Having done so, I thought it best to leave Toby undisturbed until he should have had time to rally his faculties.

Several times he opened his lips, but fearful for his safety I enjoined silence.

In the course of two or three hours, however, he sat up, and was sufficiently recovered to tell me what had occurred.
'After leaving the house with Marheyo,' said Toby, 'we struck across the valley, and ascended the opposite heights.

Just beyond them, my guide informed me, lay the valley of Happar, while along their summits, and skirting the head of the vale, was my route to Nukuheva.

After mounting a little way up the elevation my guide paused, and gave me to understand that he could not accompany me any farther, and by various signs intimated that he was afraid to approach any nearer the territories of the enemies of his tribe.