hen tumult rose, fierce rage, and wild affright."

"In the afternoon," resumed Arthur, "we went with our host and hostess,
and our companions at dinner, to a grove on the banks of the stream--a
place of general resort for the villagers during the latter part of
every fine day. The younger people met there, to pursue a variety of
sports and athletic exercises, and the older to gossip and look on. We
had intended to return to the boat, as soon as the repast was over, and
it would have been well had we done so. But our new friends insisted so
strenuously upon our accompanying them to the grove, that we yielded at
last to their playful importunities, so far as to consent to make a
brief pause there on our way. We had gone but a short distance from the
house, when a bird of about the size of a robin, flew down from a tree
beneath which we were passing, and after circling several times around
Olla's head, alighted on her finger, which she held out for it to perch
upon. It was a young wood-pigeon, which she had found in the grove,
when a callow half-fledged thing, the old bird having been captured or
killed by some juvenile depredators. Taking pity on its orphan state,
Olla had adopted and made a pet of it: it was now perfectly tame, and
would come readily at her call of `Lai-evi', (little captive), the name
she had given it, attending her so closely as to be seldom during the
day beyond the sound of her voice.

"On reaching the grove, we found quite a number of the natives, of all
ages and of both sexes assembled, and though they soon began to gather
about us with inquisitive looks, we were subjected to much less
annoyance than might reasonably have been expected under the
circumstances. We were neither crowded, nor jostled, nor even
offensively stared at, the very children appearing to possess an innate
delicacy and sense of propriety, (though it may have been timidity),
which made them try to gratify their curiosity covertly, seizing those
opportunities to peep at us, when they thought they were themselves
unobserved.

"Barton, who possessed an enviable faculty of adapting himself to all
sorts of people and circumstances, was in a few moments as much at home
among the villagers as if he had lived for years in their midst. He
gossiped with the old people, romped with the children, and chatted and
frolicked with the prettiest and most lively of the dusky maidens, to
the manifest disapprobation of several grim-lookin