‘most shocking!’ said the neolithic ladies, and they filled the stranger-man’s hair with mud (at which he was surprised), and they beat upon the reverberating tribal drums, and called together all the chiefs of the tribe of tegumai, with their hetmans and dolmans, all neguses, woons, and akhoonds of the organisation, in addition to the warlocks, angekoks, juju-men, bonzes, and the rest, who decided that before they chopped the stranger-man’s head off he should instantly lead them down to the river and show them where he had hidden poor taffy.