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Allan and the Holy Flower

CHAPTER XVII
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This object, which was small, I still have.

Another was a bed of charcoal, and amongst the charcoal were some partially burnt bones, including a skull that was very little injured.

This may have belonged to a woman of a low type, perhaps the first Mother of the Flower, but its general appearance reminded me of that of a gorilla.

I regret that there was neither time nor light to enable me to make a proper examination of these remains, which we found it impossible to bring away.
Mrs.Eversley told me afterwards, however, that the Kalubis had a tradition that the god once possessed a wife which died before the Pongo migrated to their present home.

If so, these may have been the bones of that wife.


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