But I think there only one thing they want, and you got that, Major." "I, Jeekie! What have I got ?" The negro leant forward and tapped his master on the knee, saying in a portentous whisper: "You got Little Bonsa, which much more holy than anything, even than Big Bonsa her husband, I mean greater, more powerful devil.

That Little Bonsa sit in front room Asika's house, and when she want see things, she put it in big basin of gold, but I no tell you what it float in.

Also once or twice every year they take out Little Bonsa; Asika wear it on head as mask, and whoever they meet they kill as offering to Little Bonsa, so that spirit come back to world to be priest of Bonsa.

I tell you, Major, that Yellow God see many thousand of people die." "Indeed," said Alan.

"A pleasing fetish truly.