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Chapter X In the Hands of Savages
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Tarzan sought Bara, the deer, or Horta, the boar, for of all the jungle animals he doubted if any would prove more palatable1 to the white woman, but though his keen nostrils2 were ever on the alert, he traveled far without being rewarded with even the faintest scent3 spoor of the game he sought. Keeping close to the river where he hoped to find Bara or Horta approaching or leaving a drinking place he came at last upon the strong odor of the Wamabo village and being ever ready to pay his hereditary4 enemies, the Gomangani, an undesired visit, he swung into a detour5 and came up in the rear of the village. From a tree which overhung the palisade he looked down into the street where he saw the preparations going on which his experience told him indicated the approach of one of those frightful6 feasts the piece de resistance of which is human flesh.
One of Tarzan's chief divertissements was the baiting of the blacks. He realized more keen enjoyment7 through annoying and terrifying them than from any other source of amusement the grim jungle offered. To rob them of their feast in some way that would strike terror to their hearts would give him the keenest of pleasure, and so he searched the village with his eyes for some indication of the whereabouts of the prisoner. His view was circumscribed8 by the dense9 foliage10 of the tree in which he sat, and, so that he might obtain a better view, he climbed further aloft and moved cautiously out upon a slender branch.
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morale
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n.道德准则,士气,斗志 | |
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vessel
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n.船舶;容器,器皿;管,导管,血管 | |
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v.猛投,用力掷( hurl的过去式和过去分词 );大声叫骂 | |
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deluged
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v.使淹没( deluge的过去式和过去分词 );淹没;被洪水般涌来的事物所淹没;穷于应付 | |
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shrieking
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v.尖叫( shriek的现在分词 ) | |
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adv.完全地,彻底地,十足地 | |
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