Australia, with her "all-white" policy, attended to that.
No dark-skinned human, whether Malay, Japanese, or Polynesian, could land on her shore without putting into the Government's hand a cash security of one hundred pounds.
Nor at the other islands visited by the _Makambo_ had Kwaque any desire to cut and run for it.

King William Island, which was the only land he had ever trod, was his yard-stick by which he measured all other islands.
And since King William Island was cannibalistic, he could only conclude that the other islands were given to similar dietary practice.
As for King William Island, the _Makambo_, on the former run of the _Cockspur_, stopped there every ten weeks; but the direst threat Daughtry ever held over him was the putting ashore of him at the place where the two active young men still mourned their pig.

In fact, it was their regular programme, each trip, to paddle out and around the _Makambo_ and make ferocious grimaces up at Kwaque, who grimaced back at them from over the rail.

Daughtry even encouraged this exchange of facial amenities for the purpose of deterring him from ever hoping to win ashore to the village of his birth.
For that matter, Kwaque had little desire to leave his master, who, after all, was kindly and just, and never lifted a hand to him.

Having survived sea-sickness at the first, and never setting foot upon the land so that he never again knew sea-sickness, Kwaque was certain he lived in an earthly paradise.