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Updated: May 20, 2025
"And again, after the crops were gathered, Muata went again on the war-trail alone went to the river, followed it down the bank, and the little people led him to a kraal in the wood by the river bank a kraal with a high fence, the kraal of the yellow men-robbers. Muata dived beneath the fence with a short spear in his hand.
Thin and bent was the chief's wife, she who had maidens to wait on her. "At the hiding-place in the forest there were people whose kraals had been burnt by the men-robbers. Outcasts they were, of many tribes, living together without a chief; but the place was fat, and they grew fat, being without spirit. "And Muata the child played with other children and grew.
The people were scattered like goats before the lion. Many were taken by the men-robbers, and many were slain; and among them my father. "The chief's wife, my mother, fled with me into the Great Forest. Many days she lived on roots, and the 'little people' found her in her wanderings. They took her by crooked paths far from the land of her people. Ohe!
After this they sat together learning a polyglot speech that would serve roughly as a medium of exchange. And this was the story of the chief, slowly put together out of these talks "I am Muata the chief. The kraal of my house is toward the setting sun, but the fire no longer burns on the hearth. The men-robbers fell upon the place in the early morning.
Combined with sea piracy, they make frequent land expeditions along the coasts of the different islands, going up the inlets and rivers, and plundering the towns or other settlements situated on their banks. And their booty does not always consist of goods, chattels, and money, but of men, women, and children; for they are men-robbers as well as murderers and pirates.
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