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Updated: May 5, 2025
Every thing, indeed, which relates to their personal interests, and all their domestic concerns, he listens to with the most patriarchal gravity. Thus, the presents of the Landers to the king, were exhibited two or three times. The presents to Ebo, and also to the head men, were also shown to the people, having been first submitted to the inspection of the king.
The next minute I was quite alone, for in obedience to my uncle's signs, and eagerly falling into his plans, Ebo ran off to get to the back of the little marsh, my uncle also disappearing quietly on my own side, but of course higher up.
I followed my uncle closely, and we had no difficulty in shooting three of the great pigeons, which Ebo pounced upon and carried off in triumph, and in a few minutes they were roasting upon sticks, while our black cook busied himself in climbing a cocoa-tree, from which he detached half a dozen nuts, each of which came down with a tremendous thud.
"But never mind, my boy. Here, hold still and I'll loop on another bait." He was in the act of doing this when Ebo began to dance about in the boat, striving hard to drag in the fish he had hooked. His plan was to haul in as quickly as he could, never giving the fish a moment's rest, and any form of playing the swift, darting creature did not seem to enter his head.
"Man kill gone," repeated Ebo, shaking his spear angrily, and then he kept repeating the word Owe boat, as we went down to the shore. "Let's see if they have left anything in the hut, Nat," said my uncle. "We must have food even if we are stripped."
It was still dark when I was awakened by a hand shaking my arm, and, starting up, there was the black face of Ebo bent over me. "Ikan-ikan," he kept on repeating. "Ikan fish," said my uncle, starting up. "Yes, we may as well get some for a change, Nat;" and in a few minutes we were all down on the sand launching the boat, which rode out lightly over the rollers.
The beating went on, and bird after bird took flight from its lurking-place, some being very beautiful; but no serpent appeared, and I began to feel more bold. Still the beating went on, with Ebo shouting from time to time and my uncle answering, till they could not have been more than fifty yards above me, when suddenly the black seemed to change his tone, shouting excitedly to my uncle.
"They've found it," I said to myself; and in my excitement I forgot all about my fears, and stood there with my eyes sweeping the cane growth and my ears strained to their utmost. All at once, and so close that the noise made me jump, I heard a shot, followed by a shout from Ebo, and a loud crashing noise, as if the canes were being thrashed together with a big stick.
For reply he laughed, pointed to our axes and to the trees, as if to say, What a foolish question when we have all the material here! I was so wearied, and slept so heavily, that I had to be awakened by my uncle long after the sun was up. "Come, Nat," he said, "I want you to make a fire. Ebo has gone off somewhere."
"No wonder your wire was bitten through," said my uncle. "Hallo! is he not good to eat?" Ebo evidently seemed to consider that it was not, for the fish was thrown over, and the fierce monster, that must have been a perfect tyrant of the waters, had not floated a dozen feet before it was furiously attacked and literally hacked to pieces.
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