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Updated: May 14, 2025
She said something to me in her low, liquid tones; but I could not understand her, and then she pointed toward the north and started away. I followed her, for my way was north too; but had it been south I still should have followed, so hungry was I for human companionship in this world of beasts and reptiles and half-men.
All this was constant; and, in addition, I repeatedly felt severe pains rather paroxysms of fearful twinges in the spleen, liver, and lungs; whilst during my sleep I had all sorts of absurd dreams: for instance I planned a march across Africa with Sir Roderick Murchison; and I fancied some curious creatures, half-men and half-monkeys, came into my camp to inform me that Petherick was waiting in boats at the south-west corner of the N'yanza, etc., etc.
And all cursed him and told terrible tales of his brutality. It was a strange and frightful spectacle the small, bunk-lined space, the floor and walls leaping and lurching, the dim light, the swaying shadows lengthening and fore-shortening monstrously, the thick air heavy with smoke and the smell of bodies and iodoform, and the inflamed faces of the men half-men, I should call them.
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