“Oh, what a strange town it was that I found myself in, full of people who had once been _Candoré_ but had renegaded and become _Corahai_! There were _Sesé_ and _Laloré_, and men of other nations, and amongst them were some of the _Errate_ from my own country; all were now soldiers of the _Crallis_ of the _Corahai_, and followed him to his wars; and in that town I remained with my _ro_ a long time, occasionally going out with him to the wars, and I often asked him about the black men who had brought me thither, and he told me that he had had dealings with them, and that he believed them to be of the _Errate_. Well, brother, to be short, my _ro_ was killed in the wars, before a town to which the king of the _Corahai_ laid siege, and I became a _piulí_, and I returned to the village of the renegades, as it was called, and supported myself as well as I could; and one day, as I was sitting weeping, the black man, whom I had never seen since the day he brought me to my _ro_, again stood before me, and he said, ‘Come with me, little sister, come with me, the _ro_ is at hand,’ and I went with him, and beyond the gate in the desert was the same party of black men and women which I had seen before. ‘Where is my _ro_?’ said I. ‘Here he is, little sister,’ said the black man, ‘here he is; from this day I am the _ro_ and you the _romi_. Come, let us go, for there is business to be done.’ “And I went with him, and he was my _ro_, and we lived amongst the deserts, and _hokkawar’d_ and _choried_ and told _baji_; and I said to myself, ‘This is good; sure I am amongst the _Errate_ in a better _chim_ than my own.’ And I often said that they were of the _Errate_, and then they would laugh and say that it might be so, and that they were not _Corahai_, but they could give no account of themselves. “Well, things went on in this way for years, and I had three _chai_ by the black man; two of them died, but the youngest, who is the _Callí_ who sits by the _brasero_, was spared. So we roamed about and _choried_ and told _baji_; and it came to pass that once in the winter time our company attempted to pass a wide and deep river, of which there are many in the _Chim del Corahai_, and the boat overset with the rapidity of the current, and all our people were drowned, all but myself and my _chabí_, whom I bore in my bosom. I had now no friends amongst the _Corahai_, and I wandered about the _despoblados_ howling and lamenting till I became half _lilí_, and in this manner I found my way to the coast, where I made friends with the captain of a ship, and returned to this land of Spain. And now I am here, I often wish myself back again amongst the _Corahai_.” Here she commenced laughing loud and long, and when she had ceased, her daughter and grandchild took up the laugh, which they continued so long that I concluded they were all lunatics.