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tliere Lave given him trade, although he may have 

 been well treated in the meantime, had plenty given 

 him to eat, and a fine woman lent him as a wife. 

 When you go to the Apono country in order to get 

 a slave on trust from your friend the chief, or some 

 large tusk of ivory from an elephant he has killed, 

 you are not satisfied until he has sent you hack to 

 your village with the slave or the ivory ; and your 

 friend never fails to send you hack with your desire 

 granted. It is the same if you go to a man whose 

 daughter you are very fond of, and who has promised 

 to give her to you as a wife. For if, when you go to 

 his house to get his daughter, instead of her he gives 

 you plenty of food, your heart is not glad, though 

 you have plenty to eat. The food will taste hitter, 

 for it is not what you came for ! 



" So it is with me : I am not happy. I have not 

 come to you, Mayolo, to make trade, to get slaves 

 and ivory, or to marry jonr daughters. If I had 

 come for these things, I am sure they would have 

 been given to me long ago. (The assembly here all 

 shouted ' Yes ! they would have been given to you 

 long ago ! ') 



" But you all know that I have not come for these 

 things. I told you when I came, and you knew it 

 before, that I wanted to go further away. I love you 

 and your people. (Interruptions of ' We know you 

 love us.') You have been kind to me and to my men. 

 Though some of them have slept with your women, 

 you have done nothing to them. You have given us 

 plenty to eat ; you have stolen nothing from my men 

 or from me ; I have been here as if in my own 



