He was good and wise, very good, our father the maseua," he added, sighing deeply.
"Will you help me to learn and become uakanyi ?" Okoya turned to him now with flashing eyes.
"I will, surely I will.

You shall become one of us.

But you know, brother, that you must be silent and keep your tongue tied.

You must not say to this or that one, 'I am learning, I have learned such and such things, for I am going to become uakanyi.'" Okoya of course assented.

Then he asked,-- "I am not uakanyi, and can the Hishtanyi Chayan tell me to go along too with the men to strike the Tehuas ?" "Certainly, for there are not many of us, and in the Zaashtesh all must stand up for each, and each for all.