We made good play with those thieves; not one of them escaped," he added grimly, "and their bodies we threw into a river where are many crocodiles.

But their spears I brought away and I think that they are such as the King's guard use.

If so, his search for them will be long, since the fight took place where no man lives and we burned the shields and trappings.

Oho! he will think that the ghosts have taken them." That morning we trekked on fast, fearing lest a regiment searching for these "thieves" should strike and follow our spoor.

Luckily the ox that the lion had killed was one of some spare cattle which I was driving with me, so its loss did not inconvenience us.