See what happened to us when they merely ate of the storm-apple! What might not happen if we were to break taboo without due cause and kill them ?" One old, gray-bearded warrior, in particular, held his countrymen back.
"Mind how you trifle with gods," the old chief said, in a tone of solemn warning.

"Mind how you provoke them.

They are very mighty.

When I was young, our people killed three sailing gods who came ashore in a small canoe, built of thin split logs; and within a month an awful earthquake devastated Boupari, and fire burst forth from a mouth in the ground, and the people knew that the spirits of the sailing gods were very angry.
Wait, therefore, till Tu-Kila-Kila himself comes, and then ask of him, and of Fire and Water.

As Tu-Kila-Kila bids you, that do you do.