It will be a good lesson." The two looked at each other, and then away over the plain.

Skinning and cutting up was not exactly amusing.
"All right; I'll stay," said Venning.
"Each in his turn," said the hunter.

"Come along, Compton;" and they went off, as Venning turned up his shirt-sleeves.
It was hard work, this cutting up, but Muata was a master at the job, and Venning learnt his lesson thoroughly.
The great hide was taken off in one piece without a slit; then long strips of meat were cut off and hung over the branches of a tree.
When the rest of the meat had been stripped off, they packed it all away in the hide, slung the bundle to a sapling, and, with each end of the pole on a shoulder, they slowly carried the whole to the camp.

Venning hoped that his labours were over; but they had only completed one task.

They had now to build a scaffolding on which to hang the strips, after each had been well peppered to keep off the flies, for the drying and smoking.