"To be reserved for something better than being my slave."
"Better!" I reiterated, with perplexity; "how—where?"
"Yah, yah—you will learn in good time."
"When?" I exclaimed, with impatience.
"On our reaching the capital of Benin."
"You are going there with all these people?"
"Yah."
"For what purpose—to fight?"
"No."
"What then?"