Then he laid his black forefinger upon the breast of his jibbeh.
"Tippy Tilly," said he.
"What's that ?" asked Colonel Cochrane.
"Tippy Tilly," repeated the negro, sinking his voice as if he wished only the prisoners to hear him.
The Colonel shook his head.
"My Arabic won't bear much strain.

I don't know what he is saying," said he.
"Tippy Tilly.

Hicks Pasha," the negro repeated.
"I believe the fellow is friendly to us, but I can't quite make him out," said Cochrane to Belmont.

"Do you think that he means that his name is Tippy Tilly, and that he killed Hicks Pasha ?" The negro showed his great white teeth at hearing his own words coming back to him.

"Aiwa!" said he.