Edgar Wallace

Name: Sanders of the River — CHAPTER THE LAST—DOGS OF WAR
Author: Edgar Wallace

Sanders of the River — CHAPTER THE LAST—DOGS OF WAR (1911)

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“Sanders of the River — CHAPTER THE LAST—DOGS OF WAR”, published in 1911, is a work by Edgar Wallace. It explores elements such as Sanders, Lulungo and Lataki.

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Edgar Wallace, Sanders of the River — CHAPTER THE LAST—DOGS OF WAR (1911)

“ There was no mistaking the character of the hundred canoes that came slowly up-stream four abreast, paddling with machine-like regularity. That line on the right were Akasava men; you could tell that by the blunt noses of the dug-outs. On the left were the Ochori; their canoes were streaked with red corn wood. In the centre, in lighter canoes of better make, he saw the white-barred faces of the Isisi people.
"In the name of heaven!" said Sanders, with raised eyebrows. ”

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Edgar Wallace, Sanders of the River — CHAPTER THE LAST—DOGS OF WAR (1911)

“ They were nearing the village now, and turning a sharp bend of the river they came in sight of it, and the little Zaire's siren yelled and squealed defiantly.
Sanders saw a crowd of men come down to the beach, saw the glitter of spears, and through his glasses the paint on the bodies of the men. Then six canoes came racing out to meet the steamer. ”

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Edgar Wallace, Sanders of the River — CHAPTER THE LAST—DOGS OF WAR (1911)

“ For one thing, all self-respecting people hate the Lulungo, a dour, wicked, mischievous people, without shame or salt. But the Isisi were pacified, and a messy war was averted. There were other and minor alarums—all these were in the days' work—but Sanders worried about the Lulungo, because of their general badness, and because of all his people, Isisi, Ikeli, Akasava, and Ochori, who hated the Lulungo folk with a deep-rooted hatred. ”

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Edgar Wallace, Sanders of the River — CHAPTER THE LAST—DOGS OF WAR (1911)

“ In his own heart, Sanders knew that war could only be postponed, and so advised London, receiving in reply, from an agitated Under-Secretary in Whitehall, the urgent request that the postponement should cover and extend beyond the conclusion of 'the present financial year—for heaven's sake!'
They had a proverb up in the Lulungo district—three days' march beyond the Akasava—and it is to this effect: "When a man hath a secret enemy and cannot find him, pull down his own hut and search among the débris." ”

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Edgar Wallace, Sanders of the River — CHAPTER THE LAST—DOGS OF WAR (1911)

“ Sanders called his police, and Lataki was thrown into the lock-up to sober down, which he did in twenty-four hours.
"I would have you understand," said Sanders to the culprit the next day, "that I cannot allow my servants to get drunk; more especially I cannot allow my drunken servants to sleep off their potations on my bed."
"Lord, I am ashamed," said Lataki cheerfully; "such things happen to a man who has seen much of the world." ”

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Edgar Wallace, Sanders of the River — CHAPTER THE LAST—DOGS OF WAR (1911)

“ Then the men would slip over the sides of the vessel and walk the sandy floor of the river, pushing the steamer into deep water. When sixty miles from the Baptist Mission, Sanders got news from a friendly native:
"Lord, the Lulungo came at early morning, taking away the missionary, his wife, and his daughter, to their city."
Sanders, yellow with fever, heavy-eyed from want of sleep, unshaven and grimy, wiped the perspiration from his head with the back of his hand.
"Take the steamer up the river," he said to Abiboo. "I must sleep." ”

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Edgar Wallace, Sanders of the River — CHAPTER THE LAST—DOGS OF WAR (1911)

“ Ground glass—glass powdered so fine that it is like precipitated chalk to the touch—is a bad poison, because when it comes in contact with delicate membranes right down inside a man, it lacerates them and he dies, as the bad men of the coast know, and have known for hundreds of years. ”

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Edgar Wallace, Sanders of the River — CHAPTER THE LAST—DOGS OF WAR (1911)

“ In the course of time Lataki came before a judge who sat in a big thatched barn of a courthouse, and Lataki brought three cousins, a brother, and a disinterested friend, to swear that Sanders had put the glass in his own "chop" with malice aforethought. In spite of the unanimity of the evidence—the witnesses had no less than four rehearsals in a little hut the night before the trial—the prisoner was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude. ”

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