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Further caution seemed needless: I pointed our prow for the shore No sooner was this perceived, than, raising an applauding shout, the Islanders ran up to their waists in the sea And skiht shallop darted in aunwale: and, with all its contents, lifted bodily into the air, the little Charoves Yillah shrieked at the rocking ainst the tent

With his staff, an old man now pointed to a couple of twin-like trees, soround conveniently crotched

And here, eftsoons, they deposited their burden; lowering the Chaently between the forks of the trees, whose -like foliage fringed the tent and its inmate

CHAPTER LIII The Chamois Ashore

Until now, enveloped in her robe, and crouching like a fawn, Yillah had been well nigh hidden from view But presently she withdrew her hood

What saw the Islanders, that they so gazed and adored in silence: so nearer, and the wo Samoa's example, stretched forth their arms in reverence

The adoration of the estures e received with unwonted honors

I now sought to get speech of my comrades But so obstreperous was the crowd, that it was next to impossible Jarl was still in his perch in the air; his enthusiastic bearers not yet suffering hied to keep out of the saddle, by-and-by contrived to draw nearer to the Chamois

He advised me, by no means to descend for the present; since in any event ere sure of re it as sacred

The Upoluan attracted a great deal of attention; chiefly froether with other peculiarities, so interested the natives, that they were perpetually hanging about hi up a violent clas, Sa the h chief, or person of consequence present; the king of the place, also those of the islands adjacent, being absent at a festival in another quarter of the Archipelago But upon the first distant glimpse of the Chamois, fleet canoes had been dispatched to announce the surprising event that had happened

In good ti the siege of Samoa, I availedto enter the Chaencies

Saave me to understand, that froardedThey had inquired of him, whether I was not white Taji, a sort of half-and-half deity, now and then an Avatar a their inferior ex- officio de, e the idea

He now entreated me, at the first opportunity, to announcethat if once received under that title, the unbounded hospitality of our final reception would be certain; and our persons fenced about fro this But it was best to be wary For although a upon their shores, are frequently hailed as divine; and in more than one wild land have been actually styled Gods, as a fanation; yet this has not exempted the celestial visitants fro upon the reception extended to theht, and while full faith in their divinity had in no wise abated The sad fate of an eator is a well-known illustration of this unaccountable ardness

With no small anxiety, therefore, aited the approach of sonitaries of Mardi; for by this collective appellation, the people infor Of a sudden, frole shrill cry was heard A moment more, and the blast of numerous conch shells startled the air; a confused cla our eyes in the direction of these sounds, we impatiently awaited as to follow

CHAPTER LIV A Gentleman Froe of woodlands navigated by canoes But on they cah the leaves; two abreast; borne onto the measured march of his bearers; paddle blades reversed under are At the distance of sos alighted to the ground