Part 48 (1/2)
”Doesn't help us much”
”No; but when I took it off the rock I could hear a faint rue and the canon where the river disappears”
”Co”
”Yes; but as far as I couldin the cliff on that side big enough to hold a s's nest”
”Better luck to- questions about the pool, don't give yourselves away”
But when the chief's mother came up the next day, she never breathed a word about the pool She talked of the ”good white man” who had lived in the cave when Muata was a boy
”Often have I sat here and talked with hi”
”Let us hear, ht us how to till the land, so that it would produce other crops than manioc The e the spear-heads and the hoes for the tilling
Medicine he made from the leaves and the juices of the trees, and he bade the woe
But the thing he saidhere in peace, in a place set aside for the weak, it e saw that no strangers who ca will take fro--”too sht I heard the sound of battle in the valley but two days since”
”It ht serve Hassan as a robber's den; but I spoke of other people--whiteof words,” she said, ”the talk was ever of white ainst those very men who eat up the land and the waters”
”But what use would this little spot be to them? In a short time it will be too small for your own people”
”When that day coo to the land of my fathers, where my son will find his kraal”
”You ant many canoes, mother, when that day colance, ”that you white ood boat-builders Aye, I have seen your boats on the great river, ings and with fire”
”Our boat--the one you sat in--the boat down in the pool, has wings,” said Venning, innocently
”Muata the chief tells one Wow! The place is taboo; I knew the spirit people would take it; but you can build others”
”We have no tools”
”Wow! You could make them”
”We have no skill in such work”
The oman pondered ”He, the white man who lived here, consulted a familiar he carried much with hie iron”