CHAP TER XO 
TRYING TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE ARBORE — I FIND MYSELF IN A DANGEROUS 
POSITION, SURROUNDED BY DANCING AND YELLING WARRIORS — ‘TREACH- 
ERY — DESCRIPTION OF THE ARBORE — SOUNDS OF WAR— THE ARBORE 
ATTACK OUR Camp — FIGHT IN THE BusHES — THE THREE PROUD KINGS 
— WE CAMP NEAR THE ARBORE VILLAGES — I FORCE THE ARBORE TO EX- 
CHANGE MANY OF THE CATTLE AND DONKEYS FOR TRADING Goops — THE 
LAST OF MY MULES — WE VISIT THE BURLE — OLA FLIRTS WITH ONE OF 
MY Boran GuipEs — THE BURLE OR BurRA — RELIGIOUS FORMS — OLA 
FINDS A HusBAND — SHE DESCRIBES HER WEDDING CEREMONY. 
HE Arbore collected in groups about the cornfields, 
but they paid no attention to our repeated friendly 
calls for a long time. 
It looked very much as if we were going to have war, until 
eleven men approached the camp, just as it was getting dark, 
bearing branches in their hands. They were too frightened 
to come very near at first, so, taking my interpreter, I went 
over to where they were standing. One of the eleven ran 
away, although there were only two of us; but the other ten 
stood their ground, and waited until I came up to them 
and handed them some grass. They told me they were 
only the poor people of the Arbore, who had been ordered 
to guard the durrha fields, but they would carry the news 
to the villages that we were friends. I gave them to under- 
stand that I needed guides, and also cattle and donkeys, 
and that I had plenty of trading goods to pay for these if 
the Arbore would sell. The natives left, professing peace ; 
but there was something in their manner that made me 
suspicious, and caused us to keep a strict guard all night. 
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