It was doubtless used as a call to prayer.

However, Stanley rightly conjectured that, in this case, it was a summons to a meal; and was soon seated on the ground by the side of the priest.

Little was said at breakfast, which Stanley enjoyed heartily.
"So my friend Thekyn is starting for the wars.

What think you of it, my son?
Shall we easily overpower these barbarians?
We have never met them in war before and, doubtless, their methods of fighting are different from ours." "Quite different.

Their men are trained as soldiers.