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 we had never been born, they don't sit up very straight, and observe that we have brought it all upon ourselves. They don't even hope it will be a warning to us. But they come up softly; and shove their heads against us. If it is a cat, she stands on your shoulder, rumples your hair, and says, "Lor', I am sorry for you, old man," as plain as words can speak; and if it is a dog, he looks up at you with his big, true eyes, and says with them, "Well, you've always got me, you know. We'll go through the world together, and always stand by each other, won't we?"

He is very imprudent, a dog is. He never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or in the wrong, never bothers as to whether you are going up or down upon life's ladder, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him, and, come luck or misfortune, good repute or bad, honour or shame, he is going to stick to you, to comfort you, guard you, give his life for you, if need be—foolish, brainless, soulless dog!

Ah! old staunch friend, with your deep, clear eyes, and bright, quick glances, that take in all one has to say before one has time to speak it, do you know you are only an animal, and have no mind? Do you know that that dull-eyed, gin-sodden lout, leaning against the post out there, is immeasurably your intellectual


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 superior? Do you know that every little-minded, selfish scoundrel, who lives by cheating and tricking, who never did a gentle deed, or said a kind word, who never had a thought that was not mean and low, or a desire that was not base, whose every action is a fraud, whose every utterance is a lie; do you know that these crawling skulks (and there are millions of them in the world), do you know they are all as much superior to you as the sun is superior to rushlight, you honourable, brave-hearted, unselfish brute? They are, you know, and MEN are the greatest, and noblest, and wisest, and best Beings in the whole vast eternal Universe. Any man will tell you that.

Yes, poor doggie, you are very stupid, very stupid indeed, compared with us clever men, who understand all about politics and philosophy, and who know everything in short, except what we are, and where we came from, and whither we are going, and what everything outside this tiny world and most things in it are.

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 them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.

But there, the clever people are such a very insignificant minority that it really doesn't much matter if they are unhappy. So long as the foolish people can be made comfortable, the world, as a whole, will get on tolerably well.

Cats have the credit of being more worldly wise than dogs—of looking more after their own interests, and being less blindly devoted to those of their friends. And we men and women are naturally shocked at such selfishness. Cats certainly do love a family that has a carpet in the kitchen more than a family that has not; and if there are many children about, they prefer to spend their leisure time next door. But, taken altogether, cats are libelled. Make a friend of one, and she will stick to you through thick and thin. All the cats that I have had have been most firm comrades. I had a cat once that used to follow me about everywhere, until it even got quite embarrassing, and I had to beg her, as a personal favour, not to accompany me any further down the High Street. She used to sit up for me when I was late home, and meet me in the passage. It made me feel quite like a married man, except that she never asked where I had been, and then didn't believe me when I told her.

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 Through an unknown Corner of Pahang with H. Clifford in 1897.

A portion of the map on the border between the States of Pahang and Trengganu is still blank. It lies in a rough triangle, of which Gunong Irong, the source of the Tekal and Tembeling rivers (both northern branches of the great Pahang river), is the western apex, with Gunong Tapis, the source of the Kuantan River, the south-eastern point, and the mountainous range at the head of the Kemaman River, which flows in an easterly direction through the southern end of Trengganu, as the north-eastern point.

This area is still a terra incognita. It has occurred to me therefore that the following notes from an old diary may possibly be of interest and perhaps serve to stimulate some member of this Society to explore this region thoroughly. The triangle is marked on the accompanying map.

In 1897, Hugh Clifford (now Governor of Nigeria), who was then Resident of Pahang wanted to make a bridle-path connecting Kuantan, which lies on the east coast at the mouth of the Kuantan River, with Kuala Lipis, which lies some 200 miles inland up the Pahang River and which had then been selected as the temporary Capital for the State of Pahang. He and I accordingly set out from Kuantan on the 12th April, proceeding up the Kuantan River to its source, across the terra incognita and down the Tekal River and thence on down the great Pahang River to Pekan at the mouth.

We reached there on the 23rd April. Our journey therefore took 12 days, during which we travelled some 300 miles almost entirely by river. The following notes are taken from a diary kept during the trip.

. Clifford wrote asking me to get guides for the journey, as no one had ever done the trip from the Ulu Pahang side. The only men I could find were not exactly ideal for the purpose. One was an opium-smoking waster, Bakar Tekal by name, who had been in the Ulu Tekal with gĕtah-hunting Dayaks, but who had not been down the river; the other was one Komeng Liar, half Sakai, who had been the guide for a party of raiders in 1896 from Kemaman (Trengganu) into Pahang and had helped some of Babman, the Orang Kaya Semantan's people, to escape. He was selected for our party simply as a useful man in the jungle.


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. Clifford walked over from Pekan and we started up river, spending Sunday, the 11th, at the Pahang Corporation's mine. The old mill at Jeram Batang was running for the last time prior to being moved to Sungai Lembing, where all the stamps were being concentrated. Derrick, the superintendent, entertained us royally. He took Clifford over Nicholson's & Willink's lodes and down the shaft. (Both these lodes are worked to this day).

. We continued upstream in four dug-outs with 20 men. Slept on the Cheras. Clifford's boat filled during the night and he awoke in the water.

. Stopped at a Sakai village, where we tried to get two men to join our party. Clifford fired off his best Senoi at them but they only bolted. Eventually, after an hour we caught two, named Chong and Bo'uk, whom we bribed with much tobacco to accompany us. These Kuantan Sakai have a peculiar way of making their blow-pipes. They split a piece of wood, bore out the half-sections and then bind the two pieces together with rotan and a covering of gutta-percha. The Patagonians of South America do the same, but I know of no other native tribes in this part of the world who make their blow-pipes in this way. Later they came down to my honse and gave a very good exhibition of shooting amongst my cook's fowls, and gave me a blow-pipe which is now in the British Museum.

We camped at Kuala Lipas that night and distributed the loads preparatory to walking next day. The worst of a rice-eating race is that they eat practically as much as they can carry. We therefore had to arrange to drop some of the men at the end of the second day's walk and most of the remainder as soon as we got far enough down the Tekal, or one of its tributaries, to raft.

Clifford was a Spartan in his methods of travelling. He arranged that we should live on curry and rice, tea and biscuits. Four chickens were allowed for curry; when they were finished, salt fish brought for the men was to be the only appetiser for the rice. I smuggled in a small flask of brandy–as my mother had made me promise never to travel without it,–two tins of sardines. and two of cocoa and milk. I may add that my Spartan companion was not above sharing these rare delicacies! Perhaps the most trying part, until one grew accustomed to it, was that the rice was cooked overnight, so a meal of cold rice confronted one at 6 a.m. and another at noon. We indulged in a hot meal only at night. However at the end of the trip we were all as fit as the proverbial flea.

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 my legs. After ten o'clock our route took us up a very sharp incline and we had to pull ourselves up by roots. Some hornets (pĕnyĕngat) attacked us and caused a stampede. One found Clifford's nose and in a few minutes it was like a full-blown rose.

At 11.30 we reached the summit of Bukit Lada, which forms the divide between the Pertang on the Pahang side and the ulu Kemaman of Trengganu. According to the aneroid the altitude was only 700 ft., but judging by our exertions I suggested that some correction was required. We then descended the other side to the Sungai Besar and on lower again to the Sungai Babi, which in turn brought us to the Sungai Pertang, where we camped for the night. It is a fair sized stream; but we were above the bamboo country and so could not make rafts.

. The path became a game track about five feet high through the jungle, following the course of the river down. We crossed and recrossed it no less than twenty-three times; by the afternoon the water was waist high; it was rather chilly work and still more so when it started to rain. We therefore stopped to camp.

To get the palm leaf (bertan) collected and made into an atap as quickly as possible we had a competition, the Kuantan Malays and the Sakai versus Clifford's servant from Pekan and mine, a Malay from Perak. The latter won easily. (I heard recently that this Perak Malay rose to be a District Officer under the Siamese in Kelantan, where eventually he died). We were cold and wet until Clifford remembered that it was the anniversary of his wedding-day and we sampled the brandy.

We found bamboos a little way below us, with which we made our rafts. Wan Ismail and all our men except six were then sent home early next morning by the way we had come.

. Rafting down the river was a very pleasant change. The Pertang is a beautiful river with great deep pools, in which shafts of slate protrude, huge ngram trees overhanging the water. Our troubles however soon began. We struck a log-jam consisting of great trees piled twenty feet high and some hundred feet long, brought down by floods. Most of them seemed to have been there some time. The rock in the river here seemed to be granite (possibly Tembiling schist). The rafts had to be dragged over this; many bamboos were split in the process and had to be replaced. Just below we came to the Tekal River and we camped for the night at the junction of the two rivers.

. The Tekal was a fine stream here, made the more imposing by a big rapid known as the "Jeram Jerami." This gave me my first taste of shooting rapids, and an exciting game it is too, when no one with you knows the rapids! This particular rapid ended in a steepish drop, which tilled the rafts almost upon end. However we negotiated it successfully. As we


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 floated on down stream, we passed some sambhur (Rusa) drinking at the water's edge; they never moved as we went by—a sure sign that no human beings lived anywhere near.

We shot several rapids without mishap during the morning and were becoming fairly confident of our skill (or luck) in this somewhat thrilling pastime. A bad rapid, known as Jeram Tahan Badak, however, proved our undoing. There appeared to be a kink in this as we could not see the end. Clifford led, cach raft following at a few minutes' interval. The rush of water was terrific. As we swept round the corner, we saw Clifford and his raft high up on a rock; he and his party frantically gesticulated to us to keep to the left: S'man my leader, drove his pole in hard in front of my raft, hat to no purpose; the raft was on it at once and out he shot; he came out bobbing in front of us, while we swept on towards Clifford. 1 just managed to haul him up as we crashed on to the rock. We could do nothing to stop the third raft from the same fate. When we took stock we found we could make two whole rafts out of our bamboos, but, worst luck of all, we had lost our only remaining fowl—a white one, which we had carefully kept for the last.

(Easter Day).—Floated on down stream all day. Lost our cooked food at a rapid. The rafts became so knocked about they would scarcely float. There were no bamboos available for mending them, but we managed to patch one with a small meranti tree. Slept the night at Kuala Som.

. We started early, getting along fairly well until we came to another bad rapid, Jeram Mena. Here Clifford came to grief. He and his raft upset; he lost everything except his cork mattress; all the rice was spoilt. We managed, however, to put together a small raft out of the wreck, on which we sent on two men to try and find the boat, which Owen, the District Officer at Kuala Tembiling, had undertaken to send up the river to meet us.

The rest of us spent some time diving to try and recover Clifford's revolver etc., but a wonderful rainbow appeared, with one end touching the place where all the things were sunk; the Malays thereupon ceased their efforts as they said the spooks had taken the things. It rained hard and we remained there cold and miserable.

Three dug-outs turned up at 8 a.m. and we pushed off on the final stage of our journey, glad to think that the end was in sight, but at the first rapid we all upset. At Kuala Tekal, where the Tekal joins the Tembiling River we found our boat. Further on down, at Kuala Tembiling, Duff and Owen were waiting for us at the house of Panglima Kakap, together with a huge curry. Scent had been sprinkled liberally over plate, spoon and fork, but our hunger made light of such trifles.


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 We left at ten that night following the great Pahang River down to Pekan, the Government station and residence of the Sultan, near the mouth, arriving there at 3 a.m. on the 23rd April.

All our time and compass survey records were lost and so far as I know, no one has been through that way since; that corner of the map therefore remains blank to this day. We established however the fact that the Tekal and the Tembiling Rivers rise from the same hill, although the latter runs north and then bends west before it finally runs south parallel to the Tekal.

We were particularly unlucky in finding the water in the Tekal at such a level as to make the rapids most difficult. It was my first real jungle trip. One learnt a great deal from Clifford, under whose guidance one realised what cheery companions Malays can be under such circumstances.


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 idea. The mere fact that their poor vocabulary was straightway beggared by the effort to express their admiration, left them mentally gasping; wherefore Kria, son of Mat, a very ordinary young Malay, endowed, as it chanced, with few of the forceful qualities of his race, found himself of a sudden an object of almost superstitious hero-worship.

Kria presently made the discovery anent solitude which is attributed to Adam. He was a Malay and a Muhammadan, to whom the naked, pantheistical Sâkai is a dog of indescribable uncleanliness. Thirty miles down river there was a Malay village where many maidens of his own breed were to be had, almost for the asking, from their grateful parents by a man so well-to-do as Kria had now become; but these ladies were hard-bit, ill-favoured young women, prematurely gnarled by labour in the rice-fields and tanned to the colour of the bottom of a cooking-pot by exposure to sun and weather. Or dinarily, however, the aggressive plainness of these damsels might not have affected the issue; but it chanced that the particular devil whose province it is to look after mésalliances was as busy here in this hidden nook of the forest as ever he is in Mayfair. It was surely by his contrivance that Kria, Malay and Muhammadan that he was, fixed his heart upon a Sâkai girl—herself the daughter of Sakai, nude, barbarous, and disreputable—and the blame may with greater certainty be allotted to him, because Kria's first meeting with her was in no sense of his seeking.


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Rh comparatively thin, the effect of being addicted to the chase, he became corpulent from want of exercise. He acquired the alphabet on the first day of my residence at Chonuane, and I never went into the town but I was pressed to hear him read some chapters of the Bible. Isaiah was a great favourite with him ; and he was wont to exclaim, " He was a fine man, that Isaiah ; he knew how to speak."

He seconded my anxiety that his subjects should become converts to Christianity, and said, "Do you imagine these people will ever believe by your merely talking to them? I can make them do nothing except by thrashing them; and if you like, I shall call my head-men, and with our whips of rhinoceros-hide we will soon make them all believe together." The idea of using persuasion to subjects, whose opinion he would not have condescended to ask on any other matter, was especially surprising to him. He considered that they ought to be happy to embrace Christianity at his command. During the space of two years and a half he continued to profess to his people his full conviction of its truth, and acted uprightly in all the relations of life. He felt the difficulties of his situation, and often said, " O, I wish you had come to this country before I was entangled in the meshes of our customsǃ" In fact, he could not get rid of his superfluous wives without appearing to be ungrateful to their parents, who had done so much for him in his adversity.

In the hope of inducing others to accept his new faith, he asked me to have family worship in his house. This I did, and by-and-by I was surprised to hear how well he conducted the prayer in his own simple and beautiful style, for he was a thorough master of his language. At this time we were suffering from the effects of a drought, which was ascribed by the natives to Christianity, and none except his family, whom he ordered to attend, came near bis meeting. "In former times," said he, "when a chief was fond of hunting, all his people got dogs and became fond of hunting too. If he was fond of dancing or music, all showed a liking to these amusements too. If the chief loved beer, they all rejoiced in strong drink. But in this case it is different. I love the Word of God, and not one of my brethren will join me."

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 He had come up the Tělom one day from his new house in a dugout imported from down-country, whose finish converted it, in the eyes of his neighbours, into a floating miracle. Kria sat lordly in the stern, steering the little craft with a heavy wooden paddle, while two sweating and straining Sâkai punted her forward against the rush of the current. He wore the loose blouse, serviceable short pants, huddled, many-coloured waistcloth, and the variegated cotton headkerchief which constitute the costume of the average up-country Malay; but judged by debased, local standards, Solomon in all his glory could hardly be held to owe a heavier debt of gratitude to his tailor. The two men who worked his boat, for example, wore nothing save a dirty strip of bark cloth twisted carelessly about their loins, more, it would appear, for the advantage of having about the person something into which to stick a woodknife, or a tobacco-bamboo, than to subserve any end connected with propriety. Their bodies were scaly with leprous-looking skin disease, and the shaggy shocks of their hair stood out around their heads in regrettable halos. They were smeared with the gray dust of wood ashes, for it is the manner of these hill-folk to go to bed in their fireplaces, whereof the smoke, as their own proverb has it, is their coverlet. This, on their lips, is not a complaint, but a boast. Standards of comfort differ widely, and the Sakai, simple soul, is genuinely impressed by the extraordinary convenience of thus being able to keep warm o' nights.


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 Suddenly, as the canoe crept round a bend in the bank, something plunged headlong out of the shadows and dived into the forest on the left. It leaped with a speed so startling, and was swallowed up so instantly, that it was gone before Kria had time even to reach for his musket; but the Sâkai boatmen, who, like the rest of their people, had the gift of sight through the back of their heads, at once set up a succession of queer animal calls and cries which spluttered off presently into the hiccoughing monosyllables which serve these folk as speech. A moment later a clear, bell-like call thrilled from out the forest, so close at hand that the surprise of it made Kria jump and nearly drop his paddle; and then came a ripple of words, like little drops of crystal, which made even the rude Sâkai tongue a thing of music, freshness, and youth. Next the shrubs on the bank were parted by human hands, and Pi-Noi—Breeze of the Forest—emerging suddenly, stepped straightway into Kria's life and into the innermost heart of him.

She was a Sâkai girl of about fifteen years of age, naked save for a girdle of dried, black water weed, a string of red berries round her neck, and a scarlet blossom stuck in her hair. She stood there, poised lightly upon her feet, in the agile pose which enables the jungle-folk instantly to convert absolute immobility into a wondrous activity. Her figure, just budding into womanhood, was perfect in every line, from the slender neck to the rounded lips, the cleanly shaped limbs and the small, delicate feet,


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 being asked what he thought of it, answered: if St. Mark had such a countenance as this, as its likely he had, a man might almost, for his lookes sake, believe all that he wrote: for, never did I see (said he) any man have more the lookes of a good man then this.

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 the whole displayed with a divine unconsciousness which is above mere modesty.

Her skin, smooth as velvet and with much the same downy softness of surface, was an even yellow-brown, without fleck or blemish, and upon it diamond points of water glistened in the sunlight. Her black and glossy hair was twisted carelessly into a magnificent knot at the nape of her neck, little rounded curls straying here and there to soften cheek and forehead. Her face, an oval of great purity, glowed with youth and life. Her lips had something of the pretty pout of childhood. Her chin was firmly modelled; her nose was straight, with nostrils rather wide, quivering, and sensitive; her little ears nestled beneath the glory of her hair.

But it was the eyes of this child which chiefly seized and held the attention. Marvellously large and round, they were black as night, with irises set in whites that had a faint blue tinge, and with well-defined, black eyebrows arching above them. Their expression was one rarely seen in the human face, though it may be noted now and again in the eyes of wild creatures which have learned to know and partially to trust mankind. It was at once shy and bold, inviting and defiant; friendly, too, within limits; but, above all, watchful and on the alert for flight or for defence at the least hint of danger. Her gaze was bent upon Kria, and it seemed to him the most alluring thing that he had ever seen. As he looked, he caught his breath with an audible gasp of astonishment and delight.


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 Love at first sight is a disease very prevalent in Asia, for with the Oriental the lust of the eye is ever the mightiest of forces, and the sorry pretence that the mind rules the passions is not recognized by him as a tenet subscription to which is demanded by self-respect. The Malays name it "the madness," and by this Kria now was smitten, suddenly and without warning, as men sometimes are stricken down by the stroke of a vertical sun. Pi-Noi might be a daughter of the despised jungle-folk, an infidel. an eater of unclean things, a creature of the forest almost as wild as the beasts with which she shared a common home; but to Kria she was what the first woman was to the first man. She was more. Standing thus upon the river's brink, with her feet in the crystal ripples, with the tangle of vegetation making for her lithe figure a wondrous background. with the sunlight playing in and out of the swaying. green canopy above her head and dappling her clear skin with shifting splashes of brightness and shadow, she symbolized for him the eternal triumph of her sex—the tyrannous, unsought power of woman.

Pi-Noi, after looking curiously at the Malay, spoke to her countrymen in their own language, and Kria, who had acquired a working knowledge of the primitive jungle jargon, answered her himself:

"We are going up-stream to Chĕ-ba' Pĕr-lan-i. The boat is large and your little body will not sink it. We will bear you with us. Come!"

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 first time that she had heard her native tongue spoken with a foreign accent, and the oddity of the thing amused her. Then she stepped lightly into the canoe and squatted in the bow.

The boat resumed its journey up-river, warring with the current; was tugged and hauled over fallen trees and round threatening ridges of rock; was towed up difficult places by long lines of rattan; was manoeuvred inch by inch up rapids, where the waters roared furiously; or glided in obedience to the punters along the smooth, sun-dappled reaches; and all that dreamy afternoon Pi-Noi sat in the bow, her back turned to Kria, her face averted. She was almost motionless, yet to the Malay, whose eyes pursued her, she conveyed an extraordinary impression of being at once absorbed and keenly alert. Nothing that was happening, or that had happened recently in the jungle all about her, was hidden from Pi-Noi, though she seemed barely to move her head, and once she lifted her voice in a thrilling imitation of a bird's call and was answered at once from both sides of the stream. Though she sat consentingly in Kria's boat, he was subtly conscious that she was, in some strange fashion, an integral part of the forest that surrounded them; that she was a stranger to the life of mankind, as he understood it—the life of folk of his own race—who, at best, are only trespassers upon Nature's vast domain. He held his breath fearfully, possessed by the idea that at any moment this girl might vanish whence she had come, and thereafter be lost to him


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 forever. He felt her to be as free as the jungle breeze, whose name she bore, and as little to be held a prisoner by the hand of man. This added at once a dread and a new attraction to her physical beauty. Kria forgot the inherited contempt of the Malay for the Sakai, the disgust of the Muhammadan for the devourer of unclean things, the conviction of his people that union with a jungle-dweller is an unspeakable abomination. He only remembered that he was a man, hot with love; that she was a woman, elusive and desirable.

II

Kria's brief wooing was purely a commercial transaction, in which Pi-Noi herself was the last person any one dreamed of consulting. The naked jungle-folk who were her papa and mamma developed unsuspected business aptitude at this juncture of their affairs, the number of knife-blades, cooking-pots, rolls of red twill, flints and steels, and the like, which they demanded, maintaining a nice proportion to Kria's growing passion for the girl. As this became hotter day by day, there was little haggling on his part, and presently an amazing sum (from first to last it cannot have fallen far short of fifteen shillings sterling) was paid to Pi-Noi's parents, to their great honour, glory, and satisfaction, and during an unforgettable forenoon the Sâkai of all ages and both sexes gorged themselves to repletion at Kria's expense. Then Pi-Noi was placed upon an ant heap, and a shaggy pack of hiccoughing


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 male relatives girt the place about in attitudes of defence. It was now Kria's task to touch the girl's hand in spite of the resistance of her defenders. This is all that survives among the hill-people of the old-time custom of marriage by capture; and when the bridegroom is one of their own folk it still happens sometimes that he carries a sore and bleeding head and a badly bruised body to his marriage bed. The bride, at such times, darts hither and thither within the ring of her kinsmen, with real or simulated desire to evade her conqueror, till the latter has the luck to touch her hand or to bring her to the ground by a well-aimed blow from his club.

Kria, however, had an unusually easy time of it, for the Sâkai hold all Malays in awe, and Pi-Noi was hampered by the unaccustomed silk garments will which her husband's generosity had clothed her. Very soon, therefore, Kria, his eyes blazing, gave a great cry as he won a grip upon her wrist, and at once Pi-Noi, in obedience to established custom, submitted herself to his control. Hand in hand, the man and wife sped across the clearing in the direction of the river, with a string of hooting, gesticulating, shock-headed, naked savages trailing out behind them. Below the high bank Kria's canoe was moored, and leaping into her, they pushed out into midstream. Then the current caught them; the dugout became suddenly a thing instinct with life; a bend hid the Sâkai camp from view; and, amid the immense, hushed stillness of the forest


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 afternoon, these two set out upon the oldest and newest of all pilgrimages.

With the strong current aiding them, they had only a journey of a few hours to make, a time short enough for any lovers' transit, though Kria was busy steering the boat, and Pi-Noi sat in the bows helping to direct its course by an occasional timely punt. He had won his heart's desire, and the home to which he was bearing his love lay close at hand; yet even during this honeymoon journeying down the clear, rapid-beset river and through the heart of that magnificent wilderness of woodland, Kria had leisure in which to experience the assaults of a mysterious and perplexing jealousy. He was as utterly alone with the girl as if they two were the first or the last of their kind to wander across the face of the earth; yet he had an uneasy consciousness that Pi-Noi had companions, invisible and inaudible to him, in whose presence he knew himself to be de trop. In spite of her silence and immobility, he knew instinctively that always she was holding intimate commune with animate nature in a language which had its beginning upon the further side of silence. It was not only a tongue which he could not hear. It seemed to cleave an abyss between them; to wrench her from his grasp ere ever he had securely won her; to lift her out of his life; to leave him yearning after her with piteous, imploring face upturned and impotent, outstretched arms.

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2 Appearances:

For the SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPITOL:

, CHIEF INVESTIGATIVE COUNSEL

, SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE COUNSEL

, DETAILEE, TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

, RESEARCHER

, RESEARCHER

, CHIEF CLERK

, PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEMBER

, SECURITY DIRECTOR

For the WITNESS:

BRITTANY LOMAX

GREGG SOFER

SCOTT GLABE

JEFF JENSEN

HUSCH BLACKWELL

750 17th Street, NW, Suite 900

Washington, D.C. 20006


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 would be turned up-side down one day; so this Architect thought that the World would be turned inside out one day, and that then his Church would be the fairest in the World, and all lined with Marble: As it is, it looks a little hypocritically; though the Structure within be of a notable contrivance. On the top of it stands mounted a fair Cupola (or Tholus) made by Brunelleschi a Florentine. This was the first Cupola in Europe; and therefore the more admirable for having no Idea after which it was framed; and for being the Idea of that of S. Peters in Rome, after which so many young Cupolas in Rome, and elsewhere, have been made since. Hence it is said, that Michael Angelo coming now and then to Florence (his Native Country) whiles he was making the Cupola in Rome of S. Peters Church, and viewing attentively this Cupola of Florence, used to say to it; Come te non voglio: meglio di te non posso. Its said also, that Brunelleschi making this Cupola caused Ta-


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 She was journeying with him now of her own free will, but what if her will should veer? What if the lures of the jungle should prove too strong for such spells as his poor love and longing could lend him wit to work? What if that cruel wilderness whence she had come should yawn and once more engulf her? As Kria steered the boat with mechanical skill, and, watching the girl with hungry eyes, knew himself to be by her totally forgotten, he experienced with new force and reason the dread which alloys the delight of many a lover even in the supreme moment of possession—the haunting terror of loss. Kria went in fear, not only of Time and Death, those two grim highwaymen who lie in wait for love; there was also the Forest. Every last, least twig of it, every creature that moved unseen beneath its shade, was his enemy, and it was through long files of such foemen that he bore the bride they threatened to ravish from him. And thus—the girl abstracted and aloof, the man a prey to besetting, though as yet vaguely formulated, fears—Kria and Pi-Noi wended their way downstream, through the wonder of the tropical afternoon, to begin in their new home the difficult experiment of married life.

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1 SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE

JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPITOL,

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

WASHINGTON, D.C.

DEPOSITION OF: KASHYAP PRAMOD PATEL

The deposition in the above matter was held Room 4480, O'Neill House Office Building, commencing at 12:07 p.m.

Present: Representatives Lofgren, Raskin, Cheney, and Kinzinger.


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 kindness, were all new and very pleasant things. She was playing at being a Malay house-wife with all the elaborate make-believe which is a special faculty of the child mind. She would load her small body with gay clothes, clamp ornaments of gold about her wrists, stick long silver pins in her glossy hair, and strut about, laughing rapturously at this new, fantastic game. But throughout she was only mimicking Malayan ways for her own distraction and amusement; she was not seriously attempting to adapt herself to her husband's conception of femininity. She would often cross-question Kria as to the practices of his womenfolk, and would immediately imitate their shining example with a humorous completeness. This pleased him, for he interpreted all this irresponsible child's play as the pathetic efforts of a woman to fulfil the expectations of the man she loves.

The illusion was short lived. Very soon Pi-Noi, the novelty of her new grandeur wearing thin, began to be irked by the tyranny of Malayan garments. All her life she had gone nude, with limbs fetterless as the wings of a bird. For a space the love of personal adornment, which is implanted in the heart of even the most primitive of feminine creatures, did battle with bodily discomfort; but the hour came when ease defeated vanity. Kria, returning home from a short trip upstream, found his wife, who did not expect him, clothed only in her water-weed girdle, lying prone in the sun-baked dust before their dwelling, crooning a strange ditty to


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 herself, and kicking two rebellious bare legs joyously in the air.

He was horribly shocked and outraged; for though a naked Sâkai girl was one of the commonest sights in the valley, this girl was his wife, and he had been hugging to his heart the belief that she was rapidly developing into a decorous Malayan lady. Also bis eye, which had become accustomed to see her clad with the elaborate modesty of his own womenkind. saw in her pristine nudity an amazing impropriety. Feeling wrathful and disgraced, he rushed at her and tried to seize her, but she leaped to her feet in the twinkling of an eye and eluded him with forest-bred ease. He brought up short, panting hard, after an inglorious chase; and much petting, coaxing, and pleading were needed before he could lure her back into the house and persuade her to don even one short Malayan waist skirt. He had to fight his every instinct, for he longed to take a stick to her, being imbued with the Malay man's unshakable belief in the ability of the rod to inspire in a wife a proper sense of subordination; but he did not dare. Malayan women accept such happenings with the meekness which experience reserves for the inevitable; but in the forest Pi-Noi had a protector—a protector who never left her.

The compromise of the short waist skirt duly effected, things again went on smoothly for a space. Kria suspected that Pi-Noi broke the inadequate compact unblushingly whenever he was absent; but he loved the girl more madly every day, and


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20 with starting with the preparations for January 6th, then going through the day of.

Uh-huh.

Before I do that, I know you gave us this timeline.

Yes.

Is this similar to exhibit 46 that we had provided to you?

Can I look? Sorry.

Yeah, of course.

I don't have that one.

I know there was a number of different timelines, and we'll talk about it—

Sure.

—because I know you will be helpful on that front. There's the D.C. National Guard timeline, the Army timeline, the Sec Defense timeline. But this one that you handed me appears to be exhibit 46.

I mean, I don't want to waste your time so I'm not going to leaf through it.

Right.

I would ask the committee and I to come to an accommodation that, if it's different, that was not my intention, but I believe them—

Okay.

—to be the same.

All right.

And my memory of these events is largely within the confines of this timeline. I think the only difference between the timeline you have in 46 and the one I provided is a—there's a date difference, but the header is the big difference, I believe.

We did not want to include that header when we were giving this timeline out to, whether it be Members of Congress or the press or whatever decisions were being made.


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21 That was for internal purposes so we could verify who worked on the timeline, and as you can see, there was 30-some people and seniors that worked on this timeline—

Right.

—that ultimately came together.

Okay.

Sorry.

[Discussion off the record.]

The Witness. Oh, sorry, my counsel has as they should—highlighted that the 46 one is 3 pages. So I had that confused. Your exhibit 46 is 3 pages.

 * BY :

Uh-huh.

The one I submitted is about nine, give or take.

Okay.

So I believe the difference, off the top of my head, is there was a short-form timeline that, as I look at the signature block, Captain who is the executive secretary at the Department of Defense, I believe, from my best recollection, we wanted to put something out because so many Members of Congress were asking for information, as they should, because we wanted to put something out for them.

Got it.

And I believe that's the short-form timeline. I don't believe, in my best estimation, that anything substantive would be different from 46 to what I provided.

Okay. Great.

Mr. Sofer. Excuse me, one second.

Sure.

[Discussion off the record.]


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14.—(1) Subject to and in accordance with rules of court, the Crown may apply in a summary manner to the High Court—
 * (a) for the furnishing of information required to be furnished by any person under the enactments relating to death duties;
 * (b) for the delivery of accounts and payment of duty under revenue the said enactments by persons accountable for or chargeable with such duty and by persons who have taken possession of and administered the estates of deceased persons without obtaining probate or letters of administration;
 * (c) for the delivery of an account under section two of the Stamp Duties Management Act, 1891, or under that

section as amended or applied by any subsequent enactment;
 * (d) for the payment of sums improperly withheld or retained within the meaning of the said section two.

(2) Subject to and in accordance with rules of court, the Crown may apply in a summary manner to the High Court:—
 * (a) for the payment of duty under the enactments relating to excise duties;
 * (b) for the delivery of any accounts required to be delivered, or the furnishing of any information required to be furnished, by the enactments relating to excise duties or by any regulations relating to such duties;
 * (c) for the payment of tax under the enactments relating to purchase tax;
 * (d) for the delivery of any accounts, the production of any books, or the furnishing of any information, required to be delivered, produced or furnished under the enactments relating to purchase tax.

County Courts.

15.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, and to any enactment limiting the jurisdiction of a county court (whether by reference to the subject matter of the proceedings to be brought or the amount sought to be recovered in the proceedings or otherwise) any civil proceedings against the Crown may be instituted in a county court.

(2) Any proceedings by or against the Crown in a county court shall be instituted and proceeded with in accordance with county court rules and not otherwise. General.

16. The Crown may obtain relief by way of interpleader proceedings, and may be made a party to such proceedings, in the same manner in which a subject may obtain relief by way of such proceedings or be made a party thereto, and may be made

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22 The Witness. Yeah, and we had to—I'd ask we—actually, that's a great point. So Captain was the ExecSec. He put his signature on this because he was the ExecSec and that's standard operating procedure. But he received some substantial death threats when this timeline leaked to the media, so much so that we had a put a personal security detail on him. And, last I checked, he was still in service and uniform, so if we could just—

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Sure.

—protect his name going forward.

Great. So you—as the chief of staff for Acting Secretary Miller at that time, again, and we'll go back in time to the—your appointment to—over to the position itself, but just, starting with January 6th, when did the preparations, from your perspective, begin?

From the DOD's perspective?

Yes.

So, again, I would refer you to our—the timeline I submitted, and I believe in that exhibit the first date is December 31, 2020. So I would estimate on or about then without having access to other underlying documents, is my—is what I can best recall now when there was an engagement from Muriel—excuse me, Mayor Bowser of D.C. and her team with the D.C. National Guard request. There may have been conversations prior to that, I'm just—I can't recall.

Were you aware of the January 6th event prior to the Mayor Bowser event—letter coming to request D.C. National Guard?

Was I aware of her request for the National Guard?

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23 planned prior to the request for National Guard by Mayor Bowser?

I believe, from my memory, the best I can recall, is that it had come in to the Department in some format, the Department of Defense. And there was we analyzed, as we routinely do, security assistance we could provide. So that's what probably generated it, is my guess, is Mayor Bowser's office or the Capitol Police called the—someone at the Department of Defense.

And, if it relates to the National Guard, the way the chain of command works is, the National Guard reports to the Secretary of the Army; then he reports into the Office of Secretary of Defense. So, probably in DOD land where you have 3 million people working, someone in the Sec Army's office probably got notified by Mayor Bowser on or before December 31st, and around there it came up to us in the Office of Secretary of Defense, but there could have been a delay. I don't know.

What was your understanding of the threat landscape going into January 6th?

My understanding of the threat landscape going into January 6th, without having really viewed any of that intelligence, and I caveat that the DOD did not have the intelligence capabilities or lawfully permitted to collect on domestic citizens. So we relied on partners in law enforcement, the FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Postal Service, and others to provide us, as we always do, interagency meetings at medium and senior levels. And I believe there may have been an exchange at those levels of the threat or possible threats of violence.

We had instructed, I believe—Acting Secretary Miller and I had instructed our team to, as we do with other matters, highlight significant issues, especially in security, for anything, be it the Inauguration or Jan. 6th and bring it up to our attention through the chain of command, which was the process.


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 no cause of ebbing and flowing, save onely by the participation of another Sea, wherewith it hath communication, that is subject to great commotions.

In the fourth place we shall very easily find out the reason why the fluxes and refluxes are greatest, as to the waters rising and falling in the utmost extremities of Gulphs, and least in the intermediate parts; as daily experience sheweth here in Venice, lying in the farther end of the Adriatick Sea, where that difference commonly amounts to five or six feet; but in the places of the Mediterrane, far distant from the extreams, that mutation is very small, as in the Isles of Corsica and Sardinnia, and in the Strands of Rome and Ligorne, where it exceeds not half a foot; we shall understand also, why on the contrary, where the risings and fallings are small, the courses and recourses are great: I say it is an easie thing to understand the causes of these accidents, seeing that we meet with many manifest occurrences of the same nature in every kind of Vessel by us artificially composed, in which the same effects are observed naturally to follow upon our moving it unevenly, that is, one while faster, and another while flower.

Moreover, considering in the fifth place, that the same quantity of Water being moved, though but gently, in a spatious Channel, comming afterwards to go through a narrow passage, will of necessity run, with great violence, we shall not finde it hard to comprehend the cause of the great Currents that are made in the narrow Channel that separateth Calabria from Sicilia: for that all the Waters that, by the spaciousnesse of the Isle, and by the Ionick Gulph, happens to be pent in the Eastern part of the Sea, though it do in that, by reason of its largeness, gently descend towards the West, yet neverthelesse, in that it is pent up in the Bosphorus, it floweth with great violence between Scilla and Caribdis, and maketh a great agitation. Like to which, and much greater, is said to be betwixt Africa and the great Isle of St. Lorenzo, where the Waters of the two vast Seas, Indian and Ethiopick, that lie round it, must needs be straightned into a lesse Channel between the said Isle and the Ethiopian Coast. And the Currents must needs be very great in the Straights of Magellanes, which joyne together the vast Oceans of Ethiopia, and Del Zur, called also the Pacifick Sea.

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24 So what was brought to your attention, if you remember, concerning January 6th?

I'm not sure as I sit here today. If you have a document I could look at, happy to do that. I'm not saying nothing was or a bunch was, I just don't know, unless—if you could point to something in the documents, I can take a look.

Sure. We can start with—well, we can start with some of these calls that have occurred in preparation for the January 6th. I think exhibit 15 is a call that was set up for January 2nd, and then exhibit 13 is the mayor's request herself. But, if we could just go back to what you said, that DOD obviously, you explained, does not collect domestic intelligence, and you rely on your law enforcement partners.

That's correct.

Where you were, as the chief of staff, was there one law enforcement partner that was relied on more than the other, meaning did you rely on DHS a lot more than the Bureau or—based upon—and I won't—if you could add some context to your own experience in the intelligence community. Did you feel that the information you were receiving portrayed an accurate picture going into the 6th?

So I'm going from memory because I haven't had any of the Bureau cables, the FBI's cables to look at in over a year. In my opinion—and being a former Federal prosecutor, maybe I'm biased—but I relied on the FBI heavily for law enforcement capabilities and knew they had the relationships with police, i.e., the Capitol Police, the MPD, the Metropolitan Police Department, and the mayor's office to provide law enforcement-related intelligence that they collect to the Department as it was needed.

We also talked to DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, frequently on similar issues, but it would vary upon the subject. So that's a general answer of how I think we approached things to January 6th that I can—that—as I can best remember.


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25 Do you remember Secretary Miller or Chairman Milley raising any concern about the potential of the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers attending the rally?

If you have something I could look at that shows me that we had a meeting or something like that, but as I sit here today, I don't recall having those discussions.

Secretary Miller stated on a January 4th interagency call publicly and it was reported in the Senate report that he brought this up, that the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers and the increased political rhetoric had created an atmosphere that he—

He, Secretary Miller brought it up?

Yes.

And, look—

Does that jog your memory?

—I've known Secretary Miller a long time. If that's what he said, then that's—you know, he's been a man of his word the entire time I've served with him. So, if that's what he said, then I believe that's what happened.

Whether I was on that call—I was on most calls with the Acting Secretary, but we were doing a million other things at that time. So I might not have been. And I'm happy to get into the other activities we were undertaking if you would like.

Non Jan. 6th?

Yes.

That's okay, just to be time—cognizant of time. Were—did you—

Mr. Sofer. I'm sorry to interrupt, but I guess the point—and we're not trying to slow this down. We want to move. But the reason that that might be important to you is you might think that that was the—this was the only thing going on, and there was a tremendous amount of other things going on, at least that's our understanding talking to our client. He could probably, in 10 seconds or 15 seconds, describe sort of the plate


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 of which is (as hath often been said) the determinate acceleration and retardation of the parts of the Earth, from whence the Waters have a determinate period put to their decursions towards the East, and return towards the West, in the time of twenty four hours. The other is that which dependeth on the proper gravity of the Water, which being once commoved by the primary cause, seeketh, in the next place, to reduce it self to Æquilibrium, with iterated reciprocations; which are not determined by one sole and prefixed time; but have as many varieties of times as are the different lengths and profundities of the receptacles, and Straights of Seas; and by what dependeth on this second principle, they would ebbe and flow, some in one hour, others in two, in four, in six, in eight, in ten, &c. Now if we begin to put together the first cause, which hath its set Period from twelve hours to twelve hours, with some one of the secondary, that hath its Period ''verb. grat''. from five hours to five hours, it would come to passe, that at sometimes the primary cause and secondary would accord to make impulses both one the same way; and in this concurrency, and (as one may call it) unanimous conspiration the flowings shall be great. At other times it happening that the primary impulse doth, in a certain manner, oppose that which the secondary Period would make, and in this contest one of the Principles being taken away, that which the other would give, will weaken the commotion of the Waters, and the Sea will return to a very tranquil State, and almost immoveable. And at other times, according as the two aforesaid Principles shall neither altogether contest, nor altogether concur, there shall be other kinds of alterations made in the increase and diminution of the ebbing and flowing. It may likewise fall out that two Seas, considerably great and which communicate by some narrow Channel, may chance to have, by reason of the mixtion of the two Principles of motion, one cause to flow at the time that the other hath cause to move a contrary way; in which case in the Channel, whereby they disimbogue themselves into each other, there do extraordinary conturbations insue, with opposite and vortick motions, and most dangerous boilings and breakings, as frequent relations and experiences do assure us. From such like discordant motions, dependent not onely on the different positions and longitudes, but very much also upon the different profundities of the Seas, which have the said intercourse there do happen at sometimes different commotions in the Waters, irregular, and that can be reduced to no rules of observation, the reasons of which have much troubled, and alwayes do trouble Mariners, for that they meet with them without seeing either impulse of winds, or


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26 of information that—and the portfolio that he was dealing with.

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Sure.

Yeah, I'll keep it really brief. So DOD's main mission: safeguard the homeland. We were working on numerous theaters of war, including Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Syria, and other places, lots of issues within those theaters. We were working on Operation Warp Speed. DOD was charged with the logistical operation to unload and deploy the vaccine. We were dealing with the National Security Council issues, White House issues, border issues, and also a ton of stuff in space, underwater, and we were also coordinating with our combatant commanders.

But I think the most important thing that we were working on that we were charged with, which I think is relevant here, is the transition. We were charged with handing off the mission from one administration to the other, and I'm sure we'll talk about that, but those are some of the things we were collectively working on.

I appreciate that. But, for the interagency calls preparing for January 6th, I believe you said publicly that you were on those calls with the Sec Def, Acting Secretary—

I believe most of them. I don't think I was on every one, but I think it's fair to say most of them.

Before we move off this kind of threat landscape issue, was there anything that concerned you, maybe not what you were seeing from what the Bureau or DHS was providing you, but concerned you just as, you know, a citizen going into January 6th about what might occur?

I had not seen, as best that I can remember, anything provided by law enforcement partners that caused us a great concern. But what we did preemptively was, if law enforcement, as you know, in order to enact the National Guard, you need


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27 two things under the law: You need the President's authorization to do so, and you need a request from a mayor, a Governor, or a Federal law enforcement agency.

So, at some point in time, we undertook—because it takes time to employ, deploy, and mobilize the National Guard. We're pulling these people out of their daily lives of being doctors, lawyers, and cops. So we preemptively—I don't know the exact date—prepared slowly, and as—ultimately as you see outlined in the outline that I provided—went to, I believe Mayor Bowser and the Capitol Police and said, "Do you need the National Guard before January 6th?" And I believe—the timeline is the best record, but I believe the timeline says they said—they, the mayor and the Capitol Police said, "No, we don't need National Guard."

What prompted you—and we've seen emails where you've—there was back and forth of make sure they—that we ask them and get the dates down for creating the timeline as to when Capitol Police was asked. What prompted DOD or yourself to make sure the Capitol Police did not need any additional help?

Well, it was one of our responsibilities. It was—we, the Department of Defense, are responsible for the National Guard. And so I believe at the time I was reacting to a number of things that were coming in from FBI and DHS. And I thought, and I believe the Acting Secretary and I believe the Chairman as well, but you'd have to ask them, the DOD's bottom line: Prepare, be prepared, and hope for the best. And we did that across every theater of war and every line of effort we had, including Jan. 6th, as best we could.

On—does anyone have any questions on that point?

On exhibit 15 is, "The chairman has confirmed a call for 13:30 today," so that is January 2nd at 1:30. And it states, "The chairman also recommends that a policy representative like Ken Rapuano and an OGC rep participate based on their prior


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28 experience with this topic."

Do you remember if you were on that call or a part of setting up or discussions after that call?

Thanks for the exhibit. So what I see is my name on the "To" line with about 20, ballpark-ish, other people. If the Acting Secretary and the Chairman are on the call, there's a good chance I was on the call. I don't have an independent recollection of what was said in that call.

Are you familiar with Ken Rapuano?

Sure, of course.

What's his role?

Mr. Rapuano was a representative in the Under Secretary for Defense for Policy. So, in the structural regime at the Department of Defense, the USDP, is basically, after the Secretary of Defense and the DepSecDef, the USDP is the number three in the chain of command. So it's an important role because they interact—USDP interacts with the White House and the interagency on all policy level decisions. So I think it was smart to have Mr. Rapuano on that call.

[Discussion off the record.]

The Witness. Yeah, sorry. Right, he wasn't the Under Secretary for Defense. He worked in the Under Secretary's office.

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Got it. At any time during the discussions, preparations for January 6th, did the issue of the response of DOD to the summer protests ever was it ever brought up?

I'm sorry?

The DOD's response to the summer 2020 civil unrest, was that ever discussed while you were present in—


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29 While I was at DOD, was it discussed—

In preparations for January 6th.

Well, so, yeah, I was not at DOD during the—I think you're referring to the Lafayette Square stuff, if I'm correct.

Correct.

I was at the White House at that time. At DOD, in preparation for the Jan. 6th stuff, I believe, from the best of my recollection, some of those incidents naturally came up because the Department was heavily involved and in the media at the time of the summer incident.

So I think Chairman Milley was, you know, front and center there, and I think he had expressed not a comparison but a how do we use that past incident to prepare better and apply it as a lessons learned for the Department. So I think there was some conversations from my—from what I can recall from the Chairman and possibly the Acting Secretary.

Were you aware that—some of the criticism that DOD received as part of their response to the summer?

I recall reading the media, and, as I said, I was at the White House. So I'm not sure if I was there on the day of, but, yes, I remember.

Did—do you remember any more details as far as those discussions from Chairman Milley or Acting Secretary Miller?

Yeah, I think same thing. If you have something I could look at—

Sure.

—that that could jog my memory, sure, I'm happy to; but, independently, not off the top of my head.

Well, are you familiar with the report the Army did concerning—


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a party to such proceedings notwithstanding that the application for relief is made by a sheriff or other like officer; and all rules of court and county court rules relating to interpleader proceedings shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, have effect accordingly.

17.—(1) The Treasury shall publish a list specifying the several Government departments which are authorised departments for the purposes of this Act, and the name and address for service of the person who is, or is acting for the purposes of this Act as, the solicitor for each such department, and may from time to time amend or vary the said list.

Any document purporting to be a copy of a list published under this section and purporting to be printed under the superintendence or the authority of His Majesty’s Stationery Office shall in any legal proceedings be received as evidence for the purpose of establishing what departments are authorised departments for the purposes of this Act, and what person is, or is acting for the purposes of this Act as, the solicitor for any such department.

(2) Civil proceedings by the Crown may be instituted either by an authorised Government department in its own name, whether that department was or was not at the commencement of this Act authorised to sue, or by the Attorney General.

(3) Civil proceedings against the Crown shall be instituted against the appropriate authorised Government department, or, if none of the authorised Government departments is appropriate or the person instituting the proceedings has any reasonable doubt whether any and if so which of those departments is appropriate, against the Attorney General.

(4) Where any civil proceedings against the Crown are instituted against the Attorney General, an application may at any stage of the proceedings be made to the court by or on behalf of the Attorney General to have such of the authorised Government departments as may be specified in the application substituted for him as defendant to the proceedings; and where any such proceedings are brought against an authorised Government department, an application may at any stage of the proceedings be made to the court on behalf of that department to have the Attorney General or such of the authorised Government departments as may be specified in the application substituted for the applicant as the defendant to the proceedings.

Upon any such application the court may if it thinks fit make an order granting the application on such terms as the court thinks just; and on such an order being made the proceedings shall continue as if they had been commenced against the department specified in that behalf in the order, or, as the case may require, against the Attorney General.

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(5) No proceedings instituted in accordance with this part of this Act by or against the Attorney General or an authorised Government department shall abate or be affected by any change in the person holding the office of Attorney General or in the person or body of persons constituting the department.

18. All documents required to be served on the Crown for the purpose of or in connection with any civil proceedings by or against the Crown shall, if those proceedings are by or against an authorised Government department, be served on the solicitor, if any, for that department, or the person, if any, acting for the purposes of this Act as solicitor for that department, or if there is no such solicitor and no person so acting, or if the proceedings are brought by or against the Attorney General, on the Solicitor for the affairs of His Majesty’s Treasury.

19.—(1) In any case in which civil proceedings against the Crown in the High Court are instituted by the issue of a writ out of a district registry the Crown may enter an appearance either in the district registry or in the central office of the High Court, and if an appearance is entered in the central office all steps in relation to the proceedings up to trial shall be taken at the Royal Courts of Justice.

(2) The trial of any civil proceedings by or against the Crown in the High Court shall be held at the Royal Courts of Justice unless the court, with the consent of the Crown, otherwise directs.

Where the Crown refuses its consent to a direction under this subsection the court may take account of the refusal in exercising its powers in regard to the award of costs.

(3) Nothing in this section shall prejudice the right of the Crown to demand a local venue for the trial of any proceedings in which the Attorney General has waived his right to a trial at bar.

20.—(1) If in a case where proceedings are instituted against the Crown in a county court an application in that behalf is made by the Crown to the High Court, and there is produced to the court a certificate of the Attorney General to the effect that the proceedings may involve an important question of law, or may be decisive of other cases arising out of the same matter, or are for other reasons more fit to be tried in the High Court, the proceedings shall be removed into the High Court.

Where any proceedings have been removed into the High Court on the production of such a certificate as aforesaid, and it appears to the court by whom the proceedings are tried that the removal has occasioned additional expense to the person by whom the proceedings are brought, the court may take account of the additional expense so occasioned in exercising its powers in regard to the award of costs.

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Provided that:—
 * (a) an order for the transfer to a county court of any proceedings against the Crown in the High Court shall not be made without the consent of the Crown; and
 * (b) the duty of a judge to make an order under section forty-four of the County Courts Act, 1934, for the transfer to the High Court of proceedings commenced against the Crown in a county court shall not be conditional upon the giving of security by the Crown.

21.—(1) In any civil proceedings by or against the Crown the court shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, have power to make all such orders as it has power to make in proceedings between subjects, and otherwise to give such appropriate relief as the case may require:

Provided that:—
 * (a) where in any proceedings against the Crown any such relief is sought as might in proceedings between subjects be granted by way of injunction or specific performance, the court shall not grant an injunction or make an order for specific performance, but may in lieu thereof make an order declaratory of the rights of the parties; and
 * (b) in any proceedings against the Crown for the recovery of land or other property the court shall not make an order for the recovery of the land or the delivery of the property, but may in lieu thereof make an order declaring that the plaintiff is entitled as against the Crown to the land or property or to the possession thereof.

(2) The court shall not in any civil proceedings grant any injunction or make any order against an officer of the Crown if the effect of granting the injunction or making the order would be to give any relief against the Crown which could not have been obtained in proceedings against the Crown.

22. Subject to the provisions of this Act, all enactments, rules of court and county court rules relating to appeals and stay of execution shall, with any necessary modifications, apply to civil proceedings by or against the Crown as they apply to proceedings between subjects.

23.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, any reference in this part of this Act to civil proceedings by the Crown shall be construed as a reference to the following proceedings only:—

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 * (c) all such proceedings as the Crown is entitled to bring by virtue of this Act;

and the expression “civil proceedings by or against the Crown” shall be construed accordingly.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this section, any reference in this part of this Act to civil proceedings against the Crown shall be construed as a reference to the following proceedings only:—
 * (a) proceedings for the enforcement or vindication of any right or the obtaining of any relief which, if this Act had not been passed, might have been enforced or vindicated or obtained by any such proceedings as are mentioned in paragraph 2 of the First Schedule to this Act;
 * (b) proceedings for the enforcement or vindication of any right or the obtaining of any relief which, if this Act had not been passed, might have been enforced or vindicated or obtained by an action against the Attorney General, any Government department, or any officer of the Crown as such; and
 * (c) all such proceedings as any person is entitled to bring against the Crown by virtue of this Act;

and the expression “civil proceedings by or against the Crown” shall be construed accordingly.

(3) Notwithstanding anything in the preceding provisions of this section, the provisions of this Part of this Act shall not have effect with respect to any of the following proceedings, that is to say:—
 * (a) proceedings brought by the Attorney General on the relation of some other person;
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 * (f) proceedings by or against the Registrar of the Land Registry or any officers of that registry.

(4) Subject to the provisions of any Order in Council made under the provisions hereinafter contained, this part of this Act shall not affect proceedings initiated in any court other than the High Court or a county court.

24.—(1) Section seventeen of the Judgments Act, 1838 (which provides that a judgment debt shall carry interest) shall apply to judgment debts due from or to the Crown.

(2) Where any costs are awarded to or against the Crown in the High Court, interest shall be payable upon those costs unless the court otherwise orders, and any interest so payable shall be at the same rate as that at which interest is payable upon judgment debts due from or to the Crown.

(3) Section three of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1934 (which empowers courts of record to award interest on debts and damages) shall apply to judgments given in proceedings by and against the Crown.

(4) This section shall apply both in relation to proceedings pending at the commencement of this Act and in relation to proceedings instituted thereafter.

25.—(1) Where in any civil proceedings by or against the Crown, or in any proceedings on the Crown side of the King’s Bench Division, or in connection with any arbitration to which the Crown is a party, any order (including an order for costs) is made by any court in favour of any person against the Crown or against a Government department or against an officer of the Crown as such, the proper officer of the court shall, on an application in that behalf made by or on behalf of that person at any time after the expiration of twenty-one days from the date of the order or, in case the order provides for the payment of costs and the costs require to be taxed, at any time after the costs have been taxed, whichever is the later, issue to that person a certificate in the prescribed form containing particulars of the order:

Provided that, if the court so directs, a separate certificate shall be issued with respect to the costs (if any) ordered to be paid to the applicant.

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the person for the time being named in the record as the solicitor, or as the person acting as solicitor, for the Crown or for the Government department or officer concerned.

(3) If the order provides for the payment of any money by way of damages or otherwise, or of any costs, the certificate shall state the amount so payable, and the appropriate Government department shall, subject as hereinafter provided, pay to the person entitled or to his solicitor the amount appearing by the certificate to be due to him together with the interest, if any, lawfully due thereon:

Provided that the court by which any such order as aforesaid is made or any court to which an appeal against the order lies may direct that, pending an appeal or otherwise, payment of the whole of any amount so payable, or any part thereof, shall be suspended, and if the certificate has not been issued may order any such directions to be inserted therein.

(4) Save as aforesaid no execution or attachment or process in the nature thereof shall be issued out of any court for enforcing payment by the Crown of any such money or costs as aforesaid, and no person shall be individually liable under any order for the payment by the Crown, or any Government department, or any officer of the Crown as such, of any such money or costs.

(5) This section shall apply both in relation to proceedings pending at the commencement of this Act and in relation to proceedings instituted thereafter.

26.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, any order made in favour of the Crown against any person in any civil proceedings to which the Crown is a party may be enforced in the same manner as an order made in an action between subjects, and not otherwise.

This subsection shall apply both in relation to proceedings pending at the commencement of this Act and in relation to proceedings instituted thereafter.

(2) Sections four and five of the Debtors Act, 1869 (which provide respectively for the abolition of imprisonment for debt, and for saving the power of committal in case of small debts), shall apply to sums of money payable and debts due to the Crown:

Provided that for the purpose of the application of the said section four to any sum of money payable or debt due to the Crown, the section shall have effect as if there were included among the exceptions therein mentioned default in payment of any sum payable in respect of death duties or purchase tax.

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brought by the Crown for the recovery of any fine or penalty, or the forfeiture or condemnation of any goods, or the forfeiture of any ship or any share in a ship.

27.—(1) Where any money is payable by the Crown to some person who, under any order of any court, is liable to pay any money to any other person, and that other person would, if the money so payable by the Crown were money payable by a subject, be entitled under rules of court to obtain an order for the attachment thereof as a debt due or accruing due, or an order for the appointment of a sequestrator or receiver to receive the money on his behalf, the High Court may, subject to the provisions of this Act and in accordance with rules of court, make an order restraining the first-mentioned person from receiving that money and directing payment thereof to that other person, or to the sequestrator or receiver:

Provided that no such order shall be made in respect of:—
 * (a) any wages or salary payable to any officer of the Crown as such;
 * (b) any money which is subject to the provisions of any enactment prohibiting or restricting assignment or charging or taking in execution; or
 * (c) any money payable by the Crown to any person on account of a deposit in the Post Office Savings Bank.

(2) The provisions of the preceding subsection shall, so far as they relate to forms of relief falling within the jurisdiction of a county court, have effect in relation to county courts as they have effect in relation to the High Court, but with the substitution of a reference to county court rules for any reference in the said subsection to rules of court.

Miscellaneous.

28.—(1) Subject to and in accordance with rules of court and county court rules:—
 * (a) in any civil proceedings in the High Court or a county court to which the Crown is a party, the Crown may be required by the court to make discovery of documents and produce documents for inspection; and
 * (b) in any such proceedings as aforesaid, the Crown may be required by the court to answer interrogatories:

Provided that this section shall be without prejudice to any rule of law which authorises or requires the withholding of any document or the refusal to answer any question on the ground. that the disclosure of the document or the answering of the question would be injurious to the public interest.

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book is addressed chiefly to the members of the young peoples' societies of the churches, and has been written at the request of their representatives. It is designed to present the purposes and ideals of Home Service, which the American Red Cross is extending to the families of thousands of our soldiers and sailors.

Home Service is national in scope. In some parts of the country it has been so thoroughly developed that for them the pages that follow are a record of accomplishment. In other places where the work is new or still in process of organization, This Side the Trenches' is rather a statement of ideals to be achieved.

Although Home Service is conducted almost entirely by volunteers, its direction requires a more special training and preparation than other activities of the Red Cross. Its success depends upon the devotion of men and women who are willing to equip themselves through instruction or to work under trained supervision. Home Service is a distinctive enterprise, not duplicating but co-operating with other established agencies.

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From camp, from battleline, from shipboard the soldiers and sailors of the United States are sending a message to the people on this side the trenches. It is a message that is variously expressed. Sometimes it is to be read between the lines of a letter such as this:

Camp................, December 10, 1917

"To the American Red Cross:

"I wish to extend my sincere thanks to you for going to aid my wife and child whom I asked you to help last week. My wife wrote me that you came to see her. I highly appreciate this. I can soldier better now.

"Yours sincerely, "............"

Sometimes a sentence or two may carry it. Thus another man in the service writes:

"I have heard how wonderfully the Red Cross has taken care of my family. That alone is enough to spur one on to use the best that's in him."

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 Red Cross a medal struck off by the Germans in anticipation of their triumphal entry into Paris? He had procured it upon one of his voyages and presented it as the best means of showing how much the friendship and help supplied by the Red Cross to his family had meant to him.

Most vivid of all was the way one of the United States engineers, who subsequently was captured by the Germans in the battle of Cambrai, expressed it:

"Be sure to buy a Red Cross badge for me, yourself, and one for each of the children," he wrote to his wife. "Wear them all the time." The Red Cross had helped his family through legal and financial difficulties and had made it possible for his oldest daughter to extend her education.

Surely this message from the soldiers and sailors of the United States to the people on this side the trenches must be plain to everybody. Certainly he who has followed the history of the great world struggle need not be told it.

This message is that, despite the huge quantities of machinery and munitions, despite the billions of dollars, despite the millions of tons of ships that are being poured into this terrible venture, the real factor in deciding the war will be something that cannot be manufactured, something that cannot be measured, something that cannot even be seen. More vital than aeroplanes, more important than machine guns, tanks, submarine chasers, or high explosives is the quality of the spirit of the men in the trenches and on the ocean. When the French and British were retreating to the Marne in the first weeks of the war, when the French


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 were deluged with the terrific rain of steel that accompanied the German drive toward Verdun, when the British and the Canadians underwent the tortures of the first gas attacks at Ypres, the issue was not how many miles of territory would be yielded or held, but whether the courage and confidence of the troops would endure. The real defeat of the Germans lay in their inability to break the spirit of the defenders of France and Belgium.

Military men call this spirit morale. It has been defined as "the moral pulse of armies," and it is said that since before the days of Julius Cæsar the skill of every great commander has depended chiefly upon his ability to feel and appreciate this intangible thing. It is morale that enables men to endure hardships, hunger, and pain, to face death again and again, and yet to keep on fighting. It springs from the spirit of the individual soldier and sailor. As long as he continues to be cheerful and to feel confident of himself and his officers, so long does the morale of the army and the navy continue to be strong. Let but one man become discouraged, let but one man worry and he will become a drain upon the vitality of all those who are fighting near him. That is why the soldier with a buoyancy of spirit is more valuable to a regiment than a squad of sharpshooters. That, moreover, is why the Red Cross is one of the most important factors in the winning of the war, for it is the knowledge that all is well this side the trenches, in the United States, that will encourage a man to fight with the best that isin him. Failing that knowledge he will know only anxiety, and will lose the spirit of victory. The most vulnerable part of the army or the navy,


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 therefore, is thousands of miles from the submarine zone or the trenches. It is in the homes of our soldiers and sailors.

Only if all is well with the mother, the wife, the children, the sisters, and brothers, can the man in the service go forward with the fullest assurance. "I can soldier better now," said the recruit whose letter is quoted at the beginning of this chapter. With his family under the care of the Red Cross he could devote undivided energy to the task before him.

This also, was the thought of the man who while on his way to camp stopped at the office of the Red Cross in an eastern city. "I want to tell you," he said, "what it means to me to know that if my mother should be lonely, or sick, or if anything should happen to her you will be there to stand by her and set things right." Again, it was the desire to have this same assurance that caused a soldier whose wife was to be operated upon the day after he left for the front to ask the Red Cross to visit her in the hospital and to do for her the many things that he would have liked to do himself.

Relief from anxiety was what was wanted by the private on whose behalf an officer in charge of a camp in the southwest sent a message not long ago to a town in Pennsylvania. The officer asked the Red Cross to reassure the man who, the telegram said, was "worried about the folks at home."

What's happening to the folks at home is indeed the most important thing in the world to the member of the family who is in the army or navy. And things do happen to the folks at home. Things happen to everybody. It is one of the ways by which life is measured