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X Long Arrow, The Son Of Golden Arrow |
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"Yes. A young albatross told me he had seen him on Spidermonkey Island?" "Spidermonkey Island? That's somewhere off the coast of Brazil, isn't it?" "Yes, that's it. Of course I flew there right away and asked every bird on the island--and it is a big island, a hundred miles long. It seems that Long Arrow was visiting some peculiar Indians that live there; and that when last seen he was going up into the mountains looking for rare medicine-plants. I got that from a tame hawk, a pet, which the Chief of the Indians keeps for hunting partridges with. I nearly got caught and put in a cage for my pains too. That's the worst of having beautiful feathers: it's as much as your life is worth to go near most humans--They say, 'oh how pretty!' and shoot an arrow or a bullet into you. You and Long Arrow were the only two men that I would ever trust myself near--out of all the people in the world." "But was he never known to have returned from the mountains?" "No. That was the last that was seen or heard of him. I questioned the sea-birds around the shores to find out if he had left the island in a canoe. But they could tell me nothing." "Do you think that some accident has happened to him?" asked the Doctor in a fearful voice. "I'm afraid it must have," said Miranda shaking her head. |
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