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Updated: June 26, 2025
It was clearly useless to follow them further, but we fired at them with our revolvers in the hope of frightening them into a surrender. One of them instantly stopped, returned our fire, and then continued his flight. This satisfied me that they were old hands at the business of grave-robbing, and that they were not to be scared by long-range pistol practice.
Before him lay the carcase of some animal which had died from disease it was swollen and green with putrefaction; and oh, horrible! we sicken as we record the loathsome fact the starved wretch was ravenously devouring the carrion! Yes, with his finger nails, long as vultures' claws, he tore out the reeking entrails, and ate them with the ferocity of the grave-robbing hyena!
Here is nothing whatever but the rubbish of death that died thousands of years ago, on whose grave no green thing has ever grown. Villages, expert in two hundred generations of grave-robbing, cower among the mounds of wastage, and whoop at the daily tourist.
And I know whom you've given it to." There was no answer to be made to this appalling assertion. Poor Galusha merely clung to the receiver and awaited his death sentence. "You've given it to some mummy-hunter to fit out another grave-robbing expedition. Now, haven't you?" "Why why " "Be a sport now, Loosh! Tell me the truth. That's what you've done, isn't it?"
"It will break you," the Senator murmured, quietly. "You are getting ahead just as fast as it is possible, Snell. Cut out this grave-robbing stuff and make some real friends. Understand? You need friends of the right sort, and this is your chance." For some time longer the two men talked guardedly.
"And so," Prince Akuli resumed, after the wahine had tottered away in an ecstasy, "Ahuna and I departed on our grave-robbing adventure. You know the Iron-bound Coast."
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