The Search for the Silver City

and picturesque the scenery may be, and when the boys awakened from their restless s

but his business must be transacted, and, after a break

heard him say to the sailing master, "therefore it wi

e blazing sun, and when Mr. Emery was being rowed toward the dock-yard they joined

o and fro; the violet and blue medus?, and the cream-colored jelly-fish as big as a watermelon. There were angel fish of a bright blue tinge; yellow snappers; black a

was shaped exactly like a cow, and when one passed with a "calf" as Teddy called it, swimming by

r hull, and the effect of such brilliant hues displayed through the c

Jake called their attention to a fisherman who, in a sm

t darted at a medium-sized Jew fish, attaching itself to the latter by means of the sucking valve on the top of its head. Having done this he remained motionless, his victim seeming to be literally paralyzed, and th

ficulty, and Jake gravely assured his companions that a sucking fish could "pull up the whol

the imagination since it was absolutely true, and began by saying a

bloodthirsty villain who sunk two vessels right where we are anchored this blessed minute. The feller's real nam

n would get the poor wretches to the tree, go through all the ceremony of a reg'lar trial, an' allers end by stringin' every bles

e who has dug for it; but so far as I ever heard, not a single piece has been found. Whi

f him finally?

yardarm to dry. If I'd been in command of the vessel he should have found out

to be see

it's a great sight if

replied with a very de

second port boat was lowered, and Mr. Walters made ready t

s of canvas, the valuable mass gave most decided proof of its being in the vicinity, and when the boat started for the s

od in hot climates, and when the light breeze of evening crept over the waters Mr. E

rail, and was received by Mr. Walters. "Now that a breeze has set in it shou

aid in an undertone to Teddy; "but it isn't for us to c

some other portion of the yacht, where he could perspire without allowing the others to see his suffering, and the bo

ut it was by no means desirable during the summer, and when the Sea Dream left the little harbor where t

for home," the former said as the yacht glided almost noiselessly over the phosphorescent lighted waters down

ied, as he waved the palm-leaf fan languidly. "I believe i

tter in a few days," Neal replied laughingly, and then as the breeze caused by the movement of the yacht over the wate

caused the yacht to bow before it like a reed in a storm, and the hammocks that, a few hours previous, h

riend by a series of vigorous shakes. "If we stay here half an hour

at the green waves curled over it now and then, and before

ld wind which came through the port-hole, and so delicious was this sense of being chilly that they failed to realize the

isn't the slightest danger if we can crawl away from the land, and we shall

dy asked of Neal, who had shown, by r

of Mexico, when the temperature falls very suddenly, as was t

complain," was the sleepy rejoinder; but before the night came t

n the yacht was flung on her beam ends with a sudden force which threw both out of the

r at that moment even an experienced sailor would have fancied the little craft had str

ly as he tried in vain to open the d

it could have been but a few seconds, the Sea Dream slowly rig

y conversation could be indulged in the steamer began pitching and rolling about in a manner t

t they avoided being flung from one end of the cabin to the other, as the yacht plunged a

the faint light only served to revea

ult the boys hear

ere was any immediate dange

; but he refrained from giving words to such a dismal fo