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The sais is always at hand to hold the mount and is supposed to take care of it after hours. The foregoing members of our personally conducted party, therefore, included: Head-man 1 Gunbearers 4 Askaris 4 Cook 1 Tent Boys 4 Porters 80 Saises 4 "Totos" 20
I have never said you have fleas. C'etait pas moi, tu sais. JaMAIS, c'etait un autre. Peutetre c'etait Mexique" turning his head in Mexique's direction and roaring with laughter "Hello, HEH-LOH. Barbu? Tu sais, Barbu, j'ai jamais dit ca. Au contraire, Barbu. J'ai dit que vous avez des totos" another roar of laughter "What? It isn't true? Good. Then. What have you got, Barbu? Barbu?
The head-man and the four gunbearers get seventy-five rupees a month, the askaris fifteen rupees, the cook forty rupees, the tent boys twenty and twenty-five rupees, depending upon experience, the porters ten rupees, and the saises twelve rupees. The totos get nothing except food and lodging, as well as experience, which may be valuable when they grow up to be porters at ten rupees a month.
This, then, was the dramatic situation at about twelve o'clock noon on November fifteenth, eight miles east of the Nzoia River, near Mount Elgon: Eight cow elephants, two totos, one ex-president with a double-barreled cordite rifle thirty yards away, supported by three other hunters similarly armed, with native gunbearers held in the rear as a supporting column.
The sounds breaking out so unexpectedly in the silent night were enough to freeze the blood in one's veins. I never heard such frantic screams like those that might come from a torture-chamber. One of the porters had become infuriated by one of the totos small boys who go along to help the porters and had started in to beat him.
Then he tells Atticus that he too has endeavored to console himself by writing a treatise on Consolation. "Whole days I write; not that it does any good." In that he was wrong. He could find no cure for his grief; but he did know that continued occupation would relieve him, and therefore he occupied himself continually. "Totos dies scribo." By doing so, he did contrive not to break his heart.
"Toujours les totos," they cried merrily when I explained the prescription. A spirit of good-fellowship pervaded the compartment, till even the suspicious civilian unbent, and handed round post-card photographs of his two sons who were somewhere en Champagne.
We had considerable difficulty in impressing this elementary truth on our hill-bred totos until one day, hearing wild shrieks from the direction of the river, I rushed down to find the lot huddled together in the very middle of a sand spit that-reached well out into the stream.
I carried it about in my pocket; sometimes, at rare intervals, spelling out some word in mai or in totos, and casting a glance on the interleaved crib; but more often letting the volume repose by me on the grass and crushed mint of the cool yard under the fig tree, while the last belated cicala sawed, and the wild bees hummed in the ivy flower of the old villa wall.
This is a mere supposition without regard to fact; that implies an expectation, that the case will sometimes happen. Cetera intecti. Uncovered as to the rest of the body, cf. 6: nudi aut sagulo leves. Totos dies. Acc. of duration of time. Agunt==vivunt. Fluitante. The flowing robe of the southern and eastern nations; stricta, the close dress and short clothes of the northern nations.
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