Sporting Trips of a Subaltern 



secured them both. One had a sword and dagger 

 under his tobe, the other a sword and bow and 

 arrows; the arrows and dagger had been lately 

 poisoned, so it was fortunate we didn't give them 

 time to use them. 



As the villagers were now brandishing weapons 

 and shouting, half my men kept an eye on them 

 with loaded carbines and fixed bayonets, while 

 the other half stripped the "witch doctors " of 

 all their weapons and charms. We then held 

 them up in turn by the arms and legs, and soundly 

 flogged the devils out of them with my hippo-hide 

 whip, and then let them rush naked and yelling 

 away. 



This total upset of the ju-ju pleased my men 

 hugely, and, as my interpreter put it, they said 

 " White man's ju-ju pass black man's ju-ju too 

 much." The villagers troubled us no more, 

 though, as a precaution, I thought I would try 

 a bit of ju-ju on my side before night, so, taking 

 care they should see what I was doing, I scratched 

 a big circle round oui little encampment of about 

 a hundred yards' radius with my sword point, 

 and had a message shouted to them, that any 

 man crossing it would immediately and surely 

 die. 



I believe Wa-wa had eventually to be done 

 away with. 



Now a word as to my interpreters. They were 

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