Their two companions were dead: one had been taken by an alligator in the water, and the other had fallen into a deep hole in the morass, and, striking his head against a log, was drowned there.
"Is it finished ?" said Leonard to the dwarf.
Otter nodded.

"Some are dead and some are fled," he answered; "but from these last we have little to fear, for they believe that an army has come against them.

Still that is not all the tale, Baas.

We have taken one of them alive.

Come and look at him, Baas." Leonard clambered up the steps of the embankment, followed by the others.