'The Gall-yun,' our gall-yun, wuz at the end o' the line nearest to the big river.

Nobody wuz on board, but she wuz tied to the boat next to her.

I slipped on her--it was pow'ful dark then an' the Spaniards wuz keepin' a slip-shod watch, anyhow--cut the rope an' floated her down the stream, where I've tied her up under sech thick brush that nobody 'cept ourselves is likely to find her.

She'll be thar, waitin' fur us, an' don't you doubt it.

An' fellers all our rifles an' ammunition an' things are on her.