Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-07

telling the people in the nearby village that
their old nsighbor had been reyengcd and that
heneeforth they could GO safely to the well and
get their drinking water in peace.
T1ndig deserves word of introduction, for
he was my native guide and chief scout
throughout the Borneo expedition. He was my
ally and champion discovered early that
there was tremendous lot of good character in
him. During the first days of my acquaintance
with aim, arm very much afraid that most
people would have considered him rather q
bad lot. The fact of the matter was that he
belonged to strange people and had been
brought up under very different conditions
from ours. He was head hunter a Wild Man
OF BorneO, and because of his courage and his
strength he had become chief Of his tribe
When met him, he was simply great
fighting savage. He was then decked in his
savage finery of tiger skin. a necklace of wild
boar tusks, earrings of jasuar claws and q
headpiece OF black ostrich feathers. His face
was daubed with war-paint and, equipped with
6-foot shiny headed spear, he was leading his
tribal warriors in wild war dance around the
blazing fires OF q head-hunting ceremony When
I talked to him he had but one answer to
everything: Fight" 1t was his nature born
and bred in him. 1t ran in his blood and grew
in his bones
1t was later that persuaded Tindig to follow
the white man and learn about the new way to
live. But when he first came to me to acr as
guide he gave more trouble than his work was
worth He always wanted to do things the wild
way. If anybody crossed him or made him
angry he wanted to cut of his head. And for
long time he was certainly test of our
patience, purpose and management But I
later had reason to be truly thankful that
did not get tired Of Tindig and send him away
THIS Is the story that I wish to ten Of
Tindig: 1t was my first year with him in
the jungle. We had left the coast and had
made our way through the dense and magnif-
cent forests until we came to the Latinoiong
Range. had been working among lepers,
hunting them from their strange hiding places
examining them and trying to persuade them to
take new cure with which we had been ex-
pertnenting and which has since proved almost
absolutely successful had with me in addition
to Tindig q dozen military police lent to me by
the government as a bodyguard.
found spot up in the highlands which I
thought ideal for my Summer quarters When
November came round and the sun swung
higher in the Steely blue it hlazed down more
pitilessly than ever. On the plains the little
creeks commenced to run dry and the whole
country smelled of dried swamp and disease
dust. But on the highlands the air was clear
ana bracing. as well it might be six to eight
thousand fest up above the sea.
It was in this region that Tindig's test came
One Sunday morning I was lying under q huge
six cotton tree taking ii easy when my dog
SNOWFALL gave q growl and trottesf to the edge
OF the camp clearing. Presently heard voices
and got up and went into my tent. few
moments later Tindg emerged from the forest
accompanied by a grizzled old murat The
dirty. wrinkled aged native wore a skinny Ioin
cloth OF tree bark and carried a rather long
spear, the head of which he dug into the ground
to help him along. Besides Tfncig who was
bringing him to my tent. he was attended by
two warriors armed with bIow-guns and q heIo
h..@'Beeause Of 'Shis' bodyguafd knew that
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