CHAPTER III.
THE SPIT OF PEACE.
The camp was not troubled by the savages during the night.
Trim waked up several times to take a look around and on each occasion the pickets told him that they had seen watchmen of the savages approach near enough to the camp to see that it was quiet, and then retire again.
It was clear, therefore, that the Massais were simply watching Trim to see that he did not go without their permission.
When morning came he found that several hundred blacks were gathered at a spot a little way from the camp, and directly upon the route that he would have followed had he proceeded with his journey to the westward.
The savages were making no noise, and but for the bows and spears they had with them would have seemed like an ordinary crowd of curiosity seekers.
Trim rightly judged that this was a part at least of the native army.
There could be no mistaking their purpose in gathering at that particular place.
It was their intention to prevent the white man from going on.