"
He paused, then asked sharply:
"Have you anything more to say, O Kalubi-that-is-to-be? Now of a
sudden the god puts it into my mouth to ask if you have anything more
to say?"
"Something, O Motombo. Many moons ago the god bit /off/ the finger of
our High Lord, the Kalubi. The Kalubi, having heard that a white man
skilled in medicine who could cut off limbs with knives, was in the
country of the Mazitu and camped on the borders of the great lake,
took a canoe and rowed to where the white man was camped, he with the
beard, who is named Dogeetah, and who stands before you. I followed
him in another canoe, because I wished to know what he was doing, also
to see a white man. I hid my canoe and those who went with me in the
reeds far from the Kalubi's canoe. I waded through the shallow water
and concealed myself in some thick reeds quite near to the white man's
linen house. I saw the white man cut off the Kalubi's finger and I
heard the Kalubi pray the white man to come to our country with the
iron tubes that smoke, and to kill the god of whom he was afraid.
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