From black or white you will get justice before many hours, and your carcass will be left to rot in the bush.

Get out of my sight, you swine.' In that moment I was so borne up in my passion that I forgot my bonds and my grave danger.

I was inspired like a prophet with a sense of approaching retribution.

Henriques heard me out; but his smile changed to a scowl, and a flush rose on his sallow cheek.
'Stew in your own juice,' he said, and spat in my face.

Then he shouted in Kaffir that I had insulted him, and demanded that I should be bound tighter and gagged.
It was Arcoll's messenger who answered his summons.