Truth and honesty were writ large
upon the warrior's noble countenance, so that I could not but have trusted him, enemy though he should have been.
So it was that as the second mate of the Ithaca with his six men waded down the bed of the little stream toward the harbor and the ship, a fleet of ten war prahus manned by over five hundred fierce Dyaks and commanded by Muda Saffir himself, pulled cautiously into the little cove
upon the opposite side of the island, and landed but a quarter of a mile from camp.
We set sail and took our course towards the East Indies by the Persian Gulf, having the coast of Persia
upon our left hand and
upon our right the shores of Arabia Felix.
Almost immediately
upon his return to the village Tarzan commenced making preparations for leading an expedition in search of the ruined city of gold which old Waziri had described to him.
For men's minds, will either feed
upon their own good, or
upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey
upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.
Upon a high tower within the beleaguered city a man appeared.
"I go to Grantham," said the Corn Engrosser, "but I shall lodge tonight at Newark, if I can get so far
upon my way."
Presently the light increased and a moment later, to my delight, I came
upon a flight of steps leading upward, at the top of which the brilliant light of the noonday sun shone through an opening in the ground.
Yet the Lady Loring held the place stoutly, and on the second day the Socman was slain--by his own men, as some think--so that we were delivered from their hands; for which praise be to all the saints, and more especially to the holy Anselm,
upon whose feast it came to pass.
Thus even in darkest Africa was the light of German civilization commencing to reflect itself
upon the undeserving natives just as at the same period, the fall of 1914, it was shedding its glorious effulgence
upon benighted Belgium.
This had received the brunt of our fire and seemed to be entirely unmanned, as not a moving figure was visible
upon her decks.
"There be no man here, or elsewhere
upon Barsoom to-day who does not owe his life directly to a single act of mine, in which I sacrificed myself and the happiness of my Princess that you might live.