Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . toone. If he can usurp a crown, I dontsee but we can get up an insurrection. The village was a long row of hutsbuilt of bamboo and big brown leaves,and stretching up and down the val-ley. There was a large hut with twodoors opposite us, and sitting on mats infront was a fat man with little bonesstuck at angles in his grizzled hair. Hewore a pink shirt with studs and a pairof carpet slippers, and around his necka lot of glass pendants from a chande-lier, and he looked surly and sleepy. Isaid: You can leave me out; I think youo
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . toone. If he can usurp a crown, I dontsee but we can get up an insurrection. The village was a long row of hutsbuilt of bamboo and big brown leaves,and stretching up and down the val-ley. There was a large hut with twodoors opposite us, and sitting on mats infront was a fat man with little bonesstuck at angles in his grizzled hair. Hewore a pink shirt with studs and a pairof carpet slippers, and around his necka lot of glass pendants from a chande-lier, and he looked surly and sleepy. Isaid: You can leave me out; I think youought to take the offer. If you slip up, of course theking 11 hang youfor treason. Ifhes the govern-ment here, hesgot a right to saywhat the law going back tothe ship. We stoppedbeside the fatman, and I ask-ed him if hehadnt been oneof the rival can-didates, thinkingit might be theold one with thechicken bones thatspoke English;and he set to workswearing, so Iknew it was; andI judged from thestyle he swore inhed been inti-Bones stuck in his Hair mate one time. The Guard broke out suddenly .wailing and chanting, and rocked to and fro with seamen; and I judged, too, he feltdissatisfied, for he said he was right-ly chief of the island, and that man, allof whose grandfathers were low and dis-gusting, meaning Julius R., was living inhis house, and, moreover, had given himonly three pink shirts. Jessamine satdown by him, and said nothing, but lis-tened, and I went and found some of thebeach natives, and came back with themto the Annalee. That night passed, and it came themorning of the next day, and I heardnothing from them. But though it waswarm and pleasant, the sea rippling incurves on the beach, we found no oneabout the huts there but children and afew old women. And the old womenjabbered at us excitedly. I took six of the men and started in-land through that warm sort of duskyforest, thick with creepers, and the greenand red parrots screaming when we came out t
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