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In the Heart of Africa

CHAPTER XXIII
19/27

It was a sandy shore; the banks were high, and a clump of mimosas grew above high-water mark.

It was there that we dug his grave.

My men worked silently and sadly, for all loved Saat.

He had been so good and true, that even their hard hearts had learned to respect his honesty.

We laid him in his grave on the desert shore, beneath the grove of trees.
Again the sail was set, and, filled by the breeze, it carried us away from the dreary spot where we had sorrowfully left all that was good and faithful.


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