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Updated: June 4, 2025
His only movements were certain turnings and sudden crouchings as if he saw or felt enemies about him in the air. "Now, get in," said Toyner. He had secured the boat. He pulled the other by the legs, and guided him as he slipped from his low bench. "Sit down; you can't stand, you know." But Markham showed himself able to keep his balance, and alert to help in pushing off the boat.
Avoiding roads and villages as long as it was light, I cut across country south-westwards a dismal and laborious journey, with oozy fens and knee-deep drains to course, with circuits to be made to pass clear of peasants, and many furtive crouchings behind dykes and willows.
The outlandish contortions and grimaces of the Indians, their leaps and crouchings, their fiendish yells and whoops, made up a barbaric jangle of picture and sound not soon to be forgotten. To the European visitors the scene was picturesque rather than ghastly, but it was not a pleasing spectacle to the old Indian fighters looking on.
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