“How many of you dog-hearted giants are left?” Roadstrum called loudly. “Only myself,” came the strong voice of Bjorn. “Come out the two of you and we will see who is dog-hearted.”

As regards food for police, it is much more satisfactory, in a new district, to have them fed by Government and not given money or trade goods in lieu of rations, as is often done. If they are allowed to buy their own food from the natives they will impose on the raw savage, and frequently abuse their authority by making extortionate demands under threat of punishment.

He felt the wind of a second bullet that spatted against a boulder near Barney.

Politics without commitment to ends or beliefs is not possible. Passion is a culminating state of mind, a fusing of wrath and zeal in a stable bu tvehement subjectivity propelling decisions in a tumultuous pluriverse of values, perhaps charismatically graced or charged but, at the same time, objectively and responsibly channelled.