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1  Where the pilgrims imagined it crawled to I don't know.
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2  The pilgrims could be seen in knots gesticulating, discussing.
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3  It must have made some of the pilgrims sit up in their hovels.
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4  Two pilgrims were quarreling in hurried whispers as to which bank.
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5  I became in an instant as much of a pretense as the rest of the bewitched pilgrims.
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6  The pilgrims used to turn out in a body and empty every rifle they could lay hands on at him.
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7  The pilgrims had opened with their Winchesters, and were simply squirting lead into that bush.
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8  The red-haired pilgrim was beside himself with the thought that at least this poor Kurtz had been properly revenged.
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9  When the manager, escorted by the pilgrims, all of them armed to the teeth, had gone to the house, this chap came on board.
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10  I put the helm hard a-starboard at the moment when the pilgrim in pink pyjamas, very hot and agitated, appeared in the doorway.
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11  They wandered here and there with their absurd long staves in their hands, like a lot of faithless pilgrims bewitched inside a rotten fence.
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12  The simple old sailor, with his talk of chains and purchases, made me forget the jungle and the pilgrims in a delicious sensation of having come upon something unmistakably real.
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13  I had been dimly aware for some time of a worrying noise, and when I lifted my eyes I saw the wood-pile was gone, and the manager, aided by all the pilgrims, was shouting at me from the river-side.
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14  It came in sections during the next three weeks, each section headed by a donkey carrying a white man in new clothes and tan shoes, bowing from that elevation right and left to the impressed pilgrims.
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15  All the pilgrims and the manager were then congregated on the awning-deck about the pilot-house, chattering at each other like a flock of excited magpies, and there was a scandalized murmur at my heartless promptitude.
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16  Certainly they had brought with them some rotten hippo-meat, which couldn't have lasted very long, anyway, even if the pilgrims hadn't, in the midst of a shocking hullabaloo, thrown a considerable quantity of it overboard.
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17  He had the power to charm or frighten rudimentary souls into an aggravated witch-dance in his honor; he could also fill the small souls of the pilgrims with bitter misgivings: he had one devoted friend at least, and he had conquered one soul in the world that was neither rudimentary nor tainted with self-seeking.
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