Keeping up with Kong

A high angry voice, a woman’s voice, screaming. The old woman—the sailors were forcing her to the beach, along with Ann, but she gave them away with her shouts. Kong’s head jerked up, and he set off after the retreating sailors in a spraddling run.
“Come on!” Driscoll yelled to Denham. They leaped fallen masonry, dodged among the houses, barely keeping pace with the enraged Kong. The sailors had reached the boats, and they were piling in, but the old woman stubbornly fought them, tearing free, turning to face the onrushing Kong with her hands upraised. She shouted something in the island tongue, over and over—
Incredibly, Kong paused. The hesitation gave a winded Driscoll and Denham time to draw close.


Merian C. Cooper's King Kong, Chapter 19