When Leonard and his men were chased from Arochukwu, they made their way to Umuahia, which was a short distance away, and camped there. The wounded nursed themselves there, and Jack cleaned the arrow wound on his shoulder and bandaged it with a white kerchief.
The blacks among them who weren’t wounded physically nevertheless had to deal with a mental wound, for the myth of the white man’s invincibility had been injured. In addition to dealing with the issue of a dead John, they now had to deal with the fact that the white man could bleed like them and be defeated in battle.
But this was not the time to deal with the issue outright; they would stick with the white man for the time being and play second fiddle as they always had.
Outside his tent, Leonard paced back and forth enraged. The
