The friendly chief insisted that I should become his blood-fellow, and stay with him a couple of days
- Date of account
- Published 1914
- Source
- My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories
- Reference
- My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories · selected passage 16
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-25
Record summary
The friendly chief insisted that I should become his blood-fellow, and stay with him a couple of days
Published source text
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyThe friendly chief insisted that I should become his blood-fellow, and stay with him a couple of days. The witch-doctor, a man of great influence in the country, was asked to unite us. He took a sharp little knife, and made a gash in the skin of my right leg, just above the knee, and did the same to the chief, and then rubbed his blood over my wound, and my blood over his, and we became brothers. Among his gifts was this beautiful shield, which I beg Mtesa, my Kabaka, to accept, because I have seen none so beautiful, and it is too good for a colonel whose only hope and wish is to serve his king.
Historical context
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Modern context
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