Lord of Darkness by Silverberg Robert

Author:Silverberg, Robert [Silverberg, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Historical adventure set in the Elizaberhan age, historical fiction, Africa, Robert Silverberg, cannabal, Nonstop Press
Publisher: NonStop Press
Published: 2013-01-30T23:00:00+00:00

Through the moist and fevered glades of that close-walled jungle we went one by one until we were at the little quay beside the river. There I found that Cristovão and another Gypsy had overcome the sentinel of the canoes. Simao, one of the Portugals, did take from his sleeve a blade, and make ready to thrust it into the man’s belly, but quickly was he stopped by Cristovão, who seized his wrist most forcibly.

“Nay,” he whispered, “be not a fool! If we slay him, and then we are retaken, what will become of us?”

I had my doubts of that, thinking it mattered little, for if we were retaken it would go hard with us whether we had this sentinel’s blood upon our souls or no. Yet never have I favored slaying the innocent, and this man had done me no wrong. So I gave my agreement, and instead of killing him we did tie him with ropes of living vine pulled down from the trees, and stuffed into his mouth a thick wad of herbage to silence him.

Then we selected the best of the canoes, that was long and trim and stood like a proud lordling above the water. Aboard it we stowed our muskets and powder and shot and a little supply of the golden wheat called masa mamputo, which is Guinea wheat or more accurately American maize, that was the only food we were able to obtain as we departed.

“Go, Piloto,” said Cristovão. “Get you to the bow, and guide us, and I will stand in the stern.”

We twelve escapers then did clamber into the canoe, I taking my place fore, and each of us wielding an oar as we pushed ourselves free and set off down the black and swiftly coursing river in the dead of the night.

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