When I wished to return the next day, I was informed politely by Marama that it would not be safe for me to do so as the priests of Oro declared that if I sought to meddle with the "buried things the god would grow angry and bring disaster on me." When I persisted he said that at least I must go alone since no native would accompany me, and added earnestly that he prayed me not to go.

So to my great regret and disappointment I was obliged to give up the idea..