Then one of the five came in voluntarily and gave himself up, and Sheldon learned that Gogoomy and two others were all that were at large.

There should have been a fourth, but according to the man who had given himself up, the fourth man had been killed and eaten.

It had been fear of a similar fate that had driven him in.

He was a Malu man, from north-western Malaita, as likewise had been the one that was eaten.
Gogoomy's two other companions were from Port Adams.

As for himself, the black declared his preference for government trial and punishment to being eaten by his companions in the bush.
"Close up Gogoomy _kai-kai_ me," he said.