[The Ivory Child by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ivory Child CHAPTER XV 5/33
Jana, I think, is near his death and through you." "I don't know," I repeated.
"Who and what is Jana ?" "Have I not told you that he is an evil spirit who inhabits the body of a huge elephant ?" "Yes, and so did Marut; but I think that he is just a huge elephant with a very bad temper of his own.
Still, whatever he is, he will take some killing, and I don't want to meet him again by that horrible lake." "Then you will meet him elsewhere, Lord.
For if you do not go to look for Jana, Jana will come to look for you who have hurt him so sorely. Remember that henceforth, wherever you go in all this land, it may happen that you will meet Jana." "Do you mean to say that the brute comes into the territory of the White Kendah ?" "Yes, Macumazana, at times he comes, or a spirit wearing his shape comes; I know not which.
What I do know is that twice in my life I myself have seen him upon the Holy Mount, though how he came or how he went none can tell." "Why was he wandering there, Harut ?" "Who can say, Lord? Tell me why evil wanders through the world and I will answer your question.
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