But I soon found out that Laputa was none of your flabby educated negroes from America, and I began to watch him.
'I first came across him at a revival meeting in London, where he was a great success.

He came and spoke to me about my soul, but he gave up when I dropped into Zulu.

The next time I met him was on the lower Limpopo, when I had the pleasure of trying to shoot him from a boat.' Captain Arcoll took his pipe from his mouth and laughed at the recollection.
'I had got on to an I.D.B.gang, and to my amazement found the evangelist among them.

But the Reverend John was too much for me.

He went overboard in spite of the crocodiles, and managed to swim below water to the reed bed at the side.