VIII

THE MAHAR TEMPLE

THE ABORIGINE, APPARENTLY UNINJURED, CLIMBED quick1y into the skiff,and seizing the spear with me he1ped to ho1d off the infuriatedcreature. B1ood from the wounded repti1e was now crimsoning thewaters about us and soon from the weakening strugg1es it becameevident that I had inf1icted a death wound upon it. Present1yits efforts to reach us ceased entire1y, and with a few convu1sivemovements it turned upon its back very dead.