When this morning it rose and touched the wave, I pushed my shallop from its golden beach, and hither sailed before its level rays.

I am Taji." More would have been added, but I paused for the effect of my exordium.
Stepping back a pace or two, the chiefs eagerly conversed.
Emboldened, I returned to the charge, and labored hard to impress them with just such impressions of me and mine, as I deemed desirable.

The gentle Yillah was a seraph from the sun; Samoa I had picked off a reef in my route from that orb; and as for the Skyeman, why, as his name imported, he came from above.

In a word, we were all strolling divinities.
Advancing toward the Chamois, one of the kings, a calm old man, now addressed me as follows:--"Is this indeed Taji?
he, who according to a tradition, was to return to us after five thousand moons?
But that period is yet unexpired.

What bring'st thou hither then, Taji, before thy time?
Thou wast but a quarrelsome demi-god, say the legends, when thou dwelt among our sires.