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He embraces her when she meets him at the town gate. In shame she changes herself into a coconut tree. Two flying snakes once guarded the gap in the mountains by which the Abra river reaches the sea. Two brave men attack them with banana trunks. Their wings stick in the banana trees and they are easily killed. The men are rewarded with gold made in the shape of deer and horses.
Again the patient women come forth with gourds of water; they pour it over the heads and bodies of the men, who dry their skins with shreds of white beaten bark; two sturdy boys light wisps of dry coconut leaves and pass the flames over the body of the boar in lieu of scalding, and the melancholy dogs sit around in a circle on their haunches and indulge in false hopes.
In the interior, the sides of the walls are often beautifully lined with the stems of reeds, fashioned very neatly, and in some cases in really artistic patterns, and tied together with thin ropes of coconut fibre, dyed various colours, and often ornamented with rows of large white cowry shells.
In England, in London, there are certain afternoons in winter when the clouds hang heavy and low and the light is so bleak that your heart sinks, but then you can look out of your window, and you see the coconut trees crowded upon the beach of a coral island. The sand is silvery and when you walk along in the sunshine it is so dazzling that you can hardly bear to look at it.
At that moment the front door opened, and there stood Jed Winkler, the old sailor, who owned the monkey. "Have you seen anything of Wango?" began Mr. Winkler, but there was no need for him to ask such a question. There was Wango, in plain sight, holding some lollypops in one paw, and in the other some jelly beans and coconut candies he had grabbed up from the floor.
After they finished eating they took the big coconut shell and filled it with basi and each of them drank, and they were all drunk, and Langa-an said, "I like to hear from you if you wish Lingiwan to be a son." Soon Pagbokásan and Ebang agreed. They decided on the day for pakálon.
Some of the men had black patches all over their faces, and some had great masses of hair shaped like a parasol. One or two of the women wore only the old-time small aprons of coconut fibre. We followed the Waiandina River amid very fine scenery.
Crime of Cutting Down a Coconut Tree Walsh's Camp Torres Straits Pigeons My Boy an ex-Cannibal A Probable Trap Relapse into Cannibalism of our Own Allies Narrow Escape from a New Guinea Mantrap Attack on a Village Second Visit to Dobodura Toku's Exploit Interview with our Prisoners Reasons for Cannibalism The Night Attack on our Camp and Enemies' Fear of our Rifles described by our Prisoners Bravery of one of our Carriers Treatment of a Prisoner.
While this clown spirit was amusing the crowd, a second medium brought out ten coconut shells, one of which was filled with blood and rice. These she placed on a winnower, which in turn was set on a rice-mortar.
And caramels, chocolate-covered nuts, coconut bonbons, chocolate nougats nothing there Jerry didn't like. He looked at the candy yearningly. Now the lady had decided on a sirloin steak, thank goodness. Another customer came in but Jerry would be next to be waited on. He would speak right up and say he was next if Mr. Bartlett started to wait on somebody else first, he decided.
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