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known old Lupo for many years, and long ago 
promised him that if ever I came to Savage 
Island I would take some of his family into 
my service. 
“ Thank you very much,” said the polite 
Soseni, speaking in English, and then he and 
his friends bade me good-day, and somewhat 
hurriedly left me. (I learnt half an hour after¬ 
wards that they at once called an emergency 
meeting of the town council, and passed a law 
that no member of Lupo’s family but Moemoe 
was to take service with the new white man 
under any excuse ; also that if any of Moemoe’s 
relatives were seen hanging about the premises 
on the look-out for a job the general public 
were at liberty to stone them.) 
Just as I reached the gate leading to the 
house I heard angry voices from the back ; then 
followed the sound of blows, accompanied by 
much bad language, and presently three men 
and four women rushed down the path, pursued 
by a hundred or so of people of both sexes, 
who assailed the fugitives with showers of 
stones. Old Lupo came out to meet me. 
“ What is all this row, Lupo ? ” Lupo 
smiled pleasantly and said it was nothing— 
