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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Kadjaman - -Author: H. de Vere Stacpoole - -Release Date: February 21, 2022 [eBook #67464] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Roger Frank and Sue Clark. This file was produced from - images generously made available by The Internet Archive. - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KADJAMAN *** - - - Kadjaman - - By H. de Vere Stacpoole - Author of “‘Glued,’” “‘It Is Paris,’” etc. - - - Tuan Marop, down there in Borneo, was capable of cutting - out more than his right eye if it offended him. Perhaps - Kray was right in guessing that Tuan was akin to those who - have saved us in the past from backsliding into beasts. - -Kray’s little son was playing with the big Siberian pup in the -doorway. From where I sat I could see the child and the dog, and -beyond them and framed by the door opening the pine-clad mountains -cutting the blue sky of summer, and beyond these Omstjall, the snow -peak and grandfather of the glacier that takes its name. - -Kray has given up hunting these five years and is now manager of the -Sellagman Salmon Canning Company, at least he looks after the fishing -and the canning and gets two thousand dollars a year for the job, -while I expect the real manager, the man who looks after the New York -office and the prospectuses and so forth, gets ten—maybe more. I don’t -know, neither does Kray, neither does he care. He says he has hunted -everything in his time but the dollar, and that a free life in the -open air is all he wants now that he has done with hunting and got -married. He was sixty-seven years old when he married and didn’t look -more than fifty, so he says; he doesn’t look more than fifty to-day, -at a little distance. - -He has hunted everywhere and shot everything and he started his -business at twenty so that when he married he had been at the job -nearly fifty years. That is a long time, for a year in the wilds is -longer than a year in a city and the risks are greater. - -Said Kray, looking at the child and the pup: “Olaff takes after his -mother, don’t he? Same flax-colored hair coming. First I thought he -was going to be darker, but it’s coming true enough. Scandinavian -flax, there’s no other color like it. Gets on with the pup, don’t he? -I saw the old dog lickin’ them both yesterday same as if Olaff was -hers, too. I’ve sent her off to the Skagga _fjord_ till the autumn.” - -“The big Siberian dog I saw here last?” - -“Yes, the mother of that pup. I’ve sent her off till the autumn. Olaff -will be bigger then.” - -“But why did you send her off—because she was treating Olaff as if he -were her pup?” - -“Well, not exactly,” said Kray, “and yet maybe that was a bit of the -reason. But mainly I expect it was something that happened years ago -that rattled me; thirty years ago it was when I was with Becconi in -Borneo on the exploring job. He was after minerals and if he’d stuck -to them in his drinks as well as his prospectin’ he’d have pulled -through; but the whisky did him. I’d been out East with a chap called -Milner hunting, and we struck Sarawak coast. Milner was going home -from there, and I was paid off with a bonus. I could have gone back -with him to England, and maybe would only for this chap Becconi who -happened along while we were waiting at Bintulu for a boat. - -“Boats in those days weren’t plentiful along the coast, and you didn’t -often know where they were going when they came, but as long as they -took you somewhere else it didn’t much matter. That’s how we were -placed at Bintulu when out of the sea haze one day a little -paddle-wheel boat came snortin’ and tied up to the rotten old wharf -where the Sea Dyak children used to sit fishing when they weren’t -playing headhunting with wooden _parangs_. - -“The _Tanjong Data_ was the name of the boat, and she was bound for -Rejang and Kuching and ports beyond with a mixed cargo and a big -monkey for the Dutch government that had been caught somewheres to the -north of the Tubao River. The _Tanjong_ had blown a cylinder cover off -or something, and she lay at Bintulu a week for repairs and while she -was repairing and taking more cargo I was often on board talking to -the captain and Becconi, who had come by her and was sticking on board -till the last minute, seeing that his cabin was a sight more -comfortable than shore quarters. The monkey interested me a lot, for -in all my shooting I’d never come across the big monkeys much, and -this chap was big. He must have weighed all of two hundred pounds, and -he was turning gray with age. He was what the Dyaks call a Mayas -Kassa, which means an orang-utan, with a face like a full moon. I’m -not joking. There are three kinds of orang-utans; the Mayas Kassa, the -Mayas Rabei, and the Mayas Tjaping, but the Kassa takes the bun for -beauty. I never did see such a face. It was like nothing so much as a -full moon broadened out, same as you see it when the moon’s rising -through a bank of mist and in the middle of it two eyes and a nose, to -say nothing of the mouth. That was what the monkey was like, and they -had him in a cage close to the engine-room hatch, and he’d sit there -the day long, scratching himself and talking to himself, his eyes -traveling about round the decks as if he was watching something -passing, and sometimes he’d look up at you, but he’d never meet your -eye square, at least not for longer than the flick of a snapshot -shutter. - -“Taking him altogether he was near five feet in height and his chest -looked as thick as a tree as he sat there scratching the fur on it, -his hands were as big as hams; and I reckon he could have taken two -ordinary men and knocked their heads together same as if they’d been -two rag dolls. - -“Becconi took a lot of interest in the chap, too, and we’d sit under -the double awning they’d rigged aft of the funnel and have our drinks -and watch Kadjaman, for that was his name, given him because he was -caught at Kadjaman, which is north of Fort Bellaja near the Tubao -River. Becconi, when he had the whisky in him, would stand up for -Kadjaman having a soul of his own, same as a man; but if the whisky -was out, and maybe a touch of liver on him, he’d be the other way -about. I used to use the monkey on him for fun, or to see the state of -his health, and then Kadjaman would sit watching us and pretending not -to. - -“We didn’t know that he’d been at work of nights, when the whole of -Bintulu and the chaps on board were snoring. He’d worked on the cage -bars, loosening them by degrees and little by little, so that the time -might come when one big pluck could rip them out. - -“No, sir, we didn’t know that or we couldn’t have sat there sucking -our cheroots and bug juice and talking about monkeys having souls. - - - II. - -“Now I must tell you that Milner had a servant, Tuan Marop by name, -and Tuan had his child with him, a little chap of six or so, named -Ting. Mrs. Tuan had been dead over a year, and he’d brought Ting down -to Bintulu to leave him there while he accompanied Milner on his -expedition. Ting and Kadjaman had struck up a friendship of sorts. The -child would talk to the brute in the Dyak lingo and Kadjaman would -scratch himself and talk back in orang-utan. I tell you it was -talking. - -“You’ve seen a child talking to a dog—you’ve heard Olaff talking to -that pup; well that was the sort of thing, only Ting wasn’t a soft -little chap like Olaff. Ting was a Dyak, Sarabas Dyak, with a hundred -generations of head hunters behind him, and what he was saying to -Kadjaman didn’t seem a popsy-wopsy talk from what I could gather, -though I didn’t know a word of his lingo. - -“I asked Becconi to ask Tuan to listen and report, and Tuan said Ting -wasn’t talking Dyak, but the monkey language. Seemed to think it a -joke, but he was in dead earnest all the same. There is a monkey -language as sure as there’s anything else in this world, and what they -say to each other, Lord only knows, but they say a lot, and Ting -seemed to have picked it up same as children do with foreign -languages. Tuan said that the Dyak children, now and again and once in -a hundred years, so to speak, could pick out what the monkeys were -saying when they held their jamborees in the forest, but he’d never -seen or heard of a child talking to a monkey before like Ting did, for -the reason that the Dyaks didn’t keep monkeys in cages and so the -children hadn’t a chance. He seemed proud of the fact, same as if Ting -had taken a prize at college. - -“So things went on like that till the _Tanjong Data_ had done -tinkering at her cylinder covers, and the day before leaving came, -with the docks all of a clatter with fruit cases for down coast and -rolls of matting and boxes of tobacco and Lord knows what else and the -niggers all bug house with being driven and getting in each other’s -way. - -“Then, coming along four o’clock in the evening, when things had -settled down and the breeze was rising, Becconi and I were sitting in -deck chairs talking and saying good-by to Milner and the captain. Tuan -had brought us up some tea which the steward had made for us, and Ting -was playing near the gangway by himself. All of a sudden, swish! the -bars of the cage went, and Kadjaman was out. - -“I was sitting with my back to the cage, and when I turned I saw -Kadjaman on the deck, a cage bar in his fist, and the bar was in the -act of dashing a nigger’s brains out. It was all as sudden as that. I -didn’t wait to see more. It was every man for himself, and I had no -charter to clear the decks of the _Tanjong Data_ of orang-utans armed -with five-foot iron bars; besides I hadn’t my gun with me. I guess if -I’d had a popgun even, I wouldn’t have taken a nose dive into the -Bintulu River like I did. A man’s courage lies in his gun often -enough—unless he’s fronting a moral duty, which I wasn’t. I just dived -and got to the other bank and watched. - -“Every one had skipped from that deck either overboard or through the -saloon hatch and there was Kadjaman with his bar in his fist, a free -man, so to say, soul or no soul. He was pretty busy, too. He wanted -more blood, it seemed, but he was afraid of going below for it, afraid -of traps, so he smashed away at the saloon skylight cover, beating the -brass rods of it to knots. Then he beat the starboard rail; in fact, -he gave that steamer the biggest thrashing of her life. Maybe it was -his having been kept in a cage six months that was coming out, or -maybe it was just his own nature; but he did take it out of that old -hooker. He near beat the cockroaches out of her, and you can fancy -that the chaps hidden in the cabin had a lively time expecting him -down the saloon companionway. - -“However, all of a sudden, he let up. I could see him standing -sniffing the air as if he smelt danger. He stood like that for half a -tick and then he stooped down and picked up something from the deck -and threw it over his arm like a sack. Same moment he made a jump for -the gangway and next he was on the bank. - -“I saw now what he was carrying—and heard it, too—it was Ting. The -child had been playing on the deck as I told you and hadn’t got below -with the others. Maybe he’d sat admiring the ways of his friend, but -that’s as may be; the fact was he was now shouting murder or what -sounded like it in Dyak and Tuan was responding. - -“Tuan had found a creese down below, and, before the monkey had made -twenty yards, he was on deck and after him to recover his property. -Becconi and Milner, who’d armed themselves, were after Tuan to lend a -hand, and there was I stuck on the opposite bank only able to look on. - -“On the flat Kadjaman was nowhere, but once he’d got among the trees -he was the whole of the circus and the elephant. - -“Just by the river there, the undergrowth’s so thick you can’t go more -than a yard in a precious long minute. You should see it; wait-a-bit -thorns three inches long, python _lianas_ that twine about and knot -themselves just like snakes, ground tangle that gets you just by the -ankle. That’s what the goin’s like, and Kadjaman was up in the -branches. I don’t know how he got along with Ting, swinging himself -from branch to branch. I expect Ting clung to him for safety and so -saved trouble and gave him the free use of both arms. - -“Anyhow he got away—got clear away, leaving Tuan lamenting and the -rest of them pretty well spent. Then they came back, and I met them, -having swum the river, and we went back on board, and you should have -seen that deck—the rail bent and skylight hashed and lashed so’s to -look like nothing, and a dead nigger on the planks with a hundred -thousand flies on his head like a buzzing turban. - -“Tuan had come back with us. He’d altered in color a bit, but -otherwise he seemed same as ordinary. He knew quite well there was no -use chasing any more after Kadjaman, yet all the same he got his -discharge from Milner that night, and he went off with a blowgun. That -was all the weapons he wanted, so he said, but he didn’t catch -Kadjaman. - - - III. - -“Next morning the _Tanjong Data_ started with Milner on board, leaving -us in that God-forsaken place face to face with the mosquitoes. Havana -mosquitoes are bad, but these chaps laid over them, striped brutes -like tigers. Then there were the Sanut _tingal pala_ ants; these chaps -bite you and hang on with their teeth like bulldogs; if you pull them -off they leave their heads behind. A cheerful place, with nothing to -listen to but the rainy noise of the palm leaves, shaken by the wind -and the howling of Dyak songs from the village, and nothing to see but -the Bintulu coming down to the sea between banks of trees that seemed -crowding one another into the river. - -“There are parts of the Bintulu where no man could make a landing on -the banks, by reason of the tangle of growth, vines and whatnots; but -at Bintulu it’s been cleared, though in those days it was bad enough -within half a mile of the town. - -“Becconi wasn’t going to start for three days, so I had my work cut -out killing time and mosquitoes. I’d sit sometimes by the river -watching the gunfish by the hour. You’d see them prospecting along the -bank, and then when they’d marked down an insect sitting on a leaf, -they’d take aim and spit, letting fly a jet of water aimed sure as a -rifle bullet. Then I’d sometimes watch the Dyak girls going about, the -rummiest sight, in their brass arm rings and leg wear, and sometimes -I’d sit and talk to Tuan, for Becconi had taken him on as a servant. - -“He didn’t talk English bad, and at first I tried to comfort him about -Ting, till I found out he wasn’t needing any. It wasn’t that he hadn’t -been fond of the child, but it was just that he seemed to reckon Ting -dead. Not corpsed, but dead to him and his tribe. I had some talks -with Tuan on the business then and afterward, and he told me that the -big monkeys took off Dyak children now and then and sometimes the -children were got back after they’d been living a year or two with the -monks, and that they weren’t any use; they weren’t humans any more. -Tuan, though he didn’t know anything much more than the difference -between the two ends of a blowgun, said all men had been monkeys once, -but so long ago that man had forgotten, and if a child was to go and -live in the trees with the monkeys he’d revert to the old times in a -year or two, and not twenty or fifty years would fetch him back. - -“I thought he was talking through his hat, but out in India, since -then, I’ve seen the truth of what he said. You’ve heard of wolf -children? Wolves are always carrying off children; some they eat and -some they don’t, and the ones they don’t they bring up as wolves, and -the children take to it and go on all fours and, after a year or less -they’re fixed, can’t ever get back to be men. Why, they had a wolf -child in the Secundra Missionary Asylum and kept it there till it grew -up to a man over thirty. It died somewhere about ’95, and it never -learned to speak, couldn’t do more than run about on all fours and -snarl. Rum, isn’t it? - -“Meanwhile Becconi was getting the lads together for his expedition, -and he wasn’t finding it an easy matter, for in those days Sea Dyaks -weren’t anxious for payment much except in human heads, and even heads -were sometimes pretty much at a discount. The head-hunting chaps have -got a bad name, but they weren’t so black as they were painted. They -weren’t always rushing about, either, hunting for heads. It was mostly -when they were in love and wanted to give a girl a present that they -went hunting, or when they had a down on a chap and wanted to do him -in. Becconi’s crowd that he managed to collect at last were head -hunters to a man, but I’d sooner trust myself alone with any one of -them than with a New York tough—a long sight. - -“We started on a Saturday at dawn, crossing the Bintulu and striking -toward the Tatan River. I’ve said Becconi was after minerals and so he -was, but his main proposition was gold. Down along south of the -eastern ports he’d heard stories of a gold river somewhere in Sarawak -north of the Rejang, and he carried the idea in his head, and I -suppose that was what made him strike south from the Bintulu. - -“We had with us Tuan and half a dozen of the Sea Dyaks and provisions -for a month, and we hadn’t more than crossed the river and gone a few -yards when the trees closed behind us, shutting out the sound of the -village and cutting us off from the morning sun as a closed door -might. I’ve never got used to the jungle, that’s to say the real -thing, and it’s my opinion it is not the place for a man. It’s a kind -of old glass house where the beginnings of life come from, and it’s my -opinion it has outlived its uses and would be as well done away with. -Maybe I’m prejudiced, having done near all my hunting in the open. -Anyhow, that Saturday morning I wasn’t in any too high spirits. If I -could have broke my contract and turned back I wouldn’t, though, bad -as I wanted to, because I’d taken a liking to Becconi, and I had my -misgivings as to his pulling through without a white man’s help. - -“I’ve hinted he drank. We took a good stock of liquor with us, but it -went under my eye. That was one of my conditions, and I knew if he was -left alone with it the jungle would soon have done with him. - -“We struck a big stretch of soggy ground where Nipah palms grew and -nothing else. I’m just going to give you a sniff of that hell place -they call the jungle in Borneo, and I can’t begin it better than by -saying we hadn’t gone more than five hundred yards from the river when -we struck this swamp. It wasn’t a true swamp, either. It was solid -enough in bits, and you’d be going along saying, ‘It’s all right now,’ -when your foot would go, sucked down, and you’d pull it out with a -pound of black mud like treacle sticking to your boot. We went along -mostly clinging to the palms that grew along the solid tracts and gave -us a lead. Then, when we’d passed the swamp we found ourselves before -the Big Thorn. That’s what the Dyaks called it, a big patch of -wait-a-bit thorn we had to cut our way through, and it took us the -whole day to do that. - -“Then when we camped on a bit of high ground the black ants raised -objections, and the black ants of Borneo sting like wasps. - -“I give you that as a sample of twenty-four hours in the jungle. You -didn’t get swamp all the time nor wait-a-bit thorn all the time, but -you got lots of other things not much better, and it was always that -infernal glass-house damp heat and smell. It’s the smell that gets -you, not a bad smell, mind you, but just the smell of a glass -house—only more so. - -“Then at the end of a week we struck a rival prospector. It was the -rummiest meeting. He was a chap by name of Havenmouth. He’d shoved -east with an expedition from Maka, crossing the Balinean River, and -he’d found the gold. But he was dying. I never did see such a -skeleton. The jungle fever or something like that had done for him, -and he said he’d been living on quinine and whisky, but that he didn’t -care as he’d found the gold. It was in a little stream to the -nor’east. He said there was dead loads of it, even though the stream -was so small. - -“He said that little stream must have been washing its gold for ages -to make us rich. There he lay with his hands like a skeleton’s and his -face like a skull painted with fever, handing us out all that talk; -and then he showed us a sample of gold grains he’d taken from the -stream. - -“Sure enough some of them were as big as split bullets. Then he died -with a whoop, and we buried him. But the bother was, he died before he -could give us the exact location by compass. He hadn’t got it written -down, for we searched him and his effects; he’d been carrying it in -his head. He’d given us the gold grains, though. - -“Well, that was the worst present a man ever got. Havenmouth had said: -‘It isn’t more than twenty miles way back there,’ and that was the -string that tied us to the circle, for we went wandering round like -the Egyptians in the wilderness, round and round, hunting for that -darned stream for months and months. You wouldn’t believe it, unless -you’d been there, how that thing held us. I’m not overset on money, -but it held me, same as when you draw a chalk line round a hen and put -her nose to it, she’s held. - -“We struck streams, all sorts of little tributaries of the Rejang and -the Tatan, and we struck mud turtles and spitting fish and water -lizards and snakes, but we struck no gold. Becconi was so full of the -business that he forgot his wanting to drink. And so it went on for -more than three months, till one day the madness lifted from us, and -we saw that we were done. We’d got to get back to Bintulu and get back -prompt, for we were near done for grub. - -“I’d managed to shoot a good deal, and we had the remains of -Havenmouth’s store. Still, all the same, we’d got to get back; and -over the fire that night, when we’d come to the decision to clear out, -Becconi had his first drink for a long time. We were sitting there -smoking and talking when all of a sudden from the dark outside the -firelight comes a whistle and Tuan gives a jump where he sat. Then he -whistles between his fingers as if in answer and out of the dark comes -a chap crawling along with his hair over his eyes. He creeps up to -Tuan, and they begin to talk. Then Tuan comes to us and tells us the -news. One of the Dyaks, a fish trapper that had done a journey up the -Tatan on some business of his own had come on Kadjaman’s house. - -“That’s what Tuan told us with a straight face, but we didn’t laugh, -for we knew what he meant. The orangs build houses of sorts away up in -the trees. They haven’t walls or roofs or lavatory accommodation; -they’re just platforms built between two branches and furnished with -bundles of brushwood and leaves. This fishing Dyak was a blood -relation of Tuan’s. He knew Ting, and he knew of the carrying off, and -a month before, going along through the forest by the river and -chancing to look up he saw Kadjaman’s platform away up in a tree. - -“He wouldn’t have took any more notice, monkey houses being common, -only for a face looking down at him out of the leaves. He saw at once -it was Ting’s face, and he called out, thinking the child might come -down. Instead of that Ting went up the remainder of the tree like a -flash and hid on the platform. - -“He marked the place and then he’d set out to hunt for Tuan and us. -He’d seen us start from Bintulu and he knew the direction we’d gone; -but how he found us after a month’s hunt—well, search me! But find us -he did. - -“Tuan having got the yarn, said it was necessary for him, now that he -had the indication, to drop everything else and get his child back. He -said he couldn’t lead us any longer till he had that matter settled, -and Becconi agreed that it was only right and proper to get the child -back and said he’d wait there with the whisky while Tuan and myself -made the journey and fetched the goods. The place was only a day’s -journey from where we were. I agreed. I judged he couldn’t kill -himself with the whisky in two days and that if he did it’d maybe be a -mercy for him, and taking my gun I followed Tuan and the fisher Dyak, -striking in the direction of the Tatan. - -“It was less than a day’s journey, and when we got there it wasn’t -above ten o’clock in the morning, and there, like as if a chap had -hoisted a mattress and stuck it between two of the branches, away up -in a big tree, we saw Kadjaman’s house; but there wasn’t a sign of the -owner nor of Ting. We didn’t go to knock at the door. We all sat down -in the undergrowth which hid us while giving us a view of the premises -above, and there we waited. I didn’t know what Tuan proposed to do to -get the child back, but I did know one thing, he was going to get it -back now he’d found the address. I reckoned he’d kill Kadjaman and -then climb for the child; but I was wrong as it turned out. - -“I nodded off to sleep, for I was bone tired with the journey, and I’d -been dozing maybe an hour when Tuan joggled me awake. I looked up and -there was Ting crawling along a branch twenty foot up, following in -the track of a big monk that was Kadjaman’s twin brother if it wasn’t -himself. You could see at a glance that the child had joined up with -the monkey folk in the three months he’d been with them. - -“But I wasn’t bothering about that, I was watching Tuan. Tuan had his -blowgun with him. It was a better weapon and twice as deadly as a -Colt’s automatic. It was death itself, for the dart was poisoned. Tuan -was standing up and leaning back with the gun to his lips. Up above, -against the sprinkling light through the leaves, Kadjaman made a -target as big as a barn door and not more than twenty-five feet off -and Tuan with that infernal gun could hit the middle of a sixpence -somewhere about the same distance. So there didn’t seem much chance -for the monkey, did there? - -“Well, all of a sudden I heard the ‘phut’ of the blowgun, and right on -it Ting, up in the branches, let a squeal out of him and I saw he’d -been hit, hit right in the neck where the big vein is and where the -poison of the dart would act quickest. - -“Then he came tumbling, kicking, and catching at twigs, bang into the -bushes, dead as Pharaoh’s aunt. Tuan gave the body a stir with his -foot to see if it was dead all right, and finding it so was satisfied. -He didn’t bother about Kadjaman, though he could have killed him easy -enough. He’d got his son back, anyhow, and stopped him from going -lower than he’d gone. 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This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KADJAMAN ***</div> -<div class='ce'> -<h1 style='margin-bottom:0em;'>Kadjaman </h1> -<div style='font-size:1.1em;'>By H. de Vere Stacpoole </div> -<div style='font-size:0.8em;margin-bottom:2em;'>Author of “‘Glued,’” “‘It Is Paris,’” etc. </div> -</div> -<blockquote> -<p><span style='font-size:0.9em'>Tuan Marop, down there in Borneo, was capable of cutting out more -than his right eye if it offended him. Perhaps Kray was right in -guessing that Tuan was akin to those who have saved us in the past -from backsliding into beasts.</span></p> - -</blockquote> -<p>Kray’s little son was playing with the big Siberian pup in the -doorway. From where I sat I could see the child and the dog, and -beyond them and framed by the door opening the pine-clad mountains -cutting the blue sky of summer, and beyond these Omstjall, the snow -peak and grandfather of the glacier that takes its name.</p> - -<p>Kray has given up hunting these five years and is now manager of the -Sellagman Salmon Canning Company, at least he looks after the fishing -and the canning and gets two thousand dollars a year for the job, -while I expect the real manager, the man who looks after the New York -office and the prospectuses and so forth, gets ten—maybe more. I don’t -know, neither does Kray, neither does he care. He says he has hunted -everything in his time but the dollar, and that a free life in the -open air is all he wants now that he has done with hunting and got -married. He was sixty-seven years old when he married and didn’t look -more than fifty, so he says; he doesn’t look more than fifty to-day, -at a little distance.</p> - -<p>He has hunted everywhere and shot everything and he started his -business at twenty so that when he married he had been at the job -nearly fifty years. That is a long time, for a year in the wilds is -longer than a year in a city and the risks are greater.</p> - -<p>Said Kray, looking at the child and the pup: “Olaff takes after his -mother, don’t he? Same flax-colored hair coming. First I thought he -was going to be darker, but it’s coming true enough. Scandinavian -flax, there’s no other color like it. Gets on with the pup, don’t he? -I saw the old dog lickin’ them both yesterday same as if Olaff was -hers, too. I’ve sent her off to the Skagga <i>fjord</i> till the autumn.”</p> - -<p>“The big Siberian dog I saw here last?”</p> - -<p>“Yes, the mother of that pup. I’ve sent her off till the autumn. Olaff -will be bigger then.”</p> - -<p>“But why did you send her off—because she was treating Olaff as if he -were her pup?”</p> - -<p>“Well, not exactly,” said Kray, “and yet maybe that was a bit of the -reason. But mainly I expect it was something that happened years ago -that rattled me; thirty years ago it was when I was with Becconi in -Borneo on the exploring job. He was after minerals and if he’d stuck -to them in his drinks as well as his prospectin’ he’d have pulled -through; but the whisky did him. I’d been out East with a chap called -Milner hunting, and we struck Sarawak coast. Milner was going home -from there, and I was paid off with a bonus. I could have gone back -with him to England, and maybe would only for this chap Becconi who -happened along while we were waiting at Bintulu for a boat.</p> - -<p>“Boats in those days weren’t plentiful along the coast, and you didn’t -often know where they were going when they came, but as long as they -took you somewhere else it didn’t much matter. That’s how we were -placed at Bintulu when out of the sea haze one day a little -paddle-wheel boat came snortin’ and tied up to the rotten old wharf -where the Sea Dyak children used to sit fishing when they weren’t -playing headhunting with wooden <i>parangs</i>.</p> - -<p>“The <i>Tanjong Data</i> was the name of the boat, and she was bound for -Rejang and Kuching and ports beyond with a mixed cargo and a big -monkey for the Dutch government that had been caught somewheres to the -north of the Tubao River. The <i>Tanjong</i> had blown a cylinder cover off -or something, and she lay at Bintulu a week for repairs and while she -was repairing and taking more cargo I was often on board talking to -the captain and Becconi, who had come by her and was sticking on board -till the last minute, seeing that his cabin was a sight more -comfortable than shore quarters. The monkey interested me a lot, for -in all my shooting I’d never come across the big monkeys much, and -this chap was big. He must have weighed all of two hundred pounds, and -he was turning gray with age. He was what the Dyaks call a Mayas -Kassa, which means an orang-utan, with a face like a full moon. I’m -not joking. There are three kinds of orang-utans; the Mayas Kassa, the -Mayas Rabei, and the Mayas Tjaping, but the Kassa takes the bun for -beauty. I never did see such a face. It was like nothing so much as a -full moon broadened out, same as you see it when the moon’s rising -through a bank of mist and in the middle of it two eyes and a nose, to -say nothing of the mouth. That was what the monkey was like, and they -had him in a cage close to the engine-room hatch, and he’d sit there -the day long, scratching himself and talking to himself, his eyes -traveling about round the decks as if he was watching something -passing, and sometimes he’d look up at you, but he’d never meet your -eye square, at least not for longer than the flick of a snapshot -shutter.</p> - -<p>“Taking him altogether he was near five feet in height and his chest -looked as thick as a tree as he sat there scratching the fur on it, -his hands were as big as hams; and I reckon he could have taken two -ordinary men and knocked their heads together same as if they’d been -two rag dolls.</p> - -<p>“Becconi took a lot of interest in the chap, too, and we’d sit under -the double awning they’d rigged aft of the funnel and have our drinks -and watch Kadjaman, for that was his name, given him because he was -caught at Kadjaman, which is north of Fort Bellaja near the Tubao -River. Becconi, when he had the whisky in him, would stand up for -Kadjaman having a soul of his own, same as a man; but if the whisky -was out, and maybe a touch of liver on him, he’d be the other way -about. I used to use the monkey on him for fun, or to see the state of -his health, and then Kadjaman would sit watching us and pretending not -to.</p> - -<p>“We didn’t know that he’d been at work of nights, when the whole of -Bintulu and the chaps on board were snoring. He’d worked on the cage -bars, loosening them by degrees and little by little, so that the time -might come when one big pluck could rip them out.</p> - -<p>“No, sir, we didn’t know that or we couldn’t have sat there sucking -our cheroots and bug juice and talking about monkeys having souls.</p> - -<h2>II.</h2> - -<p>“Now I must tell you that Milner had a servant, Tuan Marop by name, -and Tuan had his child with him, a little chap of six or so, named -Ting. Mrs. Tuan had been dead over a year, and he’d brought Ting down -to Bintulu to leave him there while he accompanied Milner on his -expedition. Ting and Kadjaman had struck up a friendship of sorts. The -child would talk to the brute in the Dyak lingo and Kadjaman would -scratch himself and talk back in orang-utan. I tell you it was -talking.</p> - -<p>“You’ve seen a child talking to a dog—you’ve heard Olaff talking to -that pup; well that was the sort of thing, only Ting wasn’t a soft -little chap like Olaff. Ting was a Dyak, Sarabas Dyak, with a hundred -generations of head hunters behind him, and what he was saying to -Kadjaman didn’t seem a popsy-wopsy talk from what I could gather, -though I didn’t know a word of his lingo.</p> - -<p>“I asked Becconi to ask Tuan to listen and report, and Tuan said Ting -wasn’t talking Dyak, but the monkey language. Seemed to think it a -joke, but he was in dead earnest all the same. There is a monkey -language as sure as there’s anything else in this world, and what they -say to each other, Lord only knows, but they say a lot, and Ting -seemed to have picked it up same as children do with foreign -languages. Tuan said that the Dyak children, now and again and once in -a hundred years, so to speak, could pick out what the monkeys were -saying when they held their jamborees in the forest, but he’d never -seen or heard of a child talking to a monkey before like Ting did, for -the reason that the Dyaks didn’t keep monkeys in cages and so the -children hadn’t a chance. He seemed proud of the fact, same as if Ting -had taken a prize at college.</p> - -<p>“So things went on like that till the <i>Tanjong Data</i> had done -tinkering at her cylinder covers, and the day before leaving came, -with the docks all of a clatter with fruit cases for down coast and -rolls of matting and boxes of tobacco and Lord knows what else and the -niggers all bug house with being driven and getting in each other’s -way.</p> - -<p>“Then, coming along four o’clock in the evening, when things had -settled down and the breeze was rising, Becconi and I were sitting in -deck chairs talking and saying good-by to Milner and the captain. Tuan -had brought us up some tea which the steward had made for us, and Ting -was playing near the gangway by himself. All of a sudden, swish! the -bars of the cage went, and Kadjaman was out.</p> - -<p>“I was sitting with my back to the cage, and when I turned I saw -Kadjaman on the deck, a cage bar in his fist, and the bar was in the -act of dashing a nigger’s brains out. It was all as sudden as that. I -didn’t wait to see more. It was every man for himself, and I had no -charter to clear the decks of the <i>Tanjong Data</i> of orang-utans armed -with five-foot iron bars; besides I hadn’t my gun with me. I guess if -I’d had a popgun even, I wouldn’t have taken a nose dive into the -Bintulu River like I did. A man’s courage lies in his gun often -enough—unless he’s fronting a moral duty, which I wasn’t. I just dived -and got to the other bank and watched.</p> - -<p>“Every one had skipped from that deck either overboard or through the -saloon hatch and there was Kadjaman with his bar in his fist, a free -man, so to say, soul or no soul. He was pretty busy, too. He wanted -more blood, it seemed, but he was afraid of going below for it, afraid -of traps, so he smashed away at the saloon skylight cover, beating the -brass rods of it to knots. Then he beat the starboard rail; in fact, -he gave that steamer the biggest thrashing of her life. Maybe it was -his having been kept in a cage six months that was coming out, or -maybe it was just his own nature; but he did take it out of that old -hooker. He near beat the cockroaches out of her, and you can fancy -that the chaps hidden in the cabin had a lively time expecting him -down the saloon companionway.</p> - -<p>“However, all of a sudden, he let up. I could see him standing -sniffing the air as if he smelt danger. He stood like that for half a -tick and then he stooped down and picked up something from the deck -and threw it over his arm like a sack. Same moment he made a jump for -the gangway and next he was on the bank.</p> - -<p>“I saw now what he was carrying—and heard it, too—it was Ting. The -child had been playing on the deck as I told you and hadn’t got below -with the others. Maybe he’d sat admiring the ways of his friend, but -that’s as may be; the fact was he was now shouting murder or what -sounded like it in Dyak and Tuan was responding.</p> - -<p>“Tuan had found a creese down below, and, before the monkey had made -twenty yards, he was on deck and after him to recover his property. -Becconi and Milner, who’d armed themselves, were after Tuan to lend a -hand, and there was I stuck on the opposite bank only able to look on.</p> - -<p>“On the flat Kadjaman was nowhere, but once he’d got among the trees -he was the whole of the circus and the elephant.</p> - -<p>“Just by the river there, the undergrowth’s so thick you can’t go more -than a yard in a precious long minute. You should see it; wait-a-bit -thorns three inches long, python <i>lianas</i> that twine about and knot -themselves just like snakes, ground tangle that gets you just by the -ankle. That’s what the goin’s like, and Kadjaman was up in the -branches. I don’t know how he got along with Ting, swinging himself -from branch to branch. I expect Ting clung to him for safety and so -saved trouble and gave him the free use of both arms.</p> - -<p>“Anyhow he got away—got clear away, leaving Tuan lamenting and the -rest of them pretty well spent. Then they came back, and I met them, -having swum the river, and we went back on board, and you should have -seen that deck—the rail bent and skylight hashed and lashed so’s to -look like nothing, and a dead nigger on the planks with a hundred -thousand flies on his head like a buzzing turban.</p> - -<p>“Tuan had come back with us. He’d altered in color a bit, but -otherwise he seemed same as ordinary. He knew quite well there was no -use chasing any more after Kadjaman, yet all the same he got his -discharge from Milner that night, and he went off with a blowgun. That -was all the weapons he wanted, so he said, but he didn’t catch -Kadjaman.</p> - -<h2>III.</h2> - -<p>“Next morning the <i>Tanjong Data</i> started with Milner on board, leaving -us in that God-forsaken place face to face with the mosquitoes. Havana -mosquitoes are bad, but these chaps laid over them, striped brutes -like tigers. Then there were the Sanut <i>tingal pala</i> ants; these chaps -bite you and hang on with their teeth like bulldogs; if you pull them -off they leave their heads behind. A cheerful place, with nothing to -listen to but the rainy noise of the palm leaves, shaken by the wind -and the howling of Dyak songs from the village, and nothing to see but -the Bintulu coming down to the sea between banks of trees that seemed -crowding one another into the river.</p> - -<p>“There are parts of the Bintulu where no man could make a landing on -the banks, by reason of the tangle of growth, vines and whatnots; but -at Bintulu it’s been cleared, though in those days it was bad enough -within half a mile of the town.</p> - -<p>“Becconi wasn’t going to start for three days, so I had my work cut -out killing time and mosquitoes. I’d sit sometimes by the river -watching the gunfish by the hour. You’d see them prospecting along the -bank, and then when they’d marked down an insect sitting on a leaf, -they’d take aim and spit, letting fly a jet of water aimed sure as a -rifle bullet. Then I’d sometimes watch the Dyak girls going about, the -rummiest sight, in their brass arm rings and leg wear, and sometimes -I’d sit and talk to Tuan, for Becconi had taken him on as a servant.</p> - -<p>“He didn’t talk English bad, and at first I tried to comfort him about -Ting, till I found out he wasn’t needing any. It wasn’t that he hadn’t -been fond of the child, but it was just that he seemed to reckon Ting -dead. Not corpsed, but dead to him and his tribe. I had some talks -with Tuan on the business then and afterward, and he told me that the -big monkeys took off Dyak children now and then and sometimes the -children were got back after they’d been living a year or two with the -monks, and that they weren’t any use; they weren’t humans any more. -Tuan, though he didn’t know anything much more than the difference -between the two ends of a blowgun, said all men had been monkeys once, -but so long ago that man had forgotten, and if a child was to go and -live in the trees with the monkeys he’d revert to the old times in a -year or two, and not twenty or fifty years would fetch him back.</p> - -<p>“I thought he was talking through his hat, but out in India, since -then, I’ve seen the truth of what he said. You’ve heard of wolf -children? Wolves are always carrying off children; some they eat and -some they don’t, and the ones they don’t they bring up as wolves, and -the children take to it and go on all fours and, after a year or less -they’re fixed, can’t ever get back to be men. Why, they had a wolf -child in the Secundra Missionary Asylum and kept it there till it grew -up to a man over thirty. It died somewhere about ’95, and it never -learned to speak, couldn’t do more than run about on all fours and -snarl. Rum, isn’t it?</p> - -<p>“Meanwhile Becconi was getting the lads together for his expedition, -and he wasn’t finding it an easy matter, for in those days Sea Dyaks -weren’t anxious for payment much except in human heads, and even heads -were sometimes pretty much at a discount. The head-hunting chaps have -got a bad name, but they weren’t so black as they were painted. They -weren’t always rushing about, either, hunting for heads. It was mostly -when they were in love and wanted to give a girl a present that they -went hunting, or when they had a down on a chap and wanted to do him -in. Becconi’s crowd that he managed to collect at last were head -hunters to a man, but I’d sooner trust myself alone with any one of -them than with a New York tough—a long sight.</p> - -<p>“We started on a Saturday at dawn, crossing the Bintulu and striking -toward the Tatan River. I’ve said Becconi was after minerals and so he -was, but his main proposition was gold. Down along south of the -eastern ports he’d heard stories of a gold river somewhere in Sarawak -north of the Rejang, and he carried the idea in his head, and I -suppose that was what made him strike south from the Bintulu.</p> - -<p>“We had with us Tuan and half a dozen of the Sea Dyaks and provisions -for a month, and we hadn’t more than crossed the river and gone a few -yards when the trees closed behind us, shutting out the sound of the -village and cutting us off from the morning sun as a closed door -might. I’ve never got used to the jungle, that’s to say the real -thing, and it’s my opinion it is not the place for a man. It’s a kind -of old glass house where the beginnings of life come from, and it’s my -opinion it has outlived its uses and would be as well done away with. -Maybe I’m prejudiced, having done near all my hunting in the open. -Anyhow, that Saturday morning I wasn’t in any too high spirits. If I -could have broke my contract and turned back I wouldn’t, though, bad -as I wanted to, because I’d taken a liking to Becconi, and I had my -misgivings as to his pulling through without a white man’s help.</p> - -<p>“I’ve hinted he drank. We took a good stock of liquor with us, but it -went under my eye. That was one of my conditions, and I knew if he was -left alone with it the jungle would soon have done with him.</p> - -<p>“We struck a big stretch of soggy ground where Nipah palms grew and -nothing else. I’m just going to give you a sniff of that hell place -they call the jungle in Borneo, and I can’t begin it better than by -saying we hadn’t gone more than five hundred yards from the river when -we struck this swamp. It wasn’t a true swamp, either. It was solid -enough in bits, and you’d be going along saying, ‘It’s all right now,’ -when your foot would go, sucked down, and you’d pull it out with a -pound of black mud like treacle sticking to your boot. We went along -mostly clinging to the palms that grew along the solid tracts and gave -us a lead. Then, when we’d passed the swamp we found ourselves before -the Big Thorn. That’s what the Dyaks called it, a big patch of -wait-a-bit thorn we had to cut our way through, and it took us the -whole day to do that.</p> - -<p>“Then when we camped on a bit of high ground the black ants raised -objections, and the black ants of Borneo sting like wasps.</p> - -<p>“I give you that as a sample of twenty-four hours in the jungle. You -didn’t get swamp all the time nor wait-a-bit thorn all the time, but -you got lots of other things not much better, and it was always that -infernal glass-house damp heat and smell. It’s the smell that gets -you, not a bad smell, mind you, but just the smell of a glass -house—only more so.</p> - -<p>“Then at the end of a week we struck a rival prospector. It was the -rummiest meeting. He was a chap by name of Havenmouth. He’d shoved -east with an expedition from Maka, crossing the Balinean River, and -he’d found the gold. But he was dying. I never did see such a -skeleton. The jungle fever or something like that had done for him, -and he said he’d been living on quinine and whisky, but that he didn’t -care as he’d found the gold. It was in a little stream to the -nor’east. He said there was dead loads of it, even though the stream -was so small.</p> - -<p>“He said that little stream must have been washing its gold for ages -to make us rich. There he lay with his hands like a skeleton’s and his -face like a skull painted with fever, handing us out all that talk; -and then he showed us a sample of gold grains he’d taken from the -stream.</p> - -<p>“Sure enough some of them were as big as split bullets. Then he died -with a whoop, and we buried him. But the bother was, he died before he -could give us the exact location by compass. He hadn’t got it written -down, for we searched him and his effects; he’d been carrying it in -his head. He’d given us the gold grains, though.</p> - -<p>“Well, that was the worst present a man ever got. Havenmouth had said: -‘It isn’t more than twenty miles way back there,’ and that was the -string that tied us to the circle, for we went wandering round like -the Egyptians in the wilderness, round and round, hunting for that -darned stream for months and months. You wouldn’t believe it, unless -you’d been there, how that thing held us. I’m not overset on money, -but it held me, same as when you draw a chalk line round a hen and put -her nose to it, she’s held.</p> - -<p>“We struck streams, all sorts of little tributaries of the Rejang and -the Tatan, and we struck mud turtles and spitting fish and water -lizards and snakes, but we struck no gold. Becconi was so full of the -business that he forgot his wanting to drink. And so it went on for -more than three months, till one day the madness lifted from us, and -we saw that we were done. We’d got to get back to Bintulu and get back -prompt, for we were near done for grub.</p> - -<p>“I’d managed to shoot a good deal, and we had the remains of -Havenmouth’s store. Still, all the same, we’d got to get back; and -over the fire that night, when we’d come to the decision to clear out, -Becconi had his first drink for a long time. We were sitting there -smoking and talking when all of a sudden from the dark outside the -firelight comes a whistle and Tuan gives a jump where he sat. Then he -whistles between his fingers as if in answer and out of the dark comes -a chap crawling along with his hair over his eyes. He creeps up to -Tuan, and they begin to talk. Then Tuan comes to us and tells us the -news. One of the Dyaks, a fish trapper that had done a journey up the -Tatan on some business of his own had come on Kadjaman’s house.</p> - -<p>“That’s what Tuan told us with a straight face, but we didn’t laugh, -for we knew what he meant. The orangs build houses of sorts away up in -the trees. They haven’t walls or roofs or lavatory accommodation; -they’re just platforms built between two branches and furnished with -bundles of brushwood and leaves. This fishing Dyak was a blood -relation of Tuan’s. He knew Ting, and he knew of the carrying off, and -a month before, going along through the forest by the river and -chancing to look up he saw Kadjaman’s platform away up in a tree.</p> - -<p>“He wouldn’t have took any more notice, monkey houses being common, -only for a face looking down at him out of the leaves. He saw at once -it was Ting’s face, and he called out, thinking the child might come -down. Instead of that Ting went up the remainder of the tree like a -flash and hid on the platform.</p> - -<p>“He marked the place and then he’d set out to hunt for Tuan and us. -He’d seen us start from Bintulu and he knew the direction we’d gone; -but how he found us after a month’s hunt—well, search me! But find us -he did.</p> - -<p>“Tuan having got the yarn, said it was necessary for him, now that he -had the indication, to drop everything else and get his child back. He -said he couldn’t lead us any longer till he had that matter settled, -and Becconi agreed that it was only right and proper to get the child -back and said he’d wait there with the whisky while Tuan and myself -made the journey and fetched the goods. The place was only a day’s -journey from where we were. I agreed. I judged he couldn’t kill -himself with the whisky in two days and that if he did it’d maybe be a -mercy for him, and taking my gun I followed Tuan and the fisher Dyak, -striking in the direction of the Tatan.</p> - -<p>“It was less than a day’s journey, and when we got there it wasn’t -above ten o’clock in the morning, and there, like as if a chap had -hoisted a mattress and stuck it between two of the branches, away up -in a big tree, we saw Kadjaman’s house; but there wasn’t a sign of the -owner nor of Ting. We didn’t go to knock at the door. We all sat down -in the undergrowth which hid us while giving us a view of the premises -above, and there we waited. I didn’t know what Tuan proposed to do to -get the child back, but I did know one thing, he was going to get it -back now he’d found the address. I reckoned he’d kill Kadjaman and -then climb for the child; but I was wrong as it turned out.</p> - -<p>“I nodded off to sleep, for I was bone tired with the journey, and I’d -been dozing maybe an hour when Tuan joggled me awake. I looked up and -there was Ting crawling along a branch twenty foot up, following in -the track of a big monk that was Kadjaman’s twin brother if it wasn’t -himself. You could see at a glance that the child had joined up with -the monkey folk in the three months he’d been with them.</p> - -<p>“But I wasn’t bothering about that, I was watching Tuan. Tuan had his -blowgun with him. It was a better weapon and twice as deadly as a -Colt’s automatic. It was death itself, for the dart was poisoned. Tuan -was standing up and leaning back with the gun to his lips. Up above, -against the sprinkling light through the leaves, Kadjaman made a -target as big as a barn door and not more than twenty-five feet off -and Tuan with that infernal gun could hit the middle of a sixpence -somewhere about the same distance. So there didn’t seem much chance -for the monkey, did there?</p> - -<p>“Well, all of a sudden I heard the ‘phut’ of the blowgun, and right on -it Ting, up in the branches, let a squeal out of him and I saw he’d -been hit, hit right in the neck where the big vein is and where the -poison of the dart would act quickest.</p> - -<p>“Then he came tumbling, kicking, and catching at twigs, bang into the -bushes, dead as Pharaoh’s aunt. Tuan gave the body a stir with his -foot to see if it was dead all right, and finding it so was satisfied. -He didn’t bother about Kadjaman, though he could have killed him easy -enough. He’d got his son back, anyhow, and stopped him from going -lower than he’d gone. You see he wasn’t a chap to believe in <i>Tarzan -of the Apes</i> or <i>Mowgli</i>, seeing that he knew what the jungle is and -what monkeys are, and what men can become.</p> - -<p>“Tuan wasn’t a popsy-wopsy father by no means, but I’ve often thought -it’s chaps like Tuan, stuck by nature in the door in old days, that’s -stopped humans from backsliding into beasts—but maybe I’m wrong.”</p> - -<div class='tn'> - <p style='text-indent:0'>Transcriber’s Note: This story appeared in - the August 7, 1921 issue of <i>The Popular</i> magazine.</p> -</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KADJAMAN ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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