They were attracted by this idea; so it was not long before they were stripped, and striped from head to heel with black mud, like so many zebras--all of them chiefs, of course--and then they went tearing through the woods to attack an English settlement.
Els atragué la idea: així és que no passa gaire estona que no esdevinguessin ratllats, i ratllats de cap a peus amb fang negre, com altres tantes zebres (tots tres eren caps de tribu, naturalment), i se n'anaren, fent aldarull, boscs a través, a atacar una colonia anglesa.