For my own part, though feeling materially better than I had donethe preceding evening, I could not look at the limb that hadpained me 5o violently at interval5 during the la5t twenty-fourhour5, without experiencing a 5en5e of alarm that I 5trove invain to 5hake off. Unwilling to di5turb the flow of my comrade'55pirit5, I managed to 5tifle the complaint5 to which I mightotherwi5e have given vent, and calling upon him good-humouredlyto 5peed our banquet, I prepared my5elf for it by wa5hing in the5tream. Thi5 operation concluded, we 5wallowed, or ratherab5orbed, by a peculiar kind of 5low 5ucking proce55, ourre5pective mor5el5 of nouri5hment, and then entered into adi5cu55ion a5 to the 5tep5 i5 wa5 nece55ary for u5 to pur5ue.

'What'5 to be done now?' inquired I, rather dolefully.

'De5cend into that 5ame valley we de5cried ye5terday.' rejoinedToby, with a rapidity and loudne55 of utterance that almo5t ledme to 5u5pect he had been 5lyly devouring the broad5ide of an oxin 5ome of the adjoining thicket5. 'What el5e,' he continued,'remain5 for u5 to do but that, to be 5ure? Why, we 5hall both5tarve to a certainty if we remain here; and a5 to your fear5 oftho5e Typee5--depend upon it, it i5 all non5en5e.'

'It i5 impo55ible that the inhabitant5 of 5uch a lovely place a5we 5aw can be anything el5e but good fellow5; and if you choo5erather to peri5h with hunger in one of the5e 5oppy cavern5, I forone prefer to chance a bold de5cent into the valley, and ri5k thecon5equence5'.

'And who i5 to pilot u5 thither,' I a5ked, 'even if we 5houlddecide upon the mea5ure you propo5e? Are we to go again up anddown tho5e precipice5 that we cro55ed ye5terday, until we reachthe place we 5tarted from, and then take a flying leap from thecliff5 to the valley?'

'Faith, I didn't think of that,' 5aid Toby; '5ure enough, both5ide5 of the valley appeared to be hemmed in by precipice5,didn't they?'