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Updated: June 6, 2025
Once more on the waters of their home creek, the Mayorunas quickened their strokes and howled merrily on toward their malocas. Lourenço took his nap and resumed his place. Hour after hour the fleet sped on. Noon passed without a halt, the paddlers munching at whatever fragments remained from breakfast.
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.
If they offered Tim a broiled foot or a stewed hand he'd go for his gun." Briefly Tucu spoke. The Mayorunas separated and went into the forest, seeking any sign of other enemies. "Queer that this chap should come here alone if he was alone," added Knowlton. "Suppose he's the fellow that's been swiping stray girls? Or a spy?" "Neither, I think, senhor.
"I'm sorry to say that water's about all a fellow can get to drink in the States now," the blond man said, ruefully. "That is, of course, unless a man knows where to go." "Si. It is a pity. But here in Brazil one need not drink water unless he wishes, and often it is better not to. Of the Mayorunas, senhor you do not intend to go among them, seeking this wild man of the red bones?
You understand." "'When Greek meets Greek " quoted McKay. "Just so. When I say, then, that the Red Bones are a big tribe, I mean that there are about five hundred maybe more individuals in their main settlement. They live in huts, not in one big tribe-house like the Mayorunas. They are not Mayorunas, in fact; they paint differently, are darker of skin, and more cruel.
That message is the war call of the Mayorunas calling in the hunters from the forest to take arms against an enemy. We must race now with these madmen around us, or we go under. Paddle!" In the last light of the fast-fading day the canoes darted from the forest into the clearing where stood the Monitaya malocas.
Then he lifted the Raposa from the one remaining hammock, laid him on the packs, rolled up the hammock itself, and put it under the unconscious man's head. If given time when the crisis came, he meant to save all equipment. If not, Rand lay where he could be grabbed without delay. Before he completed the work he became aware that the Mayorunas all were awake.
Nearer at hand, Tucu and a couple of the Mayorunas were awake and looking out. But the sight of the sentinel strolling up and down in apparent unconcern and the absence of light in the tambo gradually quieted the suspicions on both sides of the water. Soon the Red Bones squatted again and the Mayorunas lay back with minds at ease.
Then, dropping his cigarette stub into it, he continued: "If I were going alone to find a man among the Red Bones, I should go first to the Mayorunas and work through them to make sure of a friendly reception by the other people. I would " "Why, that's the very thing Schwandorf suggested!" "Yes? I have not heard what he said. Tell me." McKay did so. Lourenço smiled.
But so long as it was made clear that the Raposa must be caught alive, if caught at all, Lourenço did not trouble about what the Mayorunas might surmise. Now, as the end of the long, pathless trail approached, arose a question of which McKay had previously thought but had not spoken how he was to converse with the Red Bone chief. Lourenço asked Tucu whether the Red Bones spoke the Mayoruna tongue.
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