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had once to hide our man Carl for three days in 
our room. A man supposed (wrongly) that Carl 
said he stole a knife, and he waited ky our door 
all that time with his spear ready. The matter 
was finally explained and the man pacified. 
One day Kobez, our cook, was washing : a few 
young men from another village were visiting 
our village of Ritabel, and being very curious 
regarding our house, which had been erected 
since their last visit, they were making them- 
selves at home inside. Kobez deprived them of 
the pleasure of watching him by shutting the 
door, but they kept peering through the chinks, 
and making loud and eager remarks. I suppose 
Kobez was irritated, for be pitched a cupful of 
soapy water just where their eyes were. Of 
course, in any civilised country, one might throw 
water at one's will in the interior of a dwelling ; 
but these savages know no such niceties of law, 
and you should have heard the tumult ! We 
really expected to be attacked, and it was only 
after many hours that we felt out of danger. 
One morning the most appalling shrieking and 
moaning arrested our attention. Two men had 
quarrelled over a piece of cloth ; one had taken 
the other’s child, and had a cord round its neck 
to hang it. There was he running with the child 
