He opened his eyes, glanced round, and took in the situation.
"What did I tell you, Macumazahn ?" he gasped, and seizing the bottle, he took a long pull at it.
Meanwhile I sat with my back against the trunk of the great tree and tried to realize the situation.

Looking to my left I saw too good horses--one bare-backed, and one with a rudely made lady's saddle on it.

By the side of the horses were two dogs, of a stout greyhound breed, that sat watching us, and near the dogs lay a dead Oribe buck, which they had evidently been coursing.
"Hendrika," said the lady presently, "they must not eat meat just yet.
Go look up the tree and see if there is any ripe fruit on it." The woman ran swiftly into the plain and obeyed.

Presently she returned.
"I see some ripe fruit," she said, "but it is high, quite at the top." "Fetch it," said the lady.
"Easier said than done," I thought to myself; but I was much mistaken.
Suddenly the woman bounded at least three feet into the air and caught one of the spreading boughs in her large flat hands; then came a swing that would have filled an acrobat with envy--and she was on it.
"Now there is an end," I thought again, for the next bough was beyond her reach.

But again I was mistaken.