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Billy understood Swahili well enough at that time to gather that they could not understand the Memsahib's wanting the meat "kibokoed"-FLOGGED. Was it a religious rite, or a piece of revenge? They gave it up. "All right," said Mahomet patiently at last. "He say he do it. Part of our supplies comprised tins of dehydrated fruit.
This was the only man to be formally kibokoed on the whole trip a good testimony at once to C.'s management, the discrimination we had used in picking them out, and the settled reputations we had by now acquired. After C.'s return we prepared to penetrate straight back through the great rampart of mountains to the south and west.
Once indeed he was slack and casual, so I promptly ordered him to be "kibokoed," and thereafter I could find no fault in his work and behaviour. Possessed of three wives, for he was passing rich on sixteen rupees a month, he asked one day for leave to celebrate the arrival of his first son.
"Tell me, then, what is to be done?" Cazi Moto repeated the gist of what had been said. Kingozi nodded. "That is it." "Bwana?" Cazi Moto hesitated. "Yes. Speak." "That woman. Shall she be kibokoed or killed?" Kingozi caught back a chuckle. "No," he said gravely. "That will wait for later.
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