I Complied At Once, By Way Of Offering A Special Mark Of Respect
And Friendship, And On The Reliance That
He would keep his word.
The scoundrel, however, no sooner got the articles, than he said
a man had just
Come there to inform hi that I gave Pongo ten
wires and ten cloths; he, therefore, could not be satisfied until
I added one more wire, when, without fail, he would beat the
drums. It was given, after many angry words; but it was the old
story over again - he would have one more wire and a cloth, or
else he would not allow us to proceed on the morrow. My men,
this time really provoked, said they would fight it out; - a king
breaking his word in that way! But in the end the demand had to
be paid; and at last, at 9 P.M., the drums beat the satisfaction.
From this we went on to the north end of Wanga, in front of which
was a wilderness, separating the possessions of Rohinda from
those of Suwarora. We put up in a boma, but were not long
ensconced there when the villagers got up a pretext for a
quarrel, thinking they could plunder us of all our goods, and
began pitching into my men. We, however, proved more than a match
for them. Our show of guns frightened them all out of the place;
my men then gave chase, firing off in the air, which sent them
flying over the fields, and left us to do there as we liked until
night, when a few of the villagers came back and took up their
abode with us quietly.
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