The Holy Flower; 1st UK edition

'Look, O Stephen, the flower has been brought back.'

At length found ourselves in the august presence of Bausi

I aimed at the huge head and let drive.

Presently I heard him him call to me in a horrified voice.

The Motombo.

The king himself went with us to the west gate of the town.

Reaching Stephen before the Pongo, she thrust herself between him and them

...passed it through the flame of the centre one of the three fires.

'Shall we shoot, Imbozwi?' asked the voice of the captain of the archers.

Stephen came to his support, and, grappling with an Arab, dashed his head against the gate post so that he fell.

Drawing a knife from his girdle he thrust out the tip of his tongue and pricked it

'I am Komba, the Accepted-of-the-gods.'

Delgado was asked for his version of the affair.

For a long while we stared at each other

One of the hunters was killed.

'The most lovely plant... that man ever saw'