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Updated: July 13, 2025
The cocaine lair was in a village, so deserted and tumble-down and haunted, that no one suspected it, or went near it. A pongye Kyoung, said to be infested by malignant nats and hundreds of snakes, was the head office. Rather a clever dodge." "Do you think this will put an end to the traffic?"
He swung up his hand with a stabbing movement. "I would rip him like a cushion of fine down. I would strike his face with my shoe as the Nats that he dreads caught his screaming soul." "Peace, peace," said Shiraz. "Such words are ill for him who speaks, and ill alike for him who listens.
But all Nats are not so proud nor so much to be feared as this one, and it is usually safe to ride past. Even as I write I am under the shadow of a tree where a Nat used to live, and the headman of the village has been telling me all about it. This is a Government rest-house on a main road between two stations, and is built for Government officials travelling on duty about their districts.
The governor sought out a great monk, a very holy man learned in these matters, and sent him to inquire, and the monk came down to the tree and spoke. He said that if any Nats lived in the tree, they should speak to him and tell him what they wanted. 'It is not fit, he said, 'for great Nats to terrify the poor villagers at the landing-place. Let the Nats speak and say what they require.
No time to think or breathe when Mindon burst into sight, wild with terror and following close beside him a man a madman, a short bright dah in his grasp, his jaws grinding foam, his wild eyes starting one passion to murder. So sometimes from the Nats comes pitiless fury, and men run mad and kill and none knows why. Maya the Queen stiffened to meet the danger.
Wish to call it Columbia mine for patriotic reasons having found it on Fourth. Will settle it soon so as to put up location. Put in 2 shots & pulpel samples for assay. Rigged windows on shack to keep out bees, nats & flies & mosquitoes. Bud objects because it keeps out air as well. Took them off. Sick folks must be humored. Hot, miserable and sleepless. Bud very restless. July 6.
I wonder you are not kicked out." "Is it kick me out? No fear! For besides being well respected and well liked, I'm a magician." "Oh, come, that's all rot!" exclaimed Shafto impatiently. "'Tis not," he rejoined in a vigorously defensive tone; "and 'tis little ye know. This is a queer country; the people are terribly superstitious and weak in themselves, on account of nats and bad spirits."
"The night will be fine, for I have greatly propitiated the Nats," he said with conviction, and he lolled and smoked in his chair at an earlier hour than was usual with him. Even as he had said, the evening began to clear, and by sunset the heavy clouds were all dispersed.
It was and is a very dangerous thing to offend the Popa Nats; for they are still there in the mountain, and everyone who goes there must do them reverence. A friend of mine, a police officer, who was engaged in trying to catch the last of the robber chiefs who hid near Popa, told me that when he went up the mountain shooting he, too, had to make offerings.
This ended, the Queen rose and did obeisance to the Lord and, retiring, paced back beneath the White Canopy and entered the courtyard where the palace stood a palace of noble teakwood, brown and golden and carved like lace into strange fantasies of spires and pinnacles and branches where Nats and Tree Spirits and Beloos and swaying river maidens mingled and met amid fruits and leaves and flowers in a wild and joyous confusion.
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