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"Beyond this -- " Menlik worked his way to the very lip of a drop, raising a finger cautiously -- "beyond this we do not go. "
"But you say that the camp of your people lies well out in the plains -- " Jil-Lee was up on one knee, using the field glasses they had brought from the stores of the wrecked ship. He passed them along to Travis. There was nothing to be sighted but the rippling amber waves of the tall grasses, save for an occasional break of a copse of trees near the foothills.