Next came Manly Harmony, the head man. He had once been an enemy and then a protector of the missionaries, but when we saw him he did not seem to know what he was. On all subjects he was noncommittal. He could not read, and could not write. What he saw, he was not sure of, and had entirely forgotten all he had heard. Perhaps his broken head, of which he still carried the mark in the shape of a great scar across his brow above the eyebrows, had somewhat confused his intellects.
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