In a few minutes he was ushered into the hut.

Far from being abashed, he entered with a loud laugh, totally different from his former dignified manner.

"Well, here you are at last!" he exclaimed.

Apparently highly amused with our wretched appearance, he continued, "So you have been to the M'wootan N'zige! Well, you don't look much the better for it; why, I should not have known you! ha, ha, ha!" I was not in a humor to enjoy his attempts at facetiousness; I therefore told him that he had behaved disgracefully and meanly, and that I should publish his character among the adjoining tribes as below that of the most petty chief that I had ever seen.
"Never mind," he replied, "it's all over now.

You really are thin, both of you.