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Charles Markley carried his radio set to darkest Africa, where / the natives took it for a god. A native girl learned different, / and just as Markley's life was in extreme danger something / happened that changed the outlook on things.
Water slogged heavily against the hull of the Niger packet _Lagarto_. / Close at hand the jungle, waving ghostly arms in the moonlight, seemed / to be giving a horrid imitation of great beasts floundering and / slobbering at the edge of the river. On the deck of the _Lagarto_ / lounged Captain Angus Todd, who in spite of his name, was ending his far / journeying and hard-driving life as the master of a clumsy freight boat. / He was tall, and lean, with that Scotch type of leanness which can best / be understood by pronouncing the name "Sandy" with the "a" broad. He / smoked a foul pipe and occasionally spat into the greasy water below.