If youwant to be sick, Baas, please dont mind me,
for Ill turn my back.
But were Ito do this, I should indeed be the first
of fools. Inall Africa I scarcely know a gorge that is so eerie and
depressing.
Now the Baas willnot say that I tell lies, no, not
for quite a week.
Did you chance to take refuge from that storm in a
cave, Macumazahn?
Of course, they are uselessto them, as they do not
trade. If youwant to be sick, Baas, please dont mind me, for Ill turn my back.
According to what I have been told, it does muchmore.
Certainly, I reflected, he would not haveinvented
them. Of course, they are uselessto them, as they do not trade.
I have often thought it, Macumazahn, for reasons
that I keep tomyself.
Of course, they are uselessto them, as they do not
trade. It is strange that the thought comes to me ofpictures.
Inall Africa I scarcely know a gorge that is so
eerie and depressing.
Thats howwe poor witch doctors gain repute, just by
keeping our eyes and earsopen. They dwell in the forests, andbetween them and the
Walloos there is perpetual war. No, Bushman or not, that artist was drawingsomething
that he had seen, or thought that he had seen. Let me hear, who would learn
whetheryours are the same as my own.
Curiosity aboutsuch matters, as perhaps you have
guessed, was always one of mybesetting sins.
How did I learn that the lightning killed your
pole-oxen, Kaptein andDeutchmann?
For, Baas, I do not want to meet Heu-Heu; the
thought of himturns my stomach cold. Macumazahn,come and stand by me, and you,
Yellow Man, turn your back so that youface the fire.
Then I suppose that I must try to discover for
myself, but how, how? If there is any Heu-Heu, he is but a big ape, andliving or
dead, I am not afraid of any ape.