children gesticulating, chattering, and kissing her dress and hand.

Waving them aside impatiently, Juanna asked the men if anything had been
seen or heard of her father. They answered, "No." Some of their number
had started up the river to search for him on the same day when she was
captured, but they had not returned, and no tidings had come from them
or him.

"Do not be alarmed," said Leonard, seeing the distress and anxiety
written on her face; "doubtless he has gone further than he anticipated,
and the men have not been able to find him."

"I fear that something has happened to him," she answered; "he should
have been back by now: he promised to return within the fortnight."

By this time the story of the capture and destruction of the slave
camp was spread abroad among the people by the rescued men, and the
excitement rose to its height. Otter, seeing a favourable opportunity
to trumpet his master's fame, swaggered to and fro through the crowd
shaking a spear and chanting Leonard's praises after the Zulu fashion.

"_Wow!_" he said, "_wow!_ Look at him, ye people, and be astonished.

"Look at him, the White Elephant, and hear his deeds.

"In the night he fell upon them.

"He fell upon them, the armed men in a fenced place.

"He did it alone: no one helped him but a black monkey and a woman with
a shaking hand.

"He beguiled them with a tongue of honey, he smote them with a spear of
iron.

"He won the Shepherdess from the midst of them to be a wife to him.

"He satisfied the Yellow Devil, he satisfied him with gold.

"The praying man prayed over them, then strife arose.

"Their greatest warrior gave him battle, he broke him with his fist.

"Then the Monkey played his tricks, and the Shaking Hand made a great
noise, a noise of thunder.

"They fell dead, they fell dead in heaps.

"The fire roared behind them, in front of them the bullets hailed.

"They cried like women, but the fire stayed not; it licked up their
strength.

"Ashes are all that is left of them; they are dead, the armed men.

"No more shall they bring desolation; the day of slavery is gone by.

"Who did it? He did it, the terrible lion, the black-maned lion with the
white face.

"He gave the slavers to the sword; he doomed their captain to death.

"He loosened the irons of the captives. Now they shall eat the bread of
freedom.

"Praise him, ye people, who broke the strength of the oppressor.

"Praise him, the Shepherd of