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In the Heart of Africa

CHAPTER IX
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You engaged yourselves to me for the whole journey, and you received an advance of wages to provide for your families during your absence.

You have lately filled yourselves with meat, and you have become lazy; you have been frightened by the footprints of the Bas-e; thus you wish to leave the country.

To save yourselves from imaginary danger, you would forsake my wife and myself, and leave us to a fate which you yourselves would avoid.

This is your gratitude for kindness; this is the return for my confidence, when without hesitation I advanced you money.

Go! Return to Katariff to your families! I know that all the excuses you have made are false.


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