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THE PATHS TO SUANETIA 191
food by the whole force of the male population. Each watcher was
posted on a wooden perch, whence he waved his birch-bark torch and
shouted to his fellows.
The night was too dark to push on to tlie courthouse at Cholur—
TllK TATll AlioVE LE.STEKIII
SO we knocked at the gateway of a castellated farm. The buildings
were of the type common throughout Suanetia. A high wall witli
one or two towers on it enclosed the living-rooms, farm buildings,
and a small court, to which heavy double-ban-ed gates gave the
only access. The bolts w-ei'e fast, and in answer to our knockings
a female voice parleyed with us from within, and assured us that