![]() The sound he was waiting for would be nearer - a stealthy, half-heard rustle that would give him a few seconds' warning, no more. These sounds he knew they did not worry him. He heard the calls and whistles of a dozen different birds all around him a hoot somewhere that might be a baboon the trumpeting of elephants bathing in a river half a mile away and further off, the shrieks and howls of a troop of monkeys who were probably pelting some unlucky hyena with sticks and leaves from the safety of the trees. Madu sat in the tree above, quite still, listening. ‘MEEEEH! MEEEEEEH!’ The little kid's despairing, persistent bleat echoed in the forest, and the forest ignored it. This is a work of fiction, but all of the main events in it really happened. The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation, by Richard Hakluyt, Volume 7. Twitter: all the miseries and troublesome affaires of this sorowfull voyage should be perfectly and throughly written, there should neede a painefull man with his pen, and as great a time as he had that wrote the lives and deaths of the Martyrs. (Suffragettes and Ulster Rebellion in 1914) ![]() ![]() The right of Tim Vicary to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 ![]() This book is copyright under the Berne Convention First published as an ebook by White Owl Publications Ltd 2012 ![]()
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