Say where you wish to camp and men shall run to build a house of
reeds for the god to dwell in."
CHAPTER IX
THE DAWN
Jeekie looked up and down the river and saw that in the centre of it
about half a mile away, there was an island on which grew some trees.
"Little Bonsa will camp yonder," he said. "Go, make her house ready,
light fire and bring canoe to paddle us across. Now leave us, all of
you, for if you look too long upon the face of the Yellow God she will
ask a sacrifice, and it is not lawful that you should see where she
hides herself away."
At this saying the cannibals departed as one man, and at top speed, some
of the canoes and others to warn their fellows who were engaged in
the congenial work of hunting and killing the dwarfs, not to dare to
approach the white man and his companion. A third party ran to the bank
of the river that was opposite to the island to make ready as they had
been bidden, so that presently Alan and Jeekie were left quite alone.
"Ah!" said Jeekie, with a gasp of satisfaction, "_that_ all right,
everything arranged quite comfortable. Thought Little Bonsa come out top
somehow and score off dirty dwarf monkeys.
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