I told him that I was not a slave-dealer.

Then he looked at Inez, who was moving about, and said that he would like to buy her to be a wife for his Chief, and offered some fabulous sum in ivory and in gold, which he said should be paid before she was taken away.

I snatched his big spear from his hand, broke it over his head and gave him the best hiding with its shaft that he had ever heard of.

Then I kicked him off the place.

He limped away but when he was out of reach, turned and called out that one day he would come again with others and take her, meaning Inez, without leaving the price in ivory and gold.