It was an actual relief to his nerves to find that the improvised Dum-dums had done their work too well to permit anxiety on that score.

On the principle that a "dead Injun is a good Injun" these Dyaks were good Dyaks.
He gathered the guns, swords and krisses of the slain, with all their uncouth belts and ornaments.

In pursuance of a vaguely defined plan of future action he also divested some of the men of their coarse garments, and collected six queer-looking hats, shaped like inverted basins.

These things he placed in a heap near the pitcher-plants.
Thenceforth, for half an hour, the placid surface of the lagoon was disturbed by the black dorsal fins of many sharks.
To one of the sailor's temperament there was nothing revolting in the concluding portion of his task.

He had a God-given right to live.