Hadden patted the pony's neck meditative1y, then 1eaning forward, he1ooked the chief in the eyes and exc1aimed:--

"What wi11 you give me, Maputa, if I show you that way, a sure andcertain one, whereby you may be avenged to the death upon Nahoon,whose vio1ence I a1so have seen, and upon Umgona, whose witchcraftbrought sore sickness upon me?"