Among them lay the mouldering skeleton of a woman, and by her side that of a child.
"Not long dead," said Otter phlegmatically, "perhaps two weeks.

Ah! the Yellow Devil leaves a spoor that all may follow." Soa bent over the bones and examined them.

"One of Mavoom's people," she said; "I know the fashion of the anklets." Then they marched on for two hours or more, till at length they came to a spot where the trail ran to the edge of the water and stopped.
"What now, Otter ?" said Leonard.
"Here the slaves are put on boats, Baas," the dwarf answered.

"The boats should be hidden yonder," and he pointed to some thick reeds.

"There too they 'weed the corn,' killing out the weakly ones, that they may not be burdened with them.