The chief regarded her with still more complacent eyes.
"It is well," he observed once more to his companions, smiling.

"She, too, gives the sign of acceptance.

Korong! Korong! Heaven is well pleased with both.

See how her body trembles!" At that moment a girl came forward with a little basket of fruits.

The chief chose a banana with care from the basket, peeled it with his dusky hands, broke it slowly in two, and handed one half very solemnly to Felix.
"Eat, King of the Rain," he said, as he presented it.