You try him.' Thereupon Gaudian set about questioning me, and his questions were very thorough.

I knew just enough and no more to get through, but I think I came out with credit.

You see I have a capacious memory, and in my time I had met scores of hunters and pioneers and listened to their yarns, so I could pretend to knowledge of a place even when I hadn't been there.

Besides, I had once been on the point of undertaking a job up Tanganyika way, and I had got up that country-side pretty accurately.
'You say that with our help you can make trouble for the British on the three borders ?' Gaudian asked at length.
'I can spread the fire if some one else will kindle it,' I said.
'But there are thousands of tribes with no affinities.' 'They are all African.

You can bear me out.