The rest were suspicious, and wanted to see the result of the first bargain with the strange white man, the only one who had ever come to their island.

After three days, my man brought me the first bird--a very fine specimen, and alive, but tied up in a small bag, and consequently its tail and wing feathers very much crushed and injured.

I tried to explain to him, and to the others that came with him, that I wanted them as perfect as possible, and that they should either kill them, or keep them on a perch with a string to their leg.

As they were now apparently satisfied that all was fair, and that I had no ulterior designs upon them, six others took away goods; some for one bird, some for more, and one for as many as six.

They said they had to go a long way for them, and that they would come back as soon as they caught any.