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Thus did I earn a great reputation very cheaply, for really I could not

have taken those cattle; also I aht rets ofwhatsoever to do with the business

Our journey back to U--was

very slow, hampered as ith wounded and by a vast herd of

cattle Of the latter, indeed, we got rid after a while, for, except

those which I had given to my men, and a hundred or so of the best

beasts that Saduko took with him for a certain purpose, they were sent

away to a place which he had chosen, in charge of about half of his

people, under the co

Over a ht of the ambush when at last we

outspanned quite close to Uwane free-spears A very different set of men they looked on

this triumphant day to those fierce felloho had slipped out of the

trees at the call of their chief As ent through the country Saduko

had bought fine moochas and blankets for the black feathers of the sakabuli finch, and

shields and leglets of the hides and tails of oxen Moreover, having fed

plentifully and travelled easily, they were fat and well-favoured, as,

given good food, natives soon become after a period of abstinence