Both Bonsas very hungry and Asika want wipe out old scores.

Presently you see." Presently Alan did see, for at some preconcerted signal the devil priests, each of them, jumped with a yell at a person near to them, gripping him or her by the hair, whereon assistants rushed in and dragged them down to the bank of the canal.

Here to the number of a hundred or more, a wailing, struggling mass, they were confined in a pen like sheep.

Then a bar was lifted and one of them allowed to escape, only to find himself in a kind of gangway which ran down into shallow water.

Being forced along this he came to an open space of water exactly opposite to the floating fetishes, and there was kept a while by men armed with spears.