alone in the camp. Before he could cross the river, he was grabbed by an unknown assailant and forced into a fight that lasted all night (32:24). No details of the fight are given because the important material is the dialogue that follows it. Yet the fight was real. And no details are given about the assailant; he is simply called “a man.” This anonymity is appropriate to the revelation that comes later, for there the assailant refused to identify himself. The fact that the fight took place at night
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