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Suddenly another dreadful thought struck him. Wild beasts, indeed! He turned quickly to Maka. "Does that man know anything about Davis and the two sailors? Were they killed?" he asked. Maka shook his head and said that he had already asked his companion that question, but Mok had said that he did not know. All he knew was that those wicked men killed everybody they could kill.
I ran into the road, where the natives were as usual promenading in the dark; Maka joined me with a lantern; and I ran from one to another, glared in quite innocent faces, put useless questions, and proffered idle threats.
And with that such a curious expression came into his face, such a glow of some strange land of warmth, that I let my hand drop and suffered him to depart in peace such was my wonder. Besides, any miserable lout could have destroyed the lad. Maka sat deep in thought for a time, and when he did speak he made no mention of the lad who had just quit us.
Of course, it was of no use to go to look for him, and the captain had put down his gun, and was just about to turn to speak to the others, when Maka seized him by the coat. The negro seemed wildly excited and still unable to speak. But it was plain that he wanted the captain to follow him along the passage.
He could see Miss Markham and Ralph peering out of the doorway of the first compartment. "There does not seem to be any danger so far," said he. "Some more Africans have turned up. Maka has gone to meet them. We shall find out about them in a few minutes," and he turned back to the entrance. He saw that the six black fellows were coming toward him, and, as he had thought, they carried no guns.
The people in the little camp on the bluff now consisted of Captain Horn, the two ladies, the boy Ralph, three sailors, one an Englishman, and the other two Americans from Cape Cod, and a jet-black native African, known as Maka.
When we left the palace we were still but seafarers ashore; and within the hour we had installed our goods in one of the six foreign houses of Butaritari, namely, that usually occupied by Maka, the Hawaiian missionary. Two San Francisco firms are here established, Messrs. Crawford and Messrs.
Maka quickly perceived that the man was Inkspot, and as he could not imagine what he was doing, he quietly watched him. Inkspot worked with as little noise as possible, but he was evidently bent upon forcing off one of the boards on the side of the forecastle.
Don't talk about it, and if you can't keep down your excitement, let them think it is the prospect of good victuals, and plenty of them, that has excited you." After supper Maka and Cheditafa were called upon to tell their story, but they said very little.
And Mother Earth, who is Maka Ina, cries to her own: "Come, hide in my bosom, my little ones." And the wise Woodchuck waits not till the blizzard comes, but hides while he may make good housing, and sleeps for three long moons.
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