not venture thereafter to move a muscle.

In a few seconds Dick returned with a piece of

leather and tied his hands behind his back. While this

was being done the Indian glanced several times at his

bow, which lay a few feet away, where it had fallen

when the dog caught him; but Crusoe seemed to understand

him, for he favoured him with such an additional

display of teeth, and such a low--apparently distant,

almost, we might say, subterranean--

rumble