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tender Europeans shall sleep in a tent, and the
Asiatics shall sleep on the uncovered ground and
pile up packing-cases against your blast."
Then the Water Spirit spoke, saying: "You may
perchance live without hot tea, you may, with food
in your packs, burn those internal fires whose pro-
tected warmth shall defy the Air Spirit. But how
shall you deal with me when I shall mock at you as
a mirage, when I shall sink into the sands at your
feet, when I shall change into stone before your
eyes? How shall you possess me, the Indispen-
sable?" And for answer we could but say: "When
you mock at us with a shining lie, we shall yet seek
after you; when you are buried in the sand, we
shall go yet farther to find your reappearance; when
you have turned into stone, we shall be the bet-
ter able to carry you from place to place until
you shall melt to the wooing of the Fire Spirit.
We shall thirst for you, and struggle for you, but
you shall yield, you shall comfort us." And, lastly,
the Earth Spirit spoke, saying: "I have trapped
you here, you who have come into my sanctuary
which I have kept apart for its quietness. You
shall see doors in my mountain walls, they shall
seem to be open, but they shall be closed against
you. Your feet shall be heavy, your breathing
shall be as a bellows that creaks. This land I have
lifted far above the thick air which your lungs de-
sire for the quick cleansing of your blood. This
land is not made for man. You have sinned against
me in leaving the habitations which I have widely
prepared for you, to come into my high solitudes."
And we answer: "The shut door shall we leave,
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