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Updated: May 24, 2025
A dread of the evil eye is one of their characteristics. We had not been settled long before the ishan, or itinerant dervish, was called in to drive away the evil spirits, which the “devil’s carts” might possibly have brought. Immediately on entering, he began to shrug his shoulders, and to shiver as though passing into a state of trance.
"You, Ishan, will go on to Calcutta, find Merriman Sahib, and ask him to send a body of armed men along the Barrakpur road towards Santipur. You will tell him what we have done, and also that Cossimbazar Fort is in the hands of the Nawab, and Watts Sahib a prisoner. He may know this already. You both understand?" The men salaamed and started on their journey.
Travis was hardly aware of the sense of the words until he spoke them aloud. "You who wait shi inday to-dah ishan an Apache is not food for you! I am Fox of the Itcatcudnde'yu the Eagle People; and beside me walk ga'ns of power...." Travis blinked and shook his head as one waking. Why had he spoken so, using words and phrases which were not part of any modern speech?
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