Presently Kaiber called out to me, "Mr.Grey, Mr.Grey, nadjoo watto, nginnee yalga nginnow," "Mr.Grey, Mr.Grey, I am going to them; you sit here a little;" and he then, with his long thin ungainly legs, bounded by me like a deer.

"Imbat, friend," I heard him cry out, as a young man came running up to him.

I grew giddy; I knew Imbat by name, and felt assured that at all events the lives of a great portion of my party were safe.

In a few minutes Kaiber had given an outline of our adventures and present state.

Fearing such mischances as had really happened to me, I had, previously to my departure to the north, done my utmost to cultivate the friendship of the northern natives; and most of them, even to the distance of sixty or seventy miles from Perth in that direction, had received presents from me.