[The Yellow God by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookThe Yellow God CHAPTER IX 32/34
You just wear fetish, whistle once on land, and then go to sleep for whole week if you like.
I do rest, say it all magic, and so forth--that you been dead and just come out of grave, or anything you like.
No matter if you turn up as announced on bill and God bless hurricane that blow us here when we expect die.
Come, Major, quick, quick! mist melt and soon they see you." Then without waiting for an answer Jeekie clapped the wet mask on his master's head, tied the thongs and led Alan to the prow of the canoe, where he set him down on a little cross bench, stood behind supporting him and again began to sing in a great triumphant voice. The mist cleared away, rolling up like a curtain and revealing on the shore a number of men and women clad in white robes, who were martialled in ranks there, chanting and staring out at the dim waters of the lagoon.
Yonder upon the waters, driven forward by the gentle breeze, floated a canoe and lo! in the prow of that canoe sat a white man and on his head the god which they had lost a whole generation gone.
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