"A man-a-oui-oui!" he cried, delighted.

"How strange! How wonderful! I must go in at once to his hut and see him!" He had lifted his foot and was just going to cross the white line of coral-sand, when his Shadow, catching him suddenly and stoutly round the waist, pulled him back from the enclosure with every sign of horror, alarm, and astonishment.

"No, you can't go," he cried, grappling with him with all his force, yet using him very tenderly for all that, as becomes a god.

"Taboo! Taboo there!" "But I am a god myself," Felix cried, insisting upon his privileges.

If you have to submit to the disadvantages of taboo, you may as well claim its advantages as well.