Sometimeshe read from the Bible, but mostly he stared back along the ship'swake. as Nazet becamemore agitated its timbre altered. As the bull turned hishead he revealed the notch behind his ear where the neck fused with thebone of his skull and the massive boss of his horns. The royal seals of red wax dangled from it.
Even the night birds and the bullfrogs of the swamp hadbeen silenced by that dreadful sound. The fightwould be decided before they could reach the two embattled ships andintervene. ited the battery himself and laid them to cover all the far sideof the square where the seamen from the Golden Bough stood in a rowfour deep. At last asthe dawn started to define the tops of the thorn trees against thepaling sky the lions seemed to have assuaged their appetites.
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