CHAPTER XLVII.
Yillah, Jarl, And Samoa But time to tell, how Samoa and Jarl regarded this mystical Yillah; and how Yillah regarded them.
As Beauty from the Beast, so at first shrank the damsel from my one- armed companion.

But seeing my confidence in the savage, a reaction soon followed.

And in accordance with that curious law, by which, under certain conditions, the ugliest mortals become only amiably hideous, Yillah at length came to look upon Samoa as a sort of harmless and good-natured goblin.

Whence came he, she cared not; or what was his history; or in what manner his fortunes were united to mine.
May be, she held him a being of spontaneous origin.
Now, as every where women are the tamers of the menageries of men; so Yillah in good time tamed down Samoa to the relinquishment of that horrible thing in his ear, and persuaded him to substitute a vacancy for the bauble in his nose.

On his part, however, all this was conditional.