IN DESERT AND WILDERNESS
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"Bwana kubwa! (Great master!) Kill the lion! Kill bad people, but do not kill Kali!"
Stas, however, paid no heed to his cries. For some time he stood as if dazed; after which, observing Nell's pallid face and half-conscious eyes, opened widely from terror, he ran towards her.
"Nell, do not fear!—Nell, we are free!"
In fact they actually were free, but astray in a wild, uninhabited region, in the heart of the land of the Blacks.
