilgrim " would hâve been . thc number of missing ships ; and it iitt-lligence would be fonvarded to him by -■iil->, that the vessel had saîled from Auckland ,i!id child on board. What was heto imagine? l'use to believe that they had perishcd at sea, nd never drcam of their having been carrîcd to 1311I would certainly institute a scarch în no othcr n than on the coast of America, or amongst the • thc Pacific. Shc had not the faintest hopc of her icabouts being discovered, and involuntarily her ■ ■ughts turned to the possibilîty of making an cscapc. .~lie might well feel her heart sink within her at thc barc iiiea; even if shc should succeed in cludîng thc vigilance of the watch, there were two hundred miles of dense forest to be traversed before the coast could be rcachcd ; ncver- theless, it revealed itself to her as her last chance, and failîng ail else, shc resolvcd to hazard it. But, first of ail, she determined, if it wcre possible, to discover the ultimate design o. Negoro. Shc was not kept D d