Chapter 27

The particular bush happened to be in the neighbourhood of the mission station, otherwise Sanders might have been content to allow his policemen to carry out the good work, but no sooner did news come that Oko had broken for that section of the N’Gombi country which impinges on Musunkusu, than Sanders went flying up river in his steamer because something told him he had identified one of the nine men. Wrote Sergt. Ahmed, the Houssa, who prided himself on his English, to his wife at headquarters: “At daylight, when …