There is no another thought when the hunger enters the stomach.
Snake is hungry and tortoise is bluffing, but both tortoise and snake are food.
Compare two things which are resemble one another.
The joy of one who gives birth to a child is different from the joy of one whose child is just dead.
After I rested on top of this rock for about two hours, I came down from it and I began to travel along in the jungle. As I was travelling along it was so I was keeping watch of those pigmies who were the survivors, perhaps they were still waiting for me to kill, because as it was a great joy to me as I had ruined their town it was a great sorrow to them as their town was ruined, so by that my own joy was quite different from their own.
I did not travel so far when I was forced to stop by hunger without my wish. Because I had had no sufficient food to eat throughout the whole period that I had spent in the ruined pigmies’ town, the town which was under the rock. When I stopped I looked for an animal to kill it for my food, because hunger did not allow me to decide within myself what I should do when I came back to this jungle this time, all my useful thoughts which were in my stomach escaped immediately the hunger came in. And I did not see any animal to pass this time. But when I travelled further I came across a big tortoise and a big snake. The snake was hungry and it was looking for its food. But the tortoise who was already satisfied with food, was going to and fro and it was bluffing before this hungry snake. Of course I did not see this bluffing tortoise at first except the snake. After I killed this snake and when I bent down to take it then I saw that the tortoise was there as well. And as I saw this tortoise as well I said within myself that—Oh, while I was hungry badly both of you are here when the flesh of both of you is food.
So without hesitation I picked it up as it was still going to and fro with the intention that the snake could not eat it because of its hard shells. After that I went back to the spot that I put the rest of my things. I roasted both of them with fire and I ate them to my satisfaction. I hardly satisfied my hunger when I heard the cry of a dove which reminded me that it was six o’clock evening. When I believed that it was six o’clock and that the darkness was approaching and to be able to get a suitable place to sleep, so I stood up and I began to travel along at the same time, because at the same time that I had satisfied my hunger I could decide within myself what I should do. Of course I could not travel so far when the darkness came but I used the usual “reflecting eyes” as I called it.
After a while I travelled to a big dead wood which had fallen down from a long time. I climbed it and I slept on it till morning and there was nothing happened to me throughout. Because I had nearly killed all the wild animals of this jungle before I had been captured by the stern huge pigmy.
The following morning, having eaten some ripen fruits, I continued to roam about in the jungle, I was looking for the “snake of snakes”, the most fearful and dangerous boa constrictor. Before I left my town, my father had warned me very seriously about this boa constrictor, that he was one of the most dangerous creatures of this jungle. Of course I had already killed one of the dangerous birds of this jungle, which had the voice that which was similar to that of the human being, when I was in the Ibembe town. This bird was going from this jungle to Ibembe town and it was carrying the people of that town to the jungle. It was half-bird and half-human in form.
So I was looking for this boa constrictor to be killed, because I wanted to see that I cleared up all the dangerous creatures before I would leave this jungle, so that anybody who wished to go there after I did so might go there without being killed by any dangerous creatures. But unfortunately, as I was looking about for this “snake of snakes” (boa constrictor) I did not know when I was entirely lost in this jungle. I tried my best to trace out my former track which I made before I had been captured, but I could not. Not knowing that immediately I came down from the top of that rock, I travelled to another part of this jungle instead. Anyhow, I was still travelling along and looking for him.
One morning, having taken my breakfast, I continued to travel along at once. But after a while I travelled to a river. I wondered greatly to see a big river as this in this jungle. It had very strong tides which never stopped or quiet in a moment. This river was so deep and wide that several hippopotami were swimming about on the surface of the water as they liked without any disturbance.
Immediately I came to this river, I stopped on its bank, I put all my things down and then I began to enjoy these hippopotami as they were swimming about, because I had never seen this kind of water animals in my life. As I was still looking at them with wonder they began to swim along to where the river was flowing. But as I wanted to see more about them so I left all my things on the bank of this river and I was following them with the hope to come back in a few minutes time. Unfortunately I did not follow them so far when I found myself amongst of snakes in the bush which was hung overhead near the river.
To my fear I hardly ran to a distance of about three feet when they covered me from feet to head. Although their bites could not do me anything because I had already taken the medicine which could not allow the snake-bites to affect me before I left my town. Not knowing that these snakes were living together with this dangerous boa constrictor (the snake of snakes) which I was seeking for all the while before I came to this river. His home was near the river.
But as I was still struggling with great excitement to safe myself from these snakes, I did not know that this “snake of snakes” was coming behind and he butted me unexpectedly. I fell down so heavily that these snakes were scattered to different direction with fear. But before they came back to me and as this “snake of snakes” was preparing to kill me, I hastily sprang up and I held one twig of a dead tree that which my hands reached. But as I was trying to hold this twig firmly so that I might not fall down on them and as I did not aware that this twig was already dried, so as I began to dangle to left and right, it broke suddenly and I fell into this river and without hesitation strong tides began to carry me away.
It was like that I left this jungle and my fighting weapons. I was struggling hardly to safe myself from the water but the river was very deep and its tides were too strong and unluckily I did not know how to swim. After I struggled very hardly for about twenty minutes to swim on to the bank but I failed then I left myself to death. At last the tides carried me to a part of the river where there were rocks. And as I was just sinking into the bottom of the water but the tides were still pushing me up continuously. Luckily my head hit one of these rocks and at the same moment I held the rough part of it and then I climbed it to the top. When I sat down I began to breathe quickly and audibly because I was too tired before the kind tides were pushed me there.
After two hours my mind became at rest but I was unable to go away from this rock. I stood up, I looked at my left, but this river went along without end. Then I watched whether I would see a canoe which was paddling along this time and then to beg the paddler to come and rescue me, but there was nothing on this river that which resembled a canoe. After that I looked at my back and there was nothing like a living creature on the surface of the river except the tides which were making great noises as they were hitting the rocks frequently.
At last when I did not see anyone who would rescue me from this rock which was in the middle of the river, I sat down again and I began to think with sorrow till when it was night and then I fell asleep unnoticed. And I woke suddenly from sleep when it was midnight by hunger and the noises of the hippopotami. But when I believed that if I kept longer than this on top of this rock I would die soon, the hunger would kill me. Then I sold my “death” at once, and I crept cautiously from this rock on to the back of one of those hippopotamuses. Luckily, it did not feel that anything was on its back.
After a while these hippopotami left this rock and they were finding their food to another part of the river. And it was like that they were swimming along till when it was nearly daybreak. And after a while they came to another part of this river where there was a big rock which, a part of it reached the ground. Having seen this rock, I hastily jumped from its back on to this rock and the whole of them swam away.