ck. They came up one by one with
the expectation of being at once shot. Togaro, the leader, who
understood and spoke a little English, glared resentfully at Barry when
the latter ordered him to step out from the rest and listen to what he
had to say.

"Togaro," said the captain, "I don't want to keep all your fellows down
there in the hold, and no harm will be done to any of you if you obey
orders. If you do as I tell you, then I will put you all ashore at
Bouka in about two or three weeks from now. Now this is what you must
do: eight of you can stay on deck at a time to help the sailors; the
other eight must stay below. If any one of them tries to come on deck
without permission he will be shot. Do you understand?"

The savage nodded.

"And as you are the boss, you will be shot too. Do you understand
that?"

"Me savee, cap'en," replied Togaro, turning to his companions and
translating Barry's speech. They grinned approval, and each one
promised to faithfully obey the captain's orders, and as a proof of
their honesty one of them descended into the hold and reappeared with
three or four tomahawks and some knives which they had concealed among
the cases of shell.

"That's all right, Togaro," said Barry as the weapons were passed over
to Joe; "if you and your people are good fellows, you shall have these
tomahawks and knives back again when we get to Bouka. And if you work
well you'll get plenty of _kai kai_; if you don't, you'll feel hungry
all the time. Steward, serve them out pipes and tobacco and tell the
cook to give them a good square feed right away--the poor devils must
be pretty hungry by this time."

* * * * * *

"Captain Barry," said Mrs. Tracey to him as he rejoined her on the
after-deck, "you ought to be an admiral. How easily you did it all!
Look now! There are those dreadful savages sitting down as quietly as
if there had never been any trouble with them. I won't have the
slightest fear of them in the future."

"I don't think there will be any danger to be apprehended from them
now. Togaro, the leader, and myself had a little difference once----"

"I know. Velo has told me all about it----"

"And he'll be careful in the future. He's a thundering savage though,
and I've no doubt but that he murdered poor Harry. However, bygones
must be bygones now. We want no more bloodshed."

"No indeed," she said with a shudder, "but what has occurred was no
fa