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They
led
a
simple
,
laborious
life
,
these
people
,
with
all
the
elements
of
virtue
and
happiness
,
as
these
things
can
be
understood
by
men
.
They
toiled
,
but
not
oppressively
;
they
had
food
and
clothing
sufficient
for
their
needs
;
they
had
days
and
seasons
of
rest
;
they
made
much
of
music
and
singing
,
and
there
was
love
among
them
,
and
little
children
.
It
was
marvellous
with
what
confidence
and
precision
they
went
about
their
ordered
world
.
Everything
,
you
see
,
had
been
made
to
fit
their
needs
;
each
of
the
radiating
paths
of
the
valley
area
had
a
constant
angle
to
the
others
,
and
was
distinguished
by
a
special
notch
upon
its
kerbing
;
all
obstacles
and
irregularities
of
path
or
meadow
had
long
since
been
cleared
away
;
all
their
methods
and
procedure
arose
naturally
from
their
special
needs
.
Their
senses
had
become
marvellously
acute
;
they
could
hear
and
judge
the
slightest
gesture
of
a
man
a
dozen
paces
away
--
could
hear
the
very
beating
of
his
heart
.
Intonation
had
long
replaced
expression
with
them
,
and
touches
gesture
,
and
their
work
with
hoe
and
spade
and
fork
was
as
free
and
confident
as
garden
work
can
be
.
Their
sense
of
smell
was
extraordinarily
fine
;
they
could
distinguish
individual
differences
as
readily
as
a
dog
can
,
and
they
went
about
the
tending
of
the
llamas
,
who
lived
among
the
rocks
above
and
came
to
the
wall
for
food
and
shelter
,
with
ease
and
confidence
.
It
was
only
when
at
last
Nunez
sought
to
assert
himself
that
he
found
how
easy
and
confident
their
movements
could
be
.
He
rebelled
only
after
he
had
tried
persuasion
.
He
tried
at
first
on
several
occasions
to
tell
them
of
sight
.
"
Look
you
here
,
you
people
,
"
he
said
.
"
There
are
things
you
do
not
understand
in
me
.
"
Once
or
twice
one
or
two
of
them
attended
to
him
;
they
sat
with
faces
downcast
and
ears
turned
intelligently
towards
him
,
and
he
did
his
best
to
tell
them
what
it
was
to
see
.
Among
his
hearers
was
a
girl
,
with
eyelids
less
red
and
sunken
than
the
others
,
so
that
one
could
almost
fancy
she
was
hiding
eyes
,
whom
especially
he
hoped
to
persuade
.
He
spoke
of
the
beauties
of
sight
,
of
watching
the
mountains
,
of
the
sky
and
the
sunrise
,
and
they
heard
him
with
amused
incredulity
that
presently
became
condemnatory
.
They
told
him
there
were
indeed
no
mountains
at
all
,
but
that
the
end
of
the
rocks
where
the
llamas
grazed
was
indeed
the
end
of
the
world
;
thence
sprang
a
cavernous
roof
of
the
universe
,
from
which
the
dew
and
the
avalanches
fell
;
and
when
he
maintained
stoutly
the
world
had
neither
end
nor
roof
such
as
they
supposed
,
they
said
his
thoughts
were
wicked
.
So
far
as
he
could
describe
sky
and
clouds
and
stars
to
them
it
seemed
to
them
a
hideous
void
,
a
terrible
blankness
in
the
place
of
the
smooth
roof
to
things
in
which
they
believed
--
it
was
an
article
of
faith
with
them
that
the
cavern
roof
was
exquisitely
smooth
to
the
touch
.
He
saw
that
in
some
manner
he
shocked
them
,
and
gave
up
that
aspect
of
the
matter
altogether
,
and
tried
to
show
them
the
practical
value
of
sight
.
One
morning
he
saw
Pedro
in
the
path
called
Seventeen
and
coming
towards
the
central
houses
,
but
still
too
far
off
for
hearing
or
scent
,
and
he
told
them
as
much
.
"
In
a
little
while
,
"
he
prophesied
,
"
Pedro
will
be
here
.
"
An
old
man
remarked
that
Pedro
had
no
business
on
path
Seventeen
,
and
then
,
as
if
in
confirmation
,
that
individual
as
he
drew
near
turned
and
went
transversely
into
path
Ten
,
and
so
back
with
nimble
paces
towards
the
outer
wall
.
They
mocked
Nunez
when
Pedro
did
not
arrive
,
and
afterwards
,
when
he
asked
Pedro
questions
to
clear
his
character
,
Pedro
denied
and
outfaced
him
,
and
was
afterwards
hostile
to
him
.
Then
he
induced
them
to
let
him
go
a
long
way
up
the
sloping
meadows
towards
the
wall
with
one
complacent
individual
,
and
to
him
he
promised
to
describe
all
that
happened
among
the
houses
.
He
noted
certain
goings
and
comings
,
but
the
things
that
really
seemed
to
signify
to
these
people
happened
inside
of
or
behind
the
windowless
houses
--
the
only
things
they
took
note
of
to
test
him
by
--
and
of
these
he
could
see
or
tell
nothing
;
and
it
was
after
the
failure
of
this
attempt
,
and
the
ridicule
they
could
not
repress
,
that
he
resorted
to
force
.
He
thought
of
seizing
a
spade
and
suddenly
smiting
one
or
two
of
them
to
earth
,
and
so
in
fair
combat
showing
the
advantage
of
eyes
.
He
went
so
far
with
that
resolution
as
to
seize
his
spade
,
and
then
he
discovered
a
new
thing
about
himself
,
and
that
was
that
it
was
impossible
for
him
to
hit
a
blind
man
in
cold
blood
.
He
hesitated
,
and
found
them
all
aware
that
he
had
snatched
up
the
spade
.
They
stood
alert
,
with
their
heads
on
one
side
,
and
bent
ears
towards
him
for
what
he
would
do
next
.
