been confined to the river Sanders would have laid him by the
heels quickly enough, because the river brigand is easy to catch since
he would starve in the forest, and if he took to the bush would
certainly come back to the gleaming water for very life.

But here was a forest man obviously, who needed no river for himself,
but was content to wait watchfully in the dim recesses of the woods.

Sanders sent three spies to locate him, and gave his attention to the
more immediate problem of his Right Honourable guest. Mr. Joseph Blowter
had decided to make a trip into the interior and the _Zaire_ had been
placed at his disposal. A heaven-sent riot in the bushland, sixty miles
west of the Residency, had relieved both Sanders and Hamilton from the
necessity of accompanying the visitor, and he departed by steamer with a
bodyguard of twenty armed Houssas; more than sufficient in these
peaceful times.

"What about Mimbimi?" asked Hamilton under his breath as they stood on a
little concrete quay, and watched the _Zaire_ beating out to midstream.

"Mimbimi is evidently a bushman," said Sanders briefly. "He will not
come to the river. Besides, he is giving the Ochori a wide berth, and it
is to the Ochori that our friend is going. I cannot see how he can
possibly dump himself into mischief."

Nevertheless, as a matter of precaution, Sanders telegraphed to the
Administration not only the departure, but the precautions he had taken
for the safety of the Minister, and the fact that neither he nor
Hamilton were accompanying him on his tour of inspection "to study on
the spot those problems with which he was so well acquainted."

"O.K." flashed Bob across the wires, and that was sufficient for
Sanders. Of Mr. Blowter's adventures it is unnecessary to tell in
detail. How he mistook every village for a city, and every city for a
nation, of how he landed wherever he could and spoke long and eloquently
on the blessing of civilization, and the glories of the British
flag--all this through an interpreter--of how he went into the question
of basket-making and fly-fishing, and of how he demonstrated to the
fishermen of the little river a method of catching fish by fly, and how
he did not catch anything. All these matters might be told in great
detail with no particular credit to the subject of the monograph.

In course of time he came to the Ochori land and was welcomed by Notiki,
who had taken upon himself, on the strength of his rout, th