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| 33 | 59 | Its shaggy coat had been oiled and groomed and colored View more quotes about beads">beads were hung about its horns. |
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| 33 | 56 | "I wish to speak!" I cried. |
| 33 | 57 | "Wait," he said, "O welcome messenger of Priest-Kings!" I kept silent, waiting to see what he wanted. |
| 33 | 58 | The man gestured with his fat hand and a white bosk, beautiful with its long, shaggy coat and its curved, polished horns, was led forward. |
| 33 | 59 | Its shaggy coat had been oiled and groomed and colored beads were hung about its horns. |
| 33 | 60 | Drawing a small knife from his pouch, the Initiate cut a strand of hair from the animal and threw it into a nearby fire. |
| 33 | 61 | Then he gestured to a subordinate, and the man, with a sword, opened the throat of the animal and it sank to its knees, the blood from its throat being caught in a golden laver held by a third man. |
| 33 | 62 | While I waited impatiently two more men cut a thigh from the slain beast and this, dripping with grease and blood, was ordered cast upon the fire. |