Thus the Amasomi, a small people who were amongst the first to arrive, soon left.

Only, for some reason which I never quite understood, Masapo, Mameena and a few of Masapo's children and headmen were detained there; though perhaps, if she had chosen, Mameena could have given an explanation.
Well, things began to happen.

Sundry personages were taken ill, and some of them died suddenly; and soon it was noted that all these people either lived near to where Masapo's family was lodged or had at some time or other been on bad terms with him.

Thus Saduko himself was taken ill, or said he was; at any rate, he vanished from public gaze for three days, and reappeared looking very sorry for himself, though I could not observe that he had lost strength or weight.

These catastrophes I pass over, however, in order to come to the greatest of them, which is one of the turning points of this chronicle.
After recovering from his alleged sickness Saduko gave a kind of thanksgiving feast, at which several oxen were killed.