This he did not relish at all.

"Oh, great Englishman! why should we refer a dispute to an inferior.

I am the great chief of all this country.

Ingleze mokolu, you are sorry that you have to give so much for the ox you have eaten.
You would not take a smaller, and therefore I gratified your heart by giving the larger; and why should not you gratify my heart by giving cloth sufficient to cover me, and please me ?" I said that my cloths would cover him, and his biggest wife too all over, he laughed at this, but still held out; and as we have meat, and he sent maize and calabashes, I went away.

He turns round now, and puts the blame of greediness on me.