"But there was no way to go to the white man's country," said Zilla.
"Save in the white man's fire-boat which is of iron and is bigger than twenty steamboats on the Yukon," said Ebbits.
But there was no way for Bidarshik to journey to the white man's land under the sun, and he grew sick and weary like an old man and moved not away from the fire.
Nor did he like it when the man-animals arose and went on with their march; for a tiny man-animal took the other end of the stick and led Kiche captive behind him, and behind Kiche followed White Fang, greatly perturbed and worried by this new adventure he had entered upon.
They went down the valley of the stream, far beyond White Fang's widest ranging, until they came to the end of the valley, where the stream ran into the Mackenzie River.
But when the frames of poles were made into tepees by being covered with cloth and skins, White Fang was astounded.
Max Bunster was the one white man on Lord Howe, trading in the pay of the ubiquitous Moongleam Soap Company.
He had had no warnings, and he had concluded as a matter of course that Bunster would be like other white men, a drinker of much whiskey, a ruler and a lawgiver who always kept his word and who never struck a boy undeserved.
And Mauki soon learned that there were white men and white men.
"No, bwana," replied Kaviri, "the white child was not with this man's party--it was with the other party."
"With the party that the very bad white man was pursuing.
The
white man went down the line, dosing each man with medicine.