“I speak of that because if you wish to travel to Gordonia there is no very great difficulty in your way.
“I don’t think that any of the tribes would resist your progress, although it is possible always that some of them should be up to mischief.
“I’m getting ahead of my story and will return to the time when we came to the conclusion that Mulvey had joined a native tribe.
“We learned, as I say, that he had been on good terms with the Narugas.
“His crimes had been so horrible and many that it was determined to make every effort to capture him.
“Accordingly, a squad of police was organized for the purpose of going to the Narugas to learn whether Mulvey was there and to bring him back.
“We went. It was a long, tiresome[Pg 4] journey and we came back empty-handed.”
“Did the Narugas show fight?”
“Not exactly. They were too shrewd for that.
“They knew that fight meant war and that war meant the overrunning of their territory by the British army. They avoided that but they pursued a policy of retreat and hiding in such a way that we could never come up to more than two or three of them at a time.