Still, if you're proud, I ain't.

I'll try to soften the stony heart of Mavovo--we are rather pals, you know--and get him to unroll the book of his occult wisdom," and he went.
A few minutes later I was called out to receive a sheep which, with milk, native beer, some corn, and other things, including green forage for the donkeys, Bausi had sent for us to eat.

Here I may remark that while we were among the Mazitu we lived like fighting cocks.

There was none of that starvation which is, or was, so common in East Africa where the traveller often cannot get food for love or money--generally because there is none.
When this business was settled by my sending a message of thanks to the king with an intimation that we hoped to wait upon him on the morrow with a few presents, I went to seek Sammy in order to tell him to kill and cook the sheep.

After some search I found, or rather heard him beyond a reed fence which divided two of the huts.