I come here to ask you to do my people a service for which you shall not lack reward.

We, the White Kendah, the People of the Child, are at war with the Black Kendah, our subjects who outnumber us.

The Black Kendah have an evil spirit for a god, which spirit from the beginning has dwelt in the largest elephant in all the world, a beast that none can kill, but which kills many and bewitches more.

While that elephant, which is named Jana, lives we, the People of the Child, go in terror, for day by day it destroys us.

We have learned--how it does not matter--that you alone can kill that elephant.