shendu

Updated: September 23, 2025

One old gentleman described your wings, said they had black plumage and were not quite as long as a mule. Said he often saw you by moonlight hovering over the crests out towards the Shendu country. Confound it, man!" The lieutenant laughed cheerfully. "Go on," he said. "Go on." The Ethnologist did. At last he wearied. "To trade so," he said, "on these unsophisticated children of the mountains.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents