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Chapter 16 “Most Remarkable”
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Several miles south of the cabin, upon a strip of sandy beach, stood two old men, arguing.
Before them stretched the broad Atlantic. At their backs was the Dark Continent. Close around them loomed1 the impenetrable blackness of the jungle.
Savage2 beasts roared and growled3; noises, hideous4 and weird5, assailed6 their ears. They had wandered for miles in search of their camp, but always in the wrong direction. They were as hopelessly lost as though they suddenly had been transported to another world.
At such a time, indeed, every fiber7 of their combined intellects must have been concentrated upon the vital question of the minute — the life-and-death question to them of retracing8 their steps to camp.
Samuel T. Philander9 was speaking.
“But, my dear professor,” he was saying, “I still maintain that but for the victories of Ferdinand and Isabella over the fifteenth-century Moors10 in Spain the world would be today a thousand years in advance of where we now find ourselves. The Moors were essentially11 a tolerant, broad-minded, liberal race of agriculturists, artisans and merchants — the very type of people that has made possible such civilization as we find today in America and Europe — while the Spaniards —”
“Tut, tut, dear Mr. Philander,” interrupted Professor Porter; “their religion
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lair
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cowardice
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tottering
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verge
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exalted
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countenance
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