This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... Gervase Fornier started the next day upon a raid into the interior, whence the Muruts who had attacked him had come; how he returned after many days accompanied by 300 cowed natives bending under the loads of jars which represented the fines inflicted upon them for their attempt to break the Government's peace; how he ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... Gervase Fornier started the next day upon a raid into the interior, whence the Muruts who had attacked him had come; how he returned after many days accompanied by 300 cowed natives bending under the loads of jars which represented the fines inflicted upon them for their attempt to break the Government's peace; how he kept them with him until each man among them had carried up a hundred large stones from the river-bed and piled them on the grave where Burnaby's bones were laid to rest; how that huge pyramid, which was the surest protection against insult that could be afforded to the dead, became in time the centre round which clustered half the superstitions of the valley, --are not these things written in the records of Kalamantan, and in the memory of certain Muruts, now most orderly and exemplary members of society, who fear with a great fear, and, drunk or sober, swear by the very toe-nails of " Tuan Fornieh "? Later the second in command came up-country to Banat to inquire into recent events, and returned to the capital to make his report in person to the chief. "You can't do better than let young Fornier have sole charge up there," he said. "He has got a grip on the people which is worth all the science of government in the world, and I doubt whether we shall have any trouble there for ages. I can't understand it. The boy is completely changed. The work has made a man of him." "Didn't I tell you that it was the only chance of making anything of him?" said the chief. He liked to cultivate a reputation for infallibility, though his grounds for it were not more sure than those of his neighbours. "You see I was right. The heart of Kalamantan has turned a waster into a good officer!" But to my thinking the...
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Add this copy of Bush-Whacking and Other Sketches to cart. $74.93, very good condition, Sold by Bookcase rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Carlisle, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1901 by William Blackwood & Sons.
