Up against it in Nigeria . both at Winchester and at Jack leFlemings cramming establishment at Tonbridge ! After much bucking about old days, we pro-ceeded to round up the recalcitrant villages withthe usual unsatisfactory results. The inhabitantswould neither parley, nor come to terms, norfight. They simply effaced themselves, and leftus to collar sufficient grain to cover the tax duein each case, plus a salutary fine. We realizedthis grain at the current price of Is. per 8 only one village did we meet with stout resis-tance, and this was in the shape of an old lady,who used the most
Up against it in Nigeria . both at Winchester and at Jack leFlemings cramming establishment at Tonbridge ! After much bucking about old days, we pro-ceeded to round up the recalcitrant villages withthe usual unsatisfactory results. The inhabitantswould neither parley, nor come to terms, norfight. They simply effaced themselves, and leftus to collar sufficient grain to cover the tax duein each case, plus a salutary fine. We realizedthis grain at the current price of Is. per 8 only one village did we meet with stout resis-tance, and this was in the shape of an old lady,who used the most shocking language, andresolutely declined to be dislodged from her setteeof cornstalks, to which she glued herself tenaciouslytill she was pulled off, when it was found thatshe had been sitting upon some twenty quiversand one hundred odd poisoned arrows. Thesewere destroyed, to her intense indignation. 1 1 saa ss 25 lbs. (circ.) a very different price to that ofthe famine year of 1913-14, when at Geidam 1 saa fetched 8s.!. A KANUEI WOMAN. BORNU 113 There had been some unrest along the East Marghi-German boundary; and Crosbie had been askedby Mr. Hewby to return by that route, and showhimself with the troops. On arrival at Mulgwenews was brought to me of a robbery of donkeysby some ruffians at Mudube, a town right upagainst the German border. An extract from my diary on the action takenby us may not be without interest. I was met by the Native Court, who informed methat the mburma of Mudube was wanted for thetheft of four donkeys, and that repeated summonsesduring the last two months to appear at their courthad been disregarded by him : and any attempt to arrestwas frustrated by his slipping across the boundary, whichhe had done periodically with the donkeys. 2. I therefore asked Lieut. Crosbie to push on withme to Mudube in the rather forlorn hope of surroundingand surprising the town, and then arresting the chance of our succeeding in this depended on thefact t
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