and he half drew sword . ' `` Nay , '' said Hugh . `` I think they ask us to league against some enemy . '' ' `` I like this not , '' said Witta , of a sudden . `` Back into mid-stream . '' ` So we did , and sat still all , watching the black folk and the gold they piled on the bank . Again we heard drums beat in the forest , and the people fled to their huts , leaving the gold unguarded . ` Then Hugh , at the bows , pointed without speech , and we saw a great Devil come out of the forest . He shaded his brows with his hand , and moistened his pink tongue between his lips -- thus . ' ' A Devil ! ' said Dan , delightfully horrified . ` Yea . Taller than a man ; covered with reddish hair . When he had well regarded our ship , he beat on his chest with his fists till it sounded like rolling drums , and came to the bank swinging all his body between his long arms , and gnashed his teeth at us . Hugh loosed arrow , and pierced him through the throat . He fell roaring , and three other Devils ran out of the forest and hauled him into a tall tree out of sight . Anon they cast down the blood-stained arrow , and lamented together among the leaves . Witta saw the gold on the bank ; he was loath to leave it . `` Sirs , '' said he -LRB- no man had spoken till then -RRB- , `` yonder is what we have come so far and so painfully to find , laid out to our very hand . Let us row in while these Devils bewail themselves , and at least bear off what we may . ''
` Bold as a wolf , cunning as a fox was XXXXX !
Anon Dan Devils Hugh Nay Witta body lips mid-stream ship