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At we were not in safety, for there were people here who were ready to
fight and kill, according to his words and pantomimic action, which
Jimmy took upon himself to explain. For days and days we journeyed on
finding abundance of food in the river and on its banks by means of gun
and hook and line. The blacks were clever, too, at finding for us roots
and fruit, with tender shoots of some kind of grassy plant that had a
sweet taste, pleasantly acid as well, bunches of which Jimmy loved to
stick behind him in his waistband so that it hung down like a bushy
green tail that diminished as he walked, for he kept drawing upon it
till it all was gone. Now and then, too, we came upon the great
pale-green broad leaves of a banana or plantain, which was a perfect
treasure. Jimmy was generally the first to find these, for he was
possessed of a fine insight into what was good for food. "Regular fellow
for the pot," Jack Penny said one day as Jimmy set up one of his loud
whoops and started off at a run. This was the first time we found a
plantain, and in answer to Jimmy's _cooey_ we followed and found him
hauling himself up by the large leaf-stalks, to where, thirty feet above
the bottom, hung, like a brobdignagian bunch of elongated grapes, a
monstrous cluster of yellow plantains. "I say, they ain't