Bible, I am quite sure by its shape, and the other is, I think, a
Prayer-book."

"What is a Bible, and what is a Prayer-book?" replied I.

"The Bible is the Word of God, and the Prayer-book teaches us how to
pray to him."

"But who is God? I have often heard you say, 'O God!' and 'God damn'
--but who is he?"

"I will tell you to-night before we go to sleep," replied Jackson,
gravely.

"Very well, I shall remind you. I have found a little box inside the
chest, and it is full of all manner of little things--strings and
sinews."

"Let me feel them?"

I put a bundle into his hand.

"These are needles and thread for making and mending clothes--they
will be useful bye-and-bye."

At last the whole contents of the chest were overhauled and
explained: I could not well comprehend the glass bottles, or how they
were made, but I put them with the pannikins, and everything else,
very carefully into the chest again, and hauled the chest to the
farther end of the cabin, out of the way. Before we went to bed that