Wake up, Major, those priests monkey-men too, for we all brothers, you know.

Wait a bit, I stop their little game," and springing up with three or four cuts of the big curved knife, he severed the remaining rope just as their pursuers reached the further side of the chasm.
They shouted with rage as the long bridge swung back against the rock, the cut end of it falling into the torrent, and waved their spears threateningly.

To this demonstration Jeekie replied with gestures of contempt such as are known to street Arabs.

Then he looked at the Mungana, who lay upon the ground a melancholy and dilapidated spectacle, for the perspiration had washed lines of paint off his face and patches of dye from his hair, also his gorgeous robes were water-stained and his gem necklaces broken.

Having studied him a while Jeekie kicked him meditatively till he got up, then asked him to set out the exact situation.