The Zaire went swinging in to the Government beach, and there was a captain of Houssas to meet him.
"Land wire working?" said Sanders as he stepped ashore.
The Houssa captain nodded.
"What's the palaver?" he asked.
"War of a kind," said Sanders; "some king or other is on the rampage."
And he told the story briefly.
The Houssa officer whistled.
"By Lord High Keeper of the Privy Purse!" he swore mildly, "that's funny!"
"You've a poisonous sense of humour!" Sanders snapped.
"Hold hard," said the Houssa, and caught his arm. "Don't you know that Lo Benguela is in rebellion? The description fits him."