"Be quiet, Koos!" I whispered to him.

And he lay down by my side.
"Where has that dog gone now ?" said the first man.

"Is he bewitched, that he stops barking suddenly and does not come back ?" "We will see," said the other, rising, a spear in his hand.
Now once more I was terribly afraid, for I thought that they would catch me, or I must run for my life again.

But as I sprang up to run, a big black snake glided between the men and went off towards the huts.

They jumped aside in a great fright, then all of them turned to follow the snake, saying that this was what the dog was barking at.