“'Bring them all outside.' They went together to the beach. 'Brave talkers ye be,' said he; 'who now will say “I die for the white man”?'
“'Nay, heed them not, Tuialo,' said the white man. 'On me alone let the club fell.'
“But the chief gave him no answer, looking only at my father and the three women.”
“'My life,' said Taulaga, the girl; and she knelt on the sand.
“The club swung round and struck her on the side of her head, and it beat it in. She fell, and died quickly.
“'Oho,' mocked Tuialo, 'is there but one life offered for so great a man as Tiufana?'
“Lauati fell before him. 'Spare me not, O chief, if my life but saves his.'
“And again the club swung, and Lauati, my Either, died too, and as he fell his blood mixed with that of Taulaga.
“And then Uluvao and Manini, placing some little faith in his mocking words, knelt, and their blood too poured out on the ground, and the three women and my father lay in a heap together.