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Just behind the screen of creepers and matted foliage lurked three horrid figures an old, old man, black as the pit, with a face half eaten away by leprosy, his sharp-filed teeth, the teeth of a cannibal, showing yellow and repulsive through the great gaping hole where his mouth and nose had been. And beside him, equally hideous, stood two powerful hyenas carrion-eaters consorting with carrion.
The friar fixed his keen eye upon Mesty, and perceived there was a savage look about the black, from which he augured that he was a man who would suit his purpose. "Your master offers me a thousand dollars; would you wish to gain this money for yourself?" Mesty grinned and showed his sharp-filed teeth. "It would make me a rich man in my own country."
The chief, a wicked-looking fellow with the sharp-filed teeth that often denote the cannibal, received him with apparent friendliness. The ape-man was now thoroughly fatigued, and had determined to rest for eight or ten hours that he might be fresh and strong when he caught up with Rokoff, as he was sure he must do within a very short time.
The boat being full, they shoved off with three cheers of derision. Jack was sensible to the compliment: he stood at the gangway, took off his hat, and made them a polite bow. As soon as they were gone, Mesty grinned with his sharp-filed teeth, and looking at our hero, said: "I tink I make um pay for all dis stop a little; by de piper as played before Moses, but our turn come by-and-bye."
Tim, after watching the Indians sink their sharp-filed teeth into broiled monkey haunches and tear the meat from the bones, snorted and turned his back to them. "Look like a gang o' bloody-faced devils gobblin' babies," he muttered. "I'll believe now they're cannibals, all right."
The friar fixed his keen eye upon Mesty, and perceived there was a savage look about the black, from which he augured that he was a man who would suit his purpose. "Your master offers me a thousand dollars; would you wish to gain this money for yourself?" Mesty grinned, and showed his sharp-filed teeth. "It would make me a rich man in my own country."
At the sound of his entry the maniac looked up, and as he saw at first only a man in the uniform of his father's soldiers, he shrieked forth an angry order, but at the second glance, which revealed the face of the newcomer, the madman leaped from the prostrate form of his victim and, apparently forgetful of the saber which he had dropped upon the floor beside the couch as he leaped to grapple with the girl, closed with bare hands upon his antagonist, his sharp-filed teeth searching for the other's throat.
Closer and closer danced the hideous chief, his yellow, sharp-filed teeth showing in the firelight between his thick, red lips. Now bending double, now stamping furiously upon the ground, now leaping into the air, he danced step by step in the narrowing circle that would presently bring him within spear reach of the intended feast.
Jack was sensible to the compliment: he stood at the gangway, took off his hat, and made them a polite bow. As soon as they were gone, Mesty grinned with his sharp-filed teeth, and looking at our hero, said: "I tink I make um pay for all dis stop a little; by de piper as played before Moses, but our turn come by-and-by." As for Jack, he said nothing, but he thought the more.
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