Sooner would I be sacrificed to Bonsa." Then came more illegible pages and again a paragraph that could be read--"They gave me 'The Bean' in a gold cup, and knowing its deadly nature I prepared myself for death.

But happily for me my stomach, always delicate, rejected it at once, though I felt queer for days afterwards.

Whereon they clapped their hands and said I was evidently innocent and a great medicine man." And again, further on--"never did I see so much gold whether in dust, nuggets, or worked articles.

I imagine it must be worth millions, but at that time gold was the last thing with which I wished to trouble myself." After this entry many pages were utterly effaced.
The last legible passage ran as follows--"So guided by the lad Jeekie, and wearing the gold mask, Little Bonsa, on my head, I ran through them all, holding him by the hand as though I were dragging him away.
A strange spectacle I must have been with my old black clergyman's coat buttoned about me, my naked legs and the gold mask, as pretending to be a devil such as they worship, I rushed through them in the moonlight, blowing the whistle in the mask and bellowing like a bull.

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