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Updated: June 17, 2025
Then mustering the hands together, Atkins, with Harvey, Roka, and Huka, carried the body to its last resting-place, and Huka, as Latour the steward dropped a handful of the sandy soil into the grave, prayed as he had prayed over the bodies of those who had been buried at sea simply, yet touchingly and then the party returned along the narrow palm-shaded path to the village.
Presently Latour and Malua appeared, and the Frenchman beckoned to the second mate. "What is it, steward?" "Huka has just come back, sir. He wants to see you. The captain is dead." "Thank God for that. Where did they get him?" "Huka will tell you, sir. Here he is." The Savage Islander stepped forward, and raised his hand in salute, with a smile of pride upon his lips.
"People will remark upon it, certainly; but the mischief has been done already in your coming to my house at night." "Then I may sit down?" Hira did not answer, but made a comfortable seat for him on the bench, took a silver-mounted huka from a chest, prepared it for use and handed it to him. Debendra drew a flask of brandy from his pocket, and drank some of it undiluted.
Still further aft, on the whale-back, Harvey sat, cross-legged, contentedly smoking a stumpy clay pipe lent to him by Huka, and looking, now at the glorious, myriad-starred sky above, and now at the beautiful face just beneath him, and musing upon the events of the past few days.
Sling out a prayer for these poor chaps as quick as you can. We can't bury them in a decent, shipshape fashion." Two men stepped into the sinking, shot-torn boat, and then Huka stood up amidships among his comrades, with bowed head, and his hands crossed upon his great naked chest. He prayed in Samoan.
Then as the second mate, Huka, and another native appeared on the poop, she sank on her knees beside Harvey, and called for water. Hendry, whose face was streaming with blood, though he was but little hurt, rose to his feet and addressed the second mate. "Mr. Atkins, put that man in irons," and he pointed to Harvey, who was now sitting up, with Tessa holding a glass of water to his lips.
"This work is beyond Satish Babu, it needs the help of my minister; will he never come in? Come, baby, we are very angry." In due time Srish Chandra returned from office and changed his dress. Kamal Mani attended to his wants and then threw herself on the couch in a fume, the baby by her side. Srish Chandra, seeing the state of things, smiled, and seated himself, with his huka, on a distant couch.
The two canoes were manned by some of the crew of the Motutapu together with six natives of Pikirami; one was steered by Harvey, the other by Huka the Savage Islander; and as they paddled along within a few feet of each other the crews laughed and jested in the manner inherent to all the Malayo-Polynesians when intent on pleasure.
In one spot it is suddenly compressed to a sixth of its breadth, and, boiling between walls of rock, leaps in one mass of blue water and white foam into a deep, tree-fringed pool below. This is the Huka Waterfall. It is but one of the many striking falls to be met with in the Islands.
That morning Harvey, tiring of the inaction of the past three days, had eagerly assented to a proposal made by Huka that they should make a trip round the lagoon, and spend a day or two away from the village, fishing and shooting.
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