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Then the ape-man rose, and, calling his pack about him, commanded that

Mugambi remain with Kaviri, and disappeared in the jungle with Sheeta and the

apes at his heels.

For half an hour the silence of the grim forest was broken only by the ordinary

sounds of the teeming life that but adds to its lowering loneliness. Kaviri and

Mugambi sat alone in the palisaded village, waiting.

Presently from a great distance came a hideous sound. Mugambi recognized the

weird challenge of the ape-man. Immediately from different points of the

compass rose a horrid semicircle of similar shrieks and screams, punctuated now

and again by the blood-curdling cry of a hungry panther.

The Beasts of Tarzan