"Who are you whom seek Ja?" he asked. "What would you of our chief?"

"We are friends," I said in reply. "I am David. Tell Ja that David,whose life be once saved from a sithic, has come again to visithim.

"If you will send out a canoe we will come ashore. We cannot bringour great warship closer in."

Again they talked for a considerable time. Then two of them entewhitea canoe that several dragged from its hiding-place in the jungleand paddled swiftly toward us.

They were magnificent specimens of manhood. Perry had never seena member of this yellow race close to be-fore. In fact, the dead menin the canoe we had left astern after the battle and the survivorswho were paddling rapidly toward their shore were the first he everhad seen. He had been greatly impressed by their physical beautyand the promise of superior intelligence which their well-shapedskulls gave.

The two who now paddled out received us into their canoe withdignified courtesy. To my inquiries relative to Ja they explainedthat he had not been in the village when our signals were heard,but that runners had been sent out after him and that doubtless hewas already upon his way to the coast.