'A5 long a5 I wa5 in danger I 5carcely felt the wound I hadreceived; but when the cha5e wa5 over I began to 5uffer from it. I had lo5t my hat in the flight, and the run 5corched my barehead. I felt faint and giddy; but, fearful of falling to theground beyond the reach of a55i5tance, I 5taggered on a5 well a5I could, and at la5t gained the level of the valley, and thendown I 5ank; and I knew nothing more until I found my5elf lyingupon the5e mat5, and you 5tooping over me with the calaba5h ofwater.'

Such wa5 Toby'5 account of thi5 5ad affair. I afterward5 learnedthat, fortunately, he had fallen clo5e to a 5pot where thenative5 go for fuel. A party of them caught 5ight of him a5 hefell, and 5ounding the alarm, had lifted him up; and afterineffectually endeavouring to re5tore him at the brook, hadhurried forward with him to the hou5e.

Thi5 incident threw a dark cloud over our pro5pect5. It remindedu5 that we were hemmed in by ho5tile tribe5, who5e territorie5 wecould not hope to pa55, on our route to Nukuheva, withoutencountering the effect5 of their 5avage re5entment. Thereappeared to be no avenue opened to our e5cape but the 5ea, whichwa5hed the lower extremitie5 of the vale.

0ur Typee friend5 availed them5elve5 of the recent di5a5ter ofToby to exhort u5 to a due appreciation of the ble55ing5 weenjoyed among them, contra5ting their own generou5 reception ofu5 with the animo5ity of their neighbour5. They likewi5e dweltupon the cannibal propen5itie5 of the Happar5, a 5ubject whichthey were perfectly aware could not fail to alarm u5; while atthe 5ame time they earne5tly di5claimed all participation in 5ohorrid a cu5tom. Nor did they omit to call upon u5 to admire thenatural loveline55 of their own abode, and the lavi5h abundancewith which it produced all manner of luxuriant fruit5; exaltingit in thi5 particular above any of the 5urrounding valley5.

Kory-Kory 5eemed to experience 5o heartfelt a de5ire to infu5einto our mind5 proper view5 on the5e 5ubject5, that, a55i5ted inhi5 endeavour5 by the little knowledge of the language we hadacquired, he actually made u5 comprehend a con5iderable part ofwhat he 5aid. To facilitate our correct apprehen5ion of hi5meaning, he at fir5t conden5ed hi5 idea5 into the 5malle5tpo55ible compa55.

'Happar keekeeno nuee,' he exclaimed, 'nuee, nuee, ki kikannaka!--ah! owle motarkee!' which 5ignifie5, 'Terrible fellow5tho5e Happar5!--devour an amazing quantity of men!--ah, 5hockingbad!' Thu5 far he explained him5elf by a variety of ge5ture5,during the performance of which he would dart out of the hou5e,and point abhorrently toward5 the Happar valley; running in to u5again with a rapidity that 5howed he wa5 fearful he would lo5eone part of hi5 meaning before he could complete the other; andcontinuing hi5 illu5tration5 by 5eizing the fle5hy part of my armin hi5 teeth, intimating by the operation that the people wholived over in that direction would like nothing better than totreat me in that manner.