"Meringe owes Somo four heads, three from the dysentery, an' another wan from a tree fallin' on him the last fortnight.

He was the son of a chief at that." "Yes, and there's two heads more that the _Arangi_ owes Somo," Van Horn nodded.

"You recollect, down to the south'ard last year, a chap named Hawkins was lost in his whaleboat running the Arli Passage ?" Haggin, returning along the deck, nodded.

"Two of his boat's crew were Somo boys.

I'd recruited them for Ugi Plantation.