Have you seen this elephant ?" "No, Macumazana," he answered with a shiver.

"If I had seen it should I have been alive to-day?
Yet I fear I am fated to see it ere long, not alone," and again he shivered, looking at me in a very suggestive manner.
At this moment our conversation was interrupted by the arrival of two Black Kendahs who brought us our breakfast of porridge and a boiled fowl, and stood there while we ate it.

For my part I was not sorry, as I had learned all I wanted to know of the theological opinions and practice of the land, and had come to the conclusion that the terrible devil-god of the Black Kendah was merely a rogue elephant of unusual size and ferocity, which under other circumstances it would have given me the greatest pleasure to try to shoot.
When we had finished eating, that is soon, for neither of our appetites was good that morning, we walked out of the house into the surrounding compound and visited the camelmen in their hut.

Here we found them squatted on the ground looking very depressed indeed.

When I asked them what was the matter they replied, "Nothing," except that they were men about to die and life was pleasant.