Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-11

patues were eaugeo py Vo'uue -. shss
anu riotousness OF scton' ! 'no.ss n,,..as
potn inc beasts would be torn 70 s"re"'.
When finally the female ceased TO strue-
gle and rolled over on her back, her fore-
paws Imply. folded, I was sure that sne
was dead. Raja stood over her, growiins,
his Jaws close to her throat. Then saw
that neither OF them bore a scratch Inc
male had simply administered severe
drubbing to his mate. IL was his way Oh
teaching her that l was sacred.
After n nomep, he moved away and let
her rise when she set about smoothing
down her rumpled coat while he came stalk
ing toward Dian and mo had an arm
about Dian now As Raj came close
caught him nv tho rec,t and pulIed him up
10 mo There 7 strokod him and talked
TO him. bidding Dian do the same until !
tbins be nre,ty well unders,ood that ~ I
was his friend 90 was Dian.
.
ror lo"s ,ine ne was incllneu ~ v.
sny Oh her, oiten paring ms teetn at neI
approac',, ana IL was mucn 'onseI 'nnc
@ peiore 'ne tenaie MADE Irlenos WIN us.
put py careful kindncss, py never e9t'ns
Wl'liouu sharihs our meat Win tnenl, anu
oy leeulng tnem from our hands we nhally
won tne confidence OF both animals HOW
ever that was long time after
with the two beasts trottng after us. we
returned to where we had left Juag. Here
! had the dickens own time keeping the
female from Juag's throat. OF all the
venomous, wicked. cruel-hearted beasts on
two worlds. I think a female hyenodon
takes the palm.
But eventually she tolerated Juag as she
had Dian and me- and the five Of us set
out toward the coast for Juap had lust
completed his labors on the thag when we
arrived. We ate some of the meat before
starting and gave the hounds some. All
that we could we carried upon our backs.
On the way to the canoe we met with no
mshaps Dian told me that the fellow who
had stolen her had come upon her from
behind while the roaring of the thag had
drowned all other noises and that the first
she had known he had disarmed her and
thrown her TO the back of his ldi. which
had been lying down close by waiting for
him. BY the time the thag had ceased bel
| lowing the fellow had got well away upon
| his swift mount BY holding one palm over
| her mouth he had prevented her calling for
help.
| Il thought" she concluded that 7 should
| have to use the vipers tooth. after ALL"
| We reached the beach at last and un-
| earthed the canoe Then we busted our
| selves stepping a mast and rigging small
| sail-Juag and T. that is-while Dian cut
! the thag meat into long strips for driving
| when we should be out in the sunlight once
| more
| At last all was done We were ready to
| embark. | had no difficulty in getting Ra ia
| aboard the dugout; but Ranee-as we
| christened her after had explained to Dian
| the meaning of Raja and its feminine
| quivaent-positiyely refused for a time to
| follow her mate aboard. In fact we had
| to shove off without her After a moment
however, she plunged into the water and
| swan after u.s.
| / let her come alongside and then Juag
| and | pulled her in she swapping and
| snarlng at us as we did so but, strange to
relate she didn't offer to attack us after we
had ensconced her safely i'm the bottom
alongside Raia
The canoe behaved much better under
sail than | had hoped-infnitely better
than the battleshlp Sari had-and we made
good progress almost due west across the
gulf. upon the opposite side of which
hoped to find the mouth of the river OF
| which Juag had told me-
The islander was much interested and
| impressed by the sail and it's results He
had not been able to understand exactly
| what hoped to accomplish with il while
we were fitting up the boat; but when ht
saw the clumsy dugout move steadil,
through the water without paddles, he wa.
as delighted as a child We made splendit
headway on the trip coming into sight O.
land at last.
| Juag had been terror-strcken when h,
ocean, and when we passed out of sight o
land he was in a blue funk. He said tha
! he had never heard of such a thing befor
. | in his life and that always he had under
, stood that those who yentured far fror
land. never returned: for how could the
find their wav when they could see no lam
: to steer for?
| tried to explain the compass 10 him
; and though he never really grasped tn
scientific explanation of it, vet he did lear
| tn steer by IL quite as well as l. We passe,
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