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HATED BY JUUELAll Wing some nine years ago was a cook in the employ of the nayy department, and was shipped north on the Jamestown. While on the Sitka station Wing’s time expired or he deserted—just which is not quite plain—and shipped aboard a whaler. The whaler was wrecked and Wing was cast upon an inhospitable ice floe. Julio was the daughter of a chief of a tribe of Indians, and while hunting with her father discovered Ah Wing, who was as near dead from starvation, cold and exposure as it wa3 possible for him to be and retain life. For days and days Julie nursed him, and ho finally recovered to find himself the object of a great deal of attention on the part of the Indians, They could speak 120 Chines© or Eoglish, andWing had no comprehension of theirdialect, Ho was at a loss to understand the solicitude with which they fed him, and the interest they took in watching the accumulation of fat on his ribs. At last the horrid truth dawned upon him ■ least so he says. They were going to barbecue and eat him.Ho attempted to escape, but was captured and returned to the village and ■put under guard. The fatal day arrived. .Wing w(U informed by pantomime that an iflcArion would bo made in Ilia neofc and Ids life fluid allowed to escape into a soapstone basin. He gave all up for lost, when he was Inspired by the sight •of Julie in tears. Ho mado love to her. Sho comprehended and went to ask papa. The old chief was fond of his daughter and could refuse her nothing. He issued an edict against baking Wing. The remainder of the village protested, .and the chief was obliged to state why *ho desired the stranger’s life preserved. The objectors gave in, and Wing and Julie were married in Indian style.‘ Wing lived with the tribe for some time, but never became very popular. He was not much of a hunter, and preferred to lie around the house, sewing with the women, to chasing polar bears, walruses, seals and the like.Finally he had a chance to escape. A boat’s crew came in from a schooner to •trade for skins. Their cook was dead, and Wing begged them to take him away with them. Wing’s father-in-law gave him leave of absence for three months and sent Julie along with him to insure his return.
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Lock Haven Express
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Oct 30, 1890
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