He was still stiff, indeed, and remained lame in one leg for ten days or more, but, with the exception of an aching of the throat where Xavier had gripped him, no other ill effects were left.

Among the booty of the slave camp was a good supply of clothing, flannel shirts, corduroy suits, and hats.
Casting aside the rags of the Portuguese uniform in which he had disguised himself, Leonard put on some of these articles and reappeared in the camp dressed like an ordinary English colonist, roughly indeed, but becomingly.
Meanwhile Juanna had also been making her toilet, with the help of Soa, who took this opportunity to tell her mistress the history of her meeting with Leonard Outram.

But, either from design or because she forgot to do so, she did not at this time tell her about the agreement which had been entered into between them.

As yet Soa had never spoken fully to her mistress of her early life or of the mysterious People of the Mist from whom she sprang, though she had taught her the language they spoke.

Perhaps, for reasons of her own, she did not think this a favourable occasion on which to begin the story.
When Soa had finished Juanna fell into a reverie.