A FIGHT WITH THE TUBUS 19 



in the air, shook them and passed on, shouting : " The white 

 man has shown us the way home to Chad." 



As the Kachella entered the town, the women and 

 children pressed round him, asking the news, and he told 

 them of the killing of the Tubu chief. But, when they 

 begged him for news of their own dead, he would not speak, 

 for he had not the heart to hear women weep. Then the 

 women waited, watching till all the warriors had come in, 

 so that the missing might be told. And all night long the 

 hours were broken by the wail of women, calling upon their 

 dead men to return. 



