"What?" he asked.
"Can't we escape, Ukundo?"
"Can't we escape, Ukundo?"
"He make big medicine," said Ukundo, jerking a thumb at Doc. "If he can not escape, how can poor Ukundo, who cannot make any medicine?"
"My medicine is white man's medicine," said Doc. "It cannot show me my way through the jungle. If I got out of the village, I should be lost and the lions would get me."
"If you can get out of the village and take Ukundo with you, he will take you through the jungle to his own people. Ukundo knows the jungle, but he is afraid at night. At night the jungle is full of demons. If you can get out in the day-time, Ukundo will go with you and show you the way. But you can not get out while it is light, for the Bagalla will see you. At night we should be killed and eaten by the demons. It cannot be done." Thus spoke Ukundo, the pygmy, who knew the jungle better than any man.
