There never was a savage like that Kazimoto of ours for getting results out of that gang.

Put him on the same chain with the lot of 'em, and we'll all be satisfied! I don't presume to be running your jail, but I'm telling you facts that'll hurt nobody.

Those porters 'ud be a darn sight better off with plenty of exercise." "Do I understand you to ask that your porters be made prisoners ?" asked the commandant.
"You get me exactly!" said Will.
The commandant grunted, nodded, waited for us to get up and salute him, grunted again with disgust when we did nothing of the sort, turned on his heel, and walked off.

We spent an hour on tenterhooks, and I began to believe the German had simply become more suspicious than ever and would keep closer watch on us without troubling at all about the men.
But at the end of an hour we saw the porters rounded up, and a chain fetched out that was long enough to hold them all.

They disappeared within the boma wall.