Part 28 (1/2)
”No, bwana”
”Then go and get the ali woman” [Gali, same as Hindustani kali--cruel, hard, fierce, terrible]
”Nonsense! Steal theit here to ade Muhaood Moslem”
”Very well Back to your old business with you! Preach Islam up and down the country Go and tell all the tribes in British territory that the Ger soon to establish an e! Does that suit you?”
”Yes, bwana Howthe !”
Hassan went, after a deal of polite salaa the German's breakfast, and unless I chose to confess myself an eavesdropper it became my business to be in the tent ahead of them
So I strode forward as if just arrived and purposely tripped over a tent-rope, stuy
”Who are you?” de He had the splay shovel beard described to us in Zanzibar--big dark uns, skins and antlers He was in night-shi+rt and trousers--bare feet--but with a helmet on the back of his head
”A visitor,” I answered, ”staying at the hotel--out for a --saw your tents in the distance, and came out of curiosity to find out who you are”
”My naetting up There was no other chair near the awning, so I had to re that Hassan had either not done so already, or else that he led the pronunciation as to nition on Schillingschen's face
The boys reached the tent with his breakfast, and one of theed a chair fro for the professor to invite me
”I'm tired,” I said, untruthfully, minded to refuse an invitation to eat, but interested to see whether he would invite me or not
”Have you any friends at the hotel?” he asked, looking up at me darkly under the bushi+est eyebrows I ever saw
”I've got friends wherever I go,” I answered ”Iout a foot for his boy to pull a stocking on
”That depends,” I said
”On what?”
”On whether I get e to think what iht-shi+rt off over his head, throwing the helorilla for the boy to hang day-clothes on hi with luhtened his reseive you work,” he said presently, beginning to eat before the boy had finished dressing him
”I want to travel” I said ”If I could find a job that would take th and breadth of this land, that would suit me finely”
”That is the kind of alishes?”