Dolabella (read by Phil Schemph)
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444 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 25 Jul
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Recording by Phil Schemph
Jungle Night by William Beebe.
Part one.
Within gun reach in front of me, trudged my little Akawai Indian hunter.
He turned his head suddenly, his ears catching some sound which mine had missed.
And I saw that his profile was rather like that of Dante.
Instantly the thoughts spread and a simile deepened.
Were we two not alone?
And this unearthly hour and light was
Then I chuckled softly, but the silence that the chuckle shattered shrank away, and made it a loud course sound, so that I involuntarily drew in my breath.
But it was really amusing the thought of Dante setting out on a hunt for kinkajous and giant armadillos.
Jeremiah looked at me wonderingly, and we went on in silence,
And for the next mile, Dante vanished from my thoughts, and I mused upon the sturdy little red man.
Jeremiah was his civilized name, and
He would never tell me his real one.
It seemed so unsuited to him that I thought up one still less appropriate, and called him Noopy, which is the three toed sloth, and in his quiet way he saw the humour of it, for a more agile human being never lived.
Newp's face was unclouded, but his position as hunter to our expedition had brought decisions and responsibilities which he had not known before.
The simple life, the unruffled existence in the little open banab, with hammock, cassava field, and an occasional hunt, this was of the past, and
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