192 ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS 
And now he who had been feared by all men, was afraid 
to be seen by any one. “He dared not go into the village, 
as his enemies might be watching for him.” Wounded and 
unarmed, he waited till the girls came at sundown to get 
water from the spring. There he attracted the attention of 
his daughter, who told him that his wife had not returned 
to the village. He at once concluded that she had gone back 
to the mission school to tell Peter what had happened. Warn- 
ing his daughter not to tell any one that he was in the neigh- 
borhood, he hid himself once more till Peter arrived. 
Peter, who was a Christian, taking pity on the poor hunted 
fellow, and realizing that his wound was serious and must 
receive attention as soon as possible, arranged to take them 
all down to the coast, but before starting, he said to Iro- 
fufuli, “‘You finish along akalo [heathenism] today. You 
must pray to God. He knows how to save.’ ”’ 
It is difficult to tell how much Irofufuli understood of 
this good advice, or how fully he realized his need of the 
saving power of God, but as they stole away in the quiet 
of the night, you can see them. There goes Peter, the kind, 
Christian man, who has put his own life in great peril to 
save, if possible, the life of this wretched head-hunter, and 
near him slinks Irofufuli. Next is “the mother, with fright- 
ened little children clinging to her. The man hunted by man 
creeps along through the bush, starting at every sound. How 
often he has been the hunter!’ Now he is the hunted, and 
every shadow that falls across their moonlit way his guilty 
conscience peoples with victims of his craze for killing or 
their avenging friends. 
At last they reached the coast, and went in a whaleboat 
to the government station at Auki, only to be sent on to 
the missionaries at a distant station, where they arrived two 
weeks after Irofufuli was shot, the bullet still in his arm. 
From this point I must let the missionary who has told 
this story, tell us in her own interesting way what the out- 
come of it all really was: 
