Does that suggest anything to you, Stephen ?" "Nothing, except that they were probably killed." "You should learn to draw inferences.

It is a useful art, especially in Africa.

It suggests to me that, if you are right, the deed was not done by natives, who would never take the trouble to bury the dead.

Arabs, on the contrary, might do so, especially if there were any bastard Portuguese among them who called themselves Christians.

But whatever happened must have been a long while ago," and I pointed to a self-sown hardwood tree growing from the mound which could scarcely have been less than twenty years old.
We returned to the house to find that our meal was ready.