We asked--what arrangement?
He replied that we must make them gifts; also that we must do what we had promised and cure him--the chief--of the disease which had tormented him for years.

In that event everything would be at our disposal and we, with all our belongings, should become taboo, holy, not to be touched.

None would attempt to harm us, nothing should be stolen under penalty of death.
We asked him to come up on the deck with only one companion that his sickness might be ascertained, and after much hesitation he consented to do so.

Bickley made an examination of the growth and announced that he believed it could be removed with perfect safety as the attachment to the neck was very slight, but of course there was always a risk.

This was explained to him with difficulty, and much talk followed between him and his followers who gathered on the beach beneath the ship.