It was brought and she drank copiously.

Then in answer to his questions she began to talk.
She said that the Amahagger had attacked the village and killed all who could not escape.

They had eaten a young woman and three children.

She had been wounded by a spear and fled away into the place where we found her, where none of them took the trouble to follow her as she "was not worth eating." By my direction the man asked her whether she knew anything of these Amahagger.

She replied that her grandfathers had, though she had heard nothing of them since she was a child, which must have been seventy years before.