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Updated: June 6, 2025
A sobered Akasava city woke up and rubbed its eyes to find strange Ochori sentinels in the street and Bosambo in a sky-blue table-cloth, edged with golden fringe, stalking majestically through the high places of the city. "This I do," said Bosambo to a shocked N'gori, "because my lord Sandi placed me here to hold the king's peace."
"Lord," said Bosambo, "you put shame on me," and he looked his reproach. "I am really surprised at you, Hamilton," murmured Bones. "Keep your infernal comments to yourself," snapped his superior. "I tell you I must wait for my instructions."
It was too loud a noise, that M'shimba M'shamba made for the lokali man of the Ochori to hear the message that N'gori sent the panic-message designed to lure Bosambo to the newly-purchased spears. Bones heard it Bones, standing on the bridge of the Zaire pounding away upstream, steaming past the Akasava city in a sheet of rain.
He might swoop down upon a warlike people, surprising them to their abashment, rendering their armed forces impotent, but exactly what would happen afterwards he had not foreseen. "I go back to my city," he said. "And my spears?" "Also they go with me," said Bosambo.
Liberties they might take with Bones; but they sat discomforted in palaver before this alien chief, swathed in monkey tails, his shield in one hand, and his bunch of spears in the other. "All things I know," said Bosambo, when they told him what they had to tell, "and it has come to me that you have spoken lightly of Tibbetti, who is my friend and my master, and is well beloved of Sandi.
Bones stared at the other in amazement, suspicion, hope, and gratification in his face. "O, Bosambo," said he mildly, and speaking in the native tongue, "why do you call me by that name?" "Lord," said Bosambo, hastily, "by this name are you known from the mountains to the sea. Thus all men speak of you, saying: 'This is he who does not sleep but watches all the time."
Give them a passage through your territory, for they seek a holy land, and find them high places for the digging of holes, for they seek truth. Now peace on your house, Bosambo." "On my ship, by channel of rocks."
"I know 'um, I no speak 'um, sah," said Bosambo, "I be good fellah, sah, no Yadasi fellah, sah I be Peter feller, cut 'em ear some like, sah!" "You're a naughty old humbug," said Bones, and went to bed on the Zaire leaving Henry with the chief's wife.... In the dark hours before the dawn he led his Houssas across the beach, revolver in hand, but came a little too late.
And, lord, do not the people of the Ochori say that this child M'sambo is the light of his father's life? O ko! Bosambo shall be sorry." Later they walked in the forest speaking, for they had no fear of the spirits which the last slanting rays of the dying sun unlocked from the trees.
"Lord Iberi," agreed his rival, "that is also in my mind let us go to this robber of our food and say the palaver shall finish to-morrow, for I do not care whether the island is yours or mine if we can send Bosambo back to his land." "You speak my mind," said Iberi, and on the morrow they were blunt to the point of rudeness. Whereupon Bosambo delivered judgment.
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