CHAPTER XXV 



I FIND STRANGE FOOTPRINTS ON THE BANKS OF A 

 RIVULET — ROGALA AND I SET OFF IN PURSUIT — 

 WE FIND A MAN UNDER A KOOLA TREE — SUR- 

 PRISE AND CAPTURE HIM — TERROR OF OUR CAP- 

 TIVE—WE TAKE HIM TO CAMP AND DISCOVER 

 HE IS A CANNIBAL 



/^NE day I had not walked two hours when I 

 ^^^ was startled by the discovery of two human 

 footprints on the banks of a little rivulet. They 

 looked so fresh that I thought the man had been 

 there but a short time before me. I looked around, 

 but saw no one, and heard nothing. I held one of 

 my revolvers ready to fire at sight. 



I hurried back to the camp and told Rogala of my 

 discovery. He listened attentively, and then said with 

 much earnestness : " I wonder if the Bakalais of the 

 village we left have sent a spy to see where we live 

 and learn what we are doing." 



"No fear of that, Rogala," I said; "no Bakalal 

 would dare to follow the Oguizi. The man is either 

 an elephant hunter or a runaway slave, or a man who 



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