Impossible! Incredible! Marvellous! Miraculous! They prostrated themselves in their terror at Tu-Kila-Kila's feet.

"Oh, great god," they cried, in awe-struck tones, "your power is too vast! Spare us, spare us, spare us!" As for Tu-Kila-Kila himself, he was not astonished at all.

Strange as it sounds to us, he really believed in his heart what he said.

Profoundly convinced of his own godhead, and abjectly superstitious as any of his own votaries, he absolutely accepted as a fact his own suggestion, that the light he saw was the reflection of that his men had kindled.

The interpretation he had put upon it seemed to him a perfectly natural and just one.