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Whether or no that young man thought I was repeating the name of an erotic novel I cannot say, but he made a very tactless answer. I retired discomfited to find that my camel, having succeeded in breaking his head-rope, had returned to home and friends, leaving me to trudge back to camp and the tender mercies of the horse-clippers.
"This is a wet beginning," Lucy Kingston said, laughing, as she tried to wring the water out of the lower part of her dress. "Here, Chloe; you wring me and I will wring you." "Now, Dan, get hold of that head-rope," Vincent said; "haul her up little by little as the water runs out over the stern." "I should not trouble about the boat, Mr. Wingfield; it is not likely we shall ever want it again."
He ordered the man to halt, and, so near were Royson and his tiny squadron just then, that the camel might have brought all three into safety. But the Arab bent his head, and urged the swaying beast into a faster trot. Von Kerber fired at him, and the unhappy tribesman tumbled from his perch like a dummy figure. Snatching at the camel's head-rope, the Austrian lifted, almost threw Mrs.
Dick had drawn taut the head-rope of his unwilling camel when the brute uttered a squeal of recognition, and both men saw several mounted Arabs silhouetted against the northern sky-line. An answering grunt came from one of their camels, and a hubbub of voices sank faintly into the somber depths, as the wind was not felt in that sheltered place.
It was Things like trees, and they fell up and down the lines and bubbled; and my head-rope broke, and I couldn't find my driver, and I couldn't find you, Billy, so I ran off with with these gentlemen." "H'm!" said Billy. "As soon as I heard the camels were loose I came away on my own account. When a battery a screw-gun mule calls gun-bullocks gentlemen, he must be very badly shaken up.
Then the lock gates opened; and so, in a Babel of shouting, whining of blocks, and creaking of spars, our whole company was split out into the dingy bosom of the Elbe. The Johannes gathered way under wind and tide and headed for midstream. A last shake of the hand, and Bartels reluctantly slipped the head-rope and we drifted apart. 'Gute Reise!
“I learnt that on the west coast of Africa,” the mate replied. “I was there two years and got to know, I think, all there was to know with regard to steering a boat in a surf; climbing a cocoa-nut tree is easy work in comparison. Fetch the head-rope of the boat.” This was done, and he asked who volunteered for the first climb. “I will try it, Mr. Towel,” Joyce said, “if you will show me how.”
The water in the stream was but a few inches deep. "Now, Nelly," he said, "we must step out into the water and walk up it as far as we can go it will puzzle even the sharpest redskin to find our track then." They stepped into the water, Harold taking the head-rope of the canoe and towing the light boat which, when empty, did not draw more than two inches of water behind him.
The Joven, grinning cheerfully, then forced a thong of raw hide into his unwilling pupil's mouth, whilst the young horse, half-mad with terror, rolled his eyes impotently. The Joven, standing astride over the fallen animal, half-dancing on his toes in his canvas shoes, would shout to the men to slacken the heel- rope, and then to let go the head-rope.
That is right. It is long enough to make a good big angle. Now fasten the head-rope to the middle; be sure it is put in the middle, Luka. That is right. Now, launch it overboard." The work was done as quickly as it is described, and in three minutes from the time the mast was lowered the canoe was riding to the floating anchor. "Now then, Luka, on with the apron." "Shall we sit up?"
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