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Chapter 15
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From Ape to Savage1
The noise of their battle with Numa had drawn2 an excited horde3 of savages4 from the nearby village, and a moment after the lion's death the two men were surrounded by lithe5, ebon warriors7, gesticulating and jabbering—a thousand questions that drowned each ventured reply.
And then the women came, and the children—eager, curious, and, at sight of Tarzan, more questioning than ever. The ape-man's new friend finally succeeded in making himself heard, and when he had done talking the men and women of the village vied with one another in doing honor to the strange creature who had saved their fellow and battled single-handed with fierce Numa.
At last they led him back to their village, where they brought him gifts of fowl8, and goats, and cooked food. When he pointed9 to their weapons the warriors hastened to fetch spear, shield, arrows, and a bow. His friend of the encounter presented him with the knife with which he had killed Numa. There was nothing in all the village he could not have had for the asking.
How much easier this was, thought Tarzan, than murder and robbery to supply his wants. How close he had been to killing10 this man whom he never had seen before, and who now was manifesting by every primitive11 means at his command friendship and affection for his would-be slayer12. Tarzan of the Apes was ashamed. Hereafter he would at least wait until he knew men deserved it before he thought of killing them.
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buffalo
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belongings
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杀死,宰杀,杀戮( slay的过去分词 ); (slay的过去分词) | |
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gorilla
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n.大猩猩,暴徒,打手 | |
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rivulet
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n.小溪,小河 | |
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