1 It did not shift or drive; it was just there, standing all round you like something solid.
2 Black rags were wound round their loins, and the short ends behind wagged to and fro like tails.
3 Suddenly round the corner of the house a group of men appeared, as though they had come up from the ground.
4 Her dress was as plain as an umbrella-cover, and she turned round without a word and preceded me into a waiting-room.
5 Deal table in the middle, plain chairs all round the walls, on one end a large shining map, marked with all the colors of a rainbow.
6 The side of his head hit the wheel twice, and the end of what appeared a long cane clattered round and knocked over a little camp-stool.
7 We had just floundered and flopped round a bend, when I saw an islet, a mere grassy hummock of bright green, in the middle of the stream.
8 When annoyed at meal-times by the constant quarrels of the white men about precedence, he ordered an immense round table to be made, for which a special house had to be built.
9 When I woke up shortly after midnight his warning came to my mind with its hint of danger that seemed, in the starred darkness, real enough to make me get up for the purpose of having a look round.
10 There was no inclosure or fence of any kind; but there had been one apparently, for near the house half-a-dozen slim posts remained in a row, roughly trimmed, and with their upper ends ornamented with round carved balls.
11 But suddenly, as we struggled round a bend, there would be a glimpse of rush walls, of peaked grass-roofs, a burst of yells, a whirl of black limbs, a mass of hands clapping, of feet stamping, of bodies swaying, of eyes rolling, under the droop of heavy and motionless foliage.