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great, handsome beast, the largest he had ever seen.
During the long hours of darkness they caught but fitful
snatches of sleep, for the night noises of a great jungle teem-
ing with myriad animal life kept their overwrought nerves
on edge, so that a hundred times they were startled to wake-
fulness by piercing screams, or the stealthy moving of great
bodies beneath them.
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