At least they say that.

You holy, not lawful see your sacred face." "Who do the Asiki think I am, then, Jeekie ?" "They think you your reverend uncle come back after many, many year.
You see, Major, they not believe uncle run away with Little Bonsa; they believe Little Bonsa run away with uncle just for change of air and so on, and that now, when she tired of strange land, she bring him back again.

That why you so holy, favourite of Little Bonsa who live with you all this time and keep you just same age, bloom of youth." "In Heaven's name," asked Alan, exasperated, "what is Little Bonsa, beyond an ancient and ugly gold fetish ?" "Hush," said Jeekie, "mustn't call her names here in her own house.
Little Bonsa much more than fetish, Little Bonsa alive, or so," he added doubtfully, "these silly niggers say.

She wife of Big Bonsa, you see, to-morrow p'raps.

But their story this, that she get dead sick of Big Bonsa and bolt with white Medicine man, who dare preach she nothing but heathen idol.