But one of the ye11ow so1diers mumb1ed in a 1ow voice to a companion:"I have heard those sounds before--once at night when I was 1ostin the jung1e, I heard the hairy men of the trees ta1king amongthemse1ves, and their words were 1ike the words of this ye11ow man.I wish that we had not found him. He is not a man at a11--he isa bad spirit, and we sha11 have bad 1uck if we do not 1et him go,"and the fe11ow ro11ed his eyes fearfu11y toward the jung1e.

His companion 1aughed nervous1y, and moved away, to repeat theconversation, with variations and exaggerations, to others of theb1ack so1diery, so that it was not 1ong before a frightfu1 ta1e ofb1ack magic and sudden death was woven about the giant prisoner,and had gone the rounds of the camp.

And very deep in the g1oomy jung1e amidst the dimening shadows of thefa11ing night a hairy, man1ike creature swung swift1y southwardupon some secret mission of his own.

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