Then he went on: "You also, Lord Macumazana, work for a reward, the countless store of ivory which your eyes have beheld lying in the burial place of elephants beyond the Tava River.

When you have slain Jana who watches the store, and defeated the Black Kendah who serve him, it is yours and we will give you camels to bear it, or some of it, for all cannot be carried, to the sea where it can be taken away in ships.

As for the yellow man, I think that he seeks no reward who soon will inherit all things." "The old witch-doctor means that I am going to die," remarked Hans expectorating reflectively.

"Well, Baas, I am quite ready, if only Jana and certain others die first.

Indeed I grow too old to fight and travel as I used to do, and therefore shall be glad to pass to some land where I become young again." "Stuff and rubbish!" I exclaimed, then turned and listened to Harut who, not understanding our Dutch conversation, was speaking once more.
"Lords," he said, "these paths which run east and west are the real approach to the mountain top and the temple, not that which, as I suppose, led you through the cave of the old serpent.