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Updated: May 31, 2025
They were stolen at night by snaky-haired thieves who crawled on their stomachs under the nose of the sentries; they disappeared mysteriously from locked arm-racks, and in the hot weather, when all the barrack doors and windows were open, they vanished like puffs of their own smoke. The border people desired them for family vendettas and contingencies.
He had received a severe cut from a dah on the left shoulder, and while Me Dain skilfully bound up the wound, he talked with the old man and learned the story of the affair. It proved to be the outcome of a blood-feud, one of those savage vendettas so common among the hill-tribes of Burmah.
One of them shook him and the thief fell back into the hold of the canoe, and blood was seen on his clothing and a hole in his back." What followed was a capital example of the Maori doctrine of utu, or compensation, the cause of so many wars and vendettas.
Neither the increased nor the diminished severity of punishment, nor the modifications of prisons, nor the increase of police will increase or diminish the number of criminals. Their number will only be diminished by the change of the moral standard of society. No severities could put an end to duels and vendettas in certain districts.
Besides Boorahs are minor corroboree meetings where marriages are arranged; meetings where the illegality of marriages is gone into, and, if necessary, exchanges effected or arranged; meetings where the wirreenuns of the Boogahroo produce the bags of hair, etc., and vendettas are sworn; meetings of Boodther, or giving, where each person receives and gives presents.
From the "members" we gleaned many stories of past and present vendettas and quaint customs which we had not had the good fortune to witness ourselves. Amongst the regular members was of course Dr.
The terribly high death-rate in the last years makes it seem all the more probable that mysterious influences are at work, and the native suspects enemies everywhere, whom he tries to render harmless by killing them. This leads to endless murders and vendettas, which decimate the population nearly as much as the diseases do.
Here are the facts: "I was, at that time, a judge at Ajaccio, a little white city on the edge of a bay which is surrounded by high mountains. "The majority of the cases which came up before me concerned vendettas. There are some that are superb, dramatic, ferocious, heroic.
There, too, in the library were collected the decorations bestowed upon him by all the sovereigns of Europe for his successful zeal in hunting down the common enemy "the Corsican Ogre." The palace, inside and out, is a monument to the most famous of Corsican vendettas. My two winters at Alassio after leaving Berlin, though filled with deferred work, were restful.
'Touching a nerve' is one of those unforgivable small offences which, in our civilized state, produce the social vendettas and dramas that, with savage nations, spring from the spilling of blood. Instead of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, we demand a nerve for a nerve. 'Thou hast touched me where I am tender thee, too, will I touch.
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