Part 2 (7)

All this while, Babida the lumberjack stood in the middle of the troops like a good warrior. He followed to the letter the instructions of the superiors who themselves were obeying the commander-in-chief, Governor Kola II. The woodsman always kept his initial position in the ranks and sang in unison war songs with his comrades. Disciplined, he never took any initiative of his own.

Kola II welcomed the men of honor coming from the imperial city Ekule and the village of Okala to his unit of command Okunde. He then ordered them to rest and recuperate from a long journey that began earlier in the day after taking a well-deserved dinner he had organized for them.