Perhaps I should add that wherever I went on my way down the mountain it seemed to me that I heard people laughing at me in an unnatural kind of voice.

That's all." After this we sat silent for a long while, till at length Hans said in his unmoved tone: "The light has come, Baas.

Shall I blow out the candle, which it is a pity to waste?
Also, does the Baas wish me to cook the breakfast, now that the snake devil is making his off Bena, as I hope to make mine off him before all is done.

Snakes are very good to eat, Baas, if you know how to dress them in the Hottentot way.".