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I hope the jaguar guns have come from Purdey's. It will be light enough in Rio, promised Whitney. You've good eyes, said Whitney, with a laugh, and I've seen you pick off a moose moving in the brown fall bush at four hundred yards, but even you can't see four miles or so through a moonless Caribbean night. Some superstition-Ĭan't see it, remarked Rainsford, trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht.

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