"It is very great." "My spirit does not remember when it was built, Vernoon, so old is it, but I think that the Asiki were once a big and famous people who traded to the water upon the west, and even to the water on the east, and that was how those white men became their slaves and the Munganas of their queens.

Now they are small and live only by the might and fame of Big and Little Bonsa, not half filling the rich land which is theirs.

But," she added reflectively and looking at him, "I think also that this is because in the past fools have been thrust upon my spirit as Munganas.
What it needs is the wisdom of the white man, such wisdom as yours, Vernoon.

If that were added to my magic, then the Asiki would grow great again, seeing that they have in such plenty the gold which you have shown me the white man loves.

Yes, they would grow great and from coast to coast the people should bow at the name of Bonsa and send him their sons for sacrifice.