[The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont by Louis de Rougemont]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Louis de Rougemont CHAPTER IX 30/36
Next comes an extremely painful gathering and swelling, and a little later the earth that is inside is gradually removed--sometimes with a feather.
When the wounds finally heal up, each cicatrice stands out like a raised weal, and of these extraordinary marks the blacks are inordinately proud. But to return to the chief who owned the girls.
I must say that, apart from his awful and obviously stubborn face, he was a magnificently formed savage. I commenced the conversation with him by saying, I presumed the usual courtesy of providing a wife would be extended to me during my stay.
As I anticipated, he readily acquiesced, and I instantly followed up the concession by calmly remarking that I should like to have the two white women who were in the camp sent over to my "little place." To this suggestion he gave a point-blank refusal.
I persisted, however, and taunted him with deliberately breaking the inviolable rules of courtesy; and at length he gave me to understand he would think the matter over. All this time Yamba had been as busy as a showman out West.
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