Now,"-- his eyes flashed again and he gnashed his teeth,--"now Tyope and the old Naua are uppermost.

Just wait until the men have returned from the war-path, and you will see.

Evil is coming to us.

Did you notice, satyumishe, on the night when they carried sa nashtio maseua back to the Tyuonyi how angry the Shiuana were; how the lightning flamed through the clouds and killed the trees on the mesa?
I tell you, brother, evil is coming to our people, for a good man has gone from us to Shipapu, but the bad ones have been spared." Okoya shuddered involuntarily.

He recollected well that awful night.
Never before had a storm raged on the Rito with such fury.