The two natives interchanged glances of peculiar meaning with one another at this, and manifested no little surprise; but on the repetition of the question after some consultation together, to the great joy of Toby, they answered in the affirmative.
A few moments after the whole valley resounded with savage outcries, and the natives came running towards us from every direction.
Such provisions as they could furnish, however, were brought by the natives in abundance, and a lively intercourse was kept up during the day, in which the women mingled in the kindest manner.
The natives, generally, disclaimed the outrage, and brought the shattered remains of the boat and the dead body of the seaman to the ship.
"This way, bwana," replied the native. "Carefully have I kept silence in the village that he might be still asleep when you returned.
A moment later a horde of terrified natives burst from the jungle, racing toward the shelter of their huts.
In spite of Ned Newton's cry, Tom's finger pressed the switch-trigger of the electric rifle, for previous experience had taught him that it was sometimes the best thing to awe the
natives in out-of-the-way corners of the earth.
But the first
native who placed his hand on the stair-rail, struck from behind by some invisible force, I know not what, fled, uttering the most fearful cries and making the wildest contortions.
Presently, after loud yawning, the
natives went away to sleep, and Strickland and I were left alone.
There was always the possibility that the
natives had lied to him, and the more he questioned the Dyak woman the more firmly convinced he became that this was the fact.
During the former voyage of the Adventure and Beagle in 1826 to 1830, Captain Fitz Roy seized on a party of
natives, as hostages for the loss of a boat, which had been stolen, to the great jeopardy of a party employed on the survey; and some of these
natives, as well as a child whom he bought for a pearl-button, he took with him to England, determining to educate them and instruct them in religion at his own expense.
The peninsula of California was settled in 1698, by the Jesuits, who, certainly, as far as the
natives were concerned, have generally proved the most beneficent of colonists.