I lit my fire and boiled the instruments--he thought I was making magic.

By the time that everything was ready the sun was up.
"'Now,' I said, 'let me see how brave you are.' "Well, Allan, I performed that operation, removing the finger at the base where it joins the hand, as I thought there might be something in his story of the poison.

Indeed, as I found afterwards on dissection, and can show you, for I have the thing in spirits, there was, for the blackness of which he spoke, a kind of mortification, I presume, had crept almost to the joint, though the flesh beyond was healthy enough.
Certainly that Kalubi was a plucky fellow.

He sat like a rock and never even winced.

Indeed, when he saw that the flesh was sound he uttered a great sigh of relief.