I could go and come and command without restraint, but when the trading parties went down to the coast I was not permitted to accompany them.

That was the one restriction placed upon my movements.
"Also, it is very tottery in the high places, and when I began altering their political structures I came to grief again.

In the process of binding together twenty or more of the neighboring tribes in order to settle rival claims, I was given the over-lordship of the federation.
But Old Pi-Une was the greatest of the under-chiefs,--a king in a way,--and in relinquishing his claim to the supreme leadership he refused to forego all the honors.

The least that could be done to appease him was for me to marry his daughter Ilswunga.

Nay, he demanded it.