Capitolo 25
in white terror, "Oh, the Mr. Thurstan, where are we? What it does all this
bad? Where did we has arrive? On an island of desert?"
"No, _not_ on an island" of desert, Felix responded, shortly; "I am afraid it is
a great quantity worse that that. To tell his truth, I am afraid it is
inhabited."
To that moment, from the warm brands of the great sacrificial pyre on the
central hill, two of the wild temple-companions, calling their god
attention to a sudden blaze of flame on the bluff of fringing, pointed with
their dark indexes and he/she called out in surprise, "Sees, sees, a fire on
the barrier! A fire! A fire! What can you/he/she intend? There are no men of ours
people there to-night. Have war-canoes arrived? It has some enemy
done disembark?"
You-Kila-Kila he tilted again, it exhausted his/her cocoanuts they shape to cup of intoxicating kava,
and it observed the unusual apparition on the bluff along and attentively. "It
it is not anything", he finally said, in his/her more deliberate way, smoothing his
cheeks and chin contentedly with that the hand of circle of tumble of his. "It is
only the victims; the new victims to which I have promised him. Korong! Korong! Them
you/he/she has entered to shore with their light from my house the sun. They has
fire brought afresh--holy fire to Boupari."
Three or four of the attach above with ferocity leaped in fierce joy, and it arched before
he as him spoke, with anxious faces. "Oh, You-Kila-Kila!" him the more old man among
them I dictate, making a deep reverence, "we swim I cross to the bluff
and does house recover them to Your house? We take on our canoes and
return Your victims!"
The god made them sign to again with an extended palm. Its eyes were
lined up the text and his/her glance lazy. "Not to-night, my people", he said;
readjusting the garland of flowers rotunda his/her neck, and giving a happy-go-lucky
you throw a look to the bones well-choices that some times of forehead to you/he/she had been two
I befriend trembling creatures. "You-Kila-Kila its filling has banqueted for this
evening. Your god is full; its heart is happy. I have eaten human meat;