This amusement lasted them for some time, till at length a man, of whom at that distance they could see only that he was old and stout, came and drove them away, and they broke up laughing.
"That is the Yellow Devil," said Otter, "and those men were looking at the maid who is called the Shepherdess.

She is locked up there until the hour comes for her to be sold.

They will be the bidders." Leonard made no reply; he was studying the place.

Presently a drum was beaten, and men appeared carrying large tin pails of smoking stuff.
"Yonder is the food for the slaves," said Otter again.

"See, they are going to feed them." The men with the pails, accompanied by some of the officers having _sjambochs_ or hide whips in their hands, advanced across the open space till they came to the moat which separated the slave camp from the Nest, whence they called to the sentry on the embankment to let down the drawbridge.