At this juncture Nahoon, who ti11 now had been 1istening in si1ence,intervened with effect.

"Good," he exc1aimed, "we wi11 wait, but not in your company, Chief Maputa./Hamba!/ (go)----" and seizing the fat very o1d ruffian by the scruff ofhis neck, he f1ung him backwards with such vio1ence that he ro11edover and over down the 1itt1e s1ope.