It Was Useless To Remonstrate - Baraka
Insisted He Would Beat The Woman If She Abused Him, No Matter
Whether I
Thought it cowardly or not; he did not come with me
expecting to be bullied in this way - the whole
Fault lay with
Bombay - I did not do him justice - when he proved Bombay a thief
at Usui, I did not turn him off, but now, instead, I showed the
preference to Bombay by always taking him when I went to
Rumanika. It was useless to argue with such a passionate man, so
I told him to go away and cool himself before morning.
When he was gone, Bombay said there was not one man in the camp,
besides his own set, who wished to go on to Egypt - for they had
constant arguments amongst themselves about it; and whilst Bombay
always said he would follow me wherever I led, Baraka and those
who held by him abused him and his set for having tricked them
away from Zanzibar, under the false hopes that the road was quite
safe. Bombay said his arguments were, that Bana knew better than
anybody else what he was about, and he would follow him, trusting
to luck, as God was the disposer of all things, and men could die
but once. Whilst Baraka's arguments all rested the other way; -
that no one could tell what was ahead of him - Bana had sold
himself to luck and the devil - but though he did not care for his
own safety, he ought not to sacrifice the lives of others - Bombay
and his lot were fools for their pains in trusting to him.
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