She was drifting some fifty feet above the ground, followed by all but some hundred of the warriors who had been ordered back to the roofs to cover the possibility of a return of the fleet, or of reinforcements.
As the craft neared the building, and just before she struck, the Martian warriors swarmed upon her from the windows, and with their great spears eased the shock of the collision, and in a few moments they had thrown out grappling hooks and the big boat was being hauled to ground by their fellows below.
The evening was spent in feasting and rejoicing among the relations of the successful warriors; but the sounds of grief and wailing were heard from the hills adjacent to the village -the lamentations of women who had lost some relative in the foray.
Some of the warriors ran for the horses to gather and drive them in from the prairie, some for their weapons.
For a short distance he pursued his way in the wake of the black
warriors, coming down presently to bury the meat of his kill where it would be safe from the depredations of Dango, the hyena, or the other meat-eating beasts and birds of the jungle.
Upon the opposite side of the room was a circular opening guarded by two
warriors. Beyond this opening he could see two figures struggling upon the floor, and the fleeting glimpse he had of one of the faces suddenly endowed him with the strength of ten
warriors and the ferocity of a wounded banth.
At that part of the circle closest to the Waziri, a constant fusillade of shots was poured into the bushes behind which the black
warriors had concealed themselves.
Kaviri was so busily engaged with the demons that had entered his own craft that he could offer no assistance to his
warriors in the other.
The cry of the children had drawn a dozen
warriors to the door of the nearest lodge, where they stood clustered in a dark and savage group, gravely awaiting the nearer approach of those who had unexpectedly come among them.
Swift as I was I was none too soon, for the green
warrior had been overtaken ere he had made half the distance to the forest, and now he stood with his back to a boulder, while the herd, temporarily balked, hissed and screeched about him.
Almost immediately after sunrise the green
warriors commenced firing upon the little figures upon the wall.
When this equivocal species of amity was established between the
warrior of the prairies and the experienced old trapper, the latter proceeded to give his directions to Paul, concerning the arrangements of the contemplated halt.
As the
warriors danced in the firelight, Tarzan was again impressed by the symmetry of their figures and the regularity of their features--the flat noses and thick lips of the typical West Coast savage were entirely missing.
"The time passed on, the ship was on the waves, the boat beneath a mountain, the ready
warriors stept upon the prow.
Dorothy had pressed back to one side of the cavern when the
warriors entered, and now she stood holding little Prince Evring's hand while the great Lion crouched upon one side and the enormous Tiger crouched on the other side.