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Updated: June 13, 2025
"This way, 'Nkos', this way!" whispered my guide excitedly, leading the way toward the lower edge of the depression; and, walking fast, I followed him, with Jan bringing up the rear.
Accordingly, Piet having signified that I was graciously willing to accord an audience, 'Ngaga approached, halted at the distance of six feet from me, flung up his right hand, and sonorously uttered the salute "'Nkos'!" Then he stood motionless, awaiting my pleasure. I replied. "You would have speech with me? Then say on. My ears are open." He said "
'Ngaga seemed suddenly disconcerted. He stood silent for a full minute or more, apparently plunged in disquieting thought. Then he spoke, deprecatingly. "'Nkos'," he said, "how shall I answer thee? Mafuta is a strange and wilful man, impatient of authority, and distrustful of strangers; moreover, he loves not white men: therefore it may well be that he will refuse what thou dost ask of him.
Yet so it was; for while upon my approach to the town it had been quite exceptional for a native to salute me, upon my departure from it every man I met punctiliously gave me "'Nkos'!" as I passed him.
"Do you yield and admit yourself beaten, 'Mfuni?" I demanded in a low voice. "I yield; I am beaten, 'Nkos'," answered the man, lowering his hands. "Strike me now through the heart, I pray thee, and save me from the torture of the ants." "Wait!" I enjoined him briefly.
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