In Search of an Unknown Race — page 64: what you’re looking at

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56 VAN. creetly retreated to the opposite side, a sudden loud explosion, closely followed by another and another, sent embers and ashes flying in the air! And not only that. The simultaneous report also sent five shrieking Indians right and left—one with a bullet through his leg from an exploded cartridge— roused up half the village, and, best result of all, caused the young Mumuru before Van's prison door to drop his spear in a perfect frenzy of fright and bolt in the opposite direction like a deer! This was Van's opportunity! Throwing his weight against the inside of the door, the withe broke like packthread, and he was outside in a twinkling. Snatching the spear from the ground, Van made a break through the darkness, with no more definite idea than to lose himself in the thick growth behind the village. But half a dozen forms, which seemed to rise out of the earth, confronted him, while following the sharp twang of a bowstring came the whiz of an arrow with- | in an inch of his head. At the same moment a tall Indian, uttering a yell which would have done credit to an Apache, sprang forward to clutch the escaping: prisoner. Gomichbooksico