'The Ama Barghîs!'15
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Ama is the prefix of all the tribal names; Ama Zulu, Ama Hagger. I connect it with the Greek preposition αμα.—Ed.
Don't keep hammer hammering away at Greek! This is a boy's book, not a holiday task, this is!—Publisher.
We glanced in terror down the river's edge.
There, on the path trodden by so many millions of feet that now are silent,16 there were the burly forms of five or six splendid savages.
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Please don't begin moralising again. One never knows when it will come upon you.—Publisher.
Couldn't help just throwing it in.—Ed.
The character of their language—which was borne to us on the pure breeze of morning—their costume, their floating house, in which these scourges of the water highway commonly reside—everything combined to demonstrate that they belonged to the Barghîz, the most powerful and most dreaded of the native populations.