The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-04-24

or some moments the puSarl SJOOU staring before him, bewildered at the sight. To come suddenly upon large village that he had never heard of close to his own, filled him with speeches. amazement He rubbed his eyes and felt his ears, thinking his senses must be playing him false Suddenly his heart stood still, and he gasped with horror He had realized where he was it was an enchanted or magic village of ptS0sis or demons that he had in truded on! As the full horror of his sit uation, alone among demons in the depths of the jungle at midnight, burst upon him, the pusari turned to flee To his intense surprise and terror, on turning, he found behind him, not the jungle, as he expected, but another part of the bazaar Rows of huts and shops, crowded so closely together that there was no way through them into the forest beyond, barred his way After a moments hesitation, he plucked up courage and muttering prayers and charms started off to walk through the bazaar Grasping his stick firmly he walked boldly on, showing no outside sign of fear, but with deadly terror at his heart.
 The bazaar seemed to lengthen before him as he went. He walked on and on, but 1t seemed to have no end He turned aside into several bv-laues. but they only led into others. He looked in vain for any gap between the huts by which he could escape into the jungle As he went, he passed through crowds of 1n,,,a,, FCl Eb,,. him, but he felt they were all watching him with their gleaming red eyes. To the pusari everything around him seemed to he alive. The boughs of the trees waved above him threateningly like weird skinny hands and arms; hideous faces peered out at him from all sorts of strange, unlikely places, Even the rice mortars and pots lying about, and the articles being hawked about or lying ex- posed on the stalls seemed to assume grotesque human faces and figures and to watch him stealthily Numbers of strange vicious-looking cattle, and gaunt evil-taced dogs wandered about, and the pusari noticed them leering at him and each other with a human sort of expres- sion which showed him what they were Rows of fowl of queer shape were perchcd on the roofs of the huts. and watched him as he passed with heads knowingly on one side.
 Many strange sight did the pusari see as he walked along. The shops were full of curious and extraordinary things such as he had never seen exposed for sale. He passed at one place party of pisasiS engaged in beating drums of strange shape with drumsticks of bone Soon after he came to part of the ba- zaar where a furious quarrel appeared to be raging In dark corner he caught sight of a large party of she-pisasis, who appeared to be engaged in some hor- rible rite, More than once he thought he saw the mock animals wandering about the bazaar talking to the keepers of the shops and to each other It seemed to the pusari that he had been walking for hours, yet the bazaar ap- peared to be as interminable as ever he walked on as in a dream, for in spite of the apparent hustle and excitement around him, he could hear nothing Stupehed by his fearful position he walked on mechanically, having now lost the sense of fear, and feeling only d SpIl tl vague NoIlUtT.
 And now a raging thirst seized on the puSari He had been on foot all day in the sun, and all the afternoon his mouth had been hot and bitter with curses. He had drunk nothing for many hours. As he walked along, the craving for water grew stronger and stronger, till he could bear it no longer He realized vaguely the peril he ran in accepting anything from the hand of pisasi nevertheless he stopped and looked about, in the hope of finding something to drink Near at hand was a small shop presided over by hideous old she-pisasi Unde- tered by the horrible aspect of the red eyed, wrinkled, old bag, the puSari ap- preached her with the intention of ask ing for a drink of water. As he did SO he felt conscious that all the pisasis had suddenly stood still and were watching him. The >he-pisasi's shop contained some strange things. On one side lay huge rock python cut into lengths, each of which was wriggling about as if full of life On the other side lay young crocodile apparently dead; but as the pusari approached, it turned its head and looked slylv at him with its cold yellow eye. Over the old hags head hung crate full of life snakes, that writhed about and thrust their heads through the withes. Strings of dead bats and baskets full of loathsome rep tiles filled the shop, In front of her stood hollow gourd full of water
 Mother, am thirsty said the pusari as he pointed to the water But though he said the words, he did not hear his own voice. The old bag looked tixedly at him for moment, and then raising the gour,l, gave it to him. He raised it to his lips, and drank long and eagerly As he put the empty vessel down, he felt everything reel and swim about him Gazing wildly round he grasped at the air two or three times for some support, and then fell to the ground motiOnless and senseless.
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 When the pusar came to his senses, | 1 | IL. l.