IN AFRICAN FOREST AND JUNGLE 



has fled from his tribe or village on being accused 

 of witchcraft." 



Rogala got up and went for his gun ; then he said : 

 " Oguizi, let us go in search of that man. We must 

 capture him, for who knows but he may have dis- 

 covered our camp ^ " 



Taking " Bulldog " with me, we started, Rogala 

 whispering to me, as we went along, the well-known 

 caution : " Let us not make more noise than a leopard 

 in search of prey, or a fish swimming." 



We came to the little stream where I had seen the 

 footprints. Rogala said to me, after he had looked at 

 them: ''This man has taken this rivulet as a path, 

 and followed the water.'* 



With these words he did the same thing. I followed, 

 and we waded down with the current. We had not 

 walked more than one hour when Rogala gave a low 

 click and pointed with his finger to a particular 

 spot near a big tree. Looking in that direction, I saw 

 a man under a koola tree picking up some of the nuts 

 that had fallen on the ground, breaking them with 

 a stone, and eating them voraciously. He had evi- 

 dently been starving. 



We hid behind a tree, and watched silently the 

 movements of the stranger. We did not dare to 

 whisper for fear of being heard. 



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