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He followed like a snake, and only Brown's sharp, authority-conveying footfalls could be heard as he trudged sturdily straight-backed, eyes straight in front of him to where an age-old baobab loomed like a phantom in the night. He marched like a man in armor. Not even the terrific heat of a Central-Indian night could take the stiffening out of him.
The old oaks in Sherwood Forest, when hollow, have the inside dead or rotten; but the Baobab, though stripped of its bark outside, and hollowed to a cavity inside, has the power of exuding new bark from its substance to both the outer and inner surfaces; so, a hut made like that in the oak called the "Forest Queen," in Sherwood, would soon all be lined with bark.
Thus, in the latter, when the hollow is full the growth is stopped, and the tree dies. The first class suffers most severely by any injury affecting the bark; the second, by an injury in the inside. Now the baobab, from possessing all these qualities, may have the bark torn off, and may be completely hollow, and yet continue to flourish.
Fine words, worthy of history's record, with only the blemish that they were addressed to little scamps not higher than their boot-boxes, and who were quite incapable of holding a smallsword. XII. A memorable Dialogue in the little Baobab Villa. AMID the general falling off, the army alone stuck out firmly for Tartarin.
Upon this the badly-mauled subaltern was placed and the journey resumed towards the camp, the dead lioness and her very much alive cub being carried in as trophies of the night's work. "Where's MacGregor?" asked Wilmshurst. Laxdale and Danvers exchanged enquiring glances. "Hanged if I know," said the former. "The last I saw of him was when he was making for the baobab.
Lord James fancied that he could discern a slight haze of smoke rising out of the cleft beneath the baobab. But if there was a camp in the cleft bottom, it was hidden from view by the trees and cliff walls. The only certain sign of man within sight was the signal flag and the smoke of the smouldering fire in the midst of the seabird colony near the outer end of the cliff crest.
But the spirit of revenge was not the least weakened within it, for it made no move toward taking its departure from the spot. On the contrary, it lay down by the baobab in a position to command a view on both sides of the huge trunk, evidently determined to stay there and await the chance of getting within reach of its victim.
Though he was so thin the old man's strength was wonderful. Another hour; the slope of the great peak could not be more than two miles away now. A couple of hundred yards off grew a large baobab tree. Could we reach its shade? We had done half the distance when Indaba-zimbi fell from exhaustion. We were now so weak that neither of us could lift the child on to our backs.
Case of Arms," and he sent to Marseilles all manner of provisions of travel, including a patent camp-tent of the latest style. II. Tartarin Sets off to Lion-Land Then the great day of his departure arrived. All the town was agog. The neighbourhood of Baobab Villa was crammed with spectators. About ten o'clock the bold hero issued forth. "He's a Turk! He's wearing spectacles!"
As I grew older, certain books had chanced to fall into my hands, and these related to the sea they told of lovely lands that lay upon its shores of strange races of men and animals of singular plants and trees of palms and broad-leaved figs of the banyan and the baobab of many things beautiful and wonderful. These books strengthened the inclination I already felt to wander abroad over the ocean.
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