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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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dust into quills for one measure, and weighing small
nuggets against pebbles for another. Moreover, my
interpreter found that Gomer also boasted another
lucrative trade, which the Ras fairly supposed should
be concealed from the European,—for have not the
white men cajoled Menelik into some sort of agree-
ment to suppress the slave trade in his realm? But
his great vassals, far in the interior, where the
troubling European had never been seen, feel no
hesitation in maintaining the patriarchal relation of
master to such Shankalis or other low tribes as may
sell themselves or be seized in war.
Now, the Ras did not like to lie to me, I feel sure
of that, for he was very much a gentleman; but in
statecraft, alas! who is spotless? He fenced with a
lie, while seeking a sure footing between new policy
on the one hand and consecrated tradition on the
other. So perhaps it was at Polu. We knew no-
thing of their wretched little placers (they may be
direfully rich for aught I know), but when, within
the short period of twenty years, four different sets
of white men poke into an almost impassable valley
and spy at things through tubes and are seen to
write in books every night, is it not fair to presume
that they are possessed of the Devil of gold-love,
which is known to enter white and black and brown
and yellow hearts all alike? And if you are snugly
ensconced in life as the Beg of Polu, making by the
sweat of the miner's brow an honest living for your
hard-earned wives and children, would you not feel
constrained to set a pitfall under the feet of a spy-
ing stranger? Ras Worke, Lord of marches in far
Godjam, and you, humble Beg of little Polu! a
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