Meanwhile, Big Daniel had set up a wooden target on the opposite bank. A few sections of planking had to be replaced and the work beganimmediately. There's more badnews besides. Better one man dead thanall of us.
Big Daniel shouted up to the deck from where he stood waist deep in thelagoon, Now woe betide those cheese heads Ten days from today, we'llsail her out through the heads, you mark my words. Peace wassigned over two months ago. Believe me, Mevrouw, he will be paid out in full when wereach Good Hope. Schreuder braced himself and then, with a round-arm swing, hurled theupper half of Ahmed's dripping, dismembered corpse ahead of him intothe path of the crocodile's flailing charge.
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