Note 51 — Chapter XXIII · MATILALL AT SONAGAJI.
G. D. (George Devereux) Oswell translation
Literally— Day and night there were cries of ‘Let us eat,’ ‘Let us eat’— To-day we will eat the elephants out of the elephant stables, and to-morrow the horses out of their stalls.
The reference is to the popular stories current in Bengal about the Rakshashas and Rakshashis, the ogres and ogresses of our English childhood.