Now if the English man-of-war had destroyed their town, and their slave-sheds, they might have gone somewhere else.
However," he added, as an afterthought, glancing at the disfigured Hassan, "we have their captain, and of course you mean to hang him, Baas.

Or if you don't like to, leave it to me.

I can hang men very well.
Once, when I was young, I helped the executioner at Cape Town." "Get out," I said, but, nevertheless, I knew that Hans was right..