The fifth is the heavy sleep you say held everybody on board that particular night, which suggests to me that your food may have been drugged.

The sixth is the apathy displayed by those employed in the search, which suggests to me that some person or persons in authority may have been bribed, as is common in the East, or perhaps frightened with threats of bewitchment.
The seventh is that a night was chosen when a wind blew which would obliterate all spoor whether of men or of swiftly travelling camels.
These are enough to begin with, though doubtless if I had time to think I could find others.

You must remember too that although the journey would be long, this country of the Kendah can doubtless be reached from the Sudan by those who know the road, as well as from southern or eastern Africa." "Then you think that my wife has been kidnapped by those villains, Harut and Marut ?" "Of course, though villains is a strong term to apply to them.

They might be quite honest men according to their peculiar lights, as indeed I expect they are.

Remember that they serve a god or a fetish, or rather, as they believe, a god _in_ a fetish, who to them doubtless is a very terrible master, especially when, as I understand, that god is threatened by a rival god." "Why do you say that, Quatermain ?" By way of answer I repeated to him the story which Hans said he had heard from the old woman at Beza, the town of the Mazitu.