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After recovering fro feast, at which several oxen were killed I was present at

this feast, or rather at the last part of it, for I only put in whatno taste for such native

gorgings As it drew near its close Saduko sent for Nandie, who at

first refused to come as there were no women present--I think because he

wished to show his friends that he had a princess of the royal blood

for his wife, who had borne hireat in the

land For Saduko, as I have said, had become a "self-eater," and this

day his pride was inflamed by the adulation of the coth Nandie did co her babe, fronified, ladylike fashion (although it seee, I know none that describes her better) she

greeted firsta feords

to each of theth she came opposite to Masapo, who had dined

not wisely but too well, and to hier than to the others, inquiring after his wife, Mameena, and

others At the moment it occurred to me that she did this in order to

assure him that she bore no malice because of the accident of a while

before, and was a party to her husband's reconciliation with him