I wonder what Miss Barbara say if she see you mooing and cooing with dark-eyed girl in gold snake skin ?" Just then the Asika arrived and by way of excuse for his flight, Alan remarked to her that the treasure-hall was hot.
"I did not notice it," she answered, "but he who is called my husband, Mungana, says the same.

The Mungana is guardian of the dead," she explained, "and when he is required so to do, he sleeps in the Place of the Treasure and gathers wisdom from the spirits of those Munganas who were before him." "Indeed.

And does he like that bed-chamber ?" "The Mungana likes what I like, not what he likes," she replied haughtily.

"Where I send him to sleep, there he sleeps.

But come, Vernoon, and I will show you the Holy Water where Big Bonsa dwells; also the house in which I have my home, where you shall visit me when you please." "Who built this place ?" asked Alan as she led him through more dark and tortuous passages.