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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: first makes mad], quoted I to myself beneath my breath. This was one of
the Latin tags that my old father, who was a scholar, had taught me, and
at that moment it came back to my mind. But as I suspected that John
Dunn knew no Latin, I only said aloud:
"What an infernal fool!" (We were talking in English.) "Can't you get
Umbelazi to do it now?" (I meant, to send the women and children across
the river.)
"I fear it is too late, Mr. Quatermain," he answered. "The Usutu are in
sight. Look for yourself." And he handed me a telescope which he had
with him.
I climbed on to some rocks and scanned the plain in front of us, from
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