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CHAPTER X. MARKET-DAY.
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So sudden was Dick's action that it had been impossible to parry his blow. Several of the natives rushed on him, and in all likelihood would have struck him down upon the spot had not Negoro arrived at that very moment. At a sign from him the natives drew back, and proceeded to raise and carry away Harris's corpse1.
Alvez and Coïmbra were urgent in their demand that Dick should forthwith be punished by death, but Negoro whispered to them that they would assuredly be the gainers by delay, and they accordingly contented2 themselves with ordering the youth to be placed under strict supervision3.
This was the first time that Dick had set eyes upon Negoro since he had left the coast; nevertheless, so heartbroken was he at the intelligence he had just received, that he did not deign4 to address a word to the man whom he knew to be the real author of all his misery5. He cared not now what became of him.
Loaded with chains, he was placed in the dungeon6 where Alvez was accustomed to confine slaves who had been condemned7 to death for mutiny or violence. That he had no communication with the outer world gave him no concern; he had avenged8 the death of those for whose safety he had felt himself responsible, and could now calmly await the fate which he could not doubt was in store for him; he did not dare to suppose that he had been temporarily spared otherwise than that he might
[Illustration: Accompanied by Coïmbra, Alvez himself was one of the first arrivals.]
suffer the cruellest tortures that native ingenuity9 could devise. That the "Pilgrim's" cook now held in his power the boy captain he so
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dealer
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dealers
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lighter
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civilized
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未开化的人,野蛮人( savage的名词复数 ) | |
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vendor
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cones
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medley
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skewers
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copper
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maize
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brass
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beads
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tattooed
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v.刺青,文身( tattoo的过去式和过去分词 );连续有节奏地敲击;作连续有节奏的敲击 | |
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incisions
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bosom
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embroidered
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ornamented
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pretensions
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