They said, "If we put a hoe into the water, or the smallest bit of iron, it sinks immediately.

How then can such a mass of iron float?
it must go to the bottom." The minority answered that this might be true with them, but white men had medicine for everything.

"They could even make a woman, all except the speaking; look at that one on the figure- head of the vessel." The unbelievers were astonished, and could hardly believe their eyes, when they saw the ship float lightly and gracefully on the river, instead of going to the bottom, as they so confidently predicted.

"Truly," they said, "these men have powerful medicine." Birds are numerous on the Shupanga estate.

Some kinds remain all the year round, while many others are there only for a few months.