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'Son of the hill-tribe, I have made my decision. I have thought long on your words, and on other things you do not know. Understand, I have good reason to mistrust your kinsmen. But Akar tells me you are not like them, and I accept his judgment. He stopped for a moment, genuinely moved by the man-child's countenance: the troubled face, exhausted by hope and fear alike.
The American Baptist Mission overshadows, by its numbers and success, all other bodies of missionaries in the land. And at the present time their splendid force of workers is making a deep impress upon the community. But their success has been mostly achieved among a very peculiar hill-tribe of that country, the Karens.
Now, I believe I'm right in saying, am I not, that it was your father who first subdued and organised a certain refractory hill-tribe on the Tibetan frontier, known as the Bodahls, wasn't it? 'Quite right, Ernest replied, with a glimmering idea slowly rising in his mind as to what Mr. Lancaster was now driving at. 'Ah, that's good, very good indeed, certainly.
Her companion is Kalus, of the hill-tribe. 'Such as these? 'Yes. They are to be wholly trusted. He broke away and went to the entrance, looking worried and weary of talk. 'Where is Shar-hai? When does he return? 'He is said to be hunting with his guard near the Carak, though there is no shortage of food.
It was long after the Baptists had begun work there that this low hill-tribe, of less than two million people, was in the lowest depths of barbarism. Their language was not reduced to writing, and consequently, they had no literature whatever. But they had one interesting tradition.
That is not said to hurt you, and I begin to see that you are strong in other ways. It is only the truth. Here on the Island there is shelter from predators -there are no giant spiders or lizards -and you have the knowledge to bring food from the land without killing. My people have none of these things. 'We call ourselves the hill-tribe.
Surely he feared the hill-tribe, and would not pass directly in front of their cave. He was grateful that his head no longer ached and his breath came easier. He thought of his mother. Such ran the jumble of his thoughts, and the feelings which rose all the stronger for his efforts to control them. The wolves, he decided, must have passed on the far side of Carak mesa.
He must really have had a strong dash of the blood of some of those Indian hill-tribe freebooters in his veins, for he never seems to have been able to resist the prospect of plunder, and the likelihood of having to fight for it seems to have been an additional inducement.
I should invite attention to the pension roll, to the similar and incredible extravagance of Republican and Democratic "Houses" a plague o' them both! If addressing Democrats only, I should mention the protective tariff; if Republicans, the hill-tribe clamor for free coinage of silver.
But that has never stopped him from killing before. Akar felt a strange premonition as she said the words. 'Why so near the hill-tribe? 'I do not know. He has been gone since nightfall. He thought of Barabbas. 'So be it. His legs were weary and his mind was full of doubt. Perspiration poured from his brow to the chill of the wind, and his head and lungs ached from the exertion. But he ran on.
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