And you can't hang him, either.

As you observe, gentlemen," he added gravely, "there is no head, and hardly any neck." The last ray of light was snatched away from the tree-tops, the river grew suddenly dark, and in the great stillness the murmur of the flowing water seemed to fill the vast expanse of grey shadow that descended upon the land.
"This is Dain," went on Almayer to the silent group that surrounded him.
"And I have kept my word.

First one hope, then another, and this is my last.

Nothing is left now.

You think there is one dead man here?
Mistake, I 'sure you.