‘Who are you?’ called Chil.
‘Mowgli, the man-cub!’ came the reply. ‘Watch where they take me, and tell Baloo and Bagheera.’
Monkeys can travel fast when they want to, and by now Baloo and Bagheera were a long way behind.
‘We cannot follow the Bandar –log through the trees,’ said Baloo, ‘and we will never catch them. But they are afraid of kaa, the big python. He can climb as easily as the monkeys, and he eats them. Perhaps he will help us.’ And so Baloo and Bagheera went to look for kaa the python.
They found him, lying in the sun-ten of brown-and –yellow snake, beautiful and dangerous.
‘What news?’ called kaa when he saw them.
‘We are looking for food,’ said Baloo. He knew that you must not hurry kaa. He is too big.
‘Let me come with you,’ said Kaa hungrily. ‘I have not eaten for day.’
‘We are following the Bandar-log,’ said Baloo. ‘Those noisy, dirty thieves have stolen our man-cub. And we love our man-cub very much, Kaa!’