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PETERSON’S MAGAZINE.

Vol. XLI. MRS. SETON'S

CROSS

BY THE AUTHOR OF " SUSY L

MRS. SETON was cross this morning. I knew she was before I went down, for the house was still; as it always is when she, its mistress is cross, as it never is at any other time. I would have known she was cross, when I saw pale little Johnny, if I had not before. He was on the landing standing with his hand on the balustrade, as if to support himself. For Johnny is never strong; is always sensitive and easily made faint and afraid. The breakfast-bell had rung; but he was standing as if dreading to go down.

"Good morning," he said, when I spoke to him; but there was no spirit in the accost.

He went down with me.

Mr. Seton said, "Good morning," with what cheerfulness he could. Mrs. Seton said, "Good morning," but faintly, without looking up, with her lips held together. Mr. Seton tried to talk a little about our national affairs. But he did not care much for the affairs of the nation, this morning; his own domestic affairs filled his thoughts.

Mrs. Seton, meanwhile, had not spoken; but by-and-by, still without looking up, she said, "That Nora does try me so, is so cross I can't bear it any longer! It puts me all out of sorts, having her so; I haven't the least patience with anybody, or anything, when she has one of her cross spells."

"Perhaps Nora has the same excuse," began Mr. Seton.

"No, she hasn't; she can't have!"

Why, perhaps somebody vexed her, as she vexes you; and she lost her patience perhaps, and was cross, and thought she couldn't help it."

"I don't care for that. Nora is a good girl in everything else, but I can't keep a girl that has her cross fit once a month, or once a week, and I shall tell her she may go. Johnny, take your arms off the table; eat as you ought to!"

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I thought she wasn't eating exactly as she ought; but I suppose no such idea occurred to her.

"I hope we shall have our vegetables in better season to-day than we did yesterday," she went on, speaking to her husband. "It tries me ! Nora was up twice yesterday, before they got here, to know what she should do. It just spoils my comfort when things go so. I wish you would charge them to come earlier, else not come at all. "

"Good morning," said I to Nora afterward, as I was going through to the garden.

"Good morning!" a high inflexion on "good,” the word exploded on a great sigh.

"Pleasant, this morning," added I.

"It isn't very pleasant ter me."

"But it is pleasant, for all that."

"Doesn't seem pleasant ter me." She was scraping a basin with right good will. "And this is the reason, Mrs. Seton is cross this morning-as she is a good many mornings, if the truth is told."

"Weren't you cross first?"

"Perhaps I was; but if I was, I couldn't help it; fer airly, when I was swapin' the ar'a, an' do'n' no one any harm, a man struck his board agin' me an' a'most knocked me down, an' told me I must keep out o' his way then; an' ef I felt cross after that, wus I ter blame, ma'am? fer I couldn't help it!"

Perhaps I hardly need tell my readers that little Johnny, in his turn, has been cross to baby to-day; that, soon after breakfast, he began with snatching his tin horse away from him, and going to throw it behind the bookcase, saying, "Shan't have it! it's mine!"

Baby looked up wonderingly a moment, then crept laboriously toward another plaything; but just as his little hand was ready to touch it, Johnny sprang forward and carried that off. Again baby looked up; looked longer this time

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624] condemned by public opinion that the Prophet found it necessary to give out that his orders had been misunderstood.

Two months later his followers achieved their first victory. A large caravan, laden with rich merchandise, was returning from Syria to Mecca under the leadership of Abū Sufyān, the chief of the Banū Umayya, one of the proudest families among the Ḳuraish. Mahomet determined to waylay it at Badr, a place south-west of Medina, a few miles from the Red Sea coast, and himself set out thither with rather more than 300 armed men, of whom about 80 were Emigrants and the rest Medinese. Abū Sufyān, however, received news of the intended attack, changed his route and despatched a messenger to Mecca asking for help. The Ḳuraish hastily fitted out an expedition consisting of about 900 men, among whom were most of the Meccan aristocracy. While they were on their way northward they learnt that the caravan had succeeded in reaching a point where it was out of danger; some of them therefore returned to Mecca, but the great majority, confident in their superior numbers and equipment, determined to advance, rather, it would seem, with the intention of overawing than of crushing their adversary. The two armies reached Badr almost at the same moment. Mahomet, ignorant of what had happened, was still expecting the caravan; on discovering his mistake he probably saw that a retreat would be extremely perilous, if not impossible, and accordingly resolved to fight. The Meccans, on this occasion, displayed an extraordinary slackness and absence of forethought. They allowed Mahomet to take possession of a well situated in their immediate neighbourhood and thereby to deprive them of their water-supply. Next morning, when they approached the well they found the bulk of Mahomet's army drawn up around it. But even then no general attack was made. One by one, or in small groups, a number of Meccan chieftains came forward and were killed in hand-to-hand combat by champions of the opposite side. Among the slain was one of the most formidable of the Prophet's enemies, Abū-l-Ḥakam, son of Hishām, usually known by the nickname Abū Jahl. Mahomet himself did not take part in the fighting but remained in a small hut which had been erected for him, praying with passionate fervour and trembling violently. At length, about noon, the Meccans, realising that nothing was to be gained by further bloodshed, began to retire. Being much better mounted than their opponents, they were able to escape with a loss of only 70 slain and 70 captured. Of the Muslims 14 had fallen.

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The production of vegetable wax has always formed one of the principal industries of the province of Kiushiu, and the trees bearing the wax berries (called by the Japanese Haji-mo-ki), grow profusely on the hill slopes and round the edges of most of the cultivated fields (excepting rice ground) of Higo, Hizen, Sinabara, Chikugo and Chikuzen, whereas in Satzuma they appear ta be less prevalent.

The process of producing wax suitable for export to Europe is a tedious one, requiring the outlay of some capital on the part of the manufacturer, who has to keep the berries on hand for at least one year, and, in order to obtain a very superior product, does so frequently for six or seven years from the time of their being picked and sold by the farmers.

The berries ripen in October and November, and are picked by hand in the state shown by the sample marked No. 1 in the accompanying box. After exposure to the sun in that state for about five days they are packed in common straw bags and stored by the manufacturer in his

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 interpretationi favet Grotius, quod Jupiter sit Sol nonnullis et. Mihi neutrum sufficit; sed potius arbitror locum esse corruptum, et pro vulgato legendum esse, ita, ut totum commation jungatur cum antecedenti , et sensus exeat hic: salve pater, magna admiratio, magna hominibus utilitas, qui sunt et qui ante fuerunt." (Buhle.)

The ancients entertained the notion that the earth was a solid globe suspended in the centre of the heavenly bodies, which daily revolved round it on an imaginary axis. Manillius says:


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602] spheres drawn by the Diocletio-Constantinian reforms. Maurice however did not follow the principle of Justinian's tentative innovations: he chose to give to the military commander a position in the hierarchy of office superior to that of the civil administration, conferring on the old magistri militum of Africa and Italy the newly coined title of exarch: this supreme authority was to be the Emperor's vicegerent against Berber and Lombard. It was the first step towards the creation of the system of military themes. It was doubtless also considerations of practical convenience and a recognition of the stubborn logic of facts which led to Maurice's scheme of provincial redistribution. Tripolitana was separated from Africa and joined like its neighbour Cyrenaica to the diocese of Egypt; Sitifensis and Caesariensis were fused into the single province of Mauretania Prima, while the fortress of Septum and the sorry remnants of Tingitana were united with the imperial possessions in Spain and the Balearic Isles to form the province of Mauretania II, thus solidifying under one government the scattered Roman territories in the extreme West. Similar motives probably determined the new arrangements (after the treaty with Persia in 591) on the Eastern frontier. It was again Maurice the realist who disregarded the counsels of his ministers and made full use of the unique opportunity which the flight of Chosroes offered to the Empire.

In Italy the incursion of the Lombards presented a problem with which the wars on the Danube and in Asia rendered it difficult for Maurice to cope. Frankish promises of help against the invaders were largely illusory, even though the young West-Gothic prince Athanagild was held in Constantinople as a pledge for the fulfilment by his Merovingian kinsfolk of their obligations. It was further unfortunate that the relations between pope and Emperor were none of the best; many small disagreements culminated in the dispute concerning the title of oecumenical patriarch which John the Faster had adopted. The contention between Gregory and Maurice has certainly been given a factitious importance by later historians — the over-sensitive Gregory alone seems to have regarded the question as of any vital moment and his successors quietly acquiesced in the use of the offending word — but the disagreement doubtless hampered the Emperor's reforms; when he endeavoured to prevent soldiers from deserting and retiring into monasteries, the pope seized on the measure as a new ground of complaint and raised violent protest in the name of the Church.

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 godown for periods varying from one to seven years. The average value of 10 piculs of the berries in this, their first stage, is ten yen, the farmer’s selling price.

The manufacturer of wax can carry on his business all the year round, being interrupted only by excessive heat or excessive cold. His establishment consists of godowns for storing the berries, a large shed containing the pans for heating, the presses for extracting the liquid wax, and as large a piece of levelled ground as possible for laying out the wax during its bleaching process. He establishes himself as near as possible to a supply of good clear water.

When sufficiently ripe, the berries are thrashed with bamboo flails and thus separated from their stalks. They are then crushed, as shown in the diagram, and reduced to the stage of sample No. 2,. [sic] This crushing process, which can readily be done between thumb and finger, discloses a small hard red kernel surrounded by an apparently dry husk or fibre. The wax is contained in this fibre and only to a very small extent in the kernel, but it is not necessary to separate the two. They are then well steamed over an open kettle, the water in which is kept boiling by a wood fire underneath.

From the steaming sieve the mixture is placed “all hot” into the press bags, surrounded by bamboo rings to fit the aperture in the press, and as quickly as possible placed in the press, as shown in the diagram. Wedges are driven home by repeated blows of a mallet, and the liquid runs off into its receptacle at the bottom. Primitive as this style of pressing is, the result has not yet been improved upon by the trial of several hydraulic presses which have at various times been tried by the Japanese for expressing both oil and wax. Their own presses cost little, never get out of order, last long, require nothing but cheap coolie hire, and, in actual percentage of liquid extracted, do very nearly as much work as an expensive “Langue’s” hydraulic press, requiring steam or other power to drive pumps which frequently require overhauling and repairing. After being fully pressed, the ‘cake’ or residue of the wax

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282 accordingly the vacant throne was offered to Theodosius, the Emperor's eldest son, or, should he decline it, to his father-in-law Germanus, both of whom were hunting at the time in the neighbourhood of the capital. They were at once recalled to Constantinople. Germanus, realising that he was suspected of treason, armed his followers and surrounded by a body-guard took refuge in the Cathedral Church. He had won the sympathies of the populace, and when the Emperor attempted to remove him by force from St Sophia, riots broke out in the city, while the troops of the demes deserted their posts on the walls to join in the abuse of Emperor and patriarch. Maurice was denounced as a Marcianist and ribald songs were shouted against him through the streets. The house of the praetorian praefect, Constantine Lardys, was burned to the ground, and at the dead of night, with his wife and children, accompanied by Constantine, the Emperor, disguised as a private citizen, embarked for Asia (22 Nov. 602). A storm carried him out of his course and he only landed with difficulty at the shrine of Autonomus the Martyr; here an attack of gout held him prisoner, while the praetorian praefect was despatched with Theodosius to enlist the sympathy of Chosroes on behalf of his benefactor. The Emperor fled, the Greens determined to espouse the cause of Phocas and rejected the overtures of Germanus, who now made a bid for the crown and was prepared to purchase their support; they feared that, once his end was gained, his well-known partiality for the Blues would reassert itself. The disappointed candidate was driven to acknowledge his rival's claims. Phocas was invited to the Hebdomon (Makrikeui) and thither trooped out the citizens, the senate, and the patriarch. In the church of St John the Baptist the rude half-barbarian centurion was crowned sovereign of the Roman Empire, and entered the capital "in a golden shower" of royal gifts.

But the usurper could not rest while Maurice was alive. On the day following the coronation of his wife Leontia, upon the Asian shore at the harbour of Eutropius five sons of the fallen Emperor were slain before their father's eyes, and then Maurice himself perished, calling upon God and repeating many times "Just art thou, O Lord, and just is thy judgment." From the beach men saw the bodies floating on the waters of the bay, while Lilius brought back to the capital the severed heads, where they were exposed to public view.

Maurice was a realist who suffered from an obstinate prejudice in favour of his own projects and his own nominees; he could diagnose the ills from which the Empire suffered, but did not always choose aright the moment for administering the remedy. He had served a stern apprenticeship in the eastern wars, and saw clearly that while Rome in many of her provinces was fighting for existence, the importance of the leader of armies outweighed that of the civil governor. In some temporary instances Justinian had entrusted to the praefect the duties of a general, and had thus broken through the sharp distinction between the two


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 fibre is broken up, again steamed and once more put through the press, thus yielding all its available wax.

Meantime the liquid quickly solidifies into a large block of a dark green, coarse and tallowy substance, which is at once boiled down and ran off into small earthenware saucers, then assuming the appearance of sample No. 3.

The loss in weight of the manufacturer’s original purchase of 10 piculs of berries has by this time amounted to 8.50 piculs. His first quantity was reduced to 8.80 piculs by the thrashing process, and of the liquid now produced from the press he has only one picul and a-half in the form of sample No. 3.

In order to purify and bleach the wax for export, it now becomes necessary to re-boil it in its present stage, mixed with water and ashes (either shell or charcoal ashes) and again run it off into large blocks. These blocks are then cut up into thin strips or stored, placed on mats and exposed to the air, during fine clear weather only, for a period of fifteen days and occasionally sprinkled with water. The material is then again boiled down, mixed with water only this time, and run into large blocks. Once more are these blocks cut up into thin strips and again exposed to the air; this time for a period of about five days.

Again boiled down, with no water, the impurities rise to the surface and are skimmed off, leaving the residue to be run into saucers, assuming the shape and colour of sample No. 4 which is the vegetable wax as known to the European consumer.

The various stages from sample No. 3 to the final one No. 4 have further reduced the weight of wax from 1.50 piculs to 1.44 piculs, and the cost of this production now stands at about the following figures, viz:—

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 for the final production of 1.44 piculs, being the equivalent of about 10 yen per picul for the finished wax, without any allowance for interest on the capital used in the first purchase of the berries or in the plant and property of the manufacturer.

It only remains to be mentioned that the present market value of the finished wax is from 10.50 to 11 yen per picul when packed in boxes ready for export, and even this price, which shows only a loss to the Japanese manufacturer, is higher than the corresponding value of the same article in Europe, so that for the present, at least, this industry is not a profitable one either to the manufacturer or the shipper. The value of wax, however, varies considerably, and about three years ago it was worth for the London market about 20 yen per picul!

Its use at home appears to be confined to the “facing” of candles and the manufacture of “vestas,” and the frequent discoveries of cheaper substitutes for these manufactures materially affect the value of vegetable wax from Japan. For local consumption in the manufacture of Japanese candles there is always a considerable demand for vegetable wax in its unbleached state; but with the prevailing and increasing consumption of Kerosine oil even this outlet for the native industry is getting much restricted.

A reference to the four samples accompanying this paper, showing the various stages of vegetable wax from the berry to the finished saucer, and to the native diagrams (which, Japanese-like, are rather in caricature) showing some of the processes in its manufacture, will, I trust, clearly explain what may well be regarded as one of the chief industries of Japan.

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474 of a local British god. At Wardale in Cumberland there occurs on an inscription, the name of a god Ceaiius, but the connexions of this name are entirely unknown. At Martlesham in Suffolk, there occurs an undoubtedly Keltic name Corotiacus, identified with Mars, and probably a British local god. The name Marriga or Riga, which occurs on an inscription at Malton in Yorkshire, is likewise probably that of some local deity identified with Mars. The name Matunus, found on an inscription at Elsdon in Northumberland, may be a derivative of the Keltic "matis" (meaning good), and, as it occurs nowhere else, it may well be a local name. There is an inscription, too, at Colchester (c. A.D. 222-235), set up by a Caledonian (Caledo), which mentions a god Medocius, identified with Mars, and clearly this can hardly have been a foreign deity. On the other hand, the name Mounus, which occurs on an inscription at Risingham, is probably a contraction of Mogounus, the name of a god who is identified on an inscription at Horberg in Alsace with Grannos and Apollo, and who is probably unconnected with Britain. One of the clearest instances, however, of the occurrence of the name of a British god on an inscription of Roman times, is in the case of the god Nodons or Nodens, whose name is identical with the Irish name Nuada and the Welsh name Nudd. The Irish name Nuada forms the element -nooth in the name Maynooth (the plain of Nuada). The form Nodens or Nodons (in the dative case Nodenti or Nodonti) occurs four times on inscriptions at Lydney Park, a place on the Severn near Gloucester. It is possible that the name Lydney itself comes from a variant of Nodens, or from the name of a cognate deity Lodens, which has given in Welsh the legendary name Lludd. The name Arvalus, which occurs on an inscription at Blackmoorland on Stainmoor, Westmoreland, is most probably the name of a local deity of Brescia, inscribed by a soldier from that region, and there is some doubt, too, as to the British character of Contrebis (identified with Ialonus), though both names are undoubtedly Keltic, found at Lancaster and Overborough, inasmuch as Ialonus occurs also on an inscription at Nimes. The name Contrebis probably means "the god of the joint dwellings," and Ialonus, "the god of the fertile land."

Another Keltic name, found on inscriptions in Britain as well as in Gaul, is that of Condatis ("the joiner together"), identified with Mars, and occurs on an inscription at Piers Bridge, Durham as well as at Chester-le-Street and Allonne, Sarthe, Le Mans. Even when inscriptions were set up in Britain by foreign troops, it must not be too hastily assumed that they paid no deference to local British gods, since the name Mapŏnos, an undoubtedly Keltic name of a British deity, occurs on an inscription found at Ribchester, Durham, for the welfare of


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A General Meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday evening, 23rd December, at the Grand Hotel, C. W. Goodwin, Esq., V.P. in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting were approved, and A. O. Gay, Esq. of Kobe, was announced as having been elected an ordinary member.

The Committee on the Library reported that a new room had been engaged at No. 28, which would be open daily from 4 to 6 Whereupon Professor Ayrton suggested that although the Librarian might only attend from four to six o’clock, so that books could only be obtained during those hours, he would suggest that the room itself should be open all day and furnished with pens, ink and paper so that it might be used by the members as a room for writing letters in, &c. He would add that the small room at the Grand Hotel which formerly was used as a Library by the Society, had been found by himself as well as by other members residing in Tokio, very convenient for such purposes.

Mr. Brunton read the following explanatory remarks, as supplementary to his statement made at the last meeting, in regard to the discharge of water from the rivers Rhine and Shinanogawa respectively:—

At the last meeting of the Society during the discussion which followed the reading of Mr. Lindo’s paper on a trip to Niigata I made a statement giving some particulars concerning the Shinanogawa, which river has its mouth at Niigata. I then compared the discharge of the Shinanogawa with that of the Rhine, and I have received from Mr. Lindo a letter taking exception to that comparison and asking me to make a correction of my statement in such a manner as I deem most suitable. As the matter occurred at the last meeting of this Society, and has appeared as part of its proceedings I think that this is the proper time and place to bring the matter forward. Mr. Lindo informs me in his letter, that his paper, read by Mr. Boyle, contains statements relative to the discharge of the Shinanogawa; and also a comparison between it and that of the Rhime, but that that gentleman, in reading the paper, passed these over. His comparison and mine he says are antagonistic, not as regards the discharge of the Shinanogawa, because on that we agree, I may say, quite remarkably, but as regards the discharge of the Rhine; and he has been good enough to send me very elaborate tables of the discharge of the Rhine which were, of course, not previously known to me, but which place that matter beyond a doubt. From these I find that the ordinary summer discharge of the Rhine near its mouth is over five millions cubic feet per minute, that its maximum discharge in floods is over twenty-three millions cubic feet per minute, and its minimum discharge is 2,700,000 cubic feet per minute. In my statement I gave the ordinary summer discharge as 900,000 cubic feet per minute, and the flood discharge as ten millions cubic feet per minute, that is to say the summer discharge as given by me is between one-fifth and one-sixth of what it actually is,

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, a son of Aeëtes, and brother of Medea. Medea, fleeing with Jason from Colchis, slew her brother and scattered his mangled remains behind her, in order to retard her father's pursuit, Med. 121, 125, *131, 452, 473, 911; his dismembered ghost appears to the distracted Medea, ibid. 963.

, see.

, son of Pelias, king of Thessaly. He demands Jason and Medea from Creon, king of Corinth, for vengeance on account of the murder of his father through the machinations of Medea, Med. 257, 415, 521, 526.

, the river-god of the river of the same name. He fought with Hercules for the possession of Deianira, changing himself into various forms, H. Oet. *299; defeated by Hercules, ibid. *495.

, one of the rivers of hades, Thy. 17; described by Theseus, H. Fur. 715.

, son of Peleus and Thetis, and one of the celebrated Greek heroes in the Trojan War. He was connected by birth with heaven (Jupiter), the sea (Thetis), and the lower world (Acacus), Tro. 344; educated by Chiron, the centaur, ibid. 832; hidden by his mother in the court of Lycomedes, king of Scyros, in the disguise of a girl's garments, in order to keep him from the war, ibid. 213; while there, became the father of Pyrrhus by Deïdamia, daughter of the king, ibid. 342; his activities in the early period of the Trojan War, ibid. 182; wounds and cures Telephus, ibid. *215; overthrows Lyrnessus and Chrysa, taking captive Briseïs and Chryseïs, ibid. 220; effect of his anger on account of the loss of Briseïs, ibid. 194, 318; example of the taming power of love, Oct. 814; slays Memnon and trembles at his own victory, Tro. *239; slays Penthesilea, the Amazon, ibid. 243; works dire havoc among Trojans in revenge for death of Patroclus, Agam. 619; slays Hector and drags his dead body around walls of Troy, Tro. 189; is slain by Paris, ibid. 347; his ghost appears to the Greeks on the eve of their homeward voyage, and demands the sacrifice of Polyxena upon his tomb, ibid. *170.

, a grandson of Cadmus, who accidentally saw Diana bathing in a pool near Mt. Cithaeron. For this he was changed by the angry goddess into a stag, and in this form was pursued and slain by his own dogs, Oed. *751; Phoen. 14.

, the mistress of Nero who displaced Poppaea, Oct. 195.

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, king of Argos. He received the fugitive Polynices at his court, gave him his daughter in marriage, and headed the expedition of the Seven against Thebes, in order to reinstate his son-in-law upon the throne, Phoen. 374.

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 and the flood discharges between one-half and one-third of what it actually is. In justice to myself I must say that I procured my information from Beardmore’s Manual of Hydrology, which book is considered as good authority by all English Hydraulic Engineers; but it is also necessary to say that on more carefully investigating the matter, I find that Beardmore’s gauging was not taken at the month of the Rhine, but at Lauterbourg which is some distance below Strasbourg. Is is necessary, therefore, for me to correct the statement I formerly made to the extent that the Shinanogawa discharges the same amount of water at its mouth as the Rhine does at Lautenbourg and that therefore the size of the two rivers cannot fairly be compared. In reference to the actual discharge of the Shinanogawa, it may be useful to have on the records of the Society a comparison of the results obtained by myself and Mr. Lindo as these are so close that they assuredly leave no room for uncertainty regarding it. On the 21st June 1871 I gauged the discharge of the river and found it to be 1,500,000 cubic feet per minute. During the months of June and July 1873 Mr. Lindo took a succession of observations the mean result of which was 1,320,000 cubic feet per minute, the difference between this and mine being so trifling as almost to appear extraordinary. I calculated the basin of the Shinanogawa from government maps which were necessarily more or less inaccurate, making it to be 10,000 square miles in area. And taking the discharge of that area at seventy cubic feet per minute per square mile, which is the average discharge of twenty-five rivers in different parts of the world gives the discharge of the Shinanogawa as 700,000 cubic feet per minute. Mr. Lindo has calculated the low water discharge at 720,000 cubic feet per minute, which two results verily each other surprisingly. From data procured from a comparison with other rivers I estimated that the maximum flood discharge of the Shinanogawa would probably be about twenty times the latter mentioned discharge, viz: fourteen millions cubic feet per minute, Mr. Lindo from actual measurements has calculated the flood discharge to he 12,000,000 cubic feet per minute. Those calculations, made perfectly independently on different systems and verifying each other so closely, conclusively determine the size of the Shinanogawa, and I, therefore, thought it well to give the Society the information which I do with Mr. Lindo’s sanction.

Professor Ayrton then read a resumé of Dr. Geerts’ paper on Lead and Silver; and in reply to a question from the chair, stated that he believed little or no quicksilver was found in Japan. As far as he was aware all the quicksilver used in this country was imported from China to which country it had been brought from Europe. Consequently the price of quicksilver in Japan was far higher than in England.

Mr. Brunton here remarked upon the black colour on the bronze image at Nara.

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Rh A name corresponding to that of the god Segomo of Gaul is found on an Ogam inscription in Ireland — Netta-Segamonas (the Champion of Segamo), and, later, as Nia-Sedhamain (for Seghamain). The Gaulish god Camulos has his British counterpart in the Camalos or Camulos after whom Colchester received its name Camalodunum or Camulodunum. The proper name Camulorigho (in an oblique case) found on an inscription in Anglesey, as well as Camelorigi, which occurs on an inscription at Cheriton in Pembrokeshire, are further evidence that the god Camulos was not unknown in Britain. This is still more probable, since the name of this deity occurs on an inscription at Barhill, while the wide range of his worship is suggested by the existence of his name on inscriptions at Salona, Rome and Clermont.

It would be unsafe to take the fact that the name of a deity occurs on an inscription in Britain as evidence that the deity in question was worshipped by the natives, since the inscriptions found in Britain are mostly those of soldiers who often paid their vows to the deities of their own lands. At the same time, the area over which certain inscriptions are found makes it highly probable that the deities mentioned on them were worshipped, among other countries, in Britain itself. The following account of the deities mentioned on inscriptions in Britain will suggest not a few instances where this was doubtless the case. The name Aesus, which is probably identical with the Gaulish Esus, occurs once on a British silver coin, and this fact makes it not unreasonable to suppose that this god was worshipped in Britain. On an inscription found at Colchester, there is mentioned a god identified with Mercury, called Andescox, but of this deity nothing further is known. The name of another god Aneχtiomarus (a name probably meaning "the great protector") is found, identified with Apollo, on an inscription at South Shields on the Herd sands, south of the mouth of the Tyne, and the beginning of the same name occurs on a stone which is in the Museum at Le Mans. The name Antenociticus is found on an inscription of the second century at Benwell, and Antocus at Housesteads, but the connexion of these gods with Britain is uncertain, as is that of a god Arciaco mentioned on a votive inscription at York. The name Audus, identified with Belatucadrus, on an inscription at Scalby Castle, is probably British, and similarly that of Barrex, a god identified with Mars, mentioned on an inscription at Carlisle. A deity, whose name is incomplete (Deo Sancto Bergant ...), mentioned on an inscription found at Longwood near Slack (Cambodunum), was not improbably the tribal god of the Brigantes. Another name, Braciaca, identified with Mars on an inscription at Haddon House near Bakewell, was probably that


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 this was produced not by any admixture of quicksilver but by the bronze containing a considerable percentage of lead in consequence of which the bronze was soft. After the vase, or other bronze ornament, was finished, the outside was strongly heated, and when on the point of liquefaction it underwent a rapid oxydation and thus a dark uniform coat closely adherent to the rest of the metal was formed. For the particulars of this process he would refer the society to the careful analysis of Japanese bronze, made some months back by M. Morin and communicated by that gentleman to the French Academy.

Mr. Syle mentioned the New Almaden mines, near San José in California, as furnishing a large supply of quicksilver.

A Paper, contributed by Mr. Gribble of Nagasaki, on the Production and Manufacture of Vegetable Wax in Japan, was read by Mr. W. H. Smith, who exhibited specimens and diagrams illustrative of the subject.

Mr. Syle remarked on the similarity of the process employed to that used in China for the extraction of oil from the bean. As to the employment of the wedge rather than the screw, it was noteworthy that although the Chinese were acquainted with the latter and used it for some purposes, they never seemed to employ it as a mechanical power. The experiment made at Newchwang for obtaining the bean-oil by foreign machinery had not been successful.

Professor W. E. Ayrton said, he could see why the wedge was used in preference to the screw both in China and Japan for extracting oil as stated by Mr. Syle, since theory showed that in the absence of very great power a greater crushing effect could be produced by sudden blows on a wedge than by the continued pressure of a screw. He thought that probably the considerable initial expense necessary to be incurred in the purchase of a hydraulic press might be the reason why they were so rarely used in this country for the extraction of wax; since as far as he could judge from the diagrams lying on the table the apparatus at present employed was of the rudest description and therefore cost but very little. He would be glad if Mr. Smith could inform them in what way Japanese vegetable wax differed from Chinese wax.

Mr. W. H. Smith expressed his surprise that the hydraulic press was not more used; and read the following remarks of Sir H. Parkes from a note written on the subject of the paper:

“ [sic]I am sorry to see that the wax cannot be produced at a paying price, but this must be partly attributable to the very high charges of manufacture. I cannot help thinking that it might be produced at a much less cost with more industry and real hard work on the part of the Japanese. I was told in England that it could be largely used in the process of printing manufactures (cottons) if a large and steady supply could be reckoned on, but as it came to market only by fits and starts and in unreliable quantities, manufacturers were obliged to use other material. I am sorry if this industry should fail, for the Japanese have but few available products for export, and they must work harder before they increase them.

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 will not be incurred until after the suit is ended.”).

In sum, the amount in controversy includes all relief claimed at the time of removal to which the plaintiff would be entitled if she prevails.

The amount in controversy is what is at stake in the litigation at the time of removal. Where, as here, a plaintiff’s complaint at the time of removal claims wrongful termination resulting in lost future wages, those future wages are included in the amount in controversy. That being the ease, the amount in controversy here easily exceeds $75,000. We therefore have subject matter jurisdiction over this action.

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 Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, William Horsley Orrick, District Judge, Presiding, D.C. No. 3:15-cv-04324-WHO

David A. Schwarz (argued), Irell & Manella LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Andrew J. Dhuey (argued), Berkeley, California, for Defendants-Appellees David John Slater and Wildlife Personalities, Ltd.

Angela Dunning (argued), Jacqueline B. Kort, Kyle C. Wong, Jessica Valenzuela Santamaria, Cooley LLP, Palo Alto, California, for Defendant-Appellee Blurb, Inc.

Justin Marceau, Denver, Colorado; Corey Page, San Francisco, California; for Amicus Curiae Agustin Fuentes.

Before: Carlos T. Bea and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges, and Eduardo C. Robreno, District Judge.

by Judge N.R. Smith

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Rh Sarmatian troops, and on inscription found at Ainstable near Armthwaite, Cumberland, erected by Germans, as well as at Hexham, Northumberland. The Geographer of Ravenna mentions a place-name in Britain called Maponi, which was, in full, possibly Maponi fanum. On the Continent the name Maponos occurs only at Bourbonne-les-Bains and Rouen, in both cases as that of a man. The name Mapŏnos meant "the great (or divine) youth," and survived in Welsh legend as that of Mabon. Welsh legend gives his mother's name as Matrŏna (the divine mother), a name identical with that of the original name of the river Marne. In Wales, the name Mabon forms the second element in the place-name Rhiw Fabon (the slope of Mabon), now commonly spelt Ruabon, in Denbighshire. On all the British inscriptions Mapŏnos is identified with Apollo.

It is difficult to be certain whether Mogons, the deity from whom Moguntiacum (Mainz) derives its name, was known to natives of Britain, but the name occurs on inscriptions at Plumptonwall near Old Penrith, Netherby and Risingham. In the case of deities of this type the original zone of their worship is not easily discoverable; for example, the name of a god Tullinus occurs on inscriptions at Newington in Kent and Chesterford, as well as at Inzino and Heddernheim. There is a similar difficulty in the case of the god Sucellos, whose name occurs on inscriptions at York, Vienne (dep. Isère), Yverdun in Switzerland, Worms, Mainz, and the neighbourhood of Saarburg in Lorraine. It is not impossible that we have here a reference to one of the greater gods of the Keltic pantheon, who was worshipped in Britain as well as in other parts of the Keltic world. It is scarcely possible, again, to doubt the identity with the major Keltic god Teutates of the Toutatis mentioned on inscriptions at Rooky Wood, Hertfordshire, Seckau and Rome, and of the Tutatis (identified with Cocidius and Mars), mentioned on an inscription at Old Carlisle. It is certain that Cocidius was a British god, and the evidence for the British character of Tutatis appears no less convincing. The name of Cocidius occurs on inscriptions at Lancaster, Old Carlisle, Housesteads, Hardriding, Banksteed near Lanercost Priory, Howgill near Walton, Birdoswald near Bewcastle, Low Wall near Howgill, High Stead between Old Wall and Bleatarn, Old Wall near Carlisle, at a spot between Tarraby and Stanwix, at Netherby, and close to Bewcastle, while it occurs nowhere on the Continent. The name of another deity, Belatucadros, occurs on inscriptions at Whelp Castle near Kirkby Thore in Westmoreland, Brougham Castle, Westmoreland, Plumptonwall near Penrith in Cumberland, Kirkbride in Cumberland, Old Carlisle, Ellenborough, Carvoran, Castlesteads, Scalby


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586 hiding-place on Mount Soracte, disclosed the identity of the gods seen in his dream, and not only cured but converted and baptised him. Thereupon the grateful monarch, proclaiming throughout the Empire his new faith, provided by edict for its safety and support, made all bishops subject to the Pope, even as are all magistrates to the Emperor, and, setting forth to found elsewhere a capital, first laid with his own hands the foundations of St Peter's and the Lateran.

It was doubtless faith in this wild tale which led the rueful Carloman, fain to atone for his own deeds of violence, to choose Sylvester's cave for his retreat and dedicate his convent to that saint. The legend must thereby have gained a wider currency among the Franks; and none could know this better than the papal court. Was it for use with them, and was it now, that there came into existence a document which made the myth a cornerstone of papal power — the so-called Donation of Constantine?

No extant manuscript of that famous forgery is older than the early ninth century, and what most scholars have believed a quotation from it by Pope Hadrian in 778 can possibly be otherwise explained; but minute study of the strange charter's diction seems now to have made sure its origin in the papal chancellery during the third quarter of the eighth century, and startling coincidences of phrase connect it in particular with the documents of Stephen II and of Paul, while to an ever-growing proportion of the students of this period the historical setting in which alone it can be made to fit is that of Stephen's visit to the Franks or of the years which closely follow it.

The document makes Constantine first narrate at length the story of his healing, embodying in it an elaborate creed taught him by Pope Sylvester. Then, declaring St Peter and his successors worthy, as Christ's vicars on earth, of power more than imperial, he chooses them as his patrons before God, decrees their supremacy over all the Christian church, relates his building of the Lateran and of St Peter's and St Paul's, and his endowing them "for the enkindling of the lights" with vast


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 "Buck up, Horace! All is fair in love and war!"

Within twenty-four hours I had asked for and obtained the transfer which caused so much surprise and comment—for I was afraid I would kill him if I remained near him.

Arriving home, I threw myself heart and soul into the work of reconstruction—the building up of features destroyed, which made me world famous. But what cared I for notoriety or honors! With a strength and concentration of effort almost beyond my own understanding, the wonderment of my colleagues, I worked feverishly with little or no rest—I did the work of a dozen men—and little did they suspect I was working to save my reason!

My life was a hell! Ugly black thoughts constantly tortured my brain when I was idle, and my sleep of exhaustion was a succession of frightful nightmares, in which the tormenting demon invariably took the likeness of Selwyn Morris! I had to work, work or succumb!

Upon several occasions, distorted vision showed him to me in the street crowds; and once I followed for hours to locate his abode—only to learn upon cautious inquiry that he was still in France. At another time, the face upon which I was working suddenly became his face, and for the first time in my life my nerve almost deserted me—I finished by will power alone.

I knew these were delusions, fantasies of a mentality strained almost to the breaking point, and I feared the time when I should have to face him—the outcome made me shudder, even though my heart was filled with hatred.

With the end of the war came news of Selwyn's return, and from that hour I dared not trust myself on the public streets. I motored from my apartment to the hospital, there to remain until evening; then, behind drawn curtains, I rode home and shut myself up until midnight. At that hour, when there was no likelihood of meeting him, I walked for one hour in a place he had never been known to frequent—the park. As time passed, I gradually lost my fear—I felt it would be possible to avoid him forever—then, upon a secluded path, in the pale, ghostly moonlight, I met him.

Facing each other, separated only by a few feet, he smiled and extended his hand. I was astounded to find my mind clear and my nerves quiet—that I experienced none of the feelings I had anticipated.

"Horace, old man," he said with deep feeling, "I heard that you took your exercise here every night, and I have come to ask your forgiveness."

"For what?" I asked calmly.

"For—for—" he faltered, then exclaimed: "Truly, old man, I knew nothing of your interest in Margaret until I had asked her to marry me! Do you believe me?"

"Of course I do, Wyn!" I cried, clasping his hand warmly. "I'll admit I was pretty hard hit at first. But she never told me she cared for me, so there was nothing in the way of her accepting you. I've buried it, Wyn, and I wish both of you every happiness!"

"Gad, Horace! That's the best news I've ever heard!" he exclaimed joyously. "We were dreadfully cut up about you, and now you have removed the only drawback to our complete happiness! How glad she will be! She's an angel, Horace, if there ever was one on earth!"

For a moment emotion choked me, and I was thankful the shadow of the shrubbery hid the shudder which convulsed me.

"I know she is, old fellow," I managed to say a trifle hoarsely. "But come, you are going home with me—I've a little old Scotch left, and I haven't forgotten how you like it!"

HOUGH he protested at the lateness of the hour, I led him away to the apartment we had for several years shared in common.

As I saw him seated in the chair which had once been his favorite, a great wave of joy surged over me, and I turned hastily to prepare his drink, lest he notice my agitation. As I added the white crystals which were to place him entirely in my power, my hand shook; but I steeled myself, and when I faced him, there was no outward sign of the fierce fires burning within me.

"To her, Wyn!" I cried, raising my glass. "May she live long to enjoy her happiness!"

We drank, and I seated myself, my eyes fixed gloatingly upon him. He was mine—mine! My heart sang it—the little clock on the mantel ticked it. Mine—mine! Mine—mine! Mine—mine! No power of heaven or hell could tear him from me!

"—like old times!" I heard-him murmur drowsily, attempting to arise. "Wish I could stay, old chap—pretty—late. Eetta will wonder—I—I—feel little queer—better go—come back—come—come—"

His voice died away like a clock running down, and he sank back in the chair.

"At last—at last!" I grated, looking down at him. "You and I are going to have a long delayed settlement, Selwyn Morris!"

Stripping off my coat, I took the limp form in my arms as though he was a child and half ran through the rooms to the distant laboratory. My plans had long been worked out to the smallest detail, so there was no hesitation now. Hastily removing his clothing, I strapped him to the table and made my preparations with the sureness and care I would have observed in the hospital.

Little anesthetic was necessary, and I was soon at work. A few well-placed sutures gave his eyes a slight oriental slant; one here, one there, and his curved eyebrows were almost straight; an incision and a little careful moulding made the nose decidedly aquiline; a small portion of cuticle removed, and a running stitch gave a cleft to the chin; two stitches in just the right place made the ears stand from the head; and, then, my crowning feat!

After long experiment upon the lower animals, I had succeeded in injecting, by means of a specially made hair-like hypodermic needle, pigment into the retina, thereby changing the color of the eye! This I now did on my first human patient, and rejoiced when the gray changed to seal brown!

Deftly applying adhesive dressing, I placed him in bed and threw myself into a chair by his side, where I remained the rest of the night and the succeeding day, holding him every minute under the influence of the benumbing drug. The moment I had prayed for, planned and waited patiently for had come at last! I reveled in a delirium of ecstasy, without any sense of drowsiness or fatigue! At times I could scarcely believe, and many times reached out to touch the plaster-strapped face, to convince myself it was not a dream!

For three days I kept him unconscious, snatching sleep in the chair by the bedside; and every one of those days I laughed at the uproar I knew his disappearance must be causing! I could imagine the theories of the police—foul play, suicide, accident! And all the time he was snoring away in his old bed! Is it any wonder I laughed! I would laugh still more when I had finished with him and turned him out into the world! This would be my masterpiece, and what a pity no one would ever know!


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Rh completion, and when produced for proof be confirmed by oath of the producer.

In lieu of proof by witnesses or documents, oaths were sometimes resorted to. The judge might propose to one of the parties to support his allegation by an oath, and, if the oath was taken, the judge would naturally decide that point in his favour. But either party might challenge the other, either before trial or in the course of it, to swear to some particular matter, and if the party so challenged swore in the terms of the challenge, the matter would be held to be decided as much as by a judgment, and in any further dispute between the parties or their sureties or persons joined with them the oath if relevant could be pleaded or acted on as decisive. And the same result ensues, if the party to whom the oath is tendered declares his readiness to swear and the other then waives the demand. The party called on to swear may instead of taking the oath retort the demand, and the other party is then in the same position as if the oath had been originally tendered to him. In earlier times probably such tender of oath could be declined in most cases without prejudice, but Justinian apparently makes no restriction, and a defendant for instance to an action for money lent, if plaintiff tendered him an oath whether it was due or not, had no choice except either to take the oath or admit the debt, unless indeed he retorted the tender. Plaintiff, if he accepted the retort, would have first to swear to his own good faith and then could establish his claim by the oath. In all cases the oath, if it is to carry the consequence stated, must not be volunteered, but taken in reply to the challenge and must conform precisely to the terms.

The requirement of an oath was also resorted to in some cases by the judge in order to compel obedience, wrongly refused, to an interlocutory decision. The plaintiff was allowed to fix the damages himself, by an oath of the amount due. This was called in litem jurare, "to swear to the disputed claim."

The criminal law was put in force either on the magistrate's own initiative or by private persons. Women and soldiers were not admitted as accusers, unless the crime was against themselves, or their near relatives. Anyone desiring to bring an accusation had to specify the date and place of the crime and to give a surety for due prosecution. Laws of Constantine, and Arcadius, retained by Justinian, directed that any servant (familiaris) or slave bringing an accusation against his master should be at once put to death before any inquiry into the case or production of witnesses. And the like was enacted (423) in the case of a freedman accusing his patron. Excepted from this rule were cases of adultery, high treason, and fraud in the tax-return (census). An accuser not proving his case was (373) made subject to the penalty belonging to the crime charged. A like rule of talion was prescribed in some other cases.


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104 A law of 320 prescribed that in all cases, whether a private person or an official was prosecuting, the trial should take place immediately. If accuser were not present or the accused's accomplices were required, they should be sent for at once, and meantime any chains that were put on the accused should be long ones, not close-fitting handcuffs; nor should he be confined in the inmost and darkest prison but enjoy light, and at night, when the guard is doubled, be allowed in the vestibules and more healthy parts of the prison. The judge should take care that the accusers do not bribe the gaolers to keep the accused back from a hearing and starve them: if they do, the officers should be capitally punished. The sexes were to be kept apart (340). Justinian in 529 forbad anyone being imprisoned without an order from the higher magistrates, and directed the bishops to examine once a week into the cause of imprisonment, and to ascertain whether the prisoners were slave or free and whether imprisoned for debt or crime. Debtors were to be let out on bail: if they had no bail they were to have a hearing and be let out on oath, their property being forfeited if they fled. Freemen charged with lesser crimes to be let out on bail, but if the charge were capital and no bail was allowed, imprisonment was not to extend beyond one year. Slaves to be tried within 20 days. The bishops, as ordered by Honorius, had to report any remissness in the magistrates. Private prisons were forbidden altogether by Justinian (529).

The accused was examined by the judge. If a slave was accused, torture was sometimes applied to elicit a confession. In republican times a freeman was not liable to this. Under the Empire the rule was broken, but persons of high rank were exempt, except where the charge was treason (majestas) or magical arts.

The judge could compel anyone to give evidence except bishops and high officers and old and sick persons or soldiers or attendants on magistrates at a distance. A private accuser had similar powers, but for a limited number. Defendant could call witnesses, but had no power of compulsion.

Parents and children were not admissible as witnesses against one another, nor were other near relatives ; nor freedmen against their patron. Slaves were not admissible to give evidence against their master, except in cases of treason, adultery or fraud on the revenue. As a rule slaves were used as witnesses only in default of others. They were examined, and if their statements were not satisfactory, torture was applied.

If after trial the accused was acquitted, the old practice (retained by Justinian) was for the judge to examine into the conduct of the accuser, and, if he found no reasonable ground for the accusation, to hold him guilty of calumny. For collusion with the accused he might be held guilty of prevarication. Nor was an accuser allowed to withdraw from an accusation once undertaken, especially if the accused had been long


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Rh in prison or had been subjected to blows or chains. But if the accused consented or had not been harshly treated, withdrawal (abolitio) was generally permitted, except on charges of treason or other grave crimes. An accuser, once desisting, could not take the charge up again.

A general indulgence, by which all persons accused (with certain exceptions) were released, was decreed by Constantine in 322 on account of the birth of a son to Crispus. In later years the like indulgence was granted at Easter, and apparently in 385 it was made a standing rule. Persons charged with poisoning, murder, adultery, evil magic, sacrilege, or treason, and sometimes other offenders, were excepted.

Most of the legislation on crime goes back to the Republic or to Augustus. The law of treason (majestas) is based on a law of the latter. Treason consists in doing anything against the Roman people and includes all assistance to the enemy, attacks on Roman magistrates, intentional injury to the Emperor's statues, collecting for seditious purposes armed men in the city, refusal to leave a province on the appointment of a successor, making false entries in public documents, etc. Abuse or other insult to the Emperor required careful inquiry as to the motive and sanity of the accused; punishment was to await a report to the Emperor. If an accuser failed to establish his charge, he was liable to be examined by torture himself, notwithstanding any privilege from military service, birth, or dignity. The punishment for treason was death and forfeiture of property. Conspiracy to compass the death of the Emperor's councillors subjected even the sons of the criminal to incapacity for succession to any inheritance or legacy, and to be reduced to such want that "death would be a comfort and life a punishment" (397).

By a law of Sulla, maintained and developed by the Emperors, murder, magical arts, nocturnal incantations or rites to exert unholy influence over persons, desertion to the enemy, stirring up seditions or tumult, bribing witnesses or judges to act falsely, were punished with death in the case of all but the privileged class. So also consulting soothsayers (haruspices) or mathematicians respecting the health of the Emperor, introduction of new sects or unknown religions to excite men's minds, forgery or suppression of wills, forgery of seals, coining, melting or mutilating coinage were sometimes punished capitally. Coining was regarded as treason (326).

Constantine (318) forbad under pain of burning any soothsayer from crossing the threshold of another person, even though an old friend, but in the case of magical arts distinguished between those directed against another's safety or chastity, and remedies for disease or country spells against heat or rain upon the crops. Constantius (358) was also severe against all divination, etc. Valentinian (364) forbad all nocturnal religious rites, but relaxed this prohibition on the proconsul of Greece representing that life then would be intolerable.


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 mentally styled the Hindoo's extravagant behavior.

"Guess I've been sick," he hazarded. "Must have been a little off. Touch of fever. Seems I had a dream. The Thing was on my breast. Sucking my breath like a cat. I can still feel the way its paws prodded up and down on my chest. Ugh! It was pretty awful. Glad it wasn't the truth. Queer, the tricks delirium plays."

Worthington, entering the tent, heard Payne's last remark.

"Yes, but, old dear, it wasn't delirium," he said lightly to cover his real emotion. "It was pure facts. Only for Nanah, God bless his darned old hide, you'd be filling the seventh grave today with every prospect auspicious for the number to go up to twelve."

Payne drew his aching body erect.

"The truth!" he cried, "Why man, it could not be!"

Worthington pushed his friend back on the cot, seated himself and struck match to pipe. When it was going good he answered Payne's protest.

"It both could be and was," he said soberly, "we have the answer to the puzzle. Nanah, here, because he is Indian, suspected something. But he, even, never came in a million miles of the truth. When Dean accused him of the crime he simply, to save his own skin as well as to have a free hand in working out the riddle, made himself scarce. Nanah knew that if suspicion once fastened on to him his chances of getting in the clear was about, zero. So, logically, he took leg-bail, laid low, and saved you from being the seventh victim of the purple death."

Worthington stopped and mopped his brow. When he resumed his face was pale.

"The story has its inception in an event which occurred a year ago when some man, an explorer and curio-seeker, came into this part of the country. As I understood it the priests of the Temple of Indra have, there in the temple, a god called Indra. This, as all such heathen junk, is sacred in the sight of the devotees.

"But the curio-seeker determined to annex the god. One night he stole into the temple, shot the priest on guard, swiped the image and was making his getaway when two other priests surprised him. One he killed outright but the other, shot through the spine, became a paralytic.

"I am not sure as to the thief's fate. Anyway. he fell into the hands of the priests and. from what I've gotten from the blacks, I guess it was enough.

"The man whom the explorer shot lived for weeks. On one subject, he was violently insane. When he thought, which I guess was pretty much all the time, about white men, his whole desire was to kill. He, himself, was out of the running. The poisoned bullet had done its work well.

"It was not only of his own misfortune that he thought. The young priest on guard at the shrine of Indra that particular night was the paralytic's baby brother, a young chap who'd just taken orders. He was the first man murdered.

"You may imagine something of the helpless priest's agony of spirit. His kid brother dead, himself a paralytic. Hate and revenge seethed in his blood. His soul cried out for vengeance. Nothing but the lives of white men—not one only, but as many as his malignity could reach—would satisfy him.

"Obviously, he, in his condition, could do nothing. But, because of much brooding, he evolved an idea."

Payne held up his hand.

"What has all this—the god of Indra, the thieving explorer, the slain and maimed priests—to do with the murders here in camp and my own narrow escape, if, as you say, it was fact and not hallucination?"

"It does seem sort of rambling and far-fetching, doesn't it?" agreed Worthington, "But it all correlates. I have to lead up to the climax gradually. If I took it on high the chances are you'd think I was stepping on the gas!"

Nanah nodded.

"The Sidar is right,” he said, "White men cannot understand Indian ways."

Worthington resumed.

"As the injured priest lay on his hard pallet in the palm-thatched hut he, because he was insane, devised one of the most diabolically clever plots a human's mind ever conceived.

"The kid brother whom he loved, even though priests are not supposed to love, had as a pet and companion a trained cheetah. This eat was exceptionally large. It was the sole witness to the brutal murder in the temple.

"The plan which matured in the mind of the stricken priest was horrible and unique. It was to have a part of the cheetah's brain removed and the diseased section of his own brain grafted in its place.

"At first the surgeon, the scoundrel we got to look at poor old Arnold, refused. But the paralytic was importunate. He pointed out that he must surely die. With his brain functioning in that of the animal, the work of revenge would go on as long as the cat lived. As the cheetah was less than a year old, the chances were good that it would secretly slay its tens, aye, its hundreds.

"The operation was performed. It was a success so far as the cheetah was concerned. But the priest died.

"The surgeon took the cheetah in hand. Talking to it he made it understand its mission. The hate cells of the priest's brain grew and functioned in the cat's head. Among the natives it was docile, gentle. But when it scented or saw a white man it became the prototype of the insane priest. The hate which had racked the man lashed the animal to fury.

"When we arrived on the scene the operation was three months old. The cat was perfectly recovered and ready for the test.

"The night of Borden's death the surgeon-priest, holding the cheetah in leash, crept up to camp. Everything was silent.

"Gloatingly the hell-fiend watched as Borden stirred, woke, sensed the presence of the creature upon his breast. With devilish joy he watched the cheetah as it laid foul lips to the mouth of its victim and sucked away his life.

"Enjoying the prospect of a long-drawn-out reign of terror the wretch called the cheetah, snapped back the chain and returned to the temple.

"You know the rest."

Great beads of perspiration were rolling down Payne's face. Vividly, as his friend talked, he re-lived the hideous experience of the night before.

Worthington knocked the dead ashes from his pipe.

"Only for Nanah, ever watchful, you'd—"

He broke off, abruptly.

Payne, wide-eyed, white and shaken gasped: "How did you learn all this?"

Sirdar Worthington's lips tightened, grimly.

"From the surgeon-priest, before he died. Nanah got the cheetah, but we got the priest."

He shrugged and changed the subject.

"Old Dean's right as a trivet now that—"

Payne interrupted.

"What did you do with that damned hound?" he cried.

Worthington's gray eyes hardened.

"What did we do with him? What does it matter? Anyway, it wasn't nearly good enough for him!"

Nanah nodded a wise head.

"Where he is now, Sahib Payne, they do not perform surgical operations. There is too much heat!"


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117 me and Ed and we got to say, hey, we can tweet about this.

And when you said, "He sent me some stuff," was this over email?

No, I don't think so, no.

So how would you send somebody something if it's not over email or mail? Just help me understand, what was sent to you, how was it sent to you?

I mean, it was probably a text message because it wasn't resolving. And it wasn't about January 6th. It was about election integrity. And, you know, and again, to my best recollection, they are telling us what they are doing.

And they were doing it independent of me. They were doing it independent of the White House. They were doing what they thought was right.

There were several different Members of Congress on different tracks. I thought that was silly. What I wanted to know, I wanted to be a clearinghouse for some of this information and concentrate the effort in a productive, legislative, legal, peaceful way.

How did you know they were doing it independent of the White House?

Because on the call they were in over their heads. They were, you know, saying—I asked—I think I asked, "How many Members?" Again, like, this makes me feel icky because, like, my First Amendment or whatever.

But they—they—I asked them, I think, you know, how many Members you guys have or something? We're trying to probe the political viability of the issue. And it was a ridiculous answer or something like that. And I was like, "Are you guys working with White House Legislative Affairs? Are you working with anybody who's, like, helping y'all with whip counting?" It was something about whip counting.

And whip counting is, you know, counting the expected votes for a piece of legislation.

. No, no, I watched "House of Cards." I know that one. But I


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118 appreciate it.

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What was the issue again? What was the issue that you all were discussing?

I know it was something—it was election integrity. And it was a Dear Colleague Letter. So it will be referenced there. But I don't recall what—everyone had their own bright idea, and everyone wanted to be a star. Jody Hice wanted to be a star. Ted Cruz wanted to be a star. Mo Brooks wanted to be a star. And then there were team players like, you know, Paul Gosar, who was, like, "Okay, I'll sign onto anything election integrity-wise."

I don't recall seeing any text messages in your production with anyone from Congressman Brooks' staff. You just said it was probably over text message.

I'll have to get with counsel and see what—see if there's something responsive there.

Again, were you searching for various Congressmen's names when looking for responsive documents responsive to the subpoena?

I consulted counsel when trying to find responsive documents and then hired a consultant ultimately when it was in over my head, as you guys know. I had to submit—well, I've submitted three or four different times.

But there was such a dramatic difference between our first production and our second production, because the first production was me trying to understand the House resolution and me trying to provide documents responsive to that.

Mr. Kamenar. As we said earlier, this is not a definitive, exhaustive list. We'll be glad to go back and re-check. So I appreciate your pointing these out, and we'll go back to the consultant or whatever to see.


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119. Understood. Thank you, Mr. Kamenar.

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I'm just pointing out various information that would be responsive to the subpoena that should be searched for in your documents, Mr. Alexander.

So at this rally in Arizona, you mentioned marching thousands of patriots going to D.C. for certification on January 6th. What was your plan for January 6th as of that protest on December 19th?

I do not recall. I don't have a copy of that speech. All speeches are impromptu. I think you told me the date is December 21st?

No. Actually I never mentioned December 21st, but that's a great segue.

December 21st, do you recall a meeting between congressional Members and President Trump in the Oval Office?

I wasn't in the Oval Office. So I wouldn't recall.

Did you call in to the meeting between President Trump and congressional Members on December 21st?

I do not recall calling in to the Oval Office.

Were you aware of a meeting between President Trump and congressional Members on December 21st?

I do not—that's an interesting question. I don't recall a specific meeting with Members of Congress and the President. I do know that the President hosts Members of Congress within his own party regularly.

So it's your testimony here today you did not know about a meeting between President Trump and congressional Members on December 21st of 2020?

I do not readily recall any specific meeting between Members of Congress and the President in the Oval Office. Did not call in to a conference call, to my


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 that is to ſay, the formoſt in which the vertue Imaginatiua worketh. There thoſe things that the vtter wit comprehendeth without, be ordeined and put togethers within, as ſaith Iob. The middle chamber termed Logica: therein the reaſon ſenſible or vertue Eſtimatiua is a maiſter. The third and the laſt, which is Memoratiua, the vertue of the mind. That vertue holdeth and kéepeth in the treaſure of the minde, and knowne by imagination and reaſon.

The vertue of the ſenſitiue imagination and memorie. Chap. 11.
THE vertue of féeling that commeth of the ſoule ſenſible, is a vertue, by which the ſoule knoweth & iudgeth of coulours, of ſauours, and of other obiects that be knowne by the vtter wits. The vertue imaginatiue is it, whereby wée apprehend likeneſſe and ſhapes of things of perticulars receyued, though they bée abſent: As when it ſéemeth that we ſée golden hils, either elſe when through the ſimilitude of other hills we dreame of. The vertue Eſtimatiue, or the reaſon ſenſible is it, whereby in being héedfull to auoide euill, & follow that is good, men be prudent & ſage. And this vertue Eſtimatiue is common to vs & to other beaſts: As it is ſéene in hounds & alſo in wolues: but properly to ſpeak, they vſe no reaſon, but they vſe a buſie & ſtrong eſtimation, but héereof we ſhall ſpeake in another place. But Memoratiua is a vertue conſeruatiue or recordatiue, wherby the likeneſſe of things, leaſt they ſhould be forgot, we lay vp & ſafely reſerue. Therefore one ſaid, the Memory is the coffer or cheſt of reaſon.

Of the ſenſible vertue motiue. Chap. 12.
VErtue ſenſible that moueth is parted in thrée. One parte is called Naturalis, the other Vitalis, and the third Animalis. The vertue that is called Naturalis, moueth of a beaſt by the vaines, & hath a principall place in the liuer. For that it worketh there principally. The vertue that is called Vitalis, is the vertue of life, & hath mouing by the throat, or artery pipes, in the which it moueth the ſpirits commeth from the hart. For this vertue hath place in the heart. And of the heart ſpringeth the hollow or artery pipes, as the vaines ſpring out of the liuer. The heart is ſo hot, if it wer not ſlaked with cold aire and breathing, it ſhould be ſtifeled in it ſelfe in the ſame heate. Therfore it néedeth to breath & to drawe in aire by the lungs and organe, to ſlake the heat & the burning thereof. The vertue that is called Animalis motiua, hath place in ſmall chambers of the braine. Out of the braine all the ſinewes ſpring by meane of the ridge boane, and of the marrowe of the bones therof. This vertue moueth all the lims. For firſt it moueth the ſinewes, muſcles, and brawnes: and theſe moued, they moue other limmes ſpéedely in euery parte. And for that, that it moueth the handes, it is called vertue operatiue working. And for that that it extendeth to the féete, and moueth them to walke, it is called the vertue progreſſiue, going. For thereby beaſtes haue their kindly mouing and going. Then gather briefly the properties of the ſoule ſenſible, that belongeth to this treatiſe. The ſoule ſenſible that giueth féeling, is a certeine ſpirituall ſubſtaunce more noble and more worthy then the ſoule Vegetabelis, that giueth life: And leſſe noble and leſſe worthy then the ſoule Rationalis, that giueth reaſon. For the being and the working of this ſoule, that is Senſibilis, is dependant of the bodie, that it is in, and maketh it perfect. Therefore when the bodie dieth, the béeing and working thereof dieth alſo of the Uegetatiue ſpirit departed from the bodie. But while it is in the bodie it hath many noble workings and dooings. For it maketh the bodies of beaſtes to haue féeling, and maketh perfect the inner kinde and the vtter knowing, as to lims require, & mooveth all  lims in euery part. Alſo it dealeth & ſpreadeth his vertue into al the parts of the body. Alſo as lims be more noble, ſo it doth more noble déeds

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120 knowledge.

And there were times when, you know, a Member of Congress, like Representative Gosar, if he would talk, you know, to the President or met with the President, might relay some good news back to me.

Got it.

But I don't know when that was.

How would that good news get relayed back to you?

I was in Arizona a lot in person.

I asked, how would it be relayed to you? Was it in person? Was it via text? Was it a phone call? Was it email?

I don't recall, but it would usually probably be me in person in Arizona -- I spent some time there—or if I would talk to his chief of staff on the phone.

Got it. Going—can you flip to exhibit 30, please?

I'm just curious. What is your tweet, "Hoping this call changed the world?" What is "this call"?

No idea. I don't have access to Twitter. If I saw some tweets before or after it, I might be able to assign some context.

So your testimony here today is, looking at this tweet of you saying, "Hoping this call changed the world," with the screenshot of a phone number of, which appears to be a conference line, it's your testimony here today that you do not know what this refers to?

I probably held well over 200 conference calls or participated in them. So I would definitely not know what this one was. But if I tweeted about it, it was a big deal.

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121 remember all of your tweets. But I don't think you tweeted every time that you had a call. And usually when somebody tweets, "Hoping this call changed the world"—and don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that you didn't think you were changing the world every day. But this seems like a big one, "Hoping this call changed the world." And you screenshotted the number of the call.

Take a minute and think. Can you remember what this call was?

This call happened almost 12 months ago, and I honestly do not recall. I agree with you on it must have been significant for me to tweet it out. I am prone to hyperbole, exaggeration, and victory laps.

Okay.

And colorful language.

We appreciate that.

And I think you should hunt down this number and then you guys tell me who I was on the phone with. That would be great.

. Actually so, Mr. Kamenar, I'm cognizant of the time. We've been going for about an hour, a little over an hour and a half. Do you want to take a recess now?

Mr. Kamenar. Yeah. Let's take a recess.

. Let's take a recess, and then we'll come back. How about let's just do 5 minutes so we can try to get this over.

Mr. Kamenar. We want to get this over as soon as possible.

. So let's just do like 5 minutes.

[Recess.]

. All right. We're going to go back on the record at 2:33 p.m.

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122 So I want to go back.

Mr. Alexander, earlier I believe you said words to the effect of Mr. Gosar's office or Mr. Gosar was the only Congressman that you had been in contact with. Then we heard information just now that you had been in contact with Congressman Brooks' staff. We heard Congressman Biggs.

So I'm going to ask you, what Congressmen in the December-January timeframe were you in contact with?

Here's an answer about Biggs, Representative Biggs. I recall speaking to Representative Biggs in December. We were both speaking at a Christian event, and I introduced myself. We were backstage.

He thanked me for my peaceful protest work. I can't recall what all we said except that he had mentioned that he had talked to a group of Republican Senators and that he was optimistic about something. He mentioned Senator Rick Scott by name.

I remember being happy about that because my Stop the Steal efforts originated in 2018 to save his Senate seat.

So that's Representative Biggs.

I provided information about Representative Gosar, you know, Brooks' staff mostly. And I think, you know, there were some of these events where me and a Member of Congress spoke. Mike Kelly was at the November rally. Briefly got introduced to him by Rose Tennent. I don't think that we had a substantive conversation.

I asked at one point Ed Martin to reach out to Senator Hawley. His wife was pregnant. He was supportive of some efforts but I think couldn't participate in something that we wanted him to participate in.

So I want to direct you to exhibit 26 again and text messages that you


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123 produced and to page 86. And this goes back to the conversations that we were that you were describing with Congressman Brooks' staff, I believe. But I'll allow you to add color.

So on December 16th, 2020, after Mr. Ed Martin asked for Congressman Brooks' number, it looks like there—it looks like outgoing. So this is like you say to him, "Mo Brooks number works." And it looks like Mr. Ed Martin says, "Great." And then it looks like you said back, "He sent me this."

Who from Congressman Brooks' staff sent you this?

I'm unsure, but I'm really happy that we provided this document.

We are, too, yeah. . I'm sorry. Are you saying that that was a document attached to the text, or you're saying that you're glad you provided the text that has that language in it? Like when you say, "I'm glad we provided this document," you mean the text or—

The Witness. The text message.

. Okay.

Why? What is this text message? "He sent me this." Who is "he"?

It either would have been Congressman Brooks or his staff.

How come we don't see anywhere on December 16th, 2020, in your texts or emails of anyone from Congressman Brooks' staff sending you this message?

Well, I can say that, like, for example, right now, sitting here, I couldn't tell you the first or the last names of Representative Brooks' staffers that I was on the conference call with and had a substantive conversation with. And so if that evaded our search, then that evaded it. But that we put—that it is, the substance is here, you know, we're happy to provide the actual record when we find it.


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124 So your testimony here today is that you can't recall anyone on Congressman Brooks' staff that you spoke to in December of 2020?

I provided—

It's a yes or no.

Yeah, I don't recall.

Okay. And you didn't speak to Congressman Brooks himself in December of 2020?

Excuse me?

Did you speak to Congressman Brooks himself in December of 2020? Like you speaking directly to Congressman Brooks. Did you speak to him in December of 2020?

I don't believe I verbally spoke to Congressman Brooks. And so if I got a text from this number, that's either him or his chief of staff or secretary.

Do you recall—let's put verbally aside. Do you recall in a written form talking to Congressman Brooks in December of 2020?

I'm saying that this message was either from him or his staff.

And I guess I'm trying to figure out where this message comes from, because we don't see it in your production.

The substance is there. And if we can find a responsive document that I still have possession of—I don't have possession of everything from December and everything from January of last year. I don't have possession of all those things.

I'm just trying to figure out who the "he" is in this.

I believe it's—I believe that it's Congressman Mo Brooks or—they're doing it again. It's weird.

Sorry. Just for the record, someone was up against the glass.


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125 It's the court reporter.

. It's a fair concern though. If you see something, please don't hesitate. And we will jump up and check. I appreciate it.

The Witness. So the "he" is either Congressman Brooks or his staff. Sometimes in politics it is the Member. Sometimes it's someone representing the Member, and then someone represents that as a third party as the Member. I hope that's not confusing.

. So help me out then. Show me anywhere in your production where you are speaking to Congressman Brooks.

The Witness. We provided, I think, you know, over a thousand text messagemessages [sic]. If it's not in here and it exists and it's in my possession, I'm instructing my counsel to go over it and look for it with our consultants and provide it?

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Maybe I could ask a clarifying question. A second ago you said the reach-out may be the Congressperson or it could be their staff.

How often is it the Congressperson that reaches out directly to you?

I wouldn't know.

No, no, I mean just generally, like, how often do Congresspeople call you, text, or email you directly?

That's a rare thing. Most stuff is delegated to staff, even if it's in the Member's name, is what I'm trying to, I think, explain, and I'm not doing a good job of it.

This is my lack of political knowledge. But I've gotten the impression from some of the folks I work with that it's actually a big deal when a Congressperson calls you, emails you, or texts you in person, like, themselves.

Do you agree with that? Like is that your perception of it or in your experience?


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126 Because, I mean, I know you're very politically active. Is it not a big deal when Congresspeople contact you directly?

. It seems it would stick out in your mind.

The Witness. Well, I mean—

. All I'm trying to get at is for some people, because of how politically involved they are, they talk to Congresspeople all the time and have them on speed dial. That is not my world. So if a Congressperson contacts me, it's pretty memorable.

I'm trying to gauge, where are you on that spectrum? Are you somebody who talks to Congresspeople directly all the time, or is it more a rarity when you directly talk to the Congressperson?

It's really a mixed bag, depending on the year, whether it's an election year, and then what I'm doing. Because I was leading Stop the Steal, I was one of the more popular conservative figures in the country for 60-something days.

And, you know, what you pointed out is a real observation. And I want to acknowledge it. It's not one that I agree with, but it's not one that I dismiss. And I don't know how else to put this except for put it this way.

I've been very critical of both the Democrat and the Republican establishments. In some cases I've called the Republican establishment the "Blue Blood, Bowl Cut Boys."

And so what's interesting is a lot of these guys go to Ivy League schools, or they'll come and intern on the Hill. They'll do five internships, and I didn't have to do that.

Now, what's interesting is it's an inverse relationship. When I talk to a Member of Congress, oftentimes I'm not impressed. I'm just speaking truthfully. That's why I've never gone in and worked in government. Some of them are not impressive people. But there are a lot of people who have a wealth status far above mine who are enamored by it. And it's interesting.


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127 So I would say it is special when I talk to a Member of Congress. But it is not unique and it's not—and while I was leading Stop the Steal, you know, I was just very popular. It's like, you know, I was leading a cause that Members wanted to be associated with.

. So are you saying that, during that 60-day period when you were leading "stop the steal," that you so frequently talked directly to Congress people that you can't remember those occasions that you talked to them.

The Witness. I'm not saying that. A lot of my work was at the State legislature level and with bureaucrats that are either unelected or elected; it was really at the State level. And there have been periods in my life, like during the birth of the Tea Party movement or other things that I've done, where it's like, oh, I could talk to a dozen Members in a week. And that's impressive for some people. And that's—you know, I work my ass off, so I've earned it.

Mr. Kamenar. I think the witness has basically described his interaction with the various Congressmen when you went down the list, did you talk to this one? He said, in Arizona, he had a personal—

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I think that's—Mr. Kamenar, let me go off that.

Can you go to exhibit 3 for us? This is it looks like the stopthesteal.us website and it looks like an advertisement for "stop the coup," the rally you are talking about in Arizona, December 19th, and on it their speakers, including you, Congressman Andy Biggs, Congressman Paul Gosar. Who communicated with them to be speakers on December 19th?

Adele (ph) is the local organizer there. And so it probably would have been a mixture of, like, one of these faces I don't even recognize or know who is.


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128 Who is Adele (ph)?

Adele (ph) is a Phoenix-based entrepreneur who shared our concerns about election integrity and was organizing there. And I was introduced to him by Congressman Gosar's chief of staff and told he was doing good work on the ground preceding my physical arrival.

How did the individual on Mr. Gosar's staff—or actually who was the individual on Mr. Gosar's staff who introduced you to it looks like Mr. Adele (ph) Belgate (ph)?

I just stated that it was Congressman's chief of staff.

So Mr. Van Flein?

Yes.

I didn't see that in your production. Was it in person, or was it a text message?

On a phone call.

On a phone call?

Yeah.

And what was the nature of this phone call? Why was Mr. Van Flein introducing you to Mr. Belgate (ph)?

Because we were—they were going to host a hearing, I believe, I don't know if this is this date or another one, but my first physical trip out to Arizona—again, I don't know if that's December 19th or not—was to be in support of a legislative hearing of, like, Republican caucus members. And I needed people on the ground to coordinate with, you know, because like, okay, I've got to get picked up from the airport. I need to get signs. I need to encourage bodies there. I need to know, like, what's the situation on the ground.


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129 So, at this rally, do you recall saying that you'd been on the phone with State legislatures and people from the White House? Do you remember making that claim during this speech on December 19?

I don't remember any of the contents of my speeches from December.

Would it be unusual for you to say that you were on the phone with State legislatures and people from the White House?

No, that would not be unusual.

So, on December 19th, what people from the White House were you in contact with?

I don't know who I was referencing. Mary—maybe it was Garrett Ziegler.

I don't see Garrett Ziegler in any of your productions. Was it a phone call—

We—

I was going to say was it a phone call, was it a text message, or was it an email?

I believe having the phone call with him. I don't remember receiving any emails from him.

Okay.

I don't remember receiving any text messages from him. And we did have I think one—one, you know, physical interaction in D.C. and, you know, small talk.

How did you have Mr. Garrett Ziegler's phone number?

I don't know who passed it along to me.

Okay.

Can you go back to exhibit 26 at page 81? These are text messages. So we're going to move a day past December 19th. We're going to go to December 20th of 2020. And this is a text message to Mr. Alex Jones.


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130 Mr. Kamenar. What's the exhibit?

. Exhibit 26, the text messages. And that's going to be page 81.

Mr. Kamenar. Here we go. You find it?

The Witness. Yeah.

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So you found it? In your text message, you say, "POTUS is deciding in the next 24 to 48 hours if he wants to go all the way." What does "go all the way" mean?

No idea. I'm talking with Alex Jones, who is prone to hyperbole, and it looks like I was, you know, buttering him up.

I mean, just, it might be hyperbole, but what is "go all the way" in context to?

I have no idea.

So it's your testimony here today that, on December 20th, when you're telling Mr. Alex Jones that POTUS was going to decide within the next 24 hours to go all the way, you have no idea what the context of that statement was?

It is my testimony that, sitting here today, 11 and a half months later, that I don't know what this text means. And I don't even know who would have told me. And, in context, me talking to Alex Jones, it seems kind of humorous. And I see later that Alex sends me again a hyperbolic title to one of the videos he made that he wants me to promote. It is just the nature of our relationship. Did you have any contacts with anyone from the White House on December 20th to base this text on?

I'm not sure.

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Could we go back for one second. A second ago, you said it is the nature of