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by year, have driven them further into the hills where their 

 horsemen are comparatively useless. This is just what they 

 themselves have done to the former inhabitants, whom they 

 drove right up to the peaks of the range, where the latter 



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now lead a precarious existence. In some ways the pagans 

 are pleasanter to deal with than their more civilised con- 

 querors. They are comparatively frank and trustworthy 

 in their dealings, and far in advance of the others in every 

 thing which concerns agriculture. It was wonderful to see 

 how these pagans had irrigated and cultivated their fields 

 and taken advantage of every available scrap of soil on the 

 hillside. I was told that the tribes to whom reference has 

 been made above, who have been driven to the very top of 

 the Range, are called Gazum to the east, Pe near Mount 

 Madong, and Fekk to the west. They are very hostile to 



