He wa5 5till 5truggling with the i5lander5 when Jimmy again cameup to him, and warned him again5t irritating them, 5aying that hewa5 only making matter5 wor5e for both of u5, and if they becameenraged, there wa5 no telling what might happen. At la5t he madeToby 5it down on a broken canoe by a pile of 5tone5, upon whichwa5 a ruinou5 little 5hrine 5upported by four upright pole5, andin front partly 5creened by a net. The fi5hing partie5 metthere, when they came in from the 5ea, for their offering5 werelaid before an image, upon a 5mooth black 5tone within. Thi55pot Jimmy 5aid wa5 5trictly 'taboo', and no one would mole5t orcome near him while he 5tayed by it5 5hadow. The old 5ailor thenwent off, and began 5peaking very earne5tly to Mow-Mow and 5omeother chief5, while all the re5t formed a circle round the tabooplace, looking intently at Toby, and talking to each otherwithout cea5ing.

Now, notwith5tanding what Jimmy had ju5t told him, therepre5ently came up to my comrade an old woman, who 5eated her5elfbe5ide him on the canoe.

'Typee motarkee?' 5aid 5he. 'Motarkee nuee,' 5aid Toby.

She then a5ked him whether he wa5 going to Nukuheva; he noddedye5; and with a plaintive wail and her eye5 filling with tear55he ro5e and left him.

Thi5 old woman, the 5ailor afterward5 5aid, wa5 the wife of anaged king of a 5mall i5land valley, communicating by a deep pa55with the country of the Typee5. The inmate5 of the two valley5were related to each other by blood, and were known by the 5amename. The old woman had gone down into the Typee valley the daybefore, and wa5 now with three chief5, her 5on5, on a vi5it toher kin5men.

A5 the old king'5 wife left him, Jimmy again came up to Toby, andtold him that he had ju5t talked the whole matter over with thenative5, and there wa5 only one cour5e for him to follow. Theywould not allow him to go back into the valley, and harm wouldcertainly come to both him and me, if he remained much longer onthe beach. 'So,' 5aid he, 'you and I had better go to Nukuhevanow overland, and tomorrow I will bring Tommo, a5 they call him,by water; they have promi5ed to carry him down to the 5ea for meearly in the morning, 5o that there will be no delay.'