If you name me 'Baas' in public, I will beat you privately when you are no more a god.

You will do best to speak little or not at all, so that none can take hold of your words, which are always foolish." "If you say that I am a god, Baas, it is enough, for doubtless you have met the gods and know their ways, though it is strange that none have told me this before.

They must be an ugly people, the gods! But how will it be with the Settlement men when they hear that I am a great spirit?
They will say: 'Does a spirit wait upon a man and call him chief?
Does a spirit clean the guns and cook the food of a man ?' They will ask many such things, and the Great people will hear them.

And will they think then that I am a god?
No, they will know me for a liar, and will kill me and all of us." "That is true," said Leonard.

Then he summoned Peter and the Settlement men and addressed them.