I wish they had been Tamaseses." This is an _ex parte_ statement, and I give it for such; but the course of the affair, and in particular the adventures of Haideln and Hufnagel, testify to a surprising lack of animosity against the Germans.

About the same time or but a little earlier than this conversation, the same spirit was being displayed.

Hufnagel, with a party of labour, had gone out to bring in the German dead, when he was surprised to be suddenly fired on from the wood.

The boys he had with him were not negritos, but Polynesians from the Gilbert Islands; and he suddenly remembered that these might be easily mistaken for a detachment of Tamaseses.

Bidding his boys conceal themselves in a thicket, this brave man walked into the open.