'I thought there was something funny about you, but I didn't know it was I.D.B.you were up to.' He looked as if he could kill me.

For five minutes he cursed me with a perfection of phrase which I had thought beyond him.

It was no I.D.B., he declared, but a pipe which 'Mwanga had discovered.

'In this kind of country ?' I said, quoting his own words.

'Why, you might as well expect to find ocean pearls as diamonds.