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In haste she knelt by his side and placed one hand over his heart; it was fluttering weakly. She rushed to the river and brought water in a folded plantain leaf and dashed it into his face. After that she pried open his eyelids with her fingers. Oomah regained his senses with a start and his eyes met the grimaces of the delighted Nechi. "Sabana is not dead!" she exclaimed.
When you are well and fat again we will eat you too." The youth showed no emotion. What mattered it if the girl should make good her threat, now that his mission had failed? "I will take you to the village," Nechi repeated. She left the baskets she had been carrying on the ground and picking up the youth threw him over her back.
The first of these masses, which is linked most immediately to the snowy summits of Herveo, gives birth on the east to the Rio de la Miel and the Nare; and on the north to Porce and Nechi; its average height is only from 1200 to 1350 toises. The towns of Rio Negro and Marinilla are built on table-lands 1060 toises high.
That effort had cost Oomah his last particle of strength. He shuddered, swayed, and clapping his hands over his eyes as if to shut out a frightful dream, sank to the ground. Nechi, on her way to the fish-traps in the river found the unconscious youth when the sun was two hours high in the heavens and claimed him for her own by right of discovery.
"Nechi, who found me dying and whose medicine drove away the fever. And send one of your hunters also to select a wife from among the Cantanas. It is my wish that there be blood relationship between us. Then there will be peace between the Patocos and Cantanas. No more fighting, no more killing. I speak as headman of my people."
The prisoner might die and then we should be cheated out of our feast." Nechi had not thought of that. "Tomorrow," she relented. "If he shows no signs of improvement by tomorrow you can prepare for the feast." Oomah opened his eyes. "I came on a sacred mission," he faltered. "Get me the white feather so that I may die like a hunter who has not given up the chase.
And long into the night the sound of the celebration rang through the black forest as war drums boomed and the voices of singers chanted the praises of the mighty hunter who was among them. Not until the sharp report of thunder followed by a drenching rain drove the revellers to shelter did the festivities end. "Nechi shall go with me," Oomah said the next morning as he prepared to depart.
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