Joe had provided camp-stools, and the room was soon packed with sitting and standing men, circles of shadowy beings, carelessly clothed, with rough black cheeks and dark eyesa bunch of jabbering aliens, excited, unfriendly, curious, absorbed in their probleman ill-kempt lot and quite unlovely.

Next came along the jabbering landlady: "I don't like his looks.

The monkeys make a jabbering noise, and held on to the bars of their cage with their little black hands, while they looked out at me.

Then Aditi's sounds were something like responses, rising as the internal sounds rose, and as they died awaya jabbering wail of an Eastern tongue.