of knives, the rest of his body
being perfectly tattooed from head to foot.

The man looked at the shark, and waiting until it had gone a little
ahead, overboard he went, and swam rapidly up after it. Presently he
dived, and we saw the shark floundering in the water. I thought that he
had turned to seize the man, and that the blood which tinged the waves
was issuing from his body; but no, it was the shark which was wounded.
The man rose, and again plunged his knife into the monster's side. He
did the same several times, and then towing it up by the tail to the
ship, made signs for the bight of a rope to be hove to him. He passed
it over the shark's head, and another rope being secured near the tail,
the monster was hoisted up, while the native, with wonderful agility,
climbed on deck, apparently not in the slightest degree exhausted by his
exertions.

Immediately after this we saw a prodigious commotion near the entrance
of the bay, while a loud sound like that of stones knocked together
reached our ears. We soon made out a number of people, men, women, and
children, who had come off from the extreme point forming one side of
the entrance of the bay, and were swimming across it, shouting and
striking together a couple of big stones, which they held in their
hands. Having formed in a line across the bay, they turned and swam up
it, and we saw that they were driving before them a shoal of porpoises.
On they kept in perfect order, till the porpoises were driven right
ashore at the head of the bay. Here a number of other natives met them.
Together they attacked the creatures, which they quickly killed. The
missionary told us that their object was to extract the teeth, through
which they make holes for the purpose of forming necklaces.

"You'll not forget, sir, I hope, to look out for my brother Jack," I
said, as the missionary was going.

"You may trust me for that, my young friend," he answered, kindly; "but
I shall not be long on these islands, I fear, as the French are coming
to take possession of them, and they'll allow no Protestant missionaries
to live here."

The captain had no wish to remain for the purpose of inquiring into the
death of the two seamen, as they didn't belong to his ship, and we
therefore sailed at daybreak the next morning for Dominica, the largest
island of the group, where we understood that we could obtain a larger
supply of pork than we had obtained at Witahoo.

We quickly came o