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He could not get his head out of the hot sun; and the barge went continually round and round with a heavy, throbbing motion, in the regular beat of which certain spirits of the air one of whom appeared to be a beautiful girl and another a small, red-haired man, confronted each other with the continual call and response: "Keep the bedclothes on him and the room shut tight, keep the bedclothes on him and the room shut tight," "An' don' give 'im some watta, an' don' give 'im some watta."
The chief spokesman was a ferocious forward sort of savage, to whom I would rather have given anything than a tomahawk, from the manner in which he handled my pockets. My horse awaited me and I by signs explained to them that I was going. I suspect that Watta is their familiar name for the Darling from their use of this word on any sign being made in reference to the river.
A bush of whiskers hid most of his dirty face, and there was something about him which reminded Drew of the guerrilla Simmy. "Watta yuh want?" he whined. "Orders," Drew told him shortly. "Pull over there and dump your load!" "Whose orders?" The driver bristled, still fingering his whip. "General Forrest's. Now get to it!" Drew put snap in that.
There is still the Abhayagiri tope, the highest in Ceylon, according to Davids, 250 feet in height, and built about B.C. 90, by Watta Gamini, in whose reign, about 160 years after the Council of Patna, and 330 years after the death of Sakyamuni, the Tripitaka was first reduced to writing in Ceylon; "Buddhism," p. 234.
These boats were made of strong rawhide, generally about thirty feet long, although one was a full fifty feet, and they also had several boats shaped like huge bowls, made with a frame of wicker and covering it, the strongest buffalo hide, sewed together with unbreakable rawhide strings. They called these round boats watta tatankaha, which Will learnt meant in English bull boats.
We had been lying down some time when the old fellow returned, and in the most voluble and excited language told us he had found the water; it was, he said, "big one, watta, mucka, pickaninny;" and in his delight at his success he began to describe it, or try to do so, in the firelight, on the ground; he kept saying, "big one, watta big one, watta watta go that way, watta go this way, and watta go that way, and watta go this way," turning himself round and round, so that I thought it must be a lake or swamp he was trying to describe.
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