again, and that she was suffering from great
and overpowering grief. They led her to her father's door, and called
out to Uyimba and his wife Twekay to come out, and receive her, saying
that it was a shame that the pride of Umane should be suffering like a
slave in her father's own village. The old man and his wife hurried
out, torches were lit, and Twekay soon received her weeping daughter in
her arms.

In our country we are not very patient in presence of news, and as
everybody wished to know Izoka's story, she was made to sit down on a
shield, and tell all her adventures since she had eloped from Umane.
The people listened in wonder to all the strange things that were told;
but when she related the cruelty of Koku, the men rose to their feet all
together, and beat their shields with their spears, and demanded the
punishment of Koku, and that Uyimba should lead them there and then to
Umane. They accordingly proceeded in a body to the town, to Koku's
house, and as he came out in answer to the call of one of them, to
ascertain what the matter was, they fell upon him, and bound him hand
and foot, and carrying him to their superior chief's house they put him
to his trial. Many witnesses came forward to testify against his cruel
treatment of Izoka, and of the robbery of the fish and of the manner of
it; and the great chief placed Koku's life in the power of Uyimba, whose
daughter he had wronged, who at once ordered Koku to be beheaded, and
his body to be thrown into the river. The sentence was executed at the
river-side without loss of time. The people of Uman and Uyimba's
village then demanded that, as Izoka had shown herself so clever and
good as to make birds, animals, and fish obey her voice, some mark of
popular favour should be given to her. Whereupon the principal chief of
Umane, in the name of the tribe, ceded to her all rights to the Forest
Pool, and the wood and all things in it round about as far as she could
travel in half a day, and also all the property of which Koku stood
possessed.

Izoka, by the favour of her tribe, thus became owner of a large
district, and mistress of many slaves, and flocks, goats, and fowls, and
all manner of useful things for making a settlement by the Pool. There
is now a large village there, and Izoka is well known in many lands near
Umane and Basoko as the Queen of the Pool, and at last accounts was
still living, prosperous and happy; but she has never been known to try