Some Of The Speakers, However, Said That He Was Not Carried Away, But Went Away In His Own Boat To Escape From The Foreigners, And Went To The Sea And Never Came Back Again.

But they all believe that the chief and the people that went with him still live in some foreign country; and if they could but find out where, they would send for them to come back again.

Now having some vague idea that white men must know every country beyond the sea, they wanted to know if I had met their people in my country or in the sea. They thought they must be there, for they could not imagine where else they could be. They had sought for them everywhere, they said - on the land and in the sea, in the forest and on the mountains, in the air and in the sky, and could not find them; therefore, they must be in my country, and they begged me to tell them, for I must surely know, as I came from across the great sea. I tried to explain to them that their friends could not have reached my country in small boats; and that there were plenty of islands like Aru all about the sea, which they would be sure to find. Besides, as it was so long ago, the chief and all the people must be dead. But they quite laughed at this idea, and said they were sure they were alive, for they had proof of it.

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