When the chief asks you questions, shake your head, and say that these things cannot be spoken of, and that it might bring down the anger of the gods, were their secret told." The advice seemed good to Roger, and he followed it.

Now that he was able to talk in his language, the chief soon plied him with questions as to whence he had come.

But Roger always shook his head when the subject was approached, and said: "It is not good to talk of these things.

Evil might come to the land.

I am here, and that is enough.