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THE ESCAPE
AT last the men skillfully edged the canoes away from the bank to the other side, where they made an attempt to remove the cargo that was left, in order to get the canoes past the rapid. Then Indians came swimming across the river and continued to demand things. A sullen-faced warrior picked up a large rock and stood menacingly beside the men, who expected it to be hurled at them at any moment. He kept snarling a word which seemed to mean “Go.” One false move would start uncontrolled violence and bloodshed by both Indians and Brazilians. “If we can only leave before trouble begins.” At this time in America scores of Christians who knew of the advance had been and were praying. They met in group meetings and daily in their personal prayer hours. It was as if a war were on in reality between powers of darkness and the messengers of the Gospel, and that the whole tense scene was under an invisible restraining power.
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