_Wow_, my father, are you indeed dead, who smiled upon me yesterday ?" "Come," said Leonard; "I dare not leave him long." And he went, Otter following him with a reeling gait, for he was weak from his injuries.

Presently they reached the spot, and Otter saw that the hut was gone.
"Certainly," he said, "our bad spirits were abroad last night.

Well, next time it will be the turn of the good ones." Then he drew near to the corpse and saluted it with uplifted hand and voice.
"Chief and Father," he said in Zulu, for Otter had wandered long and knew many tongues, but he loved the Zulu best of all.

"While you lived upon earth, you were a good man and brave, though somewhat quick of temper and quarrelsome like a woman.

Now you have wearied of this world and flown away like an eagle towards the sun, and there where you live in the light of the sun you will be braver and better yet, and become more patient and not quarrel any more with those who are less clever than you.