Therefore we beg you who can arise out of the earth like spirits, to leave us at once before our island and all of us who dwell thereon are drowned beneath the ocean.

Leave us before we kill you, if indeed you be men, or die at your hands if, as we think, you be evil spirits who can throw up mountains and drag them down, and create gods that slay, and move about in the bowels of the world." "That is our intention, for our business here is done," I answered calmly.

"Come now and help us to depart.

But first bring us food.

Bring it in plenty, for we must victual our boat." Marama bowed and issued the necessary orders.