Bones / Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country

great stake on the edge of the forest by the Mountain. This they s

ose dull days, for the stake stood for danger. It marked the boundary of the N'g

goats and sprinkling of blood, divinations, incantations, readings of devil marks on sandy foreshores; all right and proper ceremo

si, and even the N'gombi-Isisi, must have had full faith in its potency, for he never moved beyond that border. Once, so legend said, he brought his terrible warriors to the very edge of the land and paid homage to the innocent sign-post which Sanders had set up and which announced no more, in plain English, than trespassers will be pr

tarnish the prestige in Tumbilimi's eyes, and though the raids upon his territory by Mimbimi had been mild, the truculent chief, disdainin

to detach from his enemy were in fact detached from him and were discovered one morning at the very gates of his city for his horrified subjects to marvel at. When warlike discussions arose, as they did at infrequent intervals, it was the practice of the people to send complaints to Sanders and leave him to deal with the matter. You cannot, however, lead an army against a dozen guerrilla c

d no river for himself, but was content to wai

into the interior and the Zaire had been placed at his disposal. A heaven-sent riot in the bushland, sixty miles west of the Residency, had relieved both Sanders and Ha

breath as they stood on a little concrete quay,

iver. Besides, he is giving the Ochori a wide berth, and it is to the Ochori that

he precautions he had taken for the safety of the Minister, and the fact that neither he nor Hamilton were accom

herever he could and spoke long and eloquently on the blessing of civilization, and the glories of the British flag-all this through an interpreter-of how he went into the question of basket-making and fly-fishing, and of how h

n himself, on the strength of his rout, the position of chieftainship. This he did with on

y of reasons, such as the prevalence of Beri-Beri, the insidious spread of sleeping sickness, the irritation of mala

e attention which was shown to him, broke the restricting rule that Sanders had laid down, quitted the comfor

ping his throat, and a fierce voice whispering into his ear something

en caught him and bound him deftly with native rope, a gag was put into his mouth, and he was dragged cautiously through a hole which the intruders had cut in the w

he river, dumped him into a canoe and padd

st. On their way they met a huntsman who had been out overnight after a leopard, and in the

ef who is lord of the forest of Bim-bi, sends word that he has taken the