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Updated: July 5, 2025
"To-morrow," he said, shaking his fist towards the hills, "we will arrange the terms of peace and we will arrange them in the City of Bag-jagderag." His words were greeted with cheers of triumph from the admiring Popsipetels. The war was over. When he threw himself into that fight at Popsipetel, I saw the Doctor really angry for the first time in my life.
At this a great cry for mercy went up, and the chief and all of them fell on their knees, calling out that they would submit to any conditions of peace he wished. Then the Doctor called for one of their scribes that is, a man who did picture-writing. And on the stone walls of the palace of Bag-jagderag he bade him write down the terms of the peace as he dictated it.
But his anger, once aroused, was slow to die. All the way down the coast of the island he never ceased to rail against this cowardly people who had attacked his friends, the Popsipetels, for no other reason but to rob them of their corn, because they were too idle to till the land themselves. And he was still angry when he reached the City of Bag-jagderag.
We found Polynesia who while we slept had arrived back from Bag-jagderag sitting on our door-post watching the show. We asked her what all the holiday-making was about. "The result of the election has just been announced," said she. "The name of the new chief was given out at noon." "And who is the new chief?" asked the Doctor. "You are," said Polynesia quietly.
And as he ended his long speech and walked briskly down the steps again on his way back to the canoes, the group of chieftains threw themselves at his feet and cried, "Do but stay with us. Great Lord, and all the riches of Bag-jagderag shall be poured into your lap. Gold-mines we know of in the mountains and pearl-beds beneath the sea.
This is what they did: on the head of each Bag-jagderag three or four parrots settled and took a good foot-hold in his hair with their claws; then they leant down over the sides of his head and began clipping snips out of his ears, for all the world as though they were punching tickets. That is all they did. They never bit them anywhere else except the ears. But it won the war for us.
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