ABSTRACT
This chapter reproduces the text from Chapter XII of Ada Reis, Volume II. Ada Reis began to see the drift of all that had been taking place, and acknowledged at once the probable fulfilment of the promises held out to him by Kabkarra. He had not time, however, for much reflection, for the impatient savages began again to flock around him, bringing their tambours and pipes, and dancing before him with wild and extravagant gestures. Ada Reis had often had opportunities of contemplating the earliest state of civilisation, he was not therefore surprised at beholding the assemblage of rude and ill-constructed huts, into which he was led with so much pride and exultation. Ada Reis and his companion approached, Papo Taguacan leading the way, to the palace of the cacique; a wretched mud-built hovel, which belong to and distinguish the most splendid courts of the mightiest monarchs.
