d the deep bass of voices, as they took their way
homeward, half-hidden among the rocks and long grass.

So, too, did I take mine, reflecting on the completeness of this grand
savage epic--the Tale of the White Shield; also of that other I had
heard from the same narrator. What tales they were! What deeds, too,
which most of these quiet-looking, pleasant-featured, courtly-mannered
savages could tell of if they chose! dramas hardly credible as fitting
in with the latter quarter of this prosaic nineteenth century. And I
marvelled exceedingly--not for the first time--over the boundless
stupidity of certain Britons of the denser sort, who in official or
private capacity could move among such for a greater or lesser period of
time, and yet bring away no more of an impression than that of a lot of
"blacks" who wore precious little clothing and were not eager to learn
the arts of "civilisation."

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