CHAPTER LXII.
Taji Retires From The World After a while, when the strangers came not in shoals as before, I proposed to our host, a stroll over his dominions; desirous of beholding the same, and secretly induced by the hope of selecting an abode, more agreeable to my fastidious taste, than the one already assigned me.
The ramble over--a pleasant one it was--it resulted in a determination on my part to quit Odo.

Yet not to go very far; only ten or twelve yards, to a little green tuft of an islet; one of many, which here and there, all round the island, nestled like birds' nests in the branching boughs of the coral grove, whose roots laid hold of the foundations of the deep.

Between these islets and the shore, extended shelving ledges, with shallows above, just sufficient to float a canoe.

One of these islets was wooded and wined; an arbor in the sea.

And here, Media permitting, I decided to dwell.
Not long was Media in complying; nor long, ere my retreat was in readiness.