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Updated: June 25, 2025
Will struck with the lance so fiercely that it entered the animal's heart and, wrenched from his hands, was broken as the great beast fell. "Behold!" shouted Xingudan in Roka's ear, "he has saved your life even as he saved mine!" Not one of the bears escaped, but two of the men lost their lives in the terrible combat, and the strength of the village was reduced yet further.
Then as they sat together, listening to the cries of the sea-birds, and waiting for the dawn, Harvey re-told to Tessa, for Roka's benefit, the story of that dreadful boat voyage sixteen years before, in which his father and five others had perished from hunger and thirst. "I was but fourteen years of age then, and people wondered how a boy like me survived when strong men had died.
Five or six men darted off, while the rest, under Roka's directions, quickly made a litter for Harvey, and placed him upon it. "Art thou in pain, master?" asked the giant Manhikian tenderly, as the bearers lifted the wounded man. "Ay, but let me smoke so that the pain may go. * Cowries. Roka himself ran off, picked up the hat and shells and brought them back; then he gave the word to march.
"That's one more to the good, Louis " he began, when Roka's carbine rang out, and the supercargo spun round, staggering, and then fell upon his hands and knees, with the blood gushing in torrents from his mouth. Hendry, taking no heed of anything but his own safety, dashed into the undergrowth and disappeared.
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