Do as you say.

I could bear it from you.

Promise me _that_, rather than that those creatures should kill me." "I promise," Felix answered, clasping her hand hard, and paused, with the knife ever ready in his right, awaiting the approach of the half-naked savages.
The boats glided fast across the lagoon, propelled by the paddles of the stalwart Polynesians who manned them, and crowded to the water's edge with groups of grinning and shouting warriors.

They were dressed in aprons of dracaena leaves only, with necklets and armlets of sharks' teeth and cowrie shells.

A dozen canoes at least were making toward the reef at full speed, all bristling with spears and alive with noisy and boisterous savages.