thief-of-the-wood

Updated: May 26, 2025

"I said we had not done with the thief-of-the-wood and the river, the man-robber, the slayer of babes." "Hassan! Do you mean that the Arabs are coming?" "Even so, O great one. They are well matched, the man-eaters and the man-stealers." "And whom do they go against?" "What should bring Hassan here but one thing, and that the fear of Muata?" "Humph!" muttered Mr. Hume.

Ernest Glanville - In Search of the Okapi: A Story of Adventure in Central Africa