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The aged populace had been too frightened to investigate and had hovered around the fire, afraid to venture beyond its circle of light. Asin had been despatched to notify the head of the tribe that Bal-Bal was hovering near. All eyes turned toward the charm boy. "La ilaha illa llahoe," softly prayed Piang, scrutinizing the frowning jungle, as it closed in on all sides.
"The barrio Bal-Bal!" gasped the exhausted old man. The night pressed upon them. Up the river darted Asin's slender banco with Kali Pandapatan and a few picked warriors. "Asin, we shall need you, and you, Piang," the chief had said, and the boy jumped into the boat.
Larkins, therefore, who has thought proper to say that the money was received in the month of November, has here given as extraordinary an instance either of fraudulent accuracy or shameful official inaccuracy as was ever perhaps discovered. The first sums are asserted to be paid to Mr. Croftes on the 18th and 19th of Asin, 1187.
With a shriek he darted back just in time. The vine lunged out, quivered, and recoiled. Asin, who had been curiously watching Piang for some time, rushed toward him and caught the fainting boy in his arms. Quietly Piang gave his orders; unquestioningly he was obeyed.
Only once he seemed to smile when the little slave girl, Papita, timidly touched his arm. The rebuke that fell upon her from the others, brought a frown to the boy's face, but he continued to advance until he stood beside Dato Kali Pandapatan and Pandita Asin. Here, like a sentinel giant, bereft of his nearest kin, one monster tree remained standing.
We find a bond taken in the month of Shawal, 1186, or 1779, but the receipt is said to be in Asin, 1780: that is to say, there was a year and about three months between the collection and the receipt; and during all that period of time an enormous sum of money had lain in the hands of Gunga Govind Sing, to be employed when Mr. Hastings should think fit.
A light twinkled in the distance; confused sounds reached the rescuers, and they pushed forward with renewed energy. "Ooooh, Mihing!" called Asin, in his cracked, wavering voice. "Ooooh!" came the answer from the barrio. "Piang, we look to you to protect us from Bal-Bal, to you and your sacred anting-anting." Solemnly Kali Pandapatan made this announcement. The boy was the first to land.
The lectus at which the cup began to circulate was summus, the next medius, the last imus. Asin. 5, 2, 41. See Becker's Gallus, p. 471 et seq. SICUT ... EST: 'as we find'; so Off. 1, 32 ut in fabulis est, and often. MINUTA: see n. on 52.
With fear in their hearts and bated breath, the tribe waited again for the sound that had disturbed their revelry: "Le le, li li." The tribal call rang through the forest faintly. The call was repeated, came steadily nearer. Finally from the gloom of the river shot a banco, a very old man working at the paddle. It was Pandita Asin from the barrio. "Un-di?"
The month of Asin corresponds with the month of September and part of October, and not with November; and it is the more extraordinary that Mr.
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