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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Susāni, by Louis Becke
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+Title: Susāni
+       1901
+
+Author: Louis Becke
+
+Release Date: April 19, 2008 [EBook #25109]
+
+Language: English
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+Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUSĀNI ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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+
+SUSĀNI
+
+From "The Tapu Of Banderah and Other Stories"
+
+By Louis Becke
+
+C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.
+
+1901
+
+A few weeks ago I was reading a charmingly written book by a lady (the
+wife of a distinguished savant) who had spent three months on Funafuti,
+one of the lagoon islands of the Ellice Group. Now the place and the
+brown people of whom she wrote were once very familiar to me, and her
+warm and generous sympathy for a dying race stirred me greatly, and when
+I came across the name "Funāfala," old, forgotten memories awoke once
+more, and I heard the sough of the trade wind through the palms and the
+lapping of the lagoon waters upon the lonely beaches of Funāfala, as
+Senior, the mate of the _Venus_, and myself watched the last sleep of
+Susāni.
+
+Funāfala is one of the many islands which encircle Funafuti lagoon with
+a belt of living green, and to Funāfala--"the island of the pandanus
+palm"--Senior and I had come with a party of natives from the village on
+the main island to spend a week's idleness. Fifty years ago, long before
+the first missionary ship sailed into the lagoon, five or six hundred
+people dwelt on Funāfala in peace and plenty--now it holds but their
+bones, for they were doomed to fade and vanish before the breath of the
+white man and his civilisation and "benefits," which to the brown people
+mean death, and as the years went by, the remnant of the people
+on Funāfala and the other islets betook themselves to the main
+island--after which the lagoon is named--for there the whale-ships
+and trading schooners came to anchor, and there they live to this day,
+smitten with disease and fated to disappear altogether within another
+thirty years, and be no more known to man except in the dry pages of a
+book written by some learned ethnologist.
+
+But twice every year the people of Funafuti betake themselves to
+Funāfala to gather the cocoa-nuts, which in the silent groves ripen and
+fall and lie undisturbed from month to month; then for a week or ten
+days, as the men husk the nuts, the women and children fish in the
+daytime among the pools and runnels of the inner reef, and at night with
+flaring torches of palm-leaf they stand amid the sweeping surf on
+the outer side of the narrow islet, and with net and spear fill their
+baskets with blue and yellow crayfish. Then when all the work is done,
+the canoes are filled with the husked cocoanuts, and with laughter and
+song--for they are yet a merry-hearted though vanishing people--they
+return to the village, and for another six months Funāfala is left to
+the ceaseless call of the restless sea upon the outer reef, and the
+hoarse cry of the soaring frigate birds.
+
+One afternoon Senior and myself, accompanied by a young,
+powerfully-built native named Suka, were returning to the temporary
+village on Funāfala--a collection of rude huts thatched with palm
+leaves--from a fishing excursion on the outer reef, when we were
+overtaken by a series of sudden squalls and downpours of rain. We were
+then walking along the weather shore of the island, which was strewn
+with loose slabs of coral stone, pure white in colour and giving forth a
+clear, resonant sound to the slightest disturbing movement On our right
+hand was a scrub of _puka_ trees, which afforded no shelter from the
+torrential rain; on our left the ocean, whose huge, leaping billows
+crashed and thundered upon the black, shelving reef, and sent swirling
+waves of whitened foam up to our feet.
+
+For some minutes we continued to force our way against the storm, when
+Suka, who was leading, called out to us that a little distance on along
+the beach there was a cluster of _pąpą_ (coral rocks), in the recesses
+of which we could obtain shelter. Even as he spoke the rain ceased for
+a space, and we saw, some hundreds of yards before us, the spot of which
+he had spoken--a number of jagged, tumbled-together coral boulders which
+some violent convulsion of the sea had torn away from the barrier reef
+and hurled upon the shore, where, in the course of years, kindly Nature
+had sent out a tender hand and covered them with a thick growth of a
+creeper peculiar to the low-lying atolls of the mid-Pacific, and hidden
+their rugged outlines under a mantle of vivid green.
+
+As we drew near, the bright, tropic sun shone out for a while, and the
+furious wind died away, seeming to gather fresh strength for another
+sweeping onslaught from the darkened weather horizon.
+
+"Quick," said Suka, pointing to the rocks, "'tis bad to be smitten with
+such rain as this. Let us rest in the _pąpą_ till the storm be over."
+
+Following our all but naked guide, who sprang from stone to stone with
+the surefootedness of a mountain goat, we soon reached the cluster of
+rocks, the bases of which were embedded in the now hard and stiffened
+sand, and almost at the same moment another heavy rain squall swept down
+and blurred sea and sky and land alike.
+
+Bidding us to follow, Suka began to clamber up the side of the highest
+of the boulders, on the seaward face of which, he said, was a small
+cave, used in the olden days as a sleeping place by fishermen and
+sea-bird catchers. Suddenly, when half-way up, he stopped and turned to
+us, and with a smile on his face, held up his hand and bade us listen.
+Some one was singing.
+
+"It is Susani," he whispered, "she did not sleep in the village last
+night. She comes to this place sometimes to sing to the sea. Come, she
+is not afraid of white men."
+
+Grasping the thick masses of green vine called _At At_ which hung from
+the summit of the rock, we at last reached the foot of the cave, and
+looking up we saw seated at the entrance a young native girl of about
+twelve years of age. Even though we were so near to her she seemed
+utterly unconscious of our presence, and still sang in a low, soft voice
+some island chant, the words of which were strange to both my companion
+and myself although we were well acquainted with nearly all the
+_Tokelauan_ dialects.
+
+Very quietly we stood awaiting till she turned her face towards us,
+but her eyes were bent seaward upon the driving sheets of rain, and the
+tumbling surf which thrashed upon the shore.
+
+"Wait," said Suka in a low voice; "she will see us soon. 'Tis best not
+to disturb her. She is afflicted of God and seeth many things."
+
+Her song ceased, and then Suka, stepping forward, touched her gently
+upon the arm. She looked up and smiled into his face, and then she let
+her full, dark eyes rest upon the strangers who stood behind, then again
+she turned to Suka in mute, inquiring wonder.
+
+He bent down and placed his cheek against hers, "Be not afraid, Susāni;
+they be good friends. And see, little one, sit thee further back within
+the cave, for the driving rain beats in here at the mouth and thy feet
+are wet and cold."
+
+She rose without a word and stood whilst the kindly-hearted native
+unrolled an old mat which lay at the end of the cave and spread it out
+in the centre.
+
+"Come, Susāni, dear one," he said gravely, and his usually harsh and
+guttural voice sounded soft and tender. "Come, sit thee here, and then
+in a little while shall I get wood and make a fire so that we may eat.
+Hast eaten to-day, little one?"
+
+She shook her head; a faint smile parted her lips, and then her strange,
+mournful eyes for a moment again sought ours as she seated herself on
+the mat Suka beckoned us to approach and sit near her, himself sitting a
+little apart and to one side.
+
+"Susāni," he said, bending forward and speaking slowly and carefully,
+"_fealofani tau lima i taka soa_" ("give your hand to my friends ").
+
+The girl held out her left hand, and Senior and I each took it in turn
+gently within our own, and uttered the native greeting of "_Fakaalofa_."
+
+"She can talk," said Suka, "but not much. Sometimes for many days no
+word will come from her lips. It is then she leaveth the village and
+walks about in the forest or along the beaches when others sleep. But
+no harm can come to her, for she is _tausi mau te Atua_.{*} And be not
+vexed in that she gave thee her left hand, for, see----"
+
+     * In God's special keeping.
+
+He touched the girl's right arm, and we now saw that it hung limp and
+helpless upon her smooth, bared thigh.
+
+"Was she born thus?" asked Senior, as he placed his strong, rough hand
+upon her head and stroked her thick, wavy hair, which fell like a mantle
+over her shoulders and back.
+
+"Nay, she was born a strong child, and her mother and father were
+without blemish, and good to look upon--the man was as thick as me" (he
+touched his own brawny chest), "but as she grew and began to talk, the
+bone in her right arm began to perish. And then the hand of God fell
+upon her mother and father, and they died. But let me go get wood and
+broil some fish, for she hath not eaten." Then he bent forward and
+said--
+
+"Dost fear to stay here, Susāni, with the white men?"
+
+She looked at us in turn, and then said slowly--
+
+"Nay, I have no fear, Suka."
+
+"Poor little beggar!" said Senior pityingly.
+
+Ten minutes later Suka had returned with an armful of dry wood and some
+young drinking cocoanuts. Fish we had in plenty, and in our bags were
+some biscuits, brought from the schooner. As Senior and I tended the
+fire, Suka wrapped four silvery sea mullet in leaves, and then when it
+had burnt down to a heap of glowing coals he laid them in the centre and
+watched them carefully, speaking every now and then to the child, who
+seemed scarcely to heed, as she gazed at Senior's long, yellow beard,
+and his bright, blue eyes set in his honest, sun-tanned face. Then, when
+the fish were cooked, Suka turned them out of their coverings and placed
+them on broad, freshly plucked _puka_ leaves, and Senior brought the
+hard ship biscuits, and, putting one beside a fish, brought it to the
+child and bade her eat.
+
+She put out her left hand timidly, and took it from him, her strange
+eyes still fixed wonderingly upon his face. Then she looked at Suka, and
+Suka, with an apologetic cough, placed one hand over his eyes and bent
+his head--for he was a deacon, and to eat food without giving thanks
+would be a terrible thing to do, at least in the presence of white men,
+who, of course, never neglected to do so.
+
+The child, hungry as she must have been, ate her food with a dainty
+grace, though she had but one hand to use, and our little attentions to
+her every now and then seemed at first to increase her natural shyness
+and timidity. But when the rude meal was finished, and my companion and
+myself filled our pipes and sat in the front of the cave, she came with
+Suka and nestled up against his burly figure as he rolled a cigarette of
+strong, black tobacco in dried banana leaf. The rain had ceased, but the
+fronds of the coco-palms along the lonely shore swayed and beat together
+with the wind, which still blew strongly, though the sun was now shining
+brightly upon the white horses of the heaving sea.
+
+For nearly half an hour we sat thus, watching the roll and curl of
+the tumbling seas upon the reef and the swift flight of a flock of
+savage-eyed frigate birds which swept to and fro, now high in air,
+now low down, with wing touching wave, in search of their prey, and
+listening to the song of the wind among the trees. Then Suka, without
+speaking, smiled, and pointed to the girl. She had pillowed her head
+upon his naked bosom and closed her long-lashed eyes in slumber.
+
+"She will sleep long," he said. "Will it vex thee if I stay here with
+her till she awakens? See, the sky is clear and the rain hath ceased,
+and ye need but walk along the beach till----"
+
+"We will wait, Suka," I answered; "we will wait till she awakens, and
+then return to the village together. How comes it that one so young and
+tender is left to wander about alone?"
+
+Suka pressed his lips to the forehead of the sleeping girl. "No harm can
+come to her. God hath afflicted, but yet doth He protect her. And she
+walketh with Him and His Son Christ, else had she perished long ago, for
+sometimes she will leave us and wander for many days in the forest or
+along the shore, eating but little and drinking nothing, for she cannot
+open a cocoanut with her one hand, and there are no streams of fresh,
+sweet water here as there be in the fair land of Samoa. And yet God is
+with her always, always, and she feeleth hunger and thirst but little."
+
+Senior placed his hand on mine and gripped it so firmly that I looked
+at him with astonishment He was a cold, self-contained man, making no
+friends, never talking about himself, doing his duty as mate of the
+_Venus_ as a seaman should do it, and never giving any one--even myself,
+with whom he was more open than any other man--any encouragement to ask
+him why he, a highly educated and intelligent man, had left civilisation
+to waste his years as a wanderer in the South Seas. Still grasping my
+hand, he turned to me and spoke with quivering lips--
+
+"' She walketh with God! 'Did you hear that? Did you look into her eyes
+and not see in them what fools would call insanity, and what I _know_
+is a knowledge of God above and Christ and the world beyond. 'God has
+afflicted her,' so this simple-minded native, whom many men in their
+unthinking moments would call a canting, naked kanaka, says; but God has
+_not_ afflicted her. He has blessed her, for in her eyes there is that
+which tells me better than all the deadly-dull sermons of the highly
+cultured and fashionable cleric, who patters about the Higher Life, or
+the ranting Salvationist who bawls in the streets of Melbourne or Sydney
+about the Blood of the Lamb, that there _is_ peace beyond for all....
+'God has afflicted this poor child!' Would that He might so afflict
+me physically as He has afflicted her--if He but gave me that inner
+knowledge of Himself which so shines out and is glorified in her face."
+
+His voice, rising in his excitement, nearly awakened her; so Suka, with
+outstretched hand, enjoined silence.
+
+"She sleeps, dear friends."
+
+A year had come and gone, and the _Venus_ again lay at anchor in the
+broad lagoon of Funafuti. Suka had come aboard whilst the schooner was
+beating up to the anchorage, and said that there had been much sickness
+on the island, that many people had died, and that Susāni with other
+children was _tali mate_ (nearly dead). Could we give them some
+medicine? for it was a strong sickness this, and even the "thick"{*} man
+or woman withered and died from it. Soon they would all be dead.
+
+     * I.e., strong, stout.
+
+Alas! we could not help them much, for our medicine chest was long since
+depleted of the only drug that would have been of service. At every
+island in the group from Nanomea southwards we had found many of the
+people suffering and dying from a malignant type of fever introduced
+by an Hawaiian labour vessel. Then an additional misfortune followed--a
+heavy gale, almost of hurricane force, had set in from the westward
+and destroyed countless thousands of cocoanut trees, so that with the
+exception of fish, food was very scarce.
+
+We sent Suka on shore in the boat at once with a few mats of rice and
+bags of biscuit--all the provisions we could spare. Then as soon as
+the vessel was anchored the captain, Senior, and myself followed. The
+resident native teacher met us on the beach, his yellow face and gaunt
+frame showing that he, too, had been attacked. Many of the people, he
+told us, had gone to the temporary village on Funāfala, where a little
+more food could be obtained than on the main island, the groves of palms
+there not having suffered so severely from the gale. Among those who had
+gone were Susāni and the family who had adopted her, and we heard with
+sorrow that there was no hope of the child living, for that morning
+some natives had arrived from Funāfala with the news that nearly all the
+young children were dead, and those remaining were not expected to live
+beyond another day or two.
+
+After spending an hour with the teacher, and watching him distribute the
+rice and biscuit among his sick and starving people, we returned to
+the ship with the intention of sailing down to Funāfala in the boat and
+taking the natives there some provisions. The teacher thanked us warmly,
+but declined to come with us, saying that he could not leave the many
+for the few, "for," he added sadly, "who will read the service over
+those who die? As you sail down the lagoon you will meet canoes coming
+up from Funāfala bringing the dead. I cannot go there to bury them."
+
+It was nearly midnight when we put off from the schooner's side, but
+with Suka as pilot we ran quickly down to the island. A few natives met
+us as we stepped on shore, and to these we gave the provisions we had
+brought, telling them to divide them equally. Then with Suka leading,
+and carrying a lighted torch made from the spathe of the cocoanut tree,
+we made our way through the darkened forest to the house in which Susāni
+and her people were living. It was situated on the verge of the shore,
+on the weather side of the narrow island, so as to be exposed to the
+cooling breath of the trade wind, and consisted merely of a roof of
+thatch with open sides, and the ground within covered with coarse mats,
+upon which we saw were lying three figures.
+
+Making as little noise as possible Suka called out a name, and a man
+threw off his sleeping mat and came out; it was Susāni's adopted father.
+
+"No," he said in his simple manner, in answer to our inquiries, "Susāni
+is not yet dead, but she will die at dawn when the tide is low. 'Tis now
+her last sleep."
+
+Stepping very softly inside the house so as not to disturb her, we sat
+down to wait her awakening. Suka crouched near us, smoking his pipe in
+silence, and watching the sleeping girl to see if she moved.
+
+Just as the weird cries of the tropic birds heralded the approach of
+dawn, the woman who lay beside Susāni rose and looked into her face.
+Then she bade us come nearer.
+
+"She is awake."
+
+The child knew us at once, even in that imperfect light, for the moment
+Senior and myself stood up she tried to raise herself into a sitting
+posture; in an instant Suka sprang to her aid and pillowed her head upon
+his knees; weak as she was, she put out her hand to us, and then let it
+lie in the mate's broad palm, her deep, mysterious eyes resting upon
+his face with a strange look of happiness shining in them. Presently her
+lips moved, and we all bent over her to listen; it was but one word--
+
+"_Fakaalofa!_"{*}
+
+     * "My love to you."
+
+She never spoke again, but lay breathing softly, and as the sun shot
+blood red from the sea and showed the deathly pallor of her face, poor
+Suka gave way, and his stalwart bosom was shaken with the grief he tried
+in vain to suppress. Once more she raised her thin, weak hand as if she
+sought to touch his face; he took it tremblingly and placed it against
+his cheek; in another moment she had ceased to breathe.
+
+As I walked slowly along the beach to the boat I looked back; the White
+Man and the Brown were kneeling together over the little mat-shrouded
+figure.
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Susāni, by Louis Becke
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+
+Title: Susāni
+       1901
+
+Author: Louis Becke
+
+Release Date: April 19, 2008 [EBook #25109]
+Last Updated: January 8, 2013
+
+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUSĀNI ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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+</pre>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <h1>
+      SUSĀNI
+    </h1>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      From "The Tapu Of Banderah and Other Stories"
+    </h3>
+    <h2>
+      By Louis Becke
+    </h2>
+    <h5>
+      C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. <br /> <br /> 1901
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      A few weeks ago I was reading a charmingly written book by a lady (the
+      wife of a distinguished savant) who had spent three months on Funafuti,
+      one of the lagoon islands of the Ellice Group. Now the place and the brown
+      people of whom she wrote were once very familiar to me, and her warm and
+      generous sympathy for a dying race stirred me greatly, and when I came
+      across the name "Funāfala," old, forgotten memories awoke once more, and I
+      heard the sough of the trade wind through the palms and the lapping of the
+      lagoon waters upon the lonely beaches of Funāfala, as Senior, the mate of
+      the <i>Venus</i>, and myself watched the last sleep of Susāni.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Funāfala is one of the many islands which encircle Funafuti lagoon with a
+      belt of living green, and to Funāfala&mdash;"the island of the pandanus
+      palm"&mdash;Senior and I had come with a party of natives from the village
+      on the main island to spend a week's idleness. Fifty years ago, long
+      before the first missionary ship sailed into the lagoon, five or six
+      hundred people dwelt on Funāfala in peace and plenty&mdash;now it holds
+      but their bones, for they were doomed to fade and vanish before the breath
+      of the white man and his civilisation and "benefits," which to the brown
+      people mean death, and as the years went by, the remnant of the people on
+      Funāfala and the other islets betook themselves to the main island&mdash;after
+      which the lagoon is named&mdash;for there the whale-ships and trading
+      schooners came to anchor, and there they live to this day, smitten with
+      disease and fated to disappear altogether within another thirty years, and
+      be no more known to man except in the dry pages of a book written by some
+      learned ethnologist.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But twice every year the people of Funafuti betake themselves to Funāfala
+      to gather the cocoa-nuts, which in the silent groves ripen and fall and
+      lie undisturbed from month to month; then for a week or ten days, as the
+      men husk the nuts, the women and children fish in the daytime among the
+      pools and runnels of the inner reef, and at night with flaring torches of
+      palm-leaf they stand amid the sweeping surf on the outer side of the
+      narrow islet, and with net and spear fill their baskets with blue and
+      yellow crayfish. Then when all the work is done, the canoes are filled
+      with the husked cocoanuts, and with laughter and song&mdash;for they are
+      yet a merry-hearted though vanishing people&mdash;they return to the
+      village, and for another six months Funāfala is left to the ceaseless call
+      of the restless sea upon the outer reef, and the hoarse cry of the soaring
+      frigate birds.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      One afternoon Senior and myself, accompanied by a young, powerfully-built
+      native named Suka, were returning to the temporary village on Funāfala&mdash;a
+      collection of rude huts thatched with palm leaves&mdash;from a fishing
+      excursion on the outer reef, when we were overtaken by a series of sudden
+      squalls and downpours of rain. We were then walking along the weather
+      shore of the island, which was strewn with loose slabs of coral stone,
+      pure white in colour and giving forth a clear, resonant sound to the
+      slightest disturbing movement On our right hand was a scrub of <i>puka</i>
+      trees, which afforded no shelter from the torrential rain; on our left the
+      ocean, whose huge, leaping billows crashed and thundered upon the black,
+      shelving reef, and sent swirling waves of whitened foam up to our feet.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      For some minutes we continued to force our way against the storm, when
+      Suka, who was leading, called out to us that a little distance on along
+      the beach there was a cluster of <i>pąpą</i> (coral rocks), in the
+      recesses of which we could obtain shelter. Even as he spoke the rain
+      ceased for a space, and we saw, some hundreds of yards before us, the spot
+      of which he had spoken&mdash;a number of jagged, tumbled-together coral
+      boulders which some violent convulsion of the sea had torn away from the
+      barrier reef and hurled upon the shore, where, in the course of years,
+      kindly Nature had sent out a tender hand and covered them with a thick
+      growth of a creeper peculiar to the low-lying atolls of the mid-Pacific,
+      and hidden their rugged outlines under a mantle of vivid green.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As we drew near, the bright, tropic sun shone out for a while, and the
+      furious wind died away, seeming to gather fresh strength for another
+      sweeping onslaught from the darkened weather horizon.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Quick," said Suka, pointing to the rocks, "'tis bad to be smitten with
+      such rain as this. Let us rest in the <i>pąpą</i> till the storm be over."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Following our all but naked guide, who sprang from stone to stone with the
+      surefootedness of a mountain goat, we soon reached the cluster of rocks,
+      the bases of which were embedded in the now hard and stiffened sand, and
+      almost at the same moment another heavy rain squall swept down and blurred
+      sea and sky and land alike.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Bidding us to follow, Suka began to clamber up the side of the highest of
+      the boulders, on the seaward face of which, he said, was a small cave,
+      used in the olden days as a sleeping place by fishermen and sea-bird
+      catchers. Suddenly, when half-way up, he stopped and turned to us, and
+      with a smile on his face, held up his hand and bade us listen. Some one
+      was singing.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It is Susani," he whispered, "she did not sleep in the village last
+      night. She comes to this place sometimes to sing to the sea. Come, she is
+      not afraid of white men."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Grasping the thick masses of green vine called <i>At At</i> which hung
+      from the summit of the rock, we at last reached the foot of the cave, and
+      looking up we saw seated at the entrance a young native girl of about
+      twelve years of age. Even though we were so near to her she seemed utterly
+      unconscious of our presence, and still sang in a low, soft voice some
+      island chant, the words of which were strange to both my companion and
+      myself although we were well acquainted with nearly all the <i>Tokelauan</i>
+      dialects.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Very quietly we stood awaiting till she turned her face towards us, but
+      her eyes were bent seaward upon the driving sheets of rain, and the
+      tumbling surf which thrashed upon the shore.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Wait," said Suka in a low voice; "she will see us soon. 'Tis best not to
+      disturb her. She is afflicted of God and seeth many things."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Her song ceased, and then Suka, stepping forward, touched her gently upon
+      the arm. She looked up and smiled into his face, and then she let her
+      full, dark eyes rest upon the strangers who stood behind, then again she
+      turned to Suka in mute, inquiring wonder.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He bent down and placed his cheek against hers, "Be not afraid, Susāni;
+      they be good friends. And see, little one, sit thee further back within
+      the cave, for the driving rain beats in here at the mouth and thy feet are
+      wet and cold."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      She rose without a word and stood whilst the kindly-hearted native
+      unrolled an old mat which lay at the end of the cave and spread it out in
+      the centre.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Come, Susāni, dear one," he said gravely, and his usually harsh and
+      guttural voice sounded soft and tender. "Come, sit thee here, and then in
+      a little while shall I get wood and make a fire so that we may eat. Hast
+      eaten to-day, little one?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      She shook her head; a faint smile parted her lips, and then her strange,
+      mournful eyes for a moment again sought ours as she seated herself on the
+      mat Suka beckoned us to approach and sit near her, himself sitting a
+      little apart and to one side.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Susāni," he said, bending forward and speaking slowly and carefully, "<i>fealofani
+      tau lima i taka soa</i>" ("give your hand to my friends ").
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The girl held out her left hand, and Senior and I each took it in turn
+      gently within our own, and uttered the native greeting of "<i>Fakaalofa</i>."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "She can talk," said Suka, "but not much. Sometimes for many days no word
+      will come from her lips. It is then she leaveth the village and walks
+      about in the forest or along the beaches when others sleep. But no harm
+      can come to her, for she is <i>tausi mau te Atua</i>.{*} And be not vexed
+      in that she gave thee her left hand, for, see&mdash;&mdash;"
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     * In God's special keeping.
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      He touched the girl's right arm, and we now saw that it hung limp and
+      helpless upon her smooth, bared thigh.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Was she born thus?" asked Senior, as he placed his strong, rough hand
+      upon her head and stroked her thick, wavy hair, which fell like a mantle
+      over her shoulders and back.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nay, she was born a strong child, and her mother and father were without
+      blemish, and good to look upon&mdash;the man was as thick as me" (he
+      touched his own brawny chest), "but as she grew and began to talk, the
+      bone in her right arm began to perish. And then the hand of God fell upon
+      her mother and father, and they died. But let me go get wood and broil
+      some fish, for she hath not eaten." Then he bent forward and said&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Dost fear to stay here, Susāni, with the white men?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      She looked at us in turn, and then said slowly&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nay, I have no fear, Suka."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Poor little beggar!" said Senior pityingly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Ten minutes later Suka had returned with an armful of dry wood and some
+      young drinking cocoanuts. Fish we had in plenty, and in our bags were some
+      biscuits, brought from the schooner. As Senior and I tended the fire, Suka
+      wrapped four silvery sea mullet in leaves, and then when it had burnt down
+      to a heap of glowing coals he laid them in the centre and watched them
+      carefully, speaking every now and then to the child, who seemed scarcely
+      to heed, as she gazed at Senior's long, yellow beard, and his bright, blue
+      eyes set in his honest, sun-tanned face. Then, when the fish were cooked,
+      Suka turned them out of their coverings and placed them on broad, freshly
+      plucked <i>puka</i> leaves, and Senior brought the hard ship biscuits,
+      and, putting one beside a fish, brought it to the child and bade her eat.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      She put out her left hand timidly, and took it from him, her strange eyes
+      still fixed wonderingly upon his face. Then she looked at Suka, and Suka,
+      with an apologetic cough, placed one hand over his eyes and bent his head&mdash;for
+      he was a deacon, and to eat food without giving thanks would be a terrible
+      thing to do, at least in the presence of white men, who, of course, never
+      neglected to do so.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The child, hungry as she must have been, ate her food with a dainty grace,
+      though she had but one hand to use, and our little attentions to her every
+      now and then seemed at first to increase her natural shyness and timidity.
+      But when the rude meal was finished, and my companion and myself filled
+      our pipes and sat in the front of the cave, she came with Suka and nestled
+      up against his burly figure as he rolled a cigarette of strong, black
+      tobacco in dried banana leaf. The rain had ceased, but the fronds of the
+      coco-palms along the lonely shore swayed and beat together with the wind,
+      which still blew strongly, though the sun was now shining brightly upon
+      the white horses of the heaving sea.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      For nearly half an hour we sat thus, watching the roll and curl of the
+      tumbling seas upon the reef and the swift flight of a flock of savage-eyed
+      frigate birds which swept to and fro, now high in air, now low down, with
+      wing touching wave, in search of their prey, and listening to the song of
+      the wind among the trees. Then Suka, without speaking, smiled, and pointed
+      to the girl. She had pillowed her head upon his naked bosom and closed her
+      long-lashed eyes in slumber.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "She will sleep long," he said. "Will it vex thee if I stay here with her
+      till she awakens? See, the sky is clear and the rain hath ceased, and ye
+      need but walk along the beach till&mdash;&mdash;"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "We will wait, Suka," I answered; "we will wait till she awakens, and then
+      return to the village together. How comes it that one so young and tender
+      is left to wander about alone?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Suka pressed his lips to the forehead of the sleeping girl. "No harm can
+      come to her. God hath afflicted, but yet doth He protect her. And she
+      walketh with Him and His Son Christ, else had she perished long ago, for
+      sometimes she will leave us and wander for many days in the forest or
+      along the shore, eating but little and drinking nothing, for she cannot
+      open a cocoanut with her one hand, and there are no streams of fresh,
+      sweet water here as there be in the fair land of Samoa. And yet God is
+      with her always, always, and she feeleth hunger and thirst but little."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Senior placed his hand on mine and gripped it so firmly that I looked at
+      him with astonishment He was a cold, self-contained man, making no
+      friends, never talking about himself, doing his duty as mate of the <i>Venus</i>
+      as a seaman should do it, and never giving any one&mdash;even myself, with
+      whom he was more open than any other man&mdash;any encouragement to ask
+      him why he, a highly educated and intelligent man, had left civilisation
+      to waste his years as a wanderer in the South Seas. Still grasping my
+      hand, he turned to me and spoke with quivering lips&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "' She walketh with God! 'Did you hear that? Did you look into her eyes
+      and not see in them what fools would call insanity, and what I <i>know</i>
+      is a knowledge of God above and Christ and the world beyond. 'God has
+      afflicted her,' so this simple-minded native, whom many men in their
+      unthinking moments would call a canting, naked kanaka, says; but God has
+      <i>not</i> afflicted her. He has blessed her, for in her eyes there is
+      that which tells me better than all the deadly-dull sermons of the highly
+      cultured and fashionable cleric, who patters about the Higher Life, or the
+      ranting Salvationist who bawls in the streets of Melbourne or Sydney about
+      the Blood of the Lamb, that there <i>is</i> peace beyond for all.... 'God
+      has afflicted this poor child!' Would that He might so afflict me
+      physically as He has afflicted her&mdash;if He but gave me that inner
+      knowledge of Himself which so shines out and is glorified in her face."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      His voice, rising in his excitement, nearly awakened her; so Suka, with
+      outstretched hand, enjoined silence.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "She sleeps, dear friends."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      A year had come and gone, and the <i>Venus</i> again lay at anchor in the
+      broad lagoon of Funafuti. Suka had come aboard whilst the schooner was
+      beating up to the anchorage, and said that there had been much sickness on
+      the island, that many people had died, and that Susāni with other children
+      was <i>tali mate</i> (nearly dead). Could we give them some medicine? for
+      it was a strong sickness this, and even the "thick"{*} man or woman
+      withered and died from it. Soon they would all be dead.
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     * I.e., strong, stout.
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      Alas! we could not help them much, for our medicine chest was long since
+      depleted of the only drug that would have been of service. At every island
+      in the group from Nanomea southwards we had found many of the people
+      suffering and dying from a malignant type of fever introduced by an
+      Hawaiian labour vessel. Then an additional misfortune followed&mdash;a
+      heavy gale, almost of hurricane force, had set in from the westward and
+      destroyed countless thousands of cocoanut trees, so that with the
+      exception of fish, food was very scarce.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      We sent Suka on shore in the boat at once with a few mats of rice and bags
+      of biscuit&mdash;all the provisions we could spare. Then as soon as the
+      vessel was anchored the captain, Senior, and myself followed. The resident
+      native teacher met us on the beach, his yellow face and gaunt frame
+      showing that he, too, had been attacked. Many of the people, he told us,
+      had gone to the temporary village on Funāfala, where a little more food
+      could be obtained than on the main island, the groves of palms there not
+      having suffered so severely from the gale. Among those who had gone were
+      Susāni and the family who had adopted her, and we heard with sorrow that
+      there was no hope of the child living, for that morning some natives had
+      arrived from Funāfala with the news that nearly all the young children
+      were dead, and those remaining were not expected to live beyond another
+      day or two.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      After spending an hour with the teacher, and watching him distribute the
+      rice and biscuit among his sick and starving people, we returned to the
+      ship with the intention of sailing down to Funāfala in the boat and taking
+      the natives there some provisions. The teacher thanked us warmly, but
+      declined to come with us, saying that he could not leave the many for the
+      few, "for," he added sadly, "who will read the service over those who die?
+      As you sail down the lagoon you will meet canoes coming up from Funāfala
+      bringing the dead. I cannot go there to bury them."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was nearly midnight when we put off from the schooner's side, but with
+      Suka as pilot we ran quickly down to the island. A few natives met us as
+      we stepped on shore, and to these we gave the provisions we had brought,
+      telling them to divide them equally. Then with Suka leading, and carrying
+      a lighted torch made from the spathe of the cocoanut tree, we made our way
+      through the darkened forest to the house in which Susāni and her people
+      were living. It was situated on the verge of the shore, on the weather
+      side of the narrow island, so as to be exposed to the cooling breath of
+      the trade wind, and consisted merely of a roof of thatch with open sides,
+      and the ground within covered with coarse mats, upon which we saw were
+      lying three figures.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Making as little noise as possible Suka called out a name, and a man threw
+      off his sleeping mat and came out; it was Susāni's adopted father.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No," he said in his simple manner, in answer to our inquiries, "Susāni is
+      not yet dead, but she will die at dawn when the tide is low. 'Tis now her
+      last sleep."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Stepping very softly inside the house so as not to disturb her, we sat
+      down to wait her awakening. Suka crouched near us, smoking his pipe in
+      silence, and watching the sleeping girl to see if she moved.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Just as the weird cries of the tropic birds heralded the approach of dawn,
+      the woman who lay beside Susāni rose and looked into her face. Then she
+      bade us come nearer.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "She is awake."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The child knew us at once, even in that imperfect light, for the moment
+      Senior and myself stood up she tried to raise herself into a sitting
+      posture; in an instant Suka sprang to her aid and pillowed her head upon
+      his knees; weak as she was, she put out her hand to us, and then let it
+      lie in the mate's broad palm, her deep, mysterious eyes resting upon his
+      face with a strange look of happiness shining in them. Presently her lips
+      moved, and we all bent over her to listen; it was but one word&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "<i>Fakaalofa!</i>"{*}
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     * "My love to you."
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      She never spoke again, but lay breathing softly, and as the sun shot blood
+      red from the sea and showed the deathly pallor of her face, poor Suka gave
+      way, and his stalwart bosom was shaken with the grief he tried in vain to
+      suppress. Once more she raised her thin, weak hand as if she sought to
+      touch his face; he took it tremblingly and placed it against his cheek; in
+      another moment she had ceased to breathe.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As I walked slowly along the beach to the boat I looked back; the White
+      Man and the Brown were kneeling together over the little mat-shrouded
+      figure.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
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+Title: Susani
+       1901
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+Author: Louis Becke
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+SUSANI
+
+From "The Tapu Of Banderah and Other Stories"
+
+By Louis Becke
+
+C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.
+
+1901
+
+A few weeks ago I was reading a charmingly written book by a lady (the
+wife of a distinguished savant) who had spent three months on Funafuti,
+one of the lagoon islands of the Ellice Group. Now the place and the
+brown people of whom she wrote were once very familiar to me, and her
+warm and generous sympathy for a dying race stirred me greatly, and when
+I came across the name "Funafala," old, forgotten memories awoke once
+more, and I heard the sough of the trade wind through the palms and the
+lapping of the lagoon waters upon the lonely beaches of Funafala, as
+Senior, the mate of the _Venus_, and myself watched the last sleep of
+Susani.
+
+Funafala is one of the many islands which encircle Funafuti lagoon with
+a belt of living green, and to Funafala--"the island of the pandanus
+palm"--Senior and I had come with a party of natives from the village on
+the main island to spend a week's idleness. Fifty years ago, long before
+the first missionary ship sailed into the lagoon, five or six hundred
+people dwelt on Funafala in peace and plenty--now it holds but their
+bones, for they were doomed to fade and vanish before the breath of the
+white man and his civilisation and "benefits," which to the brown people
+mean death, and as the years went by, the remnant of the people
+on Funafala and the other islets betook themselves to the main
+island--after which the lagoon is named--for there the whale-ships
+and trading schooners came to anchor, and there they live to this day,
+smitten with disease and fated to disappear altogether within another
+thirty years, and be no more known to man except in the dry pages of a
+book written by some learned ethnologist.
+
+But twice every year the people of Funafuti betake themselves to
+Funafala to gather the cocoa-nuts, which in the silent groves ripen and
+fall and lie undisturbed from month to month; then for a week or ten
+days, as the men husk the nuts, the women and children fish in the
+daytime among the pools and runnels of the inner reef, and at night with
+flaring torches of palm-leaf they stand amid the sweeping surf on
+the outer side of the narrow islet, and with net and spear fill their
+baskets with blue and yellow crayfish. Then when all the work is done,
+the canoes are filled with the husked cocoanuts, and with laughter and
+song--for they are yet a merry-hearted though vanishing people--they
+return to the village, and for another six months Funafala is left to
+the ceaseless call of the restless sea upon the outer reef, and the
+hoarse cry of the soaring frigate birds.
+
+One afternoon Senior and myself, accompanied by a young,
+powerfully-built native named Suka, were returning to the temporary
+village on Funafala--a collection of rude huts thatched with palm
+leaves--from a fishing excursion on the outer reef, when we were
+overtaken by a series of sudden squalls and downpours of rain. We were
+then walking along the weather shore of the island, which was strewn
+with loose slabs of coral stone, pure white in colour and giving forth a
+clear, resonant sound to the slightest disturbing movement On our right
+hand was a scrub of _puka_ trees, which afforded no shelter from the
+torrential rain; on our left the ocean, whose huge, leaping billows
+crashed and thundered upon the black, shelving reef, and sent swirling
+waves of whitened foam up to our feet.
+
+For some minutes we continued to force our way against the storm, when
+Suka, who was leading, called out to us that a little distance on along
+the beach there was a cluster of _papa_ (coral rocks), in the recesses
+of which we could obtain shelter. Even as he spoke the rain ceased for
+a space, and we saw, some hundreds of yards before us, the spot of which
+he had spoken--a number of jagged, tumbled-together coral boulders which
+some violent convulsion of the sea had torn away from the barrier reef
+and hurled upon the shore, where, in the course of years, kindly Nature
+had sent out a tender hand and covered them with a thick growth of a
+creeper peculiar to the low-lying atolls of the mid-Pacific, and hidden
+their rugged outlines under a mantle of vivid green.
+
+As we drew near, the bright, tropic sun shone out for a while, and the
+furious wind died away, seeming to gather fresh strength for another
+sweeping onslaught from the darkened weather horizon.
+
+"Quick," said Suka, pointing to the rocks, "'tis bad to be smitten with
+such rain as this. Let us rest in the _papa_ till the storm be over."
+
+Following our all but naked guide, who sprang from stone to stone with
+the surefootedness of a mountain goat, we soon reached the cluster of
+rocks, the bases of which were embedded in the now hard and stiffened
+sand, and almost at the same moment another heavy rain squall swept down
+and blurred sea and sky and land alike.
+
+Bidding us to follow, Suka began to clamber up the side of the highest
+of the boulders, on the seaward face of which, he said, was a small
+cave, used in the olden days as a sleeping place by fishermen and
+sea-bird catchers. Suddenly, when half-way up, he stopped and turned to
+us, and with a smile on his face, held up his hand and bade us listen.
+Some one was singing.
+
+"It is Susani," he whispered, "she did not sleep in the village last
+night. She comes to this place sometimes to sing to the sea. Come, she
+is not afraid of white men."
+
+Grasping the thick masses of green vine called _At At_ which hung from
+the summit of the rock, we at last reached the foot of the cave, and
+looking up we saw seated at the entrance a young native girl of about
+twelve years of age. Even though we were so near to her she seemed
+utterly unconscious of our presence, and still sang in a low, soft voice
+some island chant, the words of which were strange to both my companion
+and myself although we were well acquainted with nearly all the
+_Tokelauan_ dialects.
+
+Very quietly we stood awaiting till she turned her face towards us,
+but her eyes were bent seaward upon the driving sheets of rain, and the
+tumbling surf which thrashed upon the shore.
+
+"Wait," said Suka in a low voice; "she will see us soon. 'Tis best not
+to disturb her. She is afflicted of God and seeth many things."
+
+Her song ceased, and then Suka, stepping forward, touched her gently
+upon the arm. She looked up and smiled into his face, and then she let
+her full, dark eyes rest upon the strangers who stood behind, then again
+she turned to Suka in mute, inquiring wonder.
+
+He bent down and placed his cheek against hers, "Be not afraid, Susani;
+they be good friends. And see, little one, sit thee further back within
+the cave, for the driving rain beats in here at the mouth and thy feet
+are wet and cold."
+
+She rose without a word and stood whilst the kindly-hearted native
+unrolled an old mat which lay at the end of the cave and spread it out
+in the centre.
+
+"Come, Susani, dear one," he said gravely, and his usually harsh and
+guttural voice sounded soft and tender. "Come, sit thee here, and then
+in a little while shall I get wood and make a fire so that we may eat.
+Hast eaten to-day, little one?"
+
+She shook her head; a faint smile parted her lips, and then her strange,
+mournful eyes for a moment again sought ours as she seated herself on
+the mat Suka beckoned us to approach and sit near her, himself sitting a
+little apart and to one side.
+
+"Susani," he said, bending forward and speaking slowly and carefully,
+"_fealofani tau lima i taka soa_" ("give your hand to my friends ").
+
+The girl held out her left hand, and Senior and I each took it in turn
+gently within our own, and uttered the native greeting of "_Fakaalofa_."
+
+"She can talk," said Suka, "but not much. Sometimes for many days no
+word will come from her lips. It is then she leaveth the village and
+walks about in the forest or along the beaches when others sleep. But
+no harm can come to her, for she is _tausi mau te Atua_.{*} And be not
+vexed in that she gave thee her left hand, for, see----"
+
+     * In God's special keeping.
+
+He touched the girl's right arm, and we now saw that it hung limp and
+helpless upon her smooth, bared thigh.
+
+"Was she born thus?" asked Senior, as he placed his strong, rough hand
+upon her head and stroked her thick, wavy hair, which fell like a mantle
+over her shoulders and back.
+
+"Nay, she was born a strong child, and her mother and father were
+without blemish, and good to look upon--the man was as thick as me" (he
+touched his own brawny chest), "but as she grew and began to talk, the
+bone in her right arm began to perish. And then the hand of God fell
+upon her mother and father, and they died. But let me go get wood and
+broil some fish, for she hath not eaten." Then he bent forward and
+said--
+
+"Dost fear to stay here, Susani, with the white men?"
+
+She looked at us in turn, and then said slowly--
+
+"Nay, I have no fear, Suka."
+
+"Poor little beggar!" said Senior pityingly.
+
+Ten minutes later Suka had returned with an armful of dry wood and some
+young drinking cocoanuts. Fish we had in plenty, and in our bags were
+some biscuits, brought from the schooner. As Senior and I tended the
+fire, Suka wrapped four silvery sea mullet in leaves, and then when it
+had burnt down to a heap of glowing coals he laid them in the centre and
+watched them carefully, speaking every now and then to the child, who
+seemed scarcely to heed, as she gazed at Senior's long, yellow beard,
+and his bright, blue eyes set in his honest, sun-tanned face. Then, when
+the fish were cooked, Suka turned them out of their coverings and placed
+them on broad, freshly plucked _puka_ leaves, and Senior brought the
+hard ship biscuits, and, putting one beside a fish, brought it to the
+child and bade her eat.
+
+She put out her left hand timidly, and took it from him, her strange
+eyes still fixed wonderingly upon his face. Then she looked at Suka, and
+Suka, with an apologetic cough, placed one hand over his eyes and bent
+his head--for he was a deacon, and to eat food without giving thanks
+would be a terrible thing to do, at least in the presence of white men,
+who, of course, never neglected to do so.
+
+The child, hungry as she must have been, ate her food with a dainty
+grace, though she had but one hand to use, and our little attentions to
+her every now and then seemed at first to increase her natural shyness
+and timidity. But when the rude meal was finished, and my companion and
+myself filled our pipes and sat in the front of the cave, she came with
+Suka and nestled up against his burly figure as he rolled a cigarette of
+strong, black tobacco in dried banana leaf. The rain had ceased, but the
+fronds of the coco-palms along the lonely shore swayed and beat together
+with the wind, which still blew strongly, though the sun was now shining
+brightly upon the white horses of the heaving sea.
+
+For nearly half an hour we sat thus, watching the roll and curl of
+the tumbling seas upon the reef and the swift flight of a flock of
+savage-eyed frigate birds which swept to and fro, now high in air,
+now low down, with wing touching wave, in search of their prey, and
+listening to the song of the wind among the trees. Then Suka, without
+speaking, smiled, and pointed to the girl. She had pillowed her head
+upon his naked bosom and closed her long-lashed eyes in slumber.
+
+"She will sleep long," he said. "Will it vex thee if I stay here with
+her till she awakens? See, the sky is clear and the rain hath ceased,
+and ye need but walk along the beach till----"
+
+"We will wait, Suka," I answered; "we will wait till she awakens, and
+then return to the village together. How comes it that one so young and
+tender is left to wander about alone?"
+
+Suka pressed his lips to the forehead of the sleeping girl. "No harm can
+come to her. God hath afflicted, but yet doth He protect her. And she
+walketh with Him and His Son Christ, else had she perished long ago, for
+sometimes she will leave us and wander for many days in the forest or
+along the shore, eating but little and drinking nothing, for she cannot
+open a cocoanut with her one hand, and there are no streams of fresh,
+sweet water here as there be in the fair land of Samoa. And yet God is
+with her always, always, and she feeleth hunger and thirst but little."
+
+Senior placed his hand on mine and gripped it so firmly that I looked
+at him with astonishment He was a cold, self-contained man, making no
+friends, never talking about himself, doing his duty as mate of the
+_Venus_ as a seaman should do it, and never giving any one--even myself,
+with whom he was more open than any other man--any encouragement to ask
+him why he, a highly educated and intelligent man, had left civilisation
+to waste his years as a wanderer in the South Seas. Still grasping my
+hand, he turned to me and spoke with quivering lips--
+
+"' She walketh with God! 'Did you hear that? Did you look into her eyes
+and not see in them what fools would call insanity, and what I _know_
+is a knowledge of God above and Christ and the world beyond. 'God has
+afflicted her,' so this simple-minded native, whom many men in their
+unthinking moments would call a canting, naked kanaka, says; but God has
+_not_ afflicted her. He has blessed her, for in her eyes there is that
+which tells me better than all the deadly-dull sermons of the highly
+cultured and fashionable cleric, who patters about the Higher Life, or
+the ranting Salvationist who bawls in the streets of Melbourne or Sydney
+about the Blood of the Lamb, that there _is_ peace beyond for all....
+'God has afflicted this poor child!' Would that He might so afflict
+me physically as He has afflicted her--if He but gave me that inner
+knowledge of Himself which so shines out and is glorified in her face."
+
+His voice, rising in his excitement, nearly awakened her; so Suka, with
+outstretched hand, enjoined silence.
+
+"She sleeps, dear friends."
+
+A year had come and gone, and the _Venus_ again lay at anchor in the
+broad lagoon of Funafuti. Suka had come aboard whilst the schooner was
+beating up to the anchorage, and said that there had been much sickness
+on the island, that many people had died, and that Susani with other
+children was _tali mate_ (nearly dead). Could we give them some
+medicine? for it was a strong sickness this, and even the "thick"{*} man
+or woman withered and died from it. Soon they would all be dead.
+
+     * I.e., strong, stout.
+
+Alas! we could not help them much, for our medicine chest was long since
+depleted of the only drug that would have been of service. At every
+island in the group from Nanomea southwards we had found many of the
+people suffering and dying from a malignant type of fever introduced
+by an Hawaiian labour vessel. Then an additional misfortune followed--a
+heavy gale, almost of hurricane force, had set in from the westward
+and destroyed countless thousands of cocoanut trees, so that with the
+exception of fish, food was very scarce.
+
+We sent Suka on shore in the boat at once with a few mats of rice and
+bags of biscuit--all the provisions we could spare. Then as soon as
+the vessel was anchored the captain, Senior, and myself followed. The
+resident native teacher met us on the beach, his yellow face and gaunt
+frame showing that he, too, had been attacked. Many of the people, he
+told us, had gone to the temporary village on Funafala, where a little
+more food could be obtained than on the main island, the groves of palms
+there not having suffered so severely from the gale. Among those who had
+gone were Susani and the family who had adopted her, and we heard with
+sorrow that there was no hope of the child living, for that morning
+some natives had arrived from Funafala with the news that nearly all the
+young children were dead, and those remaining were not expected to live
+beyond another day or two.
+
+After spending an hour with the teacher, and watching him distribute the
+rice and biscuit among his sick and starving people, we returned to
+the ship with the intention of sailing down to Funafala in the boat and
+taking the natives there some provisions. The teacher thanked us warmly,
+but declined to come with us, saying that he could not leave the many
+for the few, "for," he added sadly, "who will read the service over
+those who die? As you sail down the lagoon you will meet canoes coming
+up from Funafala bringing the dead. I cannot go there to bury them."
+
+It was nearly midnight when we put off from the schooner's side, but
+with Suka as pilot we ran quickly down to the island. A few natives met
+us as we stepped on shore, and to these we gave the provisions we had
+brought, telling them to divide them equally. Then with Suka leading,
+and carrying a lighted torch made from the spathe of the cocoanut tree,
+we made our way through the darkened forest to the house in which Susani
+and her people were living. It was situated on the verge of the shore,
+on the weather side of the narrow island, so as to be exposed to the
+cooling breath of the trade wind, and consisted merely of a roof of
+thatch with open sides, and the ground within covered with coarse mats,
+upon which we saw were lying three figures.
+
+Making as little noise as possible Suka called out a name, and a man
+threw off his sleeping mat and came out; it was Susani's adopted father.
+
+"No," he said in his simple manner, in answer to our inquiries, "Susani
+is not yet dead, but she will die at dawn when the tide is low. 'Tis now
+her last sleep."
+
+Stepping very softly inside the house so as not to disturb her, we sat
+down to wait her awakening. Suka crouched near us, smoking his pipe in
+silence, and watching the sleeping girl to see if she moved.
+
+Just as the weird cries of the tropic birds heralded the approach of
+dawn, the woman who lay beside Susani rose and looked into her face.
+Then she bade us come nearer.
+
+"She is awake."
+
+The child knew us at once, even in that imperfect light, for the moment
+Senior and myself stood up she tried to raise herself into a sitting
+posture; in an instant Suka sprang to her aid and pillowed her head upon
+his knees; weak as she was, she put out her hand to us, and then let it
+lie in the mate's broad palm, her deep, mysterious eyes resting upon
+his face with a strange look of happiness shining in them. Presently her
+lips moved, and we all bent over her to listen; it was but one word--
+
+"_Fakaalofa!_"{*}
+
+     * "My love to you."
+
+She never spoke again, but lay breathing softly, and as the sun shot
+blood red from the sea and showed the deathly pallor of her face, poor
+Suka gave way, and his stalwart bosom was shaken with the grief he tried
+in vain to suppress. Once more she raised her thin, weak hand as if she
+sought to touch his face; he took it tremblingly and placed it against
+his cheek; in another moment she had ceased to breathe.
+
+As I walked slowly along the beach to the boat I looked back; the White
+Man and the Brown were kneeling together over the little mat-shrouded
+figure.
+
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