and what they meant to do. When the old man had been gone an hour
or two, he brought word back that he had been in the midst of the
foes, though they had not seen him, and that they were in two
sets or tribes who were at war, and had come there to fight. And
so it was, for in a short time they heard the noise of the fight,
which went on for two hours, and at the end, with three loud
shouts or screams, they left the isle in their boats. Thus my
friends were set free from all their fears, and saw no more of
their wild foes for some time.

One day a whim took the three bad men that they would go to the
main land, from whence the wild men came, and try if they could
not seize some of them, and bring them home as slaves, so as to
make them do the hard part of their work for them. The chief gave
them all the arms and stores that they could want, and a large
boat to go in, but when they bade them "God speed," no one
thought that they would find their way back to the isle. But lo!
in three weeks and a day, they did in truth come back. One of the
two good men was the first to catch sight of them, and tell the
news to his friends.

The men said that they had found the land in two days, and that
the wild men gave them roots and fish to eat, and were so kind as
to bring down eight slaves to take back with them, three of whom
were men and five were girls. So they gave their good hosts an
axe, an old key, and a knife, and brought off the slaves in their
boat to the isle. As the chief and his friends did not care to
wed the young girls, the five men who had been the crew of Paul's
ship drew lots for choice, so that each had a wife, and the three
men slaves were set to work for the two good men, though there