y, where the
lawless men of all nations dwell. This territory is filled with fierce
communities, banded together against a common enemy--the law. They call
this land the B'wigini, which means "the Nationless," and Jumburu's
importance lies in the fact that it is the outpost of order and
discipline.

In Jumburu were two brothers, O'ka and B'suru, who had usurped the
chieftainship of their uncle, the very famous K'sungasa, "very famous,"
since he had been in his time a man of remarkable gifts, which he still
retained to some extent, and in consequence enjoyed what was left of
life.

He was, by all accounts, as mad as a man could be, and in circumstances
less favourable to himself his concerned relatives would have taken him
a long journey into the forest he loved so well, and they would have put
out his eyes and left him to the mercy of the beasts, such being the
method of dealing with lunacy amongst people who, all unknown to
themselves, were eugenists of a most inflexible kind.

But to leave K'sungasa to the beasts would have been equivalent to
delivering him to the care of his dearest friends, for he had an
affinity for the wild dwellers of the bush, and all his life he had
lived amongst them and loved them.

It is said that he could arrest the parrot in the air by a "cl'k!" and
could bring the bird screeching and fluttering to his hand. He could
call the shy little monkeys from the high branches where they hid, and
even the fiercest of buffaloes would at his word come snuffling and
nosing his brown arm.

So that, when he grew weak-minded, his relatives, after a long palaver,
decided that for once the time-honoured customs of the land should be
overridden, and since there was no other method of treating the blind
but that prescribed by precedent, he should be allowed to live in a
great hut at the edge of the village with his birds and snakes and
wild cats, and that the direction of village affairs should pass to his
nephews.

Mr. Commissioner Sanders knew all this, but did nothing. His task was to
govern the territory, which meant to so direct affairs that the
territory governed itself. When the fate of K'sungasa was in the
balance, he sent word to the chief's nephews that he was somewhere in
the neighbourhood, and that the revival of the bad old custom of
blinding would be followed by the introduction of the bad new custom of
hanging; but this had less effect upon the council of relatives--to whom
Sanders's m