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Allan and the Holy Flower

CHAPTER XI
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On the following day, whilst searching for six lost goats, he was captured by Arabs who, he heard afterwards, were out looking for this white woman.
The day after the man had told me this, he was seized with inflammation of the lungs, of which, being in a weak state from his sufferings in the slave gang, he quickly died.

Now you will understand why I was not particularly anxious to revisit Kilwa." "Yes," I said, "we understand that, and a good deal more of which we will talk later.

But, to change the subject, where do you come from now, and how did you happen to turn up just in the nick of time ?" "I was journeying here across country by a route I will show you on my map," he answered, "when I met with an accident to my leg" (here Stephen and I looked at each other) "which kept me laid up in a Kaffir hut for six weeks.

When I got better, as I could not walk very well I rode upon oxen that I had trained.

That white beast you saw is the last of them; the others died of the bite of the tsetse fly.


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