Great crowds came in from all round on the 31st, and many war canoes. The
people were extremely impudent, jumping the fence, and taking no heed of
what we said. One of the chief men of the settlement to which the man
who was shot belongs returned from Vaare (Teste Island). He seemed
friendly, and I gave him a present.
I had an invitation to attend a cannibal feast at one of the settlements.
Some said it would consist of two men and a child, others of five and a
child.
The people continued troublesome all day, and seemed to think we had
nothing else to do than attend to their demands.
_January_ 1_st_, 1878.--We were told we might be attacked. There was a
great wailing assembly at the other village. A canoe from Tanosine, with
a great many ugly-looking men, passed, and our friends here seemed to
fear they would attack us. We thought everything settled, and that we
should have no more to pay. The warp belonging to the _Mayri_ was
carried past to-day and offered for sale; but I would have nothing to do
with it.
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