I would not pay a stick of tobacco or a cracked coconut for the best woman in Somo." "Worry not," Bashti went on placidly.

"I shall pay you for the price of the wife, of the two wives.

There is Bubu.

For half a case of tobacco shall I buy her for you.

She is broad and square, round-legged, broad- hipped, with generous breasts of richness.