FROM FAFA TO SAY 291 I sometimes play, as no doubt my readers do too, at the game called poker.

We all know that skill consists in making your adversary believe when you have a bad hand that you have a very good one. This is what is known as bluff. To make up for my purse having sometimes suffered in this American game, it put me up to a dodge or two in politics, notably on the present occasion.

So ! played poker as energetically as I could.

If ever a man went to his dinner after listening to a lot of nonsense, it was Modibo on this 7th of April when I had my interview with him.

I said amongst other things — " I have lived amongst the negroes now for seven years ; I know the river which flows past your village from the spot where it comes from the ground. 1 have been in many countries. I have known Amadu Cheiku, who is a great liar" (here the Toucouleurs