Now I will let him know we are also off;" and he, too, gave the jackal hunting-cry.
Back out of the darkness came the chief's exultant war-cry, and on it a furious shout from the village, followed by the discharge of a rifle, and the rolling alarm of a war-drum.

Then shone out the glare of torches at the river bank, and a savage yell announced that the men had discovered the injury done to the canoes.
One of the purchases made in London had been a lamp with very fine reflectors.

This Mr.Hume fixed on a movable bracket within reach of his arm as he sat at the wheel, and when the lights at the village faded astern, he lit the lamp, in order to thread a passage by its light through the dark waters.

As the noise of shouting, the drumming, and the report of fire-arms died down, other sounds reached their strained hearing--the booming of the Congo bittern, the harsh roar of a bull crocodile, and the cries of water-birds.
Then Venning laughed--a little short nervous laugh.

"We have done it," he said.
"We have, indeed," said Compton.
"But if we can only pick up Muata and his jackal, we should be all right.