Harry smiled. "This establishment is prepared to turn out anything it has orders for."
"Then put down my order for a half dozen plows, to be delivered as quickly as possible."
The new town was located within the territorial limits of the Osagas' country, and it was now necessary to make immediate provision for some sort of laws or regulations with respect to the land. The savage theory was that the chief owned all the land, and this was a condition that well might breed trouble.
Osaga was the chief. He was the first to receive the full understanding of the new doctrine. It was proposed that he should receive as full compensation a certain stipulated sum, and in return make a transfer of all his rights to the State.
"But what is the State," he asked, "and who will he be?"
"The State will mean all of you."
"Then I will own a part of it just the same as everybody else?"
"Yes; let me explain that still further. When your people begin to raise coffee and cocoa, and all the other things which the people in the world will come here for and buy of you, the lands all about you will become very valuable, and many will come here to buy them. The money will go[p. 121] to the State, which means you and everyone else here."
"Will it be done the same with the Berees, and the Kurabus and the Saboros?"
"Yes; each will be a State of its own, and will be governed in the same way, and a Saboro will come here and buy some land, and you will protect him, and when one of the Osagas goes to the Berees he can buy land there, and they must protect him and his wife and children."