Man, do you understand what he says?
He says that all those half-blood children of mine are dead, murdered by savages from over the Zambesi, yes, and eaten, too, with their mothers.

Do you take the point?
Eaten like lambs.

Those fires your man saw last night were the fires on which they were cooked, my little _so-and-so_ and _so-and-so_," and he mentioned half a dozen different names.

"Yes, cooked, Quatermain.

And that isn't all of it, they have taken Inez too.
They didn't eat her, but they have dragged her off a captive for God knows what reason.