[King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookKing Solomon’s Mines CHAPTER XIV 12/24
Accordingly, orders having been issued to the remaining ninety men of the Greys to employ themselves in collecting the wounded, we joined Ignosi, who informed us that he was pressing on to Loo to complete the victory by capturing Twala, if that should be possible.
Before we had gone far, suddenly we discovered the figure of Good sitting on an ant-heap about one hundred paces from us.
Close beside him was the body of a Kukuana. "He must be wounded," said Sir Henry anxiously.
As he made the remark, an untoward thing happened.
The dead body of the Kukuana soldier, or rather what had appeared to be his dead body, suddenly sprang up, knocked Good head over heels off the ant-heap, and began to spear him. We rushed forward in terror, and as we drew near we saw the brawny warrior making dig after dig at the prostrate Good, who at each prod jerked all his limbs into the air.
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