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Updated: May 15, 2025
Already the big room in the teacher's house was filled with people, who sat around the walls three or four deep, talking in whispered tones, and wondering why the white men troubled so much over a miserable old man and a wretched child, who were both accursed "Katolikos." As the captain and his friends entered, Lilo, the teacher, advanced to meet them.
"Look into my face, people of Mâdurô, and listen to my words. Long before the missionaries came to this island I lived among ye for three years with my wife Nerida. And is there here one man or one woman who can say that I ever lied to him or her? So this do I say to ye all; and to thee, Lilo, the teacher of the Word of God, that ye do wrong to persecute this old man and this child.
The place was in darkness except for one small slush lamp, and Lilo, taking his seat on a sailor's chest, looked round at the bunks. They were all unoccupied, and this fact increased his fears. He, however, was a courageous lad, and his first thought was to provide himself with some sort of weapon, and by the aid of the lamp he began searching the bunks.
The first thing to be done was to consider how to dispose of the bodies of poor Villari and the unfortunate seamen. The land was now fifty miles distant, and Lilo, pointing to the eastern horizon, assured Mrs. Marston that bad weather was coming on, and that sail should be taken in as quickly as possible.
Marston had come to the island crowded aft, the mate cried out "Boys, I want volunteers to man the starboard quarter-boat to bring Mrs. Marston's baby on board." Such a wild rush was made for the boat falls that the good-natured officer had to interfere and pick out eight men, and with Lilo as pilot and himself in charge, the boat left the ship amid further cheering. In the cabin Mrs.
"Let us steer to the westward," Lilo had said to his mistress. "We cannot beat back to Samoa against such a wind as this, which may last many days. And straight to the west lieth Uea, on which live some white men who will succour us." There was no general chart on board, but Mrs.
All that night the Lupetea swept steadily and swiftly along over a smooth sea, and then at daylight, Mrs. Marston, who had fallen asleep, was aroused by a loud cry of alarm from Lilo. She sprang from her berth, and saw that the boy was kneeling beside Villari, who was lying dead at the foot of the companion, with a pistol in his hand. "He hath killed himself, Ami," said the boy.
"Will he, the damned little sweep?" muttered the supercargo to Packenham; "tell him that we can talk Mâdurô as well as he can and better." So, much to the teacher's disgust, Packenham answered in the Mâdurô dialect. "'Twas better," he said, "that they should all talk Mâdurô." Lilo smiled unpleasantly, and said, "Very well." Then Packenham, turning to the people, spoke to the point.
"A ship! aship!" shouted Lilo, who was almost frantic with excitement, "your ship your own ship! The ship that came to Samatau!" "How know you, Lilo?" cried Mrs. Marston tremblingly. "How can you tell it is my ship? And where is it?" As soon as the boy was able to make himself heard through the clamour of his companions, he told Mrs.
And they wanted him to cease giving them food or shelter then when the "Katolikos" found themselves starving they would be glad to give up the "evil" religion which they had learnt in Tahiti. Then would they be baptized and food given them by the people of Mâdurô. Macpherson tried to reason with Lilo. But neither he nor the white-shirted, but trouserless, deacons would listen to him.
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