that they had stolen medicines , cultivated for the use of the king 's own subjects , was only the least offense ; the foremost , that they had offered a territorial challenge , by invading in the company of their own ancestors , as kefentse considered the dragons of the formation to be ; and in league with enemy tribes had been stealing their children , for which he offered as one portion of evidence that they had been traveling with a man of the lunda , notorious kidnappers - mrs. erasmus paused and said unevenly , `` - he means my husband . ''