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and I promised to see him on the following Mon- 
day. 
The next day was the Sabbath. The mange, 
having expressed a wish to be at our service, was 
sent for ; and he came, I am glad to say, in civilised 
fashion — very decently clothed. My lessons on this 
subject had done him good ; for he had always worn 
a dress of some kind when making his calls upon me 
of late. 
None of my auditors paid greater attention or 
appeared to understand me so well as the mange. 
He expressed himself as being very pleased with 
what he heard, and said that if I would only come to 
live at Moche many of his people would receive the 
book. 
Having patronised my service, he wished to get up 
a dance in my honour, and hoped I would attend 
that. When I begged to be excused, he politely 
said, " Well, it does not matter ; but I saw he was 
not pleased, and he evidently thought me uncivil. 
Still he did his utmost to get up the dance, but with- 
out success. He dragged the people from their 
seats, stopped all passengers, and compelled them to 
take the proper position, but it was of no avail ; my 
refusal to take any notice of it was a great damper, 
and the people had no heart for it. Had I wished 
for it, or had I taken any interest in it, it would have 
been otherwise ; the people would have calculated 
upon being paid for their trouble, and would have 
gone into it with zest. Leaving my camp, however, 
they succeeded in getting up a performance near to 
the palace of the chief 
The country was again startled to-day by the 
