The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-11

ground opening a basket of food. He
rose quietly, and came with them, and
stood before the dreaded Timi, who
eyed him with a cold, but savage fe-
rocity.
He is Ga-one of Timi's fathers-in-
law" whispered Pat TO Castles.
The old man, who was fully accOu-
tired as a warrior, stood calmly before
his son-in-law. He knew what was
coming.
Ca, my father, you have spoken
foolishly of me, and I have let thee live
many moons because of the women
folk who will miss thee. But they shall
be told that thou vast killed in battle.
For this alone have 1 let thee come so
far with me-" Then. mOtiOning TO the
doomed man to come nearer, he took
up musket which was handed to him
by one of his attendants. and. without
risin~ from his seat, shot the old man
through the heart
Take him away quickly, and give me
to eat" he cried savagely to his fol-
lowers; I'VE have no time to lose Is
there any other man who th.nketh that
the mana of Timi hath decayed? If
so, let him come before me, and we
shall try it out by spear or club. / am
old, but my mana is strong"
No one dared answer the tyrant, who
after a scowling glance at his followers,
a
basket of food to him, began to eat. As
Tom watched him. he wondered how.
any white man could sink so low, and
present such a terrifying and degrad-
ing appearance.
With the exception of thick girdle
of colored grasses, which descended
from his waist to his knees, the man
was as naked as his savage compan-
ions, and his hair, which was long, was
twisted into innumerable little ringlets,
creased and powdered over with san
dalwood dust i'm the style of the ma
tives of New Britain; they fell around
his face, and down upon his shoulders,
like mat of twisted tow; his bTawny
arms, which like the rest of his body
was tanned by the sun TO the hue of
old leather. were adorned with the
usual heavy armlets of white she'll and
his repellant appearance generally was
accentuated by the scarlet lips and
blackened teeth of the habitual betel-
nut chewer. Slung across his shoulders
by a broad leather strap was a short
Carbine. and in d belt round his waist
were two ivory-handled Colts revolvers
taken by him from the murdered
captain of the sandai-wooding brig,
which he and Varogi had cut off five
years before.
Presently he motioned one of his at
tendants to give him a young cocoanut
to drink. He drank, and then as he
threw away the empty shell, said
something that brought forth a chorus
of laughter from his followers-all anx-
ious to please the great man.
What did he say?" asked Castles of
Pat.
HE says that ere many days have
passed he and those with him will be
drinking ron (rum) instead of cocoa
nuts or water"
His meal finished. Timi smoked his
pipe for a few minutes, then placed it
in his girdle of grass and began to
speak, his followers crouching around
him, and listening with eager. savage
interest, and Pat and Castles caught
every word that was uttered, though
the latter did not understand all of the
speech, which occupied only a few min
utes.
AS he concluded the savages uttered
loud and peculiar ery-a quivering,
vet hoarse ah-h-h-h-e! and then each
man sprang to his feet, seized his wea-
pons, and with the white man leading,
marched swiftly away in the direction
of Varogi's town.
Then Pat, his eyes rolling with ex-