"The elephants! They will trample us man! Look! There they come!" I cried pointing up the trail on which we were lying.
"Why you're plumb crazy man! You've missed too many boats! That sun's got you! There are no elephants on this trail!"
"But I know elephants when I see them!" I cried and tried to roll out of the trail but again found it impossible to make my brain and my muscles coordinate. It was a terrible moment to me.
"My God man! Are you crazy! I know elephants when I see them. They're right on us now! Help me out of here! I can't move!"
"I tell you there are no elephants and there are no monkeys in these islands. I've been here twenty years or more!"
"But I know elephants when I see them!"
But just at that moment a much greater danger confronted us, for I saw three tigers leap out of the jungle and start after the two elephants; right down the trail toward us. Then I knew that we were as good as dead.
I yelled: "Tigers! Tigers! They are running after the elephants! They are on top of us!"
The fool of a missionary laughed aloud, as he lay on the trail and said, "Plumb crazy! Plumb crazy! Sun's got him! Sun's got him!"
"Sun's got who, fool? The elephants and tigers will kill us in about a minute!"