I have stripped the chief of his finery.

His men can twit him on being forced to shed his gorgeous plumage in order to save his life.

Anyhow, they will leave us in peace until night falls, so we must make the best of a hot afternoon." But he was mistaken.

A greater danger than any yet experienced now threatened them, though Iris, after perusing that wonderful psalm, might have warned him of it had she known the purpose of those long bamboos carried by some of the savages.
For Taung S'Ali, furious and unrelenting, resolved that if he could not obtain the girl he would slay the pair of them; and he had terrible weapons in his possession--weapons that could send "silent death even to the place where they stood.".