After it was all over he turned a little faint, so I gave him some spirits of wine mixed with water which revived him.
"'O Lord Dogeetah,' he said, as I was bandaging his hand, 'while I live I am your slave.

Yet, do me one more service.

In my land there is a terrible wild beast, that which bit off my finger.

It is a devil; it kills us and we fear it.

I have heard that you white men have magic weapons which slay with a noise.