"
Then he rose, saluted me with uplifted right hand, collected his
little pile of money and bag of medicines and marched off to the
sleeping hut.
On our way round the house we met my old lame caretaker, Jack.
"/Inkoosi/," he said, "the white chief Wazela bade me say that he and
the cook, Sam, have gone to sleep on board the ship to look after the
goods. Sam came up just now and fetched him away; he says he will show
you why to-morrow."
I nodded and passed on, wondering to myself why Stephen had suddenly
determined to stay the night on the /Maria/.
CHAPTER V
HASSAN
I suppose it must have been two hours after dawn on the following
morning that I was awakened by knocks upon the door and the voice of
Jack saying that Sam, the cook, wanted to speak to me.
Wondering what he could be doing there, as I understood he was
sleeping on the ship, I called out that he was to come in. Now this
Sam, I should say, hailed from the Cape, and was a person of mixed
blood.
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