enough he stopped and said in a kind of Arabic which I could understand,

I greet you, Strangers, in the name of her I serve. I see that I am just in time, but this does not surprise me, since she said that it would be so. You seem to have done very well with these dogs, and he prodded a dead Amahagger with his sandalled foot. Yes, very well indeed. You must be great warriors.

Then he paused and we stared at each other.