What they are up to I can't imagine." In an hour they came to a large village.

Here the cage was set down and the villagers closed round.

They were, however, kept a short distance from the cage by the men in charge of it.

Then a wooden platter was placed on the ground, and persons throwing a few copper coins into this were allowed to come near the cage.
"They are making a show of us!" Fothergill exclaimed.

"That's what they are up to, you see if it isn't; they are going to travel up country to show the 'white devils' whom their valor has captured." This was, indeed, the purpose of the pirates.