VICISSITUDES 
the messengers that if they had a pig they should 
bring it into camp. Of course no pig came. 
From Sam we learned further that the Fa-lo-foida 
people, through fear of the Baw-boi people, had cut 
the suspension bridge, and that the natives farther 
up the St. Joseph River, on hearing of the tyrant’s 
warlike preparations, had left their villages and had 
settled on the site of the camp I had just quitted. 
Their object was, of course, to be near friendly Fa-lo- 
foida, which would in time of stress be to them as a 
fenced city. This incident led to the formation of 
quite a new township, and before I left Dinawa for 
good my old camp on the St. Joseph had become a 
considerable village. It was a curious example of 
the way in which political necessity affected the 
locale of village communities. 
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