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Updated: June 29, 2025
Just then their own guide gave the signal to move on, and the missionary and Captain Bax walked down the hill the first white men who had ever come out to meet those savages. Half-way down the slope the two parties came face to face. The head-hunters were a wild, uncouth-looking company, armed to the teeth.
These latter are chiefly of Malay origin and many of them are professional head-hunters, well qualified to retort Spanish outrages in kind. There are also Chinese in large numbers and half-castes of all varieties. The proportion of Europeans is small, even in the cities.
She held the ensanguined head of Louis Devoe in her white apron. Tiny streams of red widened on her apron and dripped upon the floor. Her face was bright and tender. "Little things, indeed!" I thought again. "The head-hunters are right. These are the things that women like you to do for them." Chloe came close to me. There was no one in sight.
Now in this I was fully prepared for discouragement and dissuasion, for head-hunters are not assets to a country; to a visitor they are not displayed with pride. When, in the Philippines, I wished to see the head-hunting Igorots; when I asked the Japanese for permission to visit the head-hunters of Formosa, I met only with excuses and evasions.
As they journeyed, the travelers could not but burst into exclamations of delight at the loveliness about them. Behind those great trees and in those tangles of vines might lurk the head-hunters, but for all that the beauty of the place made them forget the dangers. The great banyan trees whose branches came down and took root in the earth, making a wonderful round leafy tent, grew on every side.
If men realised these things truly realised them they would see that there is no need to go to the North Pole in order to live dangerously. A walk from Charing Cross to St Paul's would then be seen to be as rich in hairbreadth escapes as a voyage to an island of head-hunters. The man who lives the most thrilling life I know is a man who rarely stirs beyond his garden.
Releasing their two prisoners, who leaped away like startled deer, they plunged down the steep path into the steaming jungle. Joan, still shocked by what she had seen, walked on in front of Sheldon, subdued and silent. At the end of half an hour she turned to him with a wan smile and said, "I don't think I care to visit the head-hunters any more.
Though originally of one blood, and though they are all to-day in a similar broad culture-grade that is, all are mountain agriculturists, and all are, or until recently have been, head-hunters yet it does not follow that the Igorot groups have to-day identical culture; quite the contrary is true.
A sufficiently thrilling pastime, this, for Nancy could take care of herself. I was a bungler beside her when it came to retaliation, and not the least of her attractions for me was her capacity for anger: fury would be a better term. She would fly at them even as she flew at the head-hunters when the Petrel was menaced; and she could run like a deer. Woe to the unfortunate victim she overtook!
The blood from his wounds smeared her hands and clothing. "Hang tight, kiddo," he cried, and started at a brisk trot toward the forest. Theriere kept close behind the two, reserving his fire until it could be effectively delivered. With savage yells the samurai leaped after their escaping quarry. The natives all carried the long, sharp spears of the aboriginal head-hunters.
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