But you must lie here for a month or more, so he says.

Meanwhile Panda has sent for the hides which he demanded of me to be made into shields, and I have been obliged to kill twenty-five of my beasts to provide them--that is, of my own and of those of my headmen." "Then I wish you and your headmen had killed them before we met those buffalo, Umbezi," I groaned, for my ribs were paining me very much.
"Send Saduko and Sikauli here; I would thank them for saving my life." So they came, next morning, I think, and I thanked them warmly enough.
"There, there, Baas," said Scowl, who was literally weeping tears of joy at my return from delirium and coma to the light of life and reason; not tears of Mameena's sort, but real ones, for I saw them running down his snub nose, that still bore marks of the eagle's claws.

"There, there, say no more, I beseech you.

If you were going to die, I wished to die, too, who, if you had left it, should only have wandered through the world without a heart.

That is why I jumped into the pool, not because I am brave." When I heard this my own eyes grew moist.