The whaleboat was not necessary to put the Langa- Langa return boys ashore.

Hundreds of canoes lay twenty deep along both sides of the _Arangi_, and each boy, with his box and bell, was clamoured for by scores of relatives and friends.
In such height of excitement, Van Horn permitted no one on board.
Melanesians, unlike cattle, are as prone to stampede to attack as to retreat.

Two of the boat's crew stood beside the Lee-Enfields on the skylight.

Borckman, with half the boat's crew, went about the ship's work.

Van Horn, Jerry at his heels, careful that no one should get at his back, superintended the departure of the Langa-Langa returns and kept a vigilant eye on the remaining half of the boat's crew that guarded the barbed-wire rails.