The man in the line discount uggs for women behind Wututu, his cheeks scarred, said, "They will sell us to the white devils, who will take us to their home across the water."
     "And what will they do to us there?" demanded Wututu.
     The man said nothing.
     "Well?" asked Wututu. Agasu tried to dart a glance over his shoulder. They were not allowed to talk or sing as they walked.
     "It is possible they will eat us," said the man. "That is what I have been told. That is why they need so many slaves. It is because they are always hungry."
     Wututu began to cry ugg boots discount outlet as she walked. Agasu said, "Do not cry, my sister. They will not eat you. I shall protect you. Our gods will protect you."
     But Wututu continued to cry, walking with a heavy heart, feeling pain and anger and fear as only a child can feel it: raw and overwhelming. She was unable to tell Agasu that she was not worried about the white devils eating her. She would survive, she was certain of it. She cried because she was scared that they would eat her brother, and cheap uggs online she was not certain that she could protect him.
     They reached a trading post, and they were kept there for ten days. On the morning of the tenth day they were taken from the hut in which they had been imprisoned (it had become very crowded in the final days, as men arrived from far away bringing their own strings and skeins of slaves). They were marched to the harbor, and Wututu saw the ship that was to take them away.
     Her first thought was how big a ship uggs discount it was, her second that it was too small for all of them to fit inside. It sat lightly on the water. The ship's boat came back and forth, ferrying the captives to the ship, where they were manacled and arranged in low decks by sailors, some of whom were brick red or tan-skinned, with strange pointy noses and beards that made them look like beasts. Several of the sailors looked like her own people, like the men who had marched her to the coast. The men discount uggs for women and the women and the children were separated, forced into different areas on the slave deck. There were too many slaves for the ship to hold easily, so another dozen men were chained up on the deck in the open, beneath the places where the crew would sling their hammocks.
     Wututu was put in with the children, not with the women; and she was not chained, merely locked in. Agasu, her brother, was forc