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1. How did William say that his father saved him from certain death when William was 6?

William ate stolen gum balls that some herd boys gave him. Later he overheard a trader talking with his father saying that he had had the witch doctor put a curse on whoever ate the gum. When William confessed to his father that he had eaten some of the gum, his father went to the trader and paid for the gum--an entire week's wages. William believed that if his father had not paid the trader for the gum, he would have died.

2. Why was a black rhino a problem to the people in a village in Chapter 1?

A ferocious black rhino caused terror just northwest of William's village. The rhino would submerge himself in the watering hole. When women and young girls came to get water, the rhino would attack. In a period of several months, the rhino had killed over a hundred people.

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