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Right behind the tree.

Come on.

Shaken up the old python a bit.

Poor old python.

He could have warned him.

You be careful, ma'am. I have not to go to near the rock.

You too, my son.

What you've heard of?

A year before you came. He came out and killed a total who was hiding goats.

Comes out very quick.

Thank you, Ma'am.

Thank you, Ma'am.

What are the women doing in Jumbo?

Making beer.

Are they going to have celebration?

It is for some who's waiting.

It's going tomorrow.

Who?

That one there.

One Julie.

She was to be my wife.

But now I have no goats.

I cannot pay the price price.

I'm too poor to marry.

I think it's jolly unfair.

I mean, why did you have to give up all your goats?

Well, you didn't actually mean to kill the parmas headling.

It is our law.

The man is dead.

Therefore, I have to pay the price.

Therefore, I have to pay the black money to his father.

So, what in law, if you ask me?

Anyway, Sammy's already got two wives.

Shall I tell my father? And he can tell the district commissioner?

No, me and something, Dougal.

You're very kind.

But it is bitter your father shouldn't know.

There could be worse trouble.

No.

Sammy, why don't you want so many wives?

A man who has many wives and many cattle is an important man.

Yes, but what do you do with them all?

One wife cultivates my chamba here.

And now, when Julie will help her, I will have more grain and more goats and more cattle

and many children, which are better than rupees.

My other wife looks after my children in Mass Island.

I am half tequille and half Massai.

Where is Miss Island?

Beyond those mountains, a long way away, many days journey.

Come on, my ally. Come on.

Oh! Oh!

I'm all right. It was my fault.

It's a business. Quick, follow me.

Sammy, walk! Sammy, walk!

Quick, follow me.

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

What have they come back?

No.

They've never seen an elephant before, except in the zoo.

I have not often seen so many myself.

You haven't? They've hurt us.

They would have killed us, and the ponies. They do not like ponies.

My father says this is an elephant country.

The Bwana is right. But every few years, the god of the elephants tells them that they must move.

When they move, they go straight without stopping over the mountains, over the railway through shambles.

Gosh, we were lucky.

Yes.

I think it were better if we didn't speak of it to your father and mother.

Yes. You were very good and brave, my ally.

I think we're going to be here.

I think we're going to be here.

The Momsabnimo is coming.

I think we're going to be here.

I think we're going to be here.

The usual thing, miscarriage and all sorts of filthy messes applied to make matters worse.

How these wretched women live at all beats me.

What can anyone do for the girl in a filthy dark hut full of every sort of empty exit?

She's very serious.

She'd be dead by now if she was one of us.

High fever, poor girl, I should think.

The only thing to do is get her to hospital in there, Ruby, right away.

I see. Sammy, Bunchu is very ill. She must go to an I-Robe quickly.

Yes, Momsabn.

We'll need some blankets and things.

Oh, yes, of course.

Oh, my lord. There's granny and all the hags of great-arms come with mumbled jumbo man.

That's to me properly, I can tell you.

I am very grateful, Momsabn, but when Jewy's family has come, and they have brought the Mundo Mogo with them.

That girl will die if she doesn't have proper treatment. I can tell you that.

That is no longer for me to decide.

Take it away, force if I have no way.

Oh, I am sorry, Maggie. I could just cry sometimes. They're so pig-headed.

What will they do with that goat?

I can't look for a thing.

I'm from out of den trails.

I have to go back and go.

I have to say that.

My!

Aie!

Yup.

Mother?

You know now, Edgar.

Yeah, he's younger.

And what do you know, Edgar?

Oh, Twinkle.

Nothing's ever happened to you.

Else, this?

What on earth are you doing outside without a hat when you're meant to be resting?

I was so worried about Twinkle.

One of them always have to be sacrificed through poor goats.

I don't know, darling.

I wish they wouldn't, but it's part of their religion.

And really nothing to do with us.

So, back to your rest.

What?

Mato!

Twinkle!

Nino, Zaku!

That's it.

Son is not so rich now.

That's a horror thing to say.

Paul Manjoui.

Manjoui is no more.

Has Piled has grown up to the mountain.

She died inside.

So it must be burnt.

Twinkle!

Twinkle!

No, Twinkle.

Naughty.

You're not supposed to be in here.

Oh, Twinkle, come here.

Come along.

Come along, Twinkle.

Come here.

Twinkle!

Twinkle!

I'm sorry about the roses.

I won't let it happen again.

You know, she'll soon be getting big enough to look for her husband.

Then perhaps you ought to get one for her.

One, Dike, and he's quite enough.

Sooner or later, she'll have to go.

You've got to face up to it.

She won't go.

She mustn't go.

What ever happens?

What was that about?

Go back to the house.

Go back to the house.

Oh, oh.

He died during the operation.

The surgeon said it was just as well.

There was a big chip of stone inside the brain.

That this people will never learn.

You know as well as I do, they love anything shiny to make into ornaments.

He was putting temptation into his way.

I didn't put temptation in his way.

Anyway, that boy was quite bright and he'd actually seen the detonators being used to blow things up.

How on earth did he get into the shed in the first place?

I know, I do.

Do you always lock the key up?

Yes.

Well, almost always.

Was it locked up today?

As a matter of fact, it wasn't. No.

But I was only out of the office for a few minutes.

Anyway, someone would have seen him taking it.

The real trouble is that Sammy and No doubt some of the others have keys forged in the village.

Easy enough.

I notice things missing all the time, don't you?

Not often.

It seems to me it's a great mistake to trust Sammy with the key anyway.

And it would be much better if you always saw that it was locked up yourself.

Yes, of course it would. Now for heaven's sake, let's just drop the whole subject.

There's no point in having an inquiry. It won't help Matthew to come back to life.

Let's hope we will teach everyone else a lesson.

My wife and I are very sad for you, Sammy.

Thank you, Bon.

There is a curse on my family.

Would you like a few days off?

Robin, sorry to interrupt.

And Jumbo's disappeared. No one's seen him anywhere.

And the ponies haven't been fed or groomed or anything.

Did you know him Jumbo wasn't here, Sammy? He's healed.

Perhaps he has gone to the village.

Jumbo is as foolish as a chicken. He's not a good man.

I'll find another to take his place.

He's a damn good groom.

And what's more, he's one of my servants.

And I'm not having him or anyone else, just wandering off and it takes their fancy.

Chief Copani is his uncle, isn't he?

I'll have it out with him.

As you please, Bon.

All right, sir.

Nita, Tuma, or Jumbae, come to me, Siobana, Bengina, Vondra.

He said he'll send for this man of yours, but it may be that he's sick.

If he was sick, he should have come to me for treatment.

And Kuomagandra, Ankalagade, Kwa Bwana, Akata Biwe.

Kunamadakstin, he's a good man.

And Kuomagandra, Ankalagade, Kwa Bwana, Akata Biwe.

Kunamadakstin, he's a good man.

Now, are two Elsie.

Yes.

He says there are doctors for white men and doctors for black men.

He says perhaps Njumbo has gone to consult a black man's doctor.

As we know what that means, one of their damn witch doctors.

Look, Robin, from past experience, I wouldn't advise you to get into a medical argument with these chaps.

I can assure you will be here all night.

Just thank you, boy, and come and have a pay for the hotel.

Arsanza-Sama, what have you been doing?

It wasn't my family.

You're not ill.

You do not just run away without telling me.

If you have family problems and want a day off, you come to me or the Memsabu.

Tell us, but don't just run off. Do you understand?

And that's the last warning I shall give you. Next time I will not take you back.

Ndazako, Kefanikazako.

Ndazako, Kefanikazako.

It's rotten, isn't it?

It's as if he's been attacked by vampires.

I have very great thirst for beer.

I hope you'll stick to your word.

Yes.

Of course I will.

I'll be right back.

Robin, would you put matches on the list? I almost forgot.

Oh, right.

And don't forget to call in the Norfolk for any messages.

No way.

Alright, son's hurt.

I don't think Ndazako is going well at all.

He really does look rotten.

I mean, I've tried everything from epsom salts to castor oil. Nothing does any good.

I really don't know what's the matter with you.

He ought to see a doctor, a proper doctor.

He'd never come into Nairobi with me if he knew I was taking him to the hospital.

Why not pretend you want him to look after the mules?

Yes, good idea.

Yes, alright.

And Jumbo?

I'll certainly take him in, but don't think we have any medical cures.

There are dozens of tropical diseases we haven't got names for.

We've learned a treatment.

The new ones keep turning up daily.

Alright, most great.

And Jumbo?

This is one of...

This is one of Doctor.

He wishes to help you get well.

Come on, Mom.

There we are. Good job.

Off you go.

I'll have to go.

Assalamu alaikum.

Assalamu alaikum.

Alhamdulillah, la me.

Juma, please may have the ends for the ponies.

Of course.

Daddy's taken Jumbo to hospital.

Jumbo cannot get well.

Yes, he can. The doctors will give him medicine.

The medicine of the doctors is not strong for him.

Yes, it is.

There are bad men here.

Witch doctors. They have great powers and wickedness.

Do you really believe that?

When we first came here, you said they were all hopeless.

Savages and cannibals.

Jumbo was foolish to bring harm to Sammy's wife and then his son.

But Sammy's son was silly to hit the thing like a cartridge with a rock and wicked to steal it.

It hurt no one else.

Jumbo was seen to dig up the stone that killed the boy.

And all of you really believe that?

Where is he?

Outside.

He can hardly stand.

I'm going to put him in the sick hut and nurse him myself.

Jumbo. Yes.

Please transfer to Sam and Jumbo.

We'll make you well and strong again.

And one agrant and I need you to help us.

And so do Mems-Haboo Elspeth and the ponies.

He won't touch a spoonful.

Which is if he's being poisoned by something.

I don't see how he can be being poisoned if he's not eating anything.

They all?

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

They all?

I mean, Juma and the boys.

They all think that Sammy thinks it was somehow Jumbo's thought that his wife and son died.

I don't know.

It's just what they think.

Perhaps Sammy asked a mumbo-jumbo man to put a spell on porn Jumbo.

Well, if it's that, it's a sickness of the mind.

And no amount of beef broth is going to cure that.

We must convince him that this spell or curse or whatever it is, is pure imagination.

And has no real power to hurt him.

It's going to be rather difficult, but it so obviously has.

Only because he thinks so.

We could do it.

We could do it.

We could do it.

We could do it.

He thinks so.

If we could just make him believe he was being silly, that's exactly what it is.

A question of belief.

A faith.

Why don't we put our own mumbo-jumbo man onto the job?

Oh, Robbie.

No, no.

I mean the little fathers of the Italian mission over the hill.

That's what they're there for, isn't it? To save souls?

Beat the local wizards at their own job.

Not sure that's exactly how they'd put it.

But it's certainly worth a try.

You see, Father, we were hoping that one of you would come over and...

and, um...

as it were, drive out this evil spirit.

Like the...

The Gatorine swine.

Exactly.

No, I'm sorry. I made it all for someone about you.

I must be a rock.

Please.

Has this sick man had the water of God?

I think he means hasn't jumped by being baptized. Definitely not.

No.

I'm not afraid we cannot drive away the bad spirit.

We are very sorrowful.

But don't you preach?

I'm afraid we can't do it.

We are sorrowful.

But don't you preach that the word of God is stronger than the Kikuyu magic?

Isn't that what you are here for?

You see, if God has not caught a man, then it does not belong to God.

He still belongs to Kikuyu custom.

If the... the water of God has not been placed on his head...

Supposing you came over and gave him the water.

It's better to be able to walk away.

Go over it.

First, you must wish for the water and then learn, understand.

And then, perhaps in a month or two...

You'll be dead in a few days.

I'm sorry, we cannot help you.

Perhaps if you come a little sooner...

Well, what useless little man?

He can't save him Jumbo's life because he hasn't been baptized.

And he won't baptize him because he's dying.

That's their idea of Christianity.

I do see their point.

And listen, Jumbo really believes they can't save him.

And now he's too far gone to take it all in, anyway.

Well, we're a pretty hopeless lot, that's all I can say.

With all our education, knowledge and civilization...

We can't do a thing to cope with a...

We've never loved to secure ignorant heathen old wizard.

Nothing with a bag of bones, beans and powders.

I mean, Jumbo's not just our servant, he's one of us.

He's been with us right from the beginning.

He's under our pit.

And we're letting him die.

I'm getting damn serious, I'm really worried.

Yes, I've seen this sort of nonsense often enough before now.

In all parts of the world, India, South Africa, North Africa...

Up there, they call it the evil eye.

There, your man's a goner.

Unless you can get it sunny.

Now, the first thing to do is to look for his Achilles heel.

His cat and really.

Yes, how many's he got? I mean, on your Shumba.

About ten or eleven, is that it?

Ten or eleven.

Right, well, you tell Master Sanny that you'll cut their throats unless Unjumbo recovers.

Or better still, you'll hand them over to Unjumbo's father.

That should bring him to heel.

Of course, in the old days, we'd knock the fella down and give him twenty of the best with a whip.

But nowadays, we like to think ourselves a bit more civilized.

I'm very angry with you, Sammy.

You're behaving...

Not like a man who can read a civilized human being.

That like one of the savages you pretend to despise.

We are all very sorry about your troubles, but get this quite clear.

And Jumbo had nothing to do with them, nothing to do with them.

I'm sorry, but I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, but I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, but I'm sorry.

Well, perhaps you will understand the moment you've got some love for her,

you'll feel you.

I'm delighted to be here.

I've never difficulties.

Nice and you have trouble with that.

Information passed by...

They've had nothing from me.

But for what they have, you are a little too...

So theistas, my God, this friend is not wrong,

I see you Urban fan and eats...

Perhaps you will understand when I take all your cattle and shoot them.

I shall shoot them myself, everyone.

If by tomorrow evening and John mode does not begin to recover, that is what will happen.

Every one of your beasts will die.

I will.

Finish and John Bo's illness or your cattle die.

That's all.

I don't know what I shall be of Sammy, doesn't he?

D. Witch and John, though?

I can't really kill Leavenhead of cattle and killing blood.

So are the Major, is he still living in the rit roaring days when you could get away with murder?

Pardon, Raining House, I'm sure it's quite a leap.

So is B. Witching people to death?

We could get Sammy run in.

Run in?

There's much chance of getting a conviction in a witchcraft cases of a mule winning the Derby.

No, if anybody's going to be running, it will be me.

I destroy those cattle.

You know how the government people love us settlers?

Put a dining.

It's rotten for you.

Well, it's rotten for all of us.

I sometimes wonder what we're doing out here in this damn country anyway.

It's like two whole separate circles revolving round each other.

Their world and ours.

It only just touch a vacation.

I suppose we'll get used to it, one day.

I'm not going to be a little bit nervous.

I'm not going to be a little bit nervous.

I'm not going to be a little bit nervous.

I'm not going to be a little bit nervous.

I'm not going to be a little bit nervous.

I'm not going to be a little bit nervous.

I'm not going to be a little bit nervous.

Those stop you coming.

Yes.

You won't come this time.

I'm too afraid.

Of what?

Of us?

Sammy?

I'm getting the sickness.

These are sort of pariah to them, you see?

How is it?

A bit worse, if anything.

They're quite tough, these fellows.

They hang on in the most amazing way.

He doesn't want to, there, does he?

The bluff's not working.

And no one's doing her hands turn on the farm.

They're all the sullens that devil.

Look, I tell you what.

Why don't you and your good lady and Elspeth have a day or two off?

Good, aren't I, Ruby?

Do some shopping.

You can borrow that old thing, if you like.

Oh, that's awfully kind of you, Major.

Hey, I'll keep an eye on things here.

I'll rope in Alec Wilson to give me a hand.

At a time like this, things can get rather nasty.

When I'm an old hand at this game, I'll sort things out.

It'll blow over in no time.

But you wouldn't guarantee to save Jombe's life.

No.

Look, I know very well one can get damned fond of these boys.

But the fact of the matter is, there are always plenty more

to take their place.

Well, it's jolly nice of you, Major, and we much appreciate it.

But I think we must stick it out here.

One way or the other.

I think we ought to go and see old Chief Capania.

I'm going to find a way to go.

I'm going to find a way to go.

I'm going to find a way to go.

I'm going to find a way to go.

I'm going to find a way to go.

I'm going to find a way to go.

I'm going tocap your window now again.

Let me see, Drew.

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He says he doesn't know this man in jumbo.

But it is his nephew.

He says when a man goes to work for Europeans, he is his no longer.

Listen, Tilly.

The old man is the best.

He says he doesn't know this man in jumbo.

What is his nephew?

He says when a man goes to work for Europeans, he is his no longer.

Listen, Tilly.

Listen, Tilly.

The old devil doesn't speak any English,

but I think he understands well enough, very pretense he can't.

Why not put your case to him yourself?

Keep it simple.

Chief Kapanya, my husband, born a grant, and I much respect you.

But we are angry.

Someone is trying to kill in jumbo with bad medicine.

Listen carefully.

If this does not stop now,

if the magic is not taken off in jumbo and he is not better by tomorrow,

the D.C. will hear of it.

He understands.

Every word, I think.

He says it's got nothing to do with him.

If the D.C. comes, he will be ready to meet him.

It is not the D.C. who will come.

It will be armed as scaries with bracelets for your wrists.

Have you not heard?

It is King George himself who has said there will be no more magic.

He will put you in prison and find you hundreds of goats.

Your staff of office will be taken away from you and you will no longer be chief.

I have warned you.

If jumbo dies, the D.C. will know you murdered him.

I am going to kill him.

I am going to kill him.

I am going to kill him.

I said he is down well.

You can't go to the old boys splendidly.

I thought he had a wigging like that in yours.

The nimble from a men's saga weren't sure of that.

I only hope he doesn't call our bluff.

It looks like we are going to have a big storm.

No, I didn't mean to kill the captain.

I am going to kill him.

No, buddy.

Lizzie won't let us down.

I will get us started again once this rock blows over.

I'm going to kill you.

I will kill you.

I will kill you.

I will kill you.

I will kill you.

None of the boys have turned up for work.

Some are vanished.

That could be good.

Why not?

Some are to speak to you at the office.

I will kill you.

Well?

Come to see him jumble.

All right.

Well?

Daddy, look.

Come on, let's get on without breakfast.

It's a good sign anyway.

Let's pretend by heaven's sake that we haven't noticed.

We have all got off our heads.

Those things are a lot of tomfoolery.

I have brought you some beef tea in jumble.

Thank you, madam.

Well, whatever the old wizard did, certainly saved in jumble.

No doubt of that.

I never believed it unless I had actually seen it with my own eyes.

So, darling, if you please.

Ah, yes.

Anyway, Robin, I hope you're going to read the riot act to Sammy, in case it ever happens again.

He happened any proof that it was Sammy.

Ah, that's the beauty of the whole thing.

There's never any proof.

My head boys married to one of Chief Kupanya's daughters.

Apparently, Kupanya didn't give two hoots for Tilly's threats about the King and Governor, or the D.C.

But Kupanya was a bit reluctant to take on the almighty himself.

Let Thunderstorm put the fear of God into him.

It's always a good thing to have friends in high places.