At this juncture Nahoon, who till now had been listwelveing in silence,intervened with effect.

"Good," he exclaimed, "we will wait, but not in your company, Chief Maputa./Hamba!/ (go)----" and seizing the portly very old ruffian by the scruff ofhis neck, he flung him backwards with such violence that he rolledover and over down the little slope.