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6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Try-and-make-the-rock. Try-and-make-the-rock."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Try-and-make-the-rock. Try-and-make-the-rock."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well done, old fellow, said Frank as Harry opened his eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You had a narrow escape, though."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How did you gain the rock, Frank?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When I saw you swept off the tree trunk I slipped off too, replied Frank,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And a worse position we could not possibly be in,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Unless we were in there,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it do you suppose?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The mouth of a subterranean river I guess, replied Frank."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have read of such things."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But why didn't Desplaines warn us of our danger, said Harry bitterly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He did warn us,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He did?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should like to know when?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When we shoved off."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mean when he shouted something we couldn't catch and pointed down the river?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought he meant there was better fishing down, here, snapped Harry indignantly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; not to notice how we were drifting, rejoined Frank quietly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The point is how are we ever going to get out of it?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ugh, he scents a meal, he thinks we're dead already,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're dead already,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shan't try to wake that echo up again,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, here goes!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm tired of this, I'm going to swim for it,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit down, old fellow, he said kindly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, a steamboat will come sailing down the river and take us home in the captain's cabin I suppose,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bosses--oh, bosses."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ahoy there; castaways!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold on there and we'll get you out of that in two shakes of a duck's tail, cheerily hailed the old adventurer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We guessed you'd be here and we brought a rope as long as a man of war's cable with us. Lucky thing we did."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Frank, he ordered, giving the young aviator the end of the rope--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But Harry-- gasped Frank,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't leave him. Let him go first."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll bring him up. He can't look after himself in the shape he's in and you are too weak to attempt to help him. Now no talking back. I'm boss now. Up aloft with you. Haul away there!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He'll be all right in a few minutes,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How can I ever thank you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Um--white boys keep away Pool of Death, Sikaso much pleased,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His own son was drowned in it several years ago,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish mine would turn white or potato color or something, said Lathrop, to whom Harry confided his expectation,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Them's de mos' good fur nuffingest niggahs I ever did see,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "over his tin cases and poisonous looking bottles, announced that he was ready to start. The twelve chattering Kroomen who were to go as far as the Bambara country with the expedition were seated two in each canoe. They were along simply as camp attendants and packers and would by no means go any further than the borders of the Bambara country which they said was the dwelling-place of"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you came after all,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sikaso see in the smoke I come--I come. If I see in smoke I no come--I no come,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's traveling light anyhow,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sikaso is a good fellow to be friends with when he can make little ones out of big ones like that, remarked Billy, picking up the two fragments of his handkerchief,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why did you wish to go with us?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was written so in the smoke, white boss, replied the veteran simply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The ju-ju in the smoke strong ju-ju. He knows many things."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is that the only reason you have for coming?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, boss, I tell you truth, replied the old warrior,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the Moon Mountains maybe I find him--maybe not. But some day I shall and then--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shouldn't much like to be that man when Sikaso meets him."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tom-tom,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it a friendly village, Sikaso?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Friendly to some--not to all, replied the Krooman, who for some unaccountable reason had taken a strange dislike to the professor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, he said, intoning to Frank and Harry,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, can't we come along, Frank?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Little fat white boy, with round, glass four-eyes talk too much."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, laughed Frank,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think I can promise for him that he won't do any talking that will cause any harm this evening."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Talk too much, indeed, grumbled Billy highly offended,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "saw them and instantly picked up his instrument and waddled off with as much dignity as his age and a much distended stomach would allow him. The younger men, however, advanced boldly toward the party. Some of them carried, spears, others held Birmingham matchlocks of the kind the British and French Governments have in vain tried to keep out of the hands of the West African natives. These guns are smuggled in by hundreds, by Arab traders who exchange the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Seesanah (peace),"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seesanah,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he seems to have fallen in with several members of his club,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going to get a picture of some of these niggers when they get through,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What; you brought a camera?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure thing, replied Billy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think Frank would stand for it? It might make trouble you know,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pshaw, retorted the cocksure Billy,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What can be the matter?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This will be a jim-dandy,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, that's no way to treat my camera!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shut up; if you don't want to make more trouble."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Village fools. You see there is no magic in the little black box. It is nothing but a child's plaything for the fat, spectacled idiot. (This part of the oration Frank did not communicate to Billy.)"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see I have smashed it. Do I fear? Do I look now like a man in terror of the white man's medicine. It is nothing. It is broken and gone like the cloud before the wind, like the shadow on the mountain side."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sorry, he said bravely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They nearly did it--didn't they,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If he doesn't move on soon I shall be compelled to ask him to go, said Frank in an annoyed tone to Harry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't want to be inhospitable, but we can't afford to have strangers hanging round the camp, there is too much at stake."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There it is, Harry, and we are not so far from it now. In a few days we shall know whether we are on a wild-goose chase or not."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, no doubt has ever entered your head that the ivory is there?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, old fellow, you know there are others interested in this ivory beside ourselves--Muley-Hassan for instance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You think he had got ahead of us?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did not say I thought so, I only say that it is possible that he may have done so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How could he have got wind of our coming?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In Africa there is a sort of underground wire for news, replied Frank."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have no doubt that hundreds of natives far in the interior are by this time apprised of our coming."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's bad,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, it couldn't be helped: but we may have other enemies nearer at hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That I don't like the looks of that Portuguese fellow. If he got wind of what we are doing he would be likely to ruin the whole object of our expedition."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's so. We'll have to get rid of him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, we are going to, and if he won't go for gentle means we'll try rough ones."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hullo, what's that?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, senors,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, senors, good afternoon, grinned the unwelcome visitor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have come to say 'adios.' I am going up the river to-night and may not see you again for a long time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sorry to have you leave,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I knew you would be, smiled the Portuguese,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you make of that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know what to think. I have an idea that he was listening to every word of our conversation just now and that he saw the map before I had time to sweep it off the table."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's tough luck, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If he overheard even a part of our talk he must realize the object of our presence in Africa. And, he went on,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know a man on the Dark Continent whom I would trust less than Diego de Barros, even the little we've seen of him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It can't be helped now, said Frank briefly;"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's in one of the canoes. I'll go and get it,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep still, senor, and you shall not be hurt;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I just have to trouble you for that map I saw you put in your pocket, that is all,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is lucky for me that you came down to the river bank, grinned the Portuguese as he ran his hand over Frank's clothes, to ascertain the hiding-place of the precious map of the ivory cache,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That ivory belongs to my master--Muley-Hassan--now, he sneered;"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh for one of the white men's fire-tubes! he sighed, and even as he spoke a sharp reminder of the efficiency of these same"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quick, Sikaso; the canoes--we must pursue him. Call the boys and Ben while I cast off the canoes. Quick, we have not a minute to lose."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've always got the Golden Eagle, he comforted,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I vote for going ahead,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the stuff, cried the young leader,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How about you, red-top?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course I'm on,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hate to dash your enthusiasm, said Frank,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you say to that plan, Sikaso?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That it is good, my white brother. Sikaso will stay with the four-eyed one and the ruddy-haired one and we will see that no harm comes to the camp of the young white warriors."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is well, replied Frank, who was falling into a trick of addressing the stately Krooman in the same grandiloquent fashion as the latter was in the habit of using,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I place my trust in you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hum, snorted Billy,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anything more like a pack of monkeys on a picnic I never saw,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All ready, Harry?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, ay! came the response in a hearty tone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then let her go."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look, look, Frank!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going to give that big bully a shot,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait, I'll drop a bit,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now let him have it,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We ought to have them there figure-heads, commented Ben Stubbs."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you say if we drop down and get them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We cannot be more than a hundred miles now from the foot of the range, he said,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This must be one of the elephant playgrounds I have read about,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No doubt it is, replied Frank."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But look at those tusks, why there's ivory enough there alone to give us all a nice wad of pocket money."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now we are all ready for a fresh start,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get those fellows off or I can't get the ship up,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get 'em off,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those fellows certainly gave us a sample of what we may expect,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was quite as narrow an escape as I care to experience, agreed Frank."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How about you, Ben?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wall, said the old adventurer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know as how I think that kind of excitement is as beneficial fer the health as the rest cure."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, exclaimed Harry, as he scrutinized the strange mountain mass through the glasses,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should say that if those Winged Men are to be found anywhere, here is where they'd reside."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should think they'd use their wings to get out--a nastier looking lot of mountains I never saw,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Upturned Face."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, if we've got to go looking for ivory right under that face the sooner we find it the better, exclaimed Ben."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd hate to be shipmates with the fellow who sat for that portrait."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No human being ever sat for it, Ben, laughed Frank;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, if I had a mug like that I'd turn it down instead of up before some one did it for me,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, thank goodness, we've got something green and pleasant to look at,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall need the rope-ladder,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The rope-ladder? inquired Harry,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean the rope-ladder we use in the Golden Eagle. As you know, the only way to locate the cache is to strike a direct line down from the nose of the upturned face. That will bring us to the small cairn or pile of rocks that marks the Arab's hiding-place."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He could hardly have chosen a better, remarked Harry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who would ever guess, unless they had the key to the mystery, that these mountains held such a fortune in tusks."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All well--good luck,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fine weather for sleeping."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A line from the nose straight down to the cairn of stones."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A-hooo-A-AH-HOOO-00-a-ho-ho-ho-o-!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A-ho-ho-h-o-o-o-A-h-hoo-ho-AH-HO-HO-O-O-O-AH-ho-h-o-o-o-o-o-o!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, who? roared Ben angrily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shiver my topsails!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My topsails!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hum, remarked Ben,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think I'll talk so loud around here. There seem to be a lot of folks listening. Such a dreary hole as this I never--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never, sighed the echoes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, I can't stand this, cried Harry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going to send a bullet up there the next time that fellow starts 'Ah-hooing."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the matter?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pshaw! the sleepless night I passed has made me nervous."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Talk about New Mexico or Death Valley, exclaimed Harry,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I feel like a piece of butter rolled up in a paper and I've melted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I feel like a Welsh rarebit myself, laughed Frank,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I feel like a pot of boiling tar with a fire lighted under me, growled the veteran angrily;"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A-ho-o-o-o-AH-H-O-O-O-a-h-o-o-hoo-o-o-o-o!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Great Scott, yelled Harry,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've got it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Got what? cried Harry, as if he feared his brother had suddenly become infected with some strange complaint--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The noise--I mean I know where it comes from,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From somewhere about the Upturned Face, cried Frank triumphantly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hark!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, here's where we end this mystery for all time, shouted Frank, drawing his revolver,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You fellows give me a boost up there and I'll travel right along the face till I find out where the racket comes from."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look out he doesn't think you are a fly and try to brush you off,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No danger of that, shouted back Frank,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, Harry, and you too, Ben, examine the surface below there very carefully for any holes. They will probably be small ones and in a row."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "None this side,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Try the other,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then we have solved the mystery of the voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That it is nothing more or less than an arrangement of holes through which, when the wind blows in a stiff puff, air is forced with violence enough to cause the cry that disturbed us so much last night,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No wonder the niggers down below don't come near the Moon Mountains, said Harry, as they all buckled over the simple explanation of the phenomenon that had caused them so much alarm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wouldn't care to, myself, unless I knew just what made that cry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It certainly was as depressing as anything I ever heard, said Frank,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good Lord, look at that, boys!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are they those of white men?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, they are those of negroes I believe, he replied after a careful examination,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Awake, Four-eyes, there is danger."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean, Sikaso, demanded the half asleep reporter,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; to us, and here and soon, was the disquieting response,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do not light the lamp, my white brother, he whispered in the same tense tones,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but-- exclaimed Billy in a bewildered tone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have seen it in the smoke, was the somber reply;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "fetish"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Diego!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Diego; cursed be the day that my war-axe did not cleave his ugly skull; but beside Diego there is another. Hearken to the words of Sikaso, the elephant in his rage is not more merciless, the serpent not more cunning, the crocodile not more savage in onslaught than this other. He is Muley-Hassan, the Arab, and the deeds he has done, my brother, when recounted turn strong men's blood to water."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But perhaps the smoke was mistaken,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The smoke is never mistaken,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Had we not better arm the other Kroomen?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It would be useless, was Sikaso's reply,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must rouse Professor Wiseman at once,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is well, muttered Sikaso,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he'll have to fight, said Billy with bloodthirsty determination."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I for one am not going to stand calmly by and have my throat cut, or worse still be taken prisoner by this old Muley-Hassan."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well spoken, Four-eyes, said he;"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will dress myself with all alacrity, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will this Muley-Hassan be well armed?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Plenty rifles,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you want a rifle or at least a heavy caliber shotgun?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At dawn I went out with my axe into the red fight; Like the grass before the fire, like the clouds before the wind, I drove them. I, Sikaso, I drove them. There were rivers that day; but the rivers were red. They were the rivers of the blood of my enemies; With my war-axe I killed them. This is the song of mighty Sikaso, and his terrible axe of death."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hark, my white brothers! he cried,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are six war canoes full of them, announced, Sikaso, with almost a groan, after he had given close attention to the sounds."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alas, my white brothers, there is little use of our giving battle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I for one am not going to give up without dropping a few of the cowardly wretches,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nor I,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we only had had time to throw up a stockade, my brothers, we might have driven them off yet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, we'll give as good an account of ourselves as possible,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The time is not yet ripe, my brother. To fire now would be unnecessarily to give the alarm. Wait until they are massed thick and then fire into the bodies of the Arab dogs."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now it's coming, old man."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where was Professor Wiseman?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thanks, old man,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So these are the young Americans?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir, spoke up Diego,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What! they have gone?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And by this time they are rifling the ivory cache. That fool Wiseman shall pay dearly for this. Bring him to me,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were attached to this boys' camp to prevent by all means their sailing till I attacked the camp and made them prisoners, were you not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are a coward as well as a fool, went on the slave-dealer, a cruel sneer breaking over his face;"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take him away,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What had become of the old warrior."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And, mind you, youngster--no tricks, he said savagely,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have been attacked. Get help and follow us."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thought I was bluffing did you, eh? sneered the Portuguese,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are going to the Moon Mountains, whispered Billy to Lathrop,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, there's no use wasting time in speculation, said Frank at last,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right you are, Captain, assented Ben,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jump back for your life!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall have to be careful, said Frank, as he kicked aside the still writhing body of the disgusting looking reptile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is just a chance that Muley-Hassan, with the cunning of an Arab, may have put several more of those customers in here to guard his ivory."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are we ever going to get the tusks down the hill to the Golden Eagle II?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a better plan than that, replied Frank,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why not? It will be a ticklish job to land her on this spot, but I think I can do it. I mean to try anyhow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are risking breaking up the ship,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the other hand, if we don't get this ivory out of here in jig time Muley-Hassan will be here with a big force and we shall assuredly all have our throats cut."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good Lord, gasped Frank,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're cannibals!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No--no, exclaimed Frank hastily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That they are gorillas!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't let 'em get near the engines,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and missed him by a hair's-breadth when he felt two great hairy arms encircle him from behind and the hot breath of one of his horrible opponents whistling savagely in his ear. He tried to lunge backwards at the creature, but toppled over and fell sprawling. In a flash the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "gorilla was on him when Ben's revolver cracked and the"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah-o-o-o-o-AH-O-O-O-O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is awful work. I'd rather fight a dozen bands of cannibals than have to do this."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And yet, replied Frank,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now we are stuck,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hold on, exclaimed Frank with a smile,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I anticipated this. We are going to turn the Golden Eagle into a tow-boat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A tow-boat?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's what I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now then, said Frank,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Harry,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With these cylinders, was the answer as Frank opened the store-room below the floor of the Golden Eagle and pointed to a dozen cylindrical steel receptacles."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They contain more than enough pure hydrogen gas at a high pressure, he explained,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An aerial express, hurray!"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall have to strip the Eagle,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of everything that we can spare,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold on a second, Harry, he shouted,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll call up the river camp before we cut off all communication."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They--they don't answer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Frank, do you think anything serious is the matter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It may only be that the apparatus is out of order, replied the elder brother seriously;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, there is only one thing to be done,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And that is--?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To get back there as soon as possible, for if they need us they need us dern bad,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's the man we saw this afternoon,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I expect to get a good price for them eventually, he said,"
}
]
|
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