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Chapter 20 Jungle Island Again
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The first consideration of the party was to locate fresh water and make camp, for all knew that their term of existence upon Jungle Island might be drawn1 out to months, or even years.
Tarzan knew the nearest water, and to this he immediately led the party. Here the men fell to work to construct shelters and rude furniture while Tarzan went into the jungle after meat, leaving the faithful Mugambi and the Mosula woman to guard Jane, whose safety he would never trust to any member of the Kincaid's cut-throat crew.
Lady Greystoke suffered far greater anguish3 than any other of the castaways, for the blow to her hopes and her already cruelly lacerated mother-heart lay not in her own privations but in the knowledge that she might now never be able to learn the fate of her first-born or do aught to discover his whereabouts, or ameliorate his condition—a condition which imagination naturally pictured in the most frightful5 forms.
For two weeks the party divided the time amongst the various duties which had been allotted6 to each. A daylight watch was maintained from sunrise to sunset upon a bluff7 near the camp—a jutting8 shoulder of rock which overlooked the sea. Here, ready for instant lighting9, was gathered a huge pile of dry branches, while from a lofty pole which they had set in the ground there floated an improvised10 distress11 signal fashioned from a red undershirt which belonged to the mate of the Kincaid.
But never a speck12 upon the horizon that might be sail or smoke rewarded the tired eyes that in their endless, hopeless vigil strained daily out across the vast expanse of ocean.
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分配,拨给,摊派( allot的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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distress
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speck
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vessel
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berth
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savage
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seaman
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pricked
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刺,扎,戳( prick的过去式和过去分词 ); 刺伤; 刺痛; 使剧痛 | |
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nervously
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admonishing
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