As her clothes grew warmer, the poor girl opened her eyes at last, and, gazing around her, exclaimed, in blank terror, "Oh, Mr.Thurstan, where are we?
What does all this mean?
Where have we got to?
On a desert island ?" "No, _not_ on a desert island," Felix answered, shortly; "I'm afraid it's a great deal worse than that.

To tell you the truth, I'm afraid it's inhabited." At that moment, by the hot embers of the great sacrificial pyre on the central hill, two of the savage temple-attendants, calling their god's attention to a sudden blaze of flame upon the fringing reef, pointed with their dark forefingers and called out in surprise, "See, see, a fire on the barrier! A fire! A fire! What can it mean?
There are no men of our people over there to-night.

Have war-canoes arrived?
Has some enemy landed ?" Tu-Kila-Kila leaned back, drained his cocoanut cup of intoxicating kava, and surveyed the unwonted apparition on the reef long and carefully.

"It is nothing," he said at last, in his most deliberate manner, stroking his cheeks and chin contentedly with that plump round hand of his.

"It is only the victims; the new victims I promised you.