They nodded, and going to one of the canoes a man brought from it a paste of a brown colour and aromatic smell.

Then by signs he directed me to remove such garments as remained on me, the fashion of which seemed to puzzle them greatly.

This being done, they proceeded to anoint my body with the paste, the touch of which gave me a most blessed relief from my intolerable itching and burning, and moreover rendered my flesh distasteful to the insects, for after that they plagued me little.
When I was anointed they offered me food, fried fish and cakes of meal, together with a most delicious hot drink covered with a brown and foaming froth that I learned to know afterwards as chocolate.

When I had finished eating, having talked a while together in low tones, they motioned me to enter one of the canoes, giving me mats to lie on.

I obeyed, and three other men came with me, for the canoe was large.