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"These gods," he said, in an explanatory voice, like one bespeaking forgiveness, "though they are divine, and Korong, and very powerful see, they have come from the sun, and they are but strangers in Boupari they do not yet know the ways of our island. They have not eaten of human flesh. They do not understand Taboo. But they will soon be wiser. They mean very well, but they do not know.
At any rate they're clearly afraid to touch us." "Missy Queenie break taboo," Mali explained at once, with Polynesian frankness. "That make people angry. So him want to kill you. Missy Queenie touch bride with end of her dress. Korong may smile on bride that very good luck; but Korong taboo; no must touch him."
But the reason why he made all strangers Korong. A woman might surely be trusted with that especially Ula. She was so very handsome. And she was always so respectful to him.
Every Boupari man knows this Great Taboo; it is communicated to him in the assembly of adults when he gets tattooed and reaches manhood. But no Boupari man ever communicates it to strangers; and for that reason, perhaps, as I believe, Tu-Kila-Kila often chooses for Korong, as far as possible, those persons who are cast by chance upon the island.
"Well, the fact of it is," he answered, laying his hand on her neck, that plump brown neck of hers, under the garland of dracæna leaves, and stroking it voluptuously, "the sailing gods who happen upon this island from time to time are made Korong but hush! it is taboo." He gazed around the hut suspiciously. "Are all the others away?" he asked, in a frightened tone.
"When a god come into somebody," she said, nodding toward Muriel in a mysterious way, "then him god himself; him Korong. When the god go away from him, him Korong no longer; somebody else Korong. Queenie Korong now; so people worship him. While him time last, people plenty kind to him." The day passed away, and night came on. As it approached, heavy clouds drifted up from eastward.
And if I do why, the remedy is near. I am your meat take me and eat me." Even cannibals are human; and at the touch of her soft hand, Tu-Kila-Kila gave way slowly. "I made them Korong," he answered, in rather thick accents, "because it is less dangerous for me to make them so than to choose for the post from among our own islanders.
You are a god, I see; otherwise you would not have dared to transgress my taboo, nor would this young man your Shadow, I suppose have permitted you to do so. But which sort of god, pray? Korong or Tula?" "They call me Korong," Felix answered, all tremulous, feeling himself now on the very verge of solving this profound mystery.
At the sound of words which he could readily understand, and which differed but little, indeed, from his own language, the leader on the foremost canoe, who seemed by his manner to be a great chief, turned round to his followers and cried out in tones of superstitious awe, "Tu-Kila-Kila spoke well. These are, indeed, what he told us. Korong! Korong!
But they will always provide for you, and also for the Queen, however you behave; for you are both Korong. Tu-Kila-Kila has said so, and Heaven has accepted you." "What do you mean by Korong?" Felix asked, with some trepidation. The Shadow merely looked back at him with a sort of blank surprise that anybody should be ignorant of so simple a conception. "Why, Korong is Korong," he answered, aghast.
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