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| 8 | 70 | As we silently View more quotes about moved">moved among the growths of the marsh we heard the wild cries of men, and the screaming of the girl bound to the prow, until, by a whip slave, she was lashed to silence. |
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| 8 | 67 | There was much shouting. |
| 8 | 68 | The officer, bearded and tall, with the two golden slashes on the temples of his helmet, followed by Henrak, still with the scarf bound about his body, ran to the rail. |
| 8 | 69 | Telima, silently, poled us back further among the rushes, skillfully turning the small craft and moving again toward the last barge. |
| 8 | 70 | As we silently moved among the growths of the marsh we heard the wild cries of men, and the screaming of the girl bound to the prow, until, by a whip slave, she was lashed to silence. |
| 8 | 71 | "Cut! Cut! Cut!" I heard the officer cry out to the slaves in the punt and, immediately, almost frenzied, they began to hack away at the tangles of marsh vine with their bladed poles. |
| 8 | 72 | Throughout the afternoon and evening, unhurried, Telima and I, like a prowling sleen, circled the barges, and, when it pleased us, loosed another of the long shafts of the great bow. |
| 8 | 73 | I struck first their helmsmen, and soon none would ascend to the tiller deck. |