There they were safe from all eyes and ears, and could account, if need be, for their excursion by the wish to kill a deer, the spot being well known as the drinking-place of all kinds of game.

In the seclusion of its quiet solitude Babalatchi explained his plan to the attentive Lakamba.

His idea was to make use of Willems for the destruction of Lingard's influence.
"I know the white men, Tuan," he said, in conclusion.

"In many lands have I seen them; always the slaves of their desires, always ready to give up their strength and their reason into the hands of some woman.
The fate of the Believers is written by the hand of the Mighty One, but they who worship many gods are thrown into the world with smooth foreheads, for any woman's hand to mark their destruction there.

Let one white man destroy another.