"The first we ever heard of the stuff was in the lazaretto in Zanzibar." "True.

Juma told us.

Juma probably told them that we told him.
Natives often put the cart before the horse without the slightest intention of lying." "All the same, why should they believe him ?" "Why not?
Zanzibar's agog with the story--after all these years.

The ivory must have been buried more than a quarter of a century ago.

Some one's been stirring the mud.