Chapter 20

“I’ll ‘holy man’ him,” said Sanders in English, and continued his way to shore. He entered the village with two Houssas at his elbow, and walked straight to the hut where M’dali sat in state. Now M’dali had been a very ordinary man as Sanders knew him in the days before he began to dream. He had been a spearer of fish, no more and no less well-to-do than hundreds of others. Now he sat upon the carved stool that Lalinobi of Kusau had presented to him for dreaming that his wife would bear a male child, and he wore ab…