The Kosekin are too numerous." "Sepet-ram!" said Layelah; "what do you mean by that?
If your sepet-ram has any power, do not try to use it, Atam-or, or else I shall have to order my followers to give to Almah the blessing of death." At this my rifle was lowered: the whole truth flashed upon me, and I saw, too, the madness of resistance.

I might kill one or two, but the rest would do as Layelah said, and I should speedily be disarmed.

Well I knew how powerless were the thunders of my fire-arms to terrify these Kosekin; for the prospect of death would only rouse them to a mad enthusiasm, and they would all rush upon me as they would rush upon a jantannin--to slay and be slain.

The odds were too great.

A crowd of Europeans could be held in check far more easily than these death-loving Kosekin.