Do You Think If We Went To Suwarora's You Would Ever See
Us Back Again?
You would wait and wait for us, but we should
never return." To which I replied, "Oh, Baraka, do not think so!
Bombay, if he were here, would go in a minute. Suwarora by this
time knows I am coming, and you may depend on it he will be just
as anxious to have us in Usui as Makaka is to keep us here, and
he cannot hurt us, as Rumanika is over him, and also expects us."
Baraka then, in the most doleful manner, said he would go if the
Pig would. The Pig, however, did not like it either, but said
the matter was so important he would look into the magic horn all
night, and give his answer next morning as soon as we arrived at
Mihambo.
On arrival at Mihambo next day, all the porters brought their pay
to me, and said they would not go, for nothing would induce them
to advance a step farther. I said nothing; but, with "my heart
in my shoes," I gave what I thought their due for coming so far,
and motioned them to be off; then calling on the Pig for his
decision, I tried to argue again, though I saw it was no use, for
there was not one of my own men who wished to go on. They were
unanimous in saying Usui was a "fire," and I had no right to
sacrifice them.
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