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the Wa Kamba went down to the river’s edge 
to fill his calabash with water, when a crocodile 
suddenly rose up out of the stream, seized the poor 
fellow and in a moment had dragged him in. I was 
on ahead at the time and so did not witness the 
occurrence, but on hearing the cries ot the others I 
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A CROCODILE ON THE SABAKI, 
ran back as quickly as possible—too late, however, 
to see any sign of either crocodile or native. 
Mahina philosophically remarked that after all it was 
only a washenz (savage), whose loss did not much 
matter ; and the other three Wa Kamba certainly 
did not appear to be affected by the incident, but 
calmly possessed themselves of their dead com- 
