To uplift Ugruk, Angus must first uplift Ugruk’s people. Therefore his two obligations, one to his dead father and one to the church which bought his bread, did not conflict. So with a good will he began his duties as missionary of Narwhale Cape.
These were vigorous, positive duties. He was not a passive Hindu, but a militant Puritan. Like Cromwell and Calvin he believed he was his brother’s keeper. For petty questions of dogma and ritual he felt little concern, but the every-day decency, well-being, and spiritual welfare of the people was his hourly thought. He wanted to meet the Deil in the open and fight him to the finish.
The Deil took many forms. He was l**t and i****t and abortion and dirt. Long ago he had lived in the big black bottles that the traders brought across the sea, wher
