Capitolo 36
not saint enough to draw near. My crew and I from what the we are sanctified
mysteries, we will go alone in ahead to satisfy them."
As he spoke, a sudden idea, suggested by his/her words the mind of struck Felix.
Superstition is the great lever from whether to transport the wild intelligence.
Gathering on some dry leaves and it fragments of baton on the beach, him
them staid together in a pole, and attended in silence the arrival of the
first the islanders. The first canoe slowly advanced and cautiously, the
men in him that they look at these procedures with evident suspect; the rest hung
back, with their lances in order and their hands only ready to use them
with effect application should cause him/it.
The leader of the first canoe, while coming next to the beach, jumped out on
the bluff in a little deep water. Half that a dozen of its followers has jumped later him
without hesitation, and it brandished their weapon they round off their heads as
they advanced, in wild unison. But Felix, not pretending really to notice
these hostile demonstrations, audaciously advanced on verse its small pole
with great deliberation, internally trembling nevertheless, and it proceeded before
their eyes to take a match from his/her box that he exposed
ostentatiously, entirely shining in the sun, to the first savage. The
leader been standing from and it looked at him/it close with eyes of silent wonders. Then
Felix, while kneeling down himself/herself/itself, it struck the match on the box, and it applied him, as it
illuminated, to the dry leaves close to him.
A choir of burst of amazement unanimously from the happy natives a great deal as
the dry land leaves everything in once leaped in a language of flame and the small one
pole he/she quickly took from the fire in the dresses.
The leader seemed hard to the two white faces, and then to the fire on
the beach, with evident approval. "It is as You-Kila-Kila says", him
finally exclaimed with deep reverential fear. "They is spirits from the sun, and
they brings them pure fire in the bright boxes."