Is it true that your boat is going up the river?
Soh Hay tells me that it is so." "Yes; one of the chiefs, Sehi Pandash, wishes to place himself under our protection, and he has sent to ask that the ship might go up and fire her big guns, that the tribes round may see that he has strong friends who can help him." "It is two days' rowing up the river to my place from his, and when you are there I shall come down to see you.

Sehi is not a good chief; he quarrels with his neighbors, and shelters their slaves who run away to him; he is not a good man." "Well, we shall all be glad to see you, chief, and I hope that you will bring your daughter with you.

She has won all our hearts, and we shall miss her sadly." "I will bring her if I can do so safely," the chief said gravely; "but I am no friends with Sehi; he stops my trade as it comes down the river, and takes payment for all goods that pass down.

It is because he knows that many of us are angered that he wishes to put himself under your protection.

I think that you do not do well to aid so bad a fellow." "We did not know that he was a bad fellow, chief.