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Page 114
... Vasson began to fear that the kloof might be a fetish place , which would ac count for everything . fect bewilderment of joy at the presents | to the crest of the descent . He met no offered . He had never seen a white man soul , but ...
... Vasson began to fear that the kloof might be a fetish place , which would ac count for everything . fect bewilderment of joy at the presents | to the crest of the descent . He met no offered . He had never seen a white man soul , but ...
Page 115
... Vasson stood beneath it and looked through . Upon the side remote from his former station , footholes had been rudely cut , and two strong ropes hung from the top . He saw the trick now . By this staircase mounted the fetish - priests ...
... Vasson stood beneath it and looked through . Upon the side remote from his former station , footholes had been rudely cut , and two strong ropes hung from the top . He saw the trick now . By this staircase mounted the fetish - priests ...
Page 116
... Vasson crept from bush to bush across the open , gained the kloof , plunged into the mo- rass where he had sounded it , swarmed the cliff , and found his bush - boy - still prostrate , still with eyes , covered , still praying or ...
... Vasson crept from bush to bush across the open , gained the kloof , plunged into the mo- rass where he had sounded it , swarmed the cliff , and found his bush - boy - still prostrate , still with eyes , covered , still praying or ...
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