AFRICAN CAMP FIRES 



illimitable, contempt for danger, disregard of death, 

 the intention to live, a final, weary estimate of the 

 fact that mere things are as unimportant here as 

 there, no matter how quaintly or fantastically they 

 are dressed or named, and a corresponding emptiness 

 of anticipation for the future — these items are only 

 a random few of the price given by the ancient lands 

 for that which the northern races bring to them. 

 What other alchemical changes have been wrought 

 only these lean and weary men could know — if they 

 dared look so far within themselves. And even if 

 they dared, they would not tell. 



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