one report, he called the chiefs forward and required them to kiss his feet.
Two weeks later, the report continues, he assembled the:chiefs again and,
after lecturing them, told them to look at a wagon that he had loaded with
gunpowder. The gallant governor then gave the order "Fire!" whereupon
the wagon exploded into a thousand pieces. "That is what I will do to you,"
Smith is reported
to have said, "if you do not behave yourselves." 11
Whether or not apocryphal,
these stories celebrate the irnportance of tech-
nological superiority.
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