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Before Kingozi they parted to right and left, forming an aisle leading to his chair. Down this the women came, one by one, still singing, and deposited their burdens at the white man's feet. There were baskets of m'wembe, earthen bowls of eggs, fowls, gourds of milk, bundles of faggots and firewood, woven bags of n'jugu nuts, vegetables, and two small sheep.
He is a very powerful chief next to the sultani. Are not you afraid that your treatment of him will make trouble? You were not polite." "What else have you heard?" "This sultani has apparently several hundred villages. They keep goats, fat-tailed sheep, and some few cattle. They raise m'wembe, beans, peanuts, and bananas. They have a war caste of young men." Kingozi listened to her attentively.
Thence shortly appeared other women with huge burdens of firewood carried by means of a strap, after the fashion of the Canadian tump-line; and still others with m'wembe, bananas, yams, eggs, n'jugu nuts, and gourds of smoked milk. Evidently M'tela did not do things by halves. The customary routine of the camp went on.
The visitor concluded his remarks which as far as they could be understood were entirely general: and, with a final courtly wave of the hand, turned away. Then Kingozi spoke, abruptly, curtly. "Have your people bring me eggs," he said, "milk, m'wembe." The old man, somewhat abashed, made the most dignified retreat possible through the keenly attentive audience of his own people.
The safari remained encamped at this spot all the next day, and the day succeeding. Natives came into camp, at first only the men, hesitatingly; then the women. A brisk little trade sprang up for yams, bananas, m'wembe meal, eggs, and milk.
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