The emissaries came to his house and asked his wife where he was.

Then, borrowing from her the ironwood stick used for breaking open cocoa-nuts, they went after him, and knocked him down with it, binding him hand and foot, and placing him in a long basket made of cocoa-nut leaves.

His wife rushed forward, but was kept away, as the touch or breath of a woman is considered to pollute a sacrifice.

The man, however, recovered the blow, and spoke out boldly: "Friends, I know what you intend to do with me.

You are about to kill me, and offer me up as a _tabae_ to your savage gods.