After a dreary walk, the captives were relived to enter Asaka before dusk, little huts had been constructed to keep the slaves until the next day.
The slave raiders were welcomed with singing and dancing by tall masculine men, the slaves were kept in the little hut for the night.
Aghogho was so sad, seeing her twin brother Rukewe taken to another hut, but was too tired to protest, no sooner did she lie on the mud floor that sleep over came her troubled mind.
The loud cry of a woman woke Aghogho up, at the early hours of the morning, one of the raiders was dragging a woman into a hut while the others laughed in a reckless manner, go on rape her they urged him, laughing heartily.
The slaves were arranged in a single file as the buyers came in to start their bargain. Some came on donkeys, some on horses but the rich Arab merchants came with their camels. Aghogho searched the crowd for her brother Rukewe; she heaved a sigh of relief when she sighted him among a group of slaves led by merchant on a camel.
He turned slowly to wave her goodbye, tears running down his sad face, it was brief however because a strong whip landed on his back and it made him remember to move on.