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Letter 15, 14th May 1936 same thing has always happened to even the most famous soldiers or sailors who have gone into Parliament, from Wellington onwards.

Very glad to see that Mrs Bailey has found her magician: and in Vienna. They have some first-class brains there, but what a pity that so many of the best are Jews, and will now have short shrift. A good number of them have flocked into this country in the past

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few weeks. Though I dislike Jews, I really think this country will be the gainer.

Thank you, also, for the “Statesman” cutting. Very amusing to find that one's pet lies now gain currency as traditional fact! There wasn't a word of truth in my yarn. The unfortunate Newman, now living at Chislehurst, has gone quite blind, and dictates all his articles to a secretary.

May I say that the most heartening thing, to me, in your letter, is the generous way in which you have forgiven me for the advice I ventured to write to you, in my last letter? Time and again since writing it, I've wondered if I weren't exceeding the limits of what you would permit in thus butting in, unasked.

May I add that anything I can do, now or in the future, to make your plans in England a success, that I will gladly do.

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 * L. A. Bethell

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Letter 15, 14th May 1936

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TELEGRAMS, MAGA, LONDON

TELEPHONE 10663 CENTRAL

37, Paternoster Row, E.C.

14 . V. 36

My dear Bailey,

Very many thanks for letting me see the enclosed, which I return, registered, as soon as possible, lest accident befall it – it is obviously valuable.

The whole thing is most tantalisingly allusive – and makes one impatient for the full facts underlying it – especially in your regard. But I suppose we shall none of us hear the full story of what happened during that time they were chasing you, until you can be induced to write the whole thing yourself. Helped out by what little I can remember of what you told me that time in Quetta, and a certain amount of my imagination thrown in, I was able to do no more than hint at it all in “Adedoids”: but if


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1. Government has already defined the nature of the duties and functions which you are called upon to perform, in paragraph 10 of the Resolution dated the 9th February, 1851, published in the Government Gazette of the 19th February.

2. The instructions laid down in the “Directions to Parganah Visitors”, you will consider applicable to yourself, on those points, in which your duties assimilate to those of the Parganah Visitor.

3. Your closest attention, and most strenuous endeavors should be directed towards the four following most important objects.

First—The improvement and increase of Indigenous Schools.

Second.—The encouragement of a desire for knowledge, and for the benefit arising from education among all classes.

Third.—The collection of full and correct statistical information regarding the condition of the Schools, state of education, and of learning in general, in your District.

Fourth.—A close and conscientious superintendence of the Parganah Visitors and Teachers subordinate to you.

4. With reference to the first object, you must bear in mind that many Village Schools already exist; that the system of

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Letter 16, 24th September 1936 you could overcome your reluctance, the full story should make an epic. Queer that both your Russian friend and I should have

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been struck, identically, with the “Lawrence” parallel. It was fairly obvious to me, the tree that they were barking up all the time when he was in the Air Force at Nowshera. The Fritzes and the Frogs couldn't leave the topic alone – though, Lord knows, it was no intimate concern of theirs as it might well have been that of the Russians. I even remember seeing a “post war Lawrence” story – with illustrations in full – in one of the more décolleté French magazines: gaunt man on a camel, led along by a soi-disant Central Asian girl, bare to the waist and very “prominent”. How inevitable is the French style: they always seem to drag horizontal exercise, or a strong hint of it, into everything they write.

Amusing to hear your notion of a “quiet time”; gathering bunches of tigers and fistfuls of leopards,

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in a kind of parenthesis. The Maharajah’s 77 tigers and 24 panthers, in one camp, to his own gun! I can't think where you people find them all. It must be a regular cat farm.

All quiet on this front. Steady continuous daily hard work, but of the most varied description. To keep up the standard of the magazine contribs, and refuse to vary by a hair's breath. But Lord! You should see the rubbish that comes daily to my table. I've opened(?) “sex”, but nothing else. Even murders are a very steady supply. I reckon I cast out 95%; of the remaining 5% only about one passes J.H.B. and G.W.B. So you can imagine what the bulk is like.

Once more, very many thanks for the enclosed. Let me know (a p.c. will do) if it reaches you safely because, if it doesn't, I shall be able to tumble over the post office folk. And if you do manage to fly back this summer, mind you halt here on your way to Norfolk, and break bread with me and Jim.

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 * L.A. Bethell

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Dear Mrs. Bailey,

I am full of apologies.

When, on Friday last, E. rang up at this office and failed to get me, I was away for two days seeing my wife off at Southampton on her way to South Africa – a combination of circumstances that also sent clean out of my mind my previous


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268 She paused a moment at the car steps and hel out her hand. “Good-by, Hugh,” she said softl] her lips trembling, her eyes full of tears.

“Good-by, Cynthia,” he whispered. And ther foolishly, “Thanks for coming.”

She did not smile but drew her hand from his an mounted the steps. An instant later she was insid the car and the train was moving.

Numbed and miserable, Hugh slowly climbed th hill and wandered back to Norry Parker’s roorr He was glad that Norry was n’t there. He pace up and down the room a few minutes trying t think. Then he threw himself despairingly on couch, face down. He wanted to cry; he had neve wanted so much to cry—and he could n’t. Ther were no tears—and he had lost something ver precious. He thought it was love; it was only hi dreams.


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Letter 17, 20th June 1938 intention to send him a wire, “Bon Voyage”, at the last moment. Except for this contretemps, his phone call would have caught me.

(E. Was F. M. Bailey to his mother - ‘Eric’ to distinguish him from his father, also Frederick)

Have you knowledge of any last moment message he wanted to convey, or last problem to put? Busy as he must have been at the last moment, he is not the man to have taken time and trouble over two cables (as I am informed) without some good reason. Possibly, when you write to him, you could enclose this note – explanation as it is, as well as inquiry.

I was, and am, genuinely distressed about his eye trouble. Eyes so often depend on general good health, and one is left with the fear that not only in the climate of his present surroundings, a

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trial to him, but it must be the worst possible thing for a man who, throughout his life, has taken no trouble whatever about his well-being and has worked his longsuffering body to its last limits. For that reason alone, I welcome the fact that his work in Nepal is within measurable distance of its end. It was, past words, good to see him again. He doesn't change and old times came back, insistently, with every word and gesture.

Again, also, I was more than glad to resume, with you, a contact which, in Dorking, now seems a long while ago.

 * Very sincerely

 * L.A. Bethell

I have written that I did not know exactly what it was you wanted to say on the telephone but know it was either about his or your work and that you would write him yourself.

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107, Hillfield Court,

Belsize Avenue,

N. W. 3

Monday, 20. VI. 38, 9pm

My dear Bailey,

I've only this moment got your letter of 17th – hence my apology for delay in answering. I was away from office over the weekend.

I'm really glad to know you are within arm's length once more: particularly as I have practically finished the book of which I spoke when last you were at home.


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 ==CHAPTER XXIII==

FOR several days Hugh was tortured by doubt and indecision: there were times when he thought that he loved Cynthia, times when he was sure that he didn’t; when he lad just about made up his mind that he hated her, ie found himself planning to follow her to New Rochelle; he tried to persuade himself that his
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iis comrades, but shame invariably overwhelmed iis arguments; there were hours when he ached for Cynthia, and hours when he loathed her for smashing something that had been beautiful. Most of all, he wanted comfort, advice, but he cnew no one to whom he was willing to give his
 * onfidence.

Somehow, he could n’t admit his drunkenness to any one whose advice he valued, hie called on Professor Henley twice, intending to make a clean breast of his transgressions. Henley, he knew, would not lecture him, but when he found himself facing him, he could not bring himself to confession; he was afraid of losing Henley s respect.

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Letter 18, 27th September 1938 Hinged on a purely fictitious story of our doings together – yours and mine – in Mishmi land – all names altered and unrecognisable including yours ( = “Drummond”: not even “Barclay”). Two critics who have seen the partly completed work tell me it is likely to be a marked success: I am therefore more than

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ever anxious that you should “pass” it as containing nothing that you would object to. Naturally, it shall not go to George Blackwood (who awaits it) or to anyone else, until you have said it may go. If, however, you say “No”, it will mean my re-writing large chunks of the book, in fact, remodelling the whole thing, with consequent months – possibly a year – of hard work and delay. So I cannot over-express my hope that you will say all is well.

Thanks so much about dining at the “Travellers” tomorrow, Tuesday 21st. I shall look forward to it, and will be there at 8, as you suggest. But I quite foresee that in the press of your engagements, my delay in accepting may have involved you in filling up the day and the hour. If so, in other words if my coming is not convenient, please ring me up at office (City 1321) between 10 and 12:30 tomorrow, Tuesday. If you do not, I shall know that all is well.

Very relieved to hear that Mrs. Bailey is quite recovered.

 * Yours ever

 * L. A. Bethell

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(side note at the top left)

I had made a whole chapter of Chang-Lo, but, after what you said, have reduced it to a page and have avoided the name of the place.

107, Hillfield Court,

Belsize Avenue,

N. W. 3

7 . IX. 38

My dear Bailey,

Thanks for your letter.

It's perilously like butting-in in what you might rightly tell me is no concern of mine, but I view with increasing anxiety your intention of acquiring, even hiring, a house. Difficulties begin – not end – when you've succeeded in getting it. Experience tells me that, nowadays, by far the best plan is to get into a good roomy flat. By doing so, you shelve the worry of structural maintenance, repairs, rates, taxes, insurance,


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 expression. The martial and the patriotic pieces, on the other hand, were tearful, womanish productions one and all. The poet had passed under the Caudine Forks; he sang for an army visiting the tomb of its old renown, with arms reversed; and sang not of victory, but of death. There was a number in the hawker's collection called Conscrits Français, which may rank among the most dissuasive war-lyrics on record. It would not be possible to fight at all in such a spirit. The bravest conscript would turn pale if such a ditty were struck up beside him on the morning of battle; and whole regiments would pile their arms to its tune.

If Fletcher of Saltoun is in the right about the influence of national songs, you would say France was come to a poor pass. But the thing will work its own cure, and a sound-hearted and courageous people weary at length


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 of snivelling over their disasters. Already Paul Déroulède has written some manly military verses. There is not much of the trumpet note in them, perhaps, to stir a man's heart in his bosom; they lack the lyrical elation, and move slowly; but they are written in a grave, honourable, stoical spirit, which should carry soldiers far in a good cause. One feels as if one would like to trust Déroulède with something. It will be happy if he can so far inoculate his fellow countrymen that they may be trusted with their own future. And in the meantime, here is an antidote to "French Conscripts" and much other doleful versification.

We had left the boats over-night in the custody of one whom we shall call Carnival. I did not properly catch his name, and perhaps that was not unfortunate for him, as I am not in a position to hand him down with honour to posterity. To this person's premises we strolled


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 in the course of the day, and found quite a little deputation inspecting the canoes. There was a stout gentleman with a knowledge of the river, which he seemed eager to impart. There was a very elegant young gentleman in a black coat, with a smattering of English, who led the talk at once to the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. And then there were three handsome girls from fifteen to twenty; and an old gentleman in a blouse, with no teeth to speak of, and a strong country accent. Quite the pick of Origny, I should suppose.

The Cigarette had some mysteries to perform with his rigging in the coach-house; so I was left to do the parade single-handed. I found myself very much of a hero whether I would or not. The girls were full of little shudderings over the dangers of our journey. And I thought it would be ungallant not to take my cue from the ladies. My mishap of yesterday, told in an


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Letter 19, 8th August 1938 garden tidiness, at least half the furnishing, drains maintenance, water rate, onto the shoulders of the landlord – whereas, by taking a house, the landlord piles them all onto you. You may say that I'm making a song about a list of trivialities – quite true, individually, but in

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sum total they add up to a respectable lump of worry and time expenditure. But mind energy and time are two things, nowadays, worth their area in five-pound notes. You've only got to think of the interesting, of the necessary, things you could be doing, if you weren't throwing away time and energy on avoidable matters. This funny old village of London is packed with worthwhile things to do see, hear, and engage one’s energies in – and for a first-class brain like yours to let anything come in the way of them, is, I suggest, plain crime.

Different for a man who's half vegetable – there are many of them. But not you or I.

I know, now, I'd ten years of house, in probably the most worthwhile corner of the best county in England, but I wouldn't go back there now, and chuck what there is to do in Town, for anything.

However, as I say, my apologies. It's no business of mine, and I oughtn’t to butt in.

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The book – “The Blind Road” – is finished, typed, sent to George Blackwood, accepted, given a final polish-up and a “map” and outer jacket, and should be out in 6 weeks’ to 2 months’ time (all proofreading still to do). Once again, my sincere thanks for the carte blanche you gave me to say what I liked. When you see it (I'll send a copy) I think you'll find I've said nothing offensive. And though the thing will never read as anything but fiction, it may (if it sells well) act as an efficient curtain raiser to your volume of memoirs, by stimulating interest in the man I've made my central character. As you, reading, may see.

Best luck, and write again when you're nearer coming back.

 * As ever

 * L.A. Bethell

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Letter 20, 13th October 1938

Dear Bailey,

The yak and the burrhab, sharing a stamp with an aeroplane! Who’d ha’ thought it!

Mongolian airmail stamps.

What news of you?

Good hunting !

 * Yours

 * L. A. Bethell

(Mongolian airmail stamps affixed, 25, 50 and 75 kopeks)

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Envelope – assumed to previous letter:

Post marked ‘London S.W.1, 8th August 1938’, then ‘Hampstead 8 th August 1938’ and then ‘Newton Butler, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh 11th August 38’ and with a general ‘Empire Exhibition Glasgow’ over the stamp.

1½p stamp

Addressed to –

Colonel F. M. Bailey, C.I.E.

Travellers Club, Pall Mall, S.W.1 (crossed out)

then – Buck Inn, Buckden, Skipton, Yorks

then – Crom Castle, Newton Butler, N. Ireland

And noted – by Bailey in pencil

‘Ans 12/9’

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Please note new number ––>

72, Hillfield Court,

Belsize Avenue,

N. W. 3

13 . X.

My dear Bailey,

Very glad to hear you are back, though distressed to hear that you intend deserting us again for Norfolk. This old village of London has its possibilities. I expect it will drag you back again, someday.


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Letter 21, 18th December 1938 I am just off to Aldershot to stay with a pal, C.R.E., there, for a long weekend. Am “on leave” for the moment from the office – a three weeks due to me last July but which I have only now been able to take. Gives you some notion of what the work has been. But when I get back I'll ring you up – times as directed – and we'll fix a meeting. I've much to discuss with you.

You've only just missed a man I badly wanted you to meet, one Stanford, retired I.C.S.,

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junior partner in the Stanford map making firm. A keen ornithologist, and only 3 days ago sailed to join a composite party of shikar, exploration, and Natural History generally in N.E. Burma, in the little-known country between “The Triangle” and the Salween. He knows – or has heard – a lot about your birds, and was equally keen to meet you. But in the short time available I didn't know if you were back in Town, or where to lay hands on you. He will be back next April and anticipates a haul of unusual trove.

The proof reading of the book is finished, publication shortly. You shall have one of the first copies. I think it may be an efficient curtain raiser to any book of your own Memoirs you may publish, and send two for that purpose. At the least, it should rouse considerable curiosity and there are bound to be a number of the people who matter, who will be able to identify “Drummond” with F.M.B.

A bientot, then

 * Yours ever

 * L. A. Bethell

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And, (I had almost forgotten) the best of Xmas wishes to both of you.

72, Hillfield Court,

Belsize Avenue,

N. W. 3

18 . XII.

My dear Bailey,

Many thanks for yours of yesterday.

I lost no time in getting down to KINTHUP. I've been through your typescript twice, the second time confirming my first impression that a paper like this needs a map, however rough and diagrammatic, and as many illustrations of salient spots as you can lay hands on. You see, for all that Maga’s readers are probably the best


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 generally educated in the land, there is still only a comparatively small proportion of them who know trans-Himalayan geography. To many of them Tibet is still a land of mystery, with a vague idea of “Younghusband” and “Lhasa” superadded – the whole in a background of mysticism, miracles, and Kim’s lama. And places like Gyantse, the Tsangpo, Po-me, even Sikkim, which present instant mental pictures to you and me, leave them – quite frankly – guessing.

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And when a man reads a paper which, he feels, has been inadequately explained to him, he's quick to pass on to something he understands better and can therefore take an interest in.

I say this with all the more confidence, in that I know it would be what George Blackwood would say, if I were to send it onto him.

I would therefore advise your getting together as many (clearly reproducible) photographs of salient places mentioned as you can, and then doing as you suggest – i.e. send it to the Geographical Magazine. Maga, as you know, doesn't handle illustrations.

None of which is any reflection on your paper. It is just inherent in the nature of the thing – that's all. The subject is an engrossing one, and should be welcomed by a responsible publication like the Geographical Magazine, especially when coming from you.

I am still anxious to hear from you that I haven't trodden on any of your corns, in “Blind Road”. At your full leisure, let me know. Of course, when telling the yarn, I had to twist you about, almost beyond recognition. But there are still many who may recognise you.

 * Yours ever

 * L. A. Bethell

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 With the present volume our series reverts to the far Northwest, and takes up the story of the Oregon country during the fourth decade of the nineteenth century.

After the failure of the Astorian enterprise (1811-13), recounted with so much detail in the narratives of Franchere and Ross (reprinted in our volumes vi and vii), the Northwest Coast fell into the hands of the British fur-trade companies, who ruled the forest regions with a sway as absolute as that of a czar. The "Nor'westers" first occupied the field, sent out their daring "bourgeois" in all directions, and reaped a rich harvest of pelts. But upon the consolidation of the rival corporations (1821), the Hudson's Bay Company's men succeeded them, and for the first time law and order were enforced by the chief factors, and the denizens of the Northwest, white and red, soon learned to obey and revere their new masters. Prominent among the factors was Dr. John McLoughlin, the benevolent despot of Fort Vancouver, whose will was law not only for savages and fur-trade employes, but for all overland emigrants, British and American, who now began swarming to the banks of the Columbia. For twenty years he governed a province larger than France, and friend and foe alike testify to his probity and kindness, from which Americans profited quite as fully as those from his own land.

To the world at large, during this long period, the land beyond the mountains remained unknown and almost unknowable. Occasionally a New England skipper ventured to the mouth of the Columbia, exchanging goods from Hawaii and the South Seas for the salmon and furs of the


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10 Northwest Coast; but the inhabitants of the interior of our country long found the Rockies and their outlying deserts insurmountable barrier to Western passage.

Fur-traders finally led the way into the heart of the mountains. The Rocky Mountain Fur Company, under General William Ashley, began in 1822 that series of explorations and excursions that opened the highland fastnesses to the men of the West, and paved the way for the tracing of the Oregon Trail.

But it was bona-fide settlers, not fur-traders or trappers, that captured Oregon for the United States. Among the earliest of these were members of the company escorted by Captain Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth, whose home was in the shades of academic learning at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wyeth, however, owed the inception of the enterprise to another New Englander, his quondam fellow-townsman, Hall J. Kelley. An enterprising schoolmaster, the narratives of Lewis and Clark and of the Astorian participants fired his imagination with a desire to behold the Far West, while the joint-occupancy treaty with Great Britain (1818) aroused in him a patriotic desire that the region watered by the Columbia might be posses by his native land. Throughout more than a decade he published pamphlets and articles for the local press, glowing with praise of Oregon, and succeeded in organizing the Oregon Colonization Society, from among whose members he hoped to lead an expedition to the far-away land of promise.

Among those who hearkened to him was the young Cambridgian, Wyeth, whose mind, more practical than Kelley's, but as yet uninformed as to the real difficulties of the enterprise, conceived the project of a great commercial enterprise to the Northwest. In the winter of 1831-32, Wyeth formed his party of pioneers and formulated his plans. With the opening of the spring a vessel laden with supplies


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1832-1834] was to start around Cape Horn, to meet the overland adventurers at the mouth of the Columbia. Wyeth, meanwhile, was to lead a company of hale young men across the continent, who should hunt and trap on the way, and be ready on arrival to provide a cargo of furs for the vessel, and later to develop the products of the Oregon country.

Wyeth's original plan for the land party included forty companions, but he finally set forth from Baltimore with an enrollment of but twenty-four. Arrived in St. Louis, he learned for the first time of the vast operations that Western fur-traders were already carrying on among the mountains—men to whom the experience of a life-time had taught the conditions and the methods of trade beyond the frontier. Nothing daunted, however, young Wyeth joined the yearly caravan of the Rocky Mountains Fur Company, and under its protection proceeded to that company's rendezvous at Pierre's Hole. There the majority of his men, finding the hazard greater than they had anticipated, turned back; but the leader, with a handful of followers, pressed on, only to learn in the Oregon country that his vessel had been wrecked on a Pacific reef, and his cargo of supplies lost.

Received at Fort Vancouver with hospitable courtesy on the part of the Hudson's Bay people, Wyeth passed the winter exploring the region and learning its resources. He became more than ever eager to exploit the great possibilities lying before him, and returned across the continent to Boston, making en route the famous journey—commemorated by Washington Irving in his Scenes in the Rocky Mountains—down the Bighorn and Yellowstone in a bull-boat. While still among the mountain men, Wyeth confidently entered into a contract with Milton Sublette and the latter's partner, Thomas Fitzpatrick, to carry out to them their yearly supplies the following season.

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 Habitat: — Plains of the IT. Provinces, upper Ganges and the Concan.

Sans. : — Durlabha, girikarnika, yavása. Arab. : — Alhaju, haj, aàqúl, shoukuljaimal. Pers. : — Shutarkhor, khareshutar.

Vern: — Jawâsá (H. and Bomb.); Dulalabhá. (B.) ; Girikarmika (Tel.) ; Oosturkbar, kas-khandero (Sind).

The Manna, Taranjabin.

A low shrub, armed with copious sub-patent, hard pungent spines ½-lin. long. Leaves simple, drooping from the base of the spines or branches, oblong, obtuse, rigidly coriaceous glabrous. Flowers 1-6 from a spine, on short pedicels. Calyx glabrous 1/12-⅛in - Corolla reddish, 3 times the Calyx. Pod one in. long or less, falcate or straight.

Duthie writes (Flora of the Upper Gangetic Plain, Vol. I., p. 280) that " the true A. maurorum of Tournefort, with silky pods, does not occur in India."

Uses: — The plant is described by Sanskrit writers as laxative, diuretic and expectorant, the thorny flower, stalks and branches being the parts used. No reference is made by them to the manna.

In Mahomed an works it is considered to be aperient, attenuant and alexipharmic. A poultice or fumigation with it is recommended to cure piles. The expressed juice is applied to opacities of the cornea, and is directed to be snuffed up the nose as a remedy for megrim. An oil is prepared with the leaves as an external application in rheumatism ; the flowers are applied to remove piles (Dymock).

The manna is not produced by the Indian plant, but is imported from Persia and Bokhara. It is described by the author of the Makhzan as aperient and cholagogue, more digestible than ash manna, expectorant, a good purifier of the blood from corrupt and adust humors when given in diet drinks, such as barley water, &c ; diuretic, and, with milk, fattening and aphrodisiac. (Dymock).


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It may be premised of the persons named in the preceding list that the aim of meaning of their appearance upon earth—what in its highest sense they came into the world to do; if much, if little, or whether to be only lookers-on, and to do nothing at all—will receive but a faint analysis. Even from among their social tones and humours (in the meanest cases a congeries of significant phenomena) we can select but a sweet or bitter here and there in hastening along. In Rh


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 *Awaya Genemon, potter, 247; revives the Ao-Kutani ware, 248; his Ohi faience, 259; technical ability, 259.
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 * Baikei, Seifū, potter, 227.
 * Ban family, potters, 345.
 * Banko ware, original, 358–360; mark, 360; revival, 361; use of moulds, 362; character of revived, or Yusetsu ware, 362, 364; popularity and imitation, 363; varieties and essential feature, 364; Yedo, 387.
 * Banshu. See Harima.
 * Barin ware, 367.
 * Bishiu. See Owari.
 * Bizan, four generations of Awata potters, 202.
 * Bizen province ware, early, 328, 331; varieties and characteristics, 329–332; modelled, 329; marks, 331, 333; potters, 332; decline, 333; identification, 335.
 * Blue under the glaze (sous converte) decoration, in Shonzui's use, 21–25; use by his successors, 25, 54; on Arita porcelain, 57, 73, 79, 123, 127; application, 6870; subordination in Nabeshima ware, 96; on Hirado ware, 103, 110, 113, 128; on Satsuma faience, 152; on Kyōtō faience, 179, 197; Rokubei's landscapes, 212; on Kutani ware, 241; on Owari porcelain, 292; on Mino egg-shell porcelain, 303; modern success, 419. See also Decoration.
 * Boku Heii, Korean potter in Satsuma, 135, 136; finds materials for Satsuma ware, 140; descendants, 141, 152.
 * Bokuhaku, potter, 358.
 * Bowes, J. L., error on Japanese porcelain, 18, 39; on Japanese porcelain in European collections, 121.
 * Brocade pattern, in Old Japan ware, 81.
 * Bunzo, various potters, descendants of Yasuchika, 188, 197.
 * Butsuyu, name for Zengoro, 223.
 * Buzen province, Agano ware, 402–404; Ueno ware, 404.
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 * , W. R., on Korean keramics, 48.
 * Céladon, ancient reference to, 10; Chinese, 19; Korean, 47–49; Okawachi, 98; attempted in Kyōtō, 210; Himeji, 372; Meppō, 378; Sanda, 380; Seifu's, 417. See also Porcelain.
 * Characteristics. See Identification.
 * Chikaharu, Higuchi, potter, 117.
 * Chikuzen. See Sōhichi, Takatori.
 * Chin family, potters, 141, 159, 422.
 * China, ancient intercourse with Japan, 11; keramic primacy, 13, 19–21, 411–413; art influence on Japan, 18; influence on Japanese keramics, 62, 416, 423; enamelled porcelains, 62; porcelain process, 72.
 * Chobei, Yama-no-uchi, potter, 108.
 * Chōjiro of Kaga, potter, 246.
 * Chōjiro, Tanaka, potter, 32, 36.
 * Chokku-en. See Yohei (Yama-no-uchi).
 * Chōniu, Tanaka, potter, 33, 37.
 * Chōsa, Satsuma, ware, origin, 136; Yoshihiro's patronage, 136; character of early ware, 136; faience, 136; varieties, 137, 169; change in location, 138; identification, 151.
 * Chōsen-garatsu ware, 310.
 * Chōshiu. See Nagato.
 * Chōsuke, potter, 247.
 * Chōwaken, potter, 227.
 * Chōyu. See Chōjiro (Tanaka).
 * Chozaemon, Haji or Ohi, potter ancestry, 255; character of his Ohi ware, 255, 257; descendants, 256, 257.
 * Chōzo, potter, 232.


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Before his friends and kinsmen then noble Siegmund spake:

“I charge all Siegfried’s kinsfolk notice hereby to take,

That he, before these warriors, my crown henceforth shall wear.”

This news the Netherlanders were glad in sooth to hear.

To him he gave his kingdom, his crown, and government.

Henceforth he was their master. And his arbitrament

And rendering of justice became abiding law;—

So that fair Kriemhild’s husband was greatly held in awe.

In this estate of honour, he lived, as all declare,

And wore the crown and govern’d,— until, in the tenth year,

His comely wife in safety brought forth her first-born son;

Whereat the royal kinsfolk were gladden’d ev’ryone.

They hasten’d to baptize him, and gave him for a name,

After his uncle, Gunther, which could not bring him shame.

Were he but as his forbears, a brave man he would grow.

They gave him careful training, as bounden so to do.

About the self-same season Dame Sieglind pass’d away.

Then noble Uté’s daughter did over all hold sway,—

As doth beseem such ladies who wealth and lands possess.

That Death the queen had taken they mournéd none the less.

Now yonder too, in Rhineland,— so doth the story run,—

Unto the wealthy Gunther there had been born a son

Of beauteous Brunhilda, in realm of Burgundy;

And, for the love of Siegfried, that hero’s name had he.


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 old Italian front by Magyar regiments. It was also proved that Bela Kuhn received several batteries of guns from Italy, presumably because the Magyars were enemies of the Jugoslavs.

The Czechoslovak army lacked cannon, horses, trucks, munitions, officers of high rank, and it lacked numbers. Supplies of all sorts were rushed to Slovakia by minister of defense Klofáč; Italian officers were replaced by experienced French generals, and general Pelle was appointed by Masaryk commander-in-chief of the Czechoslovak armies. Mobilization of certain classes was ordered and volunteers were called for. Guns and rifles came from France, and by middle of June not only was Magyar invasion stopped,, [sic]but they were being pushed back. At the same time the Allies issued an ultimatum to Bela Kuhn ordering him to withdraw beyond the demarcation line, and at the end of June he complied reluctantly with the ultimatum. The material damage done by his barbarous troops is estimated at more than one billion crowns, and since Hungary is bankrupt, it will be hard to compel restitution. But at least the danger to the state re-created patriotism in Bohemia, and so the Magyar war was not altogether a calamity.

Municipal elections held on June 15 came out very much as everyone expected. They have proved a great growth of socialist sentiment; while the old social democratic party approximately held its own, as compared with the last elections under the Austrian regime in 1911, the Czechoslovak socialist party, formerly the national socialists, manifested a great increase of strength, mainly for the reason that clerks, school teachers and government employees whose lot is worse than that of workingmen look to this party to improve their economic position. National democrats and agrarians lost, and the Catholic party did not make much of a showing. In Prague itself the national democrats topped the list, the vote being: National democrats 38,933, national socialists 27,301, social democrats 26,498, people’s party (Catholic) 7,087; then there were several minor parties, including Germans.

A remarkable result of the elections was the demonstration, how artificial had been the German rule in many cities of Bohemia and Moravia. Brno and Olomouc, former strongholds of Germanism in Moravia, voted Czech two to one; in cities where formerly there was not a single Czech vote, there appeared now a Czech minority, strong enough to secure representation in the city council.

Municipal elections had no direct reference to the National Assembly and, the composition of the cabinet. Those are problems that will be settled by general elections in the fall. It is evident, however, that no party will be strong enough to form the government alone, and that some sort of a coalition will be necessary even in the future.

At the elections of June 15 both men and women voted. As voting is compulsory, the total vote cast was enormous. No disorders marked the casting of ballots.

Dr. Alice Masaryk, as president of the Czechoslovak Red Cross, has sent Miss Emma Novákova to America as her personal representative to carry a very vital message to the friends of Czechoslovakia in this country. Miss Novákova is accompanied by the writer of this brief article, who has just returned from several weeks of active work in child relief in the suffering country. Miss Novákova and Lieut. Peck are at present touring the United States to talk to Americans and carry to them the message from Dr. Alice Masaryk.

As soon after the armistice as it was possible to secure transportation, the American Relief Administration sent a Food Relief Mission into Czechoslovakia. This Mission was headed by Doctor Lionel Hutchinson, who had been for some time one of Mr. Herbert Hoover’s most trusted allies. This Mission has as its duty the distribution of food relief under the Congressional appropriation for the food relief of Europe.

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 The American Mission for Child Relief was headed by Capt. Joseph T. Shaw of New York and was composed of fifteen officers of the American Army of experience in the particular work to be done. This Mission organized the C. S. N. B. C. R. (Czechoslovakia National Bureau for Child Relief), the first work of which was to unite the various relief organizations which already existed.. These were several in number, each representing a different religion or political party. Under the head of the C. S. N. B. C. R. the president of the Czechoslovak Red Cross and the leading officers of the other relief organizations worked in harmony and in a very short time the C. S. N. B. C. R. had reopened the war kitchens and was prepared to feed as many children as there were supplies to feed. Actual feeding began the first of May of this year.

In asmuch as supplies were very meager and transportation in appalling condition, it was necessary to make a thorough investigation of the food needs of the country before attempting any actual feeding. It was found after such careful investigation that there were in round numbers 1,000,000 children in Czechoslovakia who were suffering from malnutrition. In the city of Prague, for example, 82% of all children below the age of 14 years were suffering from diseases brought on by malnutrition, namely, tuberculosis, rickets and enemia. The death rate amongst the children was appalling, reaching in some districts, for example—Kladno, in the center of the mining district, about 66%.

The combined efforts of the C. S. N. B. C. R. with all of the other organizations and the official assistance of the Czechoslovak government of 6,000,000 kronen per month (the American subvention was 12,000,000 kronen per month), totaled just enough to feed only 300,000 children. The other 700,000 near starving children it was impossible to reach. Though bad enough at the present moment in the middle of summer, the situation which will be faced by the country the coming winter is almost beyond human comprehension. The Congressional appropriation for Food Relief in Europe will soon be exhausted, leaving even the 300,000 children now being fed dependent up on some other agencies for their support.

Czechoslovakia looks to America in this crisis. When the writer left Prague but a few weeks ago he was charged by President Masaryk to carry the message to America that Czechoslovakia is not a beggar nation; that the country is rich in potential productivity—but at the present time the country finds itself in an emergency of a most extraordinary sort which is not of its own making and in which it needs outside assistance. It is an emergency comparable to the condition of a prosperous man in a neighborhood who has suffered the burning of his home. For a certain time he is dependent upon his neighbors for shelter and food and clothing. But receiving this assistance, he will soon rebuild his house, re-clothe himself and re-stock his larder. At the present time Czechoslovakia has an empty larder, because the Austrians, following a diabolically prepared plan for the starvation of an entire nation, had driven every cow, horse and sheep which could walk out of the country, before they surrendered; had burned all agricultural im-


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240 In women to pity rather than to aspire, A little I will speak. I love thee then Not only for thy body packed with sweet Of all this world, that cup of brimming June, That jar of violet wine set in the air, That palest rose sweet in the night of life; Nor for that stirring bosom all besieged By drowsing lovers, or thy perilous hair; Nor for that face that might indeed provoke Invasion of old cities; no, nor all Thy freshness stealing on me like strange sleep/99

Winsor’s hand tightened on Hugh’s arm, and tl two boys stood almost rigid listening to the your voice, which was trembling with emotion, rich wi passion:

“ ‘Not only for this do I love thee, but Because Infinity upon thee broods; And thou are full of whispers and of shadows* Thou meanest what the sea has striven to say So long, and yearned up the cliffs to tell; Thou art what all the winds have uttered not, What the still night suggesteth to the heart. Thy voice is like to music heard ere birth, Some spirit lute touched on a spirit sea; Thy face remembered is from other worlds, It has been died for, though I know not when, It has been sung of, though I know not where/ *

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 plements which could be gathered together; had eaten or destroyed all grain seed which could have been used for the next year’s crops; and before all this of course had drafted the entire effective manhood of the nation into the hated Austrian army. It is in this emergency that Czechoslovakia finds itself, and it is in this emergency that she appeals to her neighbors to assist in the rebuilding of her home and the restocking of her larder.

It is not only the president and leaders of Czechoslovakia who look to America, but throughout the nation the visitor at the present time is impressed with the gratitude of the people towards America. It is safe to say that there are more American flags in Prague, the capitol of Czechoslovakia, than there are in Washington. In all of the stores are hung the pictures of President Masaryk and President Wilson. The chief railroad station of the city which was formerly known as “Francis Joseph Station” is now called “Wilson Station.”

The American Mission after its investigation came to the conclusion and so reported to Mr. Hoover, who is everywhere proclaimed with President Wilson as the savior of the nation, that the Czechoslovak people were a nation which challenged our attention, commanded our respect and deserved our utmost support.

This is not a commercial story, or it would be very easy and pleasurable to tell of the ceramic industry, of the objets d’art industry and metal work, of the glassware, garnet jewelry, bead-work, laces and embroideries, in which these people excel. No commercial authority has any fear for the industrial or commercial future of the country as soon as the present terrible emergency has been safely got over.

One needs but to mention Kubelík, Kocián, Hermann, Destin and Cavan to conjure up a vision of the musical artistry of Czechoslovakia. One needs only to mention Dvořák, Smetana and perhaps Friml amongst the composers who are rapidly supplanting the heavy Teutonic music that has been forced upon our senses over the last thirty years to realize that the musical perfection of Czechoslovakia is firmly intrenched. No one can sit in the magnificent Opera House on the banks of the Vltava River in Prague and read the inscription over the stage “From a Nation to Itself” and fail to feel the inspiration of this place. It is in this Opera House which was builded by the small subscriptions of the common people, that the spirit of the “warriors of right” has been kept alive. The Austrians never permitted public gatherings to discuss political affairs, but in the language of music the Bohemians met and communed and kept alive their magnificent traditions. It was the one language which Austrian secret service with all its efficiency could not understand.

One has only to hear a rendition of “Má Vlast” or “Libuše” to kowknow [sic] that in dealing with the Czechoslovak people we are dealing with a people who possess the saving grace of Soul—a soul which 300 years of unspeakable oppression has been unable to kill.

Dr. Alice G. Masaryk in her official capacity as president of the Czechoslovak Red Cross has appointed Mrs. Charles Motak of 1342 Second avenue, New York, as her personal representative in America. Mrs. Motak will at all times be prepared to receive requests for information or offers of assistance in regard to the relief work covered by the Alice Masaryk Fund, as well as other Czechoslovak Red Cross activities in this country.

The very important relief work has at last been put on a sound business basis and the treasurers who will now handle the money and receive and acknowledge subscriptions to the Fund are both well known and universally trusted friends of Czechoslovakia. These treasurers have been appointed with Dr. Alice G. Masaryk’s approval and are:

Mr. Thomas Čapek, President, Bank of Europe, New York City.

Mr. Michael Bosak, President, Bosak State Bank, Scranton, Pa.

Delegates from 65 Protestant churches, using the Czechoslovak language, met in Chicago on June 25 and 26. Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, Congregational and Reformed churches were represented. An organization was formed under the name “Czechoslovak Evangelical Union of America” which will devote its energies at the present time especially to the support of war orphans;; [sic]it will also favor all efforts for deeper religious life among the liberated people. It was announced that the Presbyterians were sending Joseph Křenek of Silver Lake, Minn., as fraternal delegate to the Evangelical Church of the Brethren, and that the Baptists were sending as their delegate Václav Králíček of Chicago. Václav Vaněk of Chicago was elected first president of Evangelical Union.


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102 puts her on his prancing steed and beats it for the tall timber. Keats is n’t very plain about what happened there, but I suspect the worst. Anyhow, the knight woke up the next morning with an awful rotten taste in his mouth.”

“Smack for Larry. Your turn, Carl. Who wrote The West Wind’?”

“You can’t get me on that boy Masefield, Pudge. I know all his stuff. There isn’t any story; it’s just about the west wind, but it’s a goddamn good poem. It’s the cat’s pajamas.”

“You said it, Carl,” Hugh chimed in, “but I like ‘Sea Fever’ better.

“I must go down to the seas again, To the lonely sea and the sky. ...

Gosh! that’s hot stuff. August, 1914’’s a peach, too.”

“Yeah,” agreed Larry languidly; “I got a great kick when the prof read that in class. Masefield’s all right. I wish we had more of his stuff and less of Milton. Lord Almighty, how I hate Milton! What th’ hell do they have to give us that tripe for?”

“Oh, let’s get going,” Freddy pleaded, running a nervous hand through his mouse-colored hair. “Shoot a question, Pudge.”

“All right, Freddy.” Pudge tried to smile wickedly but succeeded only in looking like a beam-


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 turbed by the Fan invasion, and laze their lives away like lotus-eaters. Their slaves work their large plantations, and bring up to them magnificent yams, ready prepared agooma, sweet-potatoes, papaw, &c., not forgetting that delicacy Odeaka cheese; this is not an exclusive inspiration of theirs, for the M'pongwe and the Benga use it as well. It is made from the kernel of the wild mango, a singularly beautiful tree of great size and stately spread of foliage. I can compare it only in appearance and habit of growth to our Irish, or evergreen, oak, but it is an idealisation of that fine tree. Its leaves are a softer, brighter, deeper green, and in due season (August) it is covered—not ostentatiously like the real mango, with great spikes of bloom, looking each like a gigantic head of mignonette—but with small yellow-green flowers tucked away under the leaves, filling the air with a soft sweet perfume, and then falling on to the bare shaded ground beneath to make a deep-piled carpet. I do not know whether it is a mango tree at all, for I am no botanist: but anyhow the fruit is rather like that of the mango in external appearance, and in internal still more so, for it has a disproportionately large stone. These stones are cracked, and the kernel taken out. The kernels are spread a short time in the shade to dry; then they are beaten up into a pulp with a wooden pestle, and the pulp put into a basket lined carefully with plantain leaves and placed in the sun, which melts it up into a stiff mass. The basket is then removed from the sun and stood aside to cool. When cool, the cheese can be turned out in shape, and can be kept long time if it is wrapped round with leaves and a cloth, and hung up inside the house. Its appearance is that of almond rock, and it is cut easily with a knife; but at any period of its existence, if it is left in the sun it melts again rapidly into an oily mass.

The natives use it as a seasoning in their cookery, stuffing fish and plantains with it and so on, using it also in the preparation of a sort of sea-pie they make with meat and fish. To make this, a thing well worth doing, particularly with hippo or other coarse meat, reduce the wood fire to embers, and make plantain leaves into a sort of bag, or cup; small pieces of the meat should then be packed in layers with red pepper and


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 *Chu Kobutsu ware, 271.
 * Chūbei, Agano, potters of several generations, 323.
 * Chūzaemon, Fukuda, potter, 109.
 * Chūzaemon, Higuchi, potter, 118.
 * Chūzū, Agano, potter, 323.
 * Civilisation, introduction, 2.
 * Cloisonné. See Enamel.
 * Cochin China ware, 214.
 * Colours (pigments and enamels), Mohammedan blue of Chinese porcelain, 23; in Hizen porcelain, 68–70, 74, 82, 87, 96, 103; in Satsuma faience, 150, 163; substitution of pigments for enamels, 166, 167, 296, 391; in Awata faience, 189; in Kutani ware, 238; in Owari porcelain, 293. See also Decoration, Glaze.
 * Comb pattern, 98.
 * Composition, porcelain: Hizen stone, 58, 65; Hizen, 72, 73; Satsuma, 156; Kyōtō, 234; various, 234, 407–409; Kaga, 241–244; Owari, 287, 288, 291; Nagato, 346; Awaji, 353; Aizu, 395; Ota, 406.
 * Faience: Satsuma, 153, 156, 157; Kyōtō, 203, 232; Kaga, 242–244; Shigaraki clay, 370; Makuzu, 405; various, 409.
 * Chinese cobalt blue, 69.
 * Crackle, in Arita and Okawachi porcelain, 128; in Satsuma faience, 133, 146, 149; Ninsei's faience, 183.
 *
 * , keramic, of dolmen pottery, 3, 4; Shonzui's style, 23; Korean, 47–50; Hawthorn pattern, 78; wealth of designs of Old Japan, 79, 80; figure subjects, 81, 104, 202; of Old Japan not characteristic, 83, 120–122, 132; devices in Arita porcelain, 90; lacquer, 91–94, 198, 281, 326; paste, 94; of Okawachi porcelain, 96–98; comb pattern, 98; of Hirado or Mikawachi porcelain, 103–106; on Hizen egg-shell porcelain, 110; character of Arita porcelain, 122; of old and new Satsuma faience, 134, 143, 146, 149, 167; of early Kyōtō ware, 179; Ninsei's, 184, 186; Kenzan's, 190; influence of the Shijo school of pictorial art, 194, 211; style of the Dōhachi family, 194; style of the Kagiya family, 196; pâte-sur-pâte, 198, 200, 201; Rokubei's, 211; Zengoro's, 221, 224; of Rengetsu ware, 231; of Kutani ware, 238–241; Hachiroemon's Akaji-kinga, 249, 251; of the so-called Ohi ware, 258; of Oribe ware, 275; of Owari porcelain, 292, 295–297; of Mino porcelain, 303; of Yatsushiro ware, 322; distemper painting of Fukakusa ware, 327; of Odo ware, 348, 349; of Awaji ware, 354, 355; of Koto porcelain, 371; modern surface, 388–392; of Sōma ware, 396; "grains-of-rice," 419; Satsuma à jour, 421; modern under the glaze, 423. See also Blue under the glaze, Colours, Enamel, Glaze, Modelling.
 * Delft faience, imitation of Hizen porcelain, 85; in Japan, 86; Japanese imitation, 197, 360.
 * Denzo, potter, 401.
 * Diraku Zengoro, potter, 188.
 * Distemper painting on Fukakusa ware, 327.
 * Dōhachi, Takahashi, potters of four generations, 193; decorative style, 194.
 * Dolmen pottery, 2; decoration, 3–5; similarity to ancient Cyprus ware, 4.
 * Dōmi, amateur potter, 178.
 * Dōniu, Tanaka, potter, 33, 36.


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ball field, with the cry of “Wood, freshmen, wood!” ringing down the line. Hugh was always one of the first freshmen to break from the line in his eagerness to get wood. In an incredibly short time he and his classmates had found a large quantity of old lumber, empty boxes, rotten planks, and not very rotten gates. When a light was applied to the clumsy pile of wood, the flames leaped up quickly—some one al¬ ways seemed to have a supply of kerosene ready— and revealed the excited upper-classmen sitting on the bleachers. “Dance, freshmen, dance!” Then the freshmen danced around the fire, hold¬ ing hands and spreading into an ever widening cir¬ cle as the fire crackled and the flames leaped up¬ ward. Slowly, almost impressively, the upper¬ classmen chanted: “Round the fire, the freshmen go, Freshmen go, Freshmen go; Round the fire the freshmen go To cheer Sanford.”

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72 less than an hour after the first cry of “Peerade!” the men were back in their rooms, once more study¬ ing, talking, or playing cards.

It was the smoker rallies, though, that Hugh found the most thrilling, especially the last one be¬ fore the final game of the season, the “big game” with Raleigh College. There were 1123 students in Sanford, and more than 1000 were at the rally. A rough platform had been built at one end of the gymnasium. On one side of it sat the band, on the other side the Glee Club—and before it the mass of students, smoking cigarettes, corn-cob pipes, and, occasionally, a cigar. The “smokes” had been fur¬ nished free by a local tobacconist; so everybody smoked violently and too much. In half an hour it was almost impossible to see the ceiling through the dull blue haze, and the men in the rear of the gym¬ nasium saw the speakers on the platform dimly through a wavering mist.

The band played various Sanford songs, and everybody sang. Occasionally Wayne Gifford, the cheer-leader, leaped upon the platform, raised a megaphone to his mouth, and shouted, “A regular cheer for Sanford—a regular cheer for Sanford.” Then he lifted his arms above his head, flinging the megaphone aside with the same motion, and waited tense and rigid until the students were on their feet. Suddenly he turned into a mad dervish, twisting, bending, gesticulating, leaping, running back and


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74 Away whirled the megaphone, and he went through exactly the same performance that he had used be¬ fore in conducting the regular cheer. Gifford looked like an inspired madman, but he knew ex¬ actly what he was doing. The students cheered lustily, so lustily that some of them were hoarse the next day. They continued to yell after the cheer was completed, ceasing only when Gifford signaled for silence.

Then there were speeches by each member of the team, all enthusiastically applauded, and finally the speech of the evening, that of the coach, Jack Price. He was a big, compactly built man with regular features, heavy blond hair, and pale, cold blue eyes. He threw off his coat with a belligerent gesture, stuck his hands into his trousers pockets, and waited rigidly until the cheering had subsided. Then he began:

“Go ahead and yell. It’s easy as hell to cheer here in the gym; but what are you going to do Sat¬ urday afternoon ?”

His voice was sharp with sarcasm, and to the; shouts of “Yell! Fight!” that came from all over the gymnasium, he answered, “Yeah, maybe—| maybe.”

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 *Dōraka, Tanaka, potter, 36.
 * Dosen, Irie, potter, 219.
 * Dōsuke, Ban, potter, 346.
 *
 * . See Seibei Yahyō.
 * Effigies on the dolmens, 5.
 * Ehime Prefecture. See Iyo, Sanuki.
 * Eikichi, Honda, potter, 246.
 * Eiraku, mark and name used by Zengoro, 220, 221; family name of his descendants, 224.
 * Eisen, amateur potter, manufactures Kyōtō porcelain, 210.
 * Eisuke, Nagahara, potter, 339.
 * Enamel keramic decoration, first use on Japanese porcelain, 57; Chinese, 62; development at Arita, 61, 63; process and materials at Arita, 74; of Old Japan, 79, 80; varieties in Arita and Okawachi porcelain, 126; modern substitution of pigments, 129, 166, 167, 296, 391; use on Satsuma faience, 142, 145, 146; beginning of faience decoration, 180; Shubei's, 216; on Kutani ware, 238–241; on so-called Ohi ware, 258; on Owari porcelain, 295; cloisonné, 297–299; on Koto porcelain, 371. See also Decoration.
 * Enshiu. See Tōtomi.
 * Enshiu-shigaraki ware, 369.
 * Ezaiemon, Fukagawa, potter, 112; and the Kōran-sha, 113.
 *
 * , Korean, 46, 49–53; process, 160–164; mosaics, 386, 387; modern decoration under the glaze, 391; composition of various kinds, 409; Japanese primacy, 413.
 * Chikuzen: Takatori, 314–318; Sōhichi, 320.
 * Higo: minor wares, 322; Yatsushiro, 322–325.
 * Hizen: early Arita, 54; early Mikawachi, 100; Hikiba, 108.
 * Kaga : Suizaka, 236; composition, 242–244; Wakasugi, 246, 251; revived Kutani, 248–251; Hachiroe, 249, 251; Ohi, 255–258; so-called Ohi, 258.
 * Koratsu: earliest, 308; imitation of Seto, 309; development under Korean influences, 310, 311; presentation ware, 311.
 * Kyōtō: Raku, 32–38, 386; early, 179, 187; art and influence of Ninsei, 180–186; beginning of enamelled decoration, 181; identification, 184, 189, 204; coloured ware, 184, 212; Awata potters and wares, 187–204; modelled, 196; imitation of Delft, 197; pâte-sur-pâte decoration, 198–201; lacquer decoration, 198; composition, 203, 232; comparison of Awata and Iwakura wares, 204–206; and Satsuma faience, 206, 207; Mizoro, 208; Kyōmizu ware and potters, 209–213; Mokubei's imitations, 214; Zengoro's ware, 220, 223, 224; Kanzan's ware, 227; physical character, 233.
 * Owari and Mino: Seto, of Tōshiro and his descendants, 265–272; later Seto, 272–274, 278; Oribe, 275; Shino, 276; Gempin, 276; Mifukai, 278; Shuntai, 279; Toyōsuke, 281; counterfeit Satsuma, 299; Setōsuke, 300; early Mino, 301; polychrome glaze, 302.
 * Satsuma: Occidental reputation, 133; character of old and new, 133–135, 146–152, 166–168; Chōsa, and other


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 ** coloured, 136–139, 152, 168–170; origin of "Satsuma ware," 140; production of enamelled, 142–146, 152; identification, 151, 166–168; hybrid, 151, 166; Same, 153; composition, 153, 156, 157; Genriu, 157; modern conditions and methods, 158–166; imitation, 168, 299; scarcity of genuine "old Satsuma," 168; inferior, 171; compared with Kyōtō faience, 206, 207; modern à jour decoration, 421.
 * Yedo: first, 384; Imado, 385; Raku mosaics, 386; modelled, 387; Yedo Banko, 387; Yedo Oniwa, 387; Kōren, 393.
 * Miscellaneous: early Arita blue-and-white, 25; Fukakusa, 326; Shikase-yama, 327; Bizen, 328–333; Shidoro, 333–335; Izumo, 335–338; Sanuki, 341–343; Hagi, 344; modern Nagato, 347; Suo, 347; Odo, 348–350; Awaji, 351–354; Minato, 354; Asahi, 355; Akahada, 357; original Banko, 358–360; Yusetsu Banko, 360–365; Zeze, 366–368; Shigaraki, 369; Maiko, 373; Akashi, 373, 374; Oniwa or Kairaku-en, 375; Kōbe, 379; Kosobe, 381; Sakurai, 382; Kikko, 383; Takahara, 383; Naniwa, 383; Aizu, 394; Sōma, 396; Kishi Raku, 397; Tachikui, 399; Sasayama, 399; Iga, 401; Agano, 402–404; Ueno, 404; Makuzu, 405, 416; Mito, 406. See also Keramics, Porcelain.
 * Fine arts, influence of the tea ceremonial, 17; influence of tradition and the antique, 53, 410; influence of Tokugawa epoch, 88. See also Keramics.
 * Fuji family. See Hayashi.
 * Fujikata Yasojō, potter, 254.
 * Fujina ware, 336–339.
 * Fujiwara Masakage, Katō Shirozaemon's real name, 263.
 * Fukagawa family, potters, 112.
 * Fukakusa ware, original unglazed, 326; Koemon's improvements, 327; glazed ware, 327.
 * Fukami family, potters, 113, 114.
 * Fuka-umi Obasen, Korean potter in Hizen, 57.
 * Fukuda family, potters, 108, 109.
 * Fukuoka Prefecture. See Buzen.
 * Fukushima family, potters, 115.
 * Fukushima Prefecture. See Aizu, Iwaki.
 * Fumai, chief of Izumo, patron of keramics, 337.
 * Funaki family, potters, 336, 338.
 * Furōken Kamefu, potter, 227.
 * Furuse, potter, 346.
 * Furuta Oribe, master of the tea ceremonial, originates Oribe ware, 275.
 * Fushimi, Yamashiro, Fukakusa ware, 326.
 * Fusuki, Funaki, potter, 338.
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 * . See Takenouchi Kinshū.
 * Gembei, Takayama, potter, 218.
 * Gempin, fugitive Chinese noble, his ware, 276.
 * Genjiro. See Aitaro.
 * Genjūro, amateur potter, 178.
 * Gen-no-jō, Fukuda, potter, 108.
 * Genriu. See Ono.
 * Gensuke, Kawara, potter, 144, 158.
 * Gentaro, Agano, potter, 324.
 * Gifu Prefecture. See Mino.
 * Gihei, potter, 247.
 * Giokozan. See Jūkan.


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 the best thing you have ever done" said Lord Henry languidly. "You must certainly send it next year to the Grosvenor. The Academy is too large and too vulgar. The Grosvenor is the only place" "I don't think I will senn it any where," he answered, tossing his head back in that odd way to make his friends laugh at him at Oxford "no: I won't send it any where. And yet you are quite right about it. It is my best work." Lord Henry elevates his eyebrow, and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curls up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy opium tainted cigarette. "Not send it anywhere? my dear fellow why? Have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are! You do any thing in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away, It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men quite


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 jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion." "I know you will laugh at me," he replies, "but I really can't exhibit it I have put too much of yourself into it." Lord Henry stretches his long legs on the divan, and shook with laughter. "Yes: I knew you would laugh,but it is quite true, all the same." "Too much of yourself in it! Upon my word, Basil, I didn't know you were so vain, and I really can't see any resemblance between your rugged strong face, and your coal-black hair and this young adonis who looks as if he was made of ivory and rose leaves. Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus! and you- well of course you have an intelectual expression, and all that. But Beauty, real Beauty, ends where an intellctual expression begins. Intellectual is in itself an exaggeration and destroys the harmony of any face.The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.


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With what great care unceasing that child was watch’d and taught!

For him the noble Gunther caused teachers to be sought,

To rear him in all virtues befitting man’s estate.

Alas! how in his kinsfolk he found an evil fate!

In legends old, the story hath many a time been told,

Of how those gallant warriors lived in the days of old;

Worthy of praise, at all times, in good King Siegmund’s land.

The like did also Gunther and all his knightly band.

The kingdom of the Niblungs was under Siegfried’s sway—

Among his wealthy kinsfolk there was no wealthier aye—

And Schilbung’s warriors also, and all their goods and gold.

Well might the gallant warrior his head more highly hold.

The greatest of all treasures that ever hero won,

Save they that erst-time held it, the gallant knight did own;—

Which once upon a mountain  he wrested by his might;

He did to death to gain it full many a doughty knight.

He had his fill of honour; and had it not been so,

In justice to the hero one needs must own, I trow,

That he among the best was that e’er on horseback sat;

Men fear’d his strength of body; with reason did they that.


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 * 31. Rantau
 * An-tau
 * 晏斗
 * 32. Rasak
 * Ah-sa
 * 亞沙
 * 33. Senaweng
 * Lok thiu shak
 * 六條石
 * 34. Seremban
 * (i) Sai-lam-ban
 * 西林閩
 * (ii) Fu-yong
 * 芙蓉
 * 35. Setul
 * Lo-sa-tu
 * 老沙都
 * 36. Sikamat
 * Sio kam-mit
 * 小甘蜜
 * 37. Siliau
 * Sai-liau
 * 西料
 * 38. Sungei Pajam
 * Kong sang san-kai-cheong
 * 廣生新街場
 * 30. Sungei Raia
 * Sin-kai la-ya
 * 新街嗱也
 * 40. Tampin Ling-gi
 * Tam-pin leng-gi
 * 淡邊鄰宜
 * 41. Tanjong Ipoh
 * Tan-yong I-po
 * 丹蓉億波
 * 42. Temiang
 * Chan-yong-thau
 * 沉香肚
 * 43. Terachi
 * Ti-la-chi
 * 地嗱知
 * 44. Ulu Bernang
 * Bu-lau
 * 武盧
 * }
 * 30. Sungei Raia
 * Sin-kai la-ya
 * 新街嗱也
 * 40. Tampin Ling-gi
 * Tam-pin leng-gi
 * 淡邊鄰宜
 * 41. Tanjong Ipoh
 * Tan-yong I-po
 * 丹蓉億波
 * 42. Temiang
 * Chan-yong-thau
 * 沉香肚
 * 43. Terachi
 * Ti-la-chi
 * 地嗱知
 * 44. Ulu Bernang
 * Bu-lau
 * 武盧
 * }
 * 43. Terachi
 * Ti-la-chi
 * 地嗱知
 * 44. Ulu Bernang
 * Bu-lau
 * 武盧
 * }
 * 44. Ulu Bernang
 * Bu-lau
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 * 16. Lenggeng
 * Song-po
 * 宋波
 * 17. Liat
 * Fo-che thau
 * 火車頭
 * 18. Limbok
 * Lian-mok
 * 連莫
 * 19. Linsum
 * Leng-sam
 * 羚森
 * 20. Lobak
 * Lo-mak
 * 羅脉
 * 21. Mantin
 * San sa-tu
 * 新沙都
 * 22. Membah
 * Man-ma
 * 萬峇
 * 23. Merabah
 * Mit-ya-ma
 * 物也峇
 * 24. Nendol
 * Mit-tu
 * 蜜都
 * 25. Pantai
 * Pan-tei
 * 板低
 * 26. Paroi
 * Pa-mi
 * 傌尾
 * 27. Pengkalan Kempas
 * Leng-gi kong-hau
 * 鄰宜港口
 * 28. Perhentian Tinggi
 * Ship-thiu shak
 * 十條石
 * 29. Permatang Pasir
 * Pa-ma-tang pa-sia
 * 巴嗎燈巴賒
 * 30. Rahang
 * Thin-khau mi
 * 田溝尾
 * }
 * 25. Pantai
 * Pan-tei
 * 板低
 * 26. Paroi
 * Pa-mi
 * 傌尾
 * 27. Pengkalan Kempas
 * Leng-gi kong-hau
 * 鄰宜港口
 * 28. Perhentian Tinggi
 * Ship-thiu shak
 * 十條石
 * 29. Permatang Pasir
 * Pa-ma-tang pa-sia
 * 巴嗎燈巴賒
 * 30. Rahang
 * Thin-khau mi
 * 田溝尾
 * }
 * 29. Permatang Pasir
 * Pa-ma-tang pa-sia
 * 巴嗎燈巴賒
 * 30. Rahang
 * Thin-khau mi
 * 田溝尾
 * }
 * Thin-khau mi
 * 田溝尾
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 odeaka in between. The tops of the leaves are then tied together with fine tie-tie, and the bundle, without any saucepan of any kind, stood on the glowing embers, the cook taking care there is no flame. The meat is done, and a superb gravy formed, before the containing plantain leaves are burnt through—plantain leaves will stand an amazing lot in the way of fire. This dish is really excellent, even when made with boa constrictor, hippo, or crocodile. It makes the former most palatable; but of course it does not remove the musky taste from crocodile; nothing I know of will.

The Igalwa have been under missionary influence since 1874, when Dr. Nassau founded the mission station at Kangwe. To this influence they owe their very frequent ability to read and write, and maybe also their somewhat refined culture. Nevertheless, this influence has not permeated their social institutions much yet.

The great and important difference between the M'pongwe, Igalwa, and Ajumba fetish, and the fetish of those tribes round them, consists in their conception of a certain spirit called Mbuiri. They have, as is constant among the Bantu races of South-West Africa, a great god—the creator, a god who has made all things, and who now no longer takes any interest in the things he has created. Their name for this god is Anyambie, which when pronounced sounds to my ears like anlynlah—the I's being very weak,—the derivation of this name, however, is from Anyima a spirit, and Mbia, good. This god, unlike other forms of the creating god in fetish, has a viceroy or minister who is a god he has created, and to whom he leaves the government of affairs. This god is Mbuiri or Ombwiri, and this Ombwiri is of very high interest to the student of comparative fetish. He has never been, nor can he ever become, a man, i.e. be born as a man, but he can transfuse with his own personality that of human beings, and also the souls of all those things we white men regard as inanimate, such as rocks, trees, &c., in a similar manner.

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 colour white, but chalk white. There is another important point here, but it wants a volume to itself, so I must pass it. Mbuiri's appearance in a corporeal form denotes ill luck, not death to the seer, but misfortune of a severe and diffused character. The ruin of a trading enterprise, the destruction of a village or a family, are put down to Mbuiri's action. Yet he is not regarded as a malevolent god, a devil, but as an avenger, or punisher of sin; and the M'pongwe look on him as the Being to whom they primarily owe the good things and fortunes of this life, and as the Being who alone has power to govern the host of truly malevolent spirits that exist in nature.

The different instruments with which he works in the shaping of human destiny bear his name when in his employ. When acting by means of water, he is Mbuiri Aningo; when in the weather, Mbuiri Ngali; when in the forests, Mbuiri Ibaka; when in the form of a dwarf, Mbuiri Akkoa, and so on.

The great difference between Mbuiri and the lesser spirits is this:—the lesser spirits cannot incarnate themselves except through extraneous things; Mbuiri can, he can become visible without anything beyond his own will to do so. The other spirits must be in something to become visible. This is an extremely delicate piece of fetish which it took me weeks to work out. I think I may say another thing about Mbuiri, though I say it carefully, and that is, that among the M'pongwe and the tribe who are the parent tribe of the M'pongwe—the now rapidly dying out Ajumba, and their allied tribe the Igalwa—Mbuiri is a distinct entity, while among the neighbouring tribes he is a class, i.e. there are hundreds of Mbuiri or Ombwiri, one for every remarkable place or thing, such as rock, tree, or forest thicket, and for every dangerous place in a river. Had I not observed a similar state of affairs regarding Sasabonsum, a totally different kind of spirit on the Windward coast, I should have had even greater trouble than I had, in finding a key to what seemed at first a mass of conflicting details regarding this important spirit Mbuiri.

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 and that is that the souls of men exist before birth as well as after death. This is indeed, as far as I have been able to find out, a doctrine universally held by the West African tribes, but among the M'pongwe there is this modification in it, which agrees strangely well with the idea I found regarding reincarnated diseases, existent among the Okỹon tribes (pure negroes). The malevolent minor spirits are capable of being born with, what we will call, a man's soul, as well as going in with the man's soul during sleep. For example, an Olâgâ may be born with a man and that man will thereby be born mad; he may at any period of his life, given certain conditions become possessed by an evil spirit, Onlogho Abambo, Iniembe, Nkandada, and become mad, or ill; but if he is born mad, or sickly, one of the evil spirits such as an Olágâ or an Ibambo, the soul of a man that has not been buried properly, has been born with him.

The rest of the M'pongwe fetish is on broad lines common to other tribes, so I relegate it to the general collection of notes on fetish. M'pongwe jurisprudence is founded on the same ideas as those on which West African jurisprudence at large is founded, but it is so elaborated that it would be desecration to sketch it. It requires a massive monograph.


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 from the pure light in which he had been brought up. Thus united, they sent to the said Poundtext an invitation, or rather a summons, to attend a council at Tillietudlem. He remembered, however, that the door had an iron grate, and the Keep a dungeon, and resolved not to trust himself with his incensed colleagues. He therefore retreated, or rather fled, to Hamilton, with the tidings, that Burley, Macbriar, and Kettledrummle, were coming to Hamilton as soon as they could collect a body of Cameronians sufficient to overawe the rest of the army.

"And ye see," concluded Poundtext, with a deep sigh, "that they will then possess a majority in the council; for Langcale, though he has always passed for one of the honest and rational party, cannot be suitably, or preceesely, termed either fish, or flesh, or gude red-herring—whoever has the stronger party has Langcale."

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 * Mohamed Alsagoff's house at the Thomson Road end of Chancery Lane.
 * 9. Changi
 * Chiang-gi
 * 宜章
 * 10. Chua Chu kang
 * (i) Chua-chu kang
 * 港厝蔡
 * 'Chua-chu creek'
 * (ii) Kang-kiaⁿ
 * 仔港
 * 'Little creek.'
 * 11. Fort Canning Hill
 * Ong-ke suaⁿ
 * Wong-ka shan
 * 山家王
 * 'Government Hill,' as it formerly was.
 * 12. Government Hill
 * (i) Toa-ong suaⁿ
 * 山王大
 * (i) & (ii) 'Governor's Hill,'
 * (ii) Peng-thau shan
 * 山頭兵
 * 13. Holland Road
 * Hue-hng au
 * 後園花
 * 'Behind the flower-garden.'
 * 14. Jurong
 * Yu-long
 * 廊油
 * 15. Kampong Bharu
 * (i) Sin kam-kong
 * San kam-pong
 * 公監新
 * (i) 'New Kampong.'
 * (ii) Sin suaⁿ
 * 山新
 * (ii) 'New hill or plantation.'
 * 16. Keppel Harbour
 * Sit-lat mng
 * Shek-lat mun
 * 門叻寔
 * 'Singapore gate.'
 * Chha-tin ma-thau
 * 頭碼甸渣
 * 'Jardine's wharf' i.e. the Borneo wharf.'
 * 17. Kranji
 * Ka-lan-ji
 * 宜蘭加
 * 18. Mandi
 * Man-li
 * 唎萬
 * 19. Morai
 * Meng-sun kang
 * 港順明
 * 'Meng-sun creek.'
 * }
 * (i) Sin kam-kong
 * San kam-pong
 * 公監新
 * (i) 'New Kampong.'
 * (ii) Sin suaⁿ
 * 山新
 * (ii) 'New hill or plantation.'
 * 16. Keppel Harbour
 * Sit-lat mng
 * Shek-lat mun
 * 門叻寔
 * 'Singapore gate.'
 * Chha-tin ma-thau
 * 頭碼甸渣
 * 'Jardine's wharf' i.e. the Borneo wharf.'
 * 17. Kranji
 * Ka-lan-ji
 * 宜蘭加
 * 18. Mandi
 * Man-li
 * 唎萬
 * 19. Morai
 * Meng-sun kang
 * 港順明
 * 'Meng-sun creek.'
 * }
 * 宜蘭加
 * 18. Mandi
 * Man-li
 * 唎萬
 * 19. Morai
 * Meng-sun kang
 * 港順明
 * 'Meng-sun creek.'
 * }
 * 19. Morai
 * Meng-sun kang
 * 港順明
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 honest Mr Poundtext, who sighed deeply, as he considered the dangers in which he was placed betwixt unreasonable adversaries amongst themselves and the common enemy from without. Morton exhorted him to patience, temper, and composure; informed him of the good hope he had of negotiating for peace and indemnity through means of Lord Evandale, and made out to him a very fair prospect that he should again return to his old parchment-bound Calvin, his evening pipe of tobacco, and his noggin of inspiring ale, providing always he would afford his strong support and concurrence to the measures which he, Morton, had taken for a general pacification. Thus backed and comforted, Poundtext resolved magnanimously to await the coming of the Cameronians.

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 severe in aspect, morose and jealous in communication, haughty of heart, and confident, as men who believed that the pale of salvation was open for them exclusively; that all other Christians, however slight were the shades of difference of doctrine from their own, were in fact little better than outcasts and reprobates. These men entered the presbyterian camp, rather as dubious and suspicious allies, or possibly antagonists, than as men who were heartily embarked in the same cause, and exposed to the same dangers. Burley made no private visit to his colleagues, and held no communication with them on the subject of the public affairs, otherwise than by sending a dry invitation to them to attend a meeting of the general council for that evening.

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 tended by those who convoked the council. The first question was put by Macbriar, the sharp eagerness of whose zeal urged him to the van on all occasions. He desired to know by whose authority the malignant, called Lord Evandale, had been freed from the doom of death justly denounced against him.

"By my authority and Mr Morton's," replied Poundtext, who, besides being anxious to give his companion a good opinion of his courage, confided heartily in his support, and, moreover, had much less fear of encountering one of his own profession, and who confined himself to the weapons of theological controversy, in which Poundtext feared no man, than of entering into debate with the stern homicide Balfour.

"And who, brother," said Kettledrummle, "who gave you commission to interpose in such a high matter?matter?" [sic]

"The tenor of our commission," answered Poundtext, "gives us authority to bind and to loose. If Lord Evandale was just-


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July 22nd, 1895.—Left Kangwe. The four Ajumba did not turn up early in the morning as had been arranged, but arrived about eight, in pouring rain, so decided to wait until two o'clock, which will give us time to reach their town of Arevooma before nightfall, and may perhaps give us a chance of arriving there dry. At two we start. Good Mme. Jacot comes down to Andande beach to see us off, accompanied by Edmond; M. Jacot, I am sorry to say, has a bad touch of fever, but insists that he will be all right to-morrow; and as he is a person whom one automatically believes in, and also is a disciple of Kühne, one can do nothing; so I go, though feeling anxious for Mme. Jacot. I myself have an awful headache, complicated by the conviction that I am in for a heavy bout of fever: but as an Aduma canoe is one of the most comfortable things in Africa, or out of it, this is no cause for delay. We go down river on the Kangwe side of Lembarene Island, make a pause in front of the Igalwa slave town, which is on the Island and nearly opposite the Fan town of Fula on the mainland bank, our motive being to get stores of yam and plantain—and magnificent specimens of both we get—and then, when our


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 ly doomed to die by the voice of one of our number, he was of a surety lawfully redeemed from death by the warrant of two of us."

"Go to, go to," said Burley, "we know your motives; it was to send that silkworm—that gilded trinket—that embroidered trifle of a Lord, to bear terms of peace to the tyrant."

"It was so," replied Morton, who saw his companion begin to flinch before the fierce eye of Balfour—"it was so; and what then?—Are we to plunge the nation in endless war, in order to pursue schemes which are equally wild, wicked, and unattainable?"

"Hear him!" said Balfour; "he blasphemeth."

"It is false,” said Morton; "they blaspheme who pretend to expect miracles and neglect the use of the human means with which Providence has blessed them. I repeat it—Our avowed object is the re-establishment of peace on fair and honourable


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 terms of security to our religion and our liberty. We disclaim any desire to tyrannize over those of others."

The debate would now have run higher than ever, but they were interrupted by intelligence that the Duke of Monmouth had commenced his march towards the west, and was already advanced half way from Edinburgh. This news silenced their divisions for the moment, and it was agreed that the next day should be held as a fast of general humiliation for the sins of the land; that the Reverend Mr Poundtext should preach to the army in the morning, and Kettledrummle in the afternoon; that neither should touch upon any topics of schism or of division, but animate, the soldiers to resist to the blood, like brethren in the good cause. This healing overture having been agreed to, the moderate party, ventured upon another proposal, confiding that it would have the support of Langcale, who looked extremely blank at the news which


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 they had just received, and might be supposed reconverted to moderate measures. It was to be presumed, they said, that since the King had not entrusted the command of his forces upon the present occasion to any of their active oppressors, but, on the contrary, had employed a man of gentle temper, and of a disposition favourable to their cause, there must be some better intention entertained towards them than they had, yet experienced. They contended, that it was not only prudent but necessary to ascertain, from a communication with the Duke of Monmouth, whether he was not charged with some secret instructions in their favour. This could only be learned by dispatching an envoy to his army.

"And who will undertake the task?" said Burley, evading a proposal too reasonable to be openly resisted—"Who will go up to their camp, knowing that Grahame of Claverhouse hath sworn to hang up whomsoever we shall dispatch towards


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 * 20. Pandan Besar
 * Toa pan lan
 * Tai pan-lan
 * 蘭班大
 * 21. Pandan kechil
 * Sio pan lan
 * Siu pan-lan
 * 蘭班小
 * 22. Pasir Panjang
 * Hong-heng suaⁿ
 * 山興豐
 * 'Hong Heng's plantation.'
 * 23. Ponggol
 * Phong-hut
 * 佛帮
 * 24. Pulau Brani
 * San chü-shek tui-min
 * 面對錫煮新
 * 'Opposite the new tin smelting.'
 * Chha-tin ma-thau tui-min
 * 面對頭碼甸渣
 * 'Opposite Jardine's jetty.'
 * 25. Pulau Obin
 * Chioh-suaⁿ
 * 山石
 * 'Stone hill.'
 * 26. Pulau Tekong
 * Ti-kong
 * 公地
 * 27. Selitar
 * Chan-chu kang
 * 港厝會
 * 'Chan-chu creek.'
 * 28. Serangoon
 * Au-kang
 * 港後
 * 'Back creek.'
 * 29. Serimbun
 * Bu-kho kang
 * 港可武
 * 'Bu-kho creek.'
 * 30. Siglap
 * Ci-lap
 * 凹義
 * 31. Tanjong Gol
 * Tanjong gu-thau
 * 頭牛戎丹
 * 32. Tanjong Katong
 * Ka-tong
 * 冬加
 * 33. Tanjong Rhu
 * (i) Tan-jiong gu
 * 牛戎丹
 * (ii) Sha-tsui
 * 嘴沙
 * (ii) 'Sand spit.'
 * }
 * 港後
 * 'Back creek.'
 * 29. Serimbun
 * Bu-kho kang
 * 港可武
 * 'Bu-kho creek.'
 * 30. Siglap
 * Ci-lap
 * 凹義
 * 31. Tanjong Gol
 * Tanjong gu-thau
 * 頭牛戎丹
 * 32. Tanjong Katong
 * Ka-tong
 * 冬加
 * 33. Tanjong Rhu
 * (i) Tan-jiong gu
 * 牛戎丹
 * (ii) Sha-tsui
 * 嘴沙
 * (ii) 'Sand spit.'
 * }
 * 32. Tanjong Katong
 * Ka-tong
 * 冬加
 * 33. Tanjong Rhu
 * (i) Tan-jiong gu
 * 牛戎丹
 * (ii) Sha-tsui
 * 嘴沙
 * (ii) 'Sand spit.'
 * }
 * (ii) Sha-tsui
 * 嘴沙
 * (ii) 'Sand spit.'
 * }
 * (ii) Sha-tsui
 * 嘴沙
 * (ii) 'Sand spit.'
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 them, in revenge of the death of the young man his nephew?"

"Let that be no obstacle," said Morton; "I will with pleasure encounter any risk attached to the bearer of your errand."

"Let him go," said Balfour, apart to Macbriar; "our councils will be well rid of his presence."

The motion, therefore, received no contradiction even from those who were expected to have been most active in opposing it, and it was agreed that Henry Morton should go to the camp of the Duke of Monmouth in order to discover upon what terms the insurgents would be admitted to treat with him. As soon as his errand was made known, several of the more moderate party. joined in requesting him to make terms upon the footing of the petition entrusted to Lord Evandale's hands; for the approach of the King's army spread a general trepidation, by no means allayed by the high tone assumed


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 by the Cameronians, which had so little to support it, excepting their own headlong zeal. With these instructions, and with Cuddie as his attendant, Morton set forth towards the royal camp at all the risks which attend those who assume the office of mediator during the heat of civil discord.

Morton had not proceeded six or seven miles before he perceived that he was on the point of falling in with the van of the royal forces; and, as he ascended a height, saw all the roads in the neighbourhood occupied by armed men marching in great order towards Bothwell-muir, an open common, on which they proposed to encamp for that evening, at the distance of about two miles from the Clyde, on the farther side of which river the army of the insurgents was encamped. He gave. himself up to the first advanced guard of cavalry which he met, and communicated his wish to obtain access to the Duke of Mon-


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 canoe is laden with them to an extent that would get us into trouble under the Act if it ran here, off we go again. Every canoe we meet shouts us a greeting, and asks where we are going, and we say "Rembwé"—and they say "What! Rembwé!"—and we say "Yes, Rembwé," and paddle on. I lay among the luggage for about an hour, not taking much interest in the Rembwé or anything else, save my own headache; but this soon lifted, and I was able to take notice, just before we reached the Ajumba's town, called Arevooma. The sandbanks stretch across the river here nearly awash, so all our cargo of yams has to be thrown overboard on to the sand, from which they can be collected by being waded out to. The canoe, thus lightened, is able to go on a little further, but we are soon hard and fast again, and the crew have to jump out and shove her off about once every five minutes, and then to look lively about jumping back into her again, as she shoots over the cliffs of the sandbanks.

When we reach Arevooma, I find it is a very prettily situated town, on the left-hand bank of the river—clean and well kept, and composed of houses built on the Igalwa and M'pongwe plan with walls of split Bamboo and a palm thatch roof. I own I did not much care for these Ajumbas on starting, but they are evidently going to be kind and pleasant companions. One of them is a gentlemanly-looking man, who wears a gray shirt; another looks like a genial Irishman who has accidentally got black, very black; he is distinguished by wearing a singlet; another is a thin, elderly man, notably silent; and the remaining one is a strapping, big fellow, as black as a wolf's mouth, of gigantic muscular development, and wearing quantities of fetish charms hung about him. The two first mentioned are Christians; the other two pagans, and I will refer to them by their characteristic points, for their honourable names are awfully alike when you do hear them, and, as is usual with Africans, rarely used in conversation.

Gray Shirt places his house at my disposal, and both he and his exceedingly pretty wife do their utmost to make me comfortable. The house lies at the west end of the town, It is one room inside, but has, I believe, a separate cooking shed. In the verandah in front is placed a table, an ivory bundle chair


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 * 34. Teluk Blanga
 * Sit-lat mng
 * Sai pak mun
 * 門北西
 * cf. 'Keppel Harbour':—Sai-pak mun means 'north-west gate.'
 * 35. Thomson Road Reservoir
 * (i) Chui-tham thau
 * 頭氹水
 * (i) 'Water pond head.'
 * (ii) Tai shui thong
 * 塘水大
 * (ii) 'Big water lake.'
 * 36. Tiong Bharu
 * O-chhai hing
 * 園菜芋
 * 'Taro vegetable garden.'
 * 37. Ulu Pandan
 * Sang-leng
 * 嶺雙
 * 'Two hills.'
 * 38. Wayang Satu
 * Toa pa-io
 * 窰吧大
 * 'Big swamp.' Pa-io is the Malay word 'paya' swamp.
 * colspan=5 style="text-align:center;" | III. Chinese names of Streets and Districts in Malacca
 * 1. Bandar Hilir
 * Ban-i-bit
 * Yi-bit
 * 萬怡蜜
 * 2. Bandar Kaba
 * (i) Ban-la ka-ba
 * 萬遮加峇
 * (ii) Khau-chheung kai
 * 球塲街
 * ii) "Khau" means 'ball' and "chheung" means 'area' or 'open space' and the name is given because the cricket-ground adjoins the street.
 * 3. Blacksmith Street
 * Kap-pan koi
 * Kap-pan kai
 * 甲板街
 * It is not clear why the name “Kap-pan street" should be given unless "Kap-pan-kai" is a corruption of or substitute for "Kap-ma kai" which would mean "box street." There are number of box-makers' shops in the street.
 * }
 * Yi-bit
 * 萬怡蜜
 * 2. Bandar Kaba
 * (i) Ban-la ka-ba
 * 萬遮加峇
 * (ii) Khau-chheung kai
 * 球塲街
 * ii) "Khau" means 'ball' and "chheung" means 'area' or 'open space' and the name is given because the cricket-ground adjoins the street.
 * 3. Blacksmith Street
 * Kap-pan koi
 * Kap-pan kai
 * 甲板街
 * It is not clear why the name “Kap-pan street" should be given unless "Kap-pan-kai" is a corruption of or substitute for "Kap-ma kai" which would mean "box street." There are number of box-makers' shops in the street.
 * }
 * ii) "Khau" means 'ball' and "chheung" means 'area' or 'open space' and the name is given because the cricket-ground adjoins the street.
 * 3. Blacksmith Street
 * Kap-pan koi
 * Kap-pan kai
 * 甲板街
 * It is not clear why the name “Kap-pan street" should be given unless "Kap-pan-kai" is a corruption of or substitute for "Kap-ma kai" which would mean "box street." There are number of box-makers' shops in the street.
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 and a gourd of water, and I am also treated to a calico tablecloth, and most thoughtfully screened off from the public gaze with more calico so that I can have my tea in privacy. After this meal, to my surprise Ndaka turns up. Certainly he is one of the very ugliest men—black or white—I have ever seen, and I fancy one of the best. He is now on a holiday from Kangwe, seeing to the settlement of his dead brother's affairs. The dead brother was a great man in Arevooma and a pagan, but Ndaka, the Christian Bible-reader, seems to get on perfectly with the family and is holding to-night a meeting outside his brother's house and comes with a lantern to fetch me to attend it. Of course I have to go, headache or no headache.

Most of the town was there, mainly as spectators. Ndaka and my two Christian boatmen manage the service between them, and what with the hymns and the mosquitoes the experience is slightly awful. We sit in a line in front of the house, which is brilliantly lit up—our own lantern on the ground before us acting as a rival entertainment to the house lamps inside for some of the best insect society in Africa, who after the manner of the insect world, insist on regarding us as responsible for their own idiocy in getting singed, and sting us in revenge, while we slap hard, as we howl hymns in the fearful Igalwa and M'pongwe way. Next to an English picnic, the most uncomfortable thing I know is an open-air service in this part of Africa. Service being over, Ndaka takes me over the house to show its splendours. The great brilliancy of its illumination arises from its being lit by two hanging lamps supplied by Messrs. Woermann at five dollars apiece and burning Devoe's patent paraffin oil in them. This is not an advertisement, because no other firm sells this type of lamp round here, neither can you get, all along the Coast, any other sort of paraffin oil. The most remarkable point about the house is the floor which is made of split, plaited bamboo, the like of which I have never before seen. It gives under your feet in an alarming way, being raised some three or four feet above the ground, and I am haunted by the fear that I shall go through it and give pain to myself, and great trouble to others before I could be got out. It is a beautiful piece of work-