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| AMAIKE |
The aborigines respected her like a sacred being. The modest and brave settlers of the valleys and plains found a godlike quality in that mysterious creature of fleeting apparitions, whose rare beauty and serene but probing gaze caused them to contemplate her respectfully from afar.
From atop a rocky hill, a robust Indian would watch for long hours motionless, until the sun set in the horizon, awaiting the divine apparition of the girl. At the beginning, he stared at her as a goddess, dazzled and distantly cautious. With time, he rushed to meet her when she appeared, gradually gaining Amaike’s trust skillfully and arrogantly, until he had inspired in her,
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