He was a person of dignified carriage, and his tone conveyed some measure of rebuke.
"You are within half a mile of the Iriwarri River, if you know where that is," he replied,--"about seventy-two miles southeast of the Darawaga Settlement." "The devil! Then I am in German East Africa ?" "Without a doubt." "And you are German ?" "I have that honour." Dominey whistled softly.
"Awfully sorry to have intruded," he said.

"I left Marlinstein two and a half months ago, with twenty boys and plenty of stores.

We were doing a big trek after lions.

I took some new Askaris in and they made trouble,--looted the stores one night and there was the devil to pay.
I was obliged to shoot one or two, and the rest deserted.

They took my compass, damn them, and I'm nearly a hundred miles out of my bearings.
You couldn't give me a drink, could you ?" "With pleasure, if the doctor approves," was the courteous answer.
"Here, Jan!" The boy sprang up, listened to a word or two of brief command in his own language, and disappeared through the hanging grass which led into another hut.