Capitolo 93
take care of! These are lies that he says. Listen to him! Feel him/it!"
In the meantime, more and more nativeses kept on coming above with fruits demolished by the wind of fruit,
or with their objects you/they had voted in their terror to devote during the
night; and Felix the whole duration kept on explaining to the top of its voice, to
all as them came, that he didn't want anything, and that they could take everybody
back again. This curiously incoherent action seemed to confuse the
natives that oddly asks. If he had made the storm, then to which they has asked, and
eaten the storm-apple, for any use to him but out of pure
perverseness? If he didn't also want the fruits demolished by the wind and the objects they voted
to him, because it had him beaten down their crops and done break their houses? Them
looked at him meaningly; but they didn't challenge cross that the great line of
taboo. It was alone them own superstition, at that time of danger,
that held their hands by those defencelesses white people.
A happy idea finally seemed to strike the crowd. "What he wants is a
child?" they cried, effusively. "He is thirsty for blood! I/you/he/she allow us to kill and
a correct victim roasts him!"
The horror of Felix to this appalling proposal didn't know confinements. "If you do,"
he cried, while turning their his/her own superstition against them in this last time
of need, "I will also raise worse on a storm that last night! You do him/it
to Your danger! I don't want victim. The people of my country don't eat of
human meat. It is a detestable thing, horrible, hateful to God and man.
With us, every similar human life is sacred. We don't scatter blood. If You challenge
to do as you say, I will raise on such storm Your to-night of heads as
submerges and you drown the whole one of Your island."
The nativeses listened to him with deep interest. "We have to scatter anybody
blood!" they repeated, while seeming petrified to each other. "Feels that that the King
say! We don't have to cut the throat of the victim. We have to tie a child with