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No amount of argument will induce him to leave my plate until I have finished, after a few mouthfuls he whisks it away and brings me another relay. After pressing upon me dishes of every kind, he insists on my filling up all crevices with nuts and raisins, and after I have eaten, and eaten, he looks hurt, and says regretfully: "Missy sickee, no eatee."
As for the Chinaman, it was as he said; the cannibals would not "eatee Chinee boy." They were fastidious. They had left him, disdaining even to take his head for a trophy. Hours after, on board the Merrie Monarch, we learned in fragments the sad story. It was John Chinaman that covered the retreat of the wife and child into the hills when the husband had fallen.
The smoke of the Civil War had hardly cleared away when Captain Hart had persuaded him, Ah Yu and other California Chinese to come to Hiva-oa, and put their labor into his cotton plantations. Cannibalism was common at that date. I asked the old man if he had witnessed it. "My see plenty fella eatee," he replied. "Kanaka no likee Chineeman. Him speak bad meatee."
I think the Inspector's just the man for her." The two had paused outside the cook wagon. Laura held out the flowers to the Chinaman. "Can't you find me a bowl for these?" she asked. He looked slowly up at her. "No bowlee for flowers," he answered. "All want for eatee." Laura leaned over and shook him by the shoulder. "Well, I'll eatee off the ground," she said.
The next thing he did was to toss a silver coin to the ceiling and as it came down he caught it in his mouth and went through the motions of swallowing it. "Me allee samee eatee money, so be," he went on to say, smiling and bowing again. It was just then that our hero and his partners came into the room. "Hello, Wild!" called out Sedgwick, who was one of those present.
I was surprised to see the fellow so pleased: "You fool you," said I, "he will eat you up." "Eatee me up! eatee me up!" says Friday, twice over again; "me eatee him up; me make you good laugh; you all stay here, me shew you good laugh."
"Oh yeh-es, he eatee me. Poah black man come to white master for heiup, not to wild black man." "By Jove, he talks English! Let the poor beggar come aboard, sir." "He's all right where he is," said Mr. Hume. The man did not think so, and began hauling on the rope, when Mr. Hume drew his knife and made as if he would cut the canoe loose.
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