He had found other sources of labour and started them at once on clearing work, scornfully indifferent to the often-expressed doubts of the English surveyor as to possibility of making the road at all.

He had chosen overseers with that swift and intuitive insight into character which in his case amounted almost to genius.

With a half-sheet of notepaper and a pencil, he had mapped out a road which had made one, at least, of the two surveyors thoughtful, and had largely increased his respect for the English capitalist.

Now he was on his way back from a tour almost to Bekwando itself by the route of the proposed road.

Already the work of preparation had begun.