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, who laughed with the wrong side of his mouth (having no other), is tomahawked by , who eventually cuts a way through the shambles with and a remnant of the tribe.

''This onslaught passes and is gone like a fierce wind. The victors wipe their cutlasses, and squint, ferret-eyed, at their leader. He remains, as ever, aloof in spirit and in substance. He signs to them to descend the trees, for he is convinced that is down there, and though he has smoked the bees it is the honey he wants. There is something in that at all times goads this extraordinary man to frenzy; it is the boy’s cockiness, which disturbs  like an insect. If you have seen a lion in a cage futilely pursuing a sparrow you will know what is meant. The pirates try to do their captain’s bidding, but the apertures prove to be not wide enough for them; he cannot even ram them down with a pole. He steals to the mouth of a tree and listens.'')

(prematurely). All is over!