The Huge Stern Pigmy
Captured Me

We must first greet the mother of a new born baby whether her baby will die soon or not.

If wild boar acts as rudely as pig does, he (wild boar) will ruin the town. And if slave becomes king the people will not remain—He will revenge.

After I wrapped this wonderful head and put it inside my hunting bag I travelled towards the north of the jungle, because this day was “The Day of New Creation” which was Thursday. As I was travelling along it was so I was looking for the fearful boa constrictor to be killed but I did not see it until I travelled about eight miles. When I travelled further I came to where there were plenty of the vast hills, mountains, and very rough mighty rocks which were as high and vast as mountains. There were several paths which went along to the inside of each of these vast rocks and this showed me that there were towns inside the bottoms of the rocks.

All the paths which went to the inside of each of these rocks were very clean, but many fearful things like images of giants, wild animals, big snakes, etc., were put on both sides of each of the paths. Complete skeletons of apes, tigers, human beings, etc., were also put on both sides of the paths. All these things were just warnings for another kinds of creatures not to enter or go near the rocks. But as I was unable to travel farther when I travelled to these rocks, etc., because I had already tired and again the night was approaching. So for this reason I stopped near the corner of one of these rocks. This corner was just as a room with a flat stone as its roof. Then I leaned my gun and the poisonous cudgel on the rock which was a wall for this room and I hung my hunting bag on it as well.

After that I gathered dried sticks together, I made fire in them and I roasted the edible fruits which I picked on the way along to these rocks. Having eaten the fruits to my satisfaction then I slept. Of course I saw several small animals on my way coming to these rocks but I did not attempt to kill any one of them for my food because I had tired of eating animals every day, for I did not see another thing to eat since when I had entered this jungle. Throughout that night there was nothing happened to me but I was dreaming of those images, etc., which were put on both sides of the paths. In my dreams, all these terrible images, etc., were chasing me about to kill. It was so they were troubling me until one of them which was the skeletons of a giant caught me and as he wanted to stab me at belly, so I woke with great fear but when I stood up and opened my eyes with fear I saw that it was already the daybreak and it was that time it just revealed to me that I had been just dreaming and all what I was seeing were not truth.

When I woke up I went to the spot where there were plenty of wild grasses. As I believed that these kind of grasses were always holding the dew which was falling down from the sky in the night. And as there was no pond or river from which I could get water, so I collected the dew which was on these grasses into a big snail shell until when the shell was full. After that I came back to the fire. Out of the dew I washed my face and I drank the rest after I ate another fruits which I roasted.

But I hardly finished with these roasted fruits when I began to hear the mixed noises of people from the bottom of this rock. The noises were just like that of a big town. But anyhow, as “We must first greet the mother of a new born baby whether her baby was going to die soon or would not die” therefore I waited there until I finished my fruits. After I ate the fruits and I was still hearing the noises I thought within myself that perhaps if I kept longer than that in this spot some of the creatures who were living under this rock might come out and when they met me there they might kill me. So I took all my things and I left there at once.

As I was going along it was so I was stumbling my right foot thumb on the ground after a few minutes interval and this was a very bad omen. Again several birds were flying past my head and everyone of them was striking my eyes with its wings and this was a very bad sign indeed. I became so sad when I saw all these bad signs that my body became very weak at the same time, because I believed that no doubt I would be in a trouble very soon. Especially as I was a huntress these kinds of signs were dangerous to happen to me and again when I remembered that this day was “The Day of Trouble” which was Friday, my body became more weak and I was then quite sure that the trouble which I was going to meet soon would be very serious.

Anyhow after I thought over that a person never died twice and that if I died I would go to heaven, then I sold my “death” and I continued to travel along as hastily as before I saw all these signs. When I travelled till nine o’clock a.m. then I began to look for small animals to be killed for my food. But I wondered greatly that I did not come across them except those squirrels which were barking at me here and there. I did not know whether as these squirrels were barking at me repeatedly their noises were suspecting me to these small animals and by that they were hiding themselves before I was travelling to where they were. But when it came to my mind like that I stopped when I travelled to a big tree which had many big buttresses. Then I cut plenty of broad leaves. When I knelt down behind one of the buttresses of this tree, I held these broad leaves with teeth in such a way that they covered my face and the rest part of my body, so that these animals might not see me again, but they might think that I was a plant.

Having done so I began to keep watch of the animals. Of course as I was doing this thing it was so I was thinking in mind of all the signs which I had seen on the way before I travelled to this tree. Because I believed that no doubt a very bad thing must happen to me before the night of this day.

It was like that I knelt down and I was keeping watch of the small animals for good two hours without seeing anything like animals except those squirrels which were hung near me and barking at me repeatedly. But when I was tired to wait for these animals and as I was just thinking in mind to stand up and go away from there. Then these animals began to pass through that place in great number, but they were running here and there as if somebody was driving them to somewhere, none of them hesitated in one place so that I might shoot it. But after a few minutes some of them were hesitating in one place for a few seconds and at the same moment that I sighted one of them to shoot. There appeared a stern huge pigmy from an unknown place. He was shouting greatly and continuously and his shout was driving these animals to another part of the jungle.

It was a great anger to me when it was the very moment that I wanted to shoot those animals that this stern pigmy began to shout greatly. For this reason I said with anger that “We must first greet the mother of a new born baby for safety delivery whether her baby would still die soon or not”, which meant if this pigmy would kill me or not I must challenge him first. And at the same moment that he travelled with shout to where I hid myself I asked from him with great anger—“By the way, you this stern huge pigmy, what are you shouting for? You hopeless thing!” When he heard like that he first bent down and peeped to where I hid just to make sure whom I was. Because the leaves with which I covered myself did not allow him to see me but he was just hearing my voice. When he saw me there, he kept quiet and looked at me thoroughly with wonder for about five minutes for in the first instance he could not say whether I was a pigmy like himself.

To make sure the kind of a creature that I was he asked from me with his native language—“Who are you? Will you come out and let me see you?” But when I could not answer him and I did not come out as he told me. He came to me with anger. And when he saw that I was a huntress, with gun, etc., in hand, he gripped my neck as if a giant gripped a grain of maize. He dragged me out of the place that I hid with anger and he still held my neck when he said loudly—“Oh, you too, come to steal our animals away! All right, I will take you too to where the rest of you are in the punishment since past ten years!”

As he held and pressed my neck so hardly that I could not even breathe in or out easily, he took my gun, hunting bag, the wonderful head of the animal which I wrapped with the skin of animal, the cudgel and cutlass from me. After that he tossed me without mercy to a short distance from this spot and my head was so struck the bottom of a tree that I could not stand up or even to raise up my head a little bit when he cut a strong rope. Then he came to me, he pulled me upright, he put both my hands to my back and then he tied both together with this rope. Having done that he hung my hunting bag and the head of the animal on his shoulder, but he did not loose the bag and the head of the animal which I wrapped, to know what were in them and he did not attempt to shoot or touch the trigger of my gun before he put it on his shoulder as well, of course I could not say whether he knew how to shoot gun or whether he had seen a gun before. After this he cut a long and strong whip with my cutlass. Having done this he held the cutlass and the cudgel with left hand and he held the whip with right hand.

After he stretched this whip to the direction that which he wanted me to be travelling along. When I was travelling along on that direction he followed me and he began to whip me mercilessly along to this direction. This direction went along to the vast rocks and mountains from where I had come to the very spot that he caught me. As I was going along with my hands which were tied very tightly toward my back it was so this huge pigmy was whipping me mercilessly. Whenever I missed the right direction on which he wanted me to travel, he would give me several heavy slaps on the ears. I was falling into the pits which were on this direction as he was pushing me along with his big navel, because he had no spare hand again with which to help himself, he held my things with them.

His navel was big that it could contain more than four gallons of water. It swelled out from his belly to a distance of about five feet. In respect of this fearful navel he was not wearing other cloth on his body except a big apron. Whenever he was walking very hastily along, this navel would be shaking and sounding heavily as when the water was shaking in a large tube and it appeared on his belly as if a very large bowl covered the belly.