Even her Korak could not, single
handed, slay an entire tribe.
At last the visitors arrived. There were three men and two women--the
wives of the two older men. The youngest member of the party was
Hon. Morison Baynes, a young man of considerable wealth who, having
exhausted all the possibilities for pleasure offered by the capitals
of Europe, had gladly seized upon this opportunity to turn to
another continent for excitement and adventure.
He looked upon all things un-European as rather more than less
impossible, still he was not at all averse to enjoying the novelty
of unaccustomed places, and making the most of strangers indigenous
thereto, however unspeakable they might have seemed to him at home.
In manner he was suave and courteous to all--if possible a trifle
more punctilious toward those he considered of meaner clay than
toward the few he mentally admitted to equality.
Nature had favored him with a splendid physique and a handsome
face, and also with sufficient good judgment to appreciate that
while he might enjoy the contemplation of his superiority to the
masses, there was little likelihood of the masses being equally
entranced by the same cause.
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