Or at the least wait until Macumazahn has time to get his rifle.

No, put down those guns of yours; for every shot you fire I swear that I will cut ten Basuto throats when we come to storm your koppies, as we shall do ere long." "Be silent," I said, "and let me speak." Then I, too, called across the river, asking where was that fat captain of theirs, as I would talk with him.

One of the men shouted back that he had stopped behind, very sick, because of a ghost that he had seen.
"Ah!" I answered, "a ghost who pricked him in the throat.

Well, I was that ghost, and such are the things that happen to those who would harm Macumazahn and his friends.

Did you not say last night that he is a leopard who leaps out in the dark, bites and is gone again ?" "Yes," the man shouted back, "and it is true, though had we known, O Macumazahn, that you were the ghost hiding in those stones, you should never have leapt again.