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lashed the vine about a tree, while Brown tied the other end to the roots of a sturdy bush
Croft was the first one across, carrying Hearn's pack and carbine besides his ownSlowly, one by one, the men
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"Jesus," one of them would mutter from time to
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After a rest of ten minutes they began to march againThere were no more rapids for a time but the river was flowing down a chain of stone ledges, and every ten or fifteen yards they would have to climb a waist-high shelf, tread forward cautiously along a rock platform over which a few inches of water was flowing, and then scramble up to the next ledgeAlmost all of them wet their guns at one time or another, and
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The river became narrowerIn some places the banks were not more than five yards apart, and the jungle overhead grew so close to the water that it brushed against their facesThey continued on for a quarter of a mile, squatting under the foliage and bellying over the ledgesCrossing the rapids had drained them, and most of the men were too weary to lift their legsWhen they came to a new shelf of rock,
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They came to a junction where the stream divided
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