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He was said to have gone into the depths of the country and to have become something like a god among the savages. They spoke of him in whispers, with the kind of awed admiration reserved for a man who had dared everything and had triumphed. Yet there was something in their tone that suggested a half-contemptuous wonder — as if they could not entirely trust the being about whom they spoke. He had a name that made men uneasy when it was pronounced.