OLA FINDS A HUSBAND. OT 
isolated huts scattered about the mountains, each dwelling 
having its own strong little enclosure. Altogether the huts 
numbered about five hundred. Many of the Burle visited 
the camp, along with their chief, Arshal Shada. The peopl 
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were of medium height and rather slim, with pinched, u 
black countenances. 
The chief exercises the divine right of a king, his people 
believing that he can bring about whatever changes in 
nature he wishes by sacrificing animals to some strange 
power with whom he is in league. They use the term 
Wak, but they do not believe there is only one Wak, or 
God, who governs all creation, but think that every leader 
has a Wak of his own. For instance, they inquired of 
Dodson whether my Wak was not much more powerful 
than the Wak of the Arbore, as the latter had been so 
badly beaten. The two Watu guides now left us, taking 
Ola along with them. She said she was going to marry 
the one I had seen flirting with her, and appeared quite 
calm at the prospect. I asked her if she intended going 
through any marriage ceremony, to which she replied that 
the only preliminary formality she would have to undergo 
would be to fight the bridegroom’s two other wives. 
