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And Mali, moved suddenly by some half-obliterated impulse, exclaimed in concert, in a terrified voice, "Let us pray to Methodist God in heaven!" For her life, too, hung on the issue of that rash endeavor. In Tu-Kila-Kila's temple-hut, meanwhile, the jealous, revengeful god, enshrined among his skeletons, was having in his turn an anxious and doubtful time of it.
"They say, 'Thank you, Queenie, for rain and fruits," Mali answered, unconcerned, bustling about in the hut. "Missy want to wash him face and hands this morning? Lady always wash every day over yonder in Queensland." Muriel nodded assent. It was all so strange to her.
To Sheikh Hamed, by permission of Sheikh Thani, and myself was allotted the task of guiding and leading this great caravan through dreaded Ugogo; which was a most unhappy selection, as will be seen hereafter. Marenga Mali, over thirty miles across, was at last before us.
And that was all; to her quite a commonplace, everyday history. "I see," Muriel cried. "Then you've been for three years in Australia! And there you learned English. Why, what did you do there?" Mali looked back at her with the same matter-of-fact air of composure as before. "Oh, me nurse at first," she said, shortly.
Attonitus novitate mali, divesque miserque, Effugere optat opes; et quoe modo voverat, odit. But it is impossible that men should not sooner or later have made reflections on so wretched a situation, and upon the calamities with which they were overwhelmed.
Toward this the eyes of the spectators were turned. "What is it, Mali?" Muriel whispered, her woman's instinct leading her at once to expect that something special was going on in the way of local festivities. And Mali answered at once, with many nods and smiles, "All right, Missy Queenie. Him a wedding, a marriage."
"That's the bride, I suppose," Muriel whispered, now really interested for what woman on earth, wherever she may be, can resist the seductive delights of a wedding? "Yes, her a bride," Mali answered; "and ladies what follow, them her bridesmaids."
The Eyes of Tu-Kila-Kila, who stood watching the huts with lynx-like care, nodded twice to Toko, the Shadow, as he passed between them; then they stealthily turned and dogged the two men's footsteps afar off in the jungle. Muriel was left by herself in the hut, face to face with Mali. "Let us pray, Mali," she cried, seizing her Shadow's arm.
If, in a district where Ibans have been long settled, the farm-pests become very noxious, the people pass three days MALI and then make a tiny boat of bark, which they call UTAP. They then catch one specimen of each kind of pest one sparrow, one grasshopper, etc. and put them into the small boat, together with all they need for food, and set the boat free to float away down the river.
"That bibi is a great memsahib," he told Mali-ya-bwana. "And this evening we will go to see her. Be you ready to go also." In the early darkness of equatorial Africa Kingozi, accompanied by Mali- ya-bwana with a lantern, crossed over to the other camp. Simba and Cazi Moto had come in almost at dusk; but they were very tired, and Kingozi considered it advisable to let them rest.
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