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* Above, Trader Horn and Peru arrive at the Capital of the Isorga country, with their boats laden with merchandise. Below, Horn tells the unresponsive natives of his wares and his desire to trade with them.
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The Capture
• NO SOONER had their shrieks
subsided than the three men .were entirely surrounded by hundreds of stalwart black spearmen. Quickly they were bound and carried, all three, to the temple. Here they were laid out on a long altar. , The three men lay on their oacks, silent for a few minutes. Then a crude door at the end of the temple swung open and the beautiful white girl came in with a little loin cloth of monkey skin about her middle. She spoke in i Isorga quite as fluently as any native.
“Unbind these men and let me touch them and examine them to see if their white skins are like those of other men.”
The spearmen unbound the two ■white men and brought them forward to where the priestess sat on a huge throne made from the tusks of elephants.
Then she came down from her throne and began to feel the
clothing and skin of the two white men and to pass her hands through \ their hair, startled to find that it ■was like her own in texture.
Peru tried to speak to her in English, but she did not understand and looked at him in amazement. Then Peru, intent upon
making some sort of an impression
upon this gorgeous creature,
pointed to himself and then to Horn, saying, “Peru-Horn.”
Then he drew a watch from his pocket and held it up to her ear.
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