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Prester John

CHAPTER I
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On the edge of the pools was an outcrop of red sandstone much fissured by the sea.

Here was an excellent vantage-ground, and all three of us curled behind it, with our eyes just over the edge.

The man was not twenty yards off, and I could see clearly what manner of fellow he was.

For one thing he was huge of size, or so he seemed to me in the half-light.

He wore nothing but a shirt and trousers, and I could hear by the flap of his feet on the sand that he was barefoot.
Suddenly Tam Dyke gave a gasp of astonishment.


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