runk a sound smack.

Kali, however, was the most overjoyed with the result of that day, for
upon his shoulders had fallen the work of gathering provisions for the
giant, which was by no means an easy task. So then Stas and Nell heard
him, while lighting the fire for supper, sing a new hymn of joy,
composed of the following words:

"The great master kills men and lions. Yah! Yah! The great master
crushes rocks. Yah! Yah! The elephant, himself, breaks trees and Kali
can be idle and eat. Yah! Yah!"

The rainy season, or the so-called "massica," was drawing to an end.
There were yet cloudy and rainy days, but there were also days entirely
clear. Stas decided to remove to the mountain indicated to him by
Linde, and this purpose he carried out soon after the King's
liberation. Nell's health did not present any obstacles now, as she
felt decidedly better.

Selecting, therefore, a clear day, they started at noon. They were not
afraid now that they would stray, as the boy had inherited from Linde,
among various articles, a compass and an excellent field-glass, through
which it was easy to descry distant localities. Besides Saba and the
donkey they were accompanied by five pack-horses and the elephant. The
latter, besides the luggage on his back, on his neck bore Nell, who
between his two enormous ears looked as though she were sitting in a
big arm-chair. Stas without regret abandoned the promontory and the
baobab tree, for it was associated with the recollection of Nell's
illness. On the other hand, the little girl gazed with sad eyes at the
rocks, at the trees, at the waterfall, and announced that she would
return there when she should be "big."

Sadder still was little Nasibu, who had loved sincerely his former
master, and, at present riding on the donkey in the rear, he turned
around every little while and looked with tears in his eyes towards the
place where poor Linde would remain until the day of the great judgment.

The wind blew from the north and the day was unusually cool. Thanks to
this they did not have to stop and wait from ten to three, until the
greatest heat was over, and they could travel a longer distance than is
customary with caravans. The road was not long, and a few hours before
sunset Stas espied the mountain towards which they were bound. In the
distance on the background of the sky was outlined a long chain of
other peaks, and this mountain rose nearer and lonely, like an island
in a jungle sea. W