A brave man respects another brave man.
"Why did Waggaman and Burkhardt visit your villages and make their home with you for so many years ?" "I do not know," replied Ziffak, with another shake of his head; "but they have proven they are friends.

They do not want to go back to their people, who are all bad." The thought occurred to Ashman, though he did not express it, that the strange white men were criminals.

They may have escaped from the diamond mines, which were at no great distance, and naturally preferred the free, wild life of the interior to the labor and tyranny which the miserable wretches condemned to service in those regions undergo.
"Ziffak," said the explorer, lowering his weapon, "will you walk back to the camp of my people?
You have my promise that no harm shall be offered you by any one." The herculean native nodded his head, and the strange couple started up the bank in the direction of the camp, which was now as silent as though not a hostile shot had been fired, or a savage blow been struck..