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Updated: May 27, 2025
It is a very different thing to lift a weight which may appear perfectly light for a few minutes, and to have to carry it day after day on one's shoulders, with the addition of a musket, a brace of pistols, and a stout stick. Pullingo went ahead with his spears in his hand and his boomerang stuck in his girdle, fully conscious of his dignity.
But a couple of roast parrots which we divided among them contributed to restore their spirits. By dint of cross-questioning Pullingo, we learned from him that the karakul was, as we suspected, a sorcerer a being with unlimited power over the lives of all who offend him.
The first person I met was Paddy Doyle. "I'm after thinking, Master Godfrey, that friend Pullingo will be able to help us in finding the dear young childher," he said. "I can soon make him understand that they are lost; and though he hasn't book-learning, he's got notions in his head which would puzzle some of us.
The savage uttered some words in a not unmusical tone, but what they were intended to express it was impossible to say, nor could we be certain that he had mentioned his own name; but, as may be supposed, Paddy at once dubbed him Pullingo, which cognomen he was likely to retain ever afterwards. "Exactly so," said Paddy, as if he had understood every word that had been uttered.
Pullingo was consulted on the subject; and when he understood that we proposed moving away, he advised that we should do so without delay. My father had been anxious to allow my mother and Edith time to rest: the strength of my little sister, indeed, was severely tried with the long walk she had taken every day since we had commenced our journey.
I found Pullingo sitting up not keeping watch, but stowing away in his capacious inside the remains of our supper, which I had intended for breakfast. Several birds which had been killed the previous day were hanging up, so I plucked and spitted them. I then aroused those of my companions who were to form the crew.
Paddy now pretended to have discovered him for the first time, and advancing a few paces, took off his hat and made him a profound bow. Though in all likelihood the savage had never before been so saluted, he seemed to understand that the white stranger wished to become better acquainted with him, and pointing to himself, he uttered the word "Pullingo." "The top of the morning to ye, Mr Pullingo!
Such a canoe could not take many minutes to form; and we agreed that it would be well to copy the natives when we had rivers to cross, and to form similar canoes, as they would be more quickly constructed, and could be guided with less difficulty, than a raft. Pullingo made us understand that this was his canoe, but that he would leave it where it was for the use of his wife and family.
We calculated that we had made fifteen miles, when we encamped for the night on the border of a thick wood to which Pullingo conducted us.
On reaching the top of the cliff, however, Pullingo, instead of keeping close to the edge, started off in a direction which would lead us, I saw, to a spot some way along the coast, beyond the point, I calculated, where the bushranger had fallen over.
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