"Please!" "That one wants us to sail them back." "That one thinks he can sail all the way back without us." "Yes." "East." "To the sun!" "I understand." "You can trust me." "To Africa!" "Well, I have to tack, don't I?" "You'd rather I didn't?" "You want to get there?" "I have to tack!" "Leave that to me!" "You're going to get us killed!" "Yeah, yeah, yeah, now go take a bath." "East." "We have to signal them." "When the ship gets close, he'll run and hide." "Then we both start yelling." "They'll search the ship." "Get ready." "Help us!" "Help us!" "We're Spaniards!" "Your Royal Highness." "Something's happened." "Chief!" "Chief!" "He's not a chief!" "Brother!" "Brother!" "He's not your brother." " What is he then?" " He's a white man." "Who are they, do you think?" "Looks like they're going to be sick." "They're entertainers!" "But why do they look so miserable?" "You don't belong here." "Your table doesn't belong here." "This is Temne land." "You want to sit?" "Sit here in Mendeland." "What are you doing, Temne?" "You want trouble?" "Cross into our territory again." "What is this?" "Get this table out of here!" "Let me show you to Sherbroland." "What do you want?" "I could kill you with my bare hands before you raise that sword." "What did he say?" "I didn't understand a word." "It's gibberish." "Do you think he's here to help us?" "I don't know." "He reminds me of that Fula of Baoma." "The one who hires himself out to scrape elephant dung from the crops." "A dung-scraper might be just the kind of man we need right now." "What does he want?" " He's an idiot." "Where from?" "West India?" "Where from?" "All three of them are idiots." "It's those miserable-looking people again." "I'm not afraid of you, or your medicine!" "Have you figured out who he is?" "An advisor of some kind." "Perhaps theirs." "What about him?" "Theirs maybe." "And Dung-Scraper?" "I have a horrible feeling he talks for us." "Open your mouth." "Hey." "Stand up!" "Stand up." "Stand up." "You want to show them where we're from." "How can I explain to you where we're from?" "I'm sorry, you talk first." "This... is how far I've come." "Excellent, Her Highness." "My name is Kai Nyagua..." "and James Covey." "I speak Mende and English, his language." "You and he will talk to each other through me." " The clothes?" " And the names." "I was rescued off a slave ship by the British Navy." "I never went back." "I'll hit you in the head again if you talk." "I'll share the profit of my harvest." "I'll..." "God bless you, son." "God bless you." "God forgives and loves everyone." "Don't worry, God forgives us." "You don't have to pretend to be interested in that." "Nobody's watching but me." "I'm not pretending." "I'm beginning to understand it." "Their people have suffered more than ours." "Their lives were full of suffering." "Then he was born and everything changed." "Who is he?" "I don't know, but everywhere he goes he is followed by the sun." "Here he is healing people with his hands." "Protecting them..." "Being given children..." "What's this?" "He could also walk across the sea." "But then something happened." "He was captured." "Accused of some crime." "Here he is with his hands tied." " He must have done something." " Why?" "What did we do?" "Whatever it was, it was serious enough to kill him for it." "Do you want to see how they killed him?" "This is just a story, Yamba." "But look." "That's not the end of it." "His people took his body down from this... thing... this..." "They took him into a cave." "They wrapped him in a cloth, like us." "They thought he was dead, but he appeared before his people again and spoke to them." "Then, finally..." "he rose into the sky." "This is where the soul goes when you die." "This is where we're going when they kill us." "It doesn't look so bad." "Baukei..." "Hold your head up." "What kind of place is this?" "Where you almost mean what you say?" "Where laws almost work?" "How can you live like that?" "Is he going to help?" "He has far many more questions than answers."