Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Bertram Mitford

Editorial

Createspace

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

174

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x1 cm

Peso

0.26 kg.

ISBN13

9781481094481

Categorías

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The White Shield (en Inglés)

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Excerpt: ...of the voice sounded plainer now; then we heard a low musical tinkling, as of the ringing of a bell. Whau! Here was a strange thing. What could such sounds mean, here among the rocks and caves? The voice, too, was murmuring in a strange language; soft, though not so soft as ours, yet immeasurably softer than the croaking tongues of those inferior peoples which we had destroyed or enslaved. Stealthily we drew nearer, and, peering out through the trees, this is what we saw. A great slab of rock out-hung from the cliff, forming a shallow cave. In the mouth of this a man was standing, his back towards us. He was clothed in a great cloak, red in colour, and bearing a broad crossed bar down its entire length, while showing below it was a long white garment which seemed to cover him from neck to foot. His movements called to our mind those of our own izanusi when sacrificing cattle to the ghosts of our fathers on solemn occasions; yet not. But this could be no isanusi, for he was a white man! Still he must be an isanusi of some sort, for he was undoubtedly engaged in offering sacrifice. In front of him and further in the cave was a great block of stone or a ledge in the rock formation