Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Capt. Seabury, of the ship Minerva, which arrived at Lahaina on the 15th of August, reports hearing from the ship Alert, Green, in the first part of the season, who, being on the Tartary Coast, sent two boat’s crews in after wood. They not returning as expected, he sent a third boat, which was also detained. The ship was thus left with a single boat’s crew, and continued standing off and on for two weeks or more, before he had any intelligence of the boats. They finally all returned to the ship, and related that when they landed the natives made them prisoners and took them back through the country and villages for the purpose of exhibition. They were treated in the kindest manner during their imprisonment. When their keepers had exhibited them to their satisfaction, they returned to their boats with everything belonging to them; not even the smallest article was missing.-Boston Courier.