They will know whether a leaf has been turned over by the wind or by human agency! But to continue my narrative.

Yamba was very anxious that I should stay and make my home among her people, and so, with the assistance of other women, she built me a substantial beehive-shaped hut, fully twenty feet in diameter and ten feet high.

She pointed out to me earnestly that I had everything I could possibly wish for, and that I might be a very great man indeed in the country if only I would take a prominent part in the affairs of the tribe.

She also mentioned that so great was my prowess and prestige, that if I wished I might take unto myself a whole army of wives!--the number of wives being the sole token of greatness among these people.

You see they had to be fed, and that implied many great attributes of skill and strength.