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for home well satisfied. But what do you think? 
We had scarcely started before a messenger caught 
us up and asked our interpreter to go back as the 
Ete (head chief) wanted him very particularly. 
When he returned to the town, what do you think 
they asked him? Were the eight shilling pieces 
we had given them real money or just buttons? 
They had never seen makara (white stranger's) 
money before, and wanted to make sure ! How 
cautious and prudent, eh? But we got our foot 
in for the Master, and not long afterwards were 
over the borders into the Nsit Country and beyond. 
