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Updated: June 8, 2025
He was sure you were enemies to him and his people, and believed also you had killed his missing brother, and he was going first to rejoin his companions and then hasten to the maloca to bring all their fighters against you. It was well that we met him in time. It was well, too, that you did not shoot him or even shoot at him. His companions would have learned of it, and then death for us all."
To which all except the savages, who did not understand the language of the white man, assented approvingly. Yet it was the Mayorunas themselves who delayed arrival at their maloca the Mayorunas and a monkey.
Yuara, deigning to speak for the first time since leaving the maloca, explained that the absent men had gone hunting for their breakfasts. Before long the hunters came straggling back, bearing monkeys and birds, which were divided among their companions. None of this meat was offered to the prisoners, who ate unconcernedly from their pack rations.
A sweeping gesture and the cordial timbre of the chief's voice told the Americans plainly what Lourenço translated a moment later. "We are welcome, comrades. We shall sleep in the maloca of Monitaya himself and a feast shall be made for us. Our lives have just hung on one word, but now that the word is spoken we are safe.
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