No more will they go to war; no more will they lead razzis to ravage the camps of their neighbours, for they will have given up pillage altogether; but perhaps in a bank, which will take the place of the tent of their Amenokal, they will try to float rotten companies, and mines which exist nowhere but in the imagination of their chiefs. What will they be then? Not pillagers but thieves!
Truth to tell, I think I prefer my marauders, who fall on their prey like the lion Ahar!
AN AFRICAN CAMEL.
AN ISOLATED TREE AT FAFA.
CHAPTER VI
FROM FAFA TO SAY
Our dread of the passage of the river at Fafa may have seemed almost childish, and we have since had experience of many another like it, but for a first attempt it must be admitted it was rather a teaser.
Narrow and much encumbered, made more difficult by a violent current, such is the pass of Fafa.