he peak. In a few moments he had come up with them, and they
listened in wonder to his tale, how he had slain four of their enemies,
to which his trophies bore ample testimony.

Simba began accusing himself of cowardice, and everything else that was
bad, when the young chief stopped him, and said:

"Not so, Simba; thou art big and a good target for an arrow; but I am
small and thin, and if there had been twenty I could, by being prudent,
have escaped easily. None of these people like to come out to the open
to fight, and so long as there was but one to fight they would never
have chased anybody else; and by dodging through the bushes, shooting
the most forward of them, I could have so thinned them that when they
reached us on this peak they would not have been able to take us without
losing many more men, and perhaps losing all. If we all had been
together those fellows might have killed two or three of us, and whom
could we have spared?--Selim? Abdullah? Niani? No, Simba; thou seest
that I could not have acted otherwise."

"I saw that when you told us to go," said Moto. "Who of us knows much
about arrows? Master Selim and Master Abdullah know nothing; Niani is
too small even if he did know. Simba says he don't, and I am sure I
know but very little compared to a man who all his life has shot with
nothing else but his bow. Now, with a gun--"

"Ah, yes; if we had but three or four guns," sighed Simba, "thou wouldst
not have been left alone, Kalulu."

"If I had only my English gun here now,--two barrels,--always true--not
one of those men would have escaped," remarked Selim.

"But, my brother, surely only two have escaped as it is," replied
Kalulu, laughing; "and they are too scared to trouble us any more, I
think, though it is time for us to be off before others from the village
on the other side of the valley come after us. Here is a spear for
thee, Moto; and a spear also for thee, Simba. I will keep one spear,
and Selim and Abdullah may keep the hows and arrows. We shall have
something for Niani by-and-by, perhaps."

"I hope not," said Simba, "before we get amongst friends."

This feat of Kalulu's in killing four men raised him highly in Simba's
estimation, and the consequence of it was that he came to pay great
deference to him, far greater than he ever had paid to him before; for
thus far, except that he showed himself capable of bearing great
fatigue, could run well, was lithe and strong for his