Nearly every tribe had its secret chest, and our friend Laputa had the use of them all.

Of course the difficulty was changing the diamonds into coin, and he had to start I.D.B.on a big scale.

Your pal, Henriques, was the chief agent for this, but he had others at Mozambique and Johannesburg, ay, and in London, whom I have on my list.

With the money, guns and ammunition were bought, and it seems that a pretty flourishing trade has been going on for some time.

They came in mostly overland through Portuguese territory, though there have been cases of consignments to Johannesburg houses, the contents of which did not correspond with the invoice.