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He belonged to the tribe of Lower Creeks; but for some reason or other, he, with a number of his tribemen, had been banished.
Yet there was assurance in Lourenço's confident air, and reassurance in the thought that these tribemen would be unlikely to assail a band avowedly on its way to visit their chief. Besides Knowlton smiled grimly even if the Mayorunas hungered for human flesh it would be more economical of labor to let the meat travel to the slaughterhouse on its own legs than to kill it here and carry it home.
None of them had even seen the British flag, few of them had the slightest idea where the "Anglisky" lived, and one old Kirghis explained to his wondering tribemen that we were a strange tribe that had broken away from "Americanski" and gone to live on a great island in the middle of the lakes, where no one could touch us unless they risked their lives on great wooden rafts.
He worked on 'em till one day the tribemen came to me in a body and said, 'Go! "'Give me the girl, and I will, says I. "Orloff sneered. 'She was mine for a month before ye came, says he with the fiend showin' back of his eyes. 'Do ye want her now? "For a minute I believed him. I struck once to kill, and he went down. They closed on me as fast as I shook 'em off.
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