Therefore there is nothing to prevent you Ragnall, and you Savage, and you Hans, from returning with the Mazitu." "Oh! Baas," said Hans, who could understand English well enough although he seldom spoke it, "why are you always bothering me with such _praatjes_ ?"--( that is, chatter).

"Whatever you do I will do, and I don't care what you do, except for your own sake, Baas.

If I am going to die, let me die; it doesn't at all matter how, since I must go soon and make report to your reverend father, the Predikant.

And now, Baas, I have been awake all night, for I heard those camels coming a long while before the two spook men appeared, and as I have never heard camels before, could not make out what they were, for they don't walk like giraffes.

So I am going to sleep, Baas, there in the sun.