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The Castaways

CHAPTER SEVEN
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But as there was no danger of encountering these fierce creatures on the shores of Borneo, he told the children to stay under the tree until he and the others should return.
The young people were by this time rather tired of remaining in a recumbent position.

It was that to which they had been too long constrained while in the boat, and it felt irksome; moreover, the oyster, wonderfully restoring their strength, had brought back their wonted juvenile vigour, so that they felt inclined for moving about a bit.

For a time they indulged this inclination by walking to and fro around the trunk of the tree.
Soon, however, weariness once more came upon them, and they desired to have a seat.

Squatting upon the ground is an attitude only easy to savages, and always irksome to those accustomed to habits of civilised life, and to sitting upon chairs.

They looked about for something upon which they might sit but nothing appeared suitable.


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