bandiroots

Updated: May 28, 2025

The poor wretch staggered and put his hands to his head, then stumbled and fell heavily down. Now the fight became general and confused. All about among the fern and the flowers, among the lemanshrubs, and the tangled vines, men fought, and fired, and struck, and cursed; while the little brown bandiroots scudded swiftly away, and the deadly snake hid himself in his darkest lair, affrighted.

Henry Kingsley - Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn