"You wanted two men, great one. I am the second."
"But we go far, while the moon is many times at the full."
"You go towards the setting sun, Ngonyama, and there also goes the son of the Inkosikase."
"But your people?"
"I have said my say with them. They are in peace, and they can live in peace; but is Muata a goat that he should live in a kraal? Wow! I am a Hunter, like this little one;" and he patted the jackal on the head.
"We are only too glad to have you, chief, if your mind is fully made up?"
"See, Ngonyama, I thought to live in ease and grow fat, but the spirit of my mother called out upon me—ay, it fought within me—and I go for the hills and the open plains. Behold, I am no longer chief." He took the long blue feather from his head, and let it glance to the water. "My shield is your shield."
He sat down in the bows with his face toward the river, and the boys laughed as they worked the levers.
"Ripping!" said Compton, feeling quite happy, as he touched his precious journal.
"As good as finding a new butterfly," said Venning.