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." Now from all the company went up a great gasp, and the Kalubi fell down upon his face again, and lay still.

Only the Motombo seemed to show no surprise, perhaps because he already knew the story.
"Is that all ?" he asked.
"No, O Mouth of the god.