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The Okapi was brought broadside on, so that the crew could have a clear view of the river; and they sat for some time in silence, looking at the strange object a tiny but steady glow of fire. "Shut off the bull's-eye, Venning. We'll make for mid-stream, and approach the fire with caution."
The ten minutes, however, became twenty, and the twenty lengthened out to forty, and still they had not overtaken the okapi, although they frequently heard sounds at no great distance ahead which led them to believe that they were close upon its heels.
You'd better be very careful how you deal with her." "I want to get my father's book," said Compton. "Of course you do; but you want to get back the Okapi as well, and if you offend her it may turn out more awkward for us." "Well, then, suppose we follow her now?" and Compton, always ready to act, jumped up. "What's the good? Remember how she spotted Mr. Hume the day he 'blazed' the trees.
Then he sat up to listen for the old sounds the groans and the snorts but they had ceased. A mist, like a wet blanket, had settled down over the Okapi, over the islands and the river; and, though any sounds made on the water were startlingly distinct, confined as the sound-waves were by the mist, the creatures had evidently gone to sleep. There was, however, one visitor faithful to him.
"We'll do it," said the Hunter; "but if we are to stay here, we must bring up the boat, and you must let us have some of your men." "All," said the chief; and that day the Okapi was brought up in sections. Then Venning's scheme was taken in hand, the cliff scaled, a hundred trees felled, and rolled over as they fell, with all the branches on.
The Okapi had lost the little way she was making, and began to move with the current away from the canoe. Mr. Hume suddenly spoke for the first time since his order. "Turn that canoe round!" he roared; and his Express leapt to his shoulder. The boys followed suit.
Yet they persevered, lying out night after night, and resting during the day; and at length, on the ninth night after their adventure in pursuit of the original animal, their patience was splendidly rewarded, a pair of okapi making their appearance at the drinking-pool, very late, after all the other animals had come and gone again.
I'm not sure if it will; you've taken my colour, too. Some fool might think you were me at a distance. So the meek okapi had added a few stripes on his legs, like a zebra, just to make him less like the scornful antelope.
The sky was turning grey, the shadows reached right across, and the evening wind was rustling the leaves. The Okapi began to move. She crept away from the shore, and then turned again with her bows to the bank. So she waited a few minutes while the darkness deepened, then, as a flame broke out on land, the sail was run up; she came round once more with her bows up-stream, and slipped along.
The man in the bows looked straight down the channel to their lair, where in the narrow cut the Okapi lay hidden behind a screen of leaves. Then he moved his hand to the right, and the canoe, silently, without a ripple almost, skirted the island on that side, into whose reedy sides the men darted their glances.
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