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Lost more here at Dansville than we gained at Mount Morris. So goes the world.... January 9: Mercury 12° below zero but we took a sleigh for Nunda. Trains all blocked by snow and no mail for several days, yet we had a full house and good meeting." Extracts from one or two letters written home will give some idea of this perilous journey: HALL'S CORNERS, January 11, 8-1/2 o'clock.
And when they had finished he bade them hide the rest of the food in the thicket, that if they slew the Nunda they might return and eat and sleep before going back to the town. And the slaves did as he bade them. It was now afternoon, and the lad said: 'It is time we went after the Nunda. And they went till they reached the bottom and came to a great forest which lay between them and the Nunda.
Then they crawled on their hands and knees to where the Nunda lay asleep. Noiselessly they crept along till they were quite close to it; then, at a sign from the boy, they threw their spears. The Nunda did not stir: the spears had done their work, but a great fear seized them all, and they ran away and climbed the mountain.
If I am to die, then I die, but every day I must go and seek for the Nunda. And again his father offered him what he would, even the crown itself, but the boy would hear nothing, and went on his way. Many times his slaves came and told him, 'We have seen footprints, and to-day we shall behold the Nunda. But the footprints never turned out to be those of the Nunda.
The lad spent many days hunting the cat, which now bore the name of 'The Nunda, eater of people, but though he killed many wild animals he saw no trace of the enemy he was hunting for. There was no beast, however fierce, that he was afraid of, till at last his father and mother begged him to give up the chase after the Nunda. But he answered: 'What I have said, I cannot take back.
She told me it was broad and not long, and this is broad and not long. She told me it had spots like a civet-cat, and this has spots like a civet-cat. Then he left the Nunda lying asleep at the foot of the mountain, and went back to his slaves. 'We will feast to-day, he said; 'make cakes of batter, and bring water, and they ate and drank.
Master! And the boy pushed on to where the slave stood, and the slave said: 'Cast your eyes down to the foot of the mountain. And the boy looked, and his soul told him it was the Nunda. And he crept down with his spear in his hand, and then he stopped and gazed below him. 'This MUST be the real Nunda, thought he. 'My mother told me its ears were small, and this one's are small.
Further on were Allen's Hill, Squaky Hill and Gardeau, the residence of the "White Woman." Her husband was principal chief of the clan at this point. Further on at Nunda, was another village, its principal chiefs were Elk Hunter and Green Coat. The author remembers Hudson very well.
They wandered far through deserts and through forests, and at length came to the foot of a great hill. And something in the boy's soul whispered that here was the end of all their seeking, and to-day they would find the Nunda.
After that they walked all round the back of the mountain to the place where they had left the Nunda, and they saw it stretched out where they had found it, stiff and dead. And they took it up and carried it back to the town, singing as they went, 'He has killed the Nunda, the eater of people.
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