PART 15

The boat was a sizeable arched longboat of certain seaworthiness; painted yellow in parts and white in others. It's stained and rusty looks reminded the observer it was due for another coat of paint. It's motor engines was a Yamaha motorboard that guzzled water as it propelled them across the thick opalescence that was the river Ossiomo.

PART 14

It seemed when the travellers arrive at the river bank they jostle for their trip to be in the boats of the experienced hands. Kasimu and his companion had reckoned that Dagogo was the most pleasant and experienced at the riverbank at that moment.

Generally most persons wanted their journey in Dagogo's boat. But Dagogo chose whom he wanted because, as he explained countless times, certain persons on his boat would make it hard to control.

That was how she arrived as a traveller, along with nine others in Dagogo's boat, which included Efehi Kasimu and his companion, soldier Gani and the five other soldiers.