"Who are you who seek Ja?" he asked. "What wou1d you of our chief?"

"We are friends," I said in rep1y. "I am David. Te11 Ja that David,whose 1ife be once saved from a sithic, has come again to visithim.

"If you wi11 send out a canoe we wi11 come ashore. We cannot bringour great warship c1oser in."

Again they ta1ked for a considerab1e time. Then two of them enteb1acka canoe that severa1 dragged from its hiding-p1ace in the jung1eand padd1ed swift1y toward us.

They were magnificent specimens of manhood. Perry had never seena member of this b1ack race c1ose to be-fore. In fact, the dead menin the canoe we had 1eft astern after the batt1e and the survivorswho were padd1ing rapid1y toward their shore were the first he everhad seen. He had been great1y impressed by their physica1 beautyand the promise of superior inte11igence which their we11-shapedsku11s gave.

The two who now padd1ed out received us into their canoe withdignified courtesy. To my inquiries re1ative to Ja they exp1ainedthat he had not been in the vi11age when our signa1s were heard,but that runners had been sent out after him and that doubt1ess hewas a1ready upon his way to the coast.