The shock was too much for me, and I fell back again.

*****

As soon as I was strong enough for the journey I visited the scene, and
was shown, on the spot where once the church had stood, a bare, grim
mound. Underneath it lay all that was mortal of Lucia, Niabon, Tematau,
and three hundred others, who had in one swift moment been sent to
eternity that dreadful night. Some of the few survivors, who, under the
direction of a priest, and the Governor of San Ignacio, were erecting a
tall wooden cross at the foot of the great grave, led me to the site of
the house in which my dear companions had met their deaths. Nine other
people were in the house when it fell and buried the sleepers, and the
agony must have been short for them all.

The tidal wave which accompanied the earthquake had hurled the boat and
Tepi and myself for many hundreds of yards inland. I was picked up in
the boat herself, stunned and severely injured. Tepi was carried into
a rice field, and although his arm was broken, he at once set out
in search of me, and the faithful fellow had come with me when I was
carried in a bullock cart to San Ignacio, where the doctor and priests
had brought me round after two weeks' dangerous illness.

Before leaving Guam I spent two months with my friend Jose Otano,
who tried hard to make me stay with him. At his house poor Lucia's
heart-broken sister came to see me very often, and I bade her farewell
with genuine sorrow.

Then one day Tepi and I turned our faces once more to the islands of the
south--and so the story of my strange adventure is told.

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