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Show - 177 the darkness. The deadly fire sticks of the ^akeha. He had heard of these fearful things called guns, but he had never seen them. Here and there he saw a fellow x^arrior fall with a cry of nain. Directly ahead he saw the image of the Pakeha nointing a terrible fire stick at Turi. "Look out, my father!" he screamed. His cry was drowned out by the BOOM as the death-dealing fire flashed. Turi fell backward as though pushed by a powerful invisible hand. Poa stood, stunned, unable to move. Then with a war cry like the vicious snarl of a wild beast, he rushed at the Pakeha, x^rho was trying desperately to reload his weapon. The pakeha x«.ras bringing his gun to his shoulder to fire when Roa brought his natu crashing into the man's skull. "Aaaiiieeee," his terrifying war cry filled the dawn air. Roa stood frozen to the snot, staring numbly at the man he had just killed. Then he remembered his fatVier, and ran to where he had fallen. The Pakeha began to retreat back into the forest from whence he came, and there was now only an occasional far off Boom echoing through the |
