. The fountain of youth. ne wanted the Yankees dollars. I made a trip on a gasoline luggar to the citythat week to ask further of our missing canoe. Juan, the Manilaman, was the master of TheYoung Lady, and now we first heard of the Fili-pino colonies of the lower lakes, the Chino-Fili-pino peoples who had been established on thesouth coast for forty years before the averageAmerican had the name Filipino brought to hisears by Deweys guns. I told Juan, the Manila-man, we would surely accept his invitation tosojourn there. The little old tub churned upthrough Lake Salvador past its sunken, lonel
. The fountain of youth. ne wanted the Yankees dollars. I made a trip on a gasoline luggar to the citythat week to ask further of our missing canoe. Juan, the Manilaman, was the master of TheYoung Lady, and now we first heard of the Fili-pino colonies of the lower lakes, the Chino-Fili-pino peoples who had been established on thesouth coast for forty years before the averageAmerican had the name Filipino brought to hisears by Deweys guns. I told Juan, the Manila-man, we would surely accept his invitation tosojourn there. The little old tub churned upthrough Lake Salvador past its sunken, lonelyshores, around Couba island and into BayouSennett, and at evening we reached was struck by the names of the boats we passedin the swamp channels. Just Like You/Double Trouble/ Killgloom/ The GoodChild/ Visaijan/ PuriUj/ Few of them,however, used their picturesque red sails, for thegas motor is fast supplanting wind power. I came back after another irritating inter-view with the steamship people. Not a word of. ^ o A-CRUISE ON THE TIGER 81 our lost canoe. Hen was much dejected. Hedenounced Ponce de Leon. His gun had rusted,the camera wouldnt work, and some Cajun hadpresented hnn with more turtle eggs. Old ManCaptain was a curious spectator of Hens strug-gle with that multi-speed, bifurcated camera. When you boys get that air machine fixed,I want you to take them dawgs. Them dawgswould make fine scenery. I always did wantsome of them pictorial pictures. He had riled Hen by asking if he wasnt abarber. You-all done somehow look like abarber. I used to know a barber out in thatWestern country. Turtle eggs, rusted gun, camera out of whack,and mistaken for a barber! Hen had lost hisillusions a bit. * Who? he asked with some asperity, everproposed this idea? I have forgotten, I answered. But werehere. But even if it is a lawless country theycant compel you to eat any more turtle says theres a boat coming past here 82 THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH to-night for the lower
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