On the other scrap of paper, according to
him, the names of some of the islands in this neighbourhood were
written. Though the papers were transposed and turned upside down,
George could read them with equal facility. The list of rivers would be
read for the islands, and the islands for the rivers, quite
indifferently, and with entertaining naivete. But he treasured the
papers, and continued to delude his fellows with the display of what
they considered to be wonderful cleverness.
YAB-OO-RAGOO, OTHERWISE "MICKIE"
"Mislike me not for my complexion."
He said that his name was Mickie, and that he was an Irishman, and a
native of the great Palm Island--40 miles south. He hath no personal
comeliness--his face is his great misfortune. Though he asserts with
pride his nationality, he admits that his mother, now among the stars,
"sat down alonga 'nother side," and his complexion, or rather what is
seen of it through an artless layer of charcoal and grease, applied out
of respect to the memory of his deceased brother-in-law, shows no Celtic
trace. Yet he has a keen appreciation of fun, has ready wit, and,
according to his own showing, is not averse to a shindy, so that,
perhaps his given name is at least characteristic of his assumed race.
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