The place where the travellers had reached the shore was far from where the food supplies were stored.
At times, then, the identities that were created for the elderly couple as travellers were self-initiated.
Each contribution in its own way exposes these unintended efforts on behalf of the travellers.
The travellers approach through a dawn landscape filled with bird-song, sights of towering mountains, and the sound of people working in the rice fields.
It is not unlike a traveller's encounter with a new place.
Historians have concentrated on the latter - official and government reports, chronicles and travellers' tales and, in the late nineteenth century, ethnographic studies.
Hunters and travellers passing through, but seldom remaining long in the districts, very naturally associated such species with the fly.
European travellers may have been familiar with the commonplace analogy of the king as father of the realm with the subjects as his children.
