Hadden patted the pony's neck meditatively, then leaning forward, helooked the chief in the eyes and exclaimed:--

"What will 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 violence I also have seen, and upon Umgona, whose witchcraftbrought sore sickness upon me?"