"No, Kali fears Mzimu!"
"What is a Mzimu?"
"An evil spirit."
"Did you ever in your life see a Mzimu?"
"No, but Kali has heard the horrible noise which Mzimu makes in the huts of fetish-men."
"Nevertheless your fetish-men do not fear him."
"The fetish-men know how to exorcise him, and afterwards go to the huts and say that Mzimu is angry; so the negroes bring them bananas, honey, pombe (beer made of sorghum plant), eggs, and meat in order to propitiate the Mzimu."
Stas shrugged his shoulders.
"I see that it is a good thing to be a fetish-man among your people.
Perhaps that snake was Mzimu?"
Kali shook his head.