Chapter
10
NEXT MORNING THE WHOLE VILLAGE accompanied me down the cation to see me take off for Orvis. Three men went far in advance and when he got down into the cation one of them came running back to meet us. I could see that he was very much excited, and he was motioning to us to be silent.
"There is a Kapar at your ship," he said, in a whisper.
"Let me go ahead," I said to the chief. "There will probably be shooting."
"We should have brought the guns," he said. "Why did I not think of that?" And he sent three men scurrying back to get them.
I walked down the cañon until I came to the other two men who had gone ahead. They were hiding behind bushes and they motioned me to take cover, but I had no time for that; and instead I ran forward, and when I came in sight of the ship a man
