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Paul lay in the sago swamp of primeval plants and swigged at the phial of laudanum. The expedition deep into the Fly River delta was not going well. Paul knew the symptoms of malaria and the dreaded disease was racking his body.
Dademo had quarrelled with the three native carriers who were insisting on returning home to Moresby. The white mister was dying and there was no sense in staying. But Dademo used bluff and threats to make them remain.
Paul eased himself into a sitting position with his back against a huge tree. The jungle was like a brick wall – unrelenting and impenetrable. All around them frogs croaked incessantly whilst night birds shrieked with almost human-like cries. It was unnerving and flashes of the battlefield came to the very ill German.
‘They are going to stay,’ Dademo said as he knelt over Paul and offered him a pannikin of mushy sago paste. ‘I told them that if they didn’t stay I had your permission to shoot them.’ Paul tried to grin at the former houseboy’s determination and loyalty.

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