James: Part 1, Chapter 13 Summary & Analysis

Jim wakes to find it is daylight and Huck has hidden him beneath a tarp. The boy is being questioned by some white men who are looking for a runaway slave. Huck claims to be fishing with his uncle, who is sick with smallpox. Afraid of getting sick, the men do not investigate Jim’s concealed form. They give Huck 10 dollars as charity and tell him to keep an eye out for the slave, who is supposedly dangerous. Jim and Huck return to the river at night to find their canoe stolen. They set out on the raft, but it is broken apart by passing riverboats. The two become separated, adrift in the river.