After resigning his position as "emperor," Brutus Jones attempts to make good his escape through the forest. His life is in serious danger as there's rebellion in the air. The natives are restless due to Jones's rampant greed and corruption. Jones keeps up a facade of bravado, insisting that he'll shoot himself with a silver bullet should the marauding "natives" get too close. Yet despite this reckless display of defiance, Jones is absolutely terrified at what might happen. It doesn't help when Smithers, the white English trader, spooks him with talks of ghosts and heathen spells. In his mounting desperation, Jones tries to convince Smithers—and himself—that his good standing as a member of the Baptist Church will be enough to protect him from the natives' black magic, from their "heathen tricks" as he calls them. If his "subjects" should attack him, then he warns that they will end up in Hell for their sins.
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