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Yet he could not move from where he had planted himself without risking the displeasure of his chief and without also risking very serious consequences in other directions. Bosambo, frankly bored, was all for retiring his men to the comforts of the Ochori city.
Thus M'bisibi predicted, and the word went up and down the river, for the prophet was old and accounted wise even by Bosambo of the Ochori. It came to Hamilton quickly enough, and he had sent Bones post-haste to await the advent of any unfortunate youngster who was tactless enough to put in an appearance at such an inauspicious moment as would fulfil the prediction of M'bisibi.
Yet then, as Notiki said under his breath, or openly, or by innuendo as the sentiment of his company demanded, four and twenty canoes laden with the fruits of taxation had come to the Ochori city, and five only of those partly filled had paddled down to headquarters to carry the Ochori tribute to the overlord of the land.
This much Hamilton was to learn: for Tibbetts had been sent with a party of Houssas to squash effectively an incipient rebellion in the Akasava, and having caught N'gori in the very act of most treacherously and most damnably preparing an ambush for a virtuous Bosambo, Chief of the Ochori, had done no more than fine him ten dollars.
"Lord, I am your eyes in the Ochori," he said with truth, "and God knows I report faithfully." Hamilton nodded. He was yellow with fever, and the hand that filled the briar pipe shook with ague. All this Bosambo saw.
"Lord, of you I have heard," said Bosambo, politely; "here in the Ochori country we talk of no other thing than the new, thin Lord whose beautiful nose is like the red flowers of the forest." "Leave my nose alone," said Bones, unpleasantly, "and tell me, Chief, what killing palaver is this I hear? I come from Government to right all wrongs this is evidently his nibs, Bosambo."
It was held on Ochori territory, for the forbidden strip was by this time so thickly planted with young trees that there was no place for a man to sit. "Lord," said Bosambo, "if you will return me the land which you have stolen, so that I may pass unhindered from one part of my territory to the other, I will give you many islands on the river."
A wedge so definite as to cut off nearly a thousand square miles of his territory, for beyond this border lay the lower Ochori country. "How may I reach my proper villages?" he asked Sanders, who had known something of the comedy which was being enacted. "You shall have canoes at the place of the young gum trees and shall row to a place beyond them," Sanders had said.
"There is only one thing to do," he said, "and that is to consult jolly old Bosambo." So he put the head of the Zaire to the Ochori country, and on the second day arrived at the city. "Lord," said Bosambo, loftily, "crocodiles I have by thousands." "Green ones?" asked Bones anxiously. "Lord, of every colour," said Bosambo, "blue or green or red, even golden crocodiles have I in my splendid river.
"It seems to me," he said, "that you are of the Ochori." "Lord, I was of the Ochori," said the messenger, "but now I am with Mimbimi, his headman, following him through all manners of danger. Therefore I have no people or nation wa! Lord, here is my message." Sanders nodded. "Go on," he said, "messenger of Mimbimi, and let your news be good for me."
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