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“HE CAME CLOSE TO ME AND KNEELED DOWN.”

with the blow, and began to come to himself; so I pointed to him,
and showing him the savage, that he was not dead. Upon this he
spoke some words to me, and though I could not understand them
yet I thought they were pleasant to hear, for they were the first
sound of a man’s voice that I had heard, my own excepted, for
above twenty-five years. But there was no time for such reflec-
tions now. The savage who was knocked down recovered himself