Yabolo

The figure of Yabolo, a short throwing sword in hand, moved towards him and squatted down, muttering greetings.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

Neither Yabolo nor Sakamata, as Bakahenzie, could comprehend a chief and a warrior making such a fuss over a girl.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

When MYalu persisted in bitter reproaches to Yabolo and

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

Yabolo contended that they send an envoy to make terms, but not very insistently.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

Yabolo knew that he was doomed; that every man knew that he was doomed.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

Yabolo and MYalu stiffened as they observed the cringe of the shoulders as he fumbled hastily within his loin-cloth and presented

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

Next morning he despatched a secret messenger to Yabolo, making a rendezvous at a certain village and with a weeping Bakuma in his train set out to seek the rest of his fortune at the camp of Eyes-in-the-hands.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

At length came a young slave from Yabolo who, after saluting, delivered a message from Yabolo requesting that Zalu Zako receive him and his relative, Sakamata, who had weighty news for him.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

Behind again marched Mungongo bearing a smouldering brand of the Sacred Fire; then Yabolo, reinstated in office for a reason that any politician will understand.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

Yabolo repeated the message from the spirit of Tarum.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle