ABSTRACT
T HE people in the immediate neighbourhood of the district where I was living now looked upon me as a great man. My
advice had been good in their councils, and I had succeeded in bringing about peace with their bitterest enemies. They also regarded me as a great medicine man, on the strength of the iodoform, and of a bottle of Eno's fruit salts, which they would come round in crowds to watch me drink, saying that the white man could drink boiling water; and they believed that I must have a stomach like iron, and, being utterly
ignorant, my friends were firmly convinced that it was impossible to kill me.
