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There are also two other distinct reasons for his doing so. Before proceeding farther, he wishes to obtain more information about the Yapoos, and he needs a fresh supply of provisions that furnished by Eleparu having been neither abundant nor palatable. Orundelico can do better for them, even to providing fresh meat a thing they have not tasted for a long time.
"O Lor', O Lor'!" repeats Orundelico, shivering from crown to toe. Too late now get pass um. They meet us yonner. We must run to hills; hide in woods."
"By the water be it, then," calls out Captain Gancy, decisively. "We shall risk it!" "Yes, yes!" agreed the late Calypso's second and third officers. "Anything but lose our boat!" Never did crew or passengers get more quickly on board a craft, nor was there ever a more unceremonious leave-taking between guests and host, than that between the castaways and Orundelico.
They know their newest adversary to be an American, and at sight of the two intrepid-looking youths standing side by side, with the angry faces of Eleparu and Orundelico in the background, they become sullenly silent, most of them evidently inclined to steal away from the ground.
Though of less malevolent disposition than those who inhabit the outside coasts, they are also less intelligent and less courageous, while equally the victims of abject misery. Alas! Jemmy Button is no longer Jemmy Button, but again the savage Orundelico, he too having gone back to barbarism.
This brings on a climax, the incensed bully, finally losing all restraint of himself, making a dash at his diminutive mocker, and felling him to the pavement with a vindictive blow. "Tit-it-it-take that, ye ugly mim-m-monkey!" is its accompaniment in speech as spiteful as defective. The girl sends up a shriek, crying out: "Oh, Eleparu! Orundelico killed! He dead!"
Orundelico, left alone with the boat's people, remains by them but for a brief moment, urging them to flight also. "Oensmen bad very bad," he keeps affirming. "They worse than Ailikoleep more cruel. Kill you all if you stay here. Come hide in the woods there you safe." "What's to be done?" interrogates the captain, as usual appealing to Seagriff.
English officer brought Jemmy back too left him at Woolya that his own country lie out that way;" and he points eastward along the arm. Observing his reticence on the subject of Orundelico, the questioners forbear asking further, while other matters of more importance claim their attention. Meanwhile, Ocushlu is engaged in conversation with Mrs Gancy and Leoline.
"Indeed so just same. You see, Orundelico?" "Oh, yes!" responds the boy, with a careless toss of head and wave of the cane, as much as to say, "What matters it?" "'Merican ship," further observes the man. "They speak Inglis, same as people here." "Yes, Eleparu," rejoins the boy, "that true; but they different from Inglismen not always friends; sometimes they enemies and fight.
"The Yapoos!" exclaims Orundelico in a voice betokening great alarm. But not so great as when, the instant after, he again cries out: "O Lor'! The Oensmen 'long with them!"