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O Guarani 4.16 · 4.16

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Como, porém, o italiano, com o arcabuz em face, procurasse fazer a pontaria entre as folhas, o índio bateu com o pé no chão em sinal de impaciência, e exclamou apontando para o tigre, e levando a mão ao peito:

As the Italian, however, with his arquebus at the ready, was trying to take aim among the leaves, the Indian stamped his foot on the ground in a sign of impatience and cried out, pointing at the tiger and raising his hand to his breast:

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When the Italian levels his arquebus to aim through the leaves, the Indian stamps his foot and, pointing at the tiger, his hand on his breast, cries out.

A note on this passage

Loredano the Italian would kill the jaguar with a shot; Peri forbids it. The sentence winds to a colon — the cry itself, 'É meu!', lands in the next paragraph. The claim is not the prey but the right to the fight.

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