had heard and seen.

"In brief, it is this," replied Kimyera. "I now know to a certainty
where Kalimera lives. I have gone round the village, I know how many
natives are in it, how many herds of cattle, and how many herdsmen and
slaves he has. Kalimera is well. All these I learned from one of his
chief herdsmen with whom I rested a night. I came here straight to let
thee and my foster-parents know it."

"It is very well, my son. Now, Mugema, it is time to move," she said to
the potter. "Uni daily becomes more intolerable to me. I never have
yet mated with him as his wife, and I have been true to the one man who
seemed to me to be the comeliest of his kind. Now that I know Kalimera
lives, my heart has gone to him, though my body is here. Mugema, speak,
my friend."

"Wanyana, my wit is slow and my tongue is heavy. Thou knowest my
circumstances. I have one wife, but many cattle. The two cows, Namala
and Nakaombeh, thou gavest me first, I possess still. Their milk has
always been abundant and sweet. Namala has sufficed to nourish Kimyera
into perfect lustiness and strength; Nakaombeh gives more than will feed
my wife and I. Let Kimyera take his flute, his dogs, Darkness and
Wood-burr, his spears and shield; Sebarija, my cowherd, who taught
Kimyera the flute, will also take his flute and staff, and drive Namala
and Nakaombeh. My wife will carry a few furs, some of the spoils won by
Kimyera's prowess; and, lo! I and my family will follow Wanyana."

"A true friend thou hast been to me and mine, Mugema! We will hence
before dawn. In Willimera thou shalt receive tenfold what thou leavest
here. The foundling of the clay-pit has grown tall and strong, and at
last he has found the way to his father and his father's kindred."

And as Wanyana advised, the journey was undertaken that night, and
before the sun arose Wanyana, Mugema and his wife, the slave Sebarija
driving the two cows, Namala and Nakaombeh, were far on their way
eastward, Kimyera and his two dogs, Darkness and Wood-burr, preceding
the emigrants and guiding the way.

The food they took with them sustained them for two days; but on the
third day they saw a lonely buffalo, and Kimyera, followed by Mugema and
Sebarija, chased him. The buffalo was uncommonly wild, and led them a
long chase, far out of sight of the two women. Then Mugema reflected
that they had done wrong in thus leaving the two women alone, and called
out to Sebarija to hurry ba