Volume II Part 44 (1/2)
But once ain the buried barb tore, at ain Yillah was invoked, but Hautia ht But when uprose the sun, fled clouds, and fled sadness
CHAPTER LXX They Land At Hooloomooloo
”Keep all three prows, for yonder rock” cried Media; ”No sadness on this merry morn! And now for the Isle of Cripples,--even Hooloomooloo”
”The Isle of Cripples?”
”Ay; why not? Mohi, tell how they came to club” In substance, this was the narration
Averse to the barbarous custo at birth all infants not sy fros; the islanders of a neighboring group had long ago established an asyluulations; ruled by a king of their own election; in short, fors by themselves
One only restriction was placed upon thened theht of a distortedat Hooloo any knowledge of aught beyond theh as isolated, as if Hooloo in a community of their own, these unfortunates, who otherwise had rereatly Nor did successive generations i theh to the isle
Heaped up, and jagged with rocks; and, here and there, covered with dwarfed, twisted thickets, it see, ere surrounded by a heterogeneous mob; and thus escorted, took our way inland, toward the abode of their lord, King Yoky
What a scene!
Here, helping hi with two crotched roots, hobbled a dithout legs; another stalked before, one ar rod; a third, more active than any, seal-like, flirted a pair of flippers, and went skipping along; a fourth hopped on a solitary pin, at every bound, spinning round like a top, to gaze; while still another, furnished with feelers or fins, rolled hiround in advance
With curious instinct, the blind stuck close to our side; with their chattering finger, the deaf and the dules, obtuse and acute in the air; and like stones rolling down rocky ravines, scores of stammerers stuttered Discord wedded deformity All asses' brays were now harels
Yet for every stare we gave theave us
At last, we halted before a tenehs its rafters, thatched with fantastic leaves So raular its plan, it seee Mohi, the origin of the isle itself
Entering,King Yoky
Ah! sadly lacking was he, in all the requisites of an efficient ruler
Deaf and du but an indispensable trunk and head So huge his all-comprehensive mouth, it seemed to s up itself
But shapeless, helpless as was Yoky,--as king of Hooloo a lihness was but the passive and ornaossiping with his fingers: a servitor interpreting Very curious to note the rapidity hich motion was translated into sound; and the sih four successive channels to the ht, voice, and tyhness now expressed; horrified his glances
”Why club such frights as ye? Herd ye, to keep in countenance; or are afraid of your own hideousness, that ye dread to go alone? Monsters!
speak”