the knuckles of the fingers & pulling them L 21. P.S. apart with a snap. There were women & children up in the house but they were tightly barricaded in and we near caught a glimpse of them. As we came up, the hill a pig was butchered, and one of them exhibited about 10 inches of bloody arm-head. The killing for a pig is a gesture of hospitality. In the midst of an immense amount of gobbling I offered them some knife (and some food) if they would bring the pigs along to Healy's camps - They agreed. On top of the next ridge I found one of Willis's camps. And when we were half an hour or so further I realized that the 'Healy's camp' we then came to was not the objective at all. There was nothing to do (11 am) but halt, cut up the pig, issue some rice & have a feed. My boys needed counted it. But I stipulated that we move on afterwards. We presented the village with some rice. I forgot to say that the two men who left our group yesterday with us turned up at their village (They live up the Black Arrowhead), and came on with the rest. They had been hunting birds for us for some time. But the present lot of men had visited us once too, well after 'pigging'. All but those two turned back. They came on wanting to carry, and they are there in camp all want to go or tomorrows. I'll probably give them some unimportant loads to help the boys, think they may depart in the night with the family Jewels. To get back to the wall. We soon needed a parting of the ways & the sergeant assuring me that the other was better than that taken by