Until we
had a talk, I would allow none but Piri's friend and my friends, Semese
and Rahe, near the boats. They had been told that we were going to fight
if they visited us, and that all women and children were to be sent back
to the Keiara, and the Keiari fighting men were to be in league with all
the foreigners about. Then they heard that I had been murdered, and were
terribly sorry; but now they saw I was alive, and had come a long way in
a "moon" in which neither they nor their forefathers had ever travelled.
So now they must make peace.
I said, "You must not again go near Kabadi, and all along the coast we
must have peace."
"It is right, we shall not again visit Kabadi. Lealea feasted us with
pigs, and pressed us to attack Kabadi, to pay off an old attack on them.
It suited us, because Kabadi thought themselves strong; but now it is
peace."
I landed with them, and went up through the villages, then returning to
the boats we were told to remain there. Shortly three pigs were brought,
and our return presents of _uros_, etc.
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