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Updated: June 3, 2025
Kingozi stared up at him coolly for a moment; then, without removing his pipe from his teeth, he remarked: "Jambo!" The old man, smiling, extended his hand. Kingozi, nursing the bowl of his pipe, continued to stare up at him. "Are you the sultani?" he demanded abruptly. The old man waved his hand in courtly fashion.
Strangely enough he did not mention the ivory stockade, nor did he attempt either to trade or to determine whether or not the sultani knew its value. At the end of eight days he knew what he wished to know. "I shall leave in two days," he told the Leopard Woman. "I should suggest that you go to-morrow. I will send Simba with you to show you the water- hole in the kopje.
At the end of an hour the sultani gave up the contest and appeared, smiling, unconcerned. The men greeted each other, exchanged a few words. Women emerged from the house carrying tembo in gourd bottles, and smaller half-gourds from which to drink it. Their eyes were large with curiosity as to this man and woman of a new species. Kingozi touched his lips to the tembo.
If to-morrow old Stick-in-the-mud drifts around quite on his own, like any other shenzi, and if the women come into camp freely, why then we're all right." "And otherwise?" "Well, if the sultani stays away, and if you don't see any women at all, and if the men are painted and carry their shields they will always carry their spears that won't be so favourable." "In which case we fight?"
Kingozi removed his pipe from his lips, and sat erect. "Stand up!" he commanded sharply. "If you are not the sultani how dare you sit down before me!" The youth whisked the stool away: the old man covered his discomfiture in a flow of talk. Kingozi listened to him in silence.
The drums, no longer rubbed but beaten in rhythm; the shrill wailing chants of women; the stamp and shuffle of feet; the cadenced clapping of hands rose and fell according to the fervour of the dance. The throb of these sounds was as a background to the evening fierce, passionate, barbaric. After the departure of the sultani Kingozi took a bath and changed his clothes.
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