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 but in the same instant the captain seized him. "Stop!" he cried.
"What is it?" The African shouted: "Mok's people! Mok knowed them.
Look! Look--see! Mok!" The party was now
near enough and the day was bright enough for the captain to see that
on the lower ground beyond the plateau there were five black men in a
state of mad excitement. He could hear them jabbering away at a great
rate. So far as he could discover, they were all unarmed, and as they
stood there gesticulating, the captain
might have shot them down in a bunch, if he had chosen. "Go," said he
to Maka, "go down
there and see what it all means." The captain now stepped back into

the passage. He could see Miss Markham and Ralph peering

out of the doorway of the first compartment. "There does not seem to
be
any danger so far," said he. "Some more Africans
have turned
up. Maka has gone to

meet them. We shall find out about them in a few minutes," and he
turned back to the entrance. He saw that the six black fellows
were coming toward him, and, as he had thought, they carried no guns.
CHAPTER IX AN AMAZING NARRATION When
the captain had gone out again into the open air, he was followed by
the rest of the part