Also Sad-Eyes shot one with a pistol she carried, and wounded another so that the spear fell out of his hand.
"Then the rest fell on her and tied her up, setting her in a chair on the stoep where two remained to watch her.

They did her no hurt, Baas; indeed, they seemed to treat her as gently as they could.

Also they went into the house and there they caught that tall fat yellow girl who always smiles and is called Janee, she who waits upon the Lady Sad-Eyes, and brought her out to her.

I think they told her, Baas, that she must look after her mistress and that if she tried to run away she would be killed, for afterwards I saw Janee bring her food and other things." "And then, Hans ?" "Then, Baas, most of the great men rested a while, though some of them went through the store gathering such things as they liked, blankets, knives and iron cooking-pots, but they set fire to nothing, nor did they try to catch the cattle.

Also they took dry wood from the pile and lit big fires, eight or nine of them, and when the sun set they began to feast." "What did they feast on, Hans, if they took no cattle ?" I asked with a shiver, for I was afraid of I knew not what.
"Baas," answered Hans, turning his head away and looking at the ground, "they feasted on the children whom they had killed, also on some of the young women.