The cause and attendant circumstances of all these disasters, except one, he related to us.
"But the wound on the back of your hand, Baneelon! How did you get that ?" He laughed, and owned that it was received in carrying off a lady of another tribe by force.

"I was dragging her away.

She cried aloud, and stuck her teeth in me." "And what did you do then ?" "I knocked her down, and beat her till she was insensible, and covered with blood.

Then..." Whenever he recounted his battles, "poised his lance, and showed how fields were won", the most violent exclamations of rage and vengeance against his competitors in arms, those of the tribe called Cameeragal in particular, would burst from him.

And he never failed at such times to solicit the governor to accompany him, with a body of soldiers, in order that he might exterminate this hated name.
Although I call him only Baneelon, he had besides several appellations, and for a while he chose to be distinguished by that of Wolarawaree.