Art THOU still alive , Manling ? '' `` It is only a little after moonset , '' said Mowgli . `` I do not understand -- '' `` Hssh ! I am again Kaa . I knew it was but a little time . Now we will go to the river , and I will show thee what is to be done against the dhole . '' He turned , straight as an arrow , for the main stream of the Waingunga , plunging in a little above the pool that hid the Peace Rock , Mowgli at his side . `` Nay , do not swim . I go swiftly . My back , Little Brother . '' Mowgli tucked his left arm round Kaa 's neck , dropped his right close to his body , and straightened his feet . Then Kaa breasted the current as he alone could , and the ripple of the checked water stood up in a frill round Mowgli 's neck , and his feet were waved to and fro in the eddy under the python 's lashing sides . A mile or two above the Peace Rock the Waingunga narrows between a gorge of marble rocks from eighty to a hundred feet high , and the current runs like a mill-race between and over all manner of ugly stones . But Mowgli did not trouble his head about the water ; little water in the world could have given him a moment 's fear . He was looking at the gorge on either side and sniffing uneasily , for there was a sweetish-sourish smell in the air , very like the smell of a big ant-hill on a hot day . Instinctively he lowered himself in the water , only raising his head to breathe from time to time , and Kaa came to anchor with a double twist of his tail round a sunken rock , holding Mowgli in the hollow of a coil , while the water raced on . `` This is the Place of Death , '' said the boy . `` Why do we come here ? '' `` They sleep , '' said Kaa . `` Hathi will not turn aside for the Striped One .
Yet Hathi and the XXXXX One together turn aside for the dhole , and the dhole they say turn aside for nothing .
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