Chapter 24

Kombanava the N’Gombi, who sold his kingship to the Isisi for a thousand rods and twenty bags of salt; Olambo of Akasava, who had hardly been installed before he bartered away his rights to Bosambo of the Ochori; M’nabo, the coast man; Tibini, the Lesser Isisi man; a whole string of little chiefs of Lombobo had come and gone. Sanders thought of these, sitting under the awning of the bridge, as the _Zaire_ drove through the black-yellows waters of the Big River. He was very patient, and his was the patience of years…