Aie! Did you hear him reprimand me? By the beard of God's prophet, that is a man of men! So was his father! Now I will tell Alwa and the others that I bring a man to them! By the teeth of God and my own honor I will swear to it! His first tiger --he had never seen a tiger! --in the dark, and unexpected --caught by it, to all seeming, like a trapped man in a cage --no lamp --no help at hand, or so he thought until it was all over. And he ran at the tiger! And then, 'you come with your shoes on, Mahommed Gunga --why, forsooth?' Did you hear him? By the blood of Allah, we have a man to lead us!