The Rescue of Nekibil 
DurRING the first year of Mr. Brown’s stay in New Brit- 
ain, an incident occurred which brought him into extreme 
peril. One day the wife of Waruwarum, the chief, a girl 
about eighteen years of age, was observed talking innocently 
to a young lad. At once the chief, who was a very jealous 
man, flew into a great rage, and hurled a spear at the lad. 
The weapon struck a small tree, and glanced off into the 
bush. The lad fled for his life and escaped for the time 
being. Not so, however, with the unfortunate girl. Ina 
twinkling she had a spear driven through her flesh, and 
was dealt a fearful blow with a tomahawk. Then she was 
beaten into unconsciousness with the handle of the toma- 
hawk, and left for dead in the bush. 
The women came screaming to Mr. Brown, crying out 
that Waruwarum had killed Nekibil, his wife. Mr. Brown, 
with his Fijian assistant, ran quickly to the spot where Ne- 
kibil lay, and found the wretched girl lying naked where 
she had fallen, and quite unconscious. Finding that she still 
breathed, Mr. Brown lifted her onto the shoulder of the 
Fijian, where she hung limp as one already dead. Thus 
they carried her through the village to Mr. Brown’s house. 
On the way the enraged husband came behind them, and 
again tried to spear his wife as she hung on the teacher’s 
back. This he was prevented from doing by the courage 
of Mr. Brown. Having arrived safely at the house, a stim- 
ulant was given to the wounded girl, and her wounds were 
dressed. Soon she revived and began to take interest in 
her surroundings. 
In the meantime all was excitement in the village, for the 
chief was busy marshaling an armed band to fight the fam- 
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