Chapter 27

"There is little danger here," she said. "Ten fathoms would not hurt a child, and the great shark you killed was the only evil shark in the lagoon. And he was not a shark, as I and all the others know! For the rest, we have seen neither _tonu_ nor conger eel in all the days we have been diving, though it is well to watch closely, for a tonu is an ill thing to meet! But let them go--they will come to no harm; perhaps they will find a pearl like mine, and in any case the white boy will have strange tales to tell when…