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Updated: June 14, 2025
The twelve chattering Kroomen who were to go as far as the Bambara country with the expedition were seated two in each canoe. They were along simply as camp attendants and packers and would by no means go any further than the borders of the Bambara country which they said was the dwelling-place of "bery bad man sah."
He paid no attention to Desplaines or his family, but walked straight up to Frank. "Hi boss, you go hunt, you go far into land of Bambara," he said, raising his mighty arm and pointing to the northeast. Frank nodded. It was a strange scene.
The distance that they set between themselves and the bourgeoisie, their very exclusiveness, gave them a certain elevation, and enhanced their value. Each noble represented a certain price for the townsmen, as Bambara Negroes, we are told, attach a money value to cowrie shells.
They were similar in appearance only even more wild-looking than the savages fought off by Frank, Harry and Ben the previous day. Like the others their slashed and scarred faces and clay-daubed lips showed them to belong to one of the fierce cannibal tribes of the Bambara region.
The people of Bambara are the finest in the world. They are brave they fear none. Now, hear me: I know all the names of the slaves in Ghadames: I watch over all their conduct, to punish them when they behave badly, to praise them when they do well. They all fear me. For my trouble I receive nothing. I am a slave myself. I rarely punish the slaves. We have always here more than two hundred.
"Long live the Pope!" he cried, filling the glasses all around. "I assure you that this Bambara worries me," Spardek went on with great dignity. "Do you know what he has come to? He denies transubstantiation. He is within an inch of the heresy of Zwingli and Oecolampades. Koukou denies transubstantiation." "Sir," said Le Mesge, very much excited, "cooks should be left in peace.
"In the land of Bambara much game," went on the Krooman. "So we have heard," replied Frank. "In the land of Bambara much danger," continued the Krooman, fixing his dark eyes full on Frank, "much danger to the white boys, who fly like birds."
"One two three four five go to Bambara," he intoned. "Come back one two three. Two die. Sikaso, know." Before any of the astounded party could frame a question or open their lips, the huge figure had stalked to the doorway and vanished. "He'd make a nice, comfortable house-pet that fellow," said Billy, who was the first to speak. "One, two, three, four, five go to Bambara," he mimicked.
How he obtained it, the boys never learned exactly, but they heard later that a treacherous attendant of the ivory dealer had sold it to him for a good round sum. "This country down here," he said, indicating it with a black rimmed finger nail, "is the Southern Soudan. Here's the Bambara country to the north of Uasule.
I asked the slave trader where he had found the skeleton," went on the savant, "and he told me he had come across it at the foot of a giant silk cotton tree in the Bambara country." The boys exchanged glances. It was to the Bambara country the country of the legendary Flying Men that they were bound. "Is any more known of this tribe?" inquired Frank.
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