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| 7 | 26 | I was conscious that only we three on that View more quotes about dais">dais were sitting. |
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| 7 | 23 | Kutaituchik, not taking his eyes off us, thrust one end of the green kanda string in the left side of his mouth and, very slowly, began to chew it. |
| 7 | 24 | He said nothing, nor did Kamchak. |
| 7 | 25 | We simply sat near him, cross-legged. |
| 7 | 26 | I was conscious that only we three on that dais were sitting. |
| 7 | 27 | I was pleased that there were no prostrations or grovelings involved in approaching the august presence of the exalted Kutaituchik. |
| 7 | 28 | I gathered that once, in his earlier years, he might have been a rider of the kaiila, that he might have been skilled with the bow and lance, and the quiva; such a man would not need ceremony; I sensed that once this man might have ridden six hundred pasangs in a day, living on a mouthful of water and a handful of bosk meat kept soft and warm between his saddle and the back of the kaiila; that there might have been few as swift with the quiva, as delicate with the lance, as he; that he had known the wars and the winters of the prairie; that he had met animals and men, as enemies, and had lived; such a man did not need ceremony; such a man, I sensed, was Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks. |
| 7 | 29 | And yet was I sad as I looked upon him, for I sensed that for this man there could no longer be the saddle of the kaiila, the whirling of the rope and bola, the hunt and the war. |