CHAPTER XXII 



ALARM OF MY HUNTERS AT MY ABSENCE — ROGALA 

 SETS OUT TO SEARCH FOR ME — HIS SUPERSTITIOUS 

 TERRORS — CONSULTS HIS OGANA, OR IDOL — FINDS 

 MY TRACES AT LAST AND FOLLOWS ME TO THE 

 VILLAGE 



MEANTIME, as I did not return to our camp, 

 my hunters became greatly alarmed. They 

 set off in different directions in the forest in search of 

 me. Rogala took Andekko with him, thinking that 

 the dog might scent me, and also Ndova. 



He slept in the forest that night, and at daylight 

 he started again and kept thinking all sorts of things 

 as he walked along. He wondered if I had left 

 him for good, and gone back to the moon or van- 

 ished into the air. If so, what would Rotembo say 

 when he returned without me? He dreaded his 

 chiefs wrath. Then he thought that if I was dis- 

 pleased with him, all would be over with him, for 

 I would send all sorts of evil upon him. Such 

 thoughts crowded upon his mind, one after another. 



But soon he said to himself: "How can the Oguizi 

 be angry with me? Have we not eaten together? 



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