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Updated: May 25, 2025
But, most of all, he was interested in the weighty hardwood club leaning against the tree trunk and the great bamboo bow hanging above in a skin sheath beside a quiver full of long feather-tipped arrows. He was balancing the club when Blake came out of the tree-cave, carrying a young cocoanut in one hand, and in the other a small pot seemingly full of dried mud.
Ah! you must think of the circumstances in which I was placed you must think, too, of the hours I spent with the snake-charmer of the tales he told me in that dark tree-cave the stories of runaways, of sleuth-dogs, of man-hunters, and "nigger-hunts," practices long thought to be confined to Cuba, but which I found as rife upon the soil of Louisiana, you must think of all these, and then you will understand why I trembled at the distant baying of a hound.
Often, since we had entered the woods, had he and his tree-cave arisen in my memory; and I should have gone there for concealment, but that the distance deterred me. As we intended to return to the Levee Road after sunset, I had chosen the glade for our resting-place, on account of its being nearer.
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