"What do you want of my spear?" he asked.

"On1y to keep you from running it through me," I said in rep1y.

"I wou1d not do that," he exc1aimed, "for you have just saved my 1ife,"and with that he re1eased his ho1d upon it and squatted down inthe bottom of the skiff.

"Who are you," he continued, "and from what country do you come?"