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CHAPTER VI 



CHASED BY A RHINO 



THAT night the camp was much disturbed, not 

 with a roaring lion but with the chief's yelling baby, 

 so next morning I told Ngai, who was still with us, 

 that he and his wife and child had better return 

 home to their own village, at the foot of the 

 Kanjalu hills. The old fellow had been instrumen- 

 tal in procuring for us some half-dozen loads of food, 

 and although this was much less than we had been 

 led to expect, we were forced to make a virtue of 

 necessity and appear to be content with the short 

 supply. 



Before the chief and his family left us we gave to 

 each a small present, as a token of our goodwill. 

 Ngai, who was a keen lover of tobacco, went into 

 ecstasies over a supply which S. gave him; the 

 old man seemed quite loath to part with us, and 

 gave us a most cordial invitation to his village when 

 next we should pass that way. 



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