“ My word,” Van Horn concluded; “you bad fella too much along this place. Too many heads you fella take; too much kai-kai long pig along you.” (Long pig, meaning barbecued human flesh.)
“ What name, long time black fella belong Su’u take ’m heads, kai-kai along long pig?” Ishikola countered.
“ My word,” Van Horn came back, “too much along this place. Bime by, close up, big fella warship stop ’m along Su’u, knock seven balls outa Su’u.”
“ What name him big fella warship stop ’m along Solomons?” Ishikola demanded.
“ Big fella Cambrian , him fella name belong ship,” Van Horn lied, too well aware that no British cruiser had been in the Solomons for the past two years.
The conversation was becoming rather a farcical dissertation upon the relations that should obtain be
