“What kind of people are the Illyas?”
“They are very mean, and are the enemies of all the others; and so are the Tuolos.”
When the warriors were mustered the Professor found ninety strong, vigorous specimens, the picked ones of the tribe. It need not be added that the Professor unfolded a scheme whereby he hoped to stop all further wars, and to greatly enrich all of them, and it was fortunate that he found in the chief a willing listener to the proposal.
With this explanation it will be the more readily understood with what enthusiasm he placed his people at the disposal of this strange man. He explained the strength of the white man, and showed him how the arts of peace were cultivated, and of the friendship which existed between all the great people of the world.
It must not be thought that the chief refrained from asking a great many questions during the course of their conversation.
“Is the country you come from very large?”
“It is more than two thousand times larger than all of this country.”
“I do not know how much that is. Is it more than two hundred times greater?”
“Yes, more than ten times that number.”