Taking me apart again he dwelt earnestly upon his secret reasons for wishing to visit these Kendah, with which of course I was already acquainted, as indeed was Savage.
"I desire to stay here," he ended.
"Which means that we must all stay, Ragnall, since Savage will not desert you.

Nor will Hans desert me although he thinks us mad.

He points out that I came to seek ivory and here about is ivory in plenty for the trouble of taking." "I might remain alone, Quatermain----" he began, but I looked at him in such a way that he never finished the sentence.
Ultimately we came to a compromise.

Babemba, on behalf of the Mazitu, agreed to wait three more days.

If nothing happened during that period we on our part agreed to return with them to a stretch of well-watered bush about fifty miles behind us, which we knew swarmed with elephants, that by now were growing shy of approaching our oasis where there was so much noise and shooting.