Not That I Doubt For One Minute But That His Representatives Would Have Honoured My Book; For The Generosity And Helpfulness Of West African Traders Is Unbounded And Long-Suffering.

But I did not like to encroach on it, all the more so from a feeling that I might never get through to refund the money.

So at last I paid the equivalent value of the coat out of my own trade-stuff; and the affair was regarded by all parties as satisfactorily closed by the time the gray dawn was coming up over the forest wall. I went in again and slept in snatches until I got my tea about seven, and then turned out to hurry my band out of Egaja. This I did not succeed in doing until past ten. One row succeeded another with my men; but I was determined to get them out of that town as quickly as possible, for I had heard so much from perfectly reliable and experienced people regarding the treacherousness of the Fan. I feared too that more cases still would be brought up against Kiva, from the resume of his criminal career I had had last night, and I knew it was very doubtful whether my other three Fans were any better than he. There was his grace's little murder affair only languishing for want of evidence owing to the witnesses for the prosecution being out elephant-hunting not very far away; and Wiki was pleading an alibi, and a twin brother, in a bad wife palaver in this town.

Enter page number Go  Previous Next
Page 296 of 705
Words from 82003 to 82263 of 194943