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removing the clotted hair from about it, showed the skull laid completely
bare. Immediately with my knife I cut away the heavy locks, and bathed the
part repeatedly in water.

In a few moments Toby revived, and opening his eyes for a second, closed
them again, without speaking. Kory-Kory, who had been kneeling beside me,
now chafed his limbs gently with the palms of his hands, while a young
girl at his head kept fanning him, and I still continued to moisten his
lips and brow. Soon my poor comrade showed signs of animation, and I
succeeded in making him swallow from a cocoa-nut shell a few mouthfuls of
water.

[Illustration: THE BODY WAS CARRIED INTO THE HOUSE AND LAID ON A MAT]

Old Tinor now appeared, holding in her hand some simples she had gathered,
the juice of which she by signs besought me to squeeze into the wound.
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. He, however, pointed out my path, which now lay clearly
before me, and, bidding me farewell, hastily descended the mountain.

"Quite elated at being so near the Happars, I pushed up the acclivity, and
soon gained its summit. It tapered up to a sharp ridge, from whence I
beheld both the hostile valleys. Here I sat down and rested for a moment,
refreshing myself with my cocoa-nuts. I was soon again pursuing my way
along the height, when suddenly I saw three of the islanders, who must
have just come out of Happar valley, standing in the path ahead of me.
They were each armed with a heavy spear, and one, from his appearance, I
took to be a chief. They sung out something, I could not understand what,
and beckoned me to come on.

"Without the least hesitation I advanced towards t