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Blood Diamond Chapter 17
Tregoning was mad, Daniel decided, as he walked away from that slumped heap of bone and withered flesh beneath the shade tree. Too many years of fever and hardship and loneliness among the heathen had broken his mind. But Daniel saw, in that sad, frail old shadow of a man, his own future, and he knew that something would have to be done.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 16
They were trying to kill him. Daniel was certain of that, but he puzzled it out over the next days, trying to make sense of it all. They were trying to kill him, but obviously they couldn’t do it openly, or it could have happened at any time, at any moment, a thousand times over.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 15
But for the next few days, stretching into long, hot weeks, Daniel had no opportunity to see Tregoning. And so the time passed and they trekked further and further into that enormous, signless wilderness. The trees and hillocks, the rivers and valleys and plains, seemed to meld together. Daniel knew they were moving essentially northwards, sometimes zigging and zagging east and west by the dictates of a non-existent compass.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 14
For a while after that it seemed there was nothing to cause Daniel any great concern. But by degrees he became aware that things were changing for him – attitudes were changing. Even as he became more warmly embraced into the circle of the Royals, as he ate with them and spent time in their presence, as he tried out on them odd snatches of words and phrases he was learning, so he became increasingly more uncomfortable in the company of the ordinary people.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 13
It was only days later, as the Royal camp up-staked again and set off on its strange perambulations northward, following some unseen path, some unstated direction, that Daniel had the opportunity to learn more about the green Bird.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 12
The Princess walked past the two guards without deigning to glance in their direction. They stood to greater attention and focused their eyes at a point an inch above her head - the custom of the Annuba lower castes in the presence of royalty.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 11
It took them the better part of an hour to make their way down the side of that cliff. The King swung himself around to another shower of vine and creeper and, using the foliage and the fissures in the rock wall that allowed wedge-spaces for hands and feet, they managed to ease themselves painfully to the safety of the floor.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 10
Later, when he thought about it at leisure and could piece together those hot, fractured moments, Daniel would come to the conclusion that the first creature, as it ran from the sound of the drum, had issued a trumpeting that was not merely one of anger and pain and confusion, but was also a call for help.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 9
The beast gave a deafening bellow and rose up on its hind legs as the first men drew near. One of the boys drew back his arm and flung his spear. It buried itself, deep enough to hide the metal spearhead, in the grey flank of the creature.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 8
Preparation took most of the night. In the company of the ten initiates – young men of nearly twenty – and following their example, Daniel bathed in cold water, rubbed himself dry with fragrant bark from a local tree, then massaged his skin and muscles with animal fat until his arms, legs and torso gleamed in the firelight.
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