Him very powerful." "What! Not that dreadful creature that they took us to see this morning!" Muriel exclaimed, in horror.

"Oh, Mali, you can't mean to say they think he's a _god_, that awful man there!" Mali nodded her assent with profound conviction.

"Yes, yes; him god," she repeated, confidently.

"Him very powerful.

My sister Jani go too near him temple, against taboo--because her not belong-a Tu-Kila-Kila temple; and last night, when it great feast, plenty men catch Jani, and tie him up in rope; and Tu-Kila-Kila kill him, and plenty Boupari men help Tu-Kila-Kila eat up Jani." She said it in the same simple, matter-of-fact way as she had said that she was a nurse for three years in Queensland.