Save for a narrow breech-clout, a pair of ear-plugs, and about his kinky hair a chaplet of white cowrie-shells, he was naked.

His body was fresh-oiled and shiny, and his eyes glistened in the starlight like some wild animal's.

The rest of the boys had crowded up at his back in a solid wall.

Some one of them giggled, but the remainder regarded her in morose and intense silence.
"Well ?" she said.

"What for you want plenty fella things ?" "Me take 'm medicine," quoth Aroa.