These man carried big and heavy matchlocks, and in the hand of one of them was a smoking fuse.

That was all we could make out of the thing.
"Why did you leave the far country and come to this land, O Motombo ?" I asked.
"Because we were afraid that other white men would follow on your steps and avenge you.

The Kalubi of that day ordered it, though I said No, who knew that none can escape by flight from what must come when it must come.

So we travelled and travelled till we found this place, and here we have dwelt from generation to generation.

The gods came with us also; my brother that dwells in the forest came, though we never saw him on the journey, yet he was here before us.