But that is only the small half of the stick," and he paused.
"What is the big half, then ?" I asked with irritation.
"Baas, the Spirit in Goroko----" "The jackass in Goroko, you mean," I interrupted.

"How can you, who are a Christian, talk such rubbish about spirits?
I only wish that my father could hear you." "Oh! Baas, your reverend father, the Predikant, is now wise enough to know all about Spirits and that there are some who come into black witch-doctors though they turn up their noses at white men and leave them alone.

However, whatever it is that makes Goroko speak, got hold of him so that his lips said, though he remembered nothing of it afterwards, that soon this place would be red with blood--that there would be a great killing here, Baas.

That is all." "Red with blood! Whose blood?
What did the fool mean ?" "I don't know, Baas, but what you call the jackass in Goroko, declared that those who are 'with the Great Medicine'-- meaning what you wear, Baas--will be quite safe.

So I hope that it will not be our blood; also that you will get out of this place as soon as you can." Well, I scolded Hans because he believed in what this doctor said, for I could see that he did believe it, then went to question Umslopogaas, whom I found looking quite pleased, which annoyed me still more.
"What is it that Goroko has been saying and why do you smile, Bulalio ?" I asked.
"Nothing much, Macumazahn, except that the man who looks like tallow that has gone bad, put something in our food which made us sick, for which I would kill him were he not Red-beard's servant and that it would frighten the lady his daughter.