Part 14 (1/2)
”I cannot, of course, guarantee your life,” he said, at parting, ”and I must warn you that the Government will not be responsible for any injury that coe knowingly, ”but I am not to be deterred I coenealogical reminiscences short; ”but the last traveller as 'chopped' in the bush was a D'Arcy, and his people came over with the Conqueror”
The correspondent took the straight path to Lukati, and at the end of the third day's reat witch-doctor, Kelebi
George pitched his cae, and, accompanied by his four Houssas, paid a call upon the chief, which was one of the first mistakes he made, for he should have sent for the chief to call upon him; and if he called upon anybody, he should have reater man than forty chiefs
In course of tiround outside the doctor's house, engaged, through the ht from Sierra Leone, in an animated conversation with the celebrated person
”Tell hireat white chief whose heart bleeds for the native”
”Is he a good e
The witch-doctor, with the recollection of Sanders' threat, said ”No!”
”Why?” asked the Hon George eagerly ”Does he beat the people?”
Not only did he beat the people, explained the witch-doctor with relish, but there were tie,” said George, wagging his head warningly; nevertheless he wrote with rapidity in his diary:-
”Interviewed Kelebi, respected native doctor, who states:
”'I have lived all my life in this district, and have never known so cruel a man as Sandi (Sanders) I remeet; on another occasion he burned a worthy native alive for refusing to guide hih the forest I also re the people great suffering
”'The people of the country groan under his oppressions, for fro money and crops, and if he does not receive all that he asks for he flogs the villagers until they cry aloud'”
(I rather suspect that there is truth in the latter state the hut-tax, which is the Governe shook his head when he finished writing
”This,” he said, ”looks very bad”
He shook hands with the witch-doctor, and that aged villain looked surprised, and asked a question in the native tongue
”You no be fit to dash hi,” said the interpreter
”Dash hiin”
”Certainly not,” said George ”Hea service to hu the cause of a down-trodden people”