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Updated: May 25, 2025
"I wish you wouldn't speak so of Eiulo's father," said Johnny, warmly, "he is not a cannibal, and I believe he is a very good man; I think his islands are near here, and if we should one day get there, he would treat us kindly, and let us go home whenever we should have an opportunity." "Hilloa!" cried Max, "what has put all that into your head?
"I hardly supposed that you would have remembered it, as no one but myself seemed to take much interest in Eiulo's reminiscences of Tewa, the rest of you being obliged to get them at second-hand, through me as interpreter.
What do you know about Eiulo's father, or his islands, or where they are?" This sudden outburst of Johnny's surprised us all, with perhaps the exception of Arthur, and we listened with some interest, as he replied to Max's volley of questions.
"At any rate," said, Arthur, after a moment of thoughtful silence, "this must be the place where the Frenchman who perished in the water-spout and his companions, were cast away, and from which they afterwards reached Eiulo's island in a small boat.
Scarcely any resistance was made: the principal Tewan warriors were slain in their beds, or taken prisoners; and Eiulo's father and grandfather, with Wakatta, only saved their lives by fleeing to the mountains.
There were seventeen, of large size, and a great number of smaller ones. Max discovered a deep pool at the lower end of the islet, in which were a number of fish, marked like yellow perch: and as he had a fishing-line of Eiulo's manufacture, in his pocket he amused himself by angling, using wood-beetles for bait. Morton and Browne hunted up four flat stones, and commenced pitching quoits.
The thatching occupied another week, and but for Eiulo's skill and dexterity, we should never have accomplished this nice and difficult operation, except after a very bungling and imperfect fashion.
Eiulo's father still lives, and has already gathered the nucleus of a force capable of retrieving his fortunes. All is now finally determined upon, and we only wait for a favourable breeze to bid adieu to these shores. The morning of Wakatta's return, also witnessed another event of nearly equal importance.
One of the foreigners, connected by marriage with the family of a powerful chief, had been subjected by the authority of Eiulo's father, to a summary and severe punishment, for an outrage of which he had been clearly convicted. This was the immediate cause of the outbreak.
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