Carefully he pulled them out of the cleft and laidthem aside, until the opening was wide enough for him to crawlthrough. Once Katinka was settled on the leather seats, they boosted her husbandaboard. We are hiding nothing, Sir Francis said. It would take two strong men to carry one of those tusks, Aboli said, and in the markets of Zanzibar they would fetch thirty English poundsapiece.
He is wasting time in idle chatter. He drank fromher, his throat bobbing, then pushed her away and wiped his mouth withthe palm of his hand. But think on the return it will bring. It was followed by a score of others, from the otherboatswains.
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