headlong sportiveness and that achieving its end by means of
curved mallets.
VENERATED4 SIRE,—If this person’s memory is accurately5 poised6 on the detail, he was compelled to abandon his former letter (when on the point of describing the customs of these outer places), in order to take part in a philosophical7 discussion with some of the venerable sages8 of the neighbourhood.
Resuming the narration9 where it had reached this remote province of the Empire, it is a suitable opportunity to explain that this same Sir Philip is here greeted on every side with marks of deferential10 submission11, and is undoubtedly12 an official of high button, for whenever the inclination13 seizes him he causes prisoners to be sought out, and then proceeds to administer justice impartially14 upon them. In the case of the wealthy and those who have face to lose, the matter is generally arranged, to his profit and to the satisfaction of all, by the payment of an adequate sum of money, after the invariable custom of our own mandarincy. When this incentive16 to leniency17 is absent it is usual to condemn18 the captive to imprisonment19 in a cell (it is denied officially, but there is no reason to doubt that a large earthenware20 vessel21 is occasionally used for this purpose,) for varying periods, though it is notorious that in the case of the very necessitous they are sometimes set freely at liberty, and those who took them publicly reprimanded for accusing persons from whose condition on possible profit could arise. This confinement22 is seldom inflicted24 for a longer period than seven, fourteen, or twenty-one days (these being lucky numbers,) except in the case of those who have been held guilty of ensnaring certain birds and beasts which appear to be regarded as sacred, for they have their duly appointed attendants who wear a garb26 and are trained in the dexterous27 use of arms, lurking28 with loaded weapons in secret places to catch the unwary, both by night and day. Upheld by the high nature of their office these persons shrink from no encounter and even suffer themselves to be killed with resolute29 unconcern; but when successful they are not denied an efficient triumph, for it is admitted that those whom they capture are marked men from that time (doubtless being branded upon the body with the name of their captor), and no future defence is availing. The third punishment, that of torture, is reserved for a class of solitary30 mendicants who travel from place to place, doubtless spreading the germs of an inflammatory doctrine31 of rebellion, for, owing to my own degraded obtuseness32, the actual nature of their crimes could never be made clear to me. Of the tortures employed that known in their language as the “bath” (for which we have no real equivalent,) is the most dreaded33, and this person has himself beheld34 men of gigantic proportions, whose bodies bore the stain of a voluntary endurance to every privation, abandon themselves to a most ignoble35 despair upon hearing the ill-destined word. Unquestionably the infliction36 is closely connected with our own ordeal37 of boiling water, but from other indications it is only reasonable to admit that there is an added ingredient, of which we probably have no knowledge, whereby the effect is enhanced in every degree, and the outer surface of the victim rendered more vulnerable. There is also another and milder form of torture, known as the “task”, consisting either of sharp-edged stones being broken upon the body, or else the body broken upon sharp-edged stones, but precisely38 which is the official etiquette of the case this person’s insatiable passion for accuracy and his short-sighted limitations among the more technical outlines of the language, prevent him from stating definitely.
Let it here be openly confessed that the intricately-arranged titles used among these islanders, and the widely-varying dignities which they convey, have never ceased to embarrass my greetings on all occasions, and even yet, when a more crystal insight into their strangely illogical manners enables me not only to understand them clearly myself, but also to expound40 their significance to others, a necessary reticence41 is blended with my most profuse42 cordiality, and my salutations to one whom I am for the first time encountering are now so irreproachably43 balanced, that I can imperceptibly develop them into an engaging effusion, or, without actual offence, draw back into a condition of unapproachable exclusiveness as the necessity may arise. With us, O my immaculate sire, a yellow silk umbrella has for three thousand years denoted a fixed44 and recognisable title. A mandarin15 of the sixth degree need not hesitate to mingle45 on terms of assured equality with other mandarins of the sixth degree, and without any guide beyond a seemly instinct he perceives the reasonableness of assuming a deferential obsequiousness46 before a mandarin of the fifth rank, and a counterbalancing arrogance47 when in the society of an official who has only risen to the seventh degree, thus conforming to that essential principle of harmonious48 intercourse49, “Remember that Chang Chow’s ceiling is Tong Wi’s floor”; but who shall walk with even footsteps in a land where the most degraded may legally bear the same distinguished50 name as that of the enlightened sovereign himself, where the admittedly difficult but even more purposeless achievement of causing a gold mine to float is held to be more praiseworthy than to pass a competitive examination or to compose a poem of inimitable brilliance51, and where one wearing gilt52 buttons and an emblem53 in his hat proves upon ingratiating approach not to be a powerful official but a covetous54 and illiterate55 slave of inferior rank? Thus, through their own narrow-minded inconsistencies, even the most ceremoniously-proficient may at times present an ill-balanced attitude. This, without reproach to himself, concerns the inward cause whereby the one who is placed to you in the relation of an affectionate and ever-resourceful son found unexpectedly that he had lost the benignant full face of a lady of exalted56 title.
At that time I had formed the acquaintance, in an obscure quarter of the city, of one who wore a uniform, and was addressed on all sides as the commander of a band, while the gold letters upon the neck part of his outer garment inevitably57 suggested that he had borne an honourable58 share in the recent campaign in a distant land. As I had frequently met many of similar rank drinking tea at the house of the engaging countess to whom I have alluded59, I did not hesitate to prevail upon this Captain Miggs to accompany me there upon an occasion also, assuring him of equality and a sympathetic reception; but from the moment of our arrival the attitudes of those around pointed25 to the existence of some unpropitious barrier invisible to me, and when the one with whom I was associated took up an unassailable position upon the central table, and began to speak authoritatively61 upon the subject of The Virtues62, the unenviable condition of the proud and affluent63, and the myriads64 of fire-demons certainly laying in wait for those who partook of spiced tea and rich foods in the afternoon, and did not wear a uniform similar to his own, I began to recognise that the selection had been inauspiciously arranged. Upon taxing some around with the discrepancy66 (as there seemed to be no more dignified67 way of evading68 the responsibility), they were unable to contend against me that there were, indeed, two, if not more, distinct varieties of those bearing the rank of captain, and that they themselves belonged to an entirely69 different camp, wearing another dress, and possessing no authority to display the symbol of the letters S.A. upon their necks. With this admission I was content to leave the matter, in no way accusing them of actual duplicity, yet so withdrawing that any of unprejudiced standing70 could not fail to carry away the impression that I had been the victim of an unworthy artifice71, and had been lured72 into their society by the pretext73 that they were other than what they really were.
With the bitter-flavoured memory of this, and other in no way dissimilar episodes, lingering in my throat, it need not be a matter of conjecture74 that for a time I greeted warily75 all who bore a title, a mark of rank, or any similar appendage76; who wore a uniform, weapon, brass77 helmet, jewelled crown, coat of distinctive78 colour, or any excessive superfluity of pearl or metal buttons; who went forth79 surrounded by a retinue80, sat publicly in a chair or allegorical chariot, spoke81 loudly in the highways and places in a tone of official pronouncement, displayed any feather, emblem, inscribed82 badge, or printed announcement upon a pole, or in any way conducted themselves in what we should esteem83 to be fitting to a position of high dignity. From this arose the absence of outward enthusiasm with which I at first received Sir Philip’s extended favour; for although I had come to distrust all the reasonable signs of established power, I distrusted, to a much more enhanced degree, their complete absence; and when I observed that the one in question was never accompanied by a band of musicians or flower-strewers, that he mingled84 as though on terms of familiar intercourse with the ordinary passers-by in the streets, and never struck aside those who chanced to impede85 his progress, and that he actually preferred those of low condition to approach him on their feet, rather than in the more becoming attitude of unconditional86 prostration87, I reasoned with myself whether indeed he could consistently be a person of well-established authority, or whether I was not being again led away from my self-satisfaction by another obliquity88 of barbarian logic39. It was for this reason that I now welcomed the admitted power which he has of incriminating persons in a variety of punishable offences, and I perceived with an added satisfaction that here, where this privilege is more fully89 understood, few meet him without raising their hands to the upper part of their heads in token of unquestioning submission; or, as one would interpret the symbolism into actual words, meaning, “Thus, from this point to the underneath90 part of our sandals, all between lies in the hollow of your comprehensive hand.”
There is a written jest among another barbarian nation that these among whom I am tarrying, being by nature a people who take their pleasures tragically92, when they rise in the morning say, one to another, “Come, behold93; it is raining again as usual; let us go out and kill somebody.” Undoubtedly the pointed end of this adroit-witted saying may be found in the circumstance that it is, indeed, as the proverb aptly claims, raining on practically every occasion in life; while, to complete the comparison, for many dynasties past this nation has been successfully engaged in killing94 people (in order to promote their ultimate benefit through a momentary95 inconvenience,) in every part of the world. Thus the lines of parallel thought maintain a harmonious balance beyond the general analogy of their sayings; but beneath this may be found an even subtler edge, for in order to inure96 themselves to the requirement of a high destiny their various games and manners of disportment are, with a set purpose, so rigorously contested that in their progress most of the weak and inefficient97 are opportunely98 exterminated99.
There is a favourite and well-attended display wherein two opposing bands, each clad in robes of a distinctive colour, stand in extended lines of mutual100 defiance101, and at a signal impetuously engage. The design of each is by force or guile102 to draw their opponents into an unfavourable position before an arch of upright posts, and then surging irresistibly103 forward, to carry them beyond the limit and hurl them to the ground. Those who successfully inflict23 this humiliation104 upon their adversaries105 until they are incapable106 of further resistance are hailed victorious107, and sinking into a graceful108 attitude receive each a golden cup from the magnanimous hands of a maiden109 chose to the service, either on account of her peerless outline, the dignified position of her House, or (should these incentives110 be obviously wanting,) because the chief ones of her family are in the habit of contributing unstintingly to the equipment of the triumphal band. There is also another kind of strife111, differing in its essentials only so far that all who engage therein are provided with a curved staff, with which they may dexterously112 draw their antagonists113 beyond the limits, or, should they fail to defend themselves adequately, break the smaller bones of their ankles. But this form of encounter, despite the use of these weapons, is really less fatal than the other, for it is not a permissible115 act to club an antagonist114 resentfully about the head with the staff, nor yet even to thrust it rigidly116 against his middle body. From this moderation the public countenance117 extended to the curved-pole game is contemptibly118 meagre when viewed by the side of the overwhelming multitudes which pour along every channel in order to witness a more than usually desperate trial of the hurl-headlong variety (the sight, indeed, being as attractive to these pale, blood-thirsty foreigners as an unusually large execution is with us), and as a consequence the former is little reputed save among maidens119, the feeble, and those of timorous120 instincts.
Thus positioned, regarding a knowledge of their outside amusements, it has always been one of the most prominent ambitions of this person’s strategy to avoid being drawn121 into any encounter. At the same time, the thought that the maidens of the household here (of whom there are several, all so attractively proportioned that to compare them in a spirit of definite preference would be distastefully presumptuous122 to this person,) should regard me as one lacking in a sufficient display of violence was not fragrant123 to my sense of refinement124; so that when Sir Philip, a little time after our arrival, related to me that on the following day he and a chosen band were to be engaged in the match of a cricket game against adversaries from the village, and asked whether I cared to bear a part in the strife, I grasped the muscles of the upper part of my left arm with my right hand—as I had frequently seen the hardy125 and virile126 do when the subject of their powers had been raised questioningly—and replied that I had long concealed127 an insatiable wish to take such a part at a point where the conflict would be the most revengefully contested.
Being thus inflexibly128 committed it became very necessary to arrange a well-timed intervention129 (whether in the nature of bodily disorder130, fire, or demoniacal upheaval131, a warning omen60, or the death of some of our chief antagonists), but before doing so I was desirous of understanding how this contest, which had hitherto remained outside my experience, was waged.
There is here one of benevolent132 rotundity in whose authority lie the cavernous stores beneath the house and the vessels133 of gold and silver; of menial rank admittedly, yet exacting134 a seemly deference135 from all by the rich urbanity of his voice and the dignity of his massive proportions. In the affable condescension136 of his tone, and the discriminating137 encouragement of his attitude towards me on all occasions, I have read a sympathetic concern over my welfare. Him I now approached, and taking him aside, I first questioned him flatteringly about his age and the extent of his yearly recompense, and then casually138 inquired what in his language he would describe the nature of a cricket to be.
“A cricket?” repeated the obliging person readily; “a cricket, sir, is a hinsect. Something, I take it, after the manner of a grass-’opper.”
“A game cricket?” he replied; “well, sir, naturally a game one would be more gamier than the others, wouldn’t it?”
“The inference is unflinching,” I admitted, and after successfully luring140 away his mind from any significance in the inquiry141 by asking him whether the gift of a lacquered coffin142 or an embroidered143 shroud144 would be the more regarded on parting, I left him.
His words, esteemed145, for a definite reason were as the jade-clappered melody of a silver bell. This trial of sportiveness, it became clear,—less of a massacre146 than most of their amusements—is really a rivalry147 of leapings and dexterity148 of the feet: a conflict of game crickets or grass-hoppers, in the somewhat wide-angled obscurity of their language, or, as we would more appropriately call it doubtless, a festive149 competition in the similitude of high-spirited locusts151. To whatever degree the surrounding conditions might vary, there could no longer be a doubt that the power of leaping high into the air was the essential constituent152 of success in this barbarian match of crickets—and in such an accomplishment153 this person excelled from the time of his youth with a truly incredible proficiency154. Can it be a reproach, then, that when I considered this, and saw in a vision the contempt of inferiority which I should certainly be able to inflict upon these native crickets before the eyes of their maidens, even the accumulated impassiveness of thirty-seven generations of Kong fore-fathers broke down for the moment, and unable to restrain every vestige155 of emotion I crept unperceived to the ancestral hall of Sir Philip and there shook hands affectionately with myself before each of the nine ironclad warriors156 about its walls before I could revert157 to a becoming state of trustworthy unconcern. That night in my own upper chamber158 I spent many hours in testing my powers and studying more remarkable159 attitudes of locust150 flight, and I even found to be within myself some new attainments160 of life-like agility161, such as feigning162 the continuous note of defiance with which the insect meets his adversary163, as remaining poised in the air for an appreciable164 moment at the summit of each leap, and of conveying to the body a sudden and disconcerting sideway movement in the course of its ascent165. So immersed did I become in the achievement of a high perfection that, to my never-ending self-reproach, I failed to notice a supernatural visitation of undoubted authenticity166; for the next morning it was widely admitted that a certain familiar demon65 of the house, which only manifests its presence on occasions of tragic91 omen, had been heard throughout the night in warning, not only beating its head and body against the walls and doors in despair, but raising from time to time a wailing167 cry of soul-benumbing bitterness.
With every assurance that the next letter, though equally distorted in style and immature168 in expression, will contain the record of a deteriorated169 but ever upward-striving son’s ultimate triumph.
KONG HO.
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submission
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intercourse
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brilliance
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