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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Kubber-kargaz-ki-yektraaa," the man whined, handing down the newspaper extra a slip printed on one side only, and damp from the press. It was pinned up on the green-baize board, between notices of ponies for sale and fox-terriers missing. Martyn rose lazily, read it, and whistled. "It's declared!" he cried. "One, two, three eight districts go under the operations of the Famine Code ek dum.
We extracted the charioteers from a neighbouring hut, and gave them to understand, by means of Sabz Ali, that hanging was the least annoyance they would suffer if they didn't get under way "ek dam" at once. They promptly promised that their oxen like Pegasus should fly on the wings of the wind, and, having seen us safely round a corner, departed peacefully to eat another lotus.
All too soon my boys called me, and waking, I found that my guest had gone. "Which way?" I asked Jantje. "Nie, baas; ek wiet nie," he said, shaking his head. "Kambala," said I, impatiently, to the other man; "has the ou baas gone?" "Ee-wah t In-koos," he answered in the affirmative; "but where I know not. Ask thou, master, these Bushmen, they know!"
You see yonder the entrance to the Metro don't you? And here, a dozen feet away, a perfectly able-bodied sergent de ville? Let this fateful conjunction impress you properly: for five minutes after you have descended to the Metro or as soon as the noise of a train advises me you've had one chance to get away I shall mention casually to the sergo that I have seen Captain Ek "
Manetho also, who lived about the time of Nebuchadon-Asser, Asser being a Syriac word usually applied as a sirname to the kings of that country, as Teglat Phael-Asser, Nabon-Asser, he, I say, formed a conjecture equally absurd; for as we usually say ek to biblion kubernetes, which implies that books will never teach the world; so he attempted to investigate But, Sir, I ask pardon, I am straying from the question. That he actually was; nor could I for my life see how the creation of the world had any thing to do with the business I was talking of; but it was sufficient to shew me that he was a man of letters, and I now reverenced him the more.
'Kubber-kargaz ki yektraaa, the man whined, handing down the newspaper extra a slip printed on one side only, and damp from the press. It was pinned on the green baize-board, between notices of ponies for sale and fox-terriers missing. Martyn rose lazily, read it, and whistled. 'It's declared! he cried. 'One, two, three eight districts go under the operation of the Famine Code ek dum.
The phrase pachas ek, as I have stated, means simply "about fifty," i.e., it may be one year more or less. In the text, the wazir-zadi is henceforth called saudagar-bacha or the young merchant, being the character under which she, for some time, figures.
Tear off the shoe, using such language as may seem appropriate to the occasion, throw it at the shikari's head, and order another pair to be made "ek dam"! Jane and I each purchased a yakdan, a sort of roughly-made leather box or trunk, strong, and of suitable size for either pony or coolie transport.
It is good to hear Jane who for many years has been accustomed to having her own way in all household matters ordering breakfast. "Well, Sabz Ali what shall we have for breakfast to-morrow?" "Jessa mem-sahib arder!" with a friendly grin. "Then I shall have kidneys." "No kidney, mem-sahib! Kidney plenty money two annas six pice ek. Oh, plenty dear!" "I'm tired of eggs.
These and the E=i-~u-~ek, or walrus, constitute their means of subsistence at this season; but, on this particular part of the coast, the latter are not very abundant, and they chiefly catch the neitiek. The animal we had now seen dissected was of that kind, and with young at the time.
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