Mr. Commissioner Sanders arrived on a certain night and surprised the villagers at a particularly unpleasant festival.

At dawn his soldiers strapped the hands and feet of the chief, Slipped a rope round his neck, and hanged him to a very high tree. Sanders might have saved himself the trouble. Within a year the new chief had developed a secret society called Three Sticks, which enjoyed a ritual which is not reducible to print.

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