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Updated: May 15, 2025
The land appeared pleasant enough to the eye: for the sides and tops of the mountains were clothed with woods mixed with savannahs; and there was a plantation of the Indian natives, where we saw the coconuts growing, and could have been glad to have come at some of them.
Van Horn shook hands with him an honour he accorded only chiefs and motioned him to squat down on deck on his hams close to the fear-struck girl, who began trembling again at recollection of having once heard Ishikola offer five twenties of drinking coconuts for the meat of her for a dinner.
When they had drunk several pints of beer Liza and Sally, with their respective adorers and the Blakestons, walked round to find other means of amusing themselves; they were arrested by a coconut-shy. 'Oh, let's 'ave a shy! said Liza, excitedly, at which the unlucky men had to pull out their coppers, while Sally and Liza made ludicrously bad shots at the coconuts.
There are several empty houses here, just over the brow of the beach, and in one of them there is a midnight supper for us all crayfish, baked fish, pork, and chickens, and young coconuts to drink." The two native women leading the way, the whole party soon gained the houses, which stood in a thick grove of giant jack-fruit trees.
"All we know is that we sit in the trees and eat coconuts when we can get them. We never saw your cave, and, besides, we don't like lions, anyhow." Poor Nero did not know what to do, so he wandered on, eating when he could, and drinking when he came to a pool or a spring. "If I could only meet some other lions one of them would take me home," he thought.
Taking a guide with me, I walked across the island till I came to the village of Nabuna, on the other coast, the Lurline meanwhile sailing around the island. It was a hard walk, up steep hills and down narrow gorges, and then latterly along the coast beneath the shade of the coconuts.
Here, under the shade, I had my mats spread, and with one of his children sitting at my head to fan away the flies, I lay and watched, through the belt of coconuts that lined the beach, the blue rollers breaking on the reef and the snow-white boatswain-birds floating high overhead. Tom was in the bush one morning when his family carried me to the boat-shed.
She was the daughter of the chief's brother, and brought her husband as her dowry a long, narrow strip of land richly covered with countless thousands of coco-palms, and it was from these groves of coconuts that Harry had earned most of the bright silver dollars, which, in default of a strong box, he had headed up in a small beef keg and buried under the gravelled floor of his thatched dwelling-house.
Sometimes at night he would go out with a lantern to catch lobster. There were plantains round the hut and Sally would roast them for their frugal meal. She knew how to make delicious messes from coconuts, and the bread-fruit tree by the side of the creek gave them its fruit. On feast-days they killed a little pig and cooked it on hot stones.
Ned therefore determined to swim out, especially as they observed that a watch was kept, both day and night, near the canoes. Five days passed in concealment. The coconuts afforded them both food and drink.
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