Note 21 — Chapter IX · AN ANXIOUS PERIOD.
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A curious incident in my quarrel with Mandara was, that even when our relations were at the worst, he would calmly send to me for medicine for himself, his wives, and children. One of his Swahilis cautioned him that perhaps I might take advantage of this to poison him, but Mandara said quietly, “A black man might do so, but a white man never would.”