Bow, arrows, and fire-hardened fork
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Era de alta estatura; tinha as mãos delicadas; a perna ágil e nervosa, ornada com uma axorca de frutos amarelos, apoiava-se sobre um pé pequeno, mas firme no andar e veloz na corrida. Segurava o arco e as flechas com a mão direita calda, e com a esquerda mantinha verticalmente diante de si um longo forcado de pau enegrecido pelo fogo.
He was tall; his hands were delicate; his leg, nimble and sinewy, adorned with an anklet of yellow fruits, rested on a small foot — firm in gait and swift in the run. He held the bow and arrows in his stilled right hand, and with the left held upright before him a long forked stick of wood blackened by fire.
Tall, quick, veiled in strength: he holds bow and arrows in one hand, and in the other a long fire-blackened forked stick — his weapon against the jaguar.
The forcado — a fire-hardened forked pole — is the whole plot of the chapter in an object: Peri will pin the jaguar's neck with it. Note 'calda,' as printed (for calada, stilled): the right hand is at rest because the left holds the weapon that matters.
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