But if ever he get out of this Jeekie want spend his old age in respectable peace.

So he fetch them.

Hard work, though, for rings all in one bit and Asiki very tough to chop.

Don't look cross, Major; you remember what 'postle say, that he who no provide for his own self worse than cannibal." Just then Fahni came up and announced that the Asiki general had sent a messenger into the camp proposing terms of peace.
"What terms ?" asked Alan.
"These, white man: that we should surrender you and your servant and go our way unharmed." "Indeed, Fahni, and what did you answer ?" "White man, I refused; but I tell you," he added warningly, "that my captains wished to accept.

They said that I had come back to them safe and that they fear the Asiki, who are devils, not men, and who will bring the curse of Bonsa on us if we go on fighting with them.