I gave him directions to have several gourds of water and a lot of yams, cocoa-nuts, and sweet potatoes.
"He was stanch and true, was little Tonga.

No man ever had a more faithful mate.

At the night named he had his boat at the wharf.

As it chanced, however, there was one of the convict-guard down there,--a vile Pathan who had never missed a chance of insulting and injuring me.
I had always vowed vengeance, and now I had my chance.

It was as if fate had placed him in my way that I might pay my debt before I left the island.