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CHAPTER XV Morning in the Berg
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I was perhaps half a mile the nearer to the glen, and was likely to get there first. And after that? I could see the track winding1 by the waterside and then crossing a hill-shoulder which diverted the stream. It was a road a man could scarcely ride, and a tired man would have a hard job to climb. I do not think that I had any hope. My exhilaration had died as suddenly as it had been born. I saw myself caught and carried off to Laputa, who must now be close on the rendezvous2 at Inanda’s Kraal. I had no weapon to make a fight for it. My foemen were many and untired. It must be only a matter of minutes till I was in their hands.
More in a dogged fury of disappointment than with any hope of escape I forced my sore legs up the glen. Ten minutes ago I had been exulting3 in the glories of the morning, and now the sun was not less bright or the colours less fair, but the heart had gone out of the spectator. At first I managed to get some pace out of myself, partly from fear and partly from anger. But I soon found that my body had been tried too far. I could plod4 along, but to save my life I could not have hurried. Any healthy savage5 could have caught me in a hundred yards.
The track, I remember, was overhung with creepers, and often I had to squeeze through thickets6 of tree-ferns. Countless7 little brooks8 ran down from the hillside, threads of silver among the green pastures. Soon I left the stream and climbed up on the shoulder, where the road was not much better than a precipice9. Every step was a weariness. I could hardly drag one foot after the other, and my heart was beating like the fanners of a mill, I had
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winding
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savage
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brooks
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buck
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intercept
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puny
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warrior
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skull
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shrugged
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stammered
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slumber
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sprawling
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ridge
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clumps
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