` Shall we land here ? ' asked the dream-boy . ` No , ' said Little Lasse . ' I am so afraid that the whales would swallow us up , and the big dogs bite us . Let us sail instead to another part of the world . ' ` Very well , ' said the dream-boy with the red cap and the silver band ; ` it is not far to America ' -- and at the same moment they were there . The sun was shining and it was very warm . Tall palm trees grew in long rows on the shore and bore coconuts in their top branches . Men red as copper galloped over the immense green prairies and shot their arrows at the buffaloes , who turned against them with their sharp horns . An enormous cobra which had crept up the stem of a tall palm tree threw itself on to a little llama that was grazing at the foot . Knaps ! it was all over the little llama . ` Shall we land here ? ' asked the dream-boy . ` No , ' said Little Lasse . ' I am so afraid that the buffaloes will butt us , and the great serpent eat us up . Let us travel to another part of the world . ' ` Very well , ' said the dream-boy with the white coat , ` it is only a little way to Polynesia ' -- and then they were there . It was very warm there , as warm as in a hot bath in Finland . Costly spices grew on the shores : the pepper plant , the cinnamon tree , ginger , saffron ; the coffee plant and the tea plant .
Brown people with long ears and thick lips , and hideously painted faces , hunted a yellow-spotted tiger among the high bamboos on the shore , and the tiger turned on them and stuck its claws into one XXXXX the brown men .
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