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I laughed at their simplicity, and expected from one minute to another to hear that the wounded man had breathed his last, when my lieutenant brought me, quite joyously, a small manuscript, about two inches square, saying to me: "Here, master, is the anten-anten I found upon Cajoui's body." At the same time one of my men announced his death.
I return to Jala-Jala An Excursion on the Lake Relempago's Narrative Re-organisation of my Government A Letter from my Brother Henry His Arrival He joins me in the Management of my Plantations Cajoui, the Bandit: Anten-Anten Indian Superstition A Combat with the Bandit His Death A Piratical Descent My Lieutenant is Wounded I extract the Ball, and cure him.
To make him accede to my wishes it was necessary to tell him that the anten-anten had been taken from Cajoui before his death, and that he had time to repent. A few days after Cajoui's death it was my faithful Alila's turn to encounter danger, not less imminent than that to which I had been exposed, at the time of my combat with the bandit chief.
He ran up to the top of the steps, and found me enveloped in a cloud of smoke, with my dagger in my hand, trying to find my enemy, who seeing me still standing erect, after he had shot at me, thought, no doubt, I had about me some anten-anten a certain diabolic incantation that, according to the Indian belief, makes a man invulnerable to all sorts of fire-arms.
I now resume my statement, at the moment when my lieutenant tried to assure me that I had some anten-anten, and that consequently I could not be wounded by a shot fired at me. He then addressed the young girl, who had remained in the corner, more dead than alive. "Ah! cursed creature!" said he to her; "you are Cajoui's mistress: now your turn is come!"
Every moment I expected him to die; every quarter of an hour my people came to tell me how he was; and they kept saying to me: "Master, he cannot die, because he has the anten-anten upon him; and it is very lucky that you have some of it too, and that you fired at him, for our arms would have been of no avail against him."
But Alila was brave, and, although he had no anten-anten, fire-arms did not frighten him. Large vessels real Noah's arks freighted by various merchants, sailed every week from the town of Pasig for that of Santa-Cruz, where every Thursday a large market was held. Eight daring and determined brigands went on board one of these vessels: they hid their arms among the bales of goods.
I should also have wished to have kept it, as a curious specimen of Indian superstition. The next day I had much trouble to persuade my stout friend, Father Miguel, to bury Cajoui in the cemetery. He maintained that a man who died with the anten-anten upon him ought not to receive Christian burial.
"Ah!" said Alila, "if I had not taken the anten-anten from him he would be still alive." I searched the small book through and through; prayers and invocations that had not much sense were therein written in the Tagalese language. A good friar who was present took it out of my hands.
When he was quite sure that I had not received a wound, he said to me: "Master, if you had not had the anten-anten about you you would have been killed." My Indians always believed I was possessed of this secret, as well as of many others.
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