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I demanded food ; and by the time they returned from their morning march around the township I had made my boy dress me and was sitting up . We dated the turn of the tide of our fortunes from that hour . Certainly from that day we began to prosper -- at first gradually , but after a while in the old swift way that had made all our ventures with Monty such amazingly amusing work . We saw the chain-gang -- Kazimoto last , with a shovel over his shoulder -- march away at noon to dig me a grave in the sand close to where they burned the township refuse . Fred and Will went and watched them a while , contriving to slip a paper of snuff into Kazimoto 's hand while he rested and let the pick-men labor . -LRB- Snuff to a Nyamwezi is as comforting as an old sweet pipe to nine white men out of ten . -RRB- When Schubert came that evening at five with an old sack to put my body in , and plenty of askaris to help decide disputes , I was standing up .