Evidently, the condition seemed to him a very hard one.

"Do you want all the victims for yourself and her, then ?" he asked, with a casual nod aside toward Muriel.
Felix drew back, with horror depicted on every line of his face.

"Heaven forbid!" he answered, fervently.

"We want no bloodshed, no human victims.
We ask you to give up these horrid practices, because they shock and revolt us.

If you would have your fire lighted, you must promise us to put down cannibalism altogether henceforth in your island." Tu-Kila-Kila hesitated.