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Updated: June 21, 2025
"You know what rifles are like," I said indignantly. "Can you see any in our hands? Moreover, I give you my word that we have none." Komba bowed politely, but suggested that perhaps some "little guns," by which he meant pistols, remained in our baggage by accident. Komba was a most suspicious person.
"Oh!" replied Komba, who evidently was not yet quite himself, "that is where the white lord Dogeetah, Bausi's blood-brother, set his little canvas house when he was here over twelve moons ago." "Really!" I exclaimed, "he never told me he was here." "One of our people who was fishing in the reeds saw him." "Oh! that explains it, Komba.
At this moment, however, Mavovo called attention to his bundle which he had undone, whether on purpose or by accident, I do not know, and forgetting the tobacco, Komba turned to attend to him. With a marvellous celerity Hans rolled up his blanket again. In less than a minute the lashings were fast and it was hanging on his back.
"Look, Komba has made my box ready," and he pointed to a new case with the lid off. "How thoughtful of him!" I said. "But show us the spears before it gets quite dark." He went to one of the newer coffins and intimated that we should lift off the lid as he was afraid to do so. I shoved it aside.
In the midst of them, by the light of the rising sun, I recognised Komba, who ran up, a great spear in his hand, and for a moment halted amazed. Then it was that the catastrophe happened which nearly cost us all our lives.
I suppose out of the huts, and assisted to make the canoe fast. I noted that these all resembled Komba and his companions in build and features; they were so like each other that, except for the difference of their ages, it was difficult to tell them apart.
"Aye, lord Macumazana, may the teeth of the god meet in his brain for that trick; yes, may he die as I know how to make him die. That prophecy of which he told you is no prophecy from of old. It arose in the land within the last moon only, though whether it came from Komba or from the Motombo I know not.
It is clear that you have a good deal to learn in Pongo-land." "Yes, my lord Macumazana, and so perhaps have you," he replied dryly, having by this time recovered his nerve and sarcastic powers. Then after telling Mavovo, who appeared mysteriously at the sound of the shot I think he was stalking us in case of accidents to fetch men to cut up the rhinoceros, Komba and I proceeded on our walk.
"Wait till I claim to be either, O butcher of a Zulu, before you threaten to treat me thus!" ejaculated Hans, indignantly. When we had landed and collected our belongings, Komba told us to follow him, and led us up a wide street that was very tidily kept and bordered on either side by the large huts whereof I have spoken.
Once, since I saw you, Dogeetah, I should have visited the White God that dwells in the forest on the mountain yonder, to scatter the sacred seed. But I feigned to be sick, and Komba, the Kalubi-to-be, 'who has passed the god, went in my place and returned unharmed.
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