Part 8 (1/2)

So across the water they went, and ht of the Ochori city, and the Ochori people, hearing that the Akasava people were co, ran away into the woods and hid, in accordance with their custom

The Akasava advanced until they caround and the board with the devil marks

Before this they stood in silence and in awe, and having made obeisance to it and sacrificed a chicken (which was the lawful property of the Ochori) they turned back

After this cah the Akasava country

They brought presents with theht

”What story is this of the Ochori?” asked the Isisi chief in command; so the chief of the Akasava told him

”You may save yourself the journey, for we have seen it”

”That,” said the Isisi chief, ”I will believe when I have seen”

”That is bad talk,” said the Akasava people, ere gathered at the palaver; ”these dogs of Isisi call us liars”

Nevertheless there was no bloodshed, and in thethe Isisi went on their way

The Ochori saw the, and hid in the woods, but the precaution was unnecessary, for the Isisi departed as they cae to the Ochori, N'Gombi, Bokeli, and the Little People of the Forest, ere so shy that they caan to realise a sense of their importance

Then Bosae, appeared on the scene, having crossed eight hundred miles of wild land in the earnest hope that time would dull thehim to a land of milk and honey

Now Bosas He had been steward on an Elder Dempster boat, he had been scholar at a mission school-he was the proud possessor of a bound copy of The Lives of the Saints, a reward of industry-and alish

The hospitable Ochori received hiar-cane, and told hiic After he had eaten, Bosambo walked down to the post and read the inscription-

TRESPassERS BEWARE

He was not i deeply

”This ic I know, because I have white man's blood in my veins”

In support of this statement he proceeded to libel a perfectly innocent British official at Sierra Leone

The Ochori were profoundly moved They poured forth the story of their persecutions, a story which began in re, came down from the north and wasted the country as far south as the Isisi

Bosareater part of a day to tell the story, because the official story-teller of the Ochori had only one -and when it was finished Bosa sought I will stay here”

Aloud he asked:

”How often does Sandi come to you?”