| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 235 |
"Kisu! Kisu!" "It is Kisu," said Ayari. |
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| 52 | 81 |
Kisu and I stood facing him, Kisu with a spear in hand. |
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| 16 | 1 |
Kisu "Get back!" I shouted, striking at it with the shovel. |
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| 16 | 169 |
"To meet and defeat in battle the rebel forces of Kisu, former Mfalme of the Ukungu villages". |
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| 16 | 174 |
In council they have deposed Kisu and placed their leader, Aibu, in power. |
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| 16 | 175 |
Kisu then withdrew with some two hundred warriors, loyal to him, to continue the fight against Bila Huruma". |
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| 16 | 186 |
"Our only hope," said the man to my left, "is a victory by the forces of Kisu". |
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| 16 | 192 |
"Kisu is severely outnumbered," I said. |
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| 16 | 207 |
"The forces of Kisu have been met in battle and defeated," said Ayari. |
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| 16 | 234 |
"Kisu!" they cried. |
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| 18 | 22 |
When I entered the court Bila Huruma had just finished accepting the reports of his officers on the battle with the forces of Kisu. |
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| 18 | 24 |
Kisu, with his small handful of men, as it turned out, incredibly enough, had been marching on Bila Huruma. |
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| 18 | 26 |
I had no doubt as to the courage of Kisu; I was less confident, however, that he had the common sense and wisdom expected of a Mfalme. |
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| 18 | 104 |
Kisu, the rebel, in chains, was then dragged before Bila Huruma. |
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| 18 | 107 |
Kisu, kept on his knees, was then dragged to one side. |
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| 18 | 108 |
Next to approach Bila Huruma was Mwoga, ambassador of the villages of Ukungu, representative of the high chief, Aibu, who had organized the chiefs of Ukungu against Kisu, and deposed him. |
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| 18 | 123 |
"Yes," said Kisu, "and she is as proud and cold as she is beautiful". |
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| 18 | 126 |
"She is worthy to be a slave," said Kisu. |
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| 18 | 129 |
Kisu was dragged, struggling, from the court. |
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| 20 | 1 |
I do not Kill Kisu "That is pretty," said the askari. |
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| 20 | 78 |
That man was Kisu, who had been the leader of the Ukungu rebels. |
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| 20 | 79 |
After a time, when the askaris had withdrawn a few yards, I said to Ayari, "Convey my greetings to Kisu". |
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| 20 | 81 |
We waded, dragging the chain on our necks, toward Kisu. |
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| 20 | 83 |
Ayari spoke to Kisu, and he lifted his head, regarding me disdainfully. |
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| 20 | 84 |
"I have conveyed your greetings to Kisu," said Ayari, speaking to me in Gorean. |
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| 20 | 95 |
But Kisu did not, upon receipt of my message, attack. |
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| 20 | 100 |
Ayari conveyed this cheerfully to Kisu. |
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| 20 | 101 |
Again Kisu restrained himself. |
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| 20 | 106 |
Kisu straightened up, and turned to face me. |
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| 20 | 109 |
The speech of Kisu was closely related to the inland speech, and Ayari had no difficulty in communicating with him. |
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| 20 | 116 |
This was conveyed to Kisu. |
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| 20 | 117 |
With a cry of rage Kisu leaped toward me, the shovel swinging toward my head. |
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| 20 | 131 |
Kisu was, I had little doubt, quite similar in strength to myself. |
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| 20 | 140 |
After a time Kisu turned about and called to Ayari. |
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| 20 | 145 |
This was conveyed to Kisu. |
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| 20 | 150 |
This assent was conveyed then to Kisu. |
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| 22 | 30 |
"Tell Kisu," I said, "that I would speak with him, that I would escape". |
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| 22 | 33 |
Once again, as before, yesterday, my words were tendered to Kisu. |
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| 22 | 38 |
Had it been Kisu he would have been destroyed. |
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| 23 | 1 |
Escape; Kisu Pays a Call on Tende "Is she not beautiful?" whispered Ayari. |
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| 23 | 7 |
"Which is the one called Kisu?" asked an askari, wading up to us. |
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| 23 | 9 |
"That is he," said Ayari, indicating tall Kisu a few places from us. |
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| 23 | 13 |
"Why did you tell him which one of us was Kisu?" I asked. |
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| 23 | 44 |
His tattooing, and that of Kisu, were quite similar. |
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| 23 | 53 |
"Behold, Lady," said Mwoga, indicating Kisu, "the enemy of your father, and your enemy, helpless and chained before you. |
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| 23 | 60 |
Kisu looked boldly into the eyes of the reclining Tende. |
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| 23 | 64 |
"I see, Mwoga," said Kisu, "that now you are wazir, that you have risen high from your position of a minor chief's lackey. |
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| 23 | 67 |
"You, Kisu, were too dull to understand politics. |
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| 23 | 74 |
"You betrayed Ukungu to the empire," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 77 |
"You twist words!" said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 79 |
"What will the stories say of this?" demanded Kisu. |
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| 23 | 81 |
Kisu stepped toward him but the askari at his side forced him back. |
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| 23 | 83 |
"I do not understand," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 87 |
How can men call themselves free when, each night, they must fear the coming of dusk?" "I do not understand," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 93 |
"All men desire peace," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 95 |
Kisu regarded him, angrily. |
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| 23 | 98 |
"He must be resisted," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 100 |
"He must be stopped," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 102 |
"You style yourself a hero, who would lead my people into the light of civilization?" asked Kisu. |
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| 23 | 105 |
"Now you speak honestly," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 108 |
"The tharlarion and the ost, too, have their place in the palace of nature," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 110 |
"Meet me with spears," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 114 |
"I would have your blood on my spear," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 116 |
"The empire is evil," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 119 |
"The empire must be destroyed," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 121 |
"Go, serve your master, Bila Huruma," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 124 |
"And take these slave girls with you, gifts for his highness, Bila Huruma," said Kisu, gesturing to Tende and her two servitors. |
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| 23 | 126 |
"She is being sold to seal a bargain," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 129 |
"One of more than two hundred Ubaras!" scoffed Kisu. |
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| 23 | 131 |
"Excellent," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 135 |
"I have seen Bila Huruma," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 142 |
"And you will do so, Tende," said Kisu, "for you are in your heart, as I can see in your eyes, a true slave". |
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| 23 | 146 |
Tende rose gracefully to her feet and descended from the cushions and dais, to stand at the edge of the platform, over Kisu. |
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| 23 | 147 |
"Have you nothing to say, my dear Tende, beautiful daughter of the traitor, Aibu?" inquired Kisu. |
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| 23 | 153 |
Kisu opened his eyes, a diagonal streak of blood across his face. |
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| 23 | 159 |
I looked at Kisu. |
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| 23 | 232 |
"How can we escape?" asked Kisu. |
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| 23 | 237 |
I put one end of the chain in the hands of the powerful Kisu and took the other end in my own hands. |
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| 23 | 238 |
"I see," said Kisu, "but this is an inefficient tool". |
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| 23 | 247 |
Doubtless Kisu's hands, too, were bloodied. |
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| 23 | 274 |
I could see the outline of Kisu's head in the darkness. |
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| 23 | 277 |
Kisu and I drew heavily on the chain. |
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| 23 | 313 |
One after another, I and Kisu, and Ayari, toward the center of the chain, the some forty-five or forty-six prisoners of the cage slipped free. |
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| 23 | 325 |
Kisu struck him on the side of the head, knocking him sideways. |
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| 23 | 326 |
I looked at Kisu. |
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| 23 | 339 |
Soon, leading the chain from the center, its ends behind and on either side of us, I, and Kisu, and some others between us, were wading westward, shovels in hand. |
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| 23 | 341 |
"You are a clever fellow," said Kisu to me. |
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| 23 | 383 |
"They will soon discover it is a false alarm," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 401 |
Kisu, I, and Ayari, remained on the island. |
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| 23 | 402 |
"Where are you going?" asked Kisu. |
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| 23 | 425 |
"That is why you brought along the mud raft," smiled Kisu. |
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| 23 | 432 |
"Let us hurry," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 452 |
Kisu and I had located one guard apiece. |
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| 23 | 455 |
With the flats of our shovels Kisu and I struck the two guards senseless. |
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| 23 | 463 |
Then she saw Kisu. |
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| 24 | 1 |
We Obtain a Canoe; Kisu Makes Tende a Slave It was getting light. |
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| 24 | 6 |
"There were raiders," said Kisu. |
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| 24 | 20 |
Concealed by a thin layer of mud on the raft were two shields and two stabbing spears, which Kisu and I had taken from the two askaris we had subdued on the platform of Tende. |
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| 24 | 25 |
"How far ahead is Ngao?" I asked Kisu. |
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| 24 | 26 |
"Days," said Kisu. |
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| 24 | 31 |
"Listen," said Kisu, suddenly. |
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| 24 | 36 |
Kisu followed me. |
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| 24 | 42 |
Kisu and I clambered down, splashing into the water, and again thrust the raft eastward. |
10 |
| 24 | 51 |
Kisu lifted the headdress of an askari from the water, and threw it from him. |
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| 24 | 54 |
"Keep a watch for tharlarion," said Kisu. |
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| 24 | 57 |
Kisu dropped it back in the water. |
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| 24 | 69 |
Kisu tore at the mud, scratching for one of the shields and stabbing spears. |
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| 24 | 89 |
Kisu stood on the raft, like a black god, the shield on his arm, a bloodied stabbing spear in his right hand. |
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| 24 | 96 |
Kisu, leaving the raft, fetched two sealed calabashes of meal from where they floated in the marsh. |
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| 24 | 106 |
"Bila Huruma will burn their villages," said Kisu. |
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| 24 | 109 |
"He will do what he thinks is necessary to achieve his ends," said Kisu. |
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| 24 | 119 |
Kisu, with his hands, dug in the mud. |
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| 24 | 125 |
Kisu submerged her, shaking her, rinsing mud from her body. |
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| 24 | 132 |
Kisu had then freed the second blond-haired slave from the mud and, submerging her, she also bound hand and foot, rinsed her clean. |
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| 24 | 137 |
"Beast!" screamed Tende to Kisu, sputtering and coughing as she was pulled up from the water. |
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| 24 | 148 |
Kisu threw her, in her soiled robes, to the surface of the raft. |
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| 24 | 157 |
"Let us untie the two slaves," said Kisu. |
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| 24 | 169 |
Behind me, also with a paddle, was Kisu. |
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| 24 | 177 |
Kisu and I, the girls following, lowered our paddles into the water, and moved the canoe eastward. |
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| 24 | 184 |
"Please, Kisu," begged Tende, "let me enter the canoe". |
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| 24 | 188 |
"Please, Kisu!" She stumbled and fell, and was, for a moment, under the surface, but the tether on her wrists pulled her again to the surface and, moaning, she regained her feet and staggered to again follow us. |
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| 24 | 193 |
"Kisu!" wept Tende. |
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| 24 | 194 |
"Please, Kisu!" But he did not look at her. |
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| 24 | 196 |
"It will be only a matter of time, Kisu," I said, in Gorean, "until the tharlarion have fed and there is no more there. |
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| 24 | 198 |
"Of course," said Kisu, not looking back. |
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| 24 | 205 |
"Kisu," cried the girl. |
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| 24 | 207 |
"Kisu!" she cried. |
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| 24 | 208 |
"I cannot wade in these robes!" "Do you wish me to remove them from you?" asked Kisu. |
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| 24 | 209 |
"Were you not once fond of me, Kisu?" she called. |
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| 24 | 210 |
"You are the daughter of my hated enemy, Aibu," said Kisu, coldly. |
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| 24 | 215 |
"Please, Kisu!" she begged. |
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| 24 | 216 |
"Please!" "I hear but the voice of the proud free woman, Tende, daughter of my hated enemy, Aibu," said Kisu. |
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| 24 | 218 |
She tried to approach the canoe more closely but Kisu, as she would approach, would, with a powerful stroke, move the canoe more swiftly forward, keeping her at the length of the tether. |
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| 24 | 223 |
"Please, Kisu," she begged. |
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| 24 | 227 |
"Are they there now?" asked Kisu. |
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| 24 | 237 |
"Kisu!" she screamed. |
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| 24 | 240 |
"No! No, please! No, please!" "I hear the voice of the proud free woman, Tende," said Kisu, "who is the daughter of my hated enemy, Aibu". |
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| 24 | 241 |
"No," she wept, "no!" "Then what voice is it that I hear?" inquired Kisu. |
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| 24 | 242 |
"The voice of a helpless female slave," cried Tende, "who begs her master to spare her life!" "You are pretending to be a slave," said Kisu. |
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| 24 | 245 |
"In your heart?" asked Kisu. |
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| 24 | 252 |
"What is your name?" asked Kisu. |
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| 24 | 262 |
Kisu, suddenly, reached out and, seizing the girl by the bound wrists, she screaming, wrenched her bodily in a shower of water across the thwart of the canoe. |
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| 24 | 269 |
Kisu thrust at it with his paddle. |
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| 24 | 273 |
With the splintered handle of the paddle Kisu jabbed at the tharlarion. |
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| 24 | 280 |
"Move the canoe!" cried Kisu. |
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| 24 | 285 |
Kisu, with the splintered paddle handle, thrust back one of them. |
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| 24 | 297 |
I pulled the paddle from her hands and passed it back to Kisu, who took it calmly. |
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| 24 | 298 |
Kisu and I then began to propel the canoe eastward. |
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| 24 | 299 |
Tende, wrists bound beneath her body, lay shuddering between Kisu and myself, in the bottom of the canoe. |
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| 24 | 303 |
Kisu and I continued to propel the canoe from the vicinity. |
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| 24 | 305 |
After a quarter of an Ahn Kisu laid aside his paddle. |
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| 24 | 317 |
The two remaining pieces of cord, with their shells, I gave to Kisu. |
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| 24 | 320 |
"It is fitting, Slave," said Kisu. |
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| 24 | 323 |
Kisu carefully folded the silken strip into small squares and slipped it between his waist and his loincloth's twisted-cloth belt. |
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| 25 | 2 |
"At last," said Kisu, in the stern, resting his paddle. |
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| 25 | 4 |
Behind me, directly, before Kisu, Tende withdrew her paddle, too, from the water. |
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| 25 | 5 |
Kisu kept her in the canoe immediately before him. |
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| 25 | 9 |
More than once Kisu had struck her across the shoulders with his broad-bladed, ornately carved paddle when she, weary, arms aching, had faltered in the rhythm of the stroke. |
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| 25 | 11 |
Kisu and I slipped into the water and, wading, slipping in the mud, thrust and hauled the canoe forward. |
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| 25 | 20 |
"Ukungu," said Kisu, "lies to the northeast, on the coast". |
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| 25 | 23 |
"You are no longer welcome there," I said to Kisu. |
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| 25 | 30 |
"I, too," smiled Kisu, "am on my way to the Ua River". |
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| 25 | 36 |
"I am counting on that," said Kisu. |
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| 25 | 37 |
"Is that, too," I asked, "in accord with the plan you guard so secretively?" "It is," grinned Kisu. |
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| 25 | 39 |
"No," said Kisu. |
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| 25 | 44 |
Kisu, the water now again to his thighs, reached into the canoe. |
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| 25 | 48 |
"I do not expect to see canoes of Ukungu," said Kisu, "but if we do, you will, thus bound, perhaps not be tempted to leap into the water and swim to safety". |
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| 25 | 51 |
"Let us then discourage them, too, from foolish thoughts of escape," said Kisu. |
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| 25 | 52 |
I then bound the other two girls as Kisu had bound Tende. |
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| 25 | 54 |
"Do not tie me with white slaves, Master," begged Tende, but Kisu laughed at her and it was done to her. |
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| 25 | 55 |
Kisu and I re-entered the canoe and took up our paddles. |
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| 26 | 15 |
"Observe the water," said Kisu. |
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| 26 | 20 |
Kisu pointed overhead. |
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| 26 | 24 |
"That is a forest bird," said Kisu. |
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| 26 | 29 |
"We are within the river," said Kisu. |
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| 26 | 32 |
"No," laughed Kisu, pleased. |
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| 26 | 36 |
"Go to the right," said Kisu. |
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| 26 | 48 |
"In entering a village on the Ngao coast," said Kisu, "one always enters on the right". |
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| 26 | 50 |
"One thus exposes one's side to the blade of the other," said Kisu. |
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| 26 | 52 |
"How better," asked Kisu, "to show that one comes in peace?" "Interesting," I said. |
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| 26 | 55 |
"Thus," said Kisu, "if there are men in these countries and their customs resemble those of the Ngao villages, and Ukungu, we shall make clear to them our peaceful intentions. |
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| 26 | 59 |
"Precisely," said Kisu. |
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| 26 | 61 |
"Yes," said Kisu. |
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| 26 | 67 |
"You are probably right," said Kisu. |
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| 26 | 71 |
"Kisu?" I asked. |
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| 27 | 18 |
"This is not good," said Kisu. |
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| 27 | 31 |
"Let us continue on our way," said Kisu. |
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| 27 | 35 |
When I surfaced I heard Kisu calling out to turn the canoe. |
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| 27 | 44 |
"Look," said Kisu. |
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| 27 | 67 |
"It was a trick," said Kisu. |
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| 27 | 70 |
"I do not like to be tricked," said Kisu. |
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| 27 | 72 |
"Perhaps," said Kisu. |
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| 27 | 81 |
Kisu and I sat opposite one another, across the clay bowl with its small fire. |
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| 27 | 82 |
"Where is Ayari?" I asked Kisu. |
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| 27 | 83 |
"He remains with the chief," said Kisu. |
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| 27 | 86 |
"I am not sure," said Kisu. |
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| 27 | 91 |
"Yes," said Kisu. |
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| 27 | 93 |
"Yes," said Kisu. |
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| 27 | 97 |
"Yes," said Kisu. |
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| 27 | 108 |
It was the latter two implements in which Kisu had been most interested. |
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| 27 | 110 |
"I am not pleased, Kisu," said Tende. |
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| 27 | 119 |
"I see another item," said Kisu, angrily, "which might perhaps be traded in the morning, before we leave the village". |
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| 27 | 163 |
I could hear the sounds of pleasure, from Kisu and Tende, at the side of the hut. |
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| 27 | 285 |
Tende, when Kisu had finished with her, had been returned to her place. |
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| 27 | 290 |
"They were reluctant to speak?" asked Kisu. |
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| 27 | 300 |
"Others pursue as well?" asked Kisu. |
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| 28 | 18 |
"Ah," said Kisu. |
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| 28 | 20 |
"Trade goods," said Kisu. |
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| 28 | 24 |
"Let us proceed with caution," said Kisu. |
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| 29 | 16 |
Kisu, with a knife, was cutting a length from the rough, red-dyed cloth, plaited and pounded, derived from the inner bark of the pod tree, which we had obtained in trade some days ago at the fishermen's village. |
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| 29 | 78 |
I then sat down again, cross-legged, and turned my attention to Kisu. |
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| 29 | 84 |
Tende knelt before Kisu and put her head to the dirt. |
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| 29 | 88 |
When she was finished Kisu threw her the strip of cloth which she then, delightedly, wrapped about her hips, tucking it closed. |
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| 29 | 91 |
"It is now time to tie you for the night," said Kisu. |
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| 29 | 118 |
I had also given her, as Kisu had Tende, two strings of wooden beads. |
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| 29 | 122 |
So, too, were Ayari and Kisu. |
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| 29 | 215 |
I would watch for a time, and then awaken Kisu. |
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| 29 | 234 |
"Kisu," I said. |
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| 30 | 1 |
We Make Further Progress Upon the River "Do not permit the canoe to be swept away!" screamed Kisu, straining to be heard over the rushing water. |
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| 30 | 5 |
I and Kisu, and the blond-haired barbarian and Tende, waded beside the canoe, thrusting it ahead of us. |
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| 30 | 16 |
If Tende, for her part, did not do well as first girl Kisu and I had agreed that Alice should have the opportunity. |
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| 30 | 25 |
"Hold the lines!" called Kisu. |
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| 30 | 27 |
"Push!" called Kisu. |
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| 31 | 53 |
"We all are," said Kisu. |
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| 31 | 61 |
"Then we have lost them," said Kisu. |
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| 32 | 1 |
Female Display Behaviors; A Slave Girl's Dream; Bark Cloth and Beads "Do not drop it," said Kisu, strained, sweating. |
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| 32 | 4 |
Behind him were the three girls, then Kisu, amidships, and myself, at the stern. |
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| 32 | 9 |
"Keep moving forward," said Kisu. |
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| 32 | 11 |
"Upward, upward!" said Kisu. |
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| 32 | 28 |
"Bring up the supplies," said Kisu. |
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| 32 | 32 |
Kisu and I took turns at the stern. |
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| 32 | 34 |
"Shaba passed here," said Kisu, sitting down, wiping the sweat, like river water, from his head. |
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| 32 | 36 |
"That is true," grinned Kisu. |
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| 32 | 57 |
Kisu, sitting, was looking down through the trees at the swift, churning water of the river. |
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| 33 | 1 |
What We Saw from the Height of the Falls; Tende Dances; We Enter Again Upon the River; I Anticipate the Surrender of the Blond-Haired Barbarian We thrust the canoe upward, Kisu and I at the stern, Ayari and the girls hauling on ropes at the forequarter. |
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| 33 | 6 |
"I am pleased," said Kisu, happily, wiping the sweat from his brow. |
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| 33 | 19 |
"Tende! Tende!" called Kisu. |
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| 33 | 21 |
Kisu seized her by the back of the neck and faced her downriver. |
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| 33 | 24 |
"It is he," said Kisu. |
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| 33 | 33 |
"It is Bila Huruma!" shouted Kisu in triumph. |
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| 33 | 35 |
"I would have come with you anyway, to help you, for you are my friend," said Kisu. |
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| 33 | 43 |
"I could not in battle beat Bila Huruma," said Kisu. |
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| 33 | 48 |
"Thus," said Kisu, "in destroying Bila Huruma, I will destroy the empire". |
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| 33 | 50 |
"How is that?" asked Kisu. |
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| 33 | 51 |
"Do you truly think that Bila Huruma," I asked, "who owns or is companion to perhaps hundreds of women would pursue you into the jungle at great risk to himself and his empire to get back one girl, a girl whom he doubtless realizes has by now been reduced to slavery, and has thus been rendered polit... |
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| 33 | 56 |
"But Bila Huruma is on the river," said Kisu. |
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| 33 | 58 |
"Thus," said Kisu, "you are wrong". |
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| 33 | 60 |
"Do you think he follows you?" asked Kisu. |
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| 33 | 62 |
"Thus," said Kisu, "it is I whom he follows". |
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| 33 | 65 |
Kisu then turned and, happily, waded back to the shore. |
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| 33 | 66 |
* * * * "Remove your garment," said Kisu to Tende. |
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| 33 | 71 |
Wading, we followed Kisu and Tende out toward the center of the river. |
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| 33 | 79 |
"Bila Huruma!" called Kisu. |
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| 33 | 80 |
"I am Kisu!" He pointed at the girl. |
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| 33 | 81 |
"This is the woman, Tende, who was to have been your companion! I took her from you! I made her my slave!" Bila Huruma, of course, if he were with the flotilla, as we conjectured, could not have heard Kisu. |
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| 33 | 92 |
"This is the woman, Tende," called Kisu, facing his distant enemy, shouting against the roar of the falls, pointing to Tende. |
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| 33 | 94 |
"That does not matter," laughed Kisu. |
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| 33 | 106 |
"No," said Kisu. |
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| 33 | 108 |
"Do so," said Kisu. |
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| 33 | 110 |
"Ah!" said Kisu, clearly in awe of the beauty of his slave. |
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| 33 | 124 |
"Are you ready, Slave?" asked Kisu. |
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| 33 | 134 |
"Dance, Slave," said Kisu. |
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| 33 | 136 |
Tende then, obedient to her master's command, as Kisu clapped his hands and sang, danced on a flat rock in the Ua river, danced before Bila Huruma, so far away, her master's enemy, from whom she had been stolen. |
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| 33 | 142 |
Kisu continued to clap his hands. |
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| 33 | 154 |
"Enough!" called Kisu, happily. |
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| 33 | 159 |
Kisu and I thrust the canoe into the shallow water. |
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| 33 | 167 |
Kisu tied well. |
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| 33 | 179 |
I saw then, as I think that Kisu did not, that the proud Tende, who had been so haughty and cold, was now naught but a surrendered love slave. |
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| 33 | 183 |
"Should we not dispose of such evidence of this brief encampment?" "No," said Kisu. |
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| 33 | 186 |
"Of course," said Kisu. |
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| 33 | 189 |
Kisu, waist deep in the water, turned to look back, over the falls. |
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| 34 | 100 |
It had been this morning, shortly before noon, that we had surmounted the height of the falls, that almost on the summit of which Kisu, in the face of the distant, oncoming forces of Bila Huruma, had danced a naked slave, she to whom he at his pleasure had given the name 'Tende'. |
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| 34 | 104 |
"I feel the desire for meat," had said Kisu. |
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| 34 | 107 |
Kisu and I, warriors, wanted meat. |
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| 34 | 227 |
"Wasn't it horrifying," she asked, "what Kisu did to Tende today?" "What?" I asked. |
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| 34 | 1074 |
I turned her about, and thrust her in the direction of our main camp, where Kisu and the others awaited us. |
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| 35 | 2 |
"Be silent," said Kisu. |
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| 35 | 28 |
"How can I please Kisu more?" she asked Janice. |
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| 35 | 34 |
Kisu had asked that I have Janice and Alice help Tende with the language. |
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| 35 | 38 |
Kisu, too, of course, profited from these lessons. |
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| 35 | 41 |
For my part, I was pleased at both Kisu's and Tende's growth in Gorean. |
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| 36 | 21 |
"It was wise of you to free it," said Kisu. |
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| 36 | 28 |
"Why?" asked Kisu. |
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| 36 | 31 |
How could I tell Kisu, who was of the land, of the feelings of those who had known the waves of Thassa? "You will not free me, will you, Master?" asked Janice. |
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| 36 | 41 |
I then, with Ayari and Kisu, lifted the canoe again, and again we moved upriver. |
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| 37 | 2 |
Kisu lifted beads before him, of purple glass, strung on wire. |
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| 37 | 5 |
Tende knelt beside Kisu, her hands tied behind her back. |
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| 37 | 9 |
Kisu shook his head, negatively. |
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| 37 | 10 |
In spite of the fact that Tende had now become to Kisu a superb love slave, he still kept her under the strictest security. |
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| 37 | 14 |
She would cry alone at night, secured to the slave post, until Kisu, by a word, or kick or blow, would silence her. |
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| 37 | 16 |
Kisu again shook his head negatively. |
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| 38 | 6 |
"What is it?" asked Kisu. |
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| 39 | 14 |
"Yes," said Kisu. |
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| 39 | 19 |
"Turn the canoe," said Kisu, fiercely. |
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| 39 | 24 |
"Paddle! Hurry!" said Kisu. |
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| 39 | 32 |
"Continue on," said Kisu. |
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| 40 | 1 |
Tende Speaks to Kisu I looked up at the stars. |
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| 40 | 3 |
Tende knelt beside Kisu, bending over him. |
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| 40 | 9 |
"Ah, excellent, Slave," said Kisu. |
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| 40 | 21 |
"Perhaps not," said Kisu. |
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| 41 | 4 |
"Cut through!" shouted Kisu. |
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| 41 | 7 |
"Cut through!" cried Kisu. |
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| 41 | 9 |
We brought the canoe against the net, so that I and Kisu, too, each armed with a panga, might slash at the woven wall which had, on vine ropes, sprung from shore, lifted up before us. |
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| 41 | 15 |
"Get the canoe through!" cried Kisu. |
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| 41 | 20 |
"Paddle!" said Kisu. |
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| 42 | 42 |
"Awaken Kisu and Tende". |
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| 43 | 2 |
"I do not think it will attack a canoe," said Kisu. |
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| 43 | 26 |
Kisu and I dipped our paddles into the water. |
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| 43 | 43 |
"A beautiful wench," said Kisu. |
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| 43 | 48 |
"I think we have lingered here long enough," said Kisu, looking about. |
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| 43 | 54 |
"What little fools you all are," said Kisu. |
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| 43 | 56 |
Kisu threw back his head and laughed. |
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| 43 | 87 |
"Their bodies, too," said Kisu, "showed no signs of lashings or bruises. |
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| 43 | 110 |
"Take up your paddles," said Kisu. |
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| 43 | 114 |
"Yes," said Kisu. |
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| 43 | 146 |
"Forgive me, Master," she begged Kisu. |
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| 43 | 151 |
"Rest," said Kisu to her. |
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| 43 | 156 |
* * * * Ayari, Kisu and I continued to paddle. |
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| 44 | 59 |
Ayari and Kisu referred to such fish as gints. |
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| 44 | 197 |
* * * * "Kisu!" I called, alarmed. |
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| 47 | 96 |
"Tarl!" cried Kisu, bound. |
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| 47 | 112 |
"Wait, Kisu!" I cried. |
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| 47 | 114 |
Kisu, like a demented man, ran toward the great campfire in the center of the village. |
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| 47 | 118 |
Kisu's legs were covered with ants. |
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| 47 | 120 |
"Kisu!" I cried. |
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| 47 | 123 |
Kisu suddenly seized a man and hurled him about, striking him repeatedly with the butt of his spear, beating him as though he might be an animal. |
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| 47 | 128 |
Again and again Kisu, as though beside himself with rage, drove the spear blade down into the man's legs until the tendons behind the knees were severed. |
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| 47 | 131 |
He lifted his hand to Kisu. |
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| 47 | 132 |
Kisu turned about then and left him by the wall. |
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| 47 | 133 |
"Hurry, Kisu!" I cried. |
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| 48 | 79 |
"Kisu and I," I said, indicating the former Mfalme of Ukungu, "are before you. |
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| 48 | 82 |
Kisu lifted a spear, and shook it. |
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| 48 | 184 |
Then I, and Kisu, followed by Turgus, and by Janice, Alice and Tende, turned about to leave the clearing. |
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| 48 | 198 |
Kisu and I, and Turgus, and our girls, Alice, Janice and Tende, then left the clearing. |
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| 48 | 201 |
Kisu and I, and Ayari, were sliding our canoe, from which we had removed its camouflage, toward the water. |
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| 48 | 208 |
Kisu and Ayari thrust the canoe into the water. |
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| 48 | 219 |
Turgus and I waded to the canoe, which Kisu and Ayari held steady in the water. |
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| 48 | 267 |
Kisu and Ayari, and Turgus and I, entered the canoe. |
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| 49 | 2 |
"Kisu?" "No," said Ayari. |
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| 49 | 3 |
"No," said Kisu. |
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| 49 | 13 |
Kisu had placed the finishing touches on the new paddles, making them fit, in grip and weight, for Turgus and the two new slaves, the blonde who had been the leader of the talunas and the dark-haired girl, who had been her second in command. |
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| 49 | 23 |
"Is it Shaba?" asked Kisu. |
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| 49 | 80 |
"What think you, Kisu?" I asked. |
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| 49 | 81 |
"I think you are right about ourselves not being the object of the drums' call," said Kisu, "and for the reason which you gave. |
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| 49 | 84 |
"Who knows?" asked Kisu. |
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| 49 | 87 |
"I suspect that I, too, know," said Kisu, grimly. |
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| 49 | 91 |
"Yes," said Kisu. |
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| 49 | 101 |
"It is as I had hoped," said Kisu. |
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| 49 | 112 |
Kisu and I stood up. |
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| 49 | 114 |
"Well, Kisu," said I, "it seems you have lured Bila Huruma to his destruction. |
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| 49 | 118 |
In your battle with the Ubar it is you, Kisu, who seems to have won". |
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| 49 | 119 |
Kisu looked down the river. |
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| 50 | 5 |
"Into it must flow a thousand streams," said Kisu. |
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| 50 | 21 |
"These men were of your race, or of some race akin to yours, Kisu," I said. |
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| 50 | 22 |
"Perhaps," said Kisu. |
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| 50 | 26 |
"Let us continue on," said Kisu, thrusting with his paddle against the calm water. |
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| 50 | 41 |
"He was first to the source of the Ua," said Kisu. |
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| 50 | 46 |
"Your long quest, Tarl, my friend," said Kisu, "has now come to an end". |
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| 50 | 57 |
"You are in service now," I said, "to Kisu and myself". |
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| 50 | 62 |
Kisu struck Turgus between the shoulder blades with the butt of one of the spears. |
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| 50 | 64 |
There Kisu threw him on his belly and tied his hands behind his back. |
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| 50 | 79 |
It would not be necessary, then, for Kisu or I to cut her throat. |
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| 50 | 83 |
I started up the stairs, Kisu a step behind me. |
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| 51 | 33 |
' Kisu and I thought that would be useful in keeping order among them. |
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| 51 | 127 |
"That is enough," said Kisu. |
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| 51 | 130 |
Kisu then crossed and bound the ankles of each. |
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| 51 | 152 |
I saw Tende in the arms of Kisu. |
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| 51 | 191 |
* * * * "You made her moan well," said Kisu. |
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| 51 | 193 |
I joined Kisu at the small fire in the ruins of the great building. |
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| 51 | 199 |
"You see, Tende," asked Kisu, "you are the only slave here who is not bound". |
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| 51 | 202 |
"Put wood on the fire," said Kisu. |
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| 51 | 206 |
Then she lay as before, beside Kisu. |
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| 51 | 220 |
What would be the point of it? "The city is large," said Kisu. |
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| 51 | 228 |
"Bila Huruma!" cried Kisu. |
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| 52 | 1 |
The Scribe Tende fled from the feet of Kisu, running to Bila Huruma. |
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| 52 | 5 |
Kisu stepped back, startled. |
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| 52 | 24 |
"No!" cried Kisu, seizing up a spear. |
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| 52 | 25 |
Bila Huruma paid Kisu no attention. |
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| 52 | 60 |
"I am now only Tende, the slave of Kisu, my master". |
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| 52 | 68 |
"Please, great Ubar," begged Tende, suddenly lifting her head, tears in her eyes, "do not do harm to my master, Kisu". |
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| 52 | 69 |
"Be silent, Slave!" snapped Kisu. |
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| 52 | 88 |
"Let us fight!" called Kisu to Bila Huruma. |
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| 52 | 95 |
"Let us fight!" called out Kisu, lifting and clutching his raider's spear. |
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| 52 | 97 |
"Kisu, the rebel of Ukungu," said Msaliti. |
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| 52 | 102 |
He looked at Kisu. |
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| 52 | 105 |
"Prepare to do battle," said Kisu to Bila Huruma. |
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| 52 | 107 |
"My war is not done, while I still have the strength to clutch a spear," said Kisu grimly. |
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| 52 | 108 |
"There are over two hundred askaris, Kisu," I said. |
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| 52 | 109 |
"Do battle with me singly, if you dare," called Kisu to Bila Huruma. |
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| 52 | 110 |
"Ubars," I pointed out to Kisu, "seldom see much point in engaging in single combat with common soldiers". |
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| 52 | 111 |
"I am Mfalme of Ukungu!" said Kisu. |
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| 52 | 113 |
"With all due respect, Kisu, you are not of sufficient political importance to warrant a duel with a Ubar". |
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| 52 | 114 |
"Appoint me again Mfalme of Ukungu," said Kisu to Bila Huruma, "if you find that necessary". |
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| 52 | 115 |
"Really, Kisu," said Ayari. |
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| 52 | 129 |
"Fight!" challenged Kisu. |
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| 52 | 132 |
"Fight!" cried Kisu, shaking the raider's spear. |
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| 52 | 133 |
"I could be behind the guard of that clumsy weapon in a moment," said Bila Huruma to Kisu. |
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| 52 | 134 |
"Why do you think I adopted the stabbing spear for my soldiers?" "We have such weapons!" cried Kisu. |
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| 52 | 138 |
"Do you know their techniques," asked Bila Huruma, "their utilities and tricks, the subtleties of their play?" "No," said Kisu. |
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| 52 | 139 |
"But I will fight you anyway!" "You are a strong man, and a good and brave man, Kisu," I said, "but Bila Huruma and his men are trained fighters. |
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| 52 | 141 |
"If I slay Bila Huruma," said Kisu, "I slay the empire". |
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| 52 | 147 |
"He is a trained fighter, Kisu," I said. |
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| 52 | 149 |
"What am I to do?" asked Kisu. |
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| 52 | 151 |
"I cannot do such things," cried Kisu. |
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| 52 | 154 |
We all, all in that room, regarded Kisu. |
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| 53 | 10 |
Kisu had kept our girls, with the exception of Tende, in coffle. |
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| 53 | 192 |
I saw Kisu, a raider's spear over his head, held in both hands, rush toward a crouching Kur, one just leaped into the courtyard. |
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| 53 | 283 |
"Kisu, watch out!" I cried. |
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| 53 | 284 |
Kisu turned but a figure interposed itself between him and the attacker. |
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| 53 | 289 |
Kisu glared at he who had been the interposing figure. |
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| 53 | 291 |
Then each, Kisu, the rebel, and Bila Huruma, Ubar of the equatorial empire, side by side, addressed themselves to thwarting the attack of new Kurii. |
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| 53 | 336 |
Kisu pulled his weapon free, and grinned. |
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| 53 | 418 |
But, in moments, viciously, Bila Huruma, Kisu, Turgus, Ayari and the askaris had been forced back again. |
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| 53 | 460 |
Kisu seized me, holding me back. |
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| 53 | 462 |
"No!" cried Kisu. |
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| 53 | 466 |
I could not free myself from Kisu and Turgus. |
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| 53 | 468 |
"You can do nothing now," said Kisu. |
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| 53 | 474 |
"You can do nothing now," said Kisu. |
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| 53 | 480 |
I shook loose of Turgus and Kisu and ran to the stones at the threshold. |
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| 53 | 486 |
Kisu and Turgus, and Ayari, stood behind me. |
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| 53 | 496 |
I tore the raider's spear from Kisu and extended it to Msaliti who, screaming, grasped it. |
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| 54 | 86 |
Kisu climbed the stairs to where we stood. |
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| 54 | 90 |
Kisu nodded and returned down the stairs to where the galleys and canoes were moored. |
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| 54 | 115 |
Kisu was there, waiting for us. |
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| 55 | 1 |
The Explosion; We Leave the Ancient City "Let us leave," called Kisu. |
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| 55 | 16 |
"What was that?" asked Kisu. |
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| 56 | 1 |
What Occurred in Nyundo, the Central Village of the Ukungu Region "Where is Aibu?" cried Kisu. |
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| 56 | 5 |
Tende, behind Kisu, cried out with misery. |
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| 56 | 6 |
"How did he die?" asked Kisu. |
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| 56 | 9 |
"My spear says it is not true," said Kisu. |
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| 56 | 11 |
"We shall, then, let them decide," said Kisu. |
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| 56 | 13 |
Both Mwoga and Kisu had now removed these tiny strips from their weapons. |
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| 56 | 20 |
On both the shield of Kisu and Mwoga the tufts were now at the top. |
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| 56 | 23 |
The fight was brief, and then Kisu withdrew the bloodied point of his weapon from the chest of Mwoga, who lay at his feet. |
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| 56 | 25 |
"Will you now see to the slaughter of those who supported Mwoga?" "No," said Kisu. |
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| 56 | 29 |
"Once, Kisu," said Bila Huruma, "you were little more than a kailiauk, with the obstinacy and crudity of the kailiauk's power, quick to anger, thoughtless in your charges. |
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| 56 | 31 |
Kisu shrugged. |
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| 56 | 35 |
"Better to be first in Ukungu," said Kisu, "than second in the empire". |
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| 56 | 36 |
"You are first in Ukungu," said Bila Huruma, naming Kisu to power. |
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| 56 | 37 |
"I shall fight you from Ukungu," said Kisu. |
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| 56 | 39 |
"I will have Ukungu free," said Kisu. |
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| 56 | 43 |
"Clean now the blade of your spear, Kisu," said Bila Huruma. |
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| 56 | 46 |
"I will clean and sheath my spear," said Kisu. |
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| 56 | 48 |
Kisu handed his weapons to one of the villagers. |
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| 57 | 74 |
He was facile with languages, and had connections with the villages of Nyuki on the northern shore of Ushindi, which was the territory of his father's birth, and, because of his connections with Kisu, with the Ukungu districts on the Ngao. |
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| 57 | 83 |
But I thought most fondly of Kisu, he who was now again Mfalme in Ukungu. |
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| 57 | 85 |
Before Bila Huruma had left the village of Nyundo, central village of the Ukungu villages, he had spoken to Kisu. |
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| 57 | 88 |
"Thank you, Ubar," had said Kisu, "but I will keep this woman in Ukungu". |
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| 57 | 90 |
"No," had said Kisu. |
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| 57 | 93 |
Tende had looked up at Kisu. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 46 |
"Let us continue on," said Kisu, and, again, the river before us, broad between the moist, tangled green thickets of the banks, backed on each side by the enclosing jungle, we dipped our paddles into the muddy, sluggish water. |
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