Even the wretched bush- slaves, who had trembled through all the time of their captivity from fear of being eaten, received each a clay pipe and several sticks of tobacco.

The main bulk of the trade goods, which was not distributed, Bashti had carried up to his own large grass house.

All the wealth of gear was stored in the several canoe houses.

While in the devil devil houses the devil devil doctors set to work curing the many heads over slow smudges; for, along with the boat's crew there were a round dozen of No-ola return boys and several Malu boys which Van Horn had not yet delivered.
Not all these had been slain, however.

Bashti had issued stern injunctions against wholesale slaughter.