How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Might it not be that beneath these fair appearances the islanders covered some perfidious design, and that their friendly reception of us might only precede some horrible catastrophe? How strongly did these forebodings spring up in my mind as I lay restlessly upon a couch of mats surrounded by the dimly revealed forms of those whom I so greatly dreaded! (11.1)
There's those exclamations again! Tommo's confinement is starting to sink in here.
Quote #8
So much for the exterior; which, with its wire-like reed-twisted sides, not a little reminded me of an immense aviary. (11.22)
Tommo sees himself as a bird stuck in a cage (aviary). Is it as bad as all that?
Quote #9
I was too familiar with the fickle disposition of savages not to feel anxious to withdraw from the valley. (13.4)
Do you think Tommo would have been in such a hurry to leave had he not heard rumors of cannibalism? Might he have stayed in the valley, never knowing that anyone would prevent him from doing so?