I thought I must have ugg boots discount outlet dropped before we reached his village.
     　　This was an osier-bed at the water's side, where the wholeriver rushed through a rocky gorge not more than fifty tosixty yards broad. There were perhaps nearly a hundredIndians here, two-thirds of whom were women and children.
     　　Their habitations were formed by interlacing the tops of theosiers. Dogs' skins spread upon the ground and numeroussalmon spears were their only furniture. In a few minutes myarrival created a prodigious commotion. The whole populationturned out to stare at me. The children ugg boots cheap sale ran into the bushesto hide. But feminine curiosity conquered feminine timidity.
     　　Although I was in the plight of the forlorn Odysseus afterhis desperate swim, I had no 'blooming foliage' to wind[Greek text which cannot be reproduced]. Unlike thePhaeacian maidens, however, the tawny nymphs were all asbrave as Princess Nausicaa herself. They stared, andpointed, and buzzed, and giggled, and even touched my skinwith the tips of their fingers - to see, I suppose, if thewhite would come off.
     　　But ravenous hunger buy cheap uggs online turned up its nose at flirtation. Thefillets of drying salmon suspended from every bough were amillion times more seductive than the dark Naiads who haddressed them. Slice after slice I tore down and devoured, asthough my maw were as compendious as Jack the Giant Killer's.
     　　This so astonished and delighted the young women that theykept supplying me, - with the expectation, perhaps, thatsooner or later I must share the giant's fate.
     　　While this was going on, a conference was being discount ugg boots held; and Ihad the satisfaction of seeing some men pull up a lot of deadrushes, dexterously tie them into bundles, and truss thesetogether by means of spears. They had no canoes, for thevery children were amphibious, living, so it seemed, as muchin the water as out of it. When the raft was completed, Iwas invited to embark. My original friend, who had twisted atow-rope, took this between his teeth, and led the way.
     　　Others swam behind and beside me discount ugg boots to push and to pull. Theforce of the water was terrific; but they seemed to care nomore for that than fish. My weight sunk the rush bundles agood bit below the surface; and to try my nerves, my crewevery now and then with a wild yell dived simultaneously,dragging the raft and me under water. But I sat tight; andwith genuine friendliness they landed me safely on thedesired shore.