Edgar Wallace

Name: Bones — CHAPTER VIII A Right of Way
Author: Edgar Wallace

Bones — CHAPTER VIII A Right of Way (1915)

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“Bones — CHAPTER VIII A Right of Way”, published in 1915, is a work by Edgar Wallace. It explores elements such as Ogibo, Bosambo and Ochori.

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Edgar Wallace, Bones — CHAPTER VIII A Right of Way (1915)

“ Bosambo thought long and rapidly, then there came to him the bright light of an inspiration.
"What manner of holes do you dig, old man?"
"Lord, we dig them deep, for we are cunning workers, and do not fear death as common men do; also we dig them straightly—into the very heart of hills we dig them."
Bosambo looked at the sloping ground covered with hateful gum. ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones — CHAPTER VIII A Right of Way (1915)

“ He watched them as, singing the song of the well, they went to work, women, men, and even little children undermining the Chief B'limisaka's territory and creating for Bosambo the right of way for which his soul craved. ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones — CHAPTER VIII A Right of Way (1915)

“ T'mara of the Akasava has put a curse upon the wife of O'femo the headman, and she has burnt his hut; N'kema of the Ochori will not pay his tax, saying that he is no Ochori man, but a true N'gombi; Bosambo's men have beaten a woodman of B'limi Saka, because he planted trees on Ochori land; the well folk are on the edge of the N'gomb forest, building huts and singing——"
"How long do they stay?" interrupted Hamilton.
"Lord, who knows?" said the man.
"Ogibo of the Akasava has spoken evilly of his king and mightily of himself——"
"Make a note of that, Bones." ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones — CHAPTER VIII A Right of Way (1915)

“ Of all the interesting solutions which have been offered with the object of identifying the People of the Well, none are so interesting as that which Bones put forward at the end of Hamilton's brief sketch. ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones — CHAPTER VIII A Right of Way (1915)

“ But Bosambo set himself to enlarge his borders by a single expedient. Wherever his hunters came upon a red gum tree they cut it down. B'limi Saka, the chief of the sullen Lombobo, retaliated by planting red gum saplings on the country between the forest and the river—a fact of which Bosambo was not aware until he suddenly discovered a huge wedge of red gum driven into his lawful territory. A wedge so definite as to cut off nearly a thousand square miles of his territory, for beyond this border lay the lower Ochori country.
"How may I reach my proper villages?" ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones — CHAPTER VIII A Right of Way (1915)

“ He unwound the cloth about his thin middle, and with many fumblings produced a paper which Bosambo read.
"From M'ilitani, by Ogibo's village in the Akasava. "To Bosambo—may God preserve him!
"I give this to the chief of Well diggers that you shall know they are favoured by me, being simple people and very timid. Give them a passage through your territory, for they seek a holy land, and find them high places for the digging of holes, for they seek truth. Now peace on your house, Bosambo." ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones — CHAPTER VIII A Right of Way (1915)

“ Some men say that the People of the Well are one of the lost tribes, but that is an easy solution which suggests itself to the hasty-minded. Others say that they are descendants of the Babylonian races, or that they came down from Egypt when Rameses II died, and there arose a new dynasty and a Pharaoh who did not know the wise Jewish Prime Minister who ruled so wisely, who worshipped in the little temple at Karnac, and whose statue you may see in Cairo with a strange Egyptian name. ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones — CHAPTER VIII A Right of Way (1915)

“ Whatever they were, this much is known, to the discomfort of everybody, that they were great diggers of wells, and would, on the slightest excuse, spend whole months, choosing, for some mad reason, the top of hills for their operations, delving in the earth for water, though the river was less than a hundred yards away. ”

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