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through those rushing smoke wreaths, the combat looked perfectly

titanic; also it was one of the noisiest to which I ever listened, for

I don't knohich shrieked thehow things stood, I burst into a roar of laughter, and just then

Scowl grabbed the leg of the male bird, that was planted in his breast

while it removed tufts of his ith its hooked beak, and leapt

boldly frole's

outspread wings broke his fall, for they acted as a parachute; and so

did U from the prostrate

shape of the chief, who now had a bruise in front to match that behind,

Scowl, covered with pecks and scratches, ran like a laun, which he had dropped at the botto it The Kafirs

gave hihts-birds-and-gets-the-worst-of-it"

Well, we escaped from the line of the s left on hi--and shouted for the

others, if perchance they had not been trodden to death in the rush The

first to arrive was Saduko, who looked quite calm and untroubled, but

stared at us in astonishet in such a state I replied in appropriate language, and asked in

turn how he had ed to remain so nicely dressed