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The king only visited this place at "intervals," sometimes only once a year, when the Pandora or some other vessel came for her cargo of slaves the chief product of King Dingo Bingo's dominions. Then would he descend the river with his "crop," gathered from all parts the produce of many a sanguinary conflict many a bloodstained man-chase, in which he and his myrmidons had been engaged.
"It is an incontestable fact that Dingo acts as if this man whom he detests were near us!" Then, interrupting himself to call the dog, which, after some hesitation, came to him: "Eh!" said he; "Negoro! Negoro!" A furious barking was Dingo's reply. This name had its usual effect upon him, and he darted forward, as if Negoro had been hidden behind some thicket. Harris had witnessed all this scene.
It did not seek to harm them, but certainly it shunned them. May be, on that African coast where it wandered, it had suffered some bad treatment from the natives. So, though Tom and his companions were honest men, Dingo was never drawn toward them.
It seemed to her that this land so ardently desired did not give her what she had been led to hope for, security for hers, and rest for herself. The next day, April 7th, Austin, who was on guard at sunrise, saw Dingo run barking to the little river. Almost immediately Mrs. Weldon, Dick Sand and the blacks came out of the grotto. Decidedly there was something there.
I have thought but long after that time I have thought that if King Dingo Bingo had but set his poor captives, and his bloody myrmidons as well, to gather that golden crop, to press the oil from those pulpy pericarps, what a fortune he might have been honestly the master of, and what unhappiness he might have spared to thousands in whose misery alone he was now making traffic!
"'Viva it good and strong, says I. 'Likewise, viva George Washington. God save the Union, and, I says, bowing to Sterrett, 'don't discard the Queen. "'Thanks, says Sterrett. 'The next round's mine. All in to the bar. Army, too. "But we were deprived of Sterrett's treat by a lot of gunshots several squares sway, which General Dingo seemed to think he ought to look after.
It wouldn't wait any longer for the other dingo hounds. It wanted to murder the Kangaroo all by itself; so, with a toss of its head, and a terrible snarl, it sprang forward ferociously, with open jaws, aiming at the victim's throat. Dot clasped her cold hands together. Tears streamed down her cheeks, and her little voice, choking with sobs, could only wail, "Oh! dear Kangaroo! my dear Kangaroo!
Dingo had rejoined Dick Sand, and before these bloody remains, he barked with rage. The novice had hard work to drive him away. Meanwhile, old Tom, at the sight of these forks, of this broken chain, had remained motionless, as if his feet were rooted in the soil.
A first inexplicable presentiment had drawn the animal to this part of the shore, a second led it into the depths of the wood. That was clearly visible to all. "Attention!" said Dick Sand. "Mrs. Weldon, Mr. Benedict, Jack, do not leave us! Attention, Hercules!" At this moment Dingo raised its head, and, by little bounds, invited them to follow. A moment after Mrs.
We could just make out the Pandora riding upon her anchor, and we thought we could distinguish the cabins and barracoons of King Dingo Bingo, peeping out from among the green trees. The barque looked no larger than a little boat, and although she appeared very near the river's mouth, that was also an ocular deception, for we knew that she was more than a mile up stream.
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