Thank goodness I haven't got to go down there tomorrow, as he seems to have had enough of me for the present, so I vote we all pay a visit to the ship.

It will be a very pleasant change.
I couldn't stand two days running with that old fiend, and his ghosts or devils in the cave." Next morning accordingly, fearing no harm from the Orofenans, we took the canoe and rowed to the main island.

Marama had evidently seen us coming, for he and a number of his people met us with every demonstration of delight, and escorted us to the ship.

Here we found things just as we had left them, for there had been no attempt at theft or other mischief.
While we were in the cabin a fit of moral weakness seemed to overcome Bickley, the first and I may add the last from which I ever saw him suffer.
"Do you know," he said, addressing us, "I think that we should do well to try to get out of this place.

Eliminating a great deal of the marvelous with which we seem to have come in touch here, it is still obvious that we find ourselves in very peculiar and unhealthy surroundings.