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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Bietu!" Then, at another signal, they wheeled right and left, as one man, and, at a break-neck gallop, dashed along on either side of the ship, forming a kind of escort, or guard of honour, as long as they could keep pace with her.
"Bietu!" answered the chief, saluting in token of his submission to the will of these strange beings.
The party halted at a distance of some ten paces from the spot where Dick and Grosvenor sat before their open tent, and as they did so, with the precision of trained soldiers, every man's right hand was flung aloft, and in deep, sonorous tones the salute was given: "Bietu!"
Then, having carefully coiled it down upon the bottom step of the permanent ladder, he ascended the latter to the deck, and, stepping in through the gangway, halted as he raised his right hand above his head in salute, with the single word "Bietu!"
At the same time one of the other lads, after intently scrutinising the newcomers for several minutes, advanced cautiously toward them and finally halted evidently holding himself ready to bolt at the slightest suspicious sign and, raising his sheaf of assagais in his right hand by way of salute, shouted the single word: "Bietu!"
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