Science could readily explain her part in the night's scene.
"We came to the conclusion that there must be a passage-way between Ponape and Nan-Tauach known to the natives--and used by them during their rites.

We decided that on the next departure of our labourers we would set forth immediately to Nan-Tauach.

We would investigate during the day, and at evening my wife and Thora would go back to camp, leaving Stanton and me to spend the night on the island, observing from some safe hiding-place what might occur.
"The moon waned; appeared crescent in the west; waxed slowly toward the full.

Before the men left us they literally prayed us to accompany them.

Their importunities only made us more eager to see what it was that, we were now convinced, they wanted to conceal from us.