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come?” The discussion between the new-comer, who 
continues to stand perfe€tly ere& and perfeétly still, and B es 
the reclining master of the house is continued something 
after this fashion, each brief proposition and its equally — : 
brief answer separated from the next by an appre- | 
ciable number of seconds, each dropped out as though it = 
were part of an exercise in the art of expression without | a 
emotion. eS 
‘‘ | come with my people.” a 
« Ugh.” 
“We slept three nights on the way.” 
“ Ugh. Three nights?” : 
“Ugh, Three nights, yes. (Here follows solonga 
pause that the conversation seems ended ; but at last the | 4 
new-comer adds), You sent for me?” 
“J sent for you. Ugh! Ugh!” 
“ You want me?” 
v © The white man wants you.” 
“ Ugh! Ugh: Ugh!” 
*“ Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!” 
And then the discussion drifts for several minutes into 
a very occasional interchange of these ugh’s. At last 
the host intimates, in the same leisurely unemotional 
fashion, that I am the same man who once came into 
those parts before, The reply, surprising enough to me 
when I remember that it is fully six years since that 
previous visit—-is ‘‘ yes, but the white man had no beard 
then.” It takes along time to discuss two or three — 
equally true but equally unimportant faéts about me in 
this leisurely fashion. Then at last, in the same way, it 
is gradually intimated that I want people to carry for 
me; and that I have all sorts of treasure to pay forthese — 
