I am not afraid.
Remember, I am as powerful a god as you.

I need not fear.

You cannot hurt me." A baleful light gleamed in the cannibal's eye.

But he thought it best to temporize.

Powerful as he was on his island, there was one thing yet more powerful by far than he; and that was Taboo--the custom and superstition handed down from his ancestors, These strangers were Korong; he dare not touch them, except in the way and manner and time appointed by custom.