Excerpt: ...he not be killed in the hut?" inquired Bakahenzie. "If a leopard and a wild-cat break in, then wilt thou not kill the leopard first?" "Even so," retorted Bakahenzie; "then is water stronger than beer, even as the beer does reveal?" Birnier nearly smiled in recognition of the hit. "Nay, does not beer make the fool to talk foolishness? Dost thou then cast away the banana? Does not one pg 165 talk foolishness also who is sick and yet discardeth good medicine, because he feareth to poison his belly?" "Even so," said ...
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Excerpt: ...he not be killed in the hut?" inquired Bakahenzie. "If a leopard and a wild-cat break in, then wilt thou not kill the leopard first?" "Even so," retorted Bakahenzie; "then is water stronger than beer, even as the beer does reveal?" Birnier nearly smiled in recognition of the hit. "Nay, does not beer make the fool to talk foolishness? Dost thou then cast away the banana? Does not one pg 165 talk foolishness also who is sick and yet discardeth good medicine, because he feareth to poison his belly?" "Even so," said Bakahenzie obstinately, "does the sick man exorcise the good medicine lest an enemy hath made magic thereupon?" "Then," said Birnier, whose only objection to the ceremony was the delay and the messiness, "let the good medicine be purified." Bakahenzie grunted and covertly took stock of the tent and equipment visible. Upon the pile of cases stacked just inside the tent his eyes rested some time, but he would not make any inquiry. Marufa, too, was occupied in the same manner. Bakahenzie was recalling the previous meeting with Birnier in the village of MFunya MPopo -of that day when Birnier had not made any attempt to impress the native mind with "magic" other than the ordinary "miracles" in the routine of a white man's life. "When the Son-of-the-Snake," inquired Birnier, who had learned as much of the hagiocracy as Mungongo knew, "hath taken up the Burden, wilt thou then drive Eyes-in-the-hands from the country?" Bakahenzie slowly withdrew his eyes from the fascinating case as far as Birnier's booted foot. "Hast thou, white man, the magic twig that makes fire?" he demanded. "Even so." Birnier took a box of matches from his pocket and struck one. Bakahenzie and Marufa watched him solemnly. Then a lean bronze hand was outstretched. Birnier gave him the box. Slowly and gravely Bakahenzie, pg 166 the chief witch-doctor, extracted a match, turned it over and over, smelt it, tasted it, ...
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