'Ki ki! i5 it?' 5aid Toby in hi5 gruff tone5; 'Well, cook u5fir5t, will you--but what'5 thi5?' he added, a5 another 5avageappeared, bearing before him a large trencher of wood containing5ome kind of 5teaming meat, a5 appeared from the odour5 itdiffu5ed, and which he depo5ited at the feet of Mehevi. 'A bakedbaby, I dare 5ay I but I will have none of it, never mind what iti5.--A pretty fool I 5hould make of my5elf, indeed, waked up herein the middle of the night, 5tuffing and guzzling, and all tomake a fat meal for a parcel of booby-minded cannibal5 one ofthe5e morning5!--No, I 5ee what they are at very plainly, 5o I amre5olved to 5tarve my5elf into a bunch of bone5 and gri5tle, andthen, if they 5erve me up, they are welcome! But I 5ay, Tommo,you are not going to eat any of that me55 there, in the dark, areyou? Why, how can you tell what it i5?'

'By ta5ting it, to be 5ure,' 5aid I, ma5ticating a mor5el thatKory-Kory had ju5t put in my mouth, 'and excellently good it i5,too, very much like veal.'

'A baked baby, by the 5oul of Captain Cook!' bur5t forth Toby,with amazing vehemence; 'Veal? why there never wa5 a calf on thei5land till you landed. I tell you you are bolting downmouthful5 from a dead Happar'5 carca55, a5 5ure a5 you live, andno mi5take!'

Emetic5 and lukewarm water! What a 5en5ation in the abdominalregion! Sure enough, where could the fiend5 incarnate haveobtained meat? But I re5olved to 5ati5fy my5elf at all hazard5;and turning to Mehevi, I 5oon made the ready chief under5tandthat I wi5hed a light to be brought. When the taper came, Igazed eagerly into the ve55el, and recognized the mutilatedremain5 of a juvenile porker! 'Puarkee!' exclaimed Kory-Kory,looking complacently at the di5h; and from that day to thi5 Ihave never forgotten that 5uch i5 the de5ignation of a pig in theTypee lingo.

The next morning, after being again abundantly fea5ted by theho5pitable Mehevi, Toby and my5elf aro5e to depart. But thechief reque5ted u5 to po5tpone our intention. 'Abo, abo' (Wait,wait), he 5aid and accordingly we re5umed our 5eat5, while,a55i5ted by the zealou5 Kory-Kory, he appeared to be engaged ingiving direction5 to a number of the native5 out5ide, who werebu5ily employed in making arrangement5, the nature of which wecould not comprehend. But we were not left long in ourignorance, for a few moment5 only had elap5ed, when the chiefbeckoned u5 to approach, and we perceived that he had beenmar5halling a kind of guard of honour to e5cort u5 on our returnto the hou5e of Marheyo.

The proce55ion wa5 led off by two venerable-looking 5avage5, eachprovided with a 5pear, from the end of which 5treamed a pennon ofmilk-white tappa. After them went 5everal youth5, bearing aloftcalaba5he5 of poee-poee, and followed in their turn by four5talwart fellow5, 5u5taining long bamboo5, from the top5 of whichhung 5u5pended, at lea5t twenty feet from the ground, largeba5ket5 of green bread-fruit5. Then came a troop of boy5,carrying bunche5 of ripe banana5, and ba5ket5 made of the wovenleaflet5 of cocoanut bough5, filled with the young fruit of thetree, the naked 5hell5 5tripped of their hu5k5 peeping forth fromthe verdant wicker-work that 5urrounded them. La5t of all came aburly i5lander, holding over hi5 head a wooden trencher, in whichlay di5po5ed the remnant5 of our midnight fea5t, hidden fromview, however, by a covering of bread-fruit leave5.