A knob stick aimed at him by an ebon Hercules he caught and wrested
from his antagonist, and then the blacks experienced to the full the
possibilities for punishment that lay within those smooth flowing
muscles beneath the velvet brown skin of the strange, white giant.
He rushed among them with all the force and ferocity of a bull
elephant gone mad. Hither and thither he charged striking down the
few who had the temerity to stand against him, and it was evident
that unless a chance spear thrust brought him down he would rout
the entire village and regain his prize. But old Kovudoo was not
to be so easily robbed of the ransom which the girl represented,
and seeing that their attack which had up to now resulted in a
series of individual combats with the white warrior, he called his
tribesmen off, and forming them in a compact body about the girl
and the two who watched over her bid them do nothing more than
repel the assaults of the ape-man.
Again and again Korak rushed against this human barricade bristling
with spear points. Again and again he was repulsed, often with
severe wounds to caution him to greater wariness.
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