—"Si! moin ka pagayé,—epi fò!" (I am paddling, and hard, too!) responded Stéphane....
—"Ou ka pagayé!—ou ka menti!" (Thou art paddling!—thou liest!) vociferated Maximilien.... "And the fault is all thine. I cannot, all by myself, make the canoe to go in water like this! The fault is all thine: I told thee not to dive, thou stupid!"
—"Ou fou!" cried Stéphane, becoming angry. "Moin ka pagayé!" (I am paddling.)
—"Beast! never may we get home so! Paddle, thou lazy;—paddle, thou nasty!"
—"Macaque thou!—monkey!"
—"Chabin!—must be chabin, for to be stupid so!"
—"Thou black monkey!—thou species of ouistiti!"
—"Thou tortoise-of-the-land!—thou slothful more than molocoye!"
—"Why, thou cursed monkey, if thou sayest I do not paddle, thou dost not know how to paddle!"...
... But Maximilien's whole expression changed: he suddenly stopped paddling, and stared before him and behind him at a great violet band broadening across the sea northward out of sight; and his eyes were big with terror as he cried out:—