Kai-Kai Means To Eat, And Wada Was
Sure He Was Going To Be Kai-Kai'd. We Went About Heavily Armed, Our
Vigilance Was Unremitting, And When We Went For A Bath In The Mouth
Of A Fresh-Water Stream, Black Boys, Armed With Rifles, Did Sentry
Duty About Us.
We encountered English war vessels burning and
shelling villages in punishment for murders.
Natives with prices on
their heads sought shelter on board of us. Murder stalked abroad in
the land. In out-of-they-way places we received warnings from
friendly savages of impending attacks. Our vessel owed two heads to
Malaita, which were liable to be collected any time. Then to cap it
all, we were wrecked on a reef, and with rifles in one hand warned
the canoes of wreckers off while with the other hand we toiled to
save the ship. All of which was too much for Wada, who went daffy,
and who finally quitted the Snark on the island of Ysabel, going
ashore for good in a driving rain-storm, between two attacks of
fever, while threatened with pneumonia. If he escapes being kai-
kai'd, and if he can survive sores and fever which are riotous
ashore, he can expect, if he is reasonably lucky, to get away from
that place to the adjacent island in anywhere from six to eight
weeks. He never did think much of my medicine, despite the fact
that I successfully and at the first trail pulled two aching teeth
for him.
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