If they were taken in flat boats, carried over the mountains on mules, and lifted across the rivers in slings, they could then be carried over the desert on jackasses.

They could reach Wazuchistan in two years.

Other papers counselled moderation.

The _Manchester Guardian_ recalled the fact that the Wazoos were a Christian people.

Their leader, El Boob, so it was said, had accepted Christianity with childlike simplicity and had asked if there was any more of it.