The islanders were still there, in greater numbers than on the day before, perhaps 500 or 600 of them.
During this whole time of low tide, the islanders lurked near the Nautilus, but they weren't boisterous.
These islanders were Carians and Phoenicians, by whom most of the islands were colonized, as was proved by the following fact.
No wonder that the South Sea Islanders are so amphibious a race, when they are thus launched into the water as soon as they see the light.
In the villages of far away India, in the homes of the Sea Islanders and in fact wherever human beings have congregated they have talked of a world peace.
This was a sad blow to me; but as it might have aroused the suspicions of the islanders to have made another attempt that night, I was reluctantly obliged to defer it until the next.
BUT the islanders, seeing that I was really adrift, took pity on me. I drifted very slowly to the eastward, approaching the island slantingly; and presently I saw, with hysterical relief, the launch come round and return towards me.
When any of the inmates chose to go outside, the noise occasioned by the removing of this rude door awakened every body else; and on more than one occasion I had remarked that the islanders were nearly as irritable as more civilized beings under similar circumstances.