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Updated: May 7, 2025
One night, dinner had reached the stage where two young officers of Houssas sat primly side by side on the verandah sipping their coffee.
Bones reached the village two hours before the time of sacrifice and landed a force of twenty Houssas and a small Maxim gun. The village was peaceable, and there was no sign of anything untoward. Save this. The village was given over to old people and children. M'bisibi was an hour two hours four hours in the forest. He had gone north east south none knew whither.
"I should have liked to have left a party in the forest," said Sanders; "I shall not rest until we get this thief Mimbimi by the ear." "I should not bother," said Hamilton dryly; "the sobering influence of your name seems to be almost as potent as my Houssas." "Please do not be sarcastic," said Sanders sharply, he was unduly sensitive on the question of such matters as these.
Goodenough and Frank, rifle in hand, crept forward, with the Houssas as still and noiseless as cats close behind them. The hippopotami were playing together, floundering in the shallow water, and the noise they made prevented their hearing the stealthy approach of their enemies. "You take the one nearest shore, Frank, I will take the other. Aim at the forehead between the eyes.
They were accordingly ordered to cut a road to the northeast until they came in contact with them. In doing so they came upon a partial clearing, where a sharp opposition was experienced. The Houssas carried the open ground at a rush, but the enemy, as usual, opened a heavy fire from the edge of the bush.
The messenger came from the forest boldly; he showed no fear of Houssas, but walked through their lines, waving his long stick as a bandmaster will flourish his staff. And when the sentry on the plank that led to the boat had recovered from the shock of seeing the unexpected apparition, the man was seized and led before the Commissioner.
Now all the people of M'fa knew that the father of B'chumbiri and his uncle had put away the tiresome youth with his headache and his silly talk, and when there came news that the Zaire was beating her way to the village there was a hasty likambo of the eldermen. With this arrangement all agreed; for surely here was a palaver not to be feared. Bones came with his escort of Houssas.
One of the bravest and most disciplined races in that part of Africa are the Houssas, a body of whom were at once obtained from Lagos, and who, with some companies of the 2nd West India Regiment and a body of Fanti police, were marched to the front, under the command of Lieutenant Hopkins.
"Me not very much afraid, massa. You good massa to Ostik he no run away if fightee come; but no good fight whole tribe." "I hope not to have any fighting at all, Ostik; but as I have got six Houssas with me who will all carry breech loading guns, I think we should be a match for a good sized tribe, if necessary." Ostik looked thoughtful. "More easy, massa, go without Houssas," he said.
He had forty-five miles to run, and could not have been in till pretty nearly eight o'clock, and these men must have started at once." There was no time lost. While the Houssas were pulling down and packing up the tent Ostik prepared two bowls of chocolate with biscuit soaked in it.
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