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When Tigibini, the headman of Bulagongo, took to himself a seventh wife, and that the straight, sulky daughter of M'kuru, the Akasava small chief, he did not consult the girl upon the matter, for Tigibini lived in a little village on the River-that-comes-from-the-forest, and he was ruler, lawgiver and executor of the law, and headed forty young fishermen, who speared fish with a cunning and lightning swiftness which was fascinating to see. Also they could spear men with equal dexterity and as little remorse, if the truth be told.
M'kuru, the father of the girl, sat on his bed -- which was a squat-legged oblong frame of ash, over which was stretched the skin of a buck -- and fingered the straggling grey hairs at his chin.