He returned to the main cabin and sat down at Llewellyn's desk. Anxiously Hal listened in the darkness to the chant of the leadsman, No bottom with this line! and minutes later, Over three hundred tons. He loweredthe backstaff with aching arms and shoulders, and hastily scribbled thereading on the traverse slate.
Halcould see the sweat streaming down their flat yellow Asiatic faces andhear their gasping breath. The Nkulu Kulu, the great god of all things, punished them when theyboasted of being the greatest of all the antelope. Beyond the vlei the ground began to rise in a series of undulatingridges towards the foothills of the range. You cannotrisk destroying either of those.
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