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Each country has a prescribed number of such letters allotted for its use at the International Convention at Berne, and our nation is authorized to use groups beginning with N and W; also triple groups of KIA to KZZ. You will find all these call letters in a book that contains the wireless telegraph stations of the world, a volume issued by the international publication office at Berne."
"Well, Dave," said Mills, "what's the meanin' o' this game o' yours comin' to a man's kia in the middle o' the night and ropin' his mate out o' bed?" The man who had lit the match laughed. "That you, Jack?" he said. "Well, you wouldn't be so ready to call this bloke 'mate' if you knew what he'd been up to." "The swine!" commented Charley. "Get a lantern," commanded Mills to the Kafirs.
But there is a word very similar in sound, "Kia timela", I am wandering; its perfect is "Ki timetse", I have wandered.
Among the Kia blacks of the Prosperine River, on the east coast of Queensland, a girl at puberty has to sit or lie down in a shallow pit away from the camp; a rough hut of bushes is erected over her to protect her from the inclemency of the weather. There she stays for about a week, waited on by her mother and sister, the only persons to whom she may speak.
Soon after we had landed two Indians Came from a War kia cum village on the opposit Side with 2 dogs and a fiew Wappato to Sell neither of which we bought.
You don' wan' to come, eh? Too far, eh?" "Yes, I reckon it's too far," replied Mills. "I'm not more than four miles from my own kia now. You goin' on?" "Yais," agreed the Frenchman. "I go a leetle bit. Not too far, eh!" They moved on through the bush. Mills shifted his; gun from shoulder to shoulder, and suffered still from heat and sweat.
Fairburn proposed that we should thus close the day. The armed men were sitting moodily by the fires, when we signified our wish to our people, who were all Christians. This night's service will never be forgotten by me; it was commenced by singing the sixth native hymn, the first words of which are: Homai e Ihu he ngakau, kia rongo atu ai, Ki tau tino aroha nui, i whakakitia mai.
This event is supposed to have taken place in the year 2197 B.C., and the Hia dynasty, of which there were seventeen emperors, ruled down to the year 1776 B.C. These Hia princes present no features of interest, and the last of them, named Kia, was deposed by one of his principal nobles, Ching Tang, Prince of Chang.
"You may consider the virtues of Shennung and Yuyen," says Liehtse; "you may examine the books of Yu, Kia, Shang, and Chow," that is, the whole of history; "you may weight the utterances of the great Teachers and Sages; but you will find no instance of preservation or destruction, fulness or decay, which has not obeyed this supreme Law of Causality."
"You've got a nasty habit of saying 'Eh?" retorted the trader. "I said I'd do as much for you one of these days. Comprenny?" "Oh yais," smiled the Frenchman. "I think you will. Tha's all right." "Well," said Mills, "I wish you'd come up and see me at my kia. Sure you can't come now?" "Yais, I coom now," answered the other. Mills stared.
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