That was all
rock, and there was a little village there, and Carnehan says, 'Send 'em to
the old valley to plant,' and takes 'em there and gives 'em some land that
wasn't took before. They were a poor lot, and we blooded 'em with a kid before
letting 'em into the new Kingdom. That was to impress the people, and then
they settled down quiet, and Carnehan went back to Dravot, who had got into
another valley, all snow and ice and most mountaineous.
"There was no people there, and the Army got afraid; so Dravot shoots one of
them, and goes on till he finds some people in a village, and the Army
explains that unless the people wants to be killed they had better not shoot
their little matchlocks, for they had matchlocks. We makes friends with the
priest, and I stays there alone with two of the Army, teaching the men how to
drill; and a thundering big Chief comes across the snow with kettledrums and
horns twanging, because he heard there was a new God kicking about. Carnehan
sights for the brown of the men half a mile across the snow and wings one of
them. Then he sends a message to the Chief that, unless he wished to be
killed, he must come and shake hands with me and leave his arms behind. The
Chief comes alone first, and Carnehan shakes hands with him and whirls his
arms about, same as Dravot used, and very much surprised that Chief was, and
strokes my eyebrows.
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