| Seeing a mzungu, they had shouted a greeting. |
| Now the welcome was extended to Manyenga: more tea, some smoke-dried fish, and praise for Altman, the long-ago mzungu of their elders' stories. |
| Altman saw himself through Manyenga's eyes: an old mzungu, attended by a skinny girl and a dwarf, a portrait of inaction, like a ruined chief on a rickety throne. |
| They then pat each other on the back for coming up with such a clever thing to say to a mzungu. |
| I have given my daughter to an mzungu, and he says he will make her like the wives of the white men. |
| Because of these fears, in his years here Altman had developed an interest, to set himself apart, so that he would be known as something more than a mzungu. |
