And I was proud.

He was my very first recruit--" "My word! Look 'm that fella," Binu Charley interrupted, brushing aside the leafy wall of the run-way and exposing a bow so massive that no one bushman could have bent it.
The Binu man traced out the mechanics of the trap, and exposed the hidden fibre in the tangled undergrowth that at contact with Koogoo's foot had released the taut bow.
They were deep in the primeval forest.

A dim twilight prevailed, for no random shaft of sunlight broke through the thick roof of leaves and creepers overhead.

The Tahitians were plainly awed by the silence and gloom and mystery of the place and happening, but they showed themselves doggedly unafraid, and were for pushing on.

The Poonga-Poonga men, on the contrary, were not awed.