She was talking to another woman and seemed quite well, only tired, till suddenly she said in a loud voice, 'I am going to die, that I may come back as a spirit and bewitch these devils till they are spirits too.' Then she called upon the fetish of her tribe, put her hands to her breast and fell down dead.

At least," added Hans, spitting reflectively, "she did not fall quite down because the slave-stick held her head off the ground.

The Arabs were very angry, both because she had cursed them and was dead.

One of them came and kicked her body and afterwards shot her little boy who was sick, because the mother had cursed them.

But fortunately he did not see us, because we were in the dark far from the fire." "Anything more, Hans ?" "One thing, Baas.