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"Would two lunatics make a Contrack like that?" said Carnehan, with subdued pride, showing me a greasy half-sheet of notepaper on which was written the following. I copied it, then and there, as a curiosity. This Contract between me and you persuing witnesseth in the name of God Amen and so forth. Signed by you and me this day. Peachey Taliaferro Carnehan. Daniel Dravot. Both Gentlemen at Large.
So Carnehan loaded the mules with the rifles that was taken off the camels, and together we starts forward into those bitter-cold mountaineous parts, and never a road broader than the back of your hand." He paused for a moment, while I asked him if he could remember the nature of the country through which he had journeyed.
I shuddered, for, in spite of defacements manifold, I recognized the head of the man of Marwar Junction. Carnehan rose to go. I attempted to stop him. He was not fit to walk abroad. "Let me take away the whiskey, and give me a little money," he gasped, "I was a King once. I'll go to the Deputy Commissioner and ask to set in the Poorhouse till I get my health.
Determined to be Kings of Kafiristan, Carnehan and Dravot started probably from the capital of the Punjab, Lahore, where the newspaper office seems to have been. No country in Asia is less known to civilization than Kafiristan. The Mohammedan traders say that it is the most attractive part of Afghanistan.
That was how he came to our first village without any trouble, just as though we had tumbled from the skies. But we tumbled from one of those damned rope-bridges, you see, and you couldn't expect a man to laugh much after that?" "Take some more whisky and go on," I said. "That was the first village you came into. How did you get to be King?" "I wasn't King," said Carnehan.
He took a gulp of the spirit raw, and shivered in spite of the suffocating heat. Ive come back, he repeated; and I was the King of Kafiristan me and Dravot crowned Kings we was! In this office we settled it you setting there and giving us the books. I am Peachey Peachey Taliaferro Carnehan, and youve been setting here ever since O Lord!
Carnehan was deep in the Encyclopædia. Theyre a mixed lot, said Dravot, reflectively; and it wont help us to know the names of their tribes. The more tribes the more theyll fight, and the better for us. From Jagdallak to Ashang. Hmm! But all the information about the country is as sketchy and inaccurate as can be, I protested. No one knows anything about it really.
Then Carnehan goes alone to the Chief, and asks him in dumb show if he had an enemy he hated. 'I have, says the Chief. So Carnehan weeds out the pick of his men, and sets the two of the Army to show them drill and at the end of two weeks the men can manoeuvre about as well as Volunteers.
That was how we came to our first village without any trouble, just as though we had tumbled from the skies. But we tumbled from one of those damned rope-bridges, you see, and you couldn't expect a man to laugh much after that?" "Take some more whisky and go on," I said. "That was the first village you came into. How did you get to be King?" "I wasn't King," said Carnehan.
For each dead man Dravot pours a little milk on the ground and waves his arms like a whirligig, and 'That's all right, says he. Then he and Carnehan takes the big boss of each village by the arm, and walks them down the valley, and shows them how to scratch a line with a spear right down the valley, and gives each a sod of turf from both sides of the line.
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