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not know, and sat themselves down on an open space between us and the

river-bank Although it was difficult to say whence they caht it well to take no

notice of theed

"Who are they?" I whispered to Scowl, as he brought me my tot of

"squareface"

"Saduko's wild men," he answered in the sa the rocks"

Now I scanned theht my pipe and so

forth, and certainly they seeaunt felloith tangled hair, ore tattered skins upon

their shoulders and see- shields, hardwood

kerries or knob-sticks, and broad ixwas, or stabbing assegais Such

was the look of theels--as the Dutch call vultures--sit round a dying ox

Still I sth, as I expected, Saduko greeary of wane tribe, Macuu left alive, for when their fathers were killed,

the women escaped with so kraals I have gathered theht of blood"