Finally he propounded the articles of such a peace. These, it was
clear, had been carefully prepared, but to set them out would be
useless, since they never came to anything, and I doubt whether it was
intended that they should. Suffice it to say that they provided for
intermarriage, free trade between the countries, blood-brotherhood,
and other things that I have forgotten, all of which was to be
ratified by Bausi taking a daughter of the Kalubi to wife, and the
Kalubi taking a daughter of Bausi.
We listened in silence, and when he had finished, after a pretended
consultation between us, I spoke as the Mouth of Brother John, who, I
explained, was too grand a person to talk himself, saying that the
proposals seemed fair and reasonable, and that we should be happy to
submit them to Bausi and his council on our return.
The Kalubi expressed great satisfaction at this statement, but
remarked incidentally that first of all the whole matter must be laid
before the Motombo for his opinion, without which no State transaction
had legal weight among the Pongo.
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