attitude of despair.

   'What's the matter, old boy?' asked Leonora, and the reply came in faltering accents—

   '

    The Ama Barghîs!

   '

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    Ama

   is the prefix of all the tribal names; Ama Zulu, Ama Hagger. I connect it with the Greek preposition αμα.—

    Ed.

   Don't keep hammer hammering away at Greek! This is a boy's book, not a holiday task, this is!—

    Publisher.

   We glanced in terror down the river's edge.

   There, on the path trodden by so many millions of feet that now are silent,

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   there were the burly forms of five or six splendid savages.

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    Please

   don't begin moralising again. One never knows when it will come upon you.—

    Publisher.

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