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| 18 | 186 | This shelter would protect them from View more quotes about arrows">arrows, should they come, from the forest, and, by means of the fires, should discourage the too-close approach of either panthers or sleen, which animals, in any case, seldom leave the forest, seldom prowl on the beach. |
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| 18 | 183 | In this fashion, sapling by sapling, a rude semicircular palisade, of some one hundred feet in length, swiftly took form. |
| 18 | 184 | It shielded them from the forest. |
| 18 | 185 | Across the open side, wood was gathered for animal fires, facing the beach. |
| 18 | 186 | This shelter would protect them from arrows, should they come, from the forest, and, by means of the fires, should discourage the too-close approach of either panthers or sleen, which animals, in any case, seldom leave the forest, seldom prowl on the beach. |
| 18 | 187 | It was growing dark. |
| 18 | 188 | It was doubtless for that reason that the palisade was not closed. |
| 18 | 189 | Leading from the open side of the palisade to the great beacon was a column of pairs of fires. |