I have lost my braves, my mules, and my baggage, and all I have to show are two men, a pale-face and a black-face.

Not a single maiden.

How will Mamcuna take it, I wonder ?" said Gondocari, gloomily.

"Let us go on." "You think she will be very angry ?" "I do." "Is she very unpleasant when she is angry ?" "She generally makes it very unpleasant for others.

Her favorite punishment for offenders is roasting them before a slow fire." "And yet you propose to go on ?" "What else can we do?
Going back the way we came is out of the question, equally so is climbing either of those mountain-ranges.