Review: Great flow of thoughts
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 2, 2014
The writer communicates in a very free flowing way, with good writing skills. Having obtained the islanders’ map, Cabot goes in search of the magic healing water. He sends a group of men, led by his best tracker, a large black man known only as The Ethiopian. The men are ambushed on the island by cannibals. The Ethiopian manages to escape briefly, and appears to have found a clear pool of water near the top of an island mountain. The pool is filled with purple snakes. The Ethiopian leaves the pool and is immediately attacked by poisoned darts whistling through the leaves as the cannibals chase him off a cliff. He hits the bottom, and we think he may be dead, but later he wakes up. Although he is badly injured, he is not dead yet. He notices that he feels strangely invigorated (because of the water). He limps around a cliff, but there are too many of them. The Ethiopian is killed (finally) by the cannibals. Meanwhile, cannibals in outriggeerr canoes attack Cabot’s ship. Spooked by the encounter, Cabot decides to leave, abandoning the search party of men he sent to the island.