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Updated: June 17, 2025
By three o'clock the middle of the nail was reached. The eyes of all looked anxiously ahead. At every curve of the river they strained their sight to see if Iala were in view. How would these savage people welcome the white men and woman in their snorting great canoe that had no paddles, nor oars?
"No white man has even seen the people of Iala," said Tamate for that was the native name given to James Chalmers, the Scottish boy who had now gone out to far-off Papua as a missionary. "Iko there" and he pointed to a stalwart Papuan who stood by the funnel "is the only one of us who has seen them and can speak their tongue.
So Tamate, wishing to ask Iko how far away the village of Iala was, spoke first to old Vaaburi, and then Vaaburi asked Iko. Iko stretched out his dark forefinger, and made them understand that that finger meant the length of their journey to Iala.
"Divil a bit, master; but it's misgivings I have about the water. What it was made for, 'cept to mix with punch, I don't see." "Kala go first," muttered the native, and without waiting for orders, he dropped quietly into the stream, followed by Iala. "The divil! but can't I go where the nager does?" demanded Mike, and he was up to his shoulders in the brook before we could answer him.
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