Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 1, 2025
This extraordinary person had hastened to the other shore, in accordance with his pledge, only to learn from a couple of Aryks whom he met that the main body of warriors had again crossed the Xingu above the rapids, and were gathered in the wood waiting for the whites to walk into the trap set for them.
The dwellings, like those of the Aryks, consisted of a single story, with the door in the middle of the front, a window-like opening on each side of the same, roofed over with poles, covered with earth, leaves and grass, that were impervious to wind and storm. It seemed to the astonished whites that the entire population had gathered along the shore to receive them.
The Aryks numbered more than half a hundred, all active, vigilant and armed with their fearful poisoned javelins. They had taken position among the trees on the western bank of the Xingu, at the base of the rapids, at the very point where the white men intended to shoulder their canoe and make their last portage.
All were armed with the frightful javelins, a prick from one of which was enough to cause almost instant death. The whites could not have been caught at greater disadvantage, and Bippo and Pedros were so overcome that they were unable to move. Long was on the point of opening a fusillade, when Professor Grimcke was struck by the fact that no one of the Aryks offered to harm them.
There, if they found nothing of their friends, they would manage to secure a boat in which they could press their flight in the direction of the Amazon. The forests abounded with wild animals and huge serpents, but the ardent lover was admirably armed and confident that he could protect his beloved from all harm, provided they could escape discovery by the Murhapas and Aryks.
It will be less work than we had in ascending it." "I suppose," she replied, "that there are people all the way along the river until you reach the end of it." "There are; but we found most of them unfriendly long before we struck the region of the Aryks." "Are they likely to attack us?" she asked, raising her head and looking at her lover with an alarmed expression.
Naturally they would have kept close to the shore to escape, so far as they could, the force of the current, and the main object now was to prevent their movements being seen by the vigilant Aryks across the stream, who might resume hostilities before Ziffak could make his wishes known to them.
The huts in which these strange people made their homes were similar in structure to those of the Aryks, but instead of being built around the three sides of a rectangle, composed one row, numbering more than a hundred, and facing the river.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking