This Hafela knows, and Nodwengo knows it also, and each of them has summoned his following, numbering thousands and tens of thousands of spears, to attend this feast of the first-fruits.

That feast may well be a feast of vultures, my father, and when the brothers and their regiments rush together fighting for the throne, what will chance to the white man who comes at such a moment to preach a faith of peace, and to his servant, one John, who led him there ?" "I do not know," answered Owen, "and it troubles me not at all.

I go to carry out my mission, and in this way or in that it will be carried out.
John, if you are fearful or unbelieving leave me to go alone." "Nay, father, I am not fearful; yet, father, I would have you understand.

Yonder there are men who can work wizardry.

_Wow!_ I know, for I have seen it, and they will demand from you magic greater than their magic." "What of it, John ?" "Only this, my father, that if they ask and you fail to give, they will kill you.