You also are very strong in your wits, and by doing this you will make fools of all the Pongo.

Also, Hans, it is better that you should wear the skin of a gorilla for a few hours than that I, your master, and all these should be killed." "Yes, Baas, it is true, Baas; though for myself I almost think that, like Mavovo, I would rather die.

Yet it would be sweet to deceive those Pongo once again, and, Baas, I won't see you killed just to save myself another bad smell or two.

So, if you wish it, I will become a god." Thus through the self-sacrifice of that good fellow, Hans, who is the real hero of this history, that matter was settled, if anything could be looked on as settled in our circumstances.

Then we arranged that we would start upon our desperate adventure at dawn on the following morning.
Meanwhile, much remained to be done.