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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 of the others I 



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 washenzi (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- 

 panion's bow and quiver of poisoned arrows, and 



