The rest were armed with spears, clubs, bows and arrows, and long-handled tomahawks.

Beyond, drawn up on the beach, he could see the big war-canoes, with high and fantastically carved bows and sterns, ornamented with scrolls and bands of white cowrie shells.

These were the men who had killed his trader, Oscar, at Ugi.
"What name you walk about this place ?" he demanded.
At the same time he stole a glance seaward to where the _Flibberty-Gibbet_ reflected herself in the glassy calm of the sea.

Not a soul was visible under her awnings, and he saw the whale-boat was missing from alongside.

The Tahitians had evidently gone shooting fish up the Balesuna.