Author : WILLIAM BEEBE
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis JUNGLE NIGHT ATLANTIC READINGS NUMBER 3 by : WILLIAM BEEBE
Download or read book JUNGLE NIGHT ATLANTIC READINGS NUMBER 3 written by WILLIAM BEEBE and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within gun-reach in front of me trudged my little Akawai Indian hunter. He turned his head suddenly, his ears catching some sound which mine had missed, and I saw that his profile was rather like that of Dante. Instantly the thought spread and the simile deepened. Were we two not all alone? and this unearthly hour and light—Then I chuckled softly, but the silence that the chuckle shattered shrank away and made it a loud, coarse sound, so that I involuntarily drew in my breath. But it was really amusing, the thought of Dante setting out on a hunt for kinkajous and giant armadillos. Jeremiah looked at me wonderingly, and we went on in silence. And for the next mile Dante vanished from my thoughts and I mused upon the sturdy little red man. Jeremiah was his civilized name; he would never tell me his real one. It seemed so unsuited to him that I thought up one still less appropriate and called him Nupee—which is the three-toed sloth; and in his quiet way he saw the humor of it, for a more agile human being never lived...