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Bumpo brought me a wonderful drink of fresh water which he drew from a barrel; and Chee-Chee and Polynesia stood around me feeding me ship's biscuit. But it was the sight of the Doctor's smiling face just knowing that I was with him once again that cheered me more than anything else.
Chee-Chee scaled up the sheer wall of the slab and examined the top of it where it leaned against the mountain's side; I uprooted bushes and stripped off hanging creepers that might conceal a weak place; the Doctor got more leaves and composed new picture-letters for the Jabizri to take in if he should turn up again; whilst Polynesia carried up a handful of nuts and pushed them into the beetle's hole, one by one, for the prisoners inside to eat.
Undoubtedly the pioneers of missionary enterprise had, almost without exception, to face dangers and miseries past telling, but that is the portion of pioneers in general. In these days, however, the missionary's lot in Polynesia is not often a hard one, and in many cases it is infinitely to be preferred to a life among the very poor of our great cities.
"Would it not be good political economy," Bumpo whispered back, "if we salted the able seaman and ate him instead? I should judge that he would weigh more than a hundred and twenty pounds." "How often must I tell you that we are not in Jolliginki," snapped Polynesia. "Those things are not done on white men's ships Still," she murmured after a moment's thought, "it's an awfully bright idea.
How many hundreds or thousands of miles was I from any land? What if another storm should come and smash up even this poor raft on which I stood? I went on like this for a while, growing gloomier and gloomier, when suddenly I thought of Polynesia. "You're always safe with the Doctor," she had said. "He gets there. Remember that."
I assured him how thankful I should be to have the account he offered, confessing that except with respect to the islands at which we had touched, and where I could judge of the changed state of the people, I was still very ignorant of the condition of the principal part of the inhabitants of Polynesia.
Knorr wished him to take a Samoan guide, but the young man laughingly reminded him that he was half a native himself, and from his infancy almost had been used to wandering about the mountain forests of the islands of Micronesia and Polynesia; so, bidding his host good morning, he shouldered his gun and set off, and in another hour was ascending the first spur of the mountain range, which traverses the island of Upolu from one end to the other.
"It is here, Oh Kindly One," came the Indian's deep voice from the shadow beneath the palm. "But what about provisions," asked the Doctor "food for the journey?" "We have a week's supply with us, for our holiday," said Polynesia "that's more than we will need." For a third time the Doctor was silent and thoughtful. "And then there's my hat," he said fretfully at last.
But there's that new theatre to be built; none of our carpenters would know how to get those rafters on without me to show them And then there are the babies: these native mothers are so frightfully ignorant." "Oh bother the theatre and the babies too," snapped Polynesia. "The theatre can wait a week. And as for babies, they never have anything more than colic.
At the present moment, he filled the part of prime minister to the king, an office be could not have held in his own ungrateful country, since he could neither read nor write. These accomplishments, it appeared, were not, however, absolutely indispensable in Polynesia. It has been found that when a savage is transferred to Europe, he readily acquires the habits of civilized life.
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