"We find out," announced the chief.
"How you find out?" demanded Dick, and then, as a sudden thought popped into his mind: "Golly! You don't mean—"
"How you find out what's in a nut?" retorted Galla Galla. "You crack it!"
"But you'd kill him," cried Doc, horror stricken.
"And if we do not find the big medicine there, we kill you," said Intamo, who would have liked nothing better than to get rid of the white boy whose big medicine had had a bad effect upon Intamo's reputation as a witch-doctor, since he had been unable to duplicate Doc's exhibition of wizardry.
"You come now," he continued. "We find out!"
And accompanied by Galla Galla and the boys, Intamo led the way toward the center of the village where, in an open space before the chief's hut, all the ceremonies of the tribe were conducted.
While Paabu was being searched out and dragged, resisting and screaming, to be sacrificed upon the altar of ignorance and superstition, word ran rapidly through the village that a bit of delicious entertainment was about to be staged, and there resulted a rush for grand stand seats.