Mrs.Eversley and Hope were mounted on the two donkeys; Brother John, whose hurt leg showed signs of renewed weakness, rode his white ox, which was now quite fat again; the wounded hero, Stephen, as I have said, was carried; and I walked, comparing notes with old Babemba on the Pongo, their manners, which I am bound to say were good, and their customs, that, as the saying goes, were "simply beastly." How delighted that ancient warrior was to hear again about the sacred cave, the Crocodile Water, the Mountain Forest and its terrible god, of the death of which and of the Motombo he made me tell him the story three times over.

At the conclusion of the third recital he said quietly: "My lord Macumazana, you are a great man, and I am glad to have lived if only to know you.

No one else could have done these deeds." Of course I was complimented, but felt bound to point out Hans's share in our joint achievement.
"Yes, yes," he answered, "the Spotted Snake, Inhlatu, has the cunning to scheme, but you have the power to do, and what is the use of a brain to plot without the arm to strike?
The two do not go together because the plotter is not a striker.

His mind is different.

If the snake had the strength and brain of the elephant, and the fierce courage of the buffalo, soon there would be but one creature left in the world.