They stood like two dumb bird-dogs, pointing, and we had to come about abreast of them before we knew why we were summoned.
There lay five clean-picked skeletons, one on each ant-hill.

One was a big bird's; one looked like a dog's; the third was a snake's; the fourth a young antelope's; and the fifth was certainly that of a yellow village cur, for some of the hairs from the tip of its tail were remaining, not yet borne off by the ants.
The skeletons lay as if the creatures had died writhing.

There were pegs driven into the earth that had evidently held them in position by the sinews.

Most peculiar circumstance of all, there was a camp-chair standing very near by, with its feet deep in the red earth, as if a very heavy man had sat in it.
I went back to the camp and told Kazimoto to bring one of the professor's men.

Kazimoto had to do the talking, for we did not know the man's language, nor he ours.
Yes, the professor always did that to animals.