The offering that they must make is the blood of Jana our god, which you have brought them here to kill with their strange weapons, as though any weapon could prevail against Jana the god.

Now, give to us these white men that we may offer them to the god, and perchance Simba the King will let you go through." "Why ?" asked Harut, "seeing that you declare that the white men cannot harm Jana, to whom indeed they wish no harm.

To surrender them to you that they may be torn to pieces by the devil Jana would be to break the law of hospitality, for they are our guests.

Now return to Simba the King, and say to Simba that if he lifts a spear against us the threefold curse of the Child shall fall upon him and upon you his people: The curse of Heaven by storm or by drought.

The curse of famine.