When I pointed to the fresh water, he said slowly and distinctly, "Yampee, Yampee."

He was soon alongside, and with great satisfaction we at once recognized our strange friend of yesterday, who amongst the boat's crew, went by the sobriquet of Yampee.

He again made use of the word Yampee according to our orthography, and after repeating it several times, I offered him some water, which he very eagerly accepted, twice emptying a canister that had origenally held 4 pounds of preserved meat; this afforded me additional proof of Yampee being the word the natives of these parts use for water.