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Entering the low, narrow doorway of one of the bamboo frame houses, I saw that it was divided into ten-foot squares by corn-stalk partitions a yard high. These places, like so many stalls for horses, run down each side of the hoga. One family occupies a division, sleeping in net hammocks made of long, coarse grass.
Strange that so many aboriginal people have legends so near the truth. Some days later the chiefs son and I were alone, and I saw that something troubled him. He tried to tell me, but I was somewhat ignorant of his language, so, after looking in all directions to see that we were really alone, he led the way into a dark corner of the hoga, where we were.
Swallowing six tumblers of it, I paused nervously for a moment, and then said "Bobbachy, consomah, ballybaloo hoga." The black ruffians took the hint, and retired. "Colonel and Mrs. The Colonel, astonished, let fall a steel fork, which stuck quivering for some minutes in the calf of my leg; but I heeded not the paltry interruption. "Yes, by yon bright heaven," continued I, "I love you, Julia!
He has all sorts of difficulties to surmount, while you have only to get your personality accepted which, when I look at you, I think might be done," I added, laughing. "Jo hoga, so hoga what will be, will be," he said; "but religion or no religion, I mean to do it." Then he lighted a cigarette and said, "Come, it is time to go and see his Saturnine majesty, the Maharajah of Baithopoor."
After spreading our saddle-cloths on the dust and filth, Old Stabbed Arm and I were chatting about the Caingwas and their dirty habits, when Timoteo, heaving a sigh of relief, said: "Thank God, we are clean at last!" He was satisfied with the pigpen as he recalled the hoga of the Sun- Worshippers.
Khodá rukho ki beebi-ka kullejee bhee itni burri hoga, Gurreeb-purwan! "How large my lord's liver is about to grow! God grant to the Mem Sahib, my exalted lady, a liver likewise large, O favored protector of the poor!"
Fortunately, the walls of the house, as was also the roof, were in bad repair, and some of the smoke escaped through the chinks. Sixty people lived in the largest hoga, and I judged the number of the whole tribe to be about three hundred. The doorways of all the houses faced towards the east, as did those of the Inca.
Swallowing six tumblers of it, I paused nervously for a moment, and then said "Bobbachy, consomah, ballybaloo hoga." The black ruffians took the hint and retired. "Colonel and Mrs. The Colonel, astonished, let fall a steel fork, which stuck quivering for some minutes in the calf of my leg; but I heeded not the paltry interruption. "Yes, by yon bright heaven," continued I, "I love you, Julia!
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