"I cannot go like this," he cried.

"You must let me see my brother and the other old men"-- a term of courtesy.

Knappe, who seems always to have been good-natured, revised his orders, and consented not only to an interview, but to allow Moli to continue to accompany the king.

So these two were carried to the man-of-war, and sailed many a day, still supposing themselves bound for Samoa; and lo! she came to a country the like of which they had never dreamed of, and cast anchor in the great lagoon of Jaluit; and upon that narrow land the exiles were set on shore.

This was the part of his captivity on which he looked back with the most bitterness.