Also I am thirsty already and there is nothing to drink.

But will this king keep his word?
There are other ways of dying besides by steel." "I think that he will keep his word, but as that messenger said, he will not add to his word.

Choose now, for see, they are beginning to hedge us round." "What do you say, men ?" I asked of the three who had remained with us.
"We say, Lord, that we are in the hands of the Child, though we wish now that we had died with our brothers," answered their spokesman fatalistically.
So after Marut and I had consulted together for a little as to the form of his reply, he beckoned to the messenger and said: "We accept the offer of Simba, although it would be easy for this lord to kill him now where he stands, namely, to yield ourselves as prisoners on his oath that no harm shall come to us.

For know that if harm does come, the vengeance will be terrible.

Now in proof of his good faith, let Simba draw near and drink the cup of peace with us, for we thirst." "Not so," said the messenger, "for then that white lord might kill him with his tube.