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Updated: June 26, 2025
Meanwhile I stood waiting to make my bow; afraid to begin upon him, and wondering at his great bull-head. Then he closed his letters, well-pleased with their import, and fixed his bold broad stare on me, as if I were an oyster opened, and he would know how fresh I was. 'May it please your worship, I said, 'here I am according to order, awaiting your good pleasure.
Carmel, too, as he turned again, was swathed about its base with mist, half dry and half damp, and above showed its long bull-head running out defiantly against the western sky. The very table as he touched it was dry and hot to the hand, by mid-day the steel would be intolerable. He pressed the lever, and waited; pressed it again, and waited again.
"How long is it since they left here?" asked Sihamba, not as one who does not know, but rather as though she desired to be certified in her judgment. "When the sun stood there," answered Zinti, pointing to a certain height in the heavens. "Yes," she answered, "three hours. Bull-Head has travelled quicker than I thought."
Moreover, while you are among us all honour shall be done to you and the Swallow, and of the cattle we capture a tenth part shall be the Swallow's. Still, I tell you this, that had it not been for the omen of the diviner I would have refused your prayer and delivered you and the Swallow over to Bull-Head, for with him I have sworn friendship long ago.
Jarvis' next idea, to accustom the prairie sailors to the vasty deep, was to take them out on the mill pond at Waupun in a skiff. They got out in the middle of the pond, and were playing a selection from the opera of "Solid Muldoon," when a boy who had slipped into the boat with a fish-pole, got a bite from a bull-head, which caused the vessel to roll, and the utmost confusion prevailed.
"But be silent, I hear Bull-Head coming on his horse," and she began to work very hard at cutting the wands. A few minutes later Zinti saw Swart Piet himself ride up to the women, who saluted him, calling him "Chief" and "Husband." "You are idle," he said, eyeing them angrily. "These wands are tough to cut, husband," murmured the young woman in excuse.
Then, losing command of herself, Suzanne screamed and struggled, and the sound of her cries reached the ears of Swart Piet, who was standing close at hand. "What is this?" he asked of the man. "Nothing, Bull-Head, except that I have taken a woman whom I wish for a wife because she is so fair."
"Lady, when he had finished speaking we consulted together and answered Bull-Head thus: 'We cannot give over to you our chieftainess and her white sister, for it is better to die than that such dishonour should lie upon our names.
"I give you greeting, Bull-Head," answered Sigwe courteously, "and I thank you for your visit to my town; presently an ox shall be sent for you to eat. As for this matter of the white lady and her companion it is one that we can inquire into at leisure.
Miller says that he at first thought he had discovered a kind of turtle that partook of the characteristics of a fish. I am informed by Agassiz, however, that they were weapons of defence only, which, like the spines of the river bull-head, were erected in moments of danger or alarm, and at other times lay close by the creature's side; and that the sole instrument of motion was in the tail.
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