This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... AUTDARUTA, THE MAGICIAN Strangely enough, I had read about Christian before I myself met him; in a little missionary paper I had seen a few lines that made me anxious to know him. In a diary kept by his priest during the baptismal instruction, under the heading of a date that I no longer remember, had ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... AUTDARUTA, THE MAGICIAN Strangely enough, I had read about Christian before I myself met him; in a little missionary paper I had seen a few lines that made me anxious to know him. In a diary kept by his priest during the baptismal instruction, under the heading of a date that I no longer remember, had been written: -- "Sometimes I am seized with an incomprehensible disquiet when I have to instruct Christian. I have a feeling that it is Satan incarnate whom I have before me. "To-day, as I was about to start out to my teaching of the heathen, I was again seized with this terror of facing Christian; and I was obliged to let them wait while I went down to the seashore to fortify myself in solitude by prayer to Almighty God." Chance brought me in contact with this said Christian, and after living with him for some time, I managed to win his confidence. But I never could quite fathom him. His eyes- DEGREES always made me doubtful. I only remember to have seen that timorous, despairing look in the eyes of a stricken reindeer. Sometimes a twitch would shoot across his face that would give him an extraordinary resemblance to a tired and tamed wild beast. And that was about what he was. The ruthless murderer had been appalled one day by his own deeds; and now he was tamed--though whether it were the priest or the remembrance of his own deeds that had restrained him, who shall say? Before I left the district I had an opportunity of going on a journey with Christian, who, in the meantime, had grown very much attached to me, and would have followed me farther had he not fallen a victim to a bad attack of scurvy, which obliged him to enter the Julianehaab Hospital. For a long time we resided alone in a church loft, and it was more particularly during that...
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