Part 3 (2/2)
”Didums, you drunkard, we're dead and in another world! Juma is the one-eyed Calender! Look--fisherrin!--soldiers of fortune--ad, there's Sindbad himself!--and say! If that isn't the Sultan Haroun-al-Raschid in disguise I'e Yerkes! Look--look at the fat ruffian's stoer, will you?”
Yerkes sized up the situation quickest
”Sing hi, Fred If ant to strike up acquaintance with half Zanzibar, here's our chance!”
”Oh, Richard, oh, !” huain with the harp reversed”
If Zanzibar hfares, thatof ours commanded as much of one as the tree and wall permitted; and music--even of a concertina--is the key to the heart of all people whose hair is crisp and kinky Perhaps rather owing to the generosity of their slave law, and Koran teachings, more than to racial depravity, there are not very many Arabs left in that part of the world with true seht hair, nor many woolly-headed folk who are quite all-Bantu There is enough Arab blood in all of the-time music to take therew, and gathered until a policeman in red fez and khaki knickerbockers caht on his hands, and no sympathy from any one, within two er--he whom Fred called Haroun-al-Raschid--took a hand inhim out of the crowd, and nobody was troubled any more by that official
”That him Tippoo Tib's nephew!” said a voice, and we all jumped We had not noticed Juue relationshi+p in these parts,” said Monty
”Do you mean Tippoo's brother was thatslave long ago f' concubine Tippoo Tib his wife's brother That chile Tippoo Tib's nephew Tea ready, bwana”
-----------------Bwana, Swahili word ?”
”Do for a living?” Juma was bewildered
”What does he work at?”
”Not working”
”Never?”
”No
”Has he private means, then?”
”I not understand Tea ready, bwana!”
”Has he got mali?” Fred demanded
”Mali? No Hi possession, property
”Then how does he exist, if he has no mali and doesn't work?”
”Oh, one wife here, one there, one other place, an'
Tippoo Tib byu food”
”How many wives has he?”
”Tea ready, bwana!”
”How do they co questions at hian to look as if he would have preferred a repetition of the toe-nail incident)