CHAPTER XIV 



UNEASINESS OF ROGALA — HE FEARS THE NEW MOON 

 MAY SEE AND BEWITCH HIM— HE BUILDS A SMALL 

 HOUSE AND HIDES IN IT— HE HAS AN ATTACK OF 

 FEVER, WHICH HE ASCRIBES TO WITCHCRAFT 



NOT long after this Shinshooko and Alapai went 

 away, saying that they would return in three 

 or four days and that Rogala would take care of me. 



Rogala seemed to be in an uneasy frame of mind. 

 Something seemed to be disturbing him. I said 

 nothing on the subject, for I felt sure that he would 

 tell me at the proper time. 



One morning he left the camp all alone, and re- 

 turned in the afternoon with a big load of palm leaves. 

 The following day he went again into the forest 

 by himself, and returned with a big load of bark. 

 That afternoon he began to build a very small house, 

 and roofed it with the palm leaves, and then made a 

 sliding door of bark. I wondered at his doings, and I 

 asked him why he made such a small house. 



He answered : " Oguizi, two days from now will 

 be the day of the new moon, and though we cannot 

 see the moon, on account of the trees, her eyes can 



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