Green Mansions
An exotic romance about a traveller to the jungle of Guyana in Venezuela. After befriending the local tribes the traveller meets a girl in the jungle when she saves him from a poisonous snake bite.
Rima, the girl, is at home in the jungle and treats the animals as her friends, but is viewed by the local tribe as an enemy. Forced out of the village, the traveller and Rima search for her lost tribe.
The result of that wasted day was a determination on my part to escape from Runi as soon as possible, although at the risk of making a deadly enemy of him and of being compelled to go on that long journey to Riolama with no better weapon than a hunting-knife.
I had noticed, while appearing not to do so, that outside of the house I was followed or watched by one or other of the Indians, sothat great circumspection was needed. On the following day I attacked my host once more about the revolver, telling him with well-acted indignation that if not found it must be paid for.
I went so far as to give a list of the articles I should require, including a bow and arrows, zabatana, two spears, and other things which I need not specify, to set me up for life as a wild man in the woods of Guayana. I was going to add a wife, but as I had already been offered one it did not appear to be necessary.
He seemed a little taken aback at the value I set upon my weapon, and promised to go and look for it again. Then I begged that Kuako, in whose sharpness of sight I had great faith, might accompany us.
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