Sunday, May 4, 2008

On the topic of local shamans

I was returning to camp via rick-shaw from the aero-drome, (my shipment of restorative tonics arrive'd today!) when the following sight struck me as soundly as a dastardly Turk might strike a defenseless child;


Needless to say, my humors were thrown at once out of alignment, and it was only a hearty swig of Doc McGillicuddy's Nerve and Moustache Elixir which rouse'd me from my stupefie'd state. (While my nerves did in-deed become quite regular as advertised, I had no need of it's facial hair thickening properties. Damn and blast your eyes, Doc Macgillicuddy! I've already got as robust a moustache as a man can rightly ask for, and now thanks to your tonic, I shan't be able to go so far as the local haberdashery without lower-classmen stopping to compliment my moustache's lustrous, full-bodied sheen!)

No sooner than I had stood up, than helpful native children surround'd me, and brush'd the dust from my overcoat in ex-change for the candy and small trinkets they have come to expect. I did not disappoint, producing a slide whistle and some peanut brittle from within my vest.

"What manner of inscriptions are these?" I querie'd the most likely candidate for ownership of the autocarriage which had so dis-quiet'd me. "They are quite frightensome to even a gentleman of my fortuitous constitution." The savage struggled for some time to understand Queen's english, finally offering a string of phonetic gurgles, that I was able to decipher as an attempt to entice me into worship of the favored local deity. "Nay good sir," I spake proudly, "I was born a follower of the noble Zoroaster and so I shall die." What follow'd was an incantation un-intelligible to man or beast alike, and surmising that some manner of hex was being cast upon my person, I fled in terror. I am loathe to admit such a thing, but caution is the friend of the wise, where dark magickry is at play!

31 comments:

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Anonymous said...

I read the entire travel accounts of Bougainville, Cook, Bontekoe, and de Veer among others for a research paper last quarter...

And this reminds me of every period travel piece I read. Good show, sir.

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Unknown said...

May 4th? Yeah, that's not going to work.

I expect biweekly submissions at least.

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Fletch said...

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Anonymous said...

By jove. What strange shenanigans the locals must partake in.

I look forward to any further documentation, good sir!

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James Buck said...

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Fletch said...

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Travis Oafbane said...

Please honour us with more tales from this wond'rous land!

Character Zoo said...

Be unashamed, good sir, of your perceived cowardice. Had you not absconded with haste, the natives, in their religious fervor, could have torn you limb from limb!

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Samuel Paddack said...

Damn and blast your eyes, Doc Macgillicuddy! I've already got as robust a moustache as a man can rightly ask for

Unknown said...

Needs more updates.

Scott Flavin said...

As I will be soon venturing into the dreaded peninsula myself, I long for further documentation of your travels.

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