A few mornings after the despatch of the courier and his party, the Dosch resumed the historical thread of his narration5.
You can well imagine, the chronicler exclaims, the enthusiastic admiration6 of the Pr?tor Indegatus’s children for the Manatitlans, when they saw the anxious expression of their parents’ faces give place to an unspeakable joy, which imparted its radiance alike to his former adherents7 and foes8. In evidence of their grateful sincerity9 they were unremitting in their endeavors to perfect themselves for the duties of censors10 and teachers, as well as in the more direct returns of material aid to their benefactors’ affections, from their success 183in raising and training falcons11, which promised the means for the speedy accomplishment13 of a reunion with colonistic correlatives. A year and a half had scarcely passed before the volantaphs were able to extend their flights a day and a third’s distance in stretch over the ocean, for their own instruction in the management of the birds free from exhausting irritation14, as well as to accustom15 them to devour16 their food while sustained with parachute and outstretched wings. The volantaphs, while disengaged from the active duties of their profession, kept the democratic instincts of the Heracleans in mindful dread17 of harboring thoughts of disaffection, held in legacy18 from hypocrisy19, the progenitorial20 mother of hatred21 and misrule, as they had been taught, with lessons of chagrin22, that their thoughts were no longer their own. The result of this knowledge enforced sincerity, which begat cheerful confidence in association, an effect that soon became manifest to the besiegers. Elasticity23 of thought, unprejudiced by suspicion, soon imparted its health-giving impression to the movements of the body, and action of the senses, directing them to the cultivation24 of useful occupations devoted25 to the common welfare. This freedom, in surcease from the treacherous26 enactments28 of suspicion, produced symptoms of reviving alacrity29 in the unanimity30 of action, which the savages32 detected from their perch33 on the brink34 of the falls’ precipice35, with puzzled surprise, evinced by the changing increase of numbers, and curious gaze of the watchers. The first practical use made of the falcons had been devoted to watching the Indians to learn their projected intentions, with the purpose of defeating them by anticipation36 without loss to the Heracleans. The unaccountable improvement in the condition and cordiality of the citizens made the savages more wary37 and watchful38. The river savages, suspicious of the valley Indians, kept a large body of their number constantly before the gates to prevent 184treachery. From couriers, which had been sent to the most distant of the river tribes, it was evident that some new and more energetic scheme was in progress to bring the siege to a close. While the valley harvesting was in progress, the volantaphs had observed long trains of loaded llamas proceeding39 up the Lepula and Vermejo valleys, and their destination was traced to a cave in the basaltic continuation of the falls’ precipice, about a mile to the north of the city. Giganteo explored the cave, and found that it contained extensive stores of dried fish, squillated meats, (hardened by the combined action of heat, pressure, and smoke), corn and maize40 parched41, ready for grinding, in preparation for their favorite murmiel, also dried fruits in abundance. As the extent of the hoard42 foreboded large auxiliary43 accessions he was alarmed, and only thought of adding to the defenses of the city. While in flight around the city to examine if there was in the walls an accessible foothold for the savages, an accidental discovery suggested the idea of appropriating the stores of the cave for the benefit of the Heracleans. Satisfied that the moats and walls were free from adventitious45 aids of encouragement for savage31 emprise, his attention was attracted by a jetty of basaltic rock that projected into the northern basin of the falls from the outward shore. Measuring its distance from the terminus of the wall and base of the precipice, he found that the space would admit of the circuit swing of a bridge sufficiently46 long for secure lodgment against the jetty. His brother, an engineer of ability, had a model of a bridge with the required measurements prepared for the pr?tor with a descriptive statement of its object. Great was the joy of the pr?tor’s family when this projected source of relief was explained with the assurance of its working practicability, which promised to render nugatory47 the designs of the leaguers, by depriving them of their ready means of subsistence, 185thereby provoking suspicion of treachery, with the probable result of disruption and dispersion. The pr?tor immediately paid a visit to this loophole of promised good fortune, accompanied by the most skillful Heraclean artisans, who declared, after consulting the measurements, that with the floating material the plan was not only feasible, but the bridge could be quickly constructed. The Dosch recommended that the northern crematorial temple should be dismantled49, as its timbers were well suited in length and seasoned lightness for the purpose. But this proposed act of desecration50 created a momentary51 impression of dismay in the mind of Indegatus, to which was added his fears of reviving the citizens’ superstitious52 prejudices, as it would be held as an open defiance53 of the avenging54 gods. The Dosch appeased55 his misgivings56, with the promise of anticipating religious objections. This was accomplished57, but it required skillful substitution of thought, notwithstanding the prospect58 of plenty offered in the event of success. The labor59 imposed, in the quick execution of the work, aided in subduing60 the conjurations of danger, while the veil of mist rising from the spray of the waterfall effectually screened from the eyes of the Indian sentinels the work in progress.
By the time the valley Indians had gathered and garnered61 their crops, adding their quota62 to the stores of the cave, the bridge was launched for trial, and from the buoyancy of the timber was found to be portably light and strong, so that in reversed movement against the current it could be easily managed. Gnipho was its sole occupant in trial essay, guiding with a rope the safe lodgment of its distal extremity63 against the jetty. When well tested in all of its working movements it was drawn64 back with comparative ease; but not before the adventurous65 Gnipho had reached and reconnoitered the entrance 186of the cave. For the pr?tor’s reassurance66 of the favorable acception of the enterprise by the citizens, the leaders of those who were formerly67 disaffected68 made a public acknowledgment of their transgressions70, at the same time tendering their full submission71 to his direction. Although greatly shocked with the atrocity72 of their meditated73 treachery he forgave them without reproach.
The river savages, feeling secure against surprise from the watchful care of the guards before the cinctus gates, and sentinels upon the brink of the precipice overlooking the city, left but few of their number to guard the cave. When sufficiently dark to screen their movements, on the night set for the fruition of their enterprise, the men, women, and children of Heraclea were astir, and ready to use the utmost of their strength for the success of their foraging74 expedition. When the Indian camp before the gates had become quiet the party selected to surprise the keepers of the cave started and without difficulty effected their purpose. The pr?tor leading the surprise party had ordered that the Indian guards should be secured without the loss of life, if it could be effected without endangering the success of the undertaking75. But their savage desperation in using their teeth rendered the destruction of life necessary. This was effected by suffocation76, advised by the Dosch that marks of violence might be avoided, hoping thereby48 to involve with mysterious dread the cause of death; as the river savages were known to hold as strong a belief in the agency of evil spirits, as the Heracleans in the vengeful ire of their gods. While the bodies of the savage guards were being placed in imposing77 attitudes to excite the awe78 of their companions when discovered, the work of transporting the stores of the cave had already commenced, great care being taken that no vestige79 should be dropped by the way to indicate the course, or from whence, in identification, the despoilers 187came. The llamas, after the transportation of the stores was accomplished, were stabled in the southern crematorial temple, under the screen of the cloud mist of the falls, which had formerly subserved, under the ritualistic ceremonies of priestcraft, to mystify the superstitious of the Heracleans.
With the first gleam of the sun on the dial brink of the falls, on the succeeding morning, the Heracleans offered their first p?an song of thanksgiving, before the open portals of their houses, in gratitude80 for the inauguration81 of an era of plenty; the first in the provisionary record of centuries. After their morning meal they engaged in their usual avocations82 with wonted composure; at least in as much as the savages could detect from their perch on the brink of the precipice; but to the close observer there was an elation83 in the expression of their faces that gave sure indication of a recent event of extraordinary import, proclaiming a happy emancipation84 from anxiety. At the suggestion of the Dosch the volantaphs watched the movements of the different tribes to observe the effect produced by the discovery of their loss. Until after the meridian85 hour had passed the vicinity of the grotto86 granary gave no indications of life, then a heavy rain set in, that served to still further delay visits of inquiry87 prompted by the non-appearance of the store guards. But early on the following morning the wildest commotion88 prevailed, the tribes in scattered89 bands were seen hastening from every quarter toward the cave. For the first time panic fear, in attraction, made them forget the objects of their undying vengeance90, for the camps were deserted91 on every side, leaving the city to its own guard. This opportunity offered for a second sally was not neglected. A large amount of forage92 was collected from the deserted camps; but from the signaled report of a retrograde movement, still more disordered in the haste of fright, the Heracleans were about to 188abandon it to the flames, when they fortunately recollected93 that they held in possession the arms of the savages, so they easily turned the current aside and garnered their second trove94 safely within the city gates.
A bee phaeton had been held in requisition by the Dosch to observe the effect of Gnipho’s ghastly array of dead savages, in pantomimic postures96, with eyes distended97, and outspread hands as if to guard them from a sight of horror, while their backs were half turned as if deprived of life in the act of escaping. When the Dosch arrived the savages were collected around the mouth of the cave, none having the courage to enter, but all, in act, were seemingly desirous of obtaining the intervention98 of his neighbor’s body as a shield of protection from apprehended99 danger. But at last the luskols (Indian priests) were forced into the cave, the lesser100 grades being used as a wall of protection for the higher. The Dosch described the scene as horribly ludicrous when viewed from their interior position. “The fearful contortions101 of the diviners, as they were pushed forward with their unwilling102 features half exposed to the light from the mouth of the cave, in contrast with the dead dramatis person?, furnished a study that we had no desire to prolong with the concurrent103 evidence of fear derived104 from auramentation. It was a hideous105 sight to behold106 these otherwise untamable brutes107 in human form, so abjectly108 appalled109 by the dead bodies of their late companions, simply from an arrangement in posture95 at variance110 with their traditional ideas of cadaverous propriety111. Bewildered with the first glance, they became, of themselves, immovable with fright, until the reactive alarm from the cavernous sound re?choing the breathing catches and grunts112 of the struggling mass behind, caused a frantic113 effort of wild desperation to regain114 the freedom of the open air. This contagious115 spasm116 of fear relaxed the energies 189of those obstructing117 the entrance so that they were held intact, a helpless mass immovably impacted over which those from the interior made their way in scrambling118 disregard to the means used in effecting their liberation. Paralyzed in voice utterance119, the only sounds heard were shuffling120 struggles accompanied by a succession of ucks from the by no means gentle action of elbows upon opposing bodies. When at length the blockading mass crawled forth121, bruised122 to the necessity of quadrumanal progression, their luskols had disappeared in flight. After the cave was cleared we took a high bee-line, from which we were able to see at a glance the many curious scenes enacted123 in their flight from the self pursuit of fear, which in variation kept us constantly convulsed with laughter.” The day was well advanced before all the stragglers regained124 their despoiled125 camps; then, without apparent regard for their loss, they commenced a second exodus126 to a grove127 under the precipice to the south of the city, with the evident intention of being as far from the reach of the cave’s scroul influence as possible. With the certainty that fear would prevent the savages from trespassing128 within the prescribed boundaries to the north of the city, Giganteo assured the pr?tor that the citizens need have no fear of using the pasture and arable129 land, accessible by the basin bridge, in the night time, if they would only take the precaution to dress in white, as that was esteemed130 by the superstitious of all tribes and nations as the favorite color of spirits blest and damned. The besiegers soon became aware of a marked improvement in the physical condition of the besieged131. This they attributed to the unfitness of their luskols, who were deposed132 and sacrificed upon their own altars.
The Dosch, relator, here remarked that instinctive133 fear excited from variations in natural cause and effect from accustomed routine was alike common to 190all the grades of animality. The dogs howl in dread from the sun’s eclipse; the cattle of the plain, and swine, the omnivorous134 congeners of mankind, will pass unheeded the dead of their species when the cadavers135 are natural in position, but when suspended from the branches of trees they become affected69 with the impulse of dismay, and like the savages endeavor to escape from the scene without the motive136 power of direction. The birds of the air are paralyzed with the same impulse of instinctive terror when warned of the earthquake’s shock by the herald137 hush138 of preternatural silence. Taking advantage of these controlling fears of instinct, that prey139 upon themselves in retributive reprisal140, “philosophic” and designing mythologists have conjured141 creed142 distinctions of imaginary attributes, which in combination are unitized under the style of soul. Upon this mythical143 assumption of attributive materialization, they have founded a system of compensation for its salvation144, in a mazy labyrinthine145 series with a graceless cordon146 of conditional147 graces under the signs manual of saving, efficacious, sufficient, and redeeming148 privilege. In contradistinction to this undefinable process of instinctive soul elaboration in the scale of rewards, follows the retributive punishments, but so inextricably intermixed in chaotic149 confusion that ritualistic words of lunatic designation are used in substitution for the intelligent expression of thought. The priesthood of the sects150, or herds151, that become adherents to the formalistic use of words and material rites152 administered for instinctive regeneration, talk in public discourse153 to distract attention from the peaceful meditation154 of goodness. Notwithstanding the multiplication155 of these most daring and glaring inconsistencies, which have banished156 with truth, sincerity, and confiding157 affection, the masses of humanity are still held in blind subserviency158 to the fantastic rules and rulers of instinct in kind. You will scarcely wonder at the 191slight impression that we have made with auramental thought substitution, while the instincts of your race are constantly distracted with the bellowing159 exhortations160 of sectarian recruiting preachers, in combination with inebriate161 oaths of the passers-by in derisive162 profanation163 of the worshiper’s selfish deity164. Perversion165 and prostitution have so degraded the legitimate166 powers of perception, that the pleasures of instinct have become a source of misery167 from nauseating168 excess in over-indulgence. Indeed, from sheer disgust, we have been inclined to discontinue auramentation altogether; for your pretentious169 civilization, and enlightened progression, is in fact nothing more than savagery170 refined with art inventions for the morbid171 gratification of instinctive sensuality; which in recurring172 product have given birth to toil173 and turmoil174, greedy vexations, strife175, hatred, and kindred passionate176 distempers cultivated in infatuated expectation that they will yield in reversion, after death, instinctive soul purification and a heaven of peaceful rest.
The Betongese, although accounted savages, would disdain177 to acknowledge ancestors who had tried in ecclesiastical courts of luskol diviners, dogs and swine for murder and witchcraft178, with the farcical appointment of civil pleaders of the legal fraternity for their defense44! notwithstanding the special qualifications of the latter for clearing the defendants179. From your ready appreciation180 of the higher dispensations of purity and goodness, in exampled enactment27, the Heracleans can scarcely realize that you ever participated in the ruling delusions181 of your race. Your physical comfort, and freedom from insect plagues, in Heraclea, are derived in legacy bestowal182 from ancestral purity, devised in healthy enactment by the Heracleans to fulfill183 present attainment184. By following these corrective indications your race would forefend their kind from the imposed penalties of curative professional plagues, who flourish from maladies bred in the flesh from over 192indulgence, in reckless regard of the certain recurrence185 of like from like. Our falcons in their three days passage across the ocean emit the osprey’s fishy186 odor; and with assimilation the English, French, and Germans exhibit in national crudities the instinctive effects of diet. These are inevitable187 facts that admit of no palliative variation in deterioration188 in the process of hereditary189 transmission; this an observer of a single generation cannot fail to discover if possessed190 with ordinary powers for comparative discernment. With this deviation191 from our historical path, designed for Mr. Welson’s analytical192 aid in the classification of evidences pertaining193 to the gradation developments of instinct, we will now continue our relation by quoting from the chronicler Titview’s record of the 2d Falcon12 Era.
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