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Updated: May 14, 2025
He turned his mustang swiftly and headed straight for the centre-post, dragging the struggling and half-strangled bronco; he rode around the post, sprang from the saddle, took a skilful half-hitch in the lariat and the buckskin was a prisoner. Scotty polished his glasses excitedly.
I then bored a hole down the middle, and made it the centre-post of my bed, at which I worked till I had finished it, inlaying it with gold and silver; after this I stretched a hide of crimson leather from one side of it to the other.
And the walls were of great blocks made of PANISINA of coral and lime and sand mixed together; and around each centre-post posts that to lift one took the strength of fifty men was wound two thousand fathoms of thin plaited cinnet, stained red and black. There be none such as he in these days. But he is now in Hell."
It was not lighted, yet with his spirit sense he could see its every detail: the polished floor, the skin rugs, the beer gourds, the shields and spears, the roof-tree of red wood, and the dried lizard hanging from the thatch, a charm to ward off evil. In this hut, seated face to face halfway between the centre-post and the door-hole, were two men.
When the centre-post is put up, the spirits have wallaby, fish, and bananas presented to them, and they are besought to keep that house always full of food, and that it may not fall when the wind is strong. The great spirit causes food to grow, and to him presentations of food are made.
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