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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Witch-Doctors by Charles Beadle
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+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no
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+Title: Witch-Doctors
+
+Author: Charles Beadle
+
+Release Date: July 18, 2007 [Ebook #22099]
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+Language: English
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+Character set encoding: UTF-8
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+
+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WITCH-DOCTORS***
+
+
+
+
+
+                              Witch-Doctors
+
+                           _by_ Charles Beadle
+                    _Author of “A Whiteman’s Burden”_
+
+Boston and New York
+Houghton Mifflin Company
+1922
+
+
+
+
+
+     _Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Frome and London_
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHARACTERS
+
+
+
+
+  LUCILLE CHARLTRAIN (Mrs. Gerald Birnier)                     A Photograph
+  USAKUMA (The Incarnation of the
+      Unmentionable One)                                            An Idol
+  GERALD BIRNIER                                                A Professor
+  ZU PFEIFFER (Hermann von Schnitzler und)                German Kommandant
+  ZALU ZAKO (son of Kawa Kendi)                               Heir Apparent
+  BAKUMA (daughter of Bakala)                        in love with Zalu Zako
+  MYALU (son of MBusa)                          a chief in love with Bakuma
+  BAKAHENZIE (son of Maliko)                             Chief Witch-Doctor
+  MARUFA (son of MTungo)                               another Witch-Doctor
+  KAWA KENDI (son of MFunya MPopo)                   King-God and Rainmaker
+  MFUNYA MPOPO (son of MKoffo)                    Predecessor of Kawa Kendi
+  KINGATA MATA (son of Kabolo)                   Keeper of the Sacred Fires
+  SAKAMATA                                     deposed Witch-Doctor and spy
+  YABOLO                                               another Witch-Doctor
+  MUNGONGO                                                Birnier’s servant
+  SCHULTZ                                                   German sergeant
+  LUDWIG                                                    German sergeant
+  SCHNEIDER                                                 German sergeant
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 CONTENTS
+
+
+Chapter 1
+Chapter 2
+Chapter 3
+Chapter 4
+Chapter 5
+Chapter 6
+Chapter 7
+Chapter 8
+Chapter 9
+Chapter 10
+Chapter 11
+Chapter 12
+Chapter 13
+Chapter 14
+Chapter 15
+Chapter 16
+Chapter 17
+Chapter 18
+Chapter 19
+Chapter 20
+Chapter 21
+Chapter 22
+Chapter 23
+Chapter 24
+Chapter 25
+Chapter 26
+Chapter 27
+Chapter 28
+Chapter 29
+Chapter 30
+Chapter 31
+Extra Pages
+Errata
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                              WITCH-DOCTORS
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 1
+
+
+In a bayou in the south-eastern corner of the Victoria Nyanza was the
+station of Ingonya, a brown scab on the face of the green earth. The round
+mud huts of the askaris were like two columns of khaki troops marching
+rigidly on each side of the parade ground. To the north, upon a slight
+rise of ground, were the white men’s quarters; the non-commissioned
+officers had four bungalows to the south of the orderly room and Court
+House; and beyond a green plot flanked by a store house and an ordnance
+building, was a bigger bungalow, florid in the amplitude and colour of the
+red pillared verandah, the residence of the Kommandant, Herr
+Ober-Lieutenant Hermann von Schnitzler und zu Pfeiffer.
+
+On the northern side, overlooking the swamp and the distant lake, was a
+flagpole, before which paced an ebon sentry in a uniform of white
+knickers, tunic and lancer cap, red faced. The glow of sunrise stained the
+green of the moon with crimson. A trumpet blared. From the rear of the
+Residence marched with stiff-legged precision a squad of askaris and the
+stocky figure of a non-commissioned officer in a white helmet.
+Simultaneously appeared on the verandah of the large bungalow the tall
+form of a white man in pink silk pyjamas. The sergeant barked. The squad
+presented arms. A coloured ball slid up the flagpole. The first rays of
+the sun splintered the bloodied waters beyond into silver spikes and
+caressed a fluttering black, white and red flag.
+
+Then the squad ported arms, relieved the sentry, and retired, their black
+legs gleaming blue points as they rose and fell. The pink figure
+disappeared. Sergeant Schultz strutted back to his bungalow, in the
+verandah of which squatted a native girl clad in gay trade cloths. He
+emerged lighting a cigar, and sjambok in hand, returned to the orderly
+room. Another trumpet blared. From beyond the askaris’ camp came a line of
+natives, young and old, their scrawny necks linked together by a light
+iron chain which clanked musically. Filing on to the parade ground they
+were divided into gangs by Sergeant Schneider to labour under guard at the
+interminable work of the camp.
+
+The air above the swamp began to sizzle in the heat. The same slender
+figure clad in immaculate white reappeared upon the south verandah of the
+florid bungalow. Herr Ober-Lieutenant stood staring about the small square
+with a peevish glint in the fair eyes. A big negro in spotless white
+hurried around the house bearing a brass tray set with a cup, a liqueur
+glass and a decanter. Herr Lieutenant sprawled his legs on either arm of a
+Bombay chair. As he delicately mixed cognac with his coffee, his jewelled
+fingers sparkled in a shaft of sunlight which set afire the sapphires
+mounted in an ivory bracelet.
+
+At a yard from the table stood the servant as rigid as the flagpole. With
+a lazy insolence which marked his movements, the lieutenant sipped the
+café-cognac and smoked a cheroot, as if he were seated on the terrace of
+the Café de la Paix. The brutality of the round skull, emphasized by the
+cropped blonde hair, seemed at variance with the boyish rotundity of the
+face and the small, but dominant, nose. Two separate moustaches bristled
+so fiercely that they suggested sentries on guard over the feminine
+softness of the lips. When he had finished zu Pfeiffer arose languidly,
+lighted a fresh cigar, adjusted his helmet with care, took a gold-mounted
+sjambok from his servant, and strode across the square. The lines of his
+torso were so perfect that they suggested artificial aid.
+
+The orderly room was square and whitewashed; grass matting was upon the
+floor, and high screened doors opened on to the north verandah. Zu
+Pfeiffer sprawled in a swing chair before the office desk placed at an
+oblique angle to the wall, encumbered with books and papers. After tapping
+reflectively on a book cover with a polished nail zu Pfeiffer’s hand
+sharply struck the bell. Instantly a corporal appeared at the farther door
+and stood as if petrified, black hand to black temple. Zu Pfeiffer snapped
+instructions in Kiswahili without removing his cigar. The man grunted,
+shot his hand away at right angles with as much energy as if he were
+trying to knock down an elephant, and vanished.
+
+“Sergeant!”
+
+“Ja, Excellence.”
+
+At the other door like another Jack-in-the-box appeared Sergeant Schultz
+in exactly the same attitude. At a nod the sergeant melted into the
+semblance of human movement: he drew aside a chair, selected a certain
+document from a pile of them, and handed it to the lieutenant. Zu Pfeiffer
+pushed a box of cigars across the table, lolled back with one foot on the
+table, and began to peruse lazily. The sergeant retired respectfully with
+the cigar to the outer office. A fly buzzed hopefully at the mosquito
+wire. The tap of a typewriter sounded like some other insect. On the hot
+air came the faint barks of a drill-sergeant on the parade ground. From
+behind the building rose fitfully the murmur of voices from a herd of
+natives squatted in the sun awaiting the opening of the Court House.
+Leaves rustled largely under the Lieutenant’s fingers.…
+
+At length he pitched the report on to the table, carefully placed the butt
+of his cigar in an ash-tray, lighted another, and disposed of the match
+with equal care.
+
+“Sergeant.”
+
+“Ja, Excellence!”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer indicated a chair by a thrust of the chin. The sergeant sat.
+Tapping the report with the highly polished and very long finger-nail of
+the left hand, the lieutenant demanded:
+
+“Who is the man who gave you this report?”
+
+“Ali Ben Hassan, an Arab trader, Excellence.”
+
+“Trustworthy?”
+
+“Ja, Excellence. He has done much work for us.”
+
+“Where?”
+
+“On the Tanganika district, sub-division B II, Excellence. He brought
+papers of first-class recommendation from the Kommandant.”
+
+“Ben Hassan speaks of one Sakamata, nicht wahr?”
+
+“Ja, Excellence.”
+
+“Of what tribe is he?”
+
+“Wongolo.”
+
+“A witch-doctor?”
+
+“Ja, Excellence.”
+
+“He is here? Let him come in.”
+
+The sergeant rose, saluted and departed. Gutturals sounded lazily. The
+sergeant reappeared and behind him shuffled a native. Clad only in a dirty
+loin-cloth, his brown skin was wrinkled in scaly folds upon his chest and
+belly; his face was like an ancient tortoise; the small lack-lustre eyes
+were bloodshot and furtive; the limbs were almost fleshless. He squatted
+upon the ground and with lowered lids appeared to be absorbed in the
+contemplation of a white man’s table leg. Zu Pfeiffer regarded the man as
+one would a stray dog and nodded to the sergeant, who sat down.
+
+“Does he speak Kiswahili?”
+
+“Nein, Excellence. Only his monkey speech.”
+
+“Why do you suppose that he is trustworthy?”
+
+“Because, Excellence, his interests are with ours. There is no
+competition. The Schweinhünde Engländer have no interest there—yet. They
+are too busy with the Uganda railroad.”
+
+“Ja, ja. Again what is the tribal system there, King-God or——” The
+lieutenant permitted a slight smile—“or Dis-established Church?”
+
+“King-God, Excellence,” replied Sergeant Schultz gravely.
+
+“This fellow then is an apostate priest, nicht wahr?”
+
+The sergeant noticed the movement of one of the sentry moustaches. A
+twitch of the lips recognized his superior’s pleasantry.
+
+“Ja, Excellence.”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer stuck the cigar into the corner of his mouth and regarded idly
+the dumb figure on the floor against the wall.
+
+“We must have the Wongolo country, c’est entendu. Now what’s your opinion
+of the method, sergeant?”
+
+“With due deference, Excellence,” responded Sergeant Schultz, “I propose
+that we advance and bring them to subjection in the usual manner.”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer fingered a ring and stared out into the yellow glare.
+
+“Nein,” he said at length, meditatively, removed the cigar from his lips
+and delicately knocked off the ash. “Circumstances alter cases. That
+method is too expensive. Son Altesse cannot afford the blood of the
+Fatherland in return for such ignoble carcasses. We—the price paid in the
+Herrero campaign was insupportable.”
+
+“Pardon, Excellence, but Treitschke said——”
+
+“I know, sergeant. But Treitschke did not live in Central Africa.”
+
+“True, Excellence.”
+
+“Die Schweinhünde Engländer have had more experience than we have. Even a
+fool learns wisdom by experience—sometimes.”
+
+“True, Excellence.”
+
+Again fell a silence save for the buzz of the persistent fly.
+
+“Also psychological research is more valuable than artillery—sometimes—in
+spite of Napoleon and Treitschke.” Zu Pfeiffer glanced at the sergeant
+who, beneath the mask of his features, appeared shocked. “Blasphemy, nicht
+wahr, sergeant?”
+
+“If your Excellence thinks——”
+
+“But remember if Napoleon invented the science of artillery, we invented
+psychology.”
+
+“True, Excellence.”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer smiled complacently and stroked his moustaches.
+
+“Now for this animal here. Who and what was he?”
+
+“One of the principal witch-doctors, Excellence, wealthy and powerful. He
+attempted to overthrow the Chief Witch-doctor, one Bakahenzie, and was
+discredited.”
+
+“How discredited?”
+
+“He attempted some form of magic, Excellence, which failed. Details are
+not given.”
+
+“Who gave the dossier?”
+
+“Ali ben Hassan, Excellence.”
+
+“From whom did he get his information?”
+
+“Name given as one Yabolo, another witch-doctor and relative.”
+
+“This Saka—Saka”—zu Pfeiffer glanced at the document—“Sakamata. Is he in
+communication with this Yabolo?”
+
+“Ja, Excellence.”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer smoked reflectively.
+
+“When did the last agent come in?”
+
+“But yesterday, Excellence.”
+
+“And no report of any other white men in the country? No British
+missionaries or traders?”
+
+“Nein, Excellence.”
+
+“Where is Saunders?”
+
+“On Lake Kivu.”
+
+“No report?”
+
+“Not since the last three months ago, Excellence.”
+
+“Umph!—Now, pay attention.” Schultz leaned forward dutifully. Zu Pfeiffer
+unrolled a map on the wall beside him. “Here’s Ingonya. The Wongolo
+country is twenty days’ march from here, but across the lake it’s twenty
+hours with the launch, and five days from there.” The delicate finger-nail
+indicated a spot on the opposite side of the lake. “From here—what’s the
+place? Ach—Timballa. To hell with the British boundary! We must not give
+them time to get the news. Always rush the seat of government. Surprise
+them and they’re done.”
+
+“But, Excellence, Treitschke says regarding retreat——”
+
+“There will be no retreat. At MFunya MPopo’s is the idol, the fetish. We
+destroy it and they’re done!” He brought down his fist with a crash on the
+table. “Faith unites a people; in unity is strength. Break the faith and
+you’ve broken the people.”
+
+“But, Excellence!” exclaimed the Lutheran sergeant, aghast.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer’s blue eyes hardened.
+
+“Understand, you fool, these are savages. _You_ have an abstract
+deity—which you cannot break in the concrete—obviously: they have a
+concrete god which we can and shall smash.”
+
+“Excellence, you are right,” said the sergeant humbly.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer flicked cigar ash from his sleeve and lolled back.
+
+“Those are your orders. Commandeer the necessary canoes and notify Ludwig
+to have the men in readiness for the full moon. Work out the details and
+give them to me to-morrow.”
+
+“Ja, Excellence.” Schultz stood to attention. “But, Excellence, this
+creature——”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer glanced casually at Sakamata.
+
+“Oh, that? Take it away!”
+
+Schultz saluted smartly and wheeled about.
+
+“Njoo!” he commanded sharply.
+
+Sakamata rose up quietly and disappeared through the door without glancing
+to the right or the left.
+
+“The Court awaits your Excellence,” reminded the sergeant.
+
+As zu Pfeiffer nodded languidly, a booted foot clopped on the verandah.
+
+“Wa da?” queried Sergeant Schultz, startled at the intrusion of a
+stranger.
+
+“Oh, only I,” responded a soft voice in English.
+
+Through the screen door a tall figure in a Tirai hat was silhouetted in
+sepia against the yellow glare. A brown hand pushed open the door.
+
+“Mon nom est Birnier, Gerald Birnier—er—Does any one speak English?”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer, in the act of rising, sank back into the chair, placing his
+left leg in a favourite position and selecting a cigar simultaneously.
+
+“Yes,” said he, almost without accent. “What do you want?”
+
+“I wish to see the—the Herr Kommandant.”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer struck a match without looking up.
+
+“I am he.”
+
+One hand upon the open door, Birnier stroked his shaven chin perplexedly
+with the other. He glanced from the sergeant, standing rigidly by the
+table, to the lieutenant engaged in stoking his cigar to a nicety.
+
+“Well, it’s usual to invite a white man to sit down, isn’t it?” suggested
+Birnier, with a note of irritation.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer looked across the table.
+
+“Nein. This is the Orderly Room; not a general office.”
+
+“Oh, I see. I beg your pardon!” There was a note of laughter in the voice.
+“Will you kindly instruct me where I am to apply?”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer continued to regard the stranger from head to foot, smoking
+slowly.
+
+“Please to come in,” he said at length, gesturing with his cigar, “and sit
+down.”
+
+“Thanks so much!”
+
+The trace of irony seemed to escape zu Pfeiffer. He gave a guttural order
+to the sergeant, who saluted and disappeared. The stranger placed his
+Tirai hat on the table, revealing rumpled brown hair flecked with grey, a
+high white forehead, and long features; the slight stoop of the shoulders
+and general carriage rather suggested a professional type than a hunter or
+trader. He regarded the slim figure staring insolently at him with a
+hardening look of disapproval.
+
+“What is it you wish?”
+
+“Well, principally I require an elephant licence and the usual permit to
+trade.”
+
+“Where are you going?”
+
+“To the Kivu country.”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer regarded his cigar tip interestedly.
+
+“You are going to the Wongolo country,” he stated.
+
+Birnier’s mouth tightened.
+
+“Quite possibly.”
+
+“You have been to the Wongolo country already?”
+
+“Yes, I have been there, but what has that to do with it?”
+
+“We know all about you,” stated zu Pfeiffer coldly, twiddling his cigar
+between slender fingers. He glanced at a gold repeater. “Pardon, but I
+must request you to return later. The Court is already awaiting me.”
+Birnier frowned slightly. “If you will be so good as to return at, let us
+say, five o’clock, I will be pleased to listen to your application.”
+
+Birnier rose, taking his hat.
+
+“Certainly,” he said curtly. “Good morning!”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer watched him depart; then he struck the bell sharply. Sergeant
+Schultz appeared, a line of nervous expectancy upon his sallow face.
+
+“Why have you not reported that man’s arrival?” demanded zu Pfeiffer
+harshly.
+
+“Excellence,” returned Schultz, saluting, “he has but arrived within the
+hour in a launch, loaned to him by the Engländer.”
+
+“Ach! An English spy!”
+
+“I do not know, Excellence.”
+
+“We ought to know. Why have you not a report of the man’s movements? He
+admits that he has been in the Wongolo country.”
+
+“Excellence, it is already done.” Schultz hurriedly searched a card index
+cabinet and handed a document to the lieutenant. “There is Saunders’
+report, Excellence; more than six months old.”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer glanced at the page indicated and began to read while the
+sergeant stood stiffly at attention.
+
+“You may go, sergeant,” announced zu Pfeiffer without looking up. Schultz
+saluted and departed. Zu Pfeiffer finished the report leisurely, put down
+the paper, and stared meditatively.
+
+No, he decided, as he rose, all the English are spies.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 2
+
+
+Like a topaz set in a jade ring was the city of the Snake, the place of
+Kings, a village of some eight hundred huts huddled upon a slight rise
+above a sea of banana fronds, some two hundred miles to the west of
+Ingonya.
+
+On the summit was a large conical hut like an enormous candle snuffer, the
+dwelling place of Usakuma, the spirit of the Snake, whose name was
+forbidden to all save the Priest-God and Rain Maker, King MFunya MPopo,
+who was so holy that after succeeding to the sacred office he was doomed
+to live within the compound, even as were the Kings of Eutopia, Sheba and
+China, a celibate for the remainder of his life: for, as the incarnation
+of the Idol, Usakuma, and therefore the controller of the Heavens and the
+Earth, his body must be kept from all danger of witchcraft lest the rains
+cease and the blue skies fall.
+
+From the compound, looking towards the north-west where the snow-capped
+Gamballagalla rose violet against the horizon, another brown cone peeped
+above the green fronds, the late residence, and now the tomb of King
+MKoffo, predecessor of MFunya MPopo. For where a King-God dies there is he
+buried, he and his wives after him; the site becomes holy ground, a place
+of pilgrimage and sanctuary.
+
+In each of the small huts to the rear of the temple of MFunya MPopo, but
+outside the sacred enclosure, lived his wives who, although forbidden to
+their husband, were permitted a royal promiscuity. Just within the
+precincts was a small replica of the temple where dwelt a young chief,
+also bound to celibacy, whose duties were to keep the royal fire burning
+as long as the king should reign. No one was allowed to converse with the
+king, save on matters of state, except this man; through him was spoken
+the royal will—what there was left of it—to the council which sat in a
+long rectangular building opposite to the temple entrance and open to the
+village, a body of witch-doctors and chiefs.
+
+Solely the kingly office existed as a beneficent agent, a matter of
+self-preservation on the part of the tribe. The King-God’s functions were
+divine; to make magic for the victory of his warriors and principally to
+make rain, on which, of course, the alimentary needs of his subjects
+depended—an incarnation of a god who was in reality the scapegoat of the
+god’s omissions.
+
+The office was hereditary. Perhaps no one else would willingly accept such
+an onerous post. The making of magic was performed before the god with the
+assistance of the chief witch-doctor, an exceedingly lucrative post won
+upon merit, occupied by one Bakahenzie, a tall muscular man in the prime
+of life, whose bearing was that of the native autocrat, fierce and
+remorseless. The King’s personal wishes could be safely granted as long as
+he did not endanger the existence of the people by a desire to break any
+of the meshes of the tabus designed to ensure the safety of his sacred
+body, and therefore that of the tribe, on the assumption that if the
+incarnation were injured the god would be injured, and so would his
+creations be affected: any infringement of these laws entailed the penalty
+of death, a code which revealed the native logic in the confusion of cause
+and effect, the concrete and the abstract.
+
+In the door of a hut on the outskirts of the village squatted a wizened
+man with a tuft of grey beard upon his chin. He was clad in a loin-cloth
+fairly clean, and about his neck was suspended by a twisted fibre an
+amulet wrapped in banana leaves containing the gall and toenail of an
+enemy slain by a virgin warrior, a specific against black magic whose
+powerful properties were proven by the undisputed influence and wealth of
+the owner.
+
+A tall lithe savage, bearing upon his arms and ankles the ivory bracelets
+of the royal house and the elephant hair chaplet of the warrior, advanced
+leisurely towards him from the banana plantation. Marufa continued to gaze
+in rumination at the opposite hut. But as they had not met since the
+rising of the sun, he did not fail to make the orthodox greeting at the
+exact moment that the chief’s shadow passed in front of him, which Zalu
+Zako returned punctiliously, thereby averting an evil omen. As soon as the
+young man had passed beyond the next hut appeared in the grove a girl,
+modelled like a bronze wood nymph. She wore the tiny girdle of the
+unmarried and walked furtively, carrying in her hand a parcel wrapped in
+banana leaves. In the shadow of a compound fence she halted, one slender
+brown arm set back in apprehension as her eyes followed the lithe figure
+of Zalu Zako.
+
+Motionless sat Marufa staring in mystic contemplation. Bakuma glanced
+swiftly about her. Apparently satisfied that no one was observing her save
+a lean dog and two gollywog children, she continued on as if to pass the
+old man, her eyes still ranging like a fawn’s. But when she was beside
+Marufa she subsided on her haunches beside him, clutching the bundle as
+she whispered:
+
+“Greetings, O wise one!”
+
+“Greeting, daughter,” returned Marufa without lessening the fixity of his
+gaze.
+
+“I would talk with thee.”
+
+“Aye.”
+
+Again she glanced around furtively.
+
+“I would talk in thine ear, O my father.”
+
+“The knots of my hair are tied.”
+
+“I thank thee. There’s a fluttering bird in my breast.”
+
+“And a snake around thy heart, O my daughter.”
+
+“Aie-e!”
+
+“The grandson of the snake hath tied thy girdle.”
+
+“Ehh!”
+
+The girl clasped her breast in surprised terror.
+
+“How dost thou know?”
+
+“All things are known to the son of MTungo,” declared Marufa solemnly,
+still regarding the opposite wall. “Thou desirest a love charm.… What hast
+thou?”
+
+Tremulously Bakuma put down the green package on the ground, darting
+terrified glances to right and left. Slowly the skinny hand of the wizard
+gently tore open the leaves; very impressively the eyes slanted down to
+appraise the stock of blue and white beads.
+
+“The spirit of Tarum hath a big belly,” he announced tonelessly.
+
+“O wise one, intercede for me,” pleaded Bakuma, “for more have I none, I,
+Bakuma, daughter of Bakala, a girl of the hut thatch.”
+
+“The true love charm, infallible and powerful, is difficult to obtain, O
+Bakuma. The young huntress aims at big game.”
+
+“Ehh! But I have no more, great one!”
+
+“The hair of a rutting leopardess, the liver of a forest rat, the tongue
+of a Baroto bird—these must I have to mix with thy blood to be drunk by
+thy man when the moon is full.”
+
+“Ehh! Ehh!”
+
+“Such is the magic that no young man can resist.”
+
+“Ehh-h!”
+
+“But these things are difficult to obtain.”
+
+“Aie! Aie!” wailed Bakuma, clasping her hands in despair.
+
+“Difficult to obtain.”
+
+“Aie-e!”
+
+“On the night of the half-moon will I take upon me the leopard form.”
+
+“Ehh!”
+
+“I will talk with the spirits.”
+
+“Ehh! Ehh!”
+
+“But they must be propitiated with the blood of a fat goat.”
+
+“Aie! Aie! But I have no fat goat.”
+
+“If there be no fat goat then will the spirits be wroth with me.”
+
+“Aie-e-e!”
+
+Bakuma sat staring in dismal perplexity.
+
+“No fat goat have I, a girl of the hut thatch! Aie! Aie!”
+
+Marufa fumbled within the loin-cloth and thrust a tiny package along the
+ground.
+
+“See and know the power of my magic.” Bakuma greedily snatched up the
+amulet. “Begone!” he whispered, jerking the parcel of beads behind him.
+“MYalu approaches.”
+
+“Ehh!”
+
+Bakuma rose and fled with the grace of a startled antelope as appeared a
+tall, strongly built man, having a low-browed face, across which was a
+deep scar. Behind MYalu came two young slaves bearing a small elephant
+tusk. Opposite to Marufa the slaves stopped. Their master, careful that
+his shadow fell well away from the figure of the magician—for the shadow
+is one of the souls, so woe unto him who shall leave his soul in the hands
+of an enemy!—squatted gravely.
+
+“Greeting, son of MTungo!”
+
+“Greeting, son of MBusa!” returned Marufa.
+
+Gravely they spat into each other’s palm, the sign of amity as they who
+exchange bonds of good behaviour inasmuch, as is well known, magic can be
+worked upon that which has been a part of the body as upon the body
+itself. Then solemnly they rubbed the spittle upon their respective
+chests.
+
+“The spirit of the snake nourisheth not the life of the banana.”
+
+“Nay, for nigh unto two moons hath there been no blood of the snake,”
+returned the old man perfunctorily, as he lifted his eyes from a swift
+appraisement of the tusk to his favourite mud wall.
+
+“Nay, the crops sprout not. Maybe the Dweller in the Place of the Snake
+hath been visited by one from the forest.”
+
+“Aye, but old blood runs not as swiftly as young blood.”
+
+“Nay,” replied MYalu, in answer to the reference to himself, “but the
+girdle is not yet tied by another.”
+
+“When the first twig of the nest is laid,” remarked Marufa, indolently
+eyeing the tusk, “it is difficult to entice the hen to another tree.”
+
+“Here is a goodly twig with which to tempt spirits of the forest,” and
+significantly, “Maybe there are others.”
+
+“A mighty potion shall be prepared for thee, O son of MBusa,” declared
+Marufa, moving slightly to conceal the package of beads. “A mighty potion,
+infallible; made from the hair of a rutting leopardess, the liver of the
+forest rat and the tongue of the Baroto bird; these must she take that she
+shall speak thee softly, together with a portion of that which remains
+from the ceremony of the lobolo. Infallible is it; never known to fail.”
+
+“Ehh!”
+
+Marufa stared interestedly at a wandering hen. MYalu watched him covertly.
+Like bronzes sat the two young slaves. From the distance came a faint
+chanting and the beat of a drum.…
+
+“The tusk is here, Marufa,” remarked MYalu casually.
+
+“My eyes see it,” observed Marufa, without altering his observation of the
+hen.
+
+“Where then is the potion?”
+
+Marufa glanced at the tusk, appraised it again, and fumbling within his
+loin-cloth, thrust another tiny package along the ground. MYalu greedily
+picked up the amulet and stared in awe, turning it over and about.
+
+“The tusk,” murmured Marufa.
+
+MYalu gestured to his slaves. They rose and placed the tusk beside the old
+man, shuffled backwards and squatted again. After lifting one end to test
+the weight, Marufa examined the grain. Then sliding it behind him as if he
+wished to sit upon it, remarked:
+
+“The potion must be eaten at the full moon.”
+
+“Ehh!”
+
+MYalu glanced up from an absorbed examination of the amulet.
+
+“And within the quarter shall the fruit be ripe for the plucking.” The
+whites of MYalu’s eyes gleamed. “Unless,” continued the old man
+uninterestedly, “there be stronger magic made against thee.”
+
+“Ehh!”
+
+The two hands holding the amulet came down.
+
+“If,” explained Marufa, “another hath tied the grasses of her father’s
+roof, will there be required a stronger spirit to overcome such magic.”
+
+“But thou hast told me,” expostulated MYalu, regarding the tusk
+regretfully, “that this is a mighty magic, powerful and infallible, never
+known to fail.”
+
+“Thus is it,” asserted the old man imperturbably, “for all save a stronger
+magic.”
+
+MYalu’s eyes wandered from the tusk to Marufa and back. He scowled.
+
+“Why didst thou not tell me?” he demanded sourly, dropping the amulet on
+the ground.
+
+“It is for thee to tell the wizard all that thou knowest. How else may he
+reckon with thine enemies?”
+
+“Enemy!” exclaimed MYalu. He stared questioningly at Marufa. “Enemy! Dost
+thou know whom I seek?”
+
+“Do not all the hens remark the strutting of the cock?” inquired Marufa
+unconcernedly, tapping his snuff box.
+
+“Ehh!”
+
+MYalu observed the taking of snuff as if he had never seen the operation
+before.
+
+“Ehh!” he remarked again succinctly.
+
+Marufa replaced the cork of twisted leaves, let fall the snuff box made of
+rhinoceros horn suspended from his neck by a copper wire, and contemplated
+a skinny goat scratching itself violently. MYalu stirred as if to rise,
+but subsided, cogitated and said slowly:
+
+“In the house of MYalu are four more tusks.”
+
+“Four more tusks,” repeated Marufa dreamily.
+
+“Bigger than this one,” said MYalu suggestively.
+
+“Bigger than this one.”
+
+“Knowest thou by whom the girdle is tied?”
+
+“By the grandson of the Snake.”
+
+“Ehh!”
+
+MYalu squatted motionless. The old man appeared to doze. Women bearing
+gourds of water upon their heads passed in single file, their loins
+swaying rhythmically. The shadows dwindled. From close at hand began the
+rapid beat of a drum. A stir began through the village as each man herded
+his women and slaves to his own hut.
+
+“O Marufa,” said MYalu, speaking with a slight snarl, “hast thou such a
+powerful medicine that can surely trap the soul of Zalu Zako when
+perchance it wanders (in sleep)?”
+
+“All things are possible to the son of MTungo,” mumbled the old man.
+
+Two chiefs appeared walking through the grove at a middle distance. MYalu
+glanced round apprehensively.
+
+“Two tusks will I give thee,” he whispered, “if thou wilt do this thing.”
+
+“Three tusks. No less, for the matter is dangerous.”
+
+“Two, two.”
+
+“Nay.”
+
+The old man stirred to rise.
+
+“Three be it,” gasped MYalu. “But I must see the magic done.”
+
+They rose together.
+
+“Bring me of his toe-nails one paring, of his hair one, and his spittle
+and a footprint. Then shalt thou come with me to the sacred grove where
+the magic shall be done.”
+
+“Ehh!”
+
+“But the three tusks must be given to Yanoka, my first wife.”
+
+MYalu hesitated.
+
+“Aye, thus shall it be done,” he assented reluctantly.
+
+“It is agreed?” inquired Marufa.
+
+“May my cord be lost!” swore MYalu, and gesturing to the slaves, hurried
+away.
+
+A slight grin flecked the old man’s eyes as he turned into the hut.
+
+“Already hath he drunken of her blood,” he mumbled. “Ya, Inkombana! take
+the tusk!”
+
+When Marufa emerged, a head-dress of the tail feathers of the green
+parrot, professional uniform and potent specific against evil spirits,
+fluffed gently as he slowly stalked towards the council house. From the
+other side of a hut walked MYalu as if he had come from a different
+direction. In the open gate of the royal enclosure sat a muscular young
+man upon his haunches, tending the royal fire, which fed hungrily upon
+small faggots. Beyond him across the yellow glare upon the cleared ground
+beneath a thatched awning, stood an idol of wood, whose lopsided mouth
+snarled beneath a bridgeless nose; narrow slits for eyes squinted; baby
+arms stuck down beside triangular breasts above a melon belly having a
+protuberant navel like a small cucumber—the incarnation of the Snake-god,
+Usakuma.
+
+Without the palisade of the sacred ground was a taller one, barring the
+doings of the council of witch-doctors and chiefs from the lay public, who
+were confined to their own huts under the penalty of a hideous death, or
+an enormous fine, as the witch-doctors should decide.
+
+To the rear of the idol, cross-legged against the wall of the entrance to
+the conical hut, were the musicians beating a monotonous rhythm upon big
+and small drums and twanging a primitive lyre of five strings. Just as
+Marufa and MYalu took their respective places without among the wizards
+and the chiefs, a young goat skipped into the open and stared
+inquisitively at the Keeper of the Fires. As the man waved the animal back
+from the sacred ground, the goat lowered its head and threatened to
+charge, suddenly recollected its mate lying in the shade a few feet away,
+and began to bleat absent-mindedly.
+
+Gravely and silently sat the assembly: continuously throbbed the drums.
+The sun beat diagonally. As a lizard darted like a flash of a prism from
+the grass palisade, the band ceased. A man emerged from behind the idol.
+Although the grey woolly tufts upon his chin, the sacred snake skin around
+his waist above the cat skin loin-cloth, the jingle of the ivory bangles
+on arms and ankles, and his stature, imparted an air of barbaric royalty,
+King MFunya MPopo advanced with the manner of a pariah dog ordered to his
+master’s side.
+
+As the King approached, the Keeper of the Fires hastily threw on a handful
+of faggots and bowed his head. In the centre of the opening of the
+enclosure the King squatted down with his back to the fire which streamed
+blue smoke. Not a limb or a muscle moved among the group of wizards and
+chiefs in the council house. Attracted by the movement, the goat stopped
+bleating and stared at the King; then, putting down its head, charged him.
+
+With a horrified click, the Keeper of the Fires sprang. But he was not
+swift enough to prevent the impact of the animal’s horns with the royal
+arm thrust out in self-defence. Three young chiefs came running; one
+caught up the goat and carried it away bleating bellicosely; the others
+knelt, and while one carefully collected a gout of blood upon the King’s
+forearm in a piece of banana leaf, his companion wiped the wound. When
+they were satisfied that the bleeding had ceased, the pieces were
+meticulously wrapped in another leaf and borne away by the Keeper of the
+Fires to be deposited in the temple: for as every man knows, the royal
+blood must not be spilt upon the ground lest the site be accursed for ever
+and like the tooth of the dragon of Colchis, arise from the spot ghostly
+warriors to annihilate the tribe.
+
+Neither upon the face of any of the elders nor upon the features of MFunya
+MPopo, the King, had a muscle moved. Yet the incident was regarded as an
+evil omen.… Then suddenly did Bakahenzie, the chief witch-doctor, plumed
+with a tall scarlet feather in addition to the green ones and a necklace
+of finger bones upon his bronze chest, who sat in the centre with Kawa
+Kendi, the King’s son upon his right, and Zalu Zako, the grandson, upon
+his left, begin to chant in a high wailing voice to the rapid rhythm of
+the drums:
+
+  “Is there not a shadow come over the land?
+  The frown of the One-not-to-be-mentioned?
+  I, Bakahenzie, have seen it! have seen it!”
+
+And from the group within the council house, immobile, came the bass
+chorus of assent:
+
+                 “Ough! Ough!”
+
+  “Is there not a dry curse come over the land?
+  Is it not the hot breath of the soul of the Snake?
+  I, Bakahenzie, have seen it! have seen it!”
+                 “Ough! Ough!”
+
+  “Where is the false spirit that hath sinned in the act?
+  He that hath sinned in the shade of the name?
+  I, Bakahenzie, have seen him! have seen him!”
+                 “Ough! Ough!”
+
+  “Does not the keen sting of him scorch up the land?
+  Hath not the young bread of our bellies been slain?
+  I, Bakahenzie, have seen it! have seen it!”
+                 “Ough! Ough!”
+
+The throb of the drums grew faster. Bakahenzie leaped from the crowd.
+Immediately in front of the King he began to dance and to scream:
+
+  “Is the Burden too great for the Guard of the Name?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Hath the Bearer, too, fumbled the weight of the World?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Is His spirit bewitched by the soul of a girl?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Hath His magical power been slain by the sin?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Hath a prophet made words in the act of a goat?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Does a saviour in hairs thirst the blood of a King?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Shall we hearken, O Chiefs, to the wish of the One?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Or be shrivelled and die in the drought of His wrath?
+                 Aie! Aie!”
+
+Kawa Kendi, a man in early middle age, powerful and lithe-limbed, sat as
+motionless as the King, his father, staring, as did all, with the fixed
+stare of the anagogic.
+
+Abruptly the drums ceased. Again came a hot silence as Bakahenzie paused
+in front of MFunya MPopo. Then with a piercing yell, the witch-doctor spun
+on his toes. The drums broke into an hysterical rhythm. Bakahenzie leaped
+high in the air; whirled around and around screaming hoarsely; leaped and
+spun continually.
+
+The chiefs and doctors began to grunt; continued in crescendo until the
+whole body throbbed and grunted to the rhythm of the drums. Yet immobile
+sat MFunya MPopo.
+
+Suddenly Bakahenzie changed the erratic course of his wild dance. He
+whirled and screamed in front of the King and fell headlong, as if in a
+fit, with eyes injected and foam upon the black tufts of beard. Bakahenzie
+clutched his belly and began to howl like a hyena at the moon. The drums
+stopped. Howl and writhe did Bakahenzie as if a thousand fiends were
+tearing out his entrails.
+
+He lay rigid. The air seemed to quiver. The lines of every man’s limbs,
+except the King’s, were drawn in tension. Then from the prostrate body of
+the witch-doctor, whose legs and arms were twisted as in agony, whose
+dribbling mouth was closed like a vise, came a ventriloquous falsetto:
+
+  “Aie-e! Aie-e! I am the spirit of Kintu!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! I am he who first was!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! I am the banana from whom I was made!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! The Keeper of the Name hath betrayed me!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! The Bride of me is defiled!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! Let him arise who is pure!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! Let him arise who is bidden!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! Let the fires be put out!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! Let a new fire arise from the ashes!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! I have spoken, I, the Father of men!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! I, Tarum, the soul of your ancestors!”
+
+From the assembly came the belly grunt of acceptance. In silence rose Kawa
+Kendi, the heir-apparent. His face was as expressionless as his father’s.
+He stepped around the body of Bakahenzie and across the open space
+followed by a young man, Kingata Mata. Ten feet away from the enclosure,
+Kingata Mata sank upon his haunches. Before MFunya MPopo squatted his son.
+They spat each in the other’s hand and swallowed the spittle. Then the
+head of Kawa Kendi bent to the lips of MFunya MPopo to receive the sacred
+Name.
+
+In unison with Kawa Kendi rose Kingata Mata, who to him handed a cord of
+twisted bark. Bending behind the King, who remained motionless with the
+closed eyes of one already dead, Kingata Mata swiftly adjusted the cord
+and handed it back to the son, Kawa Kendi.…
+
+When the muscular young Keeper of the Fires had poured solemnly a gourd of
+water upon the royal fire of MFunya MPopo, he knelt submissively and was
+strangled beside his master.…
+
+From the assembly went up a great shout:
+
+“The fire is put out!”
+
+And from the village, listening in awe to the mighty doings, came like an
+echo:
+
+“The fire is put out! Aie! Aie-e!”
+
+Then shouted the elders and wizards:
+
+“Let there be a new fire!”
+
+Again came the wailing repetition from the village:
+
+“Let there be a new fire!”
+
+As in the Place of Fires was kindled a new fire by Kingata Mata with two
+sacred sticks, one of which is male and the other female, the assembled
+chiefs and magicians groaned in allegiance to the new King-God of the
+unmentionable spirit of the Snake, Usakuma, the Idol.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 3
+
+
+At five-thirty zu Pfeiffer was stretched in the long Bombay chair in the
+coolest portion of the screened verandah. On the table beside him was a
+tall glass, a decanter of cognac and a box of cigars; and suspended from
+the roof swung a canvas bag of water with a syphon attachment. A gape fly,
+which somehow had gotten through the screen, hit the lieutenant’s
+forehead, fell on to the book and whirred up against the wire.
+
+“Ach, Gott verdammt!” exclaimed zu Pfeiffer irritably and shouted: “Ho,
+Bakunja—la.” Instantly appeared the tall negro in white. “You son of a
+god! Look at that!”
+
+Bakunjala looked, leaped, and caught the fly in his hand.
+
+“Ow!” he exclaimed as the hornet stung him.
+
+“Ach, you woman of shame, catch it instantly!”
+
+Without hesitation Bakunjala made another grab, and clutching the fly
+tightly, made to open the screen door.
+
+“Halt!” commanded the lieutenant.
+
+Bakunjala obeyed.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer regarded the man standing with the wasp sting buried in his
+palm with a slight smile of amusement.
+
+“It hurts?” he inquired amiably.
+
+“Indio, Bwana!” asserted Bakunjala.
+
+“Good! Now stop there.”
+
+Motionless remained the negro. Zu Pfeiffer leisurely selected a fresh
+cigar, lighted it, stoked it, and inhaling smoke stroked his left
+moustache.
+
+“It still hurts?”
+
+“Indio, Bwana!” said Bakunjala with a high note in his voice.
+
+“Splendid!” assured the lieutenant: and after a full minute added: “Now
+you may go. And remember if you are frightened of a fly’s pain again I
+will give you twenty lashes.”
+
+“Indio, Bwana,” answered Bakunjala humbly and departed swiftly with the
+hornet in his clenched fist. Zu Pfeiffer smiled, again stared reflectively
+at the violet shadows creeping lazily across the square, sipped some
+brandy and picking up his book, began to read.…
+
+“Excellence!”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer frowned and looked round. Outside the screen stood Sergeant
+Schultz at the salute. Zu Pfeiffer nodded.
+
+“Well?”
+
+“Excellence,” said the sergeant at attention, “the Englishman is here.”
+
+“Ach, tell him to go——” The lieutenant drew out his gold chronometer. “It
+is my bath time. I cannot see him.”
+
+“Ja, Excellence.”
+
+“Wait.” Zu Pfeiffer withdrew his legs and rose. “Ach, tell the fool to
+come over here and wait till I have had my bath.”
+
+“Excellence!” agreed the sergeant and saluting, marched away. Zu Pfeiffer
+entered the bungalow. Across the square came Birnier with the sergeant who
+ushered him into the screened portion of the verandah.
+
+“His Excellence gom bresently,” said the sergeant and left him.
+
+Birnier put his Tirai hat on the table, and seeing no other, sat in the
+Bombay chair; looked about him; idly examined the brand on the box of
+cigars and smiled. “Makes himself mighty comfortable,” he remarked to
+himself. “Pity he appears such a boor.” He glanced at the book on the
+armchair. _Allgemeine Geschichte der Philosophie_ von Prof. Dr. Paul
+Deussen. “And a philosopher, eh!” Having little German he turned away and
+lighted his pipe. After a while he began to fidget, wondering how long he
+was to be kept waiting. “Damn the fellow!” he muttered and picked up one
+of the books on the table, _Les Ba-Rongas_, par A. Junod, opened it at
+random and began to read.
+
+The shadows of one bungalow reached the verandah on the opposite side of
+the square. And still he read on, the dead pipe in his hand. Just as the
+twilight was snuffed out like a candle, a sharp step heralded the arrival
+of the lieutenant. Birnier rose, the book in his hand.
+
+“Good evening, sir!”
+
+“Good evening,” responded zu Pfeiffer, who was in an undress uniform of
+white. “What is it that you require?”
+
+“Well,” said Birnier, “first of all I must apologise for using your chair
+and reading your book. Most interesting, by the way.”
+
+“That is nothing,” said zu Pfeiffer as Bakunjala came in with a lamp and a
+chair. “Please to be seated.”
+
+“Thank you.”
+
+Birnier took the small chair and the lieutenant the Bombay.
+
+“I—er I—am sorry that I disturbed you this morning,” began Birnier
+diffidently. “But I did not know——”
+
+“That is nothing. It was the fault of the sentry. He should not have
+allowed you to pass.”
+
+“Regarding my application for the licence, Herr Lieutenant?”
+
+“I regret,” said zu Pfeiffer coldly, using a cigar cutter, “that I am
+unable to grant you the licence you ask.”
+
+“You cannot grant me a trading or shooting licence?”
+
+“I regret, no.”
+
+Birnier stared.
+
+“May I inquire why I am refused?”
+
+“You may. We do not wish undesirables in the country.”
+
+“Undesirables!” Birnier’s lips tightened. “I am afraid that I do not
+understand you.” The lieutenant was engaged in carefully stoking his
+cigar. “Will you kindly afford me a reason for—for such an insulting
+remark?”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer blew smoke luxuriously. Birnier stared for a moment, stuck his
+pipe in his mouth and bit the stem; removed it and snapped:
+
+“You can have no adequate reason for such action.… If you intend to
+continue this ridiculous farce I shall be compelled to make a complaint
+through Washington.”
+
+“Washington?” Zu Pfeiffer removed one leg from the chair-rest and the
+cigar from his mouth. “You are an American?”
+
+“I am.”
+
+“So? We understood that you were an English agent. You have papers?”
+
+“Certainly. If you wish——”
+
+“We do not demand. No. My agent was wrong. He shall be punished.” Then in
+an amiable voice: “I, too, have been a long time in America. Please to
+have a cigar, Mr. Birnier.”
+
+Birnier hesitated, puzzled.
+
+“Thank you,” he said diffidently, selected one, bit off the end and spat
+it into the corner. Zu Pfeiffer shuddered delicately; but as Birnier
+lighted his cigar he studied his face in the glow of the match; noted the
+breadth of the jaw, the width between the eyes and the slightly hard line
+at the corner of the mouth.
+
+“And forgive me!” Zu Pfeiffer shouted to Bakunjala. “I presume that you
+have been in Africa a long time,” he continued.
+
+“Some ten years.”
+
+“You do find the Wongolo country interesting?”
+
+“Oh, yes.”
+
+“You were there long?”
+
+“No, I had been two years in the Congo and passed through on my way to
+Uganda to refit.”
+
+“Ach. You permit me? You are mining?”
+
+“No.” Birnier smiled thinly. “I have a professorial job in the American
+Museum of Natural History, Anthropological department.”
+
+“Professor! Ach!” Zu Pfeiffer looked at him interestedly.
+
+“Yes. That is why I was so absorbed in _Les Ba-Rongas_ which I found here.
+You are interested in anthropology?”
+
+“Ach, yes, I love to study the animals. I have a library—a small one,
+here. You must see it.”
+
+“Thank you.”
+
+“You were studying the animals’ ways and how d’you call it?—das
+Volkskündliches—in Wongolo?”
+
+“Yes. I do nothing else.”
+
+“So?” Bakunjala arrived with fresh glasses and vermouth. “Which do you
+prefer, French or Italian, Herr Professor?”
+
+“French, please.”
+
+“You will dine with me, please?”
+
+“That is very kind of you, Lieutenant.” Birnier gazed quizzically, rather
+amused at the complete change of manner. Quite charming when he likes, he
+reflected.
+
+“From what part do you come, Herr Professor?” inquired zu Pfeiffer as he
+set down his glass.
+
+“Oh, I’m a Southerner. Louisiana. My name is French, you know.”
+
+“Ach so? Che les aimes, les Français. Les femmes sont adorables!”
+
+“Oui, je les trouve comme ça!” agreed Birnier, smiling. “Ma femme est
+française.”
+
+“So? … I, too, Professor, I am in love with a Française. She is wonderful!
+superbe! Ach, ent zückend!” The lieutenant gazed into the warm darkness.
+“Always I see her—in the darkness, the—chaleur—parmis les animaux.” In the
+glow of the lamp, the blue eyes were soft, the feminine lips curved in a
+tender smile as he murmured:
+
+     “Die Jahre kommen und gehen,
+     Geschlechter steigen ins Grab,
+     Doch nimmer vergeht die Liebe,
+     Die ich im Herzen hab!
+     Nur einmal noch möcht ich dich sehen,
+     Und sinken vor dir aufs Knie
+     Und sterbend zu dir sprechen:
+     ‘Madam, ich liebe Sie!’ ”
+
+“Thank you,” said Birnier quietly. “I, too, would say that.”
+
+“Ach, sprechen Sie Deutsch?” demanded zu Pfeiffer quickly.
+
+“No, unfortunately I don’t speak it, but I understand a little; and
+particularly Heine.”
+
+“Ach, Gott!”
+
+The note was of satisfaction. A gong sounded. Zu Pfeiffer turned sharply:
+“Come, Herr Professor, let us go to dinner. You would wish to wash?”
+
+The bungalow, unusually lofty, was divided into three compartments. The
+ceiling, made of stout white calico, to shelter from snakes and the
+continual dust from the wood borers, was suspended from the rafters like
+the roof of a marquee tent. The centre room was furnished with cane lounge
+chairs like a smoking-room and decorated with skins, native musical
+instruments, spears and shields; drums served as small tables with
+elephant’s toe-nails for ash trays.
+
+In the bedroom was a brass bedstead and mosquito net. Behind was a
+bathroom having a corrugated cistern upon the cross beams which gave force
+for a shower. The towels and appointments were specklessly clean. When
+Birnier appeared he found zu Pfeiffer sprawled in the lounge. On a red
+lacquer tray upon a great war drum, covered with the striped skin of a
+zebra, was a crystal liqueur set and a large silver box of Egyptian
+cigarettes.
+
+“Ach, Professor,” said he, “it is good to speak to a white man again” (by
+which he meant an equal). “Please be seated, I beg you. A little liqueur
+is good for the aperitif and a cigarette; for there is no time for another
+cigar.”
+
+As Birnier sat he remarked the blonde head of the lieutenant in his
+meticulous uniform touched with gold and caught a glimpse of the jewelled
+bracelet of ivory and the Chinese finger-nail.
+
+Another summons of the gong brought zu Pfeiffer to his feet. As he led his
+guest out through the side verandah along a screened porch to the mess
+room, built away from the main building to keep away the plague of flies,
+a native girl whose close-wrapped white robes revealed a lithe figure,
+flitted through a doorway. The table was set in immaculate linen, aglitter
+with glass and decorated with a profusion of wild orchids. Behind the
+chairs stood two negroes in spotless white, immobile. On each plate were
+hors d’œuvres of anchovy and cheese upon a patterned piece of toast.
+Salted almonds, sweets, and olives were in green china; wine glasses of
+three kinds. Broiled fish followed the soup.
+
+“So, Professor,” remarked the lieutenant, “you will go back some day to
+Wongolo?”
+
+“Yes, I—unless I discover some tribe who have a more interesting system
+of—er—theology.”
+
+“They are a powerful tribe, nicht wahr?”
+
+“Oh yes, very. Their system ensures unity which provides for concerted
+action. Here I believe it is different.”
+
+“Yes, yes; they are poor here. Each village was at war with the
+other—before we came. Their superstitions are not—how would you say it?”
+
+“Systematised?”
+
+“Yes. They have neither any supreme chief nor god. There you see,” he
+added, smiling, “that autocracy is the only form of government.
+Democracy—pah! … I apologise, Professor!”
+
+“Please don’t,” replied Birnier, “although of course I cannot agree with
+you.”
+
+“But the Wongolo, they have a god and king?”
+
+“Yes, the King-Priest system. One of the most interesting I have ever
+encountered or read of.”
+
+“You did see the King-God, MFunya MPopo?”
+
+“Oh no. He is forbidden to be seen by a foreigner—a similar law to that of
+the Medes; only by the witch-doctors—and by the people once a year at a
+harvest festival. That is why I intend to go back. It is impossible to
+procure reliable statistics of their customs, practices and real beliefs
+without—without winning their confidence. That is my mission.”
+
+“I do not longer wonder, Herr Professor, that you were most justly
+annoyed. Ach, yes. But please do not worry about your ridiculous licence.
+It is not necessary in my jurisdiction, I assure you. You may come and go
+as you please, shoot what you wish. I will always be so glad to help so
+distinguished a professor.”
+
+“I thank you very much.”
+
+“It is nothing. And perhaps when you are there, you will be so kind as to
+write to me? To tell me things that are not known—so that I may, too,
+continue to study the animals—again what is it? das Volkskündliches?”
+
+“Folk-lore, isn’t it?”
+
+“Yes. Please to have some more wine, Herr Professor. Please, I insist. It
+is the real Mumm. That is a promise? I thank you. And if—— Were there any
+others—whites—when you were there?”
+
+“Only one.”
+
+“Where was he, I wonder?”
+
+“On the southern boundary.”
+
+“Near lake Kivu?”
+
+“Yes.”
+
+“Saunders,” muttered zu Pfeiffer.
+
+“I beg your pardon?”
+
+“It was nothing, but I do not like to have—aliens in my province. They
+are—missionaries and traders—spies.”
+
+“Indeed.”
+
+“Yes, it is always so. Herr Professor, I ask you a favour. Will you be so
+kind as to write to me if some other white comes into the Wongolo
+country?”
+
+“I shall be delighted,” said Birnier.… “Do you intend to come there some
+day, Herr Lieutenant?”
+
+“Ach, no, it is not—not our territory; although I should very much like to
+see it and to shoot. There is much elephant there?”
+
+“Oh yes, quantities.”
+
+“Please to try some of this curried egg, Herr Professor. It is excellent,
+I assure you. I thank you.… And rubber, is there much rubber there?”
+
+“Yes, I believe so.”
+
+“Now I wonder if you noticed whether it was tree or vine?”
+
+“I really couldn’t say.” Birnier smiled thinly. “I am not interested in
+such things.”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer glanced at him keenly and changed the subject. When they had
+finished the best boned chicken that Birnier had ever tasted in Africa, zu
+Pfeiffer rose.
+
+“Let us go to my study, Herr Professor, if you so permit, for some coffee
+and a little good port—and I will have the pleasure to show you my little
+library.”
+
+“I should be delighted,” assented Birnier willingly.
+
+Around the white walls of the cool room which was zu Pfeiffer’s study, ran
+low bookshelves made of native wood, containing some hundreds of volumes
+which had been carried five hundred miles on the heads of porters. Grass
+mats and leopard skins were upon the floor. In the centre, upon a heavy
+table, was a green shaded lamp set in a silver-mounted elephant’s foot.
+Upon the bookcases were various odd curios, and a coffee service in
+copper; and from opposite sides, marbles of Bismarck and Voltaire stared
+into each other’s eyes. On the south wall was a large oil of Kaiser
+Wilhelm II; and in the centre of the other wall a photograph of a woman
+set in an ivory frame made from a section of a tusk.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer strove to be more agreeable than ever. They talked mythology
+and folklore. With the port, zu Pfeiffer rose, an erect martial figure
+above the glow of the lamp.
+
+“Herr Professor!” he remarked. “I beg you.”
+
+Slightly bewildered, Birnier rose, too, glass in hand. Wheeling with
+military precision zu Pfeiffer raised his glass to the great portrait on
+the wall.
+
+“Ihre Hochheit!”
+
+Politely Birnier followed suit, his democratic ideas slightly astonished
+at the veneration of the kingly office; almost, he reflected, as curious
+as the native superstition of the King-God. Then zu Pfeiffer turned to the
+left and lifting his glass to the portrait in the ivory frame, drank
+silently.
+
+“I was wondering, Professor,” remarked he, as he resumed his seat without
+explanation, “from what college—you call it?—you come?”
+
+“Harvard,” said Birnier, rather amused and noticing that as a true
+connoisseur, zu Pfeiffer refrained from smoking while drinking his port.
+
+“I have met many of the Harvard men—at Washington.”
+
+“Ah, you know Washington?”
+
+“Yes, I was there nearly two years.”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer drained his port, selected a cigar, lighted it and gazed
+abstractedly towards the ivory frame. The lips softened and he smiled
+gently.
+
+“Do you know many people there?”
+
+“Oh, a few.”
+
+“Ach … I wonder.… You must know that I met her there, my divine Lucille!”
+
+“Lucille! How strange! That is my wife’s name too.”
+
+“Really?” Zu Pfeiffer still peered dreamily at the corner. He gathered up
+his legs and rose like an eager boy. “Permit me, Herr Professor, she is
+so—so——” He bent over the portrait and struck a match. Politely Birnier
+stooped to look. He saw a portrait of a French woman in an evening gown, a
+woman of charm with the vivacious eyes and tempting mouth of the coquette.
+
+“My God!”
+
+Birnier bent closer and stared intently. Across the corner of the
+photograph were written in ink in familiar characters the words: ‘à toi,
+Lucille.’
+
+“Lucille!” he gasped. “Lu—Good God!” He stood up abruptly. “I—What in
+God’s name—who is this woman?”
+
+The match fell to the floor. He was vaguely conscious of the tall white
+figure stiffening as a dog does.
+
+“That lady is my fiancée.”
+
+“Fiancée! She—Good God, you’re mad! She is my wife!”
+
+“Wife!… Gott verdampf, der Teufel solls holen! Das ist der Schweinhünd!”
+
+The gutturals exploded from zu Pfeiffer. The sleeve of his white jacket
+quivered, the arm came up to the gold braided chest and jerked out a
+silver whistle. He hesitated, glaring at the astonished figure of Birnier.
+Suddenly zu Pfeiffer sat down by the table. His blue eyes were as hard as
+malachite.
+
+“Sit down!” he commanded harshly.
+
+Birnier did not appear to notice him. He struck a match and bent over the
+photograph again.
+
+“Good God!” he muttered. “I—I—don’t understand—O God!”
+
+“Sit down!” shouted zu Pfeiffer. Birnier merely blinked at him.
+
+“Would you mind explaining?” demanded Birnier.
+
+“Explain!… Is your wife Mademoiselle Lucille Charltrain?”
+
+“Why, of course. That is her professional name. But how on earth has this
+mistake happened? I—I—that is her writing—but it can’t be. I mean it’s
+impossible.…” Birnier put his hand to his head. “I—God, it can’t be! I or
+you must be mad! Which is——”
+
+A prolonged whistle startled him. He saw the whistle at zu Pfeiffer’s
+lips, but the act conveyed no meaning. He turned away, struck another
+match and peered again at the photograph.
+
+“Lucille! Lucille!” he whispered. “What on earth——”
+
+A powerful clutch closed upon his arm. He was whirled backwards into a
+chair. For a moment he was too dazed to grasp what had happened. He saw zu
+Pfeiffer’s face. The sentries over his moustaches quivered like a row of
+fixed bayonets. The eyes seemed needle points. Then the fact of the
+assault penetrated beyond the unprecedented incident of finding his wife’s
+photograph in another man’s room. The ugly line about the mouth hardened.
+He rose slowly.
+
+“Am I to understand that you have laid your hands upon your guest?” he
+began, stuttering over the choice of words. “I am—I am——”
+
+The scuffle of many feet interrupted him. Into the room rushed Sergeant
+Schultz and several soldiers. Zu Pfeiffer stood up and pointed.
+
+“Sergeant, arrest that man!” he barked.
+
+“Ja, Excellence!”
+
+The sergeant saluted and barked at the askaris. Birnier gazed stupidly at
+the uniforms around him as if unable to comprehend. He looked at zu
+Pfeiffer who stood erect, his face lost in shadow above the lamp, and back
+at the soldiers.
+
+“Is this a joke, Lieutenant—or are you mad?” he demanded angrily.
+
+“Sergeant, put that man in the guard-room,” zu Pfeiffer commanded.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer sat down with his back to Birnier and facing the photograph.
+Birnier’s face twitched; he raised his arm. The sergeant barked and the
+line of bayonets lowered menacingly.
+
+“You gom with me, Herr American,” ordered the sergeant.
+
+Birnier controlled himself.
+
+“One moment, sergeant, please! Herr Lieutenant, on what charge do you
+arrest me?” The perfect lines of the white-clad back did not quiver. “Very
+good! I give you warning, Herr Lieutenant, that you have committed an
+assault upon an American citizen.”
+
+“Gom! Gom!” insisted the sergeant impatiently.
+
+Birnier raised his head and walked as indicated by the sergeant. As the
+footsteps plodded across the square zu Pfeiffer turned to the table,
+examining his left hand.
+
+“Ach!” he growled gutturally, “the dirty pig has broken my nail!”
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 4
+
+
+Over the city of the Snake the sun sank red dry, leaving the Place of
+Kings hot in the electric air of magic and world happenings. The people
+were still confined to their huts, trembling in the knowledge that for
+three days love must be eschewed, no water drawn nor any food cooked with
+fire; nor might any man, woman or child leave the precincts of the
+compound.
+
+All the night Bakuma crouched in her hut listening in awe to the swish of
+the ghosts through the air, to the moans, groans and howls of the wizards
+doing battle with them. Tightly did she hold the amulet as she strove to
+conceal curiosity regarding the welfare of Zalu Zako; for did her mother
+suspect the presence of this evil spirit would she cause Bakuma to take a
+decoction of the castor-oil plant in order that the demon might be
+expelled; and the more to aid her conquer this unlawful impulse to peep
+without did she most persistently recite to herself the fate of the
+daughter of MTasa, the foolish Tangulbala whose body had been discovered
+impaled upon a tree by the angry spirits of the dead, because she had
+rashly ventured forth the third day after the death of the grandfather of
+Zalu Zako. Bakuma dared not mention the name of one who had died, for, as
+everybody knows, such an impious person runs the risk of summoning the
+ghosts to their presence.
+
+The “putting out of the fire” had changed Bakuma’s prospects, had made
+Zalu Zako heir-apparent, implying half a hundred responsibilities, the
+chief of which was that now he was compelled to choose his official first
+wife, she who would be the mother of the “divine” Son of the Snake: an
+alteration that excited Bakuma to frantic clutching at the amulet. Would
+the charm work or would it not? How to insure that it would be
+efficacious? Marufa’s greedy demands worried her. She feared even if she
+obtained the goat that he might require something else as well. Anybody
+knows how greedy doctors are and how wealthy. He would be sure to increase
+the fee, knowing the value of the prize. Bakuma only possessed one really
+valuable article, and that was a charm against sterility; but this was the
+last thing that she wished to part with as the only possible occurrence
+that could ever divorce her from the position of chief wife, once she had
+won Zalu Zako, would be failure to provide the male heir. She was
+impatient, too, at the delay caused by the three days’ tabu. Time was
+important. Soon she would be under the ban of the unclean which entailed
+the curtailment of her liberty again, and she dreaded that possibly the
+charm might grow stale. The greatest need for speed was MYalu’s suit. As
+her father was dead she belonged to his brother. Already MYalu had offered
+four tusks of ivory and three oxen for her. Her uncle was lazy, mean, and
+greedy. Fortunately he thought that by waiting he could get double that
+amount. Yet MYalu might decide to pay the price demanded. Once Zalu Zako
+had selected her as his bride, her uncle dared not accept any other man’s
+offer, no matter how wealthy he might be; besides, the old man would not
+wish to refuse a relationship with the heir to the king-godhood.
+
+Again her cousin was sick. The diagnosis of Yabolo, the wizard, was that
+her soul had wandered in sleep down to the river and had been swallowed by
+a fish. Yabolo had caught the fish and lured the soul into a tree, but now
+he demanded such a big price to restore the errant soul to the girl that
+her father, Bakuma’s uncle, would not pay it, so she would surely die;
+then they would all have to be exorcised, which inferred a further loss of
+relative freedom for another four days. Indeed with all these actual and
+possible delays it seemed to Bakuma that some one had made much magic
+against her. Unless she knew who he or she was, how could she employ the
+same means to annul the terrible effects? And more, how could she obtain
+the wherewithal to pay the fees of the best doctors? Life was very
+complicated to the daughter of Bakala.
+
+Up on the hill of MFunya MPopo had the magicians been busy all the
+afternoon after the “putting out of the fire.” Zalu Zako and the chiefs
+also were barred from the sacred enclosure; for being mere laymen they
+could not hope to withstand the evil spirits of the dead. Even Bakahenzie
+and the inner circle of the cult were compelled to employ the most potent
+methods of protection to preserve them from being bewitched or slain
+outright.
+
+After Bakahenzie, Marufa, Yabolo and two other master magicians had
+released the souls of the dead King by making incisions in the body with a
+sacred spear to the thrumming of the drums, the mighty groaning of the
+other wizards, and the persistent wailing of the dead man’s wives, the
+corpse was borne by twelve doomed slaves to the temple and there interred
+with the gouts of blood shed by the prophetic goat, the nail parings and
+hair clippings of his lifetime, and his personal effects.
+
+Upon the hill of MFunya MPopo, soon to be a temple and sanctuary, sat Kawa
+Kendi beside the New Fire tended by Kingata Mata, facing Zalu Zako, MYalu
+and the lay chiefs, while upon his own hill slaves were tearing down his
+old hut, erecting a temporary palisade around the quarters of his wives
+who were forever forbidden to him, and beginning the building of the new
+temple.
+
+As the violet shadows were creeping from one hut to another did Bakahenzie
+and his satellites return from the ghoulish offices of the dead. Zalu
+Zako, the chiefs and magicians arose to the wild beating of the drums and
+the wailing chant of the hereditary troubadour with the five stringed
+lyre. With Kingata Mata carrying a brand of the newly lighted sacred fire,
+was Kawa Kendi led in procession through the deserted village to his
+sacred home.
+
+Under the hard stars set in a dry sapphire, the fire cast yellow flickers
+upon the carven features of Kawa Kendi. In the still heat the distant
+wailing of the women from the opposite hill drifted into the continuous
+throb of the drums, the plaintive wail of the singer, and the hysterical
+groaning of the magicians, yelling ferociously ever and again to
+intimidate the baulked spirits around the magic circle.
+
+Then was a white goat, previously selected from the flock of Kawa Kendi,
+slain by Zalu Zako, disembowelled by Bakahenzie, and the entrails rubbed
+upon the brow, the chest and the right arm of the slayer of man, a
+ceremony of purification designed to protect the royal executioner by
+appeasing the justly angry spirits of the dead; to Marufa were given other
+parts of the slain beast to smear likewise upon Zalu Zako, the son; and
+Yabolo ran screaming with portions to the quarters of the women of Kawa
+Kendi: for must every blood relative be so enchanted lest the vengeful
+ghost seek substitute victims.
+
+As a pallid moon rose, as if fearfully, above the deep ultramarine of the
+banana fronds, was a magic potion brewed from certain herbs in enchanted
+water, with which the King, Zalu Zako, his son, and the King’s wives were
+laved. Amid a tempest of screams and drums rose Kawa Kendi purified, to be
+driven by Bakahenzie and the wizards back to the hill of his father,
+leaving the assembled lay chiefs squatting humbly and in dread of the
+spirits abroad in the night. While the procession leaped and twirled,
+screamed and groaned to the frantic thrum of the drums through the blue
+darkness, the magicians ran and pranced through and around the village,
+seeking any blasphemer who dared to look upon sacred things; banging on
+hut doors and shaking thatches, the more to terrify the shrinking
+inhabitants.
+
+Without the gate of the old enclosure all remained, except Bakahenzie and
+the four wizards who encircled Kawa Kendi and Kingata Mata and hustled
+them across the clearing. With his back to the dim form of the idol stood
+Kawa Kendi as behind it grouped the master magicians. From the base
+Bakahenzie took two large gourds and gave them into the keeping of Kingata
+Mata.
+
+Came an abrupt cessation of the drums and cries. The wailing of the women
+behind the temple died. The tense air pulsed with electricity. A cock
+crowed feebly in the village. Then at a rippling splash of the drums and
+the sudden screaming of the wizards, they began to push the idol. The base
+had already been loosened in the earth by the slaves. The idol began to
+totter. Louder screeched the magicians; faster fled the drums. Slowly the
+idol leaned and subsided on to the shoulders of Kawa Kendi. Grasping the
+mass firmly upon his bent back, he bore the burden out of the enclosure
+and down the hill.
+
+Behind his unsteady steps pranced and yelled the doctors with more
+prodigious a noise than ever before as they scourged the King’s legs and
+arms with cords of fibre. Through the listening village panted the King.
+As he gasped slowly up the hill the thrashing was redoubled. But into the
+new enclosure the King staggered, let slide the heavy mass into a hole
+prepared for the sacred feet and, gleaming blue points of sweat in the
+faint moon, let out a hoarse yell, proving to the assembly of magicians
+and chiefs that he was powerful enough to bear the burden of the world and
+moreover that none could wrest his office from him.
+
+No time was given for the incarnation of a god to recoup from his labours.
+The motive principle of the accusation and for the death of the king was
+the drought. That only concerned the soul of the tribe in the person of
+Bakahenzie. For him and his brothers of the inner cult, while certain
+pretensions of power over the supernatural were for the “good of the
+people,” the truths of magic and divine functions were inviolable. The
+person of Kawa Kendi, heretofore merely one in whom was a potentiality,
+became after the purification and “coronation” the very incarnation of the
+god. Kawa Kendi had crossed from the comparative safe haven of the
+potential into divine activity.
+
+Also there were, as ever, political reasons for the hastening of the
+offices of the god. Should the new King-God fail, as his father had done,
+to accomplish the duties of the rainmaker, then, as no precedent had ever
+been known for the failure of two kings in succession, an enemy might
+accuse Bakahenzie of having committed some sacrilege which had displeased
+the Unmentionable One. Politics and religion are often inseparable.
+Therefore, as soon as Zalu Zako had witnessed the ascent of his father
+into the dangerous zone of the gods, was he bidden as the victim apparent,
+to produce the sacred rain-making paraphernalia. From the Keeper of the
+Fire, Kingata Mata, Zalu Zako received one of the large gourds, which he
+deposited at the feet of his father squatting before the sacred fire, and
+retired to his allotted place among the other lay chiefs. Only Bakahenzie
+and the four of the inner cult were permitted within the enclosure.
+
+Fumbling within the pot Kawa Kendi produced a bundle of twigs tied with
+banana fibre, which he unbound and cast into the fire. The herbs
+smouldered and sent up a pungent smoke forming a heavy cloud like some
+strange blue tree sheltering the form of the idol against the green sky.
+Save for the faint wailing of the distant women there was silence, in
+which an owl screeched harshly, a good omen. Little flames flickered. The
+smoke grew denser, obliterating the figure of the King. The drums began to
+mutter, Bakahenzie cried out in a loud voice:
+
+“O great God, the Unmentionable One! let thy powers be made manifest!”
+
+The Keeper of the Fires came forward upon his hands and thrust the other
+sacred gourd in front of the King, a deep one containing water, and a wand
+made from a sacred tree which had upon the end a crook. To the groaning of
+the magicians, the King took from the one gourd two stones of quartz and
+granite, the male and the female, and spat upon each one, thus placing
+part of his royal body upon them; then did he put them on the ground, and
+pouring water, chanted:
+
+  “Go forth, male spirit, with my ghost in thy hands!
+  Go forth, female soul, with my ghost in thy breast!
+  Make love together in the shade of great Tarum,
+  Of him whom fear of me hath frozen the breath!”
+                 “Ough! Ough!”
+
+grunted the priests and magicians.
+
+  “Go forth, male spirit, with my ghost in thy hand!
+  Go forth, female soul, with my ghost in thy breast!
+  Love one another that the crops of our land
+  May marry as well and be as fruitful as thee!”
+                 “Ough! Ough!”
+
+  “Go forth, male spirit, with my ghost in thy hand!
+  Go forth, female soul, with my ghost in thy breast!
+  Rise high up to heaven and mount on the black back
+  Of the bird of the wet wind: poke your hands in his eyes!”
+                 “Ough! Ough!”
+
+Save for the distant wailing, there was the silence of those waiting for a
+miracle. In the sky, at the back of the idol, was the paling of dawn.
+Suddenly, as if exasperated by the non-obedience of the elements, Kawa
+Kendi sprang to his feet, with the magic wand in his right hand, turned
+and stared apparently into the face of the idol. For a full two minutes he
+stood as if carven, while the doctors and the chiefs moaned dismally.
+Around him like a pall still hovered the smoke of the magic fire. From the
+village a cock’s challenge was answered from point to point. Then shooting
+out his right hand, Kawa Kendi made gestures as if hooking something
+invisible and began to scream furiously:
+
+  “Thus do I, the One-not-to-be-mentioned,
+  Drag forth from the belly of heaven
+  The disobedient One, the lazy One!
+  The insolent One who sinneth in sleep!
+  The black-snouted One whose udders are choked!
+  The womanly One whose nipples are dry!
+  The sluttish One who refuseth her milk!
+  The gorbellied One whose voice is a wind!
+  Come forth, lest I give thee sorrow and pain!
+  And make thee to weep the bitterest tears!
+  Come forth, lest I tear out thy black bosom!
+  Tear out thy guts for a feast unto Tarum!
+  Come forth, lest I throw off the yoke of the burden
+  Of the Earth and the Sky upon thy sweating black belly!”
+
+In a slight puff of wind, the smoke, lace-edged with the dawn light,
+swayed, seeming to twine about the figure of the King as he stood with the
+wand outheld, as if firmly hooked in the guts of the recalcitrant
+elements.
+
+Against the rose of the dawn appeared a dark line which increased as the
+magicians and chiefs moaned and groaned in sympathy with the furious
+efforts of the rainmaker, who threatened and pulled with the magic crook,
+so that everybody could see that he was indeed dragging the reluctant
+clouds from over the end of the earth. As the dark mass swelled the more
+he wrestled and screamed abuse at the dilatory spirit of the rain.
+
+And behold, within half an hour, great black spirits sailed across the
+scarlet sunrise and wept exceeding bitterly; while from the village went
+up a great shout of praise to the triumphant King still prancing and
+cursing to such good effect up on the hill.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 5
+
+
+The same vast balloons of sepia rolled over the lake, vomited a host of
+liquid ramrods and, after short intervals of brilliant glare, were
+succeeded by others. The gutters of the station were turned into burbling
+brooks and the grass plot into a morass.
+
+Behind the screen on the south verandah sat zu Pfeiffer in his pink silk
+pyjamas, a scowl upon his brow. He sipped his café cognac distastefully
+and inhaled a cigarette so fiercely that the heat burned his tongue. He
+had not slept. Yet the broken nail on the left little finger had been cut
+and polished. Half the night he had sat before the photograph in the ivory
+frame, pondering upon, and rehearsing, the past; muttering aloud to
+Lucille, sometimes words of love and sometimes savage curses; wondering
+what she was doing and where she was; gritting his teeth at visions which
+aroused insane jealousy; calculating what the consequences of his action
+would be were he to obey the impulse that had leaped into his mind in the
+first flush of passion. If he were to release the prisoner the fellow
+would probably expect an explanation and an apology which was, of course,
+out of the question. No, he must carry out the thing thoroughly without
+leaving any chance for the man to make trouble at the coast, or through
+the Embassy at Washington; at all costs not through Washington. For him,
+Birnier merely existed as a person whose feelings mattered nothing.
+
+With the greening of the moon zu Pfeiffer had retired. As he had lain
+sleeplessly watching the pallor of the dawn he had savagely corroborated
+the decision. Now the roar of the deluge appeared to him in the form of an
+abettor to his plan. He watched the grey wall of rain with satisfaction,
+stroking the left sentry moustache as if to tame the fierce bristles of an
+outraged dignity. When he had emerged from the bath, the pink of his face
+appeared to have spread to the whites of his eyes, a fact which Bakunjala
+had noted with sullen dread.
+
+Between the storms the sun glared yellow upon the smoking earth. Across
+the square squelched zu Pfeiffer to the orderly room. He grunted at
+Sergeant Schultz’s greeting and sprawled in the chair. When Schultz
+proffered him some official documents he waved them aside irritably.
+
+“Bring the prisoner to the Court, sergeant. I will try him immediately.”
+
+“Excellence!” said the sergeant, saluting. “What charge am I to enter
+against him, Excellence?”
+
+“Arms and liquor running,” responded zu Pfeiffer quickly. “I hold papers
+which prove the case completely; moreover you will see that Ali ben Hassan
+and others are prepared to testify. But—the charge will be margined as
+political: not criminal. Understand, sergeant?”
+
+“Perfectly, Excellence. Ali ben Hassan and the others have to testify
+before your Excellence now?”
+
+“There will be no need.”
+
+“Very good, Excellence.”
+
+“And, sergeant, what is the personnel of the launch and the prisoner’s
+party?”
+
+“The launch returned immediately to Jinja, Excellence, as soon as the
+prisoner had landed.”
+
+“Ach, good.”
+
+“The prisoner has a considerable battery, equipment and provisions; a
+headman and personal servants. He intended to obtain porters here,
+Excellence.”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer meditated, tapping the desk with a gold pencil.
+
+“What is the headman?”
+
+“Bambeeba, Excellence.”
+
+“Good. And the servants?”
+
+“One is a Wongolo youth, the others are mixed Walegga and Kavirondo.”
+
+“Arrest them all and see that none gets away.”
+
+“Excellence!”
+
+Schultz saluted and departed. Zu Pfeiffer frowned at the glare which was
+suddenly extinguished by falling water. He lighted a cigar and waited.
+Presently the sergeant returned in a waterproof cape, dripping, and
+announced that the prisoner was ready. Zu Pfeiffer gathered up his long
+legs and marched stiffly into the Court House adjoining.
+
+Upon a slight dais was a large desk and a cane armchair beneath the
+Imperial Eagles and a portrait of the Kaiser Wilhelm II. Pale, stubble
+bearded, and tense eyed with anger, sat Birnier upon a form against the
+wall; beside him stood Sergeant Schneider, for it is not usual etiquette
+to put a white prisoner in charge of a black guard. The grizzled sergeant
+stood stuffy to attention, which zu Pfeiffer acknowledged. Although he did
+not meet Birnier’s gaze, he scowled as if he had expected him to salute
+the majesty of the judge as well.
+
+But as zu Pfeiffer mounted the step to the chair of justice he looked up
+at the portrait of the Kaiser, stopped, and hesitated; then he wheeled
+abruptly, and barked:
+
+“Sergeant, bring the prisoner to the orderly room!”
+
+In the orderly room Birnier was placed between Sergeant Schultz at his
+table and Sergeant Schneider by the door. Birnier watched zu Pfeiffer
+intently, but zu Pfeiffer regarded him icily as if he were a piece of
+furniture. Without a word Birnier reached out and lifted a chair. Sergeant
+Schneider started forward, evidently fearing that the prisoner was about
+to attack his officer. Birnier said acidly: “I merely wish to sit down.”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer scowled again, but he made no objection. He took up some
+papers at random and began to peruse them. Said Birnier sharply:
+
+“When you have finished with this farce I shall be obliged if you will
+kindly explain your insane actions!”
+
+The tap-tap of a typewriter sounded from another room. A fly buzzed. Zu
+Pfeiffer’s eyelids did not blink. The sergeants stared woodenly to the
+front. Birnier looked from one to the other, bit his lips, and then
+exclaimed in exasperation: “What in hell do you mean by this damned
+nonsense?”
+
+The tap-tap continued; the fly buzzed irritatedly. Birnier clenched his
+fist. But he sat still. Another storm so darkened the room that zu
+Pfeiffer could scarcely have seen the print, but apparently he read on.
+The deluge roared, passed, and the glare came as suddenly. Zu Pfeiffer
+lifted his head and said in German:
+
+“Sergeant, record the opening of the Court.”
+
+“Excellence!” assented Sergeant Schultz and poised his pen ready to write.
+
+“The prisoner, a Swiss subject——”
+
+“I am American, as I have told you,” said Birnier in leashed anger.
+
+“A pseudo trader and hunter, named Carl Bornstadt,” continued zu Pfeiffer
+imperturbably, “is charged under sub-section 79 of section 8 with
+supplying guns and liquor to the native subjects of his Imperial Majesty.”
+
+“Good God!” began Birnier. But as he realised zu Pfeiffer’s purpose and
+his own position, he closed his lips tightly.
+
+Methodically the sergeant finished the entries and waited. Zu Pfeiffer
+stroked his favourite moustache and considered. He glanced at Birnier, but
+without a vestige of expression and continued:
+
+“Make a special note, sergeant, that we have reason to suspect that the
+prisoner is in the political service of”—a slight smile flicked the
+lieutenant’s face—“in the service of the Portuguese, and so under
+sub-section 109 of section 8, I am referring the case to Dar-es-salaam for
+investigation; witnesses, documentary and personal, to accompany the
+prisoner. Owing to unusual pressure of service we are unable to afford the
+prisoner, although apparently of European descent, a white guard;
+therefore, Sergeant Ludwig will detail a corporal and six men for the
+duty.”
+
+He paused. The sergeant’s pen scratched on. Zu Pfeiffer lighted a cigar
+and added impersonally:
+
+“The prisoner and escort will leave to-morrow morning. Sergeant Schneider,
+remove the prisoner!”
+
+Birnier’s face was a little paler, the eyes were slightly more bloodshot;
+but he did not attempt to speak. Zu Pfeiffer rose. The sergeants stood to
+attention and saluted. As he left the room towards the Court House, he
+smiled with slight satisfaction as the gruff voice of Sergeant Schneider
+barked: “Prisoner, shun! Right turn! Quick marrch!”
+
+But zu Pfeiffer did not remain long in the Court House. After fidgeting
+about with papers on the table and reprimanding Sergeant Schultz because
+he had not arranged the next native case to his satisfaction, he rose
+abruptly and marched swiftly across the square in the brilliant glare
+without his helmet and into his study. There he straddled a chair and
+leaned on the back sucking a dead cigar absent-mindedly. As he stared at
+the portrait in the ivory frame, the blue eyes grew soft and the delicate
+lips quivered like a child about to weep. He sighed heavily and then
+rapping out an oath, rose violently, overturning the chair, poured out a
+half-glass of neat cognac, and drank it at a gulp. As he neared the Court
+House the sentry, turning at the end of his short beat, was so startled at
+the proximity of the Kommandant, or incompletely disciplined, that he
+became flurried. Zu Pfeiffer clicked his heels together and haughtily
+watched the fumbled efforts to salute. The bolt caught in the man’s tunic.
+Gold flashed in the sun as the sjambok descended. Zu Pfeiffer walked on
+unconcernedly, leaving a grey weal on the terrified native’s face. To
+Sergeant Schultz, rigid in the doorway, he snapped an order to have fifty
+lashes given to the “clumsy dog.”
+
+Sentences were harsher than usual that morning. All the native world about
+him knew that a demon had taken possession of the Eater-of-men; he was
+usually inhabited by an evil spirit, but this time the demon of Bakra who,
+as everybody knows, tears the vitals with hot claws, making the victim to
+have fits, to foam at the mouth, to be quite mad, had entered the white
+man. Bakunjala, coming to the Court House with vermouth and biscuits at
+eleven o’clock, distinctly saw the devil glaring through zu Pfeiffer’s
+eyes, and was so scared that he let fall the tray, which was the reason
+that he also was doomed to have twenty-five lashes that evening. Even the
+stolid Sergeant Schultz remarked that the Herr Lieutenant had gotten a
+touch of the sun; but the grizzled Schneider, who came from Luthuania,
+opined that the Herr Kommandant had left his table knife edge uppermost.
+
+When zu Pfeiffer went across to tiffin the hot sun had dried up the
+gutters and the plot of grass. He did not return to the Court House, much
+to the gratitude of many innocent and guilty. After drinking more wine
+than usual he lay down for the siesta and fell asleep. But at five he
+awoke with a mouth like a burnt cooking pot and the temper of the said
+devil. He yelled for Bakunjala, who came, so trembling with fright that he
+stuttered. Zu Pfeiffer threw a glass which missed him and broke a mirror.
+
+“Another seven years’ ill luck!” shouted zu Pfeiffer, sitting on the bed
+in his shirt. He glared at Bakunjala standing in the door, too
+terror-stricken to flee, convinced that he would be blamed for breaking
+the glass. “You—you superstitious nigger!” yelled zu Pfeiffer, and added
+more calmly in Kiswahili: “Fetch me a brandy-soda! Upesi, you son of a
+baboon!”
+
+“Bwana!” exclaimed Bakunjala and fled gladly.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer sat and scowled at the scattered pieces of mirror until
+Bakunjala arrived with the drink. An hour later he emerged in his
+immaculate undress uniform and sat on the north verandah, drank vermouth
+and smoked cigars, staring out across the flat swamp where the pewter of
+the lake was flecked with silver and blood of the sinking sun. From beyond
+the fort came the yaps of the drill-sergeant busy in the cool of the
+afternoon. At the bark of the relieving guard, zu Pfeiffer rose and walked
+around the house to watch, with tetchy eyes, the saluting of the flag.
+
+As he stalked off to dinner in the messroom eyes glimmered in the darkness
+about him. Bakunjala, after receiving punishment, was indisposed, in fact
+incapable of attending to his duties in the spritely manner required.
+Another servant, who had taken his place, was nervous of the probable
+consequences, and had a keen eye for the appearance of the devil so
+realistically described by Bakunjala. But the demon apparently slept, for
+zu Pfeiffer took the dishes placed before him with an unaccustomed
+meekness, pushed them away absent-mindedly, and rising, retired to his
+study. Even when the deputy brought the wrong bottle he reprimanded him
+mildly without taking his eyes off the photograph in the ivory frame.
+
+Yet, with the port, he did not omit to rise, and heels together, raise his
+glass to the “Ihre Hochheit.” Then sprawling in the chair he began to
+drink and to smoke steadily.
+
+As the notes of the last post stuttered out in the clammy stillness he
+summoned the “boy” and bade him fetch Sergeant Schultz. At the sound of
+the sergeant’s steps on the verandah zu Pfeiffer stiffened up and patted
+his lips as if desiring to erase the lines that were graven thereon; and
+with one foot pushed the chair from the direct angle to the photograph.
+
+“Take a cigar,” said zu Pfeiffer, when the man had entered. The words were
+rather an order than an invitation. Sergeant Schultz obeyed. Zu Pfeiffer
+smoked reflectively, still regarding the photograph out of the corner of
+his eyes as if unable to resist the fascination.
+
+“How long have you been in this benighted country, sergeant?”
+
+“Nine years, Excellence.”
+
+“You wish to retire on the pension at the year’s term?”
+
+“I have not seen my wife and children for three years, Excellence.”
+
+“You shall have special leave as soon as the Wongolo affair is over.”
+
+“I thank you, Excellence.”
+
+“And I will recommend you for the special colonial service medal and
+pension.”
+
+“I thank you, Excellence.”
+
+“Take a drink, sergeant.”
+
+“I thank you, Excellence.”
+
+The sergeant obeyed with some semblance of initiative and he remarked that
+the lieutenant drank half a tumbler of neat brandy at a gulp. As if to
+drag himself away from the contemplation of the photograph zu Pfeiffer
+stood up and sat on the arm of the chair with his face in shadow above the
+lamp-shade. Gazing keenly at the sergeant, he said sharply:
+
+“You are quite aware of the regulations regarding official secrets,
+sergeant?”
+
+“Ach, yes, Excellence!”
+
+As the sergeant paused to answer with the glass in his hand there was just
+a suspicion of astonishment in the tone.
+
+“Good. Don’t forget it!” A note of menace was in zu Pfeiffer’s voice. He
+added more mildly, “Political reasons may cause stringent measures
+sometimes.”
+
+“Yes, Excellence.”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer smoked, coldly regarding the sergeant.
+
+“Who is Sergeant Schneider detailing for the prisoner’s escort to-morrow?”
+
+“Corporal Inyira, Excellence.”
+
+“A long service man?”
+
+“Ja, Excellence.”
+
+“Good. Go and fetch him here.”
+
+Not a shadow of surprise showed on Sergeant Schultz’s face as he departed.
+Zu Pfeiffer smoked hard and drank another brandy thirstily with a slight
+unsteadiness as he lifted the glass to his mouth. The sergeant returned
+and stood at attention just within the door.
+
+“The man is here, Excellence.” Zu Pfeiffer nodded.
+
+“Forward, quick marrch,” commanded the sergeant in a muffled bark.
+“Halttt!”
+
+“Very good, sergeant, you may wait.”
+
+Schultz saluted and retired without. The tall powerfully built native in
+uniform stood as if he had a bayonet beneath his chin. There was a slight
+nervousness about the blues of the eyes as he squinted in the attempt to
+look straight ahead and to watch the Kommandant at the same time. One
+nostril was slit, in the lobes of the ears were three can keys, and the
+temples were tattooed with tribal scars.
+
+“Corporal Inyira!” said zu Pfeiffer sharply. The black body twitched at
+the voice. “You are to leave to-morrow for Dar-es-salaam and you will take
+as a prisoner a white man who has been taking your tribe as slaves and
+selling them to the Abyssinians. The Bwana Mkubwa protects you from these
+evil white men and Arabs. You know that?” sharply.
+
+“Bwana!”
+
+“Very good. You know what would happen to you if you were sold as a slave?
+You have had many brothers who have been sold to the Abyssinians?”
+
+“Bwana! Many, Bwana!”
+
+“Very good. Now listen! This white man is very bad. He leaves with you
+to-morrow morning for Dar-es-salaam, but—he is never to arrive there. I
+give him to you. You may do what you like with him, but never let me see
+him again. You have my protection. Understand?”
+
+“Bwana!”
+
+The rubber lips pouted in the emphatic utterance.
+
+“These are your secret orders. But you are not to tell them to any man,
+woman, or child here; you may tell your men when you are gone. If you
+disobey I will cut out your tongue and give you three hundred lashes.
+Understand?”
+
+“Bwana!”
+
+“This man is the enemy of the Bwana Mkubwa. His enemies are your enemies.
+His goods are yours. Begone!”
+
+The black hand came up jerkily to the black forehead, shot away out and
+down; the polished calves moved like the eccentrics of an engine, and
+Corporal Inyira melted into the shadows.
+
+“Sergeant Schultz!”
+
+To smart heel taps on the verandah entered the sergeant.
+
+“You will see that Corporal Inyira and the escort leave before daybreak;
+moreover, that he talks with no one before he leaves.”
+
+“Excellence.”
+
+“Take a drink, sergeant.”
+
+With legs as stiff as his sjambok, Sergeant Schultz obeyed the order;
+lifted the glass and drank.
+
+“You may go! Good night, sergeant.”
+
+“Excellence, good night!”
+
+As zu Pfeiffer shifted from the chair-arm to the seat his movements were
+slightly erratic. He sat forward, staring at the photograph, as he drank
+more brandy. Outside, the pæan of the frogs pulsed steadily. From a
+distance came the throb of a native drum. A cricket shrilled
+intermittently.
+
+“Bwana!”
+
+The ghostly figure of Bakunjala whispered from the doorway. Zu Pfeiffer
+started nervously.
+
+“Zingala,” began Bakunjala timorously.
+
+“Gott verdamf—Emshi!” snapped zu Pfeiffer, his ring flashing in an
+irritable gesture.
+
+Bakunjala melted. Came a mutter of voices and a subdued giggle.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer sat and drank and stared. Above the insectile anthem of the
+night, rose a gurgling voice in a drinking song.… Later the crash of a
+breaking glass was accompanied by an oath. The glimmer of three pairs of
+eyes through the window screen vanished and reappeared.… Once more rose
+the voice singing:
+
+     “Scheiden tut weh,
+     Scheiden, ja scheiden, scheiden tut weh!”
+
+Just as the cricket began anew, after having politely ceased to hear the
+lieutenant’s song, trickled out upon the clammy air the sound of weeping.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 6
+
+
+In the violet shadow of his square hut inside the compound, squatted Zalu
+Zako. The lips and nose were nearer to the Aryan delicacy than the negroid
+bluntness; for the Wongolo, like the Wahima, are a mixed Bantu-Somali
+race. In colour his skin had the red of bronze rather than the blue of the
+negro, and the planes of his moulded chest were as light as the worn ivory
+bracelets upon his polished limbs. Broad in the shoulders he had almost
+the slender hips of a young girl and his carriage was as balanced as a
+dancer’s.
+
+From a group of small round huts behind his square hut, where dwelt his
+two wives, concubines and slaves, came the clutter of voices. A distant
+drum throbbed gently on the hot air. Away in the cool green of the banana
+plantation rose the crooning chant of the unmarried girls and slaves
+bringing water from the river.
+
+Apparently Zalu Zako was absorbed in the movements of a diminutive chicken
+scratching in the soil. The omen of the goat was occupying his mind: that
+and the death of his grandfather, MFunya MPopo. There was no sense of
+grief, for he was not a woman. Now, at the beginning of his warrior’s
+career, he had not any desire for divine honours and celibacy. No man had.
+Yet Zalu Zako no more dreamed of questioning the necessity than of
+spitting in the face of an enemy. Always had the first born male of his
+family been doomed to the kingly office. There was never a second born
+male, for it was not meet that a god should have paternal brothers. The
+wives of his youth and his concubines could have as many children as they
+could bear; but according to the law, did he select the chief wife from
+whom should spring the one regal son only when he had become heir
+apparent; for then was he not already half divine, being so near the
+sacred enclosure up on the hill?
+
+The choice of that chief wife was free as there were no royal families in
+the sense of divine descent save the direct male line of the King-God. But
+the mind of Zalu Zako dwelt more upon his personal career. The life of a
+warrior was frequently short and that of a god even briefer. MFunya MPopo
+had reigned but twenty moons; MKoffo, so said the elders, had reigned for
+full two hundred moons; but then he had been a mighty magician.
+
+With a harsh squawk a brilliant scarlet and blue bird with an enormous
+yellow bill perched on the palisade of the compound. Immediately the young
+man forgot his musing and rose, calling for his spear. A stocky man, coal
+black, with a fuzzy tuft of a beard, came out of the hut. From the slave
+Zalu Zako took a broad-bladed spear with a short haft. Watching to see
+that the bird was still sitting on the fence as he passed out of the
+compound, he set off rapidly through the village and into the banana
+plantations in search of a wart hog which had been rooting up one of his
+fields of sweet potatoes. Just as he came within sight of them a black
+field rat sprang out of the grass in his path, glanced round at him, and
+disappeared. The young man’s steps slackened, for he knew that the black
+rat had spoiled the luck which the banana eater had portended. Scarcely
+troubling to glance around the field, he diverged across at an angle
+making for a break in the jungle where he knew was the trail of the boar.
+But he grunted contemptuously as he examined the last spoor, which was at
+least half a day old. Of course the hog would not be there.
+
+He bethought himself of another field where sometimes came buck. But there
+was no game. The black rat again! Yet if one waited long enough a good
+omen might appear. As he squatted beneath a banana plant to take snuff
+came a squawk and the banana eater—for it appeared to be the same
+one—alighted on a frond near to him. Zalu Zako waited. Leisurely and
+cautiously he arose. The bird peered at him. Zalu Zako passed and left the
+banana eater still sitting there. He felt the weight of his spear
+tentatively, for a double omen of luck must mean big game: possibly an
+eland or a leopard.
+
+He circled right round the outskirts of the plantation. But he saw no
+signs. As he began to make the big circle again the shadows were
+lengthening appreciably. Passing by the ford of the small river, which was
+swollen from the rains, he heard a group of young girls chattering on the
+river bank as they filled their gourds. He paused to test which way the
+wind was blowing in order to avoid going down wind where the sound of
+their voices would scare away any game.
+
+But as he turned to move on he caught a glimpse of a figure mounting the
+incline. The motion was as lithe as a young giraffe; the legs were as
+straight as spears and as supple as a kiboko; the moulded hips swayed
+rhythmically like a banana frond in the breeze; the fluted arch of her
+back swelled proudly upwards to the resilient shoulders; and an arm as
+slender as a lizard’s tail steadied the gourd upon a small black head set
+upon a neck like a sapling. The dappled shadows of a tree played hide and
+seek upon the tiny hills that were her firm young breasts, upon the
+smoothness of her torso of light bronze. As he gazed her face came into
+view in speaking to a comrade just beneath. An errant shaft of sunlight
+glinted the pearl of teeth, glowed the tiny nose and blued the whites of
+eyes which were as soft as any antelope.
+
+Zalu Zako clicked the syllable that means astonishment.
+
+“Wait there, O Bayakala,” she called, “for I have to do the making of
+mighty magic with the spirits of the wood.”
+
+“Eh, eh!” responded one of those left by the water edge, “a girl of the
+hut thatch hath nought to do with spirits of the wood for their bellies
+are as big as a pregnant woman!”
+
+The young girl laughed and her notes seemed to Zalu Zako like the dripping
+of water upon a river rock.
+
+“Thou knowest less than the Baroto bird who as everybody knows is the
+spirit of one!”
+
+“’Tis more than thou wilt ever be!” retorted the rival beneath.
+
+“Ehh! Ehh!” exclaimed the girl at the sneer, “thy girdle is rotted long
+since with juice!”
+
+“And thine,” shouted the insulted one, who was old for a spinster, “wilt
+rot with the dryness!”
+
+“Tscch! It is dry for the lord whom I will conquer with magic such as thou
+hast never dreamed on, O Bayakala!”
+
+“And who is he for whom thou makest magic, O daughter of the hut thatch?”
+demanded Zalu Zako, stepping from the shelter of the tree.
+
+“Ehh!” ejaculated Bakuma. “I—we do but tickle the fronds (jest), O Chief!”
+
+The only sign of her nervousness was the slight swaying of the gourd of
+water upon her head as she turned up her eyes to the young chief who
+regarded her slowly. She edged away. He moved a pace in front of her. She
+clutched at the amulet around her neck as she turned her eyes and said:
+
+“The cooking fires are low, O Chief, and need be tended.”
+
+“Thy breasts are like unto small anthills,” he said, “and thy belly is as
+smooth as yonder river rock.”
+
+“Thy tongue is sweeter than the honey of the kinglan tree.”
+
+“Thy voice is softer than the muted lyre and thy nose is formed of two
+petals of an orchid.”
+
+“Thy praise is more refreshing than the morning dew to a thirsty flower.”
+
+“And by thy figure am I made more drunken than by the wine of the Soka
+palm.”
+
+For a full minute they stood, a study in light bronze against the dappled
+green foliage. The shrill chatter of the other girls approaching startled
+Bakuma into action. She swayed to one side.
+
+“The spirits of the cooking pot cry aloud for me, O Chief.”
+
+“Who is thy father, little one?” he demanded.
+
+“I am Bakuma, the daughter of Bakala, O Chief.”
+
+“There has been a veil before my eyes that I have not seen thee before.”
+
+“The mountains see not the tiny brooks amid the mighty forests,” murmured
+Bakuma and sped up the path.
+
+Zalu Zako stood motionless watching her form melt into the green, and as
+he turned towards the river he met Bayakala and the other women who shrank
+aside from the path to allow the Son of the Snake to pass in silence. Yet
+at the ford he paused. He had forgotten the omen of the banana eater and
+the purpose for which he had come.
+
+As Bakuma sped along in a gliding lope the amulet swayed rhythmically to
+the whispered praises of the power of Marufa, mixed with ardent prayers to
+the spirits to provide the fat goat with which to propitiate the spirit of
+the woods; for had not the love charm already manifested its wondrous
+power? As she hastened through the banana plantation she could not resist
+diverging a little in the direction of the magician’s hut. As she passed,
+she saw him seated on the threshold of the compound gathering inspiration
+from his favourite wall. But Marufa observed her demeanour, and being
+something of a student of men, he deducted that the charm had already
+begun to work.
+
+Marufa, as all successful men, had a strain of luck. Before the shadows
+had crept a hand’s breadth came MYalu, indignant and exasperated. The
+three tusks had been paid and the footprint obtained; but he had
+discovered that it was no easy matter to procure the other ingredients
+which he suspected the wizard had known well and intended as a means to
+extract more ivory. After the ceremonious greetings he protested that the
+task given was almost impossible to execute. Marufa remained imperturbably
+interested in his wall.
+
+“But as thou knowest,” insisted MYalu, “the hair and the toe-nail and the
+spittle of the Son of the Snake are more than difficult to obtain. Does a
+man so carelessly render himself unto his enemies, and he the Son of the
+Snake? None save one of his household could purloin a single hair. Even
+this morning was his hair shaved and the remnants, as thou knowest well,
+deposited in the temple with him who was his father.”
+
+“The hair, the toe-nail, and the spittle,” mumbled the old man, “must I
+have for such mighty magic.”
+
+“Ehh!” snorted MYalu, “with a man of the clay, but with one who is half
+divine, the Son of the Snake! Ehh!”
+
+“The bow is useless without the arrows,” mumbled the old man.
+
+“Tsch. ’Tis a mighty hunter that hath not the arrows for his bow,” sneered
+MYalu.
+
+“Verily,” retorted Marufa disinterestedly, “and still more a mighty man
+who cannot do his own hunting!”
+
+“No warrior hath been purified more frequently than I,” boasted MYalu,
+referring to the ceremony incumbent upon those who have taken life to
+appease the ghosts of the slain.
+
+“The spirits obey not the crowing of a cockerel,” reminded Marufa.
+
+“Tsch!” For a while both sat silent, MYalu gloomily watching a hen.
+
+“Aie! Aie!” he lamented at last, “what is there that I may do, for indeed
+she hath caught my soul in a trap. Aie! Aie!”
+
+“If the hunter cannot make arrows, he may buy them,” remarked Marufa, who
+had been patiently waiting for this state of mind.
+
+“Eh! The bowstring hath been costly but the arrows! Aie! Aie! What
+would’st thou?”
+
+“The rich man payeth in his kind. Four tusks of fine grain.”
+
+“Eh! Eh!”
+
+“Maybe there are others whose hands are not withered.”
+
+“Others than the Son of the Snake?” demanded MYalu quickly.
+
+“Who knows? There are more fools than chickens,” muttered the old man.
+
+MYalu stared disconsolately at the distant bananas. Perhaps, he reflected,
+it would be cheaper to pay the price the girl’s uncle demanded, yet——
+MYalu had bought other wives whose unimpassioned charms had quickly
+staled. His soul, as he put it, had indeed been tempted into a trap by
+Bakuma; for he wished only that she should desire him as he desired her.
+Yet was he angry. Love seemed to be a costly business. Marufa tapped out
+snuff and sniffed delicately with the air of a connoisseur devoting
+himself to the pleasure of the moment. Replacing the cork of twisted
+leaves he stirred as if to rise.
+
+“Canst thou procure then the nail and the hairs that are asked by the
+spirits?” inquired MYalu sulkily.
+
+“All things are possible to the son of MTungo,” asserted Marufa. “Four
+tusks, and these things are found; but of fine grain, for the others were
+old and coarse.”
+
+“Ehh! How wilt thou procure these things?” demanded MYalu sceptically.
+
+“The ways of the wise are not the ways of fools.”
+
+“The tusks are thine,” said MYalu reluctantly, “if thou wilt tell me how
+thou wilt procure them.”
+
+“Thy words are like unto the vomit of a dog,” muttered the old man.
+
+“But how? My heart is not bound in clay.”
+
+“Tch!” clicked Marufa contemptuously. “Every fool must needs see the spoor
+of the god which he cannot read. I have spoken.” MYalu regarded the old
+wizard incredulously. “Tch! Send the four tusks as we have agreed and so
+shall it be. Begone!”
+
+Slowly MYalu rose, made his greeting, and departed more impressed than
+ever that the old man was a mighty magician.
+
+During the hour when the soul is small and dwells timidly around the feet
+Marufa dozed in the cool of his hut; but later when it spread boldly out
+was he squatted once more in his favourite seat at the entrance to the
+compound, taking snuff and contemplating. The shadows grew from violet to
+blue; the small hens pecked for worms with avidity and the goats scratched
+with vigour in the cool. Patiently Marufa sat. At length that for which he
+had waited with a sound though primitive knowledge of psychology, came to
+pass. Bakuma appeared, apprehensive, but with yet an abandon which sang
+her happiness. Beside Marufa she sat so as to avoid the shadow of one foot
+protruding beyond that of the fence.
+
+“O great and mighty magician,” she began eagerly, after the formal
+greetings. “Indeed all that thou hast said hath come to pass. Thy charm is
+infallible.”
+
+“Ugh!” grunted Marufa unconcernedly.
+
+“All that my heart desireth hath already begun to be. I thank thee.”
+
+“Ugh!”
+
+“O mighty son of MTungo, what must I now do?”
+
+“Thou knowest,” mumbled Marufa, fumbling for the snuff case.
+
+“Aie! Aie! but I have no fat goat!” cried Bakuma, who had hoped fatuously
+that the wizard would have forgotten. “I, a girl of the hut thatch, how
+should I have a goat?” Marufa tapped snuff as if no romance were in the
+making. Bakuma’s bright eyes, sharpened by the proximity of the promise of
+her love, watched the old man keenly. “Listen, O great and mighty son of
+MTungo, to whom all things are known, who canst accomplish all that thou
+desireth, Bayakala, my cousin, hath a goat, but it is old and skinny.
+Perhaps——”
+
+“In the nostrils of the spirits,” asserted Marufa instantly, “all odours
+are the same except that of the fat goat whom they love.”
+
+“Aie! then am I undone, for no fat goat have I!” wailed Bakuma. “Know I
+not one who hath a goat who would smile on me, a girl of the hut thatch.”
+
+“Ugh!”
+
+Bakuma regarded him imploringly, but Marufa’s gaze was fixed upon the wall
+as if his mind were turned to matters of more importance.
+
+“O mighty wizard, what must I do?” implored Bakuma desperately.
+
+“Ugh!”
+
+After a prolonged contemplation, said Marufa: “If thou canst get no goat,
+then is there another path by which thou mayest accomplish thy end.”
+
+“Eh!”
+
+“But it is very difficult.”
+
+“By my cord, will I do all that thou canst bid me to do!” swore Bakuma in
+anxious haste.
+
+“Ugh! This path is more certain of success for the will of the spirits are
+oftentimes chary of their favours.”
+
+“O mighty one!” breathed Bakuma, as he paused tantalisingly.
+
+“But the matter is exceedingly difficult—and dangerous.”
+
+“If the flower hath no sun hath it ever lived?”
+
+“As even thou shouldst know,” mumbled Marufa, more casually than ever, “he
+who possesses a part of the soul may do magic thereon.”
+
+“Aye! Aye!”
+
+“Bring me then of the nail parings one, of his hairs one, and of his
+spittle. Then may I do magic thereon which he cannot resist.”
+
+“O mighty magician!” gasped Bakuma, appalled at the difficulty and the
+danger of the task.
+
+“That path is sure. There is no other.”
+
+“Eh! … But if they of thy craft should know then am I doomed!”
+
+“There is no other.”
+
+Torn between her love and the dread of the penalty incurred by the
+sacrilege of the theft of the parts of one who might any day be King-God,
+Bakuma stared distraught.
+
+“Were not my words white? Hath not the love charm thou hast already had
+done even as I did say?”
+
+“O mighty one!”
+
+“But that is only as the goat to the leopard. The trap must be dug—or the
+scent of the bait will be blown.”
+
+“Ehh!” gasped Bakuma, in desperation, “by my twin soul which dwells
+beneath the banana plant, will I do it!”
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 7
+
+
+Gerald Birnier had flattered himself that he was a philosopher with a
+sense of humour, fairly well developed by ten years’ wandering about
+Central Africa, but deep emotions submerge such cherished qualities.
+
+The presence of the photograph was explicable by several surmises: zu
+Pfeiffer might have met Lucille at Washington, Paris, or Berlin: she might
+have given him the photograph or he might have bought it, or even stolen
+it. But—the signature “à toi, Lucille”! There lay the sting which maddened
+Birnier and strangled reason, the fact at which his mind yawed futilely.
+
+So great had been the shock that the arrest had seemed but a secondary
+matter in accord with the insanity of zu Pfeiffer’s statement that he was
+engaged to Lucille. The affair had been so sudden that for some time he
+could progress no farther in an attempt to think than a gasp, pawing
+mentally at an intangible substance which eluded him like a child’s small
+hand trying to grasp a toy balloon. Sense of reality appeared to have been
+dissolved. He had followed the sergeant across the square meekly without
+realising what was happening, and when he had been placed in a whitewashed
+room at the back of the native guard house which served as a jail, he sat
+down upon a chair, too bewildered to comprehend where he was. That “à toi,
+Lucille” rang like the clanging in a belfry, drowning the sound of other
+thoughts.
+
+By the light of a hurricane lamp he regarded the soldiers bringing in an
+old camp bed with indifference. When they had gone he began to pace up and
+down the small room frantically trying to gain control. To the first
+prompting of a logical reason for the whole affair he did not dare to
+listen. The disrupting cause was the complete inability to explain the
+familiar signature. To his Anglo-Saxonised mind, bred in the strict code
+of the south, tutoyer was only permissible to dogs, inferiors, most
+intimate relations and lovers. He was far too unbalanced to see the humour
+as he solemnly announced that certainly zu Pfeiffer was not a dog, nor in
+the social code an inferior; he was not a relation; therefore.… His mind
+baulked and raced into incoherence.
+
+A point of view which added false premises, as well as his attitude to
+those two little words, was the consciousness that many would consider
+that he had not treated his wife as a husband should do. This possibility
+had never occurred to him before, so that it came with disproportionate
+emphasis.
+
+As a young man he had been too absorbed in his profession to be a lady’s
+man; and of love he had reckoned little until he had met the Lucille
+Charltrain with whom half the world was in love. And she doubtless, like
+many a spoiled beauty, was a little piqued that the professor did not join
+the throng of her courtiers. In Birnier’s mind there had ever been
+associated with love the fear that the woman would demand too much, that
+no woman could understand that a man’s profession must of necessity come
+before all things. Lucille was the first woman whom he had met who really
+seemed to understand this point of view, as she, too, was devoted to her
+art. This had grown to be the biggest bond and attraction between them.
+Most men wished to make of love a nuisance, as Lucille once put it. So the
+good-looking professor had won the beauty. They were married on the mutual
+understanding that each should pursue their respective professions.
+Shortly afterwards Birnier was offered a special mission to go to Africa
+for the purpose of studying the customs and superstitions of the natives.
+Lucille had consented, forbidden, relented, and laughed.
+
+So Lucille sang from musical height to height and her husband sped from
+depth to depth in the seas of human fatuity. Whenever he took a furlough
+he went, of course, straight to her, wheresoever she was, in Berlin, New
+York, or Paris. To Birnier the situation was ideal. He had never dreamed
+of any other woman. Indeed the tracts of his mind were so filled with
+statistics of anthropology and Lucille that there was little or no room
+for any one else. The delight and satisfaction in Birnier’s mind were so
+sincere that he never had dreamed of questioning whether Lucille’s point
+of view had remained the same. But now?
+
+That “à toi” stung and baited him into the unprecedented realisation that
+after all women had been known to change their opinions. Perhaps pride had
+prevented her from ever openly demanding other ways. Lucille was young and
+beautiful, courted and flattered on every hand. Perhaps he had been wrong
+to leave her for years at a stretch. Of her loyalty he had had no doubt,
+but for the first time in his marital life the professor’s profound
+knowledge of human nature was shot like a spot-light on to his own
+affairs. Yet his erudition did not in the least relieve him from the laws
+of emotional reaction.
+
+Perhaps in an emotional moment.… That knowledge of the frailties of genus
+homo was too deep for comfort in such actuation.
+
+“À toi, Lucille! À toi, Lucille!” rang and echoed as he paced that room,
+striving for control.… And—and—why else should zu Pfeiffer have gone
+crazy?—why had he exclaimed: “Das ist der Schweinhünd”? The husband, of
+course, whom he wanted out of the way, and he had immediately seized the
+opportunity to secure that end, seemingly indifferent to
+consequences—symptomatic of the state of “being in love.”
+
+Around and about, about and around a field of weeds which had sprung from
+that seed “à toi,” had paced the professor all night. When the green was
+creeping through the high barred window, Sergeant Schneider had brought to
+him some coffee and biscuits. Birnier had drunk the coffee thirstily, and
+as the sergeant had no English nor French, had tried in broken German to
+extract some information. But the sergeant had merely grunted and retired.
+At seven he had returned again and escorted Birnier to the Court House. He
+returned from the mock trial a little more in touch with reality, and more
+impressed with the malignity of zu Pfeiffer. Yet the gratuitous insults,
+the laboured farce of the registering of an alleged Swiss trader, Birnier
+saw through, and was relieved, for it argued that zu Pfeiffer’s intention
+was to make Lucille a widow. No other reason could account for the
+homicidal intentions displayed.
+
+At the glow of dawn next day he was aroused by the big corporal who
+ordered him out. The tone of the man’s voice naturally stimulated a
+violent reaction. But Birnier realised that his sole chance lay in
+controlling himself to accept stoically whatever treatment was offered;
+for he saw instantly that any protest or indignation would be interpreted
+as insubordination and possibly be made an excuse to shoot him down.
+
+Outside in the grey light he saw under the guard of six native soldiers,
+the five others of his party. Mungongo, his personal “boy,” cried out at
+the sight of him, asking what was the meaning of these strange happenings.
+Before Birnier could reply, the big corporal struck the man savagely with
+a kiboko, bidding him to be silent. In spite of his resolution, the
+reaction made Birnier turn angrily upon the soldier, who deliberately
+repeated the order, and struck the white man across the face. As Birnier
+raised his fist the man lowered his bayonet and grinned, adding,
+apparently for the benefit of his men, that now the white would learn what
+it was to be a slave.
+
+Furiously Birnier looked around for Sergeant Schneider: but no white man
+was in sight.… He turned to Mungongo and said quickly: “Take no heed. Do
+as they bid thee for the moment.”
+
+“Be silent!” shouted the corporal, but as he raised his kiboko, Birnier
+looked him quietly straight in the eyes. The black hand was lowered; the
+man turned away, ordering the party in general to march.
+
+Dishevelled and without any camp equipment, Birnier began to march as the
+blood of the sky paled to orange. At the bottom of the great parade ground
+he turned in time to see the relieving guard falling in behind the Court
+House. For one moment he hesitated whether to put all to the test by
+refusing to go; but a significant gesture with the ever ready rifle of the
+corporal signified that he would not be given a chance. Humiliated, he
+obeyed. But just beyond the last hut, waiting by the path, was a group of
+women loaded with the soldiers’ gear; and beside them were some carriers
+bearing his green tent and apparently all his equipment. The sight cheered
+him a little. He attempted to find immediate consolation in the idea that
+the savagery of the corporal might possibly abate when they were away from
+the neighbourhood of the inciting agent, whom he was sure was zu Pfeiffer.
+
+Leading the caravan was a soldier; next to him came Birnier and behind him
+was another soldier, after whom walked Mungongo and the four other
+prisoners, with a soldier between each; and then the corporal, strutting
+portentously important within easy shooting distance of the white man. The
+carriers and women brought up the rear.
+
+The path led for some miles through the dreary swamp following the course
+of the small bayou, crossing and recrossing small streams swollen with the
+rains, through which the white man was forced to wade to his hips. For the
+first mile Birnier was so angry and humiliated that he dared not catch the
+troubled eyes of Mungongo. But by force of will he attained a reasonable
+plane of philosophic resignation, temporary at least, and smiled at the
+boy, who grinned back like a tickled child. At any rate, soliloquised
+Birnier, he had at least one man upon whom he could rely.
+
+At the head of the bayou they reached higher ground and the path zigzagged
+through dense jungle thick with fan palms. The longer Birnier pondered
+upon the situation the nearer he came towards the conclusion that he had
+better make his escape as soon as possible, or he would never have the
+chance. Rather by the uneasy glances of Mungongo, who dared not speak, did
+he guess that they had left the regular trail to the coast. What their
+destination was he could not imagine. Probably, he thought grimly, to make
+an end of the whole party and return to the camp. Yet why trouble to
+travel so far? And another good reason to hasten an escape was that,
+although for the moment he was in good health, a few days of exposure
+would subject him to fever and consequent weakness.
+
+Now and again the theme “à toi” would return like the refrain of a song to
+which he found himself keeping step; but the words sometimes became
+meaningless; for in the merciful way that nature has, the impulse of
+self-preservation so occupied his mind that he had scarcely leisure to
+worry over marital troubles.
+
+At the end of about two hours, when the heat of the sun was beginning to
+be felt severely, the corporal called a halt in the shade of a great
+baobab. Birnier sat down with his back against the bole. Alongside him
+squatted the corporal deliberately and called to the women for a gourd of
+juwala. There is a certain acid odour which native beer has that is
+particularly irritating to a dry palate. The corporal drank deep, sighed
+with satisfaction and set the gourd beside him almost touching the feet of
+the white. Involuntarily Birnier swallowed. The corporal saw and grinned.
+Birnier understood and turned his back to the man. Immediately the
+corporal arose and lowering his bayonet until it pricked the sleeve of
+Birnier’s coat, ordered him to get up. In the knowledge that he would be
+instantly shot by the others if he attempted to resist, he had perforce to
+obey.
+
+Outside the shade of the great tree, in the full glare of the sun, was the
+white man compelled to sit while the black corporal, with the rifle ready
+across his knee, drank deep and handed the gourd to his fellows. Again
+Birnier turned his back to him. But he began to realise faintly what
+treatment he would receive before the end came and an intimate knowledge
+of native ingenuity made him feel physically sick.
+
+Half an hour later they were on the march again. The path became rugged
+and difficult, passing through thorny ground, following burbling
+watercourses of rough stones. To make the going more trying Birnier wore
+light moccasins intended for camp use instead of his high field boots.
+Once when a long thorn penetrated the flank of his shoe he stopped to
+extract it. The corporal shouted at him; the soldier behind called him
+unmentionable names in the dialect and pushed him with his foot. The
+insult and the heat of the sun maddened him. He leaped to his feet. The
+corporal raised his gun promptly and jeered. For a moment Birnier stood
+trembling with passion; then he closed his eyes as if to shut out sight
+and sound and limped forward, fighting with himself.
+
+With natives had Birnier always been able to negotiate, to live, and to
+quarrel when necessary, on terms of amity; but this black “swine,” as he
+termed him in his wrath, prinked out in a masquerade of a white man’s
+clothes.… He jammed his heel down savagely upon the thorn to divert the
+southern passion. After all it was not the man’s fault but zu Pfeiffer’s.
+Put a white man in a uniform and he becomes a beast; put a nigger in a
+uniform and he becomes a devil, Birnier forced himself to reflect.
+
+The sun grew incandescent. The heat and the flies quickened his thirst. He
+plodded on, stumbling over the stones, sagging heavily in sandy patches.
+They had left the comparative shelter of the jungle and were crossing a
+flat plain approaching, he judged, to a river bed. The carriers, he noted,
+had lagged behind. Soon they must halt. Even the fiend of a corporal would
+not fatigue himself too much for the sake of tormenting a white man.
+
+Then a new idea was added to the plagues. He had tasted nothing save the
+coffee, canned beef, and native bread which had been given him for dinner
+on the previous evening. The corporal had manifested his conception of
+humour by refusing him beer and water on the march; was he going to
+torment him by starvation as well as by thirst? And if torture were
+reserved for him by that grinning black brute, then he knew what would be
+the end that awaited him.
+
+Within an hour they came to a river about forty yards broad, a swollen
+rushing torrent. There was no village as he had expected. The corporal
+halted. Birnier slid down the bank and thrust his muzzle into the flood.
+There was torture in the restraint not to drink too much. He clambered up
+the slope to find the corporal grinning at him. He turned his back and lay
+down. There was no shade; only short scrub and grass. Small sand flies
+buzzed and stung. He heard the gurgle of the corporal’s military
+water-bottle. But this time the sting was extracted; his belly was moist.
+
+Birnier stretched out, shielding from the glare the little that he could
+with his hands. Faint echoes of “à toi” strolled across his field of
+consciousness. He observed the apparently stoical indifference of Mungongo
+squatted a few feet from him, a soldier sprawling between them; but he
+cursed because investigations had taught him that that “stoical” should
+usually be read as “bovinity,” as he had termed it; and he smiled dismally
+at the ancient story that so well illustrated the point, of the peasant
+who expressed his occupation through the long winter hours as “sometimes
+we sits and thinks but mostly we just sits.”
+
+Mungongo “just sits,” he repeated, and envied him. Yet in that heat and
+hunger, waiting for his savage captor to wreak some new fancy upon him, so
+saturated with philosophic interest in life was Birnier, that he wandered
+off into a meditation upon the mechanical fatuity of human conduct;
+illustrating his reflections by his own actions when stirred by emotion.
+“The loaded gun may be as wise as Solomon was reputed to be,” he remarked
+beneath his hands, “but all the same when some one pulls the trigger the
+damn thing goes off,” and sat up to confront the muzzle of the corporal’s
+rifle, who was ordering him to get up. Birnier rose. But to the savage’s
+amazement, he smiled.
+
+The corporal backed away.
+
+“Ah, my friend,” remarked Birnier blandly in English. “You’ve lost, for I
+have found that which was lost!”
+
+The corporal scowled and bade him to follow. Birnier obeyed but he felt
+that he was obliging the man. The carriers had arrived and the green tent
+was pitched, invitingly cool against the grey flood of the river. He
+followed the corporal gladly, but at ten feet from his tent, beside a
+thorn bush four feet tall which spread in a fan shape, he was bidden to
+sit. For the moment, newly arrived from his philosophic dreams, he did not
+comprehend.
+
+“But that is my tent!” he said in Kiswahili.
+
+“Sit down!” commanded the corporal, grinning. “The white seller of slaves
+sits in the place of the slave, but his owner dwells in the place of the
+blessed.”
+
+“O God!” remarked Birnier as he bumped his head against black reality.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 8
+
+
+Bakuma sat in the shade of the reed fence preparing the evening meal of
+boiled bananas. From her slender neck swung the precious amulet at which,
+as if to reassure herself of its safety, she clutched occasionally. Her
+half-sister, who had not yet passed through the initiation at maturity,
+sprawled upon her belly in the dwindling rays of the sun, scratching her
+woolly head. Beyond her were two slaves tending a fire beneath two large
+calabashes, preparatory to the brewing of banana beer, which had of course
+to be done by the chief widow, Bakuma’s half-sister’s mother.
+
+The mind of Bakuma was occupied by percepts of the charms of Zalu Zako;
+particularly as memorised on that afternoon by the river when the effect
+of the love charm had begun to work. These memories, as sweet as they
+would have been to any maid, were shot with gay colours by the words of
+the wizard; for he had assured her that with the toe-nail and hair to work
+magic upon, Zalu Zako would be bewitched by her charms for all time. And
+she had obtained them! She could have gotten the goat, not a skinny goat
+as described under the inhibiting influence of a wild hope that the wizard
+would relent. Her cousin, smarting under the reproaches of her husband,
+had such a goat, fat as goats in Wongolo go, and she was eager to exchange
+it or anything for an infallible charm against sterility. Bakuma feared to
+part with the charm, yet the matter was pressing; immediately she was the
+wife of Zalu Zako she would be in a position to purchase all the charms in
+the village.
+
+But difficult to obtain as they were, for as everybody knows no man leaves
+portions of himself around that may fall into the hands of an enemy to
+work magic upon, least of all a rich man, “half divine,” she had obtained
+some nail parings and one hair. With that charm against sterility, the
+only thing of value Bakuma possessed, had she bribed a concubine of Zalu
+Zako’s household to steal the ingredients required from the hut thatch
+where they had been hidden after the official shaving and paring following
+the ceremony of his father, pending their removal to the sacred precincts
+of the temple.
+
+Above her passion for Zalu Zako was her natural feminine appreciation of a
+good match. The Son of the Snake was far better from a woman’s point of
+view than union with a successful wizard. In the event of the death of the
+King-God, Kawa Kendi, the wives of his son and successor, although denied
+to him, were accorded special privileges; and upon his demise these royal
+wives retained their home upon the hill which had become his tomb.
+Moreover, as Bakuma knew well, now that Zalu Zako was heir-apparent, he
+must choose the principal wife who would for her life remain paramount in
+the household, avoiding the dread of every ageing woman that her husband
+would take unto him another wife younger and more supple.
+
+The one mosquito in paradise was the fear that as soon as her uncle, her
+father’s brother to whom she belonged by inheritance, learned the august
+personage who desired her, he would raise the price to a prohibitive
+figure; for he was mean as well as stupid and lazy, wherefore he had few
+goods, and although Zalu Zako was a rich man she knew that any man save a
+fool loves to drive a good bargain if only to prove his astuteness.
+Therefore was another imperative necessity to procure every means of magic
+and charm to fan the flame of her lover’s desires.
+
+Yet always flashed a bright-hued lizard in the sun of her joy when she
+imagined herself installed as the chief wife in the household of Zalu
+Zako, an unassailable position as long as she had one male child; the
+practical mistress of his first two wives as well as the retinue of
+slaves.
+
+Bazila, the younger wife, Bakuma knew well; the favourite and haughty,
+covered with the most expensive amulets against every ill and black magic,
+she was overfond of sneering at young girls of the hut thatch whose charms
+had not yet netted a victim.
+
+“Ehh!” gasped Bakuma and flashed her teeth as she rolled the warm leaves
+around the sticky mess, “then will the scent of my body be more bitter
+than the flower of the fish-faced cactus!”
+
+And so through the night did Bakuma nibble at anticipatory joys as she lay
+upon her reed mat on the slightly raised dais of the floor which was her
+bed, watching the smoke of the fire in the middle of the hut lose itself
+in the shadows of the roof, and listening in the hope of hearing some
+voice of the spirits whom Marufa was to invoke on her behalf. Save for the
+occasional bleating of a goat and once the harsh scream of the Baroto
+bird, which made her heart contract, for it is a bad omen, the night was
+still. However, at the hour of the monkey Bakuma arose to replenish the
+fire. As the western star was melting in the warm green she left the
+compound. On the outskirts of the village the tall figure of MYalu
+appeared from the shadows of the plantation.
+
+“Greeting, daughter of Bakala,” said he, his eyes greedily devouring her.
+
+“Greeting, O Chief!” returned Bakuma, as she politely stepped to one side
+to avoid standing on the vague shadow of the chief.
+
+“The fawn seeks the pastures early,” remarked MYalu.
+
+“Before the breath of the sun the grass is sweeter,” retorted Bakuma,
+edging away.
+
+“Aye,” remarked MYalu, with a hungry glint in his eyes, “thou art eager to
+slake thy thirst? But in the valley will no buck walk this day!”
+
+“Ehh!” gasped Bakuma, recollecting instantly the omen of the Baroto bird
+heard that night. “What meanest thou?”
+
+“Maybe the soul of him hath wandered and been caught in a trap or maybe——”
+He paused to watch her closely—“maybe an enemy hath made magic upon the
+parts of him.”
+
+“Ehh!” Bakuma started nervously.
+
+MYalu smiled and touched her upon the shoulder.
+
+“Thy flesh is cooler than the dew.”
+
+“Nay, nay, O Chief, thou hast not tied my girdle,” she protested, as she
+backed away from him, her eyes wide like a terrified deer’s.
+
+“Nay, but will I untie it soon,” he retorted.
+
+But as he stepped towards her she turned and fled. As MYalu watched her
+running as swiftly as a pookoo into the plantation he grinned and called
+out: “Even now is the cooling draught steaming in the breath of the
+Unmentionable One! But the goblet shall hold a sweeter draught for me!”
+
+“Aie! Aie-e!” wailed Bakuma, her heart beating furiously, “what devil hath
+bewitched me! O, that father of many goats hath betrayed me! Aie! Aie-e!
+O, the cry of the Baroto bird! Aie! Aie-e!”
+
+And when Bakuma, distraught with terror by the menace that she had only
+procured the nail paring and hair to give her lover into the hands of the
+false magician who, of course, had been bought by MYalu, arrived at the
+“pastures” by the river, as MYalu had foretold, no buck walked there.
+
+The sun spilled blue shadows on the village from the sacred hill where
+another scene was being enacted, and it was not as imagined by the amorous
+MYalu.
+
+In the council house, which was within the outer fence and before the
+sacred enclosure, was in progress a meeting of the doctors. In the door of
+the enclosure squatted Kawa Kendi, with Kingata Mata in attendance tending
+the royal fires. Before him, in front of their fellows, were seated
+Bakahenzie and Marufa in full dress of green feathers and the scarlet
+plume. The left side of the idol, which was so set that the shadow never
+fell upon the entrance to the compound, was gilded by the sun; the mouth
+grinned in one corner, one eye was closed in shadow, seemingly like a
+prodigious wink.
+
+To the thrumming of the sacred band Bakahenzie was rocking himself to and
+fro mumbling incantations. Kawa Kendi squatted immobile, but the others
+swayed and grunted softly in rhythm. Then on a sudden did Bakahenzie lift
+up his head and cry in a great voice. The drums ceased and the body of
+witch-doctors remained motionless, expectant. Bakahenzie dropped his head
+and began to chant:
+
+  “Behold! I have heard the voice of the trees
+  Crying softly by night!
+  Lo! the soul of the plant is in labour!
+  As a woman with child!
+  Behold! is she not to break forth?
+  For she crieth for aid.
+  Unless she be heard the infant will slip!
+  The fruit will not be!
+  The plants will not break!
+  The milk will be sour!
+  The beer will be green!
+  Women will not bear!
+  Our spears will be blunt!
+  Our magic will wane!
+  And He will be wroth!”
+
+“Eh! Ah! … Eh! Ah! … Eh! Ah! … Eh! Ah! … Eh! Ah! …”
+grunted the chorus of the doctors. Then chanted Marufa:
+
+  “Lo! I have slept and been that which I must!
+  Preying swiftly by night!
+  Behold! I have bloodied my fangs in the throat
+  Of a mighty bull eland!
+  Blood succoured the earth and upsprang a plant!
+  Which panted for blood!
+  The sap of the plant is the soul of the tree!
+  Take heed to the thirst
+  Of Him who first was!
+  Who lusts for a maid!
+  Full breasted, soft thighed!
+  Supple, bow arched!
+  Clean blooded and strong!
+  Whose name is forbid!
+  Whose name is a sin!”
+
+“Who hath stolen the name?” screamed Bakahenzie, leaping to his feet. “Who
+is she that hath stolen the name?”
+
+“Eh! Ahh! … Eh! Ahh! … Eh! Ahh! … Eh! Ahh! … Eh! Ahh! …”
+
+As the drums throbbed swifter Bakahenzie began to shuffle in a stooping
+posture as if he were snuffing a trail. To the continuous grunting he
+continued this dance for fully a quarter of an hour. Then stopping
+abruptly in front of the king he screamed:
+
+  “Let her be bidden
+  To come to the feast!
+  Let her be oiled!
+  Let her be shaved!
+  Let her come dancing!
+  Let her be joyful!
+  Let her be decked!
+  Let her be glad!
+  Lips of the groom
+  Thirst for her mouth!
+  Let her be drunken
+  To bear his sweet weight!
+  That the crops will be full!
+  That the cattle grow fat
+  Wives will throw men!
+  Spears will slice foes!”
+
+He sank suddenly upon his haunches. The drums ceased. A slave appeared
+bearing a pure white kid. Kingata Mata took the animal and held it before
+Kawa Kendi, who muttered a long incantation over it and cut the throat
+with a spear head. Then to Marufa was the bleeding carcass carried and
+while still alive he slit open the belly, smeared the liquid over his
+chest and right arm, and tore out the guts. The corpse was removed.
+Marufa, working only with the enchanted arm, turned the entrails over and
+about, peering closely.
+
+There was silence. The shadows grew in depth. From the village came an
+occasional bleat and the voice of a distant girl chanting.
+
+After a prolonged and studious search, Marufa caught up and wrapt round
+his neck an intestine. As he rose, the group of witch-doctors broke out
+into a mighty groaning. Marufa speeded across the small clearing and
+kneeled before Kawa Kendi. Through the bloody necklet he whispered two
+syllables: “kuma.”
+
+The groaning ceased as suddenly as it had commenced. Kawa Kendi cried out
+in a loud voice:
+
+“The bride is found!”
+
+Instantly the drums began a furious beat. A mighty shout rose from all
+assembled and they fell to the chest and belly grunting: “Eh! Ahh! … Eh!
+Ahh! …” as Bakahenzie and Marufa began to dance the dance of thanksgiving.
+
+Ba_kuma_ had been doomed to be the victim for the Feast of the Harvest
+Festival, to be sacrificed in the orgy as the Bride of the Spirit of the
+Banana, because Marufa had discovered by divination that two syllables of
+her name were those of the secret name which only the King-God knew, of
+the Unmentionable One, the Usa_kuma_.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 9
+
+
+Before the green tent strutted a sentry as pompously as if he were on duty
+before the Kommandant’s bungalow. Inside, sprawling in a camp chair, was
+the corporal, in blue striped pyjamas, smoking a cigarette. Upon the floor
+crouched one of his women with a safety razor stuck in her woolly thatch,
+opening a can of beef. On the camp table were a bottle of brandy which had
+had its neck knocked off, a shaving mirror and an open tin of cigarettes.
+Squatting on the bed was another woman in field boots, cleaning up a can
+of salmon with one finger. The rest of the tent was a litter of broken
+cases, bottles, cans and papers.
+
+Ten yards away under the thorn shrub, lay Birnier, and near to him were
+Mungongo and the others. Mungongo’s regard shuttled between this scene in
+the tent and the white man with a mingled expression of terror and
+amazement: terror at the temerity of the corporal in treating a white in
+such a manner and incredulous bewilderment that the white did not
+immediately strike them all dead. But the others, more sophisticated to
+the white man’s ways, were solely occupied in envying the corporal’s
+debauch.
+
+The mauve shadows turned to blue as they lengthened. The clouds of small
+flies thinned and their ranks began to be refilled by the mosquitoes.
+Birnier lay with his back to the tent with a fly switch of grass, but he
+watched the doings of the corporal covertly. The corporal and his women
+had been drinking a good deal of the brandy and now he was supplying
+generous quantities to his men. Once he had come out to jeer. Birnier had
+taken no notice, nor even of the kick implanted by one of his own field
+boots on the foot of the woman. Already there was a bloodshot glint in the
+corporal’s yellow eyes and a pronounced uncertainty in his movements.
+Whether the man had had any particular instructions regarding the manner
+of his death Birnier did not know until he became loquacious and took to
+shouting insults at his white prisoner. The great white chief had given
+the white man to him as a slave, he yelled, and now he was going to take
+him home with him. This idea seemed to tickle him vastly and also his
+women, who giggled and applauded as the corporal began to describe what
+obscene acts they would make their white dog perform every day, what they
+would give him to eat, how he should be made to dance.
+
+They grew noisier and the women began to sing lewd songs. The soldiers too
+revealed signs of their frequent potations. Soon the whole crowd would go
+mad, Birnier knew, and sooner or later collapse, which would give him a
+chance to escape, unless they chained him, or, what was far more probable,
+they decided to bait him to death during an orgy. What they would probably
+do to him was unthinkable. Somehow he must find a way out by
+self-destruction. Even should he escape, he would be unarmed and without
+food, and there was every possibility that they would trail and overtake
+him in the morning. He was lame and footsore; also he was weak from want
+of food. Once, when despoiling his chop boxes, the corporal had
+contemptuously thrown him a half eaten tin of sardines and a cigarette. He
+let the cigarette lie. Nourishment he must have; and so after an inward
+struggle he had eaten it, having to claw out the fish like a monkey, while
+the big black and his women sprawled and laughed.
+
+The soldiers, except the one on sentry who still paced a trifle
+erratically, were grouped on their haunches around the fire in front of
+the tent on the threshold of which the corporal presided with as much
+pomposity as if he were the great Mogul, all drinking and smoking and
+eating. Now and again the women would screech insults over their heads at
+the white; and once the corporal threw an empty bottle at him, evoking a
+gale of applause. The women began the belly dance, crooning while the men
+accompanied with the rhythmic grunt, which ever leads to hysterical
+exaltation.
+
+The sun was dipping. They might come for him at any moment. He watched the
+sentry and contemplated making a rush, taking a venture on the man’s bad
+aim and unsteady hand. They would not follow him far in the dark for dread
+of the spirits that walk by night. The only alternative to suicide was the
+river, in flood and full of crocodiles, a slender chance. He determined to
+try it. He considered making the attempt then. But the darker the better;
+they would more easily miss. At any risk he must never let them get their
+hands upon him. He drew himself together, flexing his limbs for a leap and
+a rush, anxiously observing the chanting crowd around the fire in the
+sunset glow.
+
+The leashes of discipline were fraying. The sentry still plodded up and
+down, but with a rolling eye for his companions. The working of his mind
+was revealed when he walked round tying knots in the long grass which, as
+every Munyamwezi knows, is a sure method to prevent a prisoner’s escape;
+then he halted in front of Birnier, grinned, and pointed to the fire;
+evidently he knew or had heard that an orgy was coming. The man stood and
+watched him. Fearful that the fellow was about to drag him over or suggest
+that the victim be seized, if only in order to release him from his
+irksome duty, Birnier snatched up the cigarette lying in the grass and
+asked for a light to distract the man’s attention. The sentry shook his
+head and pointed to the fire. Hastily Birnier searched his pockets for a
+match; recollected that he had used the last, and took out a small tin box
+of wax vestas wrapped in oiled silk which he kept as a reserve in a
+special pouch of his belt. In the very act of striking the match Birnier
+ejaculated: “God!”
+
+“Nini?” demanded the sentry.
+
+“I burned myself,” returned Birnier.
+
+“Nothing to what you will soon!” retorted the nigger, grinning, made an
+obscene suggestion and swaggered across to the fire.
+
+Birnier cursed his own stupidity as he thought swiftly. If Mungongo and
+the others ran at the same time the numbers would confuse the soldiers the
+more. He spoke across to Mungongo in the Wongolo dialect, hoping that the
+Munyamwezi would not understand.
+
+“Let thy heart be like unto the bullet of my big gun, and obey me! When I
+throw up in the air this cigarette, thou shalt run and plunge into the
+river, but not into the depth; lie hidden in the reeds of the bank until
+thou shalt hear a frog croak thrice and then once. Come out and go to the
+frog, and be not afraid, for thou shalt see me in the spirit form. Dost
+understand?”
+
+“Truly, my master!”
+
+“Tell the washenzie that they also obey or shall my spirit eat them up as
+it shall these children of dung!”
+
+“Truly, master!”
+
+Birnier glanced at the horizon. The shadows had melted into the violet
+twilight, which in equatorial Africa is almost as short as the snuffing of
+a candle. The stars were popping out. Dusky forms were circling round the
+yellow of the fire which threw pale flickers on the figure of Corporal
+Inyira, revealing the beginning of the hysterical gleam in the yellows of
+his eyes as, reverting to habit, he squatted on his haunches in the chair.
+They might make a rush for the victims at any moment. The sentry,
+excitement overcoming discipline, was, rifle still in hand, dancing round
+the outskirts of the throng.
+
+Birnier threw the cigarette towards Mungongo. As he dived round the thorn
+bush he heard the rustle of movement and the “boy’s” gasped exclamation to
+the others. The bank of the river was not fifteen yards away. On the brink
+Birnier crouched and listened. He heard a splash a little to the right,
+which was Mungongo or one of the others literally obeying his
+instructions.
+
+The mosquitoes buzzed and stung in clouds. A cricket shrilled persistently
+above the chorus of the frogs and the throb of the hand-drum and the
+chanting. The sentry had not yet discovered the flight; he was probably
+drunker than Birnier had guessed. By raising himself on his hands he could
+see the gleam of the fire and the inverted V of the tent through the
+scrub. He hesitated whether to begin operations immediately or wait until
+after they had discovered the flight and were further intoxicated. Yet the
+excitement of the loss of the prisoner might sober them a little, Birnier
+reflected. No, it did not matter even if they were completely sober. The
+spirits of the night would be perhaps more real to them then than when
+they were drugged by alcohol. Yet he would wait. They might come as far as
+the river with lanterns and should he be compelled to take to the water he
+would have to take the risk of crocodiles seizing him. Almost had he begun
+to curse the askaris for being so slow, when a rifle cracked and a bullet
+hummed over his head.
+
+He scrambled hastily down the bank, thinking for a moment that he had been
+spotted. But it must have been a random shot. The chanting ceased. A
+hoarse shout from the sentry was echoed by uproar from the others.
+
+Birnier crawled up the bank cautiously and peered. He could not see well,
+for one eye was nearly closed by mosquito bites, but he could make out
+vague forms passing and repassing across the glow of the fire. Lights
+glimmered. Amid shouts and yells, figures began to advance towards the
+river. Whether the water was deep or shallow he could not know; only could
+he make out in the sheen of the stars a dark patch of reed or bushes for
+some yards. He slid down the slope as noiselessly as possible, although
+the pursuers were making noise enough to scare all the spirits in Africa.
+He sank to his chest, standing on stones. He waded out a little, buried
+his head and shoulders behind a half-submerged bush, and remained still.
+
+For some time he could only hear the shouts and yells. He kept the water
+up to his chin and continuously splashed his face in the endeavour to
+slacken the efforts of the mosquitoes. The cries approached. He saw men
+outlined against the stars and then some gleams of lanterns. Something
+stirred ponderously near to him. It might be a crocodile, but he dared not
+move. The figures seemed to stay on the top of the bank for hours. He
+remained rigid, expecting a swirl of water and teeth.
+
+Suddenly a spurt of flame shot out above him and was followed by a
+fusillade of shots in the direction of up river. Had they spotted Mungongo
+or were they merely letting drive at a bush or the spirits in general? The
+latter was most probable. The water swirled near to him. All his will
+power was required not to leap frantically for the bank. Yet a crocodile
+would be far more merciful than those black devils. Again a swirl and
+something passed close to him at high speed. Probably an otter scared by
+the firing; at any rate it was not a crocodile. The lights and figures on
+the bank disappeared.
+
+Shots rang out again, and were followed by a wild outburst of yelling.
+Birnier began to wade for the bank, continually splashing water at the
+mosquitoes which were so thick that they reminded him of the bayou
+Lafourche in far-off Louisiana. Crouching, he waited on the edge of the
+bank to listen. The corporal might have had enough sense to post men in
+the grass. Yet he might be too fuddled to think of that, and no native
+would willingly stay there in the dark, unless under white discipline.
+Voices still muttered, but they sounded as if from the camp. Had they
+given him up for the night, relying on the chance that if he had not been
+taken by a crocodile they could trail him in the morning? Probably.
+
+Birnier squatted in the water, ready to plunge back, until he was sure
+they were in camp. Then as cautiously he crawled up the bank. Through the
+scrub with his uninjured eye he could make out the figures around the
+yellow of the fire which had gone down considerably. Now what would they
+do? He could hear the mumble of the corporal’s voice. Would they be
+sufficiently sobered to be ready for the chase in the morning? Birnier did
+not think so with that case of brandy there; the corporal would not, at
+all events. There was a scream of pain and the chatter of women’s voices.
+
+Was the corporal punishing the sentry for having let the prisoners escape,
+or were they beginning to fight among themselves? The latter was
+improbable, as non-commissioned officers are usually chosen from petty
+chiefs and the men under them, as far as possible, from their own village.
+Had they captured Mungongo or one of the others? Birnier listened again.
+Another scream was stoppered to a groan.
+
+“Devils!” muttered Birnier. Lying flat to watch the grass and shrub tops
+against the stars, he gave the frog croaks arranged, at intervals of ten
+seconds. About five minutes later he saw some grass tops quiver
+unnaturally. He croaked again. Came a whisper:
+
+“Is it thee, Infunyana?” (a name given in reference to Birnier’s gold
+fillings).
+
+“Aye.” A dark form glided towards him. “Where are the other men?”
+
+“I know not. I told them as thou hadst told me to do. When thou didst give
+the sign, I fled and plunged into the river.”
+
+“Thou wast not frightened of the crocodiles?”
+
+“Nay; for I have a mighty charm against all river beasts, enchanted by
+Bakahenzie, the greatest of magicians.”
+
+“Ehh!” commented Birnier, contorting his swollen lips in the dark, “would
+that I had such an one! Thinkest thou that the men did as they were
+bidden?”
+
+“Who knows what is in the heart of a goat?” returned Mungongo
+contemptuously, for they were of another tribe.
+
+“Ah, listen!”
+
+The mutter of the hand-drum grew swifter as a high tenor chanted to the
+accompaniment of the abdominal grunting and the laryngeal shrilling:
+
+ “We have come from afar from the Place of the waters!
+ From the place where dwells the mighty Eater-of-Men!
+ Hard was the road as the hills of Kilimanjaro!
+ Hot was the sun as the wrath of Inyira the bold!
+                The son of Banyala!
+                Ough! … Ough!
+                E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!
+
+ But strong are we still as the trunk of an elephant!
+ For have we not walked in the shade of a great chief!
+ Blacker and fiercer than the male rhinoceros!
+ Swifter and more terrible than the mother of whelps?
+                The son of Banyala!
+                Ough! … Ough!
+                E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!
+
+ What hath he given us to tickle our spears?
+ A dainty white dog whose meat is so tender!
+ Fattened and groomed by the Eater-of-Men!
+ A gift from the great Chief to his ally and friend.
+                The son of Banyala!
+                Ough! … Ough!
+                E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!
+
+ We will tickle his white flesh with the tongue of our spears!
+ Our women shall pluck out his hair and his manhood!
+ He shall dance to our liking in the midst of the fire!
+ His girl screams for mercy shall lave hungry ears of ——!
+                The son of Banyala!
+                Ough! … Ough!
+                E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!
+
+ Great was the gift of the great Eater-of-Men!
+ A white slave so sleek to dance the dance of the ants!
+ Eh! We’ll slit up his nostrils and pull out his hairs!
+ A white slave and four black ones to wait on one great chief!
+                The son of Banyala!
+                Ough! … Ough!
+                E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!
+
+“Those children of folly have not obeyed,” whispered Birnier. “The time is
+come.… Wait here for me, O Mungongo. I go to take my spirit form. When I
+return be not afraid!”
+
+“Truly,” answered Mungongo, as Birnier crawled away and down the bank. By
+the water’s edge he swiftly stripped himself to his moccasins and taking
+out the wax vestas, damped each precious one and carefully rubbed lines
+over his face and body, endeavouring to get the most distinctive
+phosphorescent effect around the eyes. Leaving his clothes he crawled back
+to Mungongo.
+
+“Ehh!” exclaimed Mungongo in a muffled scream when he saw the glowing
+apparition. Birnier heard the rustle of grass. As the boy stood up to run
+he leaped and pulled him down savagely.
+
+“Be quiet, thou fool!” he whispered. “It is I. Be silent!”
+
+“Eh! Eh!” gasped Mungongo, who was trembling violently.
+
+“If thou dost not be quiet will I tie up thy heart,” threatened Birnier.
+
+Mungongo continued to quiver, but he remained passive.
+
+“Eh! Eh!” he gasped, “truly thou art a more mighty magician than
+Bakahenzie.”
+
+“Be quiet!”
+
+The drums and the song were still going and the chant had become more
+obscene.
+
+“Follow me!” whispered Birnier, when Mungongo was more reassured.
+
+They made a detour. As they drew near they could hear muffled screams and
+groans beneath the howl of the chorus and song. The mighty son of Banyala
+and his merry men were so engrossed in the orgy that Birnier could have
+walked right up to the fire before anyone would have seen him. But he
+would not take any unnecessary risk. Leaving Mungongo outside he crawled
+under the back flap of the tent. Crouched there he paused. The tent was
+empty; for all were engaged in the dance. His two shot-guns and two light
+rifles were stacked in the corner and the big express which the corporal
+had appropriated, leaned against the tent door behind the chair. He
+glanced hurriedly around for ammunition, but he could not see any open,
+and he had left his belt of cartridges with his clothes. Outside the men
+and women were circling in contrary directions, each with a spear, a knife
+or a firebrand in hand, around the fire beside which, trussed like bundles
+of faggots, were the four servants, their feet singeing on the outside hot
+ashes.
+
+For a second Birnier hesitated. He could not know whether any of the guns
+was loaded. The fire was of glowing embers which did not throw much light
+into the tent. Swiftly Birnier rose and glided into his own chair in the
+deep shadow of the tent flap. Then summoning all his nerve he uttered a
+yell and began to shout the first song which he could recollect:
+
+  “Hurrah! Hurrahhhhhhh! It is the Jubileeeee!
+  Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that set you free!”
+
+The native minstrel stopped in the middle of his chant; the whole
+shuffling, grunting crowd was petrified in as many different poses.
+Birnier leaped to his feet waving his arms wildly, yelling:
+
+  “Thus we sang the chor-uss from Atlanta to the Sea-aa!
+  As we …”
+
+But before he had gotten to “Georgia,” only the prostrate forms around the
+fire had not fled.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 10
+
+
+On the morning of Birnier’s departure there was much movement in Ingonya
+station. Every sign of preparation for the expedition had been carefully
+concealed while a stranger was in the vicinity. Trumpets blared
+importantly. On the great parade ground companies were formed, long lines
+of rigid, ebon figures, down which strolled zu Pfeiffer inspecting
+personally kits and rifles. Afterwards they were drawn up before the
+flag-pole. In an address zu Pfeiffer informed them that they served under
+a greater Bwana than he, the greatest Bwana in the countries of the white
+or the black, who was the son of Ngai (an uncertain term meaning “son of
+God” or the “son of nobody”); that the flag they bore, the brother of the
+big one upon the pole, was so powerful in magic that none could withstand
+it, the Totem of the Bwana Mkubwa Kuba. No wives were allowed for black or
+white, and he himself set them the example; for they were embarking on a
+war expedition to take a country which they knew was full of ivory, cattle
+and women.
+
+The row upon row of eyes in black faces bulged, as from the mass came the
+long grunt of assent and allegiance. The three white sergeants barked at
+their various companies, which wheeled into column formation and marched
+past zu Pfeiffer beneath the flag in review order, their alignment and
+precision a credit to their drill masters. Down below the fort on the
+mouth of the bayou Sergeant Ludwig superintended the overhauling of the
+steam-launch, and a native sergeant and a file of men overseered lines of
+carriers bearing white men’s provisions, the bulk of which was zu
+Pfeiffer’s personal supplies. Around the launch was a flotilla of native
+canoes in charge of a small crowd of nude Kavirondo paddlers, jabbering at
+the prospect of a war expedition.
+
+Most of the day zu Pfeiffer spent in the orderly room going over documents
+and giving detailed instructions to the grizzled Sergeant Schneider, who
+was to take over the station with fifty of the least competent men,
+pending the arrival of an officer, which again would depend upon the
+success of the expedition. In zu Pfeiffer’s manner was evident the
+controlled excitement of a boy on the eve of a house match, and indeed for
+him it was the game for which he was bred and lived, “das Kriegspiel.”
+Perpetually his long fingers caressed the sentry moustaches; an unusual
+glitter was in his blue eyes.
+
+The personality of Birnier had been apparently wiped from his mind as a
+spoor in the sand by rain; indeed in addition to the competing excitement
+of the expedition, the previous night’s alcoholic and sentimental debauch
+had served to exhaust the emotions stimulated by jealousy. To him had
+appeared an obstruction in his emotional life in the shape of the husband
+of the woman whom he adored; therefore, according to his nature and
+training, he had endeavoured to remove that obstacle as swiftly and as
+efficiently as possible. Superlative confidence in himself, reflected in
+his pride of family and nationality, the apotheosis of which was the
+Kaiser, enabled him to devote all his energies to the business in hand,
+never doubting that his interpretation of native psychology would ensure
+the extinction of his adversary.
+
+Beyond the mere joy of the game of war was present the fundamental impulse
+to win the approval of the All Highest by gaining another place in the sun
+as well as the half-suppressed conviction that such a distinction would
+naturally further his suit in love. In the orbit of these two poles
+revolved the life actions of zu Pfeiffer.
+
+That evening zu Pfeiffer dined as leisurely and as sumptuously as usual;
+drank his port and smoked his cigar while his servants packed the last of
+his kitchen battery. Then at the first green of the moon he gave the order
+to march.
+
+The three companies of askaris fell in, marched down to the bayou and
+embarked without fuss or confusion, each group under a non-commissioned
+officer to the appointed canoe.
+
+The launch laboured busily out of the bayou past misty reed-girt islands
+into the indolent waters of the great lake, dragging after her the fleet
+of forty odd canoes. A cigar under the awning of the tiny poop suggested a
+great firefly in the blue shadows, where lounged zu Pfeiffer with his
+favourite brandy and seltzer at his elbow.
+
+Resembling an enormous water-fowl leading a strange black brood, the
+launch towed the flotilla through the night. A war chant pulsed like a
+fevered heart as the moon upon her back lazily chased the stars into the
+dawn upon her way to her home in the Mountains of the Moon, to be in turn
+extinguished by a furious sun. And all that day, while incandescent heat
+tried to boil illimitable waters, the strange fowl waddled on with her
+noxious brood. Huddled in the cramped canoes the soldiers slept and
+snuffed and sang, to which zu Pfeiffer contentedly listened beneath the
+awning. Three times grey walls of falling water enveloped them, sending
+frantic black hands to bailing. Once more the moon made the skies to
+laugh. When the sun had played his part of a flaming Nemesis, a fringe
+grew upon the horizon like the stubble upon a white man’s chin.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer had calculated to arrive at the village of Timballa just
+within the river at sundown. The headman came down to the strand to meet
+them. Immediately he was seized, and the soldiers, as joyous and as
+mischievous as children released from school, surrounded the village.
+
+Sitting in full uniform upon the poop of the launch, together with the two
+sergeants, zu Pfeiffer held a shauri and demanded sufficient paddlers to
+man his forty canoes. The headman, to whom all white men were alike,
+thought they were British and hastened to proffer his services, promising
+that the Bwana should have the men within two days. Zu Pfeiffer curtly
+ordered him to procure them before the sun was overhead on the next day;
+and to insure that he was obeyed, detained him as hostage and forbade any
+man to pass his line of pickets around the village. The old man protested
+that they had not sufficient men in the village, but zu Pfeiffer’s spies
+had afforded him practically correct information. He gave the headman the
+right to send a number of messengers, each accompanied by a soldier, to
+the neighbouring villages and promised him fifty lashes and to rase his
+village, if the paddlers were not forthcoming.
+
+Solely because he wished to give his men time to recover from their
+stiffness did he not insist upon starting that night upon the river trip.
+As a good commander he considered his men from every point of view of
+efficiency. They loved him. He was a warrior chief as they understood such
+to be; carefully he fostered their warrior pride; never were they ordered
+to work at menial offices, to fetch or to carry; only to drill and to
+fight; his punishments were ferocious, but he gave them liberty in pillage
+and rape. Eh! but the Eater-of-Men was a mighty chief! and of his name
+they boasted to every man.
+
+With foresight he had demanded twice as many men as he needed, knowing
+that the panic-stricken chief would round up the halt, the blind, and the
+sick. By an hour after the stipulated time they were assembled in the
+village, a motley crew. Those of the most powerful physique he selected to
+man the soldiers’ canoes, and the next in competency he allotted to the
+baggage canoes.
+
+They started immediately. They made about two and a half miles an hour,
+for although the river was swollen it was sluggish and slow streamed,
+tortuous. Each canoe load of soldiers was made responsible for the
+paddlers and the speed was set by zu Pfeiffer in a large canoe with
+Sakamata as guide. Never had those paddlers driven canoes so speedily and
+persistently. At sundown they halted in a convenient bend where there was
+no village near; pickets were set on the bank and no other man allowed to
+land, no lights and no talking. They were ordered to rest.
+
+At the first glint of the moon they started again. The canoes were hauled
+by the aid of the soldiers over the slight rapids which divided the river
+into pools in the dry season. Throughout the night the misty forest and
+swamp slipped by to the perpetual rhythm of the paddles. About the hour of
+the monkey a hippopotamus charged the flotilla and upset two boats. Zu
+Pfeiffer forbade any shooting, nor would he permit the expedition a
+moment’s delay to pick up the occupants. Just as they heard the distant
+crowing of cocks from the village for which they were bound, four paddlers
+collapsed. The soldiers, acting on their own initiative, threw them
+overboard to swim if they could, and took the paddles themselves.
+Afterwards they were thrashed for disobedience to orders in having given a
+possible chance for one of the men to escape to warn the Wongolo. At an
+hour after sunrise they arrived at the village. The majority of the
+paddlers were so exhausted that they dropped in the canoes and had to be
+thrown ashore, where they lay inert, their backs, bloody with the urgent
+bayonet pricks, caking in the sun.
+
+Beyond this point the river was not navigable, but the village was upon
+the Wongolo border and within two days or fifteen hours’ continuous march
+of MFunya MPopo’s (as zu Pfeiffer knew it). Zu Pfeiffer adopted the same
+tactics to procure porters. But to the chief, in case he should require
+his services again, he gave an extravagant present and left bales of cloth
+for the carriers upon their return. Zu Pfeiffer and Sergeant Ludwig
+travelled in machilas (hammocks) each with a crew of six; the soldiers
+carried nothing save their rifles, double cartridge belts, a day’s
+rations; the pick of the carriers bore ammunition and the two Nordenfeldts
+and two pom-poms slung upon poles, and the chop boxes; the men’s blankets
+and the heavy stuff were to follow more slowly under Sergeant Schultz and
+fifty men. The country between this village and MFunya MPopo’s was mostly
+forest and very sparsely inhabited, which afforded some shade and
+concealment, and lessened the risk of a warning being given.
+
+The expedition started at noon. The carriers were kept on the native
+shuffling lope by the aid of attentions from the askaris. Two unfortunate
+small villages which lay on the line of march were surrounded and the
+inhabitants massacred. Twenty porters collapsed; they were bayoneted to
+prevent any chance of a successful ruse in escaping to give the alarm, and
+their loads given to relay men brought for that purpose. The column halted
+at sundown. The men ate their rations, but the carriers were too exhausted
+to eat; they drank water and lay prostrate. According to Sakamata they
+were within two hands’ breadth of the moon of Kawa Kendi’s.
+
+In full uniform of white, girded with sword and revolver, zu Pfeiffer ate,
+drank, and smoked cigars until the forest roof was patterned against the
+cold pallor of the moon. Then, after giving final instructions to Sergeant
+Ludwig and the various native non-commissioned officers, he ordered the
+jabbering men to march, with the carriers staggering on at the point of
+the bayonet.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 11
+
+
+The doom pronounced by the Council of Witch-Doctors was to Bakuma and all
+concerned as a Bull of Excommunication in mediæval Europe. MYalu was the
+one who exhibited the most emotion. Had he not paid seven tusks of good
+ivory to have the object of his passion placed under the most terrible
+tabu? Against Marufa, who had seemingly betrayed him, was his anger
+directed. But the rage of MYalu was tempered with fear. A man had not
+merely to kill an enemy: he had also to appease his justly wrathful ghost;
+and who knew what the disembodied spirit of the most powerful magician in
+the land, save Bakahenzie, could do! Moreover, no other wizard would give
+him absolution in the form of the magic of purification. A chief though he
+be; he dared not slay a magician. He sought Marufa and found him as usual
+squatting on his threshold contemplating infinity in a mud wall. He
+saluted Marufa politely, choking back words of bitter recrimination, for
+if he even offended him, the wizard might cast a spell upon him instantly.
+Marufa returned the greeting as courteously as ever. When at length MYalu
+reproachfully reminded him of the seven tusks which he had paid apparently
+to secure his love’s terrible fate, Marufa replied uninterestedly:
+
+“I have done that for which thou hast paid.”
+
+“What man buyeth a bride for another?” retorted MYalu.
+
+“When I did make magic upon ‘the things’ did I place in the power of the
+spirits the owner. Behold, hath not the owner of ‘the things’ been
+accursed?”
+
+“Ehh!” gasped MYalu. “But how may that be? Didst thou not thyself take the
+paring and the hair?”
+
+“I bade the One who is tabu to bring them that he might be bewitched to
+her girdle. She thought to deceive me by bringing that which was of
+herself.”
+
+“E—eh!” muttered MYalu, impressed at the awful effect of deceiving a
+wizard. Marufa continued to stare. MYalu meditated ruefully.
+
+“But the tusks,” murmured MYalu at length dismally.
+
+“It is not I who have two tongues,” responded Marufa indifferently.
+
+And with that MYalu had to rest content. Marufa indeed had no interest at
+all in the passions of Zalu Zako, MYalu and Bakuma. Merely the time had
+come for the witch-doctors to choose the victim for the Harvest Festival:
+Bakuma was young and good looking, a dainty morsel that should please the
+taste of the officiating doctors, and her owner and uncle was a man of no
+importance: so accordingly he had made known the sin of her name through
+the divination.
+
+In the solitude of his own hut upon the hill Zalu Zako sat and pondered
+sulkily. His young and fierce temper was stimulated and the seed of
+rebellion against the domination of the priesthood was quickened by the
+fate of his new love; although the masonic secrets of the craft were
+denied to him, he, as son of the royal house, was suspicious of the powers
+of the Unmentionable One and the priesthood, as many an one had been
+before him; yet in spite of that the verdict was absolute, for he was too
+crushed by terror of the consequences to permit of any hope of annulling
+it.
+
+The fiat not only doomed Bakuma to a terrible death at the third blooming
+of the moon, but from that very instant the tabu came into force; for
+being thus accursed by the possession of two sounds of the sacred name,
+she was deemed unholy. Her half-sisters and their mother, with whom Bakuma
+shared the hut, fled to another and were exorcised by the wizard, which,
+as everybody knows, is an expensive ceremony; gourds and pots, spoons and
+utensils of all sorts, were left to the sole use of the unclean one and
+would be burned upon her demise. A magic line was drawn around the hut out
+of which the soul of the girl as she slept could not escape to bewitch
+anybody. Neither her name nor anything that had been hers would be ever
+mentioned again; any word of a household article or any thing or beast
+which had one syllable of the name “Bakuma” was changed, lest the user be
+accursed and bewitched.
+
+For the whole day, in this isolation, sat the girl Bakuma, Marufa’s
+useless love charm clutched in her hand, as bewildered as if the earth had
+suddenly turned inside out under this fact so stupendous and stupefying.
+She did not weep. She squatted in the door, her eyes staring with the
+glazed inquiring expression of a dying gazelle, a bronze question to Fate.
+At the feeding time her mother threw her bananas into the circle. Bakuma
+looked at them as they flopped near to her as if she did not realize what
+they were. She made no stir to cook or prepare them. The cool twilight
+came and passed like a blue breath. Above the insectile chorus of the
+night beneath the crystal stars came the faint thrumming of a drum from
+MKoffo’s hill. The sound of music and dancing reminded Bakuma of her
+ambitious dreams. She could neither weep nor wail; she merely emitted a
+faint gasping sound. But her mind began to work jerkily, yet more
+fluently. Visions of the form of Zalu Zako were weaved and spun in the
+darkness: the lithe walk of him, the haughty carriage of the head. Slowly
+greened the sky until the banana fronds were etched in sepia against the
+swollen moon. The dismal croak of the Baroto bird shattered the black
+cocoon of Bakuma’s mind.
+
+“Aie-eee! the foul bird of my despair!” she wailed, and at last wept. Then
+she rose and flitted like some green ghost into the plantation and across
+to the place of water where her lover had first spoken her sweet, recking
+naught in her mist of despair of spirits of the night nor of the breaking
+of the magic circle. The moon spattered the squatted form with blue
+spangles and turned the falling tears to quivering opals. Bakuma broke
+into wild lament.
+
+  “The black Goat hath cried three times in my hut!
+  My soul hath wandered and been caught in a trap!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  A wizard hath stolen a hair from my head!
+  The beak of Baroto pecketh my gall!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  A rival hath lain in wait for my love!
+  She hath slain my bird in the nest of his breast!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  A porcupine dwells in the place of my heart!
+  The bird of my soul is fluttering faint!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  An ember of fire hath entered my mouth!
+  The milk of my breasts is curdled to-night!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  The strings of my bosom are tied with fine knots!
+  My belly is void! My nipples are dead!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  A monkey hath bitten the back of my tongue!
+  Hath stolen my breath to make magic by night!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  The blood in my veins hath turned to sour porridge!
+  My throat is choked up by the sudd of the Lake!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  A grey forest rat hath swallowed my heart!
+  My thighs have been scratched by a poisonous thorn!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!”
+
+As the last quiver of the wail blended with the anthem of the forest came
+from a figure squatted above the ford of the river, his spear a blue flame
+in the moonlight, an answer:
+
+  “My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her flesh will be tasted by a hungrier mouth!
+  Her flesh which is sweeter than honey and wine!
+  Her flesh which is softer than a newly born kid!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!
+
+  My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her breasts will be pillowed by a much broader chest!
+  Her breasts which do swell like a tender young gourd!
+  Her breasts which are as firm as the meat of the plum!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!”
+
+And answered Bakuma’s wail:
+
+                 “Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”
+
+  “My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her chines will be gripped by a far fiercer hand!
+  Her chines which are smoother than elephants’ tusks!
+  Her chines which are as plump as the breast of a fowl!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her eyes will be touched by longer fingers than mine!
+  Her eyes which are like unto moons veiled by rain!
+  Her eyes which are like the starlit river at dawn!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her scent will be drunk by nostrils broader than mine!
+  Her scent which is pungent and sweet like the smoke!
+  Her scent which slakes thirst more than driest of beer!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her breath will be sipped by a thirstier throat!
+  Her breath which is hotter than the flame of a fire!
+  Her breath which makes more drunken than enemies’ blood!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her voice will be heard by ears mightier than mine!
+  Her voice which is like unto burbling beer!
+  Her voice which is gentler than the rustle of fronds!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”
+
+A slight breeze stirred gently the trees. The crickets shrilled their
+perpetual chorus. A crocodile flopped in the river. Dogs yapped from a
+village down the river. Again Bakuma lifted up her voice:
+
+  “Mightier than elephants was the tread of my man!
+  Keener than a leopard was the flash of his eye!
+  Stronger than an oak tree was the strength of his arm!
+  Swifter than lightning was the stroke of his spear!
+                 Enemies died!
+
+  Taller than the wine palm was the height of my man!
+  Broader than the temple was the span of his chest!
+  More graceful than antelope was the carriage of him!
+  More slender than saplings was the build of his legs!
+                 Women lamented!
+
+  Sweeter than warm honey was the scent of my man!
+  Whiter than a spear flash was the gleam of his teeth!
+  Fiercer than scorpions was the grip of his hand!
+  Smooth and like stone was——”
+
+A gale of yells and shots destroyed the song of Bakuma like a foot
+crushing a flower.
+
+Zalu Zako leaped to his feet and stood for a moment listening intently.
+Across the river some strange beast spat spears of red flames. A little
+farther down another beast coughed violently like a hippopotamus. The sky
+seemed falling. Such volumes of sound he had never heard before.
+
+As he raced with the speed of a koodoo through the plantation he saw the
+glow of fire ahead and heard the moan of some terrible monster near him.
+He leaped five feet in the air as the world appeared to crack in half
+beside him. He felt a sting like a brand of fire in his shoulder, but he
+ran on towards the village from whence fled dim figures on all sides amid
+shouts and screams and wailing.
+
+Several huts were already blazing. The leviathan coughed and moaned again
+and once more the earth seemed to crash to pieces near him. Appalled and
+bewildered, choking with rage, he reached the outer enclosure where his
+fellow warriors were shouting and yelling that the white gods were
+attacking. Bakahenzie, gun in hand, was bidding them charge they knew not
+what. Then out of the clutter of the village broke line upon line of
+yelling figures clothed in uniform. Screaming the battle-cry, the warriors
+charged, led by Zalu Zako, Bakahenzie, and Kawa Kendi, who in the
+excitement had dashed from the enclosure. Howls and yells were drowned in
+the spiteful crackle and cough. Warriors were mown like weeds under a
+sickle. Scarce a hundred scrambled inside the enclosure at the rallying
+call from Bakahenzie.
+
+Again came a short rush of those uniformed figures; again scarlet spears
+pierced the green moonlight like a hailstorm; small red flames rippled in
+a line resembling a forest fire as the soldiers charged through and over
+the palisade. Hand to hand was the fighting, spear and sword against
+bayonet and rifle around the idol, the askaris outyelling the warriors.
+The temple was on fire. In the light of the flames they saw a tall figure
+in white with a glow of fire in his mouth and magic eyes upon his hands,
+eyes which flashed rays of scarlet and blue as he cut and hacked at the
+base of the idol.…
+
+“Tarum hath come!” screamed some one, and as the cry was taken up, the
+Unmentionable One tottered and crashed to the ground.
+
+They fled, Zalu Zako, Bakahenzie and those that were left.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 12
+
+
+The village of Yagonyana, the son of Zahilazaan, was situated some five
+days’ march to the north-west of Kawa Kendi’s, in open cattle country near
+the fringe of the forest. Here were gathered nearly every witch-doctor and
+warrior of the tribe. Most of the women, children, and slaves had been
+sent still farther to the west, driving the cattle before them.
+
+Bakahenzie, Zalu Zako, Marufa, and all those warriors who had escaped from
+the massacre by zu Pfeiffer were distinguished from their brethren by
+circles of yellow earth around each left eye, and each right breast and
+arm was smeared with red, which is part of the ceremony of magic
+purification for those who have slain, lest, as is well known, the ghost
+of the dead wreak their wrath upon their slayers.
+
+The affairs of the tribe were in a parlous state. The netting of the tabu
+had been tangled by the death of the King-God, Kawa Kendi, and the
+unprecedented act of the overthrow of the idol. Kawa Kendi’s body, which
+had not been recovered so that the doctors could release his unhappy soul,
+might be used to make more magic against the tribe.
+
+For three weeks there had been much discussion among the doctors, the
+chiefs, and the people. Opinions were at variance; no two men could agree.
+Lesser wizards, who before had been content with the perquisites of the
+smaller offices, were now made drunken by the insecurity of Bakahenzie’s
+position. Each of the doctors, seeing a chance to prove his superior merit
+and win Bakahenzie’s post as chief doctor, had busily made magic to
+destroy the usurper, and each and every one provided a different reason
+for the failure thereof. Every day came news of the doings of the white
+god with eyes upon his hands, of shootings and floggings, of the burning
+of the village including the idol, the temple, and the sacred tombs of
+MFunya MPopo, of MKoffo, of MZrakombinyana, and other kings before them.
+
+The council of the craft could not even decide whether Zalu Zako was to be
+King-God or not. Bakahenzie, whose interest lay in supporting the dynasty
+of the present royal family, maintained that he should be anointed
+forthwith. But with the downfall of the idol and his own impotence to make
+successful magic, Bakahenzie’s prestige had been badly shaken; no longer
+dared he issue dicta autocratically. As ever, political ambition tore
+patriotism to shreds.
+
+Marufa, former close ally of Bakahenzie, but lacking his active principle,
+continued to mutter incantations most impressively by himself, waiting
+cautiously to see which side of the river the arrow fell. Bakahenzie
+became seriously alarmed at the growth of Yabolo’s faction and the
+indifference of Marufa. He knew well that submission would entail the loss
+of his post as well as his worldly goods; and he was aware that all men
+knew that his most potent and strenuous magic had failed as utterly as
+that of the youngest novice in the craft. His only chance to retrieve a
+portion of his lost reputation was to invent a more plausible excuse for
+failure than any other doctor had done. He did.
+
+Although he did not know that Bakuma had broken the magic circle of her
+own volition, he had the shrewd imagination to suggest that she had either
+fled with the other women during the attack or that, even if she had
+stayed, the askaris would have taken her from the hut. Therefore did he
+demand an assembly of the craft and chiefs. One of the reasons, if not the
+reason, of Bakahenzie’s success, as of other witch-doctors before, such as
+Savonarola, had been a faculty, inspired by, or derived from, hysterical
+epilepsy, of working himself up at will into a state of convulsion without
+actual loss of consciousness and the spectacular exhibition of foam, which
+no other sorcerer had been able to simulate so successfully. Therefore
+Bakahenzie invoked the great Tarum (apotheosis of ancestors’ spirits) who,
+through the convulsed body, did proclaim that the disaster had been caused
+by the breaking of the magic circle by one whose name was accursed; and
+that only could the magic of Bakahenzie be made potent, and the consequent
+overthrow of the Eyes-in-the-hands be assured, by the sacrifice of the
+victim to her destiny as the Bride of the Banana.
+
+Marufa, appreciating the shrewdness of this move, immediately abandoned
+his incantations to reassume his allegiance to the cause of Bakahenzie.
+The prophecy was hailed by nearly every one as a most timely excuse for
+the failure of magic in general. The miraculous recall of the
+Unmentionable One now seemed so easy of accomplishment through the person
+of Bakuma that many of those who had sided with Yabolo deserted him,
+foreseeing the renewed ascendancy of Bakahenzie and fearing his wrath.
+
+Yabolo, however, made an attempt to recover the lost adherents by
+protesting that the Moon of the Harvest Festival had not yet come, and
+that therefore victory could not be obtained until two more moons had
+waned. But MYalu saw that by submitting to the new god he might be able to
+have removed the tabu upon Bakuma—all things were possible to one who had
+overthrown the Unmentionable One—and thus obtain her by the price of
+submission; also he might possibly recover his wealth of ivory abandoned
+after the massacre. Therefore did he with his people go over to the Yabolo
+faction.
+
+Uproar and confusion ensued. Bakahenzie recovered from his trance with
+unprecedented rapidity and even did not require to be told what the spirit
+of Tarum had said through his lips. The tribe was split into fiercer
+factions than ever. They argued and screamed and cursed. Bakahenzie had
+lost the hold over them; for as the god, of which he was the sponsor, was
+dead, his credit had gone too. He dared no longer to remove a troublesome
+brother or chief by magic. His only hope was to restore the god: so to
+that end he declared that Zalu Zako must be anointed King-God. Uproar
+arose once more. But Bakahenzie’s purpose had been served; he had diverted
+their attention from the subject of submission.
+
+From time to time came terrified runners with horrific stories of the
+burning of villages, of massacre and rapine. Bakahenzie, determined not to
+yield, secretly dispatched a slave to Eyes-in-the-hands with an arrow
+which is a sign of war; Yabolo, whose mind ran in the same tracts, sent a
+banana which is a sign of peace. In the meantime factions grew and
+multiplied. One chief counselled his followers to take their cattle and
+women and seek to conquer another tribe to the south-west; another wished
+to go west. But each and every follower began to bargain with his chief
+for disproportionate rewards for service. Two chiefs and five hundred men
+started to the south-west, but they returned because they had met in their
+path the skeleton of a slain elephant, which is, as everybody knows, a
+sure sign of disaster.
+
+Bakahenzie sent runners far and wide to discover Bakuma. As she could not
+be found he concluded that she had been killed or taken as a slave and
+urged the warriors to fight. Zalu Zako immediately desired the anointing
+to be delayed in order that he should not be debarred from fighting.
+Bakahenzie, none too sure of his authority, was compelled to acquiesce.
+Marufa, observing that the arrow was still in the air, took to his
+non-committal incantations again. Bakahenzie strove to keep the warriors
+and chiefs occupied by dissension until the result of his challenge to
+battle should mature. Yabolo, equally perturbed for his influence, did
+exactly the same with the banana in view.
+
+Yabolo and MYalu contemplated going in to make submission, but the former
+wished to negotiate through Sakamata for the best terms, although he tried
+to persuade MYalu to go; but MYalu was suspicious and would not do so
+without Yabolo. But at the hour of the monkey one morning came a terrified
+goatherd crying news that cut the tangled threads of their intrigues as a
+sword cuts a goat’s throat. The white god, Eyes-in-the-hands, was within
+an arrow’s flight of the village of Yagonyana.
+
+Consternation ensued. The village and the temporary camp of grass huts
+buzzed and hummed. Zalu Zako dashed out, sword and spear in hand, and in
+the glow of the awakened fires harangued the warriors, urged that they
+should make a swift detour through the forest and attack the white man as
+he entered the village. Bakahenzie supported this plan of campaign. MYalu,
+stung by the recollection of the loss of many tusks to the invader,
+incontinently abandoned Yabolo and pressed for a frontal attack. Yabolo
+contended that they send an envoy to make terms, but not very insistently.
+In spite of the assurance of Sakamata, he was suspicious of the new god’s
+gentle ways. Marufa, the wise, collected those of his household who had
+remained with him, and quietly made his way to the forest.
+
+But Zalu Zako’s martial spirit was overcome by the clamour of those who
+would flee before worse befell, crying that the white god,
+Eyes-in-the-hands, would eat them all up with the terrible monsters who
+coughed flames and death; others screeched that the uniformed devils were
+spirits of the night and therefore invincible; for always they came in the
+dark. So they hesitated, shouted and argued. Then came a scout screaming
+that the enemy was upon them, corroborated by a vicious cough.
+
+A pom-pom shell landed in the midst of the crowded village. Zalu Zako,
+Bakahenzie and their small following were nearly swept away in the rush of
+five thousand odd warriors in flight. From the forest they watched with
+awestruck eyes the burning of the village.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 13
+
+
+On the morning on which zu Pfeiffer burned the village of Yagonyana,
+Birnier was encamped upon the southern boundary of Wongolo. By his “coup
+de superstition” had he recovered all his equipment except several bottles
+of brandy, some canned goods and two and a half pairs of pyjamas; also the
+field boots. The noble Inyira, son of Banyala, and his merry men never
+attempted to recapture their prisoners; no one save the Eater-of-Men in
+person could have persuaded them to return to that camp even had they had
+their rifles.
+
+After Birnier had dressed his own foot and the charred feet of his men,
+had had a good drink and a better meal, he had sought to address the
+balance of his mind through a medium designed for the cure of melancholy,
+but efficacious for many other ills, _The Anatomy of Melancholy_. He
+opened the one big volume which had been his companion throughout his
+travels at a page marked at haphazard by an ivory paper knife with the
+American flag upon the flat hilt, an early gift from Lucille, and began to
+read the remarks of Robert Burton of quaintly glorious memory upon the
+source of his late adventure.
+
+“Those which are jealous, most part, if they be not otherwise relieved,
+proceed from suspicion to hatred, from hatred to frenzy, madness, injury,
+murder and despair … Amestris, Xerxes’s wife, because she found her
+husband’s cloak in Masista’s house, cut off Masista’s wife’s paps and gave
+them to the dogs, flayed her besides and cut off her ears, lips, tongue,
+and slit the nose of Artaynta, her daughter.”
+
+
+
+“Cheerful lady! She ought to have been zu Pfeiffer’s wife,” commented
+Birnier and went to sleep.
+
+Birnier arose feeling rational enough to reconsider his position. The
+recollection of the signature on the photograph now failed to stimulate
+the emotional reaction as once it had done. The experience through which
+he had passed had had a beneficial effect in breaking or disconnecting the
+train of suggestive images. At first in the recess of his mind had lurked
+the desire to abandon everything, to rush straight to Lucille to demand an
+explanation. Now the rising sun of reason cast quite different shadows
+upon the incident. The high light was the fact that should he do so he
+would be sacrificing his mission for what might prove to be ridiculous. As
+his mind contemplated the subject the echo of “à toi, Lucille” tended to
+carry a high note, but this he vented by writing a long letter to Lucille
+recounting the facts and frankly admitting that he had been sufficiently
+insane with jealousy to “go up in the air.” Once or twice he ceased to
+write and gazed anxiously into the glare as his imagination suggested the
+long period of waiting for an answer, wondering whether the echo of that
+cursed “à toi” might not become unbearably shrill. He became a little more
+sentimental towards the end of the letter, remarking that perhaps he had
+been wrong in deserting her for so long and emphasising the rather
+ridiculous point that he was aware that he was not a young man. However,
+he let it remain, and at the first opportunity sent off the letter by
+runner to the nearest station in Uganda, together with an order for
+certain goods to be sent to a village on the Wongolo border.
+
+Although still inclined to be emotional over the photograph, Birnier did
+not waste any energy over vindictive thoughts upon zu Pfeiffer, whom he
+philosophically regarded as irresponsible for his actions, inasmuch as he
+had been made that way just as any savage. He had gotten out of the toils
+set for him, so why should he spend time and trouble in seeking revenge
+which would merely consist in reporting the incident through a British
+station to Washington, who would open up interminable polite
+correspondence with the German Embassy, who would again write prodigious
+letters to the Colonial Minister in Berlin, who would… Ludicrous! No; he
+would not permit zu Pfeiffer to interfere with his plans. He would
+continue straight to Wongolo instead of investigating the Kivu country,
+where zu Pfeiffer might perhaps have another opportunity to cause more
+trouble. Accordingly he negotiated with the nearest village for carriers
+and set out, striking due west, thus approaching the Wongolo territory
+towards the southern boundary.
+
+The people to the south of the Wongolo country was an inferior race, whom
+the Wongolo periodically raided to replenish their slaves. These Wamongo
+were split up into several petty chiefdoms, usually at war with one
+another. They had no defined theology. For they had not progressed beyond
+the stage of magic as far as any concept of religion, that is of praying
+for intercession to any power greater than themselves; whereas the mental
+state of the Wongolo was half-way between magic and religion, mixing and
+confusing the two as exemplified in the Rain-making ceremony of employing
+magic and alternately invoking the god and threatening him with dire
+penalties if he did not behave. There seemed to be no royal family or clan
+of the Wamongo; chiefs changed constantly as one more powerful for the
+moment arose; the wizards did not appear to have any political power,
+acting as general physicians and confining their efforts apparently to
+simple magic for the growing of corn, the curing of the evil eye and
+wounds. They were terrified of the Wongolo, much to Mungongo’s pride, who
+never let slip an opportunity of swaggering and bruiting abroad the fame
+of his master as the greatest of magicians the world had ever seen. Never
+was he tired of relating to a grunting audience the terrible sight and
+effect of his master’s transposition into a spirit. The yarn lost nothing
+in the telling.
+
+Progress was slow. Every afternoon, as regular as the sun set, clouds of
+sepia sailed up from the west to clothe the world in a grey deluge of
+falling water. Fortunately they were travelling up a watershed so that
+there were no large rivers to cross. As they approached the Wongolo border
+rumours began of a white god with eyes upon his hands and live fire in his
+mouth who, so said the delighted Wamongo, had entirely eaten up the hated
+Wongolo. They seemed prepared to accept Birnier, when suggesting that he
+should make magic for them to conquer the Wongolo, as another terrible
+white god, and were accordingly polite. But Mungongo, vastly indignant,
+denied the story; according to him, no power on earth could have subdued
+his race, except perhaps the mighty Moonspirit (the name he had bestowed
+upon Birnier).
+
+But when Birnier arrived at the first village of the Wongolo the absence
+of warriors corroborated the wild tales they had heard. The inhabitants of
+old men, boys and women surrounded the camp to gaze in awestruck curiosity
+at the white whom they believed to be the brother of the
+Eyes-in-the-hands. This calumny Mungongo strenuously gainsaid, and anew
+recounted the marvellous feats of magic of Moonspirit who could, he
+assured his compatriots, eat up Eyes-in-the-hands as easily as a crocodile
+would swallow a goat. Yet in spite of their terror they insisted that
+Birnier must go through the ceremony of purification incumbent upon all
+strangers in order to exorcise the evil influence of their eyes and souls;
+also the customary present must be sent to the king and his august
+permission to enter awaited, although no man knew where he was since the
+capital had been burned. Mungongo waxed furious. He informed them that
+Moonspirit was a friend of the Son-of-the-Snake, and moreover had before
+been in the country; that if they vexed Moonspirit he would enchant the
+whole village so that no man could move hand or foot. No matter, said
+they, that was the rule and must be done. They were impressed but
+obstinate.
+
+From the description of this destroying god, who was the colour of a
+stripped banana and tall as a palm tree, had fire in his mouth and eyes
+upon his hands—it was some time before he could recognise the “eyes”—and
+whose companions were devils strangely clothed, dragging horrific monsters
+who spat earthquakes, Birnier had no difficulty in recognising zu
+Pfeiffer, and recollected the significant pumping at dinner regarding the
+Wongolo country. However he had renounced any idea of revenge, but the
+discovery of friend zu Pfeiffer as the terrifying god amused him:
+quickened a desire to overset the gentleman’s plans. He smiled with a
+slight hardening of the line about his mouth as he began to consider what
+might be done.
+
+As far as he could estimate by recalling the size of the native barracks
+at Fort Ingonya, he reckoned that zu Pfeiffer could not possibly have more
+than three hundred men, unless he had been reinforced from the east.
+Roughly he calculated that the Wongolo ought to be able to put about ten
+thousand warriors in the field. That number under any sort of leadership,
+even though they were only armed with spears and swords, should wipe out
+the three hundred, in spite of the discipline and two or three
+machine-guns, by sheer weight of numbers. But, from what he had already
+heard, zu Pfeiffer had evidently caught them unprepared, wiped out a mass
+and secured a supernatural effect by destroying the idol. He remembered
+his talk on das Volkliches and his comment that zu Pfeiffer was unusually
+well informed upon the psychology of the native mind.
+
+During two days disputing in the native manner news came in of fresh
+massacres, adding to the general terror. He sent for the headman and with
+him held a long shauri. The result was that the old fellow conceived the
+wonderful idea, already suggested by his lesser brethren, of enlisting the
+services of this white man, reputed to be a most marvellous magician, in
+their protection.
+
+Then having had his wits sharpened by his own originality and a sheath
+knife, the headman promptly discovered that the ceremony of exorcism could
+not be performed because the local wizard had departed with every ounce of
+magic for the front. Still there were obstinate and fearful persons who
+wished that Birnier should send a message to the king and wait until he
+had the permission. Another two days were lost until this objection was
+overcome by certain presents of “bafta,” destined for the king, being
+handed over to the village.
+
+On the week’s march across Wongolo, Mungongo triumphantly held spellbound
+audiences at every village through which they passed. As they neared the
+site of the City of the Snake, where they heard zu Pfeiffer was encamped,
+they encountered deserted villages. When they came upon the smouldering
+embers of one Birnier consented to turn aside from the regular trail in
+order to pass to the west of Kawa Kendi’s where, so the natives said, were
+Zalu Zako and Bakahenzie.
+
+Beyond a belt of forest was open rolling country. They came to a village
+of five huts where dwelt some herdsmen, although most of the cattle had
+been driven westwards. Mungongo, seeking at Birnier’s suggestion for some
+one who had actually been present at the village when zu Pfeiffer
+attacked, discovered a young girl who had escaped. He brought the daughter
+of Bakala into the presence of Moonspirit still pathetically clutching the
+amulet which Marufa had sold her. But from Bakuma, who had fled to the
+forest at the first assault and afterwards to this herdsmen’s village
+where the fact of the tabu would not yet have penetrated, Birnier could
+interpret little of value. Of the whereabouts of Zalu Zako she knew no
+more than the peasants. She remembered Infunyana, as he had been called on
+his previous visit to the City of the Snake, and to her it seemed that a
+god had descended from the blue sky personally to aid her. So utterly
+incomprehensible and terrifying had the attack appeared that unconsciously
+the inevitability of her doom was shaken; if such things could happen, she
+felt rather than thought, then who could say what else was possible? She
+asked permission to travel with Moonspirit. Birnier, who knew from her
+dress, or lack of it, that she was unmarried, smiled as he wondered
+whether she was seeking her lover.
+
+Throughout their journey they had not met a single warrior; but as they
+neared the place of the king they began to meet groups of them. At the
+sight of the first headdress Bakuma bolted into the grass, nor did she
+reappear until after they had gone. Later she came to Birnier and asked
+permission to hide within his tent when the warriors appeared, and to his
+question began to explain the fate to which she had been doomed. Naturally
+this account of the Marriage of the Bride of the Banana at the Harvest
+Festival was of value as well as of interest to Birnier, from whom it had
+been concealed when in the country before. He cross-questioned her and
+made notes; but Bakuma could give him practically no details of what
+actually happened, a secret well guarded by the craft.
+
+They looked downcast, these warriors, and were doubtful what to do on
+meeting another white. Many had never before seen a white man and were
+inclined to bestow upon Moonspirit all the attributes which they had given
+to Eyes-in-the-hands. Eh! said they, Eyes-in-the-hands is a more powerful
+god than the Unmentionable One, for has he not eaten him up?
+Eyes-in-the-hands has imprisoned the thunder and the lightning in a bag
+which he looses at will. Who could withstand him? Had they better not
+submit before his wrath had eaten them all up? E-eh! man cannot fight with
+a god, as any fool knows.
+
+They were returning to their homes to make pilgrimage to the new god, to
+propitiate him with oxen and with ivory lest worse befall. However they
+knew where Zalu Zako was hidden, also the wizards whose magic was as a
+drop of water in a fire. Mungongo did not fail to relate the marvels of
+Moonspirit which he had seen with his own eyes, he and those with him. The
+warriors listened without being in the least impressed. That, said they,
+was merely woman’s magic to what Eyes-in-the-hands could do! Aie-e! had
+not they fallen dead in masses at the cough of one of his monster spirits!
+Aie-e! had not the look of him burned up the Unmentionable One as a straw
+in a fire! Therefore was he not greater than the god? Aie-e! was he not
+burning their villages at will! Aie-e, brothers, they must hasten to
+appease the wrath of so terrible a god!
+
+Birnier saw that it was useless to attempt to argue with them. Zu
+Pfeiffer, with his shrewd stroke at the kernel of their faith in the
+symbol of the idol, had established a kind of godhead; and by his
+ferocious massacres had thoroughly cowed them. However Birnier secured one
+man to guide him to where Zalu Zako, the witch-doctors and those who
+remained with him, were in hiding.
+
+On the fringe of the dense forest they camped. The warrior guide went to
+acquaint Zalu Zako of their approach, else otherwise the sight of a white
+might provoke an attempt at massacre or flight. On the third day the man
+returned bearing greetings from Zalu Zako personally who remembered well
+Infunyana, the only white man whom he had ever met.
+
+For two days, on a faint trail, in a steamy heat pulsing with chromatic
+birds and lizards, they journeyed through the forest, the skirts of the
+vast Ituri whose deepest recess is the home of the pygmy. One early
+forenoon they were halted by the warrior in apparently trackless jungle
+and bidden to camp. Mungongo was indignant, but protest was useless as the
+man refused to conduct them any farther, saying that Zalu Zako would come
+to them. So the carriers cut a circle and built a zareba and the messenger
+was swallowed by the green wall bearing presents of two rifles.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 14
+
+
+About a mile from Birnier’s camp, through forest so dense that even the
+progress of a native clambering from trunk to trunk and over undergrowth
+ten feet deep was slow and tortuous, was the temporary village of Zalu
+Zako; some six or seven hundred huts of branches and creepers straggling
+over a wide area of ground which had been roughly cleared from undergrowth
+by a few slaves and women.
+
+The hut of Zalu Zako, as those of most of the bigger chiefs and wizards,
+was furnished with reeds upon the floor to avoid squatting actually in the
+green slime, and boasted a palisade run from tree to tree enclosing the
+huts of his two wives, women and slaves. Every morning the leader of a
+long line of slaves bringing supplies from the villages in the open,
+chanting softly the song of the march, entered the village through a mass
+of creepers which hung like a curtain of humid green. Many hundreds of
+warriors with their chiefs had deserted their king after the flight from
+Yagonyana’s village.
+
+In the mind of Zalu Zako was doubt and perplexity as in those of his
+people. All the accepted “laws” and “facts” of his world had been set at
+naught; it was as if buck lived in the rivers and fish ran roaring through
+the forests. Fear, curiosity, and resentment filled him. Sometimes it
+appeared that Eyes-in-the-hands had indeed proved to be a more powerful
+god than the Unmentionable One, of whom he was, or should have been, high
+priest and king; that he had eaten him up as they said; so perhaps the
+better course was to submit to this being invincible. Yet this very
+anarchy of his beliefs had released once more the passion for Bakuma whom
+he had renounced, the desire for whom had been inhibited by the sense of
+the inevitability of the mandate of the witch-doctors. Hereditary custom,
+which made him feel that it was incumbent upon him—a primitive sense of
+duty—to be king-god warred with this longing for Bakuma. The fact that he
+was not yet bound to celibacy quickened the seed of rebellion against the
+domination of the wizards. If he could escape the godhood then Bakuma was
+alive again. For to his mind a ban upon the personal ego was far stronger
+than any ban upon a second person.
+
+Chewing the cud of this sweet grass of hope squatted Zalu Zako one morning
+in the dignified solitude of his compound on the threshold of his hut.
+Opposite him sat the brother conspirator of Bakahenzie, Marufa, a brown
+shadow in comparison to the gleaming of the royal insignia of the ivory
+bangles. They sat silent, motionless, save for the occasional sparse
+movement of snuff taking. In the steamy heat a continual mutter and rustle
+persisted, punctuated by the harsh scream of a green parrot or the squawks
+of a troop of monkeys. In the faintly spattered sunlight percolating
+through the bowered roof vivid lizards rivalled in colour the rare finger
+of an orchid clinging to the great tree beside the hut. Through the humid
+air came the faint chant of carriers at the end of a journey; swelled
+louder and ceased. At the mutter of greeting near by Marufa grunted.
+
+“The beaten dog returns to nose in the garbage,” he mumbled.
+
+“Maybe he hath news of the doings,” commented Zalu Zako after a pause.
+
+“The young dog starts a buck in every tree stump,” returned Marufa.
+
+The mumble of voices in the hut of Yabolo near to Zalu Zako’s continued.
+Neither Zalu Zako nor Marufa knew other than that, after his downfall,
+Sakamata had retired to his native village on the southern boundary where
+the people, being laymen, had believed the excuse for his absence given by
+Sakamata that he had retired to the forest for one moon in the guise of
+his totem, the wart hog, which animal became accordingly tabu to their
+killing for that period. At length came a young slave from Yabolo who,
+after saluting, delivered a message from Yabolo requesting that Zalu Zako
+receive him and his relative, Sakamata, who had weighty news for him.
+
+Presently entered the recusant bearing signs of prosperity in the flowered
+print about his loins, the ancient cartridge pouch slung around his waist
+and a huge revolver of the pin-fire model dangling from a neck which
+appeared more tortoise-like than ever. Before Zalu Zako he squatted and
+after they had exchanged the usual hostages to hostility, Sakamata
+inquired most politely after the health of the Son-of-the-Snake, of his
+cattle and of his fortune, and last of all of his women. Sakamata, aware
+of the loss of prestige suffered by his old enemy, Bakahenzie, presented
+Zalu Zako with a duplicate of the pin-fire revolver. Followed an equally
+extensive greeting to Marufa. Only when these ceremonies had been
+punctiliously performed did they begin to discuss the news.
+
+At first Sakamata proceeded to repeat the popular saying regarding the
+doings of Eyes-in-the-hands. Various chiefs had visited the fort of the
+white man bringing presents in their hands, terrified of what might
+happen, yet, according to Sakamata, their fears had been dispelled
+immediately; for the wise new god had received them as brothers and had
+made offerings to them as was the custom for strangers to do. It was true,
+he admitted in cross-examination, that whole villages had been put to the
+sword and burned; but, he demanded, was not that the way of a mighty
+warrior to those who resisted him?
+
+Moreover, continued Sakamata, to fight him was death. His magic was such
+that no man could prevail against him. Had any doctor yet succeeded in
+making successful magic against the Invincible One? His magic was terrible
+to behold. Spirits which were imprisoned in houses of trees (boxes) spoke
+and sang according to their tribe.
+
+“Clk!” commented Zalu Zako incredulously.
+
+“These words are as the wind in the trees at night speaking to girls,”
+commented Marufa slowly. “What man hath beheld those things with his own
+eyes?”
+
+Deliberately Sakamata tapped snuff, inhaled it with relish, meticulously,
+that not one grain was lost upon his white caterpillar moustache, and said
+indifferently:
+
+“Even he who sits before you.”
+
+“Eh!”
+
+Another point was scored. But both Zalu Zako and Marufa regarded him as
+one who, having had dealings with the devil and yet had emerged safely,
+was to be suspected of some ghastly pact. After a calculated pause
+Sakamata continued nonchalantly:
+
+“There is no magic like unto Eyes-in-the-hands, the Mighty One. A great
+fort hath he made upon the hill of thy grandfather (MFunya MPopo), O Zalu
+Zako, girded with a great palisade, around which walk ever the red devils
+in uniform, each one of whom hath a gun with seven voices. And peering
+through that palisade, like a terrible black leopard from his lair, are
+the monster coughing devils. Eh! who are they who can withstand them?”
+
+“Eh!” echoed his audience with lively memories of the “coughing devils.”
+
+“And he hath a mighty hut made from the white man’s cloth of colour like
+to the forest full of things to make magic. Seated upon his chair like
+unto a man plucking bananas, the eyes upon his hands and in his head gleam
+so fiercely that water is made within a man. He who dares to look sees not
+only Eyes-in-the-hands, but his two souls, even as thou seest thine own
+two souls staring at thee with the frightened eyes that are thine!”
+
+“Ehh!”
+
+This time a genuine belly grunt was elicited, and even Marufa moved
+uneasily.
+
+“Thou hast been bewitched,” he added to mask his astonishment. “For a man
+may see his own soul in any pool, but never two souls!”
+
+“Even is it as I have told thee, O son of MTungo,” asserted Sakamata.
+
+Sakamata discovered the use of snuff again to be necessary. He watched
+covertly the repressed excitement in the eyes of Zalu Zako.
+
+“And what said the great magician unto thee?” Marufa demanded to cover his
+discomfort.
+
+“He spoke white words as a warrior should,” said Sakamata. “He gave words
+which told me that he was but a small wizard. He made my eyes to see the
+soul of a greater god than he, who was there and yet was not there; for at
+the touch of his magic hand with many eyes, behold! there were two more
+souls of the god which returned even as I looked.”
+
+“Ehh! A greater god than he?” demanded Zalu Zako, with a flicker of the
+white of his eyes.
+
+“Even as I have said, a greater god who is king of all the white man’s
+countries in the sea, who eats up those whom he pleases. Yet, even though
+he may bewitch with one of his eyes, did he speak softly to Yagombi, the
+son of Bagazaan, and Zalayan, the son of Kilmanyana, who were with me,
+bidding us to tell our brethren that if they would not acknowledge the
+true king that then he would eat us up, even as he ate up the
+Unmentionable One. But to those who would submit and make due tribute,
+would he protect in peace from the white men who, fleeing from the wrath
+of the great god, would soon come to eat up our country like the locusts.”
+
+“Eh! ehh! white men as the locusts!”
+
+“Thus he spoke and bade us to go forth and tell our brethren.”
+
+This was a wholly new notion and proportionally serious if true. But
+Marufa, recovering from the first shock, wrapped himself in his
+professional cloak of omniscient indifference as he recollected that
+Sakamata was an unfrocked priest of the craft. The group took snuff
+sternly until Sakamata, having accomplished his mission, deemed it wise to
+retire to allow the suggestive ideas to germinate. So gravely he arose and
+departed from the hut of Zalu Zako and went under the patronage of Yabolo
+to another compound where, to a group of the most disaffected chiefs,
+including MYalu, he repeated nearly word for word the same harangue.
+
+In the minds of Zalu Zako and Marufa the report of Sakamata had been
+exceedingly disquieting. Marufa began to wonder whether he had not better
+make terms with the new god before worse came to the worst in the form of
+white men like locusts, a menace fraught with dire possibilities which
+were based upon the rumours which every native had heard of the ways of
+white men in bulk: to the Wongolo merely vague stories from the north of
+the conquest of the Sudan by the British. Marufa’s ambitions in the craft
+were almost submerged in the dread that, wizard though he was, he would
+have small chance of distinction and power among a race of wizards. To
+Zalu Zako, although the prospect of unlimited white men swooping upon them
+was terrifying, his semi-conscious mind was rather occupied with Bakuma
+than with affairs of state which seemed merely to exist to torment lovers.
+However he, too, was sufficiently impressed to consider seriously the
+advisability of submitting before it was too late; the motivating
+principle of the scheme was an idea which suggested that, in some
+indefinable way, such action might lead to the avoidance of the ban of
+godhood and thus to the reinstatement of Bakuma in the realm of
+possibilities.
+
+To Bakahenzie the report was more alarming than to the others, inasmuch as
+it appeared to portend the irretrievable loss of his power. He saw the
+effect upon their minds, the inclination to yield to the new conqueror,
+which, of course, would mean the last of his followers being swept away in
+the crowd like dry leaves in the wind. But more than the others he
+suspected the motives of Sakamata, the man whom he had unfrocked. Arguing
+in terms of his own mental processes he saw correctly enough that Sakamata
+was surely playing for himself, and guessed equally truly that Sakamata
+would get, or imagined that he would get, many rewards, political as well
+as in kind, for his services as jackal to the white man. But he listened
+and said no word for, or against, him. He was astute enough never to make
+a move until he had, or thought that he had, all the moves of the game
+worked out. Marufa was just as wily; he related the news given by Sakamata
+in a voice which gave no hint by tone or word what any of his opinions
+might be. Then, as they sat like graven images, supremely indifferent to
+the doings of Sakamata or aught else, entered the warrior bearing
+greetings from Birnier to Zalu Zako.
+
+Immediately Zalu Zako, to whose less skilled mind in intrigue this
+succession of world-shaking events was bewildering, feared that already
+the plague of white men like locusts had commenced. But when he learned
+that the white man was alone and was Infunyana, the only white man whom he
+had ever met, he perceived vaguely some remote prospect of achieving his
+desires. Almost eagerly, for a native, he commanded the messenger to
+summon the white man to his presence.
+
+To Bakahenzie the unexpected arrival of another white was an unforeseen
+potentiality of force which might be utilized to his own benefit; so
+thought Marufa, which was in effect exactly the same reaction as Zalu
+Zako’s. Therefore Bakahenzie immediately protested upon the ground that no
+stranger could be allowed to approach the Son-of-the-Snake, or even the
+village, who had not been purified according to custom. When Zalu Zako
+demurred he retorted:
+
+“Hath not one white man who was permitted to enter our country without the
+demon being exorcised wreaked disaster upon us? Wouldst thou then destroy
+us utterly?”
+
+Zalu Zako was silent. Much as he would have desired to browbeat
+Bakahenzie, much as his confidence in the powers of the chief witch-doctor
+had waned in his estimation, yet there remained sufficient to overawe him
+when the matter was put to a crucial test. Bakahenzie would, so he stated,
+go himself to see the new white man, thus unselfishly taking upon his
+person the whole risk of the lasting magic of a stranger unpurified. But
+Marufa had no intention of allowing Bakahenzie to obtain a monopoly of
+this possible new ally. Unlike Zalu Zako he was not burdened with awe and
+had confidence in his own magic to overcome any evil that Bakahenzie might
+seek to work against him. So when he announced that he would accompany
+Bakahenzie, that distressed wizard was too conscious of his dwindling
+prestige to object.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 15
+
+
+Just after sun-up next morning as Birnier was seated at the door of his
+tent reading his _Melancholy_ and drinking his coffee, a startled “clk”
+caused him to glance round. He saw Bakuma rise suddenly from the fire and
+disappear. The next moment materialized out of the miasma of the morning
+the figures of Bakahenzie and Marufa, followed by a file of warriors.
+
+Portentously Bakahenzie stalked to the fire and squatted down without even
+a murmur to Mungongo busy with the breakfast. Bakahenzie remembered
+Infunyana very well, but nevertheless designedly Birnier ignored him in
+return. So they sat, the two wizards taking snuff with grave concern
+almost at the feet of the white who continued to smoke and to read.
+
+The sign boded ill, for the insistence upon the punctilious etiquette
+inferred that Bakahenzie was disposed to be suspicious, if not directly
+hostile. And indeed the warriors’ description of the magic of Moonspirit,
+vide Mungongo, had made Bakahenzie uneasy.
+
+After a full half-hour Bakahenzie, as if beaten in this solemn game,
+turned gravely and saluted the white. Birnier looked down from his chair
+with the affectation of just having noticed that some one was there. After
+a pause he returned the greeting, a little point which Bakahenzie
+thoroughly appreciated. Birnier had learned that according to Mungongo and
+the warrior, Zalu Zako had not yet been anointed king-god; therefore that
+Bakahenzie evidently intended to keep the young man in the background.
+
+After preliminaries, Birnier inquired after Zalu Zako and informed
+Bakahenzie that he had journeyed expressly to see him. Bakahenzie ignored
+the question and began to talk about Eyes-in-the-hands, demanding to know
+whether Birnier was his brother.
+
+“Nay,” said Birnier, “Eyes-in-the-hands is not of the same tribe as
+Moonspirit,” for he sedulously followed up the title which Mungongo had
+given him. “Eyes-in-the-hands comes from a country twelve moons distant
+from my country.”
+
+Marufa squatting beside him grunted; Bakahenzie took snuff nonchalantly as
+if he did not believe a word.
+
+“Eyes-in-the-hands is a mighty magician in his own country,” said
+Bakahenzie in the form of an assertion.
+
+“The magic of Eyes-in-the-hands to the magic of Moonspirit,” stated
+Birnier, “is as water to the beer of the banana.”
+
+“Eyes-in-the-hands,” remarked Bakahenzie indifferently, “hath magic to
+make the souls of man to be seen by all.”
+
+“Those are but the souls of the belly and body, but Moonspirit can enchant
+so that the spirit of the head of man be seen at night,” boasted Birnier,
+wondering what trick of zu Pfeiffer’s had produced the effect.
+
+“Eyes-in-the-hands,” insisted Bakahenzie, “hath a spirit in a piece of a
+tree which cries or laughs, sings or talks to his magic.”
+
+“Moonspirit,” retorted Birnier (thinking “Gramophone, but I can go one
+better, my friend”), “hath also a spirit in a piece of tree who will speak
+words of wisdom unto thee in thine own tongue, who will repeat that which
+is said unto him in thy tongue or in my tongue, who will speak words of
+wisdom even unto thee.”
+
+Bakahenzie seemed outmatched in the boasting tournament. He tapped snuff
+woodenly. Marufa scratched his skinny ribs thoughtfully. Then Bakahenzie
+remarked:
+
+“He that hath not been cleansed may not look upon the Son-of-the-Snake.”
+
+“He that hath not been anointed need have no fear of the evil eye.”
+
+“Hath not one who was not cleansed entered and cast evil upon the tribe?”
+demanded Bakahenzie.
+
+“If the fence is not strong the leopard will enter.”
+
+“If the leopard be not strong and swift indeed may he not be killed in the
+hut?” inquired Bakahenzie.
+
+“If a leopard and a wild-cat break in, then wilt thou not kill the leopard
+first?”
+
+“Even so,” retorted Bakahenzie; “then is water stronger than beer, even as
+the beer does reveal?”
+
+Birnier nearly smiled in recognition of the hit.
+
+“Nay, does not beer make the fool to talk foolishness? Dost thou then cast
+away the banana? Does not one talk foolishness also who is sick and yet
+discardeth good medicine, because he feareth to poison his belly?”
+
+“Even so,” said Bakahenzie obstinately, “does the sick man exorcise the
+good medicine lest an enemy hath made magic thereupon?”
+
+“Then,” said Birnier, whose only objection to the ceremony was the delay
+and the messiness, “let the good medicine be purified.”
+
+Bakahenzie grunted and covertly took stock of the tent and equipment
+visible. Upon the pile of cases stacked just inside the tent his eyes
+rested some time, but he would not make any inquiry. Marufa, too, was
+occupied in the same manner. Bakahenzie was recalling the previous meeting
+with Birnier in the village of MFunya MPopo—of that day when Birnier had
+not made any attempt to impress the native mind with “magic” other than
+the ordinary “miracles” in the routine of a white man’s life.
+
+“When the Son-of-the-Snake,” inquired Birnier, who had learned as much of
+the hagiocracy as Mungongo knew, “hath taken up the Burden, wilt thou then
+drive Eyes-in-the-hands from the country?”
+
+Bakahenzie slowly withdrew his eyes from the fascinating case as far as
+Birnier’s booted foot.
+
+“Hast thou, white man, the magic twig that makes fire?” he demanded.
+
+“Even so.”
+
+Birnier took a box of matches from his pocket and struck one. Bakahenzie
+and Marufa watched him solemnly. Then a lean bronze hand was outstretched.
+Birnier gave him the box. Slowly and gravely Bakahenzie, the chief
+witch-doctor, extracted a match, turned it over and over, smelt it, tasted
+it, regarded it, and struck it on the top of the box. It was a safety
+match, so nothing happened. Birnier, without a vestige of a smile,
+instructed him to strike it only upon the black piece at the side. That
+impressed Bakahenzie and Marufa. The former tried again as directed and
+succeeded. Holding the match too near the head he burned the quick of the
+nail, but not a muscle quivered. He would not even admit that the white
+man’s devil stick had bitten him. But he was still more impressed.
+
+At a sign from Birnier, Mungongo brought from the tent a nickel-plated
+revolver and cartridges, which he placed at the feet of Bakahenzie without
+comment. Apparently Bakahenzie did not notice the action or the gift. He
+held out the matches to return to the white man. Birnier requested him to
+keep them. He wrapped up the box in his loin-cloth and fell to further
+contemplation of the cases. He was cogitating. The value of this white had
+suddenly increased. Evidently he could make small magic. Perhaps he could
+make as much big magic as Eyes-in-the-hands. Who knew? But then if that
+was so he could make greater magic than he, Bakahenzie, could. Bakahenzie
+saw that if Moonspirit were such a great magician he would be difficult or
+impossible to control. Naturally Bakahenzie could only understand his own
+motives in others. His problem now was to discover some means by which he
+could control Moonspirit, make of him a familiar to work to his own ends.
+Why was he so insistent upon seeing Zalu Zako? Bakahenzie became more and
+more suspicious. He saw another reason why the white man must be kept away
+from Zalu Zako. To refuse to purify him would give a valid excuse that he
+may not look upon the Son-of-the-Snake. But he did not wish to displease
+him; also Marufa could perform the purification.
+
+Again Birnier repeated the question regarding the overthrow of
+Eyes-in-the-hands. Bakahenzie took snuff, regarded the revolver lying at
+his feet idly, and deigned to reply.
+
+“When that which must be hath come to pass, then shall the children of the
+Snake eat up their enemies as a lizard eats flies.”
+
+“And what is that which must come to pass?”
+
+Bakahenzie sat silent awhile, slightly shocked at the directness of the
+question; then as if to humour the white man, he replied:
+
+“When the Bridegroom hath taken the Bride.”
+
+The ceremony of purification could not take place until the following day,
+because such things may not be hurried; and moreover, various potent
+charms had to be sent for to the native village. Meanwhile Bakahenzie
+squatted by the fire, contemplating the nickel-plated revolver and affairs
+of policy, and opposite him sat the meditative Marufa.
+
+From the hour of the monkey, Bakahenzie, unconscious of the small face and
+anxious eyes watching the camp from the tangle of green, was busy
+muttering spells over a calabash containing a magic concoction composed of
+the entrails of a white goat, certain herbs and the eyes of a black
+wild-cat. When the roof of the forest was a patterned ceiling against an
+incandescent glow, Birnier stripped to the waist, and submitted himself to
+the hands of the wizard who, after scattering the feathers of a scarlet
+parrot into the calabash, smeared the left breast, the forehead and the
+right arm of the white man, to the accompaniment of an incantation. These
+insignia and specifics he must not remove for three suns; nor could he be
+permitted to look upon the semi-divine Zalu Zako until whatever evil
+influence his foreign body might possess should have been exorcised by
+this powerful medicine.
+
+To sit around half nude in such heat was no arduous undertaking, but to
+sleep without rubbing off the concoction was another matter; also the
+odour thereof was not pleasing to the nostrils of a white man. But Birnier
+accomplished the feat by smoking excessively and by marking with a pencil
+the various nostrums recommended by the amiable Burton, many of which were
+hardly less disagreeable than Doctor Bakahenzie’s prescription.
+
+That worthy’s slaves had erected a hut for him nigh to the tent in the
+door of which he squatted, usually with Marufa beside him, throughout the
+day, with ever a contemplative eye upon his victim, an eye which Birnier
+was sure was eagerly seeking some excuse to plead that he had
+inadvertently rendered the magic impotent, and must accordingly have the
+ceremony repeated.
+
+Amused by the ridiculous sight he presented, plastered over with this
+filth, Birnier made Mungongo, whom he had taught to operate a camera, take
+a photograph of him, which would entertain Lucille, as well as be of
+scientific interest. Bakahenzie and Marufa watched this performance from
+the fire with amazement, for they imagined that the camera was some kind
+of gun. When they heard the click, they grunted as if expecting the white
+man to fall dead. Birnier of course knew the universal native belief in
+the picture being the soul, or one of the souls. He summoned Bakahenzie
+and Marufa and showed them a photograph which, after some difficulty, they
+recognised as Mungongo.
+
+“Eh,” grunted a warrior, “indeed is Mungongo the slave of the white man,
+for hath he not imprisoned his soul?”
+
+Mungongo laughed, yet he believed in the superstition as implicitly as any
+of his compatriots, for said he:
+
+“It is a wise man who hath that which is his always within his hand, even
+as Moonspirit hath the soul of his favourite wife with him always, so that
+she may not be unfaithful unto him.”
+
+“Eh, he is wiser than the Banana Eater!” grunted the warrior in
+admiration.
+
+Birnier’s training to control his features was strained in the effort not
+to express surprise. He could not imagine from what Mungongo had derived
+this astonishing statement, until he recollected that the boy had seen a
+photograph of Lucille among his papers.
+
+After this successful demonstration of his sophistication, Mungongo was
+anxious that Moonspirit give an exhibition of his magic to dumbfound the
+chief witch-doctor, desiring most ardently to work the gramophone, to
+operate which he had also learned. But on reflection, Birnier decided that
+it was not his policy to make his thunder too cheap.
+
+Each evening as the last subtle violet quivered in the trees had Bakuma
+glided from the shelter of the undergrowth under the flap of Birnier’s
+tent, where she had lain until the first tint of dawn on the foliage of
+the forest. Birnier had wished her to leave for some village until
+Bakahenzie had left the camp, but Bakuma had frantically pleaded to
+remain, knowing that the craft was seeking her throughout the country
+since Bakahenzie’s latest interview with mighty Tarum.
+
+But upon the third day as Birnier was seated reading philosophically at
+his tent door, the inevitable happened. A loud outcry arose and from the
+tangle of creepers started the lithe figure of Bakuma, who darted past him
+into the tent. For a moment there was silence. But Birnier guessed what
+the matter was. Bakahenzie emerged from the wall of green and cried out in
+a loud voice. Instantly the warriors around leaped to their feet, and
+broke out into great clamour.
+
+Mungongo, busy with the cooking pots, rushed to Birnier’s side,
+gesticulating wildly. Inside the tent crouched Bakuma. Towards Birnier
+advanced Bakahenzie and the warriors, whose dilated eyes and spears in
+their hands betokened that Bakahenzie had stirred their deepest feelings
+of terror and murder. Birnier smoked placidly, neither stirring nor
+permitting a sign of their presence to cross his features.
+
+Mungongo, startled out of his confidence in Moonspirit, excitedly bade
+Bakuma go forth as Bakahenzie, stopping in front of the white man, broke
+into a harangue, bidding him to give up Bakuma whose sacrilege in breaking
+the magic circle, as he had said, had brought the terrible
+Eyes-in-the-hands upon them; that the welfare of the tribe depended upon
+her sacrifice to the angered Unmentionable One even as she had been
+doomed; and threatening that they would take the insolent white man, whose
+magic was as water, and sacrifice him as well, as was desired by the
+spirit of Tarum.
+
+The longer he spoke the more excited he grew. Motivated by the sudden
+conviction that the sacrifice of Bakuma, whose action he had foretold so
+successfully, and the slaughter of the white would really restore to him
+his repute and remove at the same time the problem of controlling a
+superior magician who threatened to become his rival, Bakahenzie began to
+work himself up into the necessary state of prophetic hysteria. Cowering
+against the camp-bed Bakuma whimpered with terror; Mungongo incoherently
+begged Moonspirit to give up the girl.
+
+Not a muscle moved upon Birnier’s face; nor even did his eyes turn in the
+direction of the menacing crowd who with uplifted spears joggled each
+other around Bakahenzie. Birnier knew that it was a supreme test of nerve;
+knew that any attempt to snatch a rifle or a movement of any sort, would
+precipitate action on their side. He had no intention of surrendering the
+girl to a hideous fate, and also he saw beyond the incident that if
+Bakahenzie were to triumph over him now, not only would his prestige with
+the natives be gone for ever, but that his fate would be surely sealed.
+Slowly, exaggeratedly, as if he were alone, he killed a mosquito upon his
+bare right breast and lighted his pipe anew.
+
+Bakahenzie advanced a step followed by the warriors. His voice had reached
+the falsetto timbre. Mungongo lost his head entirely and seizing Bakuma,
+began to drag her out of the tent. Birnier turned his head leisurely
+towards him. Said he very loudly:
+
+“It is not seemly to rape a woman in my presence, O Mungongo. Let her be,
+for I will buy thee one.”
+
+Mungongo ceased to pull at Bakuma’s arms and stared as if paralysed.
+Birnier saw the eyes switch in a terrified glance at the warriors behind
+him and heard Bakahenzie’s yell to kill.
+
+For one moment he thought that indeed the end had come. Before he could
+reach the rifle a dozen spears would be in his back. He sat motionless,
+the _Anatomy of Melancholy_ still in his hand, and watched the gauge of
+Mungongo’s eyes. Bakahenzie’s voice rose to a screech. Suddenly Birnier
+wheeled round in his chair, snatched up the pencil and staring hard at
+them, began to sketch faces on the open page of the book.
+
+At the sight the warriors ceased their shuffling dance, were arrested with
+the spears in their hands in as many poses. Bakahenzie’s scream was
+stoppered as if by a hand upon his mouth. In the silence their heavy
+breathing rivalled the twitter and hum of the forest. Birnier sketched
+furiously, glaring portentously from the group to the paper. Bakahenzie
+took a step forward, a nervous step, and yelled, “Kill!” but his voice
+released those of the warriors. In one loud shout they cried:
+
+“He bewitches us! He bewitches us!”
+
+As Birnier bent his head to make another magic mark upon the magic book he
+heard the rush of feet.
+
+“They have fled!” squealed Mungongo, still clutching Bakuma.
+
+Birnier sighed and dropped his pencil as he glanced up. Bakahenzie and the
+warriors had disappeared, but by the fire squatted Marufa unconcernedly
+scratching his skinny ribs.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 16
+
+
+Changed was the City of the Snake, the place of kings. Upon the site where
+had been the hive of huts wrapped in the green arms of the banana
+plantation, laboured under the incandescent sun gangs of prisoners under
+armed guards upon the building of larger huts laid out in streets, broad
+and geometrical, lined with correct ditches for drainage. Around the
+outskirts here and there remained charred posts.
+
+Upon the hill of MKoffo was a palisade enclosing the barracks of two
+companies of the askaris and two guns. No brown cones peeped like
+candle-snuffers above the sea of green fronds upon the hills of the tombs
+of kings, but from the sacred hill of Kawa Kendi commanding the approach
+to the valley rose, black against the sky, the triangle of the roof frame
+of a large bungalow; around the crown of the hill was a stout palisade
+through which grinned in the sun the muzzles of a Nordenfeldt and a
+pom-pom; and outside upon a levee strutted rigidly four sentries night and
+day, a perpetual reminder to the passer-by below of efficient vigilance.
+
+Within was a methodical formation of round huts dominated by a square one;
+at the far end, and in solitary grandeur beneath the Imperial flag upon a
+roughly-hewn flag-pole, was a green marquee tent, the temporary quarters
+of the Kommandant.
+
+Under the tent verandah at the rear where were his private quarters sat zu
+Pfeiffer with a towel tucked around his neck upon which was scattered
+inch-lengths of hair. Sergeant Schultz sheared deftly with clippers like a
+reaper in a field of corn. When he had completed the final trimming behind
+the ears, he stood aside with the air of an artist viewing his work.
+
+“Is that pleasing to your Excellence?”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer ran a hand around his skull.
+
+“Ya, that is better and cooler, sergeant.”
+
+With a professional air Schultz whisked around the Kommandant’s neck with
+a light brush, untucked the towel and brushed him down. As zu Pfeiffer
+rose Bakunjala appeared with a broom of small branches and a pan and
+proceeded to sweep the earthen floor. Schultz neatly folded up the towel,
+placed it on the chair, and stood at attention.
+
+“Is that all, Excellence?”
+
+“Ya, sergeant. Take a cigar.”
+
+“Thank you, Excellence!”
+
+The sergeant selected one, saluted and departed. Zu Pfeiffer lounged in a
+basket chair. The usual water bag and syphon were suspended at his elbow
+above sparklet and brandy bottles, and a box of cigars. Around him on the
+floor was a litter of papers, envelopes and documents. On his wrist
+sparkled the jewelled bracelet and between fingers, one of which bore the
+large diamond which had earned him his native name, was an official
+document bearing the Imperial Eagles.
+
+As he read he smiled and patted his left moustache approvingly. Officially
+the authorities would not comply with his request made before leaving
+Ingonya for two more companies of askaris with white non-commissioned
+officers and two more guns; but unofficially he was informed that they
+would be supplied later and that the authorities were pleased. He picked
+up a private letter and re-read it. Then he smiled again, a sneering twist
+remaining at the corner of the mouth. Always he was informed by
+sympathetic friends and an agency of the whereabouts and doings of
+Lucille. On the 1st of August she had been due at Wiesbaden.
+
+He threw the letter on the table with an irritable gesture and scowled as
+he drank. The arrival of the mail always brought vivid regrets for the
+glories and comforts he was missing by being condemned to war with “dirty
+swines of niggers.” That was part of the penalty he had had to pay for
+being a gentleman in a land of dollar grubbers, yet a matter to be written
+up against the account of Lucille, the entzückend Lucille. He must have
+been verrückt, he reflected savagely. The delicate lips softened in
+ludicrous contrast to the brutal outline of a cropped skull. The blare of
+a trumpet disturbed his reveries, reveries which were apt to rankle until
+among his satellites went the word that the Eater-of-men was possessed by
+the demon once more.
+
+After he had elegantly finished a small cup of café cognac and a
+cigarette, Sergeant Schultz strutted up, saluted, and at a nod from zu
+Pfeiffer handed a document to the Kommandant, a roster of the chiefs who
+had submitted with the approximate number of their followers. Officially
+there were five chiefs with some six thousand men who had nominally
+accepted the new ruler, each one of whom had to leave as hostage for his
+fidelity a son, who lived under guard in the village beneath the guns.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer needed the extra companies and white men to establish stations
+at various points with the object of gradually extending the sphere of
+military occupation. Zu Pfeiffer left nothing, as far as he could foresee,
+to chance; his maxim was to conserve his force to the utmost, to attain
+his objective at the least possible cost in men and material. The policy
+of terrorisation was based on the reasoning that eventually
+schrecklichkeit saved both the conqueror and the conquered bloodshed and
+trouble; for if the enemy were not so impressed with the fact that all
+resistance was utterly useless, he would resort to the sporadic risings
+which would entail more slaughter on both sides. Zu Pfeiffer, acting on
+the teachings of the German masters, sought to make war psychologically as
+well as militarily, economically as well as geographically. Hence his
+dramatic step in the overthrow of the idol in person, and the care with
+which he planned to impress each chief and native with his omnipotence and
+magic. This system of the application of political science as well as of
+military science, of course, was sound, save for a temperamental error:
+the lack of sufficient imagination to realize the unknown quantity of
+chance, the inevitable mistake of military scientists who are loath to
+admit the artist to their counsels, exemplified by men of genius, such as
+Napoleon and Leonardo da Vinci, who were both mathematicians and artists.
+
+In zu Pfeiffer’s case, as in others of his type, the motivating principle
+was not bourgeois greed of material gain for himself; gain he could afford
+to despise in his wealth; such would have been contrary to the code of a
+gentleman. While he had not hesitated for a moment to destroy his rival,
+Birnier, he would not touch with one finger any of his goods; for that
+reason had he given permission to the corporal to take Birnier’s
+equipment, so that he would not even be contaminated by the possession of
+them, a temperamental error again which had led to Birnier’s escape.
+
+The driving power in his caste and tribe was love of power to an excess
+masked with portentous solemnity under the cloak of benefiting this people
+and the peoples of the world; forcing them to have broad streets and
+sanitary arrangements, compelling them to laugh, to sing, and to be happy
+whether they would or no: an urge which is the curse of the world, the
+impulse to interfere in other folk’s affairs, to teach them, to make them
+to know the true God, the right way of living, the right way of doing
+everything from the rising of the first sun of consciousness to that happy
+crack of doom when our planet tries to enforce its orbit upon some other
+planet.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer pinched a cigar tip, lighted it meticulously and considered
+the roster.
+
+“Sergeant, this man—what’s the animal’s name? Kalomato—has his son
+surrendered himself?”
+
+“No, Excellence. The man says that he has fled the country.”
+
+“Where does he come from?”
+
+“The neighbourhood, Excellence.”
+
+“That means that his son is with the rebels?”
+
+“Probably not, Excellence. He is very young, they say.”
+
+“That does not matter. Sequester all the chief’s property. If he won’t
+give it up let the askaris deal with him. If that doesn’t work, have him
+shot.”
+
+“Excellence!”
+
+For such obstinate cases zu Pfeiffer had fallen upon the custom of serving
+two purposes by handing over the victim to the mercies of his askaris
+which whetted their sadistic appetites and usually secured the desired
+revelation of the whereabouts of the hidden ivory or other goods under the
+torture of the burning feet, and divers other ingenious methods. Of late
+this practice had proved so satisfactory that the mere threat was usually
+sufficient.
+
+“This man,” continued zu Pfeiffer tapping the roster with his long nail,
+“his son is here?”
+
+“Ja, Excellence.”
+
+“Has he paid the tithe due?”
+
+“No, Excellence. He refuses.”
+
+“Have the son shot.”
+
+“Excellence!”
+
+“Any report this morning?”
+
+“Ja, Excellence. A Wamungo spy brings news that a white man entered the
+country from the south.”
+
+“Description?”
+
+“They say he is a trader, Excellence, coming from the Kivu direction, but
+the savage cannot give any satisfactory description. It is the first white
+he has seen, he says.”
+
+“He won’t be the last!” snapped zu Pfeiffer with a twitch of the left
+sentry moustache. “Saunders, possibly. If so he should be here shortly to
+report. Well?”
+
+“The King and the few men left with him are in hiding, Excellence, in
+dense forest. They are demoralized and quarrel among themselves. Many are
+coming to surrender, for they say that you, Excellence, have eaten their
+god.”
+
+“Ach!” said zu Pfeiffer with satisfaction. “What did I tell you,
+sergeant?”
+
+“Your Excellence was correct in every respect.”
+
+“Um! Pity I can’t spare a company. That would settle them before they have
+a chance to reorganize. Ach, but they haven’t the sense, the animals, to
+do that.… Parade, sergeant.”
+
+Schultz saluted.
+
+“Ready, Excellence.”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer rose, took up his gold-mounted sjambok, and the two walked
+around the big marquee to the front where between the orderly lines of
+huts those askaris not on duty were drawn up for inspection. The sergeant
+barked. Bayonets flashed as they presented arms. Another bark and they
+ported arms. Zu Pfeiffer walked down the line inspecting buttons, bolts,
+and rifles as meticulously as he had lighted his cigar. The fifteenth
+barrel he thrust away petulantly and flicked the askari’s face with his
+sjambok. The muscles of the man’s face twitched as the blow came and the
+eyes bulged, but he did not flinch.
+
+“Twenty-five, sergeant!”
+
+“Excellence!”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer passed on. When the inspection was finished he stood rigidly
+smoking, coldly watching Schultz dismiss the men. Then he stalked down the
+hill with Schultz slightly in the rear, followed by a big black Munyamwezi
+sergeant-major, towards the opposite hill, of MKoffo. But at the bottom of
+where there were some half-constructed huts he paused.
+
+“The women, sergeant?”
+
+“The large hut, Excellence. Two hundred as ordered.”
+
+“No women of chiefs?”
+
+“No, Excellence. Those attending on the hostages are housed apart.”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer strode towards the hut indicated which stood near to the edge
+of a rased banana plantation. Two sentries without the fence presented
+arms stiffly and remained immobile. Within the compound were some sixty or
+more young girls, mostly having the black complexion of the slave type.
+The chattering and giggling ceased as the tall form of the dreaded
+Eyes-in-the-hands stood in the gate. A slight smile flirted his lips.
+
+From the deep violet of the hut interior darted a young girl into the
+sunlight. At the sight of the white men she poised on her toes, one foot
+forward and hands extended as if about to whirl into a dance, staring with
+the curiosity of a fawn.
+
+Tall for a native maid, the light bronze of her immature breasts revealed
+that she was of the Wongolo ruling caste. Around her slender neck was a
+circlet of bright blue beads. As zu Pfeiffer stiffened and stared she
+wheeled and fled into the hut.
+
+“Gott im Himmel!” he muttered. “The body of Lucille in Carmen!”
+
+“Who is that woman?” he demanded of Schultz.
+
+“I don’t know, Excellence,” replied the sergeant and spoke to the black
+sergeant-major. “She is the daughter of the chief Bamana, Excellence,
+visiting these other women. I will have her removed.”
+
+“I will not have the sense of caste abused,” said zu Pfeiffer, gazing into
+the hut. “That is not policy. Have her sent to the fort, sergeant, and
+placed under guard.”
+
+“Excellence!”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer swung on his heels and strode out and up the hill of MKoffo.
+The inspection was more hurried than usual that day. Then he returned to
+the hill of Kawa Kendi to hold court in the big marquee tent. After a
+lunch and a long siesta in the heat of the noonday he strolled around the
+village superintending the rasing of huts and the staking out of the new
+village which was to rise upon the ashes of the old one, a concrete
+example of the wisdom and power of the new lord, Eyes-in-the-hands.
+
+Under squads of askaris gangs of prisoners, criminal and political, bound
+by a light chain about each neck, laboured at clearing away charred stumps
+and debris, while other natives portered in saplings and loads of grass,
+each village which had submitted sending its allotted quota.
+
+Trumpets blared. The keepers of the coughing monsters made magical dances
+with their fire sticks up on the hill of Kawa Kendi. The black, white and
+red totem of the conqueror fluttered to earth like a wounded bird. Night
+closed like a black lid placed upon the steaming cauldron of the sun.
+
+After dinner zu Pfeiffer sat in his private tent at the rear of the
+marquee drinking brandy. Upon a camp table covered by a violet cloth was
+the portrait in the ivory frame at which he gazed as he smoked. The blue
+eyes and the feminine lips softened as sentimentally as any sex-starved
+Puritan virgin; perhaps not in spite of, but because of, a mediæval code
+as senseless as the native system of tabu, for natural emotions suppressed
+find an outlet in some form.
+
+From outside came the twitter and hum of the forest, the rhythm of frogs,
+the dim bleating of a goat and the distant wailing of the women’s death
+lament. Zu Pfeiffer drank and smoked and stared at the portrait in the
+ivory frame. Once he slapped irritably at a mosquito which had escaped the
+double net over the tent door. A wave of emotion seemed to well within
+him. He looked as if he were about to blubber as leaning over the table he
+peered intently at the pictured face and whispered:
+
+     “Nur einmal noch möcht ich dich sehen,
+     Und sinken vor dir aufs Knie
+     Und sterbend zu dir sprechen:
+     ‘Madam, ich liebe Sie!’ …
+
+“Lucille! … Ach, Lucille!”
+
+He drew himself back with a jerk, drank his brandy at a gulp and called
+angrily:
+
+“Bakunjala!”
+
+The flutter of sand preceded a gasped:
+
+“Bwana!”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer gave him an irritable command. Four minutes elapsed during
+which he gazed steadily at the portrait. He turned at the slither of feet.
+Bright blue beads glittered in the lamplight as the daughter of Bamana
+sank upon her heels.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 17
+
+
+In his favourite seat by the door of his hut sat Zalu Zako waiting as
+patiently as only a native can to see the white man, symbol of a
+subconscious hope. The fact that Bakuma had not been found by the
+emissaries of the bloodthirsty Bakahenzie evoked a sensation of pleasure
+which was expressed merely in a feeling of well-being. Of her in person he
+thought consciously little; his attitude was much as a white lover who
+might discover his loved one to be a sister, and hence, by consanguinity,
+barred from him for ever, a terrible fact of fate; but, lacking the
+sentimental inhibition, Zalu Zako did not disguise the death wish because
+she was denied him. Desires are simpler in the savage, yet the driving
+motives are the same as in the “cultured” ex-animal overlaid with
+generations of inhibitions—tabus—which form complex strata making the
+truth more and more difficult to recognise. From that very obfuscation of
+motives arises civilisation.
+
+Then from the blue depths of the humid green came a great outcry, answered
+by the ululation of the women in warning.
+
+“Eyes-in-the-hands!” grunted Zalu Zako, voicing the perpetual fear of the
+camp, as he leaped for his gun which Moonspirit had sent him.
+
+Above the medley of sounds arose an articulate shout:
+
+“He has bewitched our souls! He has bewitched our souls!”
+
+Zalu Zako paused and listened; replaced the gun and squatted, resuming his
+pose of dignity before the first man made entrance. For a few moments the
+shrilling of the women and the wild jabber continued. Then entered a slave
+followed by a warrior who, excitedly falling upon his knees, gasped out:
+
+“He hath bewitched our souls! He hath bewitched our souls! Our spears were
+blunted by his magic! Our swords were turned by the wall of his soul! He
+is a mighty magician!”
+
+“Of whom speakest thou, fool?”
+
+As Zalu Zako put the question the tall figure of Bakahenzie stalked slowly
+into the courtyard. The warrior rose and fled at a command from Zalu Zako.
+Bakahenzie greeted him gravely and very elaborately took snuff in order to
+show how casual the matter was. When he had meticulously restored the cork
+of twisted leaves, he announced slowly:
+
+“As I have prophesied the breaking of the sacred circle has delivered us
+into the hands of the false magician, Eyes-in-the-hands. The daughter of
+Bakala is even now at the camp of the white man, whom they call
+Moonspirit.”
+
+“Ehh!” commented Zalu Zako.
+
+“The brother of Eyes-in-the-hands hath taken her in concubinage,”
+continued Bakahenzie.
+
+Zalu Zako made no response. Grimly approached Marufa and squatted beside
+them.
+
+“Even as I have prophesied,” commented Marufa, who never failed to seize
+an opportunity of suggestion.
+
+“I bade him render up the Bride of the Banana; but she hath bitten his
+soul in his sleep. He held her in his arms. He breathed upon her so that
+she would not obey. The magic of this brother of Eyes-in-the-hands hath
+indeed rotted the livers of our people, for they fled like young jackals.”
+
+“Eh!”
+
+Zalu Zako stared cautiously at the compound fence; Marufa regarded
+Bakahenzie’s left knee with interest. For fully five minutes no word was
+said. Then Bakahenzie portentously:
+
+“Tarum demands the brother of Eyes-in-the-hands, this Moonspirit, for if
+one be taken then will the other, Eyes-in-the-hands, wither away and the
+Unmentionable One will be revealed.”
+
+“Thou hast spoken!” assented Marufa.
+
+But Zalu Zako continued to stare blankly at the fence. His mind was aflame
+for Bakuma. Bakahenzie had no suspicion of his passion, yet the fear of
+his enmity acted like a douche of water in spite of the fact that the
+implicit faith in the doctors had been weakened. But disbelief was not
+positive enough to stimulate action. However, from the news of Bakuma’s
+proximity, he had gotten strength to doubt the efficacy of Bakuma’s
+sacrifice to restore the kingdom, a strength which prompted him to say:
+
+“Who is he that has said that Moonspirit be the twin of Eyes-in-the-hands?
+Enemies there are even among whites. If he be an enemy of
+Eyes-in-the-hands and he be a great magician, as they say, then through
+his magic may not Eyes-in-the-hands be slain?”
+
+“He hath but young words,” asserted Bakahenzie stonily.
+
+“But Mungongo, the son of Marula, saith that——”
+
+“Dost thou ask an infant to teach thee to hunt?” retorted Bakahenzie.
+
+“Doth a warrior ask his women to mend his wounds?” added Marufa, putting
+in a gentle reminder that Zalu Zako was merely a chief and not of the
+craft.
+
+“He hath been exorcised, let him be brought and put to the test before
+me,” persisted Zalu Zako.
+
+“That may not be,” objected Bakahenzie, “for thou art not yet anointed.”
+
+“But that which is necessary has not yet been done,” objected Zalu Zako
+obstinately. “If he have no magic and his heart be not white, then let him
+be doomed for the Feast of the Moon.” And gaining courage, added the royal
+phrase: “I have spoken.”
+
+The three sat motionless. The silence twittered and hummed. The shadows
+swelled. Bakahenzie rose slowly and stalked away through the compound.
+Zalu Zako watched his departure without remark or expression. After an
+interval, Marufa also went.
+
+Another person upon whom the news of the discovery had had a similar
+reaction was MYalu. Her proximity released the primitive desire to go
+forth and seize her. But such action was arrested by fear of the
+consequences from his fellows to whom the tabu was still real, and of the
+white man, Moonspirit. MYalu could never overcome the fiat of the
+witch-doctors while he remained with them. Yonder—his decision to go with
+Yabolo and Sakamata was clinched, but—he would take Bakuma with him.
+
+Straight to the hut of Bakahenzie, who seemed to be expecting him, stalked
+Marufa. Marufa squatted solemnly near to him. These catastrophic events
+had caused a general unrest which had weakened the discipline of
+superstition.
+
+There are two types of magicians: those who are partially conscious
+hypocrites, and those who are gulled by their own fakes; for he who makes
+magic must be ever ready with an explanation of failure and very ingenious
+in the making. The fool, believing in his own medicine, is as much
+astounded at failure as the victim is angry. Bakahenzie and Marufa
+belonged to the first class; yet being of their particular mental
+development they were possessed of beliefs just as deeply as the most
+credulous layman. That the wizard, personally, of his own individual power
+could slay an enemy by incantation they did not believe; but that the
+spirit of the Banana or of other inanimate objects could do so, they
+believed most profoundly. Their creed was a form of pure animism; the
+storms, the winds, the lightning, trees, rocks, rivers had separate and
+conscious souls; other inanimate objects not included in an arbitrary
+list, had unconscious souls, each and every one capable of doing mischief
+or of good; hence the essence of religion in the act of imploring the good
+offices of the most powerful spirits, or in moments of exasperation of
+threatening them with dire punishments. Their hypocrisy lay not in
+disbelief but in pretending to the people that their intercession with the
+gods was infallible; they knew only too well that the said gods would
+seldom incline an ear to the magician.
+
+Of course nearly every doctor had a slightly different dogma, usually
+based upon an incorrect deduction from a false premise. One doctor would
+place all his confidence in the spirit of the Banana—the most popular
+spirit; and another in the spirit of the river, because out of a dozen
+times that he had implored aid, five “miracles” at least had been
+vouchsafed, therefore, argued he, the spirit of the river is the true and
+most powerful god. The arguments of others were equally unsound as they
+were dominated by some hidden desire, much as reputable scientists, while
+rejecting phenomena accepted by the populace, cling fatuously to a belief
+in spooks in order to satisfy a subconscious desire for immortality, fear
+of death.
+
+Hence the confusion in the heart of Bakahenzie. To him it appeared that
+the spirits had deserted him entirely; to him it seemed that perhaps these
+white men had indeed the true “magic,” the art of controlling the spirits
+to their will. This terror had urged him to the destruction of the white
+man, Moonspirit. Now Zalu Zako had mutinied, and being unaware of the
+powerful impulse from which Zalu Zako had gotten this sudden strength,
+Bakahenzie attributed it to the magic influence of Moonspirit. At any
+cost, he argued, must Zalu Zako and the white man be kept apart.
+
+But other pressing points were how to accomplish the slaughter of the
+white man, and what he should do now after the attempt to kill him had
+failed. Either Moonspirit would flee, which would be most happy proof to
+Bakahenzie that he was an impostor and no magician, or he would seek
+revenge immediately. No other action was conceivable to Bakahenzie.
+Therefore in such a case the obvious act was to strike the quicker. He
+contemplated his colleague without looking at him. What was his attitude?
+Bakahenzie, on general principles, was suspicious. If Marufa thought that
+by supporting the white man he might be able to attain Bakahenzie’s
+overthrow and gain the position of chief witch-doctor, he would do it,
+even as he, Bakahenzie, would have done in his place. Therefore upon these
+matters did he talk very guardedly with Marufa, who was unusually
+reticent. However, after communing with himself in sphinx-like gravity,
+Marufa assented to the proposal that Zalu Zako be isolated in the godhood
+immediately.
+
+So the slow rhythmic beat, which was the summons to the craft to assemble,
+throbbed in the clammy air. Before the humid shadows had lengthened a
+hand’s breadth, were some twenty wizards, greater and lesser, fully
+dressed in the green feathers of the order, collected within the compound
+of Bakahenzie. Silently and woodenly they squatted in a half circle before
+the chief witch-doctor, each and every one excited by the marvellous
+stories circulated by the warriors returned from the camp of Moonspirit,
+stories which amply corroborated the tales of Mungongo. Those who
+supported Bakahenzie’s party believed implicitly, because they wished so
+to do, the “reason” for the impotence of their united magic to be the
+breaking of the magic circle by Bakuma. But others who cherished personal
+ambitions for the head witch-doctorship were suspicious of each other and
+of Bakahenzie, each one according to his grade and consequent knowledge in
+the craft.
+
+When the drum had ceased and they sat in impressive silence, Bakahenzie,
+squatting motionless on the threshold of his hut, began to mutter
+incantations and to rock from side to side. Now every one of the inner
+cult knew well enough that this performance was merely a ceremony
+prescribed by tradition and expediency; yet for that very reason and
+particularly for the benefit of the lesser wizards, they solemnly accepted
+it, grunting in chorus as heartily as the others to the chant of
+Bakahenzie. As suddenly as dramatically, Bakahenzie stopped with eyes
+staring upon another world and fell upon his back, to scream and to writhe
+realistically as practice assured him. Then when the mouth was flecked
+with foam, the spirit of Tarum spake through the rigid body which lay as
+in catalepsy with eyes inverted:
+
+  “Aie! Aie! I am the spirit of Kintu!
+  Aie! Aie! I am he who first was!
+  Aie! Aie! I am the banana from whom I was made!
+  Aie! Aie! The time of the nuptial draweth nigh!
+  Aie! Aie! But where is the bride of my bed?
+  Aie! Aie! Let her be found and prepared!
+  Aie! Aie! For my lips are athirst for her blood!
+  Aie! Aie! Let the son of the Snake be anointed!
+  Aie! Aie! Let him be ready to assist at my feast!
+  Aie! Aie! I have spoken, I, the father of Men!
+  Aie! Aie! I, Tarum, the soul of your ancestors!”
+
+From the assembly came the low belly grunt of acceptance, for they were,
+by suggestion, infected with the induced hysteria almost as much as the
+superb actor himself; they believed; even the members of the inner cult
+were convinced for the moment that indeed the mighty spirit of their
+ancestors was speaking.
+
+Slowly, with many prodigious grunts and twists, did Bakahenzie’s soul
+return to his body. He sat up and after a long pause said impressively:
+
+“What hath He said unto you?”
+
+And Marufa, as solemnly, related all that He had said.
+
+“Eh!” said Bakahenzie tonelessly, “it is even as I have prophesied. These
+indeed are the words of wisdom. Is it not so, O my brethren?” Again came
+the low grunt of assent. “Let us obey, that these foul spirits may pass
+and the Unmentionable One return unto his children!”
+
+Then, according to custom, all save those of the inner cult arose and went
+forth silently. In the heart of Yabolo, as he squatted as expressionless
+as the others, was satisfaction, for he saw, or thought he saw, that
+Eyes-in-the-hands would be pleased with the destruction of a man who might
+possibly become his rival; and on that principle imagined himself
+introduced by his relative, Sakamata, to Eyes-in-the-hands as the slayer,
+or initiator of the slaying, of his rival, Moonspirit. That Zalu Zako
+should be anointed King-God suited him as well as the other wizards and
+for the same reason. Therefore Yabolo for once raised no objection to the
+behests of Bakahenzie.
+
+Already from the encampment rose the excited voices of the warriors who
+had been informed of the decision of the assembly of wizards. But the
+shadows were long. The forest was even more thickly peopled with spirits
+than their own park-like country. One of the inner cult of five suggested
+that the attack be made at dawn; but Bakahenzie, still baited by
+uncertainty regarding the reality of the magic of Moonspirit and the
+possible influence of Zalu Zako now that he had apparently developed a
+will of his own before they could shut him up in the godhead, was for
+immediate action, and insisted that they call together the warriors and
+make special magic to protect them from the forest demons. Yabolo, as
+anxious as Bakahenzie, became his ally in urging that this be done. But
+Marufa was not at all of this way of thinking. While the fate of Zalu Zako
+was quite immaterial, his attitude to Moonspirit was much the same as the
+young man’s, but prompted by a different motive; a power possible to
+utilize for his benefit. But he said no word, listening indifferently
+apparently to the throbbing of the drums summoning the warriors. When the
+inner circle broke up he stalked solemnly to his own hut, but when he was
+within he took from a gourd a special amulet, slipped through a hole in
+the palisade behind the hut, and disappeared into the forest.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 18
+
+
+Meanwhile the object of Bakahenzie’s political perplexities was also
+holding a council of war. Mungongo and Bakuma were divided in opinion. The
+former had recovered his complete confidence in Moonspirit. After the
+repulse of the greatest magician and his warriors he became filled with a
+martial ardour and strongly advocated advancing upon the village
+immediately. Birnier smiled and considered. As a matter of fact the plan
+was not so utterly insane as it appeared. Did he follow up swiftly upon
+the heels of the terror-stricken warriors the probability was that the
+whole camp would be infected by the spirit of panic and bolt. However, he
+could not see any object to be attained by stampeding the village.
+Mungongo, ever eager for a miracle, urged that Moonspirit should take upon
+him the spirit form and descend upon them at night. To his disgust
+Moonspirit refused, so Mungongo retired to the fire and consoled himself
+by another vivid description of the powers of his master—growing every
+day!—to Bakuma, who sat and listened dully with ever an anxious eye and
+ear upon the forest trail.
+
+Bakuma was obsessed by terror inspired by the fact that Bakahenzie had
+discovered her presence; the inherent awe of the witch-doctor which had
+been temporarily allayed by the presence of the white, was revived, as
+well as the inevitability of her doom. Only the strict injunctions of
+Moonspirit prevented her fleeing through the jungle to take refuge in some
+distant goatherd village. She was convinced the wizard would soon find out
+where she had gone; for she was persuaded that Bakahenzie had discovered
+her former hiding place by magic divination, maintaining as proof that
+although she had been as usual completely hidden in the undergrowth,
+Bakahenzie had walked directly to her.
+
+Birnier foresaw that the situation might become serious. Bakahenzie’s
+attitude was one of suspicion based, he guessed correctly, on professional
+jealousy. The finding of Bakuma had probably been more of an excuse to
+assail the possible rival and thus to satisfy this subconscious death
+wish. Now, reckoned Birnier, Bakahenzie would probably be more exasperated
+than ever at the triumph of the said rival’s magic. He would therefore,
+knowing the strength of the driving force of religious conviction,
+endeavour to play upon the emotions of the tribe by advocation of the
+efficacy of appeasing their fallen god by the sacrifice of the girl, and
+so work them up to an exalted state of fanaticism to attack in force; an
+additional stimulant to such action on their part would be the unconscious
+satisfaction in slaying the “brother” of the one who had invaded their
+country, Eyes-in-the-hands.
+
+Another point was that the more a person is scared the less easy it is for
+him to forgive, hence the greater resistance to the overtures of amity.
+Beyond the partially formed idea to overset zu Pfeiffer’s petty
+sovereignty was the strictly professional one of studying from the most
+intimate view-point possible a system of primitive theology of a most
+complex and illuminating kind. The main object to be attained therefore
+was resolved by the best method calculated to win the friendship and
+confidence of all concerned, particularly of Bakahenzie. To Birnier, who
+was not as yet conversant with the system, Bakahenzie seemed of less
+importance than Zalu Zako, the King-God, or potential King-God. Yet
+apparently he could not hope to approach Zalu Zako without overcoming the
+opposition offered by Bakahenzie. To give up little Bakuma to the
+sacrificial orgy was unthinkable; such an act would have appeared to him
+tantamount to sacrificing the girl to attain his own ends.
+
+For precaution he placed two of his men as pickets in the jungle to give
+warning of any surprise, although he did not consider that they would be
+likely to renew the attack that day; then, as usual when in difficulties,
+he retired to his tent for a smoke. As he browsed upon his estimable
+friend Burton, his eyes caught a paragraph upon cures for love melancholy
+recommended by the amiable doctor.
+
+
+
+“Lemnius, imstit. cap 58. admires rue and commends it to have excellent
+virtues, to expel vain imaginations, devils and to … Other things are much
+magnified by writers, as an old cock, a ram’s head, a wolf’s heart borne
+or eaten, which Mercurialis approves: Prosper Altinus, the water of the
+Nile; Gomesius, all sea water, and at seasonable times to be sick … the
+bone in a stag’s heart, a monocerot’s horn …”
+
+
+
+He glanced up to see Bakuma squatting disconsolately by the fire listening
+to the hundredth repetition of his wonder working according to Mungongo.
+The outline of her rounded back and hunched shoulders, the bronze hands
+clasped beneath the chin and the misty brown eyes apprehensively regarding
+the trail was a sculpture of melancholy. He smiled as he reflected that
+the devils and witches of Chrysostom and Paracelsus were as real to them
+as the forest spirits and the magic of Bakahenzie to this girl. After all
+some of these concoctions sounded as if they should most certainly appeal
+to Bakahenzie and his brethren of the craft. He wandered off into a
+reverie, wondering why it was that superstition is so hard to eradicate
+from the human mind. In Birnier was a strain of humorous melancholy which
+appreciated the comedy of human marionettes made to dance to the legion of
+devils and bugaboos invented by themselves, and as a stimulant to the
+dominant scientific absorption was the knowledge that upon him and his
+fellows depended their only hope of release—which was the greater reason
+that Bakahenzie should slay him, he added whimsically, did he but know it!
+
+Moved by the ever-present curiosity to know what was going on inside other
+people’s minds, he called Bakuma and Mungongo to him, observing the
+sprightly action of the boy moved by his faith in him for his good in
+contrast to the dull movements of the girl in her lack of confidence to
+make for her good. And when they were come to him and were seated on the
+ground at his feet he said to Bakuma:
+
+“Wherefore hast thou the black bird within thy breast, O Bakuma?”
+
+She gazed up at him with the pathetic pleading of a gazelle.
+
+“Do not birds seek the broken twigs for the building of nests, O
+Moonspirit?”
+
+“Truly, but why are the branches of thy tree rotted and broken?”
+
+“When the axe of the peasant pecks at the roots of the tree dost thou
+think then that the sap runs the more swiftly, knowing?”
+
+“A devil hast told thee this thing, O Bakuma. When the sun was but a man’s
+height did not a jackal break out of the forest seeking to devour, and yet
+the chicken was neither hurt nor taken. Are these not white words?”
+
+“Truly, O Moonspirit,” acknowledged Bakuma reluctantly.
+
+“Was not then the magic of Moonspirit more potent than that of thy
+wizards?”
+
+“Thy words are white,” she admitted.
+
+“Wherefore then hast thou ashes in thy mouth?”
+
+Bakuma dismally contemplated Birnier’s booted leg.
+
+“Eh!” grunted the sophisticated Mungongo, “to those who live on the
+mountain the crocodile is not!”
+
+“Open thy breasts unto me, O Bakuma,” said Birnier.
+
+“Clk!” she gasped, making a little gesture of hopelessness. “When the sun
+shines are not the flowers open? But when the night hath come where are
+the flowers? The deer feed on sweet pastures, but when the shadow of the
+lion falleth upon the grass hath not a great cloud come over the world?”
+
+“But thy lion hath fled, O Bakuma!”
+
+She gazed at the white man with curious wonderment at the stupidity of one
+failing to comprehend the simplest problem. She sighed and then as if with
+much patience for another’s shortcomings:
+
+“Thou hast strong magic, O white man,” said she, “magic that makes the
+magic of Bakahenzie to fall as water. Yet was the daughter of Bakala not
+found by divination? Was the daughter of Bakala not revealed to be the
+bride of the Banana by divination? There shall be made magic that the
+voice of the one shall be obeyed. Eh! Aiee! Aie!”
+
+The brown eyes welled opals which splashed upon a bronze breast. As
+Birnier watched her, pity stimulated a desire to relieve this symbol of
+self-torture, and he thought of a favourite passage in the “Anatomy”:
+
+
+
+“Ay, but we are more miserable than others, what shall we do? Beside
+private miseries, we live in perpetual fear and danger; for epithalamiums,
+for pleasant music, that fearful noise of ordnance, drums, and warlike
+trumpets still sounding in our ears; instead of nuptial torches, we have
+the firing of towns and cities; for triumph, lamentations; for joy,
+tears.”
+
+
+
+“Well, Bakuma,” said he in English, smiling covertly, “we’ll see if we
+can’t get you the nuptial torches!”
+
+Bakuma gazed at him perplexedly with big eyes.
+
+“Already Moonspirit begins the incantation of mighty magic,” explained
+Mungongo solemnly.
+
+“Eh!” murmured Bakuma expectantly.
+
+Birnier smoked and pondered. The walls of the forest were growing closer
+in the beginning of twilight. The soul of fear, reflected Birnier, dwells
+in the unknown. Reveal the god in the machine and the mystery dies. To
+Bakuma he said:
+
+“Listen, O Bakuma, I would speak heavy words to thee. When thou puttest
+the seed of the gourd into the ground then within half a moon there
+appears the plant of the gourd; is it not so?”
+
+“Truly,” answered Bakuma disinterestedly.
+
+“Is that then magic?”
+
+“Eh!” commented Bakuma, as in astonishment. “Nay, how could that be? Does
+not the soul of the plant grow even as a child grows?”
+
+“Good. Turn thine eyes to me.” Bakuma watched the operation of striking
+and lighting a match with indifference. “Then is this fire which I make
+done by magic?”
+
+“Truly.”
+
+“And thou, Mungongo, what thinkest thou?”
+
+“Moonspirit tickles the souls of my feet!”
+
+“H’m.” Birnier repressed a smile. “Thou knowest that my words are white?”
+
+“Truly.”
+
+“Then I tell thee that this is not done by magic.”
+
+“Ehh! Ehh!” chorused the twain.
+
+“This thing on the end of this thing which you call a magic fire twig is
+made of—of—is made of several kinds of—of earth found in the—earth, and
+when—and when——” He sought frantically for native words which were not,
+“the two are brought together—as one strikes a spear——” Birnier hesitated,
+finding himself as perplexed as a psychologist endeavouring to explain the
+abstract working of consciousness in concrete words. “When one strikes a
+spear upon a rock there is an eye of fire, is it not so?”
+
+Mungongo’s eyes dimly reflected a growing horror. Bakuma stared.
+
+“The magic of Bakahenzie,” murmured Mungongo.
+
+“Already is his soul bewitched,” muttered Bakuma.
+
+“Is it not so?” persisted Birnier.
+
+“Aye,” admitted Mungongo, moving uneasily and speaking as if humouring a
+dangerous lunatic. “It is the eye of the angry spirit of the rock.”
+
+Birnier saw his danger and made another effort.
+
+“Even so. Also thou knowest that thou canst make fire by the rubbing
+together of two sticks. Is that then magic also?”
+
+“Truly,” continued Mungongo in the same tone. “Can the spirits of the
+souls of the twigs be summoned without the incantations by the Keeper of
+Fires?”
+
+“O my God!” groaned Birnier, sotto voce, and he abandoned the effort to
+explain combustion. “Thus is it then with these that ye call the magic
+fire twigs.”
+
+“Even as we have said,” asserted Mungongo triumphantly.
+
+Birnier lapsed into silent defeat. Bakuma began to edge away. As Mungongo
+rose came a stifled scream from Bakuma who sprang to her feet and dashed
+towards the tent; then as if recollecting that her saviour had been
+bewitched by Bakahenzie, fled into the gloom beyond. Mungongo had seized a
+spear stuck in the earth near to him. As appeared the wizened figure of
+Marufa, who saluted as he squatted in the native manner, Birnier
+recollected that he had been with Bakahenzie and wondered what he wanted.
+Mungongo replaced his spear and came to the tent.
+
+“Greeting, O son of MTungo!”
+
+Marufa mumbled the orthodox return.
+
+“Thou hast need of Moonspirit?” demanded Mungongo, some of his officious
+confidence in Birnier returning.
+
+“Doth the leopard go to the goat pen to seek nuts?” grumbled the old man.
+He tapped out snuff slowly and grunted.
+
+Presently said Marufa:
+
+“Moonspirit is the brother of Eyes-in-the-hands?”
+
+“Nay,” answered Birnier, wondering at the persistency of this idea.
+“Eyes-in-the-hands is of another tribe ten moons distant from Moonspirit.”
+
+Marufa grunted. Another long pause. Then:
+
+“The magic of Moonspirit hath blunted the spears of Bakahenzie?”
+
+“Even so,” said Birnier modestly.
+
+“The son of Maliko maketh much magic that the bride of the Banana be taken
+from the white stranger.”
+
+“The monkey makes many faces and much noise, but does he eat up the
+leopard?”
+
+“The bite of the spear is more deadly than the bleat of a goat,” retorted
+Marufa.
+
+“Doth the wise man eat the heart of a goat to gain courage?”
+
+“The louder the lion roars the less teeth has he!”
+
+“But only the fool opens his mouth to see how many he has!”
+
+“The wise father examines the grain of the tusks before he sells his
+daughter.”
+
+“But the wise man sees the daughter before he offers the tusks!”
+
+“Ugm!”
+
+Marufa took more snuff and contemplated the interior of the tent where a
+native was lighting a lamp. Birnier reflected. Evidently Marufa had come
+with an object and had inferred that he had something to bargain about.
+What was it? Also he wanted to be sure that he was setting his trap at the
+right pool. Birnier decided that he was probably acting on his own
+initiative and willing to conspire against Bakahenzie. An impulse to
+experiment upon him as he had upon Mungongo and Bakuma was repressed, for
+from the previous effort he had cemented the conclusion that it was
+impossible to explain rational phenomena to irrational minds; that as ever
+the adventurous champion of reason would be either regarded as insane or
+inspired; that which is not comprehended is divine or ridiculous. However,
+through Marufa might come a suggestion for the tactics of campaign to gain
+the good-will of Bakahenzie or Zalu Zako and the attainment of his
+scientific object—as well as to give Bakuma the torches he had promised
+her. Whether I will or no, he reflected smiling in the dark, must I be
+either a magician or a fool. Fools get nowhere; witch-doctors do here as
+elsewhere. He saw that in order to influence these peoples or any others,
+he had perforce to work in terms of their own understanding, as the early
+Christian missionaries practised in their conversion of the Teutons, the
+Scandinavians and the Britons. A nucleus of a plan had been given by
+Mungongo’s impetuous suggestion. He decided to develop it. But through
+Marufa, who first of all must be impressed with the fact that Moonspirit
+was the greatest magician the world had ever seen. So therefore he called
+to the native within: “O Bakombi, put out the light.” And to Marufa: “O
+wise man, thunder has not always lightning. Behold! I am part of that
+which is and is not!”
+
+“Clk!”
+
+A click of astonishment was squeezed from Marufa by the chance mystic
+phrase which was interpreted by him as referring to the Unmentionable One.
+
+Then taking out his metal box of vestas Birnier moistened one. As he
+rubbed around his eyes Marufa, who was expecting a miracle, observed the
+growing phosphorescence in stoical calm, while Mungongo, delighted at the
+long deferred proof of his boasts, grunted admiringly.
+
+But when a glowing skeleton hand, which Birnier had prepared behind his
+back, hovered over the old wizard’s head, he grunted and made a slight
+convulsive movement.
+
+“Have no fear, O my friend,” came Birnier’s voice, “the spirit loves my
+friends and destroys my enemies.”
+
+That belly grunt had registered the degree of impression that Birnier
+sought. So he lighted the lamp, bade the excited Mungongo to bring out the
+phonograph, a machine adjusted with the recording cylinders as well as the
+reproduction, and after a successful demonstration of magic, discussed
+with Marufa a certain scheme to which the old wizard, quick to see the
+possibilities, afforded many invaluable suggestions.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 19
+
+
+When Zalu Zako was notified of the verdict of the Council and the words of
+Tarum the sense of the inevitable returned, extinguishing the spark of
+rebellion that had been kindled by his passion for Bakuma. To Bakahenzie,
+or to the wizards separately, or collectively, he had had the strength to
+voice his own desires, but to the veritable voice of Tarum was no
+resistance dared. He was bidden to preside by right and precedent at the
+anointing of the warriors. He did not make any feint at refusal, for his
+will was crushed, as it had been weeks before by the doom of godhood and
+celibacy.
+
+Beyond the fact that Bakuma would soon be forbidden to him for ever, he
+did not think; desire was strangled. Even the recollection that Bakahenzie
+had stated that Moonspirit had taken her gave him no reaction. To him as
+to his brethren, while in physical love is bound up the control of the
+universe, because it is vaguely apprehended as a creative force, it is of
+no importance to the individual lover unless he be guilty of breaking the
+sexual tabu: if the girl is not a consenting party to the illicit union
+then she is free; if she is, then it is death to both of them, for as
+every one knows, such criminal action endangers the balance of the burden
+of the world upon the shoulders of the King-God. Thus it was that the
+words of Bakahenzie had produced no reaction against Moonspirit in the
+mind of Zalu Zako; indeed, if the words were true and he could yet obtain
+Bakuma, she might have a son by the white which would obviously bring the
+marvellous power of white magic to his successor, the next King-God; and
+possibly, had mused Zalu Zako, dimly straining at such a radical thought
+against the influence of the priesthood, make the king more powerful a
+magician than the witch-doctors themselves.
+
+But he obeyed the mandate and took his place as bidden. Bakahenzie had
+caused preparation to be begun immediately for the ceremony of making
+enchantment against the spirits of the night. In the circle of cleared
+ground, where sat the temporary Council of Elders, big fires were lighted
+as the dark wall of the forest drew in upon them. Bakahenzie squatted
+before a big calabash, specially reserved and enchanted for the making of
+magic, in which a mess of certain herbs whose spirits were violent haters
+of the demons of all trees, rocks and streams, were to be released from
+the vegetable bondage by stewing that they might be distributed among the
+warriors for the night assault. These warriors, some fifty chosen from the
+followers of Bakahenzie and Marufa, sat on their hams within the circle of
+fires, uneasily casting glances behind them at the deepening sepia, from
+whence arose the nocturnal chant of the spirits of the forest. In order to
+insure no interference from malign animals, Bakahenzie caused to be
+brought a pure white goat whose throat was cut and bled into the cauldron;
+for as any one knows, that soul which is white must necessarily fight well
+against anything that be black. Yet in spite of this potent magic the
+warriors grew unquiet; they felt, rather than thought, that if the magic
+of their witch-doctors had failed against one white why should it succeed
+against another like unto him? And their faith thus weakened, doubts
+regarding the efficacy of the same magic against spirits of the forest
+bred as mosquitoes after rain.
+
+Bakahenzie remarked the uneasiness, but the stronger grew his need to
+restore the waning confidence in his powers by removing the white; the
+blood desire had now been transferred from Bakuma to Moonspirit as the
+most effective demonstration possible to him.
+
+The fires smouldered and flickered yellow tongues upon the greens of the
+warriors’ bodies and the blues of the wizards’ head-dresses. Faint blue
+vapour swirled around the scarlet feather above Bakahenzie’s graven face
+as he muttered incantations and stirred the cauldron. Then as the drums
+throbbed and the warriors grunted rhythmically to Bakahenzie’s song of
+enchantment came a squawk as of a parrot. The chant ceased. Branches
+rustled. Every head quirked automatically towards the sound. Came a low
+belly grunt of terror as if an invisible hand had punched them in their
+solar plexus.
+
+Just in the shadow line where the glow of the fires faintly tinted and
+greened the curves of his bronze body against the sepia of his feathers,
+appeared the figure of Marufa, his spear lifted on high as he cried out in
+a loud voice:
+
+“Greetings, O people of the Banana, I bring you tidings of him who is and
+is not, of him who was lost and yet is come. ‘Behold, I show you a sign!’”
+
+Against the gloom his left arm and hand glowed with a strange light. An
+unanimous “Ehh!” rose from the assembled warriors and wizards alike.
+
+“Raise your ears!” continued Marufa, “that the Voice may speak unto you!”
+
+In the silence came a subdued click and commenced a high-pitched voice in
+the dialect:
+
+  “Aie! Aie! I am the spirit of Kintu!
+  Aie! Aie! I am he who first was!
+  Aie! Aie! I am the Banana from whom I was made!”
+
+Whites of eyes glimmered like butterflies in starlight. Nothing was
+visible. The voice appeared to rise from every direction. The new miracle
+petrified the limbs of all.
+
+  “Aie! Aie! My soul is defiled and my children enslaved!
+  Aie! Aie! My face hath been scratched by an alien claw!
+  Aie! Aie! I send you the revenge which is white!
+  Aie! Aie! I send you the One who is bidden!
+  Aie! Aie! Let that One arise who is I!
+  Aie! Aie! The mighty One who will blot out the curse!
+  Aie! Aie! I have spoken, I, the Father of Men!
+  Aie! Aie! I, Tarum; the soul of your Ancestors!”
+
+A faint whirr as of wings was drowned in the automatic grunt of acceptance
+squeezed from all the warriors and the wizards by the sacred chant, except
+those of the inner circle. In dread sat the warriors of the terrible magic
+of their doctors which they had once doubted. But the minds of Bakahenzie,
+Yabolo, and the other two master craftsmen were stunned. The phenomenon of
+the glowing hand had they never seen before, but they recollected the
+stones of Mungongo. Even was Sakamata, sophisticated to the wonders of
+Eyes-in-the-hands, impressed and bewildered. Dormant awe for the
+Unmentionable One was awakened in every one of them. Zalu Zako felt that
+his doom was upon him; that the Unmentionable One was about to call him to
+his duty, which invoked fear for the sacrilege he had committed in
+entertaining such radical thoughts in the immediate past. But in
+Bakahenzie was a streak of suspicion; how was it that Marufa was thus
+chosen as the divine messenger? Yet perhaps the veritable god was, or gods
+were, speaking! Doubt held him silent.
+
+“O my brethren, would ye that we seek the voice of the Unmentionable One?”
+cried Marufa.
+
+“Ough! Ough!” grunted the wizards.
+
+Marufa stalked slowly to the nearest fire, muttering a spell. From his
+loin cloth he took the three digital bones of an enemy and proceeded to
+discover the whereabouts by geomancy. And behold! the fingers pointed in
+one direction which all could see. Oblivious to the tight indifference of
+Bakahenzie the old man rose and began to gyrate, mumbling incantations,
+towards a thicket of grass on the fringe of the undergrowth, holding aloft
+the magic bones in the glowing hand. Anxiously the assembly watched the
+skinny figure, half bent, glide out from the glow of the fires into the
+blue shadows. A small log collapsed, throwing a red gleam upon the form
+poised upright before the clump of grass as Marufa cried out:
+
+“Let him who-may-not-be-mentioned speak that his children may hear!”
+
+Immediately commenced a high voice chanting:
+
+“Take up, O Marufa, the wise, the pod of my soul!”
+
+Then in the sight of every man Marufa bent upon his knees, muttering, and
+arose unharmed. Save for the slow turn of each head the better to follow
+the progress of the magician no limb nor muscle moved as in silence Marufa
+bore the like of which had never before been seen; a thing like unto a
+stone, having an ear almost as large and as erect as an angry elephant,
+the colour of a lion yet hairless. “The pod of the soul” Marufa placed
+within the circle of the fires so that all should see. More incantations
+did Marufa make, sitting fearlessly; he caressed it as a young man
+caresses a maid and came forth again the voice of Tarum:
+
+  “Rejoice, O my children, for he that is bidden shall come!
+  Rejoice, O ye warriors, for he that shall lead you shall come!
+  Rejoice, O ye wizards, for he that is greater than ye shall come!
+  Rejoice, O ye women, for he that fertilizes shall come!
+  He shall eat up your enemies as a lion eateth buck.
+  He shall make your dead to be seen and your phantoms to talk!
+  He shall give to your women to have sons of your breed!
+  He shall give you that which was slain on the hill!
+  He that walks in a flame in the night!
+  He that is whiter than the flesh of the baobab!
+  He shall come forth bearing that which ye seek!
+  He shall come forth bearing that which is yours!
+  Hear me, my people, and give voice to my word!”
+
+“Ough! Ough!” came the chorus of assent.
+
+Not a limb nor a hand moved among the concourse of warriors and wizards
+until a new voice, deep, as one who commands, cried out:
+
+“Let the son of Kawa Kendi, the son of MFunya MPopo, the son of MKoffo,
+move not; neither he nor Marufa, the son of MTungo! Unto ye others we say
+unto you, depart that we speak in peace with this our son and priest!”
+
+And simultaneously appeared in the gloom of the undergrowth three pairs of
+eyes as luminous as the glowworm, vaster than any human; and beside the
+souls of the dead King-Gods were terrible hands. Warriors and wizards, all
+save Bakahenzie and Zalu Zako, literally leaped for the forest and village
+in one convulsive bound and grunt. Zalu Zako had remained upon the ground,
+green with terror. Bakahenzie stood upright, his scarlet feather
+fluorescent in the fire-glow. The anthem of the forest was only broken by
+the rustle of branches and the breathing of Zalu Zako and Bakahenzie. A
+harsh voice cried:
+
+“Begone, Bakahenzie, son of a dog! Lest we take thy soul to be with us!”
+
+The eyes appeared to float nearer; hands pointed menacingly. Bakahenzie
+boggled; hesitated; then the dignity of his pose melted into the graceful
+bounds of a fleeing leopard. Even for the professional ghost manipulator,
+such a phenomenon of the spirits, with whom he was supposed to be on
+familiar terms, was demoralizing. But half-way through a thicket of
+undergrowth, where he could no longer see the horrific eyes, his courage
+began to return.
+
+To his ears came a new voice chanting:
+
+  “Sweeter than warm honey is the scent of my man!
+  Fiercer than scorpions is the grip of his hand!
+  Whiter than a spear flash is the gleam of his teeth!
+  Smoother than river stone is the feel of his chest!
+                 Bakuma rejoices!”
+
+Peering through the interstices Bakahenzie could see the gleam of the fire
+upon the bangles of the Son-of-the-Snake and the blue flash upon his spear
+as he melted into the forest wall.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 20
+
+
+The actual sight of spirits from ghostland, of which hitherto they had
+only heard, had been too much for the nerves of the tribe already
+overstrung by the overthrow of the idol and the magic and slaughter of zu
+Pfeiffer; the warriors had fled like scared poultry to the jungle, up
+trees, in the undergrowth and in their huts, where they cowered among
+their women and slaves, reading awful omens and portents in every sound of
+the forest.
+
+The phenomenon had been just as startling and awe-inspiring to Bakahenzie
+as it had been to his most ignorant dupe. His belief in ghostland was
+implicit, but now he had seen what, professionally, he was supposed to see
+and converse with on familiar terms. As Zalu Zako disappeared he continued
+to listen intently. Above the slight rustle of the bushes as the
+Son-of-the-Snake moved through the undergrowth rose a feminine laugh.
+Bakahenzie’s liver was squeezed by that sardonic chuckle; for, as is well
+known, female demons are much more malignant than the male. For the space
+of a chant he remained crouching there, curiosity and the dread of
+revealing his terror to his fellows tugging at his feet and fear of the
+demons clutching him around the waist. Save the anthem of the forest no
+further sound of the ghosts was audible.
+
+Cautiously rose Bakahenzie, wriggled out of his nest and with as much
+dignity as maybe, strode back to the fire. From the village came a slight
+whimpering. With satisfaction Bakahenzie noted that no one else was in
+sight. For another space he sat with unquiet eyes and ears upon the
+forest. Then gathering courage as nothing happened, he pondered upon what
+attitude he should assume.
+
+Yabolo stalked from round a hut and squatting calmly beside Bakahenzie,
+nonchalantly proceeded to tap out snuff and offered some to Bakahenzie,
+who grunted acceptance and sniffed with even greater indifference.
+Motionless they continued to sit and silently. Bakahenzie wondered whether
+Yabolo knew that he, too, had fled, and Yabolo, who did know, waited for
+the first move on Bakahenzie’s part to retort.
+
+Yabolo, indeed, who had been as panic-stricken as Bakahenzie, was more
+suspicious in view of the accounts he had heard of the magic of
+Eyes-in-the-hands. Who knew but this vision might not be another
+manifestation of Eyes-in-the-hands? And more slowly a similar idea began
+to occur to Bakahenzie, save that he had in mind the incident of
+Moonspirit’s magic in the face of his bravest warriors. The calmer he
+became the more was he inclined to accept this explanation of the
+apparitions; such was infinitely more comforting to him than the
+conception that they had been in truth spirits from ghostland. As the
+doubt grew the wisdom of propitiating this powerful Moonspirit became
+apparent; yet was present the dread of loosing what remained of his
+autocratic power. The problem now was to enlist the white and discover
+some means of controlling him and his magic.
+
+But to both men the vital question was, what had become of Zalu Zako?
+There were two alternatives: if the visions had been genuine ghosts, then
+undoubtedly Zalu Zako was dead; but if they had been produced through the
+magic of a white man, then, Bakahenzie argued, Zalu Zako and Marufa must
+be in league with Moonspirit, and Yabolo opined that Zalu Zako had been
+captured by Eyes-in-the-hands. To the latter the effect was to strengthen
+the determination to go over to Eyes-in-the-hands. If the first
+possibility was correct the greater need had he of strong magic if real
+ghosts were taking to walking abroad visibly, and the other case merely
+proved beyond question the invincible magic of Eyes-in-the-hands. But to
+Bakahenzie the reaction was slightly different, for his elemental reason
+took him a little farther than Yabolo by pointing out that in all his wide
+experience never had spirits taken demons’ shape, so that the suspicion
+that they had been due to Moonspirit became more plausible, and was
+supported by the recollection of Marufa’s unexplained absence and sudden
+reappearance on familiar terms with the spirits.
+
+The longer he pondered on the strange actions of Marufa the more he was
+persuaded that that wily colleague was acting upon sound information, and
+the tangle of his affairs made him so desperate that he decided to gamble
+upon that assumption: for magician Bakahenzie began to realize that Marufa
+had somehow scored a point and that now was approaching the crux which
+would determine whether he won back or lost for ever that which was the
+essence of life to him.
+
+Meanwhile the two puzzled plotters sat motionless and silent as if
+mutually agreeing that no question regarding each other’s late movements
+had better be asked.
+
+Accordingly to the depth of his superstition returned each witch-doctor.
+When they were come, without one word of explanation, Bakahenzie lifted
+his voice in a high falsetto, bidding the lay warriors to return to hear
+the voice of the elders. Reassured by this command which carried far on
+the still air, they began to emerge from hut and undergrowth. The first to
+arrive was MYalu, angry to find the whole assembly of wizards apparently
+sitting as if they had never moved, engaged in mystic incantations. MYalu
+had not fled far and from his cranny had seen the flight of Bakahenzie and
+the departure of Zalu Zako, but he dared not betray the doctors. He
+squatted sullenly and waited while the remainder of the warriors, of whom
+many had also seen the general stampede, filed to their places.
+
+When all were assembled Bakahenzie looked up from his spell and bade them
+to listen to what message the faculty—for obvious policy’s sake he
+included the whole of the ghosts—had received from ghostland by the three
+spirits, emphasising the vision of the magicians as proof positive of the
+terrible power of the craft. By reason of the sin committed by one who had
+broken the magic circle, as they all knew, said Bakahenzie, had this wrath
+of the Unmentionable One come upon them, permitting the incarnation of a
+demon, Eyes-in-the-hands, to work his will upon them and to make them
+slaves, as were their dogs the Wamungo; and so in the depth of their
+tribulation he, Bakahenzie, whose magic had been rendered impotent by the
+betrayal of the Bride of the Banana, had invoked the spirits of the three,
+as they all had witnessed.
+
+“Ough! Ough!” grunted the warriors in assent, although many of them were
+sorely puzzled to know why the doctors themselves had fled. Yabolo began
+to grow restless in his mind. To allow Bakahenzie to steal all the thunder
+and condemn the possible source of political power to the level of an evil
+demon was contrary to his policy, but he gave no physical sign save to
+become engrossed in his snuff box.
+
+Then Bakahenzie continued with a long harangue maintaining the necessity
+of the consummation of the Marriage of the Banana and announced that Zalu
+Zako had been taken by the spirit of his forefathers in order to prepare
+magic for the eating up of the terrible Eyes-in-the-hands; that as the
+voice of Tarum had said, Zalu Zako would return with “That which was slain
+on the hill—that which ye seek, that which is yours.” Although Bakahenzie
+was not sure to what these words had referred, yet he was sagacious enough
+to know that if Marufa had engineered that scene, then there must be some
+plan at the back of it, and in any case knew, as any white medicine man,
+that words in mystic phrasing are always soul-satisfying to the credulous
+who interpret them in terms of their subconscious desires. Then with
+political prudence he avoided any reference to uncomfortable topics, by
+dismissing the assembly before any pertinent questions could be asked.
+
+But when Bakahenzie had retired to his hut, presumably for the night, as
+Marufa had done before him, he girded himself with an amulet containing
+the gall of an enemy killed in battle and a short stabbing spear and
+sallied forth through a hole in the fence to brave the spirits of the
+forests in his need.
+
+In the village generally sleep was not entertained with enthusiasm by any
+save those women and slaves who knew not of the great happenings. In the
+hut of Yabolo were MYalu and Sakamata. From the old men MYalu received
+much consolation and advice, but no information as to why the wizards had
+bolted as fast as the laymen from ghosts invoked by their own magic.
+Sakamata confirmed authoritatively Yabolo’s suspicion that the phenomena
+had been produced through the magic of Eyes-in-the-hands, urging that they
+lose no time in going to him to make submission. Yabolo had already
+decided on that course, but MYalu refused to give a definite decision as
+to when he would go. He sat sullenly, saying no word, and eventually
+departed to his own hut where he dismissed his wives and continued to
+brood.
+
+The fear and rage aroused by the anointing of the warriors for the capture
+of Bakuma had been dissipated by the general panic produced by the ghosts.
+Afterwards MYalu had unconsciously hoped, because he so desired it, that
+the pursuit of the Bride would be abandoned; hence Bakahenzie’s renewal of
+the chase had angered and frightened him anew. As all the rest of them, he
+wondered and pondered upon the fate of Zalu Zako and Marufa. Marufa, as he
+well knew, had a black heart and two tongues; therefore was he suspicious
+of any manifestation with which the son of MTungo could be connected. Zalu
+Zako was wealthy; perhaps he had bribed Marufa to make magic in order to
+enable him to escape the doom of the king-godship and to flee to another
+country with Bakuma under the protection of Moonspirit. A lover’s jealousy
+is as powerful a driving force as ambition. In this case it drove even
+MYalu to defy the spirits of the night, for at the hour of the monkey he
+too stole away into the gloom.
+
+So it was that as the patterned roof of the forest was etched in the timid
+green of dawn peeped MYalu through the gate of the zareba of Moonspirit to
+discover the gaunt form of Bakahenzie squatted by the embers of a fire
+within a deserted compound. Bakahenzie’s quick eyes, on the alert for
+ghosts or any moving thing, saw him; so coldly MYalu advanced and sat
+beside him, grunting the formal greeting.
+
+MYalu noted the age of the spoor about the compound, the tent peg holes
+newly pulled. Now was he sure that Marufa and Zalu Zako were in league
+with Moonspirit. Wrath smouldered in his broad chest. At length spoke
+Bakahenzie casually:
+
+“The Bride of the Banana hath been taken away.” Bakahenzie paused as if
+weighing his words, and added: “But the feet of spirits are heavy on the
+land.” MYalu grunted. Bakahenzie had an idea and to MYalu was born another
+about the same instant. Said Bakahenzie, who wished to know the
+whereabouts of Marufa, Moonspirit and company: “If the Marriage of the
+Bride be not consummated then will the power of Eyes-in-the-hands
+prevail.” And after a long pause: “Who will seek the Bride?”
+
+MYalu remained silent, revolving his own notion in his mind. There
+remained with him still many traces of the awe and belief in the power and
+knowledge of Bakahenzie, and so his words threatening the triumph of
+Eyes-in-the-hands assured and strengthened his purpose; for he thought
+that if he could accomplish his plan then would Eyes-in-the-hands surely
+triumph as Bakahenzie predicted. Thus it was that he said:
+
+“O master of Wisdom, give unto me a mighty charm against the evil eye of
+traitors and will I and those that follow me seek the Bride and bring her
+so that which is bidden may be, that the children of the Banana may
+triumph.”
+
+MYalu rose. The two started on the return to the village. On the road
+Bakahenzie sought to flatter MYalu by pretending to take him into his
+confidence, adjuring him to secrecy and informing him that he would cause
+it to be known that MYalu, the son of MBusa, would bring back the Bride of
+the Banana. MYalu assented gravely. Just before reaching the village his
+keen eyes noticed a slight trail from the regular path. Broken, twisted
+and crushed leaves and strained branches indicated the recent passage of
+two or three people through the undergrowth.
+
+With difficulty, for the Wongolo are not forest people, he followed the
+spoor in a semi-circle towards the village and a footprint in the slime
+revealed the track of Zalu Zako or Marufa coming from the fires. MYalu
+grunted, but he said nothing to Bakahenzie or anybody else. That the
+vision had been caused by Moonspirit’s magic he had now no doubt, and his
+estimation of Moonspirit’s power increased to the point of terror; yet the
+smouldering jealousy and desire for Bakuma drove him dreadfully on.
+
+Before the sun was two spans high MYalu left the village with some two
+hundred of his followers anointed against magic and spirits. The track
+from Moonspirit’s camp was like an elephant’s path. Through the steamy
+heat they followed all day until they came out upon a river near to a
+village upon the border of the forest. The headman of the village was away
+with his chief; but women, children and slaves remained. Zalu Zako, in the
+company of a white man called Moonspirit, Marufa, the wizard, and a girl
+had arrived, had taken three canoes and had left up-stream within a hand’s
+breadth of a shadow. MYalu took all the canoes available and started in
+pursuit, leaving the rest of his men to follow as soon as they had
+procured other canoes from the nearest village.
+
+The river was small but deep and flowed swiftly between the vast curtains
+of the overhanging trees. When the dungeon of the forest was glooming to
+night they saw the gleam of a fire. Swiftly and silently they landed,
+surrounded the camp and uttering the war yell, rushed.
+
+But Moonspirit, Zalu Zako or Marufa they found not—only Bakuma with some
+dozen Wamungo carriers. Even the dismal squawk of a Baroto bird could not
+damp the relief and joy of MYalu. Next morning he despatched a secret
+messenger to Yabolo, making a rendezvous at a certain village and with a
+weeping Bakuma in his train set out to seek the rest of his fortune at the
+camp of Eyes-in-the-hands.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 21
+
+
+In the village of Bakahenzie was discontent.
+
+The desertion of Sakamata, Yabolo, and three chiefs, had corroborated his
+suspicions of the unfrocked priest. That Sakamata had been preaching open
+sedition he had known, yet Bakahenzie was in the situation of many a
+president or prime minister; he had feared to put his own position in
+jeopardy by having the offender removed expeditiously. This treachery,
+which synchronised with the time when MYalu should have either returned or
+sent a messenger, implied another grave error. All the information he
+could gather was that MYalu had returned through the village by the river
+with the girl Bakuma, some prisoners and some of the white man’s
+equipment, on his way to the north-east; but no one apparently had seen
+Zalu Zako, Marufa nor the white man.
+
+Bakahenzie was at a loss to discover a plausible theory to account for
+MYalu having kidnapped Bakuma, who could not be of any political
+importance to him in going over to Eyes-in-the-hands, but would rather
+prejudice him seriously with the rest of the tribe for the sin of
+sacrilege in taking the Bride of the Banana. Shrewd judge of his
+compatriots though he was, the possibility of a love motive never occurred
+to Bakahenzie. A dominating passion in an individual for any particular
+female was rare in the native world; attractive wives or concubines were
+chosen and bought as one buys a goat or an ox. Bakuma, in her capacity as
+a sacrificial victim, was to him merely a good-looking girl, well selected
+by Marufa for the orgy of the Harvest Festival.
+
+Bakahenzie was distraught. He feared that he had not the authority to
+prevent further desertions; he did not know how far Sakamata’s propaganda
+had permeated; he could not guess what Zalu Zako, Marufa and the white man
+were going to do. As many a wise statesman before and after him he adopted
+a policy of “wait and see.” To provide an exciting distraction to keep his
+constituents amused and from thinking too much, he borrowed another
+political tactic of abusing some one vigorously. He called a meeting of
+the faculty and the warriors. There he solemnly denounced MYalu as a
+traitor and accused him of the crime of having abducted the Bride of the
+Banana, and consequently as the cause of the continuance of the
+misfortunes of the tribe.
+
+The move was successful, inasmuch that it afforded discussion and absorbed
+wrath for two whole days. Various chiefs proposed as many plans. But none
+was taken. Everybody was discontented and quarrelsome, as fearful of
+Eyes-in-the-hands as he was of his tribal god; many were impressed by the
+propaganda of Sakamata and Yabolo and the impunity with which Yabolo and
+Sakamata and company had quietly gone over to the enemy. Meanwhile
+Bakahenzie squatted in oracular silence, murmuring incantations that were
+prayers to the Unmentionable One interlarded with promises of the things
+he would accomplish for the said Deity, with solemnity and sincerity, for
+he felt that the result of Marufa’s intrigue with the magician Moonspirit
+would mature very shortly. What that would be he had no notion; only he
+strained every nerve to be alert when the crisis came to snatch from
+Marufa the advantage that wily old man had gained.
+
+On the third day two more chiefs followed in the wake of Yabolo.
+Bakahenzie made no comment, but he realised that before long, unless the
+unknown happened, he would be unable to retain any of his followers;
+realised that his one chance lay in procrastination. In his despair he
+began to contemplate an alliance with Marufa, even if he had to take a
+subordinate rôle—which would at any rate give him his only ally, time, to
+help checkmate his colleague.
+
+On the next day yet another chief and his men departed. Bakahenzie knew
+that they were like a herd of goats and that to stop the stampede he must
+adopt desperate measures. To quell the restlessness which murmured
+ominously throughout the camp he called another meeting as soon as the
+news had come of the last desertion. While the drum tapped out the summons
+Bakahenzie sat muttering his most impressive spells alone, endeavouring to
+discover a plausible excuse for some sort of excitement to distract the
+public mind.
+
+Slowly and sulkily the remainder of the brethren of the craft and those
+lay chiefs that were left, assembled within the circle of fires. Squatted
+in the prescribed order they eyed the figure of Bakahenzie in his red and
+green feathers mumbling incantations with doubt and disfavour. Indeed
+Bakahenzie seemed to them the symbol of the fallen god and a past régime;
+impotent and as mistaken as they were. In each and every one of them were
+suspicions and fears growing like weeds in tropic rain that he had made an
+error in not propitiating the new god in time, an impulse which required
+but a few hours’ growth to propel them out to the north-east after
+Sakamata and the others.
+
+As they watched in silence Bakahenzie was aware of the state of their
+minds towards him and grew the more perplexed in his search for an
+entertainment sufficiently stimulating to postpone the effects of their
+discontent. Sapiently he decided that any more messages from Tarum would
+be unwise in the present atmosphere. An idea of a revelation by divination
+to appoint a substitute for Bakuma as the Bride of the Banana and thus
+thrust forward a reason for a feast, as there was now no Yabolo to object,
+was abandoned because such an orgy was exclusive to the craft and would
+serve to exasperate the lay chiefs.
+
+His resource suggested a method. Suddenly he uttered a piercing yell and
+fell sideways as in the manner of one about to receive a communication
+from Tarum; but instead of the habitual seizure and cries and groans he
+lay rigid and silent. The divergence from the usual distracted the doubts
+of the audience.
+
+The fires flickered and danced to the insectile anthem as for twenty
+minutes or more he lay there as one dead. But at the first flutter of
+inattention among the doctors he sat up with closed eyes and called out in
+a loud voice:
+
+“That which is and must be, shall be!”
+
+Intuitively he had followed the precept of witch-doctors the world over of
+saying nothing at all in such a way that as many interpretations may be
+deduced as there are listeners. Each and every doctor and chief
+accordingly saw in these mystic words, as Marufa had done in the chance
+phrase of Moonspirit, that which he was most urged to do. Bakahenzie had
+accomplished his temporary object. Once more he cried out:
+
+“Let the children of the Banana be as the wild-cat at the fishpool that
+that which I have prophesied may come to pass!”
+
+The charging of the air with the familiar suggestion of magical doings
+gripped the audience and forced from them the conventional grunt of
+assent. Bakahenzie began again to mutter incantations. He had, he knew,
+averted the immediate danger for at least another sun, or perhaps two. Now
+was there only to wait and see. But Bakahenzie, as all great men, had the
+distinct vein of luck that follows the bold. Even as they squatted there,
+thoroughly worked up for the reception of a miracle, came a rustle among
+the leaves. Every head turned as one to see once more the mystic gleam of
+eyes in the gloom as the voice of Marufa cried:
+
+“Let there be a new fire!”
+
+From the cavern of the undergrowth emerged a white man bearing upon his
+shoulders a burden which, as he staggered into the gleam of the fires, was
+seen to be in form and in shape that of the burned idol. Then did
+Bakahenzie leap to his feet and in one stroke recover his lead and fetter
+his most dangerous enemy by proclaiming in a loud voice:
+
+“Behold! The bearer of the Burden of the World even as Bakahenzie hath
+prophesied!”
+
+And as Birnier set down the idol, from warrior and wizard, with the chief
+witch-doctor’s declaration, “That which is and must be, shall be,” echoing
+in their ears, came the deep grunt of acceptance of the new King-God of
+the lost Usakuma, the Incarnation of the Unmentionable One.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 22
+
+
+In the humid heat of the forenoon the small hills of Fort Eitel, as zu
+Pfeiffer had renamed the Place of Kings, in the centre of the rased banana
+plantations, resembled scabby pimples upon a shaven patch of a green head
+seething with a verminous activity.
+
+Across the ford of the river came a puckered-faced Bakuma in the train of
+carriers and slaves of MYalu, who with Yabolo was coming to make obeisance
+to Eyes-in-the-hands, under the protection of Sakamata. To Bakuma there
+was no joy in the prospect of the sight of her old home; the bitter taste
+of the oleander was in her mouth as she trudged despondently with downcast
+head.
+
+But the breast of MYalu was filled with the song of the cricket. The
+terrors that had haunted him throughout the journey, of being overtaken by
+the magic of Bakahenzie or his emissaries, for the sacrilege of stealing
+the Bride of the Banana, began to evaporate at the approach to his village
+where now dwelt a new god more powerful than any, from whom he was about
+to gain protection, honours, and incidentally the ivory, which his anxious
+eyes pictured still within his hut. But when they broke from the outer
+banana plantation a mighty grunt was punched from the chests of Yabolo and
+MYalu at the vision of the half-completed street of large huts in the
+midst of desolation.
+
+“Eh!” quoth Sakamata, “is not the way of the mighty one more wonderful
+than he who is gone? Behold, he maketh a city like unto that of his
+people, a city of gods!”
+
+But MYalu had no admiration to spare, for to him the alleged beauty
+thereof was fogged by the fact that his own huts were but blackened ruins.
+The next moment MYalu, in spite of his native dignity, started as one of
+those uniformed keepers of the coughing monsters barked at them magic
+words.
+
+Sakamata replied. Yabolo and MYalu stiffened as they observed the cringe
+of the shoulders as he fumbled hastily within his loin-cloth and presented
+a piece of hard substance, the colour of blue clay with magic marks upon
+it. The demon grunted at them to proceed as if talking to a slave.
+Followed in file the rest of the caravan. As Bakuma passed the uniformed
+demon standing with the sword and gun with seven voices upon his shoulder,
+leered, and grunting in a strange tongue, stepped forward and spun her
+round by the shoulders. Bakuma cried out in terror and the carriers gasped
+fearfully. MYalu and Yabolo wheeled. MYalu’s facial scar twitched with
+rage as he raised his spear. But Sakamata clung to his arm as the soldier,
+grinning, raised his rifle in their direction. Bakuma ran on. The man
+laughed and turned his back to them, calling out something that the
+Wongolo could not understand.
+
+“Eh!” commented Sakamata indignantly, “the dog hath eaten poison grass! We
+will tell his words to Eyes-in-the-hands and he will be beaten until he
+stales.”
+
+MYalu, slightly mollified by this promise of revenge, strode on in
+silence, bewildered and resentful, wondering at these strange things in
+the camp of the new god. In a large open space resembling a public square,
+was a big unfinished hut: the guest house, Sakamata informed them, for
+those who sought an audience with the Invincible One. As they squatted on
+the floor waiting patiently until the sun was two hand’s-breadth above the
+hill for the appointed time, food and beer were brought to them by a
+Wamungo slave. Zu Pfeiffer was careful to foster the class distinction.
+Sakamata duly held forth upon the generosity of Eyes-in-the-hands, the
+wonder of his works and presence; but his words were received in
+unsympathetic silence, for the incident on the road had wounded the
+dignity of both chief and witch-doctor; raised dim fears and forebodings.
+
+At length a strange sound rang out on the still hot air. The signal,
+Sakamata explained, that Eyes-in-the-hands would receive his guests.
+Leaving Bakuma squatted in the lethargy which appeared to be habitual to
+her now, the three slowly mounted the sacred hill, marvelling greatly at
+the black triangle of the roof of the new temple, gazing with veiled
+suspicion at the gleaming brass fittings of the coughing monster in the
+great gate, and eyeing uneasily the double lines of uniformed devils,
+their bayonets flaming in the sun, who were drawn up outside the green
+palace of Eyes-in-the-hands.
+
+On each side of the tent door stood the two tallest men in the companies,
+coal-black forms which towered above the slighter build of the Wongolo, as
+rigid and as silent as trees. Through this terrifying guard walked
+Sakamata leading his two compatriots, already startled and impressed.
+Immediately within Sakamata fell upon his knees. Before them at the end of
+the tent sat zu Pfeiffer in the full dress of his regiment, plumed helmet,
+blazoned uniform and sword; and beside him, erect, the two sergeants
+Schultz and Ludwig in full parade uniform. Above them was a blaze of red,
+white and black and in the midst another splash of colour. But before this
+vision had penetrated their brains, had risen the voice of Sakamata
+bidding them to kneel likewise. Bewildered and awed they obeyed. Then came
+a voice saying:
+
+“Rise, approach, O chiefs!”
+
+Accordingly they arose and following Sakamata, advanced and squatted,
+their eyes dominated and held by those myriad gleams of magic “eyes” on
+hands and wrists. Then the interpreter, standing at attention, spoke this
+harangue tonelessly:
+
+“Greeting and welcome, children of the Banana! Eyes-in-the-hands who is
+known to the people where the sun rises as the Eater-of-Men, hath come
+from afar, the messenger of a greater than he, the Lord of the World, the
+Earthquake, the World Trembler, who eats up what he pleases, whose eyes
+see all things, whose sword slays all things, whose breath is the rain,
+whose voice is the thunder, whose teeth are the lightning, whose frown is
+the earthquake, whose smile is the sun, whose ear is the moon, whose eyes
+are the stars, whose body is the world! Look upon one soul of him which he
+hath sent that ye may worship and know him!”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer raised the jewelled hand above his shoulder as the man ceased.
+From out the medley of colours to the unaccustomed native eyes grew slowly
+the form and face of a white man as strangely clothed as
+Eyes-in-the-hands, covered with amulets and charms upon his breast. For
+four minutes by his wrist-watch, zu Pfeiffer sat silent and as frozen as
+his sergeants; then secretly he pulled a string.
+
+“Ehh!” grunted Yabolo and MYalu involuntarily, for before them appeared
+even, as Sakamata had related, the two souls of every person present.
+Stunned at such a manifestation of magic, they slowly turned from one to
+the other. As silently as they had appeared did the visions vanish.
+
+“O son of MYana, tell the tale of the possession of these thy friends and
+allies,” commanded zu Pfeiffer.
+
+Sakamata obeyed. But as he recited the approximate number of MYalu’s
+followers, the number of his oxen and goats, the number of fine tusks and
+small, the number of wives, concubines, and children, and slaves, the eyes
+of MYalu grew unquiet. Had he known that he would be required to render an
+account he would have computed at half the actual amount, whereas, in
+order to impress Sakamata with his importance, he had exaggerated to
+almost double what he had ever possessed. Then as Sakamata proceeded to
+perform the same service for Yabolo, relating, by arrangement with his
+relative, about one-third of his possession, MYalu observed in a corner a
+man making magic upon a table, a native clerk keeping tally; for zu
+Pfeiffer kept an exact record of every chief’s alleged possessions, as
+given by Sakamata and corroborated—by silent consent—by the said chief, so
+that when afterwards any discrepancy with the said list was discovered,
+the chief was proven a liar and subject to the punishment of further
+confiscation as such, and served as well to enhance the reputation for
+omniscience of Eyes-in-the-hands.
+
+At the end of the recitals of property, MYalu was told, not asked, to bow
+his head to the ground in token of allegiance. He obeyed in bewilderment
+which changed to rage when he was informed that the third of his property
+must be rendered to the august being before one sun’s delay; that he was
+to be ready at a summons to produce a given number of warriors; and that
+his small and only son was immediately to be placed in the “village of
+sons of chiefs” as guaranty of obedience and good behaviour.
+
+In a mist of fright, anger and awe, he sat motionless. Sakamata proceeded
+to relate the doings of Zalu Zako and those who had remained faithful to
+him. Zu Pfeiffer had fairly precise information from spies of the
+movements of the Wongolo since the return of Sergeant Ludwig, who had
+burned the village of Yagonyana, but shortage of men and the serious
+disadvantage of traversing and fighting in the forest had prevented him
+from sending another punitive expedition. Also had he heard of a white man
+who had passed through the country. Sakamata, native-like, eager to
+placate, asserted that he had actually seen the white man who was called
+Moonspirit, and from the same motive, ever wishing to flatter, announced
+positively that he had no magic at all, was dark and small and a trader,
+the only kind of white man other than the military at Ingonya of whom
+Sakamata had ever seen.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer stroked his left moustache and reflected. He had at first
+thought that the man might possibly be Saunders, a trader who was in his
+pay, but now decided that he was probably some new trader or hunter from
+the Tanganyika district. He instructed Sakamata that he was to send a
+messenger to this white man and command him to come to him immediately.
+Then waving the imperious jewelled hand, he dismissed them. But noticing
+the sullen countenance of MYalu, he drew Sergeant Schultz’s attention,
+ordering him to mark the man and if the tax was not forthcoming quickly,
+to have him given fifty lashes. Silently Schultz saluted.
+
+So it was that MYalu, sulky, smouldering with anger against Sakamata, for
+he felt that he had been betrayed into a trap, followed Yabolo out into
+the sun. Not only had he not gotten back his ivory left in the village,
+but he was ordered to pay much more than he actually possessed.
+
+But when he had descended the hill to the guest house he came to the
+weeping and wailing of his people, who informed him that Bakuma had been
+taken away by three of the demon keepers of the coughing monsters.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 23
+
+
+Upon the site of Birnier’s old camp in the forest was a high palisade
+built from tree to tree. Inside of the gate beside a small conical hut
+burned the sacred fires tended by Mungongo; before a green canvas tent
+stood the new idol, which differed from the original in having a better
+perspective and proportion of features and body, yet lacked the master
+touch of expression given by the subconscious fingers of the native
+artist.
+
+Against the wall were stacked uniform cases to make a table, upon which
+were a hand-mirror and toilet articles; above a photograph of Lucille was
+pinned upon the canvas. Upon the camp bed, screened by a mosquito net, lay
+the new King-God, Moonspirit, the magic book in his hands.
+
+
+
+“Kings, princes, monarchs, and magistrates seem to be most happy, but look
+into their estate; you shall find them to be most cumbered with cares, in
+perpetual fear, agony, suspicion, jealousy: that as he (Valer. i. 7, c. 3)
+saith of a crown, if they but knew the discontents that accompany it, they
+would not stoop to pick it up. Quem mihi regem dabis (saith Chrysostom)
+non curis plenum?”
+
+
+
+The Incarnation of the Unmentionable One smiled, put down the book and
+glanced across at the photograph.
+
+“And yet they still talk of the advantages of a monarchy!” he commented.
+
+The original plan concocted with Marufa and Zalu Zako in the forest when
+making the new idol was that Birnier should become chief witch-doctor and
+Zalu Zako be anointed King-God, with Marufa as the power behind the
+throne. Although Zalu Zako desired to escape the yoke, his protest was
+enfeebled by the sense of fatality, and had been utterly squashed by the
+promise of Marufa, at Birnier’s suggestion, that the sex tabu would be
+lifted from the godhead. But the negligence of Marufa in allowing the
+white man to carry the idol, arranged with the idea of investing
+Moonspirit with greater prestige according to the prophecies already
+announced by Tarum, had permitted Bakahenzie to make his _coup
+d’état_—thrust the godhood upon the white and recover his own position.
+
+Birnier in truth had little option of refusal as well as little time for
+reflection upon a situation the possibility of which had not occurred to
+him; for Marufa was completely out-manœuvred by his rival, and the
+certainty of escape from his doom offered by Bakahenzie revived the image
+of Bakuma in Zalu Zako and bought his partisanship instantly.
+
+With Napoleonic swiftness to grasp the advantages gained Bakahenzie drove
+the lay chiefs from the sacred presence, which he surrounded by a
+bodyguard of the awed brethren; expelled the household from Zalu Zako’s
+compound and hustled the incarnation, bearing the new god, into holy
+isolation.
+
+Bewildered by the rapidity of the moves Marufa and Zalu Zako were
+separated from Moonspirit. In the general confusion, not knowing exactly
+what was happening, Birnier complied with what he believed to be the
+regulations regarding gods. But when he perceived that he was about to be
+left alone he clutched Mungongo and refused to part with him. Bakahenzie,
+compelled to avoid any delay before consolidating his position, instantly
+shut up Mungongo in the same web by declaring him the Keeper of the Sacred
+Fires and so disposed of any agent outside the tabu or craft. As soon as
+this was accomplished and a dance to celebrate the lighting of the new
+fires commanded, the wily chief witch-doctor approached Marufa who,
+realizing that he was hopelessly outwitted, was only too eager to make the
+best terms possible.
+
+Birnier had known that the King-God was never allowed to be seen by the
+populace except at the Harvest Festival, yet he accepted his isolation
+philosophically, lured by the expectation of the secrets he was about to
+learn, although his curiosity led sometimes to the vision of a god peeping
+through a fence.
+
+While the drums summoning the council of chiefs and wizards were muttering
+through the moist air, to Birnier, squatting on the floor of Zalu Zako’s
+hut with Mungongo beside him, came Bakahenzie to instruct him in his rôle.
+To whet his curiosity still more he learned that from the moment of
+appearance in the gate of the sacred enclosure for the ceremony of the
+lighting of the royal fires, every movement of body and speech was
+regulated as rigidly as the etiquette of the Court of Spain. At a signal
+from the chief witch-doctor was the King-God to leave the hut and appear
+from behind the idol; with arms in a certain position was he to approach
+and squat at an exact spot. To Mungongo was given charge of the two fire
+sticks, newly consecrated.
+
+As the chief witch-doctor retired the chanting began. Interested to know
+what was about to happen Birnier obeyed in the spirit of a game. So in the
+warm darkness they squatted, these two, listening to the chanting, cries
+and groans to the accompaniment of the drums and lyres and the perpetual
+twitter of the forest. At last came a violent howl from Bakahenzie which
+Mungongo declared was their cue.
+
+Around the circle of the fence to avoid the eyes of the audience ran
+Mungongo to the temporary Place of Fires. Feeling as if he were once more
+playing in an amateur dramatic club, Birnier stalked with portentous
+dignity from the hut, past the idol, and took his seat upon the enchanted
+place. Without the palisade and within another squatted in correct order
+the lines of wizards and chiefs, Zalu Zako retaining, rather by prestige
+of his former holiness and indecision as to what his status really was,
+his position at their head.
+
+Upon his haunches before a large calabash upon a fire Bakahenzie finished
+the mumbling of incantations over the sacred ingredients, and leaping to
+his feet began a wild dance to the throb of the drums and the
+diaphragmatic chorus of the assembled cult.… Swifter and swifter spun the
+chief witch-doctor. The glow of the fire tinted his whirling bronze body
+with flecks of green and red as he gyrated in and out of the shadows.
+Suddenly he threw a handful of herbs upon the fire which was immediately
+enveloped in a cloud of smoke, into which with a screech Bakahenzie
+disappeared.… The drums and grunting ceased. Then in the swirling column
+of blue appeared his figure holding something in his hands. To the wild
+outburst of drums and groans he sprang towards the King-God elect and
+anointed his breast and shoulders with a pungent compound, and leaped away
+into another dance, while Mungongo plied the two fire sticks. When the
+spark was blown upon the dry tinder and the first flame flickered
+Bakahenzie dropped flat before the gate as from the wizards went up the
+great shout:
+
+“The fire is lighted!”
+
+And from the mass of warriors and folk confined to their huts behind the
+outer palisade the phrase was echoed in a mighty wail, startling monkeys
+and parrots into as wild an acclamation of the new King-God.
+
+Bakahenzie, rising to his haunches, began a chant in honour of the new
+King, a chant based upon the song composed by Marufa and repeated on the
+phonograph, but developing even stranger merits and attributes. Until the
+first glimmer of dawn through the forest roof squatted Birnier, as
+motionless as etiquette demanded, listening to the strange psalm of praise
+with avid interest and observation.
+
+Suddenly, amid a furious clamour of the drums, Bakahenzie, Marufa, and one
+other of the inner cult of the five who had not deserted, led the body of
+the doctors in a rush into the sacred enclosure, seized upon the startled
+King and hustled him to the base of the idol where, yielding to the
+whispered instructions of Marufa, he took the idol once more upon his
+shoulders and guided by Bakahenzie, walked out of the gate and through the
+village to the yelling and screaming of the wizards, some of whom,
+according to precedent, ran about screeching and rattling hut doors,
+pulling thatches and howling ferociously in search of any sacrilegious
+peeper.
+
+As he tramped on with his load Marufa yelled in his ear that he must carry
+the Burden of the World no matter what happened to him, for if he let the
+idol fall then would he be killed upon the spot to save the sky from
+falling too. Wondering what this meant and where he was going, the cut of
+thongs upon his legs surprised him into a halt. Immediately a terrific cry
+went up:
+
+“The Bearer of the World stumbles! Aie! Aieeeeeeeee!”
+
+Despite the furious flogging the intellectual interest in this strange
+conception distracted his mind from the pain of the blows; also his bare
+back was protected by the idol and his leggings and trousers deadened the
+lashes. A moment more he hesitated. But he was unarmed and had voluntarily
+taken on the adventure, so he would see it through. As he broke into a
+shuffling run, for the idol fortunately was lighter than the previous one
+and he was a more powerful man than Kawa Kendi, another howl of joy and
+relief echoed throughout the village.
+
+So along the old forest trail he travelled as fast as he could, assisted
+slightly by wizards’ hands as he crawled over clumps of undergrowth. The
+intensity of the whipping had decreased as soon as they were out of the
+village but throughout an occasional vicious whack testified to the
+presence of some devout doctor. Thus it was that the white King-God came
+to his throne and sat in state upon his bed to smile at the reflections of
+a melancholic philosopher.
+
+So far so good, reflected Birnier, although the enforced isolation and
+strict curtailment of his actions had already begun to be irksome; yet to
+attain so difficult a goal sacrifice must be borne, he argued
+philosophically.
+
+The royal larder, he noticed with thankfulness, was kept well stocked.
+Every day appeared a slave who left just within the entrance chickens,
+bananas, milk and fresh water, and sometimes a young goat. All such
+provisions which he had happened to take into the forest with him and so
+had escaped MYalu’s marauding hands had been placed in his tent with other
+cases, as containing no man knew what mighty magic.
+
+For three days he had been left utterly alone. Sounds of drums and
+chanting from the distant village had reached them on the still air, but
+what they were doing he could not discover. No layman was allowed to come
+near the sacred enclosure. While he strolled, taking a smoke and
+constitutional around and around his “pen,” as he put it, several of the
+lesser wizards appeared and stood at a distance from the gate to stare at
+him. When addressed they made no reply. On the second occasion he began to
+be irritated, but he kept his temper and went to cover in his tent,
+muttering: “Why the devil don’t they bring me some buns?”
+
+On the fourth day patience began to fray. He had no notion of knowing how
+long this quarantine was going to last. He was on the point of going to
+find out, but Mungongo pleaded so earnestly that they would instantly be
+killed if they did, that he desisted. So Birnier retired to the tent to
+seek consolation from a record of Lucille’s voice.
+
+Birnier attempted to cross-examine Mungongo to find out what was the
+object of this isolation, but beyond the fact that strangers were never
+permitted to behold the King-God, even lay natives, without special magic,
+which was only made once a year at the Harvest Festival, lest evil be made
+upon his person and so endanger the world, Mungongo did not know; merely,
+that so it was. What power over the head witch-doctor the King really had,
+Mungongo had no notion. The King-God was the most powerful magician known,
+asserted Mungongo. Did he not make rain and bear the world upon his
+shoulders? When Birnier unwisely denied this feat, Mungongo looked pained
+and began a remark, but balked before the name Moonspirit to ask the name
+of Birnier’s father.
+
+At the mental image conjured up of a handsome white-haired planter and
+ex-owner of many slaves Birnier smiled, but he knew the tabu regarding the
+ban upon the names of the dead and that he, presumably, having ascended
+into the divine plane, was therefore classed with the departed. He
+recollected that the old man, who belonged to a cadet branch of a royalist
+family, had been called “le Marquis,” of which he was excessively proud.
+Birnier translated into the dialect the nearest possible rendition of the
+title: The Lord-of-many-Lands.
+
+“The son of the Lord-of-many-Lands,” continued Mungongo satisfied, “doth
+but tickle the feet of his slave.”
+
+On the fifth afternoon, while the god was engrossed in a cure for love
+madness which, he reflected, might be of service to zu Pfeiffer, came a
+voice without crying:
+
+“The son of Maliko would speak with the Lord, the Bearer of the World!”
+
+Birnier glanced across at the photograph of Lucille.
+
+“Some job I’ve gotten!” he remarked as he rose. In the gate sat
+Bakahenzie. Birnier was conscious of an idiotic impulse to rush forward to
+greet him as an old and long lost friend. But remembering the dignity of
+his godhood he remained in the tent doorway, bidding the chief
+witch-doctor to advance.
+
+Birnier retired backwards and sat beneath the net, for the mosquitoes were
+as thick as they are on the bayou Barataria. Mungongo, possibly to prove
+his erudition, sat upon one of the cases containing much magic, at which
+Bakahenzie from the floor in the doorway looked askance. Birnier was
+keenly anxious to know what was happening regarding the fortunes of the
+tribe, hoping that with the restoration of the Unmentionable One that they
+would return to their allegiance. According to etiquette he remained
+silent, waiting for Bakahenzie to open the conversation, until, realizing
+that he was a god and that the chief witch-doctor was doing the same
+thing, reflected swiftly and desiring to make an impression, repeated
+Bakahenzie’s mystic phrase which he had overheard whilst hiding in the
+jungle previous to the dénouement:
+
+“That which is and must be, shall be!” Bakahenzie grunted his
+acknowledgment of the profundity of the statement. “He who would trap the
+leopard must needs dig the pit!” Another uncompromising silence urged
+Birnier to force the pace a little: “O son of Maliko, what say the omens
+and the signs of the evil one, Eyes-in-the-hands?”
+
+“When shall the Unmentionable One return unto the Place of Kings?”
+demanded Bakahenzie.
+
+“The Holy One returneth not unto the place appointed until that which
+defileth is removed,” retorted Birnier.
+
+Bakahenzie took snuff and appeared to consider. Then he glanced around the
+tent as if in search of something.
+
+“When will the voice of Tarum speak through the pod of the soul?”
+
+Mungongo looked expectant and stood up. But Birnier ignored him.
+
+“The fruit doth not fall until it be ripe. He would know what hath been
+done by his slaves for the baiting of the pit for the unclean one.”
+
+“Would the magician that cometh from the sea make pretence that an
+elephant is a mouse?” inquired Bakahenzie.
+
+For a moment Birnier was perplexed; then he realized that the chief
+witch-doctor inferred that he, as King-God, mocked his priest by
+pretending that he did not know all things.
+
+“Doth the chief witch-doctor make magic for the curing of the scratch of a
+girl of the hut thatch?” he retorted. “Lest thy heart wither like unto a
+fallen leaf, know then that the soul of Tarum hath made words for the
+return of the Unmentionable One to the Place of Kings, but that his
+children may not be as the dogs of the village who are driven, he wills
+that you prepare the pit for the trapping of the defiled one.”
+Bakahenzie’s eyes stolidly regarded the tent wall. “O son of Maliko, hast
+thou sent forth the sound of the drum throughout the land that the
+children may know of the Coming?”
+
+“When will the voice of Tarum speak through the pod of the soul?” demanded
+Bakahenzie insistently.
+
+Birnier sat motionless in the native manner. Irritated by this childish
+tenacity to apparently a fixed idea, he yielded to an impulse which was
+almost a weakness.
+
+“O son of Maliko,” said he, “thou art a mighty magician!” Bakahenzie
+grunted modest assent. “Even as I am.” Another grunt. “Give unto me thine
+ears and thine eyes that I may reveal unto thee that which is known to the
+mightiest of magicians.” Commanding the delighted Mungongo to bring out
+the phonograph, he continued: “Thou hast heard of the mighty doings of the
+unclean devourer of men, Eyes-in-the-hands. I have magic the like of which
+man hath never seen. Is it not so?”
+
+“Ough!”
+
+“Yet will the son of the Lord-of-many-Lands make thee to see that which
+is, is not!”
+
+“That which is, is not,” repeated Bakahenzie, whose professional mind was
+pleased with the phrase.
+
+In the desire to explain rationally the mystery of a phonograph and
+despairing of any attempt to describe the laws of vibration, Birnier
+sought for a likely simile. Encouraged by the almost imperceptible fact
+that he had awakened Bakahenzie’s visible interest, he plunged on: “Within
+this piece of tree is there nought but many pieces of iron such as thy
+spears are made of. Thou knowest that there are places by the river and in
+the rocks where a man may speak and that his words will be returned to
+him. Is it not so?”
+
+“They are white words, O son of the Lord-of-many-Lands!” returned
+Bakahenzie. “For the spirits of the river and the rocks mock the voices of
+those who have not eaten of the Sacred Banana” (the uninitiated).
+
+“But they mock thy voice as well,” protested Birnier.
+
+“Are there not goats in ghostland who bleat at the wizard and the
+peasant?”
+
+“By the Lord!” murmured Birnier, although the mask of his face did not
+change. “Ghostland is full of goats if one were to credit some of the most
+modern witch-doctors! Still demonstration …
+
+“Thou seest, fellow magician,” he continued, “the pod of the soul of
+mighty Tarum, his ear like unto an elephant, his colour like unto a lion!”
+Birnier got out of the mosquito net and knelt beside the phonograph in
+front of Bakahenzie. Taking off the trumpet and cylinder carrier he opened
+up the inside, revealing the clockwork motor, wound it up, stopped it and
+released it. “Thine eyes see that my words are white. These things are but
+as pieces of metal of thy spears. Is it not so?”
+
+“Ough!”
+
+Birnier closed the machine, adjusted the trumpet and put on the cylinder
+of Marufa’s record.
+
+  “Aie! Aiee! I am the spirit of Kintu!
+  Aie! Aiee! I am he who first was!”
+
+chanted the machine.
+
+Birnier, noticing that the desired astonishment was registered by an
+almost impalpable start, stopped the machine and changed the record.
+
+  “Rejoice, O my children, for he that is bidden shall come!
+  Rejoice, O ye warriors, for he that shall lead you shall come!
+  Rejoice, O ye wizards, for he that is greater than ye shall come!
+  Rejoice, O ye women, for he that fertilizes shall come!”
+
+Birnier allowed the machine to run through the chant until the end:
+
+  “He shall come forth bearing that which ye seek!
+  Hear ye, my people, and give voice to my word!”
+
+The machine whirred and stopped. Birnier turned to Bakahenzie.
+
+“Thou hast seen, O my brother magician, that my words are white?”
+
+“Ough!” assented Bakahenzie.
+
+“Thou hast seen, O my brother magician, that at the will of my finger upon
+that which is made but of spear-heads that the voice of Tarum hath spoken,
+the voice which is but the mocking voice of Marufa amid the trees of the
+forest?”
+
+“Ough!”
+
+“Dost thou not know that he who knows the ways of rocks, who can make
+pieces of spear into that which will say and do that which he wills, is a
+greater magician than he who must needs go unto the rocks to be mocked?”
+
+“Thou art the greatest of magicians, O son of the Lord-of-many-Lands,”
+responded Bakahenzie in a burst of eloquence. “For thou hast entrapped the
+spirits of rocks and spears to do thy bidding.”
+
+“O God!” sighed the professor, “what is the use of language?”
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 24
+
+
+A favourite panacea for the results of a stupid action is the sentiment of
+martyrdom. When MYalu persisted in bitter reproaches to Yabolo and
+Sakamata the first retorted that the punishment was the result of having
+committed the sacrilege of kidnapping the sacred Bride of the Banana. Then
+MYalu considered that not only had he been trapped by one of his own
+people whom he had deserted, but to add insult to injury he felt he was
+not understood. Neither Yabolo nor Sakamata, as Bakahenzie, could
+comprehend a chief and a warrior making such a fuss over a girl. That the
+confiscation of MYalu’s property was an insult they both agreed, but
+biassed by both fear of Eyes-in-the-hands and their own interests, they
+were disposed to pretend that after all such a small matter as the
+abduction of a girl could be overlooked when committed by the follower of
+such a powerful god and magician, as expedience is so often the father of
+a dispensation. Yet nevertheless in Yabolo, if not in Sakamata, whose
+hatred of the tribal craft was deep in ratio to the degeneracy of his
+native code, the outrage upon Bakuma as the Bride of the Banana, while an
+act of dangerous sacrilege when performed by a Wongolo, violated the half
+suppressed traditions and kindled a spark of bitter resentment ready to
+flare up against Eyes-in-the-hands or Sakamata; but being a diplomatist,
+he concealed that anger, even from himself to a certain degree.
+
+Upon MYalu’s arrival in the guest-house to find that Bakuma had been
+taken, his passion had nearly led to his instant destruction, for he had
+desired to run amok among the grinning askaris. Afterwards, when the
+efforts of his friends and the hungry points of bayonets had cooled his
+ardour, he had wanted to rush straight to Eyes-in-the-hands who, according
+to Sakamata employed as master of ceremony at the daily audiences, would
+instantly restore Bakuma to him and visit a terrible punishment upon the
+evil-doer. But the august presence could not be approached so casually:
+petition must be made in orthodox form and the royal pleasure awaited
+meekly.
+
+According to the words of the Son-of-the-Earthquake, as zu Pfeiffer was
+officially designated by his men, who placed the actual name under the
+tabu in token of the acceptance of the magic purple, came a guard to take
+away MYalu’s first-born as hostage to the village of the sons of chiefs.
+Seething with red rage MYalu mutely followed Yabolo to the place appointed
+for their housing. Then on the following afternoon at the time of audience
+MYalu waited in the broiling heat for three hand’s-spans of the sun
+without being summoned to the green temple. And thus it was for three
+days.
+
+But upon the fourth, when MYalu squatted in the general hut in company
+with Yabolo, Sakamata, and other renegade chiefs, smouldering with bitter
+resentment, came the pulse of a distant drum, the furious tattoo and long
+pause, tattoo and long pause, which accompanies the mighty shout at the
+coronation of a new King-God, “The Fire is lighted!” news that had
+throbbed from that point within the forest from village to village to the
+slopes of the Gamballagalla and to the Wamungo country. The perceptible
+effect upon that circle of bronze figures was a scarcely audible grunt,
+yet nevertheless the message was like unto a live ember dropped in the dry
+grass of the cattle country.
+
+That morning one of the renegade chiefs had brought in two others to make
+their allegiance and received as reward for his fidelity a remittance of
+one-third of the tax levy upon his property, a policy adopted by zu
+Pfeiffer calculated to encourage the recruiting of his followers by
+establishing a reputation for lavish generosity to those who obeyed him,
+in contrast to his merciless severity to the recalcitrant ones.
+
+An hour later MYalu was summoned from the sweating throng squatted before
+the line of demon keepers through the giant ebon guards to audience with
+the Son-of-the-Earthquake. At the entrance as bidden he knelt, for he knew
+that he would be compelled did he refuse. A white flame was in his heart,
+but yet the magnificence of the son of the World Trembler and his
+satellites, the terrible ghosts of the distant white god, with amulets and
+charms upon his breast, had awed and subdued MYalu. Then came the voice of
+Sakamata relating that the chief MYalu, son of MBusa, made complaint to
+the Son-of-the-Earthquake that his slaves, the keepers of the coughing
+demons, had taken a girl named Bakuma, daughter of Bakala, and that he
+craved restitution of his property. While this was being translated by the
+corporal interpreter, MYalu watched the magic flame in the mouth of
+Eyes-in-the-hands, marvelling greatly at the smoke which emerged. Then
+said the interpreter:
+
+“The son of the Lord-of-the-World, the Earthquake, the World Trembler who
+eats up whom he pleases, whose eyes see all things, whose sword slays all
+things, whose breath is the rain, whose voice is the thunder, whose teeth
+are the lightning, whose frown is the earthquake, whose smile is the sun,
+whose ear is the moon, whose eyes are the stars, whose body is the world,
+saith that when the son of MBusa (MYalu) bringeth three chiefs of the same
+rank to sit at the Feet then shall the daughter of Bakala return unto him,
+but in the meantime shall her girdle remain untied. He hath spoken!”
+
+As he finished zu Pfeiffer made the signal of dismissal with his jewelled
+hand, but MYalu with the throb of that distant drum in his ears, cried out
+in protest, saying:
+
+“The words of the Son-of-the-Earthquake are like unto spears made of
+grass!”
+
+The interpreter boggled at the translation of the sentence. Zu Pfeiffer
+saw a ripple of insubordination. He rapped out an order to have the man
+taken away and given fifty lashes. Instantly the guards surrounded MYalu,
+who submitted in sudden misgiving, and led him away to receive the
+punishment.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer gave orders that the girl Bakuma should be found and called
+the next case, Kalomato the elderly chief who had had all his property
+sequestered until he should deliver his eldest son as hostage. He was a
+slight withered old man with a white tuft of beard and at the hands of the
+askaris, after considerable endurance, had screamed his submission. Now he
+hobbled into zu Pfeiffer’s presence with the aid of a stick. Pompously the
+interpreter recited the list of the titles of the august one, and then
+dwelt upon the wondrous benefits to be obtained at the magic jewelled
+hands, and demanded that the old chief “eat the dust” and obey the royal
+mandate.
+
+But the sharp eyes gazed steadily from their wrinkled sockets with a
+curious gleam in them as he mumbled that “his soul had wandered” (he had
+dreamed) “and had met the spirit of Tarum, who had forbidden him to obey
+the white god.”
+
+“The shenzie” (savage—used contemptuously) “longs for more fire for his
+paws, O Bwana,” translated the interpreter into Kiswahili.
+
+“What does he say?” demanded zu Pfeiffer.
+
+“He says, Bwana, that he hath dreamed that his god hath told him that he
+must not obey you. Indio, Bwana.”
+
+“Tell him that I slew his god, as every man knows.”
+
+“The Son-of-the-Earthquake bids thee to know that he hath eaten up thy god
+as he eateth up thy warriors when his wrath is aroused. Eat dust that thy
+beard grow yet longer; stretch thy tongue and thou shalt be eaten entirely
+and all that is thine!”
+
+“The Fire is lighted,” mumbled the old man.
+
+“What does he say?” demanded zu Pfeiffer sharply.
+
+“He attempts to make magic against thee, Bwana,” replied the interpreter
+who knew not the meaning of the phrase.
+
+“Take away the animal,” commanded zu Pfeiffer.
+
+The old man was accordingly led out to the further attentions of the
+soldiery. But during that afternoon zu Pfeiffer became conscious of a
+subtle air of defiance, a restlessness and exchanging of glances, so that
+the demon which Bakunjala had once seen so vividly came back to roost
+somewhere beneath the immaculate uniform.
+
+Neither he nor his sergeants nor their men could speak the Wongolo tongue
+fluently, so that for interpreter he was compelled to employ one of the
+corporals. To employ any newly subjected race or tribe as soldiers or in
+any responsible capacity is unwise, for ties of blood are liable to lead
+to treachery; to trust to the idiosyncrasies and personal values of any
+native interpreter is equally impolitic. Zu Pfeiffer and his party were as
+unaware of the meaning of the phrases exchanged as they were of the
+message in the throbbing of that distant drum. Between the conqueror and
+the subjected tribe was a wall denser than any steel; the same wall of
+tabu of the craft that Birnier was finding so difficult to penetrate.
+
+Every attempt to persuade any of the witch-doctors to disclose the secrets
+of their craft through the interpreter was doomed to failure; even had zu
+Pfeiffer been able to speak the dialect as well as Birnier he would never
+have accomplished it. Yet he tried the impossible. The answer was
+invariably a mask of ox-like stupidity or the retort that he, being a
+mighty magician, must needs know that he did but “tickle their feet”! At
+length, irritated by this persistence, he had Sakamata put to the torture
+and had for his pains a story in which the idol as the first man was the
+father of the tribe whom the people believed to have been eaten up
+literally, so that the conqueror had become the father of the people,
+having the idol inside him, and the chance that the tale had a faint
+resemblance to an account by a Frenchman of the superstitions of a West
+African tribe, convinced him. Implicitly he believed the ingenious yarn
+invented by a wily witch-doctor to save his hide and the perquisites of
+his job by placating the white man, the trap into which most white
+chroniclers have fallen. This conviction, which flattered his sagacity and
+lulled any suspicions, strengthened his arm in the delivering of
+punishment and reward.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 25
+
+
+In the camp of Bakahenzie was the low mutter of the drums by day and
+night. The village had straggled farther through the forest in each
+direction save that of the sacred enclosure. Already were some five
+hundred warriors there and more were pouring in every day. Busy were
+Bakahenzie and wizards, great and small, in the preparing of amulets of
+the hearts of lions, livers of leopards and galls of birds, and the
+brewing of potent decoctions to be smeared with parrot feathers upon the
+warriors old and young against the evil eye and the spirits of the night.
+And dispensed by Bakahenzie and Marufa, from whom had come the original
+idea, was a special and rather expensive charm against the coughing
+monsters, which was made by, and invested with, the magic of the King-God
+himself, a can key. That morning had there been a special meeting of the
+craft and the chiefs before the sacred enclosure, where they had looked
+upon the sacred form of the King-God and heard the magic elephant’s ear
+give them instructions and a prophecy. Around and about a hundred fires,
+flickering mystically in the moist cavern of the forest, shuffled and
+chanted the warriors invoking the aid of Tarum, the spirit of their
+ancestors.
+
+On the threshold of his hut squatted a sullen Zalu Zako. He had discovered
+that he had escaped from the river bearing him to the pool of celibacy to
+find that the bird had been captured by another. Although he had known
+that before attaining his desire he would have had to extricate Bakuma
+from the net of the tabu, yet, lover-like and human, that task
+unconsidered had seemed as easy as stalking a buck in a wood. But the joy
+of his own release had been dissipated as a cloud of dust by a shower by
+the news of MYalu’s abduction of the girl and his desertion. Zalu Zako was
+so obsessed by chagrin at this wholly unexpected appearance of a rival
+that he was inclined to regret that he had ever thought of the move by
+which he could escape his late doom and rescue Bakuma at the same time.
+The illusion of nearness to the desired object had served naturally to
+whet his appetite; the balked love motive dominated him almost to the
+exclusion of political affairs. What his official status was now that all
+precedent had been broken Bakahenzie did not know and had not decided, and
+Zalu Zako cared less.
+
+Though his faith in most of the tribal theology was unshaken, he did not
+believe in the sanctity, or the necessity, of the marriage of the Bride of
+the Banana, because he had a defensive complex of desire for her that
+inhibited that belief. Towards MYalu, Zalu Zako’s natural reaction was
+revenge. The matter was how to accomplish that end. To reveal to
+Bakahenzie that he was the lover of Bakuma would be tantamount to
+admitting sacrilege in having a passion for the Bride of the Banana.
+
+As Zalu Zako was unable to get at the person of his rival the most logical
+method to his mind was by witchcraft. To obtain some relics of the body of
+MYalu proved easy, as his wives and slaves being forced to flee, had been
+unable to burn the deserted hut, thus leaving in the customary place in
+the thatch some of the hair and nail clippings. Also to find an excuse for
+the cursing of MYalu was still easier. So at a meeting of the chiefs he
+rivalled Bakahenzie in denunciation of the absconding chief, insisted that
+a mighty magic be made against him and produced the necessary corporeal
+parts upon which to work. So it was that Bakahenzie and Marufa, a quiet
+watchful Marufa, brewed the magic brew and condemned MYalu by the proxy of
+his nail clippings to die, a process that took root in a very firm
+conviction in the mind of Zalu Zako and the others that die MYalu would.
+
+After this satisfaction of the first fierce instinct Zalu Zako was more at
+liberty to consider other matters, which resulted in an effort to quicken
+the collective will to recover the tribe’s country and possessions,
+symbolised in Zalu Zako’s mind by the delicate figure of Bakuma.
+
+The ceremony of the lighting of the new fires he had attended
+perfunctorily. To have regret or pity for the white man, Moonspirit who
+had taken over his doom, never occurred to Zalu Zako, for to him as to
+Bakahenzie Moonspirit was a mighty magician who, if competent to effect
+the magic he had already displayed, was capable of looking after himself;
+moreover, as he had recalled the Unmentionable One, he stood as the
+incarnation of the tribe, the god, therefore beyond human consideration.
+
+Bakahenzie’s chief regard was, of course, to unify the tribe once more and
+to rouse those who had submitted to Eyes-in-the-hands to rebellion, which
+was but a projection of his desire, as that of all patriots, to
+consolidate his own position and to regain his lost prestige. He had had
+no need to command that the news be sent abroad. At the ceremony of the
+Lighting of the Fires the drum notes had been picked up by the nearest
+village and sent ricocheting across the length and breadth of the country,
+rippling through the Court of the Son-of-the-Earthquake.
+
+Bakahenzie’s confidence had increased tenfold since, by his clever coup,
+he had locked up the white magician in the godhead. He believed that
+Moonspirit was the mightiest magician the world had ever seen, a demi-god;
+for had he, Bakahenzie, not seen these wondrous miracles with his own
+eyes? Had not he, Bakahenzie, captured and tamed this marvellous power to
+his own ends?
+
+So absolute was this confidence in the powers of the white that Bakahenzie
+was perfectly sincere, as Mungongo and Bakuma had been, in asserting that
+the “son of the Lord-of-many-Lands” was pleased to pretend that “an
+elephant was a mouse,” that he “tickled their feet.” The only doubt raised
+in his mind at that interview was whether he could persuade this powerful
+being to destroy the usurper “out of hand,” as it were, or even whether
+Moonspirit could do so; for it was quite reasonable to him to suppose that
+even a god, in fighting another god, might have to do battle for the
+victory.
+
+Not in spite of, but because of, this firm faith Bakahenzie took more
+precautions than ever before to surround the captured god with the
+toughest fibres of the tabu to keep him in isolation. Obviously such a
+valuable prize demanded special precautions. He promulgated an ordinance,
+in the amplitude of his regained power, that no lay man nor any wizard
+save the inner cult, whom he dared not forbid, were to approach within
+sight of the sacred enclosure. In the jungle of his mind lurked the fear
+that the new god might be seen to leave the sacred ground and thus render
+the penalty of death imperative according to the laws of the tabu upon a
+god who jeopardised the tribal welfare as MFunya MPopo had done by his
+failure to bring rain. The belief that he could control a force which he
+admitted was infinitely greater than he, and of punishing it if it did not
+behave, was not at all inconsistent to the native mind, nor more illogical
+than many theological ideas of whites.
+
+At the last interview Bakahenzie had tried to persuade Birnier to permit
+him to speak into the mighty ear of the magic box; in effect an attempt to
+gain complete control. But Birnier, when he at length had realised that
+Bakahenzie’s mental development was little greater than Mungongo’s, and
+keenly aware of the isolation to which he was to be subjected, as well as
+the purpose in the witch-doctor’s mind, had resolutely refused. Bakahenzie
+had accepted the intimation that the god would not work miracles through
+any other mouth than that of his incarnation, and after a long cogitative
+silence had departed without further comment.
+
+But of course he came back again next day, as Birnier had known that he
+would. Birnier hinted at the expected initiation into the “mysteries” of
+the craft, particularly of the Festival of the Banana and the other
+ceremonies connected with his rôle as King-God. But Bakahenzie’s gaze,
+fixed upon an object on the toilet table, did not quiver. Birnier repeated
+the inquiry more bluntly. Said Bakahenzie:
+
+“The fingers of the son of Maliko are hungry to touch the magic knife of
+the son of the Lord-of-many-Lands.”
+
+“Damn it,” muttered Birnier. “That’s my favourite!” But he handed the
+razor to Bakahenzie, saying: “Is not the porridge pot free to all
+brothers?” Gravely Bakahenzie slipped the safety razor into his loin
+cloth, mumbled the orthodox adieu and departed.
+
+Although devoted to Birnier as much as ever, Mungongo was bound just as
+much by the articles of the tabu as any other native; in fact, since his
+appointment to the high office of Keeper of the Fires, he was if possible
+more terrified by the bogies of their theology than before. Put one foot
+out of the sacred ground he would not, for he was convinced that
+immediately he did so, the ghosts of the dead kings would instantly
+strangle him. Birnier attempted to persuade him to get into communication
+with Marufa, but that wily gentleman, grieving over the failure of the
+coup he had aided Birnier to make, and for the moment completely under the
+domination of Bakahenzie, who, he knew, had him watched every moment of
+the day and night, would never approach the Place of the Unmentionable
+One. Nor dared Zalu Zako break the tabu placed by Bakahenzie. To
+Bakahenzie and not to Birnier he owed his escape from the dreaded godhood.
+One who had released him might quite reasonably have him back again if
+annoyed. The few wizards who came to gaze at the imprisoned god like
+children at the Zoo, as Birnier had commented, were deaf to any remark,
+instruction, or plea of the Holy One. So it was that Birnier began to
+realise that the functions of a god were so very purely divine that he
+would never be allowed to interfere in human affairs at all except by
+grace of the high priest, and possibly he was not the first god who had
+found that out.
+
+This jungle of secrecy and the denial of any active part in the organising
+of the tribe began to irritate Birnier. Yet he perceived clearly enough
+from his knowledge of the native mind that a premature effort to force
+either confidence or action would end in disaster. Patience and
+perseverance alone would bring success; and the moulding of the material
+through forces which already controlled it. He must play the witch-doctor
+to the full. Working upon this hypothesis he determined to control
+Bakahenzie through “messages” from the spirit of Tarum. The trouble was to
+find out whether Bakahenzie would obey him or not and to what extent.
+
+So in the early hours of one morning Bakahenzie’s watchers in the forest
+shuddered as they heard more of the mysterious voices of the Unmentionable
+One making wondrous magic within the temple as Mungongo chanted, at
+Birnier’s prompting, the god’s instructions to his high priest and people.
+The form of the chant was not correct as Mungongo’s memory was very
+unreliable, but as Birnier remarked to the portrait of Lucille, “I don’t
+suppose Maestro Bakahenzie is such a stylist as he would have the public
+suppose.” Afterwards, to Mungongo’s delight, who was never tired of any
+manifestation of Moonspirit’s magic, he put out the light and lay upon his
+bed within the temple listening to the voice of Lucille pouring out the
+passion of “Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix,” in _Samson et Delilah_, to the
+sleepy ears of the monkeys above the figure of the idol limned against the
+moon-patterned roof of the forest.
+
+But scarcely had the moist ultramarine shadows turned to mauve than the
+voice of Bakahenzie hailed the god most punctiliously from without.
+However Birnier happened to be sleepy, and the chance of the early hour
+presented such an opportunity to gain prestige that he sent the Keeper of
+the Fires to inform the High Priest that the god was not yet up and that
+he must needs wait. And wait did Bakahenzie, like unto a graven image at
+the gate until the sun was four hand’s-spans above the trees. When Birnier
+had breakfasted upon broiled kid, eggs, banana and weak tea, Bakahenzie
+was summoned to the august presence.
+
+Wondering what new idea Bakahenzie had gotten into his head Birnier
+solemnly talked the usual preliminaries, intending to announce in the best
+manner that Tarum had a message for the son of Maliko; but to his
+astonishment Bakahenzie forestalled him by demanding to know when the god
+would speak again.
+
+When Mungongo had gravely placed the machine at his feet Birnier set the
+record. The chant bade the son of Maliko to summon the wizards and the
+warriors of the tribe to the abode of the Unmentionable One; to send to
+those who had fallen into the power of Eyes-in-the-hands instructions that
+they were not to reveal by word or deed that the Unmentionable One had
+been pleased to return, but to wait like a wild cat at a fish pool until a
+signal was given through the drums, when they were to smite swiftly at
+every keeper of the demons and to flee immediately to their brethren in
+the forest; that they were on no account to kill or wound
+Eyes-in-the-hands nor any white man that was his, lest their powerful
+ghosts exact a terrible penalty and refuse to be propitiated; that when
+these things had been done would the spirit of Tarum issue further
+instructions.
+
+In composing this message Bernier had sought to gain the advantage of a
+surprise attack and to secure the massacre of as many of the askaris as
+possible; to save zu Pfeiffer and his white sergeants from the fate which
+would await them should they fall into the hands of the Wongolo; to
+minimise the loss of men which would occur were the tribe to attempt to
+face the guns; afterwards to lure zu Pfeiffer away from his fortifications
+and the open country, in order to compel him to fight in the forest where
+he could not ascertain what force was against him; and in the meantime to
+slip round and establish the idol in the Place of Kings, which act would
+consolidate the moral of the tribe as well as cut the line of zu
+Pfeiffer’s communications with Ingonya.
+
+As Bakahenzie listened gravely and attentively, Birnier keenly watched his
+face. Although the mask did not quiver, a half suppressed grunt at the end
+persuaded him that Bakahenzie was duly impressed, but he made no comment.
+After regarding Mungongo solemnly putting away the machine Bakahenzie
+remarked casually:
+
+“In the village is a messenger from Eyes-in-the-hands who sends thee
+greetings.”
+
+This was the first news that Birnier had received since his ascent to the
+godhood. He had expected that sooner or later zu Pfeiffer would hear of
+the presence of a white man, but he was rather startled at the inference
+that zu Pfeiffer knew who he was. He made no visible sign as he waited.
+Bakahenzie took snuff interestedly and continued:
+
+“Eyes-in-the-hands bids thee to go unto the Place of Kings to eat the dust
+before him.”
+
+Bakahenzie regarded him with keen eyes. Birnier considered swiftly. From
+the latter part of the message he gathered that zu Pfeiffer was not aware
+of his identity. His opinion of zu Pfeiffer’s character suggested certain
+psychological possibilities. His policy was to lure him away from his
+fort; to destroy his military judgment. Therefore to cause him at this
+juncture to be violently disturbed by a personal emotion might tend to
+confuse his mind. Enmity—fear—might equally serve as the lure required. In
+spite of committing a breach of native etiquette Birnier could not resist
+smiling. He reached for the “Anatomy” and as he scribbled two words he
+said to Bakahenzie solemnly:
+
+“O son of Maliko, say unto this man of many tongues as well as many eyes,
+‘that the jackal follows the lion that he may feed upon his leavings; that
+the voice of the hyena is loudest when he eateth offal.’ And shall the
+slave take unto him that which is mighty magic, such magic that when
+Eyes-in-the-hands doth but touch it shall he trumpet like unto a wounded
+cow elephant. Bid him to mark that my words be white!”
+
+And when Bakahenzie had gone Birnier turned to the portrait on the wall
+and remarked as he indulged in the luxury of a grin: “Say, honey, but if
+that doesn’t make him mad, I’ll—I’ll eat my own manuscripts!”
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 26
+
+
+In a corner of one of the half-completed huts in a half-completed street
+of the new village of the Place of Kings squatted Yabolo and other chiefs.
+As Sakamata was up in the fort serving Eyes-in-the-hands they could talk
+freely, yet in low tones and with wary eyes for the interstices of the
+unfinished wall. More than one chief had been thrashed but none as high in
+rank as MYalu; moreover, those that had been severely punished had been
+taken in fair fight or had attempted to escape, whereas MYalu had done
+nothing that they considered to merit punishment. The growing detestation
+and hatred smouldering within all of them against the new ruler had burst
+into flame at the first hint of the news vibrating upon the moist air.
+Later had come another drum message bidding them await new words of Tarum,
+and forty-eight hours afterwards the messenger sent by zu Pfeiffer to
+summon Moonspirit, who squatted in the group, whispered word for word
+Birnier’s message on the phonograph, adding further instructions from
+Bakahenzie that the signal should be another message upon the drums: “The
+Fire is lighted.”
+
+Warm banana wrapped in leaves, which a slave had brought in, was placed
+before the chiefs while the messenger related the gossip of the village in
+the forest. Later, while lolling through the mid-day heat waiting for the
+time of audience, he produced from his loin cloth the magic charm which
+the son of the Lord-of-many-Lands, the King-God, had sent to
+Eyes-in-the-hands and repeated the prophecy that he should trumpet like
+unto a wounded cow elephant, eliciting many grunts of admiration and awe.
+Then he inquired for Sakamata and MYalu, and upon hearing the account,
+reported that they were both traitors and had been condemned to die by the
+magic of Bakahenzie and Marufa.
+
+Each and every chief felt that he had been betrayed by Sakamata. Even
+Yabolo, his relative, particularly because his visionary schemes had come
+to nought, was against Sakamata. Sakamata had heard the message of the
+drums, “The Fire is lighted.” But of the details of the return of the
+Unmentionable One and of the new King-God he knew nothing, although every
+other Wongolo man, woman, and child, knew it. The terror of the tabu, of
+the power of the Unmentionable One, was more overwhelming than his fear of
+Eyes-in-the-hands, wizard and ex-member of the inner cult though he be.
+The Unmentionable One had returned, a miracle! In a thousand signs of
+birds and beasts, twigs and shadows, Sakamata saw omens of evil. He knew
+that he was an outcast, that his fellows were plotting; that they knew
+something that he did not; yet he dared not tell Eyes-in-the-hands lest he
+be killed on the instant, not by Eyes-in-the-hands but by the mystic power
+of the Unmentionable One.
+
+Farther down the line, in a small hut, lay MYalu motionless. His mind was
+a whirling red spot of rage and pain, obliterating the image of Bakuma,
+his ivory, and everything. From the base of the spine to his neck he was
+criss-crossed with bloody weals administered with a kiboko (whip of
+hippopotamus hide) by one of the black giants who formed the door guard at
+the tent of Eyes-in-the-hands. More stimulating to his anger even than the
+excessive pain was the indignity, that he, MYalu, son of MBusa, a chief,
+had been flogged like a slave before all men! Could he have gotten free he
+would have leaped upon zu Pfeiffer, god or no, and torn him to pieces with
+hands and teeth. But he could scarcely move. Never had such an act been
+conceived by MYalu. The native dignity and reserve was shattered. He lay
+upon his belly and glared with the eyes of a maddened and tortured animal.
+
+The yellow glare in the open doorway was darkened, but MYalu did not stir.
+The figure of Yabolo, a short throwing sword in hand, moved towards him
+and squatted down, muttering greetings. MYalu made no response. Yabolo
+repeated the message from the spirit of Tarum.
+
+“Let thy spear be made sharp, O son of MBusa, that we may make the jackal
+who would command the lion to eat offal!” MYalu grunted. “The son of
+Bayakala saith that it will be soon, so that thou mayest yet eat of thy
+defiler ere thou art gone to ghostland.” MYalu turned his head. “The son
+of MTungo and the son of Maliko,” explained the old man, “have made magic
+upon the parts which thou didst foolishly leave within thy hut.”
+
+Again MYalu merely grunted and turned away his head. But that dread news
+had quenched the white flame of anger. The spirits were wroth; even had
+they caused him to eat the dust before all men. Conviction in the efficacy
+of the magic for which he would have bought Marufa to make against Zalu
+Zako was as absolute as his faith in the death magic made against him by
+the two powerful witch-doctors, and intensified by the miraculous return
+of the Unmentionable One against whom he had committed sacrilege. He
+recollected the cry of the Baroto bird on the night on which he had
+kidnapped the Bride of the Banana. The spirit of Tarum was wroth. The
+mighty new King-God of the Unmentionable One was about to eat up all the
+enemies of the land. MYalu was convinced that he was doomed; certain that
+Yabolo knew that he was doomed; that every man knew that he was doomed.
+
+For ten minutes the figures, squatting and lying, remained as motionless
+as bronzes. Then MYalu rose to his knees and said calmly: “Give me thy
+sword, O son of Zingala.”
+
+Silently Yabolo handed him the sword which MYalu placed beneath him and
+laid down again. So quietly he died.
+
+From the sacred hill blared the harsh cry of the yellow bird, as the
+natives called the trumpet, announcing that the august presence was in
+audience. But instead of the usual crowd of immobile figures squatted
+almost under the shadow of the pom-pom within the gate of the fort, sat
+only the messenger. Sakamata, knowing that something portended and yet not
+exactly what, was so scared that his skinny limbs quivered as if with an
+ague. Although he desired to warn Eyes-in-the-hands in order to save
+himself, he dared not attempt to do so lest the august one visit his anger
+upon his person; vague ideas of redeeming his treachery by delivering
+Eyes-in-the-hands over to his countrymen were stoppered by terror of the
+wrath of the Unmentionable One.
+
+So it was that the pomp of the Son-of-the-Earthquake and the glory of the
+soul of the World-Trembler with many charms upon his breast was reserved
+for the humble messenger who entered escorted by Sakamata. After bowing in
+the prescribed manner the messenger squatted at zu Pfeiffer’s feet and
+addressed himself to the corporal interpreter.
+
+“The son of the Lord-of-many-lands, that is the King-God of the
+One-not-to-be-mentioned, sends greeting to the son of the World-Trembler,
+called Eyes-in-the-hands, and this message: ‘Say unto the man of many
+tongues as well as many eyes that the jackal follows the lion that he may
+feed on the leavings; the voice of the hyena is loudest when he eateth
+offal!’”
+
+“What does the animal say?” demanded zu Pfeiffer, impatient of the native
+preamble.
+
+“He says, Bwana,” said the interpreter, “that the white man is sick and
+cannot move, but that he will come as soon as he is well.”
+
+From the folds of his loin cloth the messenger was dutifully extracting
+something wrapped up in a banana leaf, which he handed to the interpreter
+as he finished the message:
+
+“And by his slave he sendeth that which is mighty magic; such magic that
+he who toucheth it shall trumpet like unto a wounded cow elephant.”
+
+“He says, Bwana,” continued the interpreter glibly, “that he sends to the
+mighty Eater-of-Men a small present,” and with the words the corporal
+guilelessly proffered the small package. Zu Pfeiffer took it and tore off
+the covering.…
+
+Then was the magic of the new King-god of the Unmentionable One made
+manifest to all men, and particularly a group of chiefs hiding in a small
+thicket beneath the hill, for indeed did the Son-of-the-Earthquake trumpet
+like unto a wounded cow elephant at the sight of an ivory disc on which
+was written:
+
+“Amantes—Amentes!”
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 27
+
+
+All day at Fort Eitel had been stir and bustle, the blare of trumpets and
+the barking of sergeants, white and black. Long lines of women and slaves
+streamed in from the surrounding countryside bearing loads of corn and
+bananas. In the half-made parade ground at the foot of the hill of Kawa
+Kendi, half a company of Wongolo whom zu Pfeiffer had conscripted from the
+chiefs, stumbled and ran in awkward squads. In the hut of the Wongolo
+chiefs squatted Yabolo among the rest, silently observing the preparations
+for the punitive expedition which Sakamata had informed them was being
+prepared in response to the insolent challenge of the white man who had
+allied himself with the “rebels.” But over them, as well as every Wongolo
+in and about the place, was a sullen air not of defiance but of expectant
+listening.
+
+In the mess hut a nervous Bakunjala prepared the table for dinner, the
+whites of his eyes rolling at every sound of zu Pfeiffer’s voice from the
+marquee adjoining. Never in his experience, nor in that of other servants
+or soldiers, had the demon so utterly possessed the dread Eater-of-Men as
+since the receipt of some terrible magic sent to him by the white man.
+Opinion was divided as to whether this white man was the one who had been
+arrested and sent to the coast with Corporal Inyira or whether he was a
+brother; some said that the magic leaf which the messenger had brought was
+the soul of the white man, others maintained that it was the incarnation
+of Bakra, which explained why the Eater-of-Men was so entirely possessed.
+Had he not screamed? they demanded, which clearly proved, as everybody
+knew, the dreadful agony as the ghost entered into the body.
+
+Even the white sergeants were frightened of their chief. They had been
+seen talking together secretly, doubtless discussing what medicine they
+could give him to exorcise the demon. Had he not been commanded by this
+demon to leave the safety of the fort where they had the guns on the
+hills, and to go into the forest where, as anybody knew, their eyes would
+be taken from them so that they could not see to kill the dogs of Wongolo?
+They were all conscious, native-like, that something was brewing among the
+Wongolo, but what it was exactly they did not know. Two men had had fifty
+lashes that morning because they had not saluted the totem—flag—correctly;
+and a Wongolo chief had been shot because he had not brought in the amount
+of ivory commanded. None dared to warn the Eater-of-Men. Some one had said
+that the “leaf” was the soul of the idol come to lead the Eater-of-Men to
+destruction. This idea took deep root among the Wunyamwezi soldiers, for
+although they had delighted in the slaughter and rapine under the
+leadership of the Eater-of-Men, yet always had there been an uneasy
+feeling of sacrilege in destroying an idol.
+
+In the half of the marquee reserved for the Kommandant’s private quarters
+sat zu Pfeiffer in his camp chair with the inevitable stinger at his
+elbow. Erect by the door stood Sergeant Schultz taking details for the
+disposition of stores and troops during the absence of the punitive
+expedition. Never had he in four years’ service seen the lieutenant as he
+was now. Although Schultz could speak Kiswahili fluently he knew no word
+of Munyamwezi, else he might have been disposed to agree with Bakunjala
+and his friends. As it was he thought that the Herr Lieutenant had gotten
+a touch of the sun or was drinking too heavily or perhaps a bit of both;
+for to his mind the act of dividing up their scanty forces and leaving
+their fortified positions to enter the forest, with no chance of keeping
+open the line of communication, appeared to be military suicide.
+
+He deemed it his duty to bring this point of view to his Kommandant’s
+notice, but he was uncomfortably aware of zu Pfeiffer’s headstrong
+character.
+
+“What time does the moon set, sergeant?” demanded zu Pfeiffer.
+
+“About three, Excellence.”
+
+“Good. Then at five precisely the column will move. Warn Sergeant
+Schneider.”
+
+“Ya, Excellence.”
+
+“You will transfer the remainder of your men and the Nordenfeldt as soon
+as we have gone.”
+
+“Ya, Excellence.”
+
+“That is all, sergeant.”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer dropped his head wearily on to his hand. Schultz remained
+rigidly by the door. Zu Pfeiffer glanced up peevishly.
+
+“I said that was all, sergeant,” he exclaimed tetchily.
+
+“Ya, Excellence.”
+
+“Herr Gott, what are you standing there for like a stuffed pig?”
+
+Schultz saluted.
+
+“Excellence, it is my duty to remind your Excellence that according to
+regulation 47 of …”
+
+“To hell with you and your regulations, damn you.… Will you leave me
+alone!” The last was almost a plea.
+
+“Excellence!”
+
+Schultz saluted briskly and went. Again zu Pfeiffer’s head dropped on to
+the cupped hand and he gazed at the portrait in the ivory frame.… Against
+the blue twilight of the door appeared a tall figure in white.
+
+“What in the name of——” began zu Pfeiffer.
+
+“Chakula tayari, Bwana,” announced Bakunjala timidly.
+
+“I don’t want any chakula,” said zu Pfeiffer. “Wait. Bring some here.”
+
+“Bwana!”
+
+Bakunjala fled, to reappear almost instantly with a covered plate, which
+he placed on the table as bidden and vanished. Zu Pfeiffer regarded
+distastefully his favourite dish of curried eggs. Then he bawled
+irritably:
+
+“Lights, animal!”
+
+“Bwana!” gasped Bakunjala appearing in the doorway with the lamp.
+
+But zu Pfeiffer pushed the plate away to stare at the photograph of
+Lucille. The stare turned to a glare, and then as if mutinying against his
+god, as Kawa Kendi had done when summoning rain, he suddenly snatched at
+the frame and flung it upon the floor with an oath, grabbed up a fountain
+pen and began to write.
+
+Indeed zu Pfeiffer was half insane with anger which he was disposed to
+vent upon Lucille by proxy as the source of yet another trouble and
+possibly official disgrace. He had not had a notion that Birnier could
+have survived the gentle hands of the corporal until without warning came
+that ivory disc with “Amantes—Amentes!” scribbled upon it, which not only
+inferred that Birnier had escaped, but that he was near to him and
+intended to champion these native dogs against the Imperial Government in
+the person of himself.
+
+The message had been made the more insulting by the note of exclamation at
+the end implying derisive laughter. It had, as Birnier had calculated that
+it would, struck zu Pfeiffer upon the most tender spot in his mental
+anatomy, evoking a homicidal mania which dominated his consciousness. To
+be cheated, to be swindled, to be sworn at, cursed, even to be beaten was
+sufferable to a degree, but to be laughed at—zu Pfeiffer’s haughty soul
+exploded like a bomb at an impact. For a time he had been absolutely
+incoherent with rage. His one impulse had been to rush out and tear
+Birnier limb from limb. Well might the listening natives believe in the
+mighty magic of the new King-God, that it should make the
+Son-of-the-Earthquake to trumpet like a wounded cow elephant!
+
+Then out of the dissolving acrid smoke of wounded pride begin to loom
+arbitrary points. First, that Birnier would have complained, as he once
+had threatened to do, to Washington, which would infuriate the authorities
+in Berlin; and secondly, that he would have written to Lucille revealing
+the attempt he had made upon the life of her husband as well as the things
+he had said. How Birnier had escaped was immaterial, but the particular
+fate that awaited Corporal Inyira was decided but futilely; for the bold
+son of Banyala and his merry men were footing it to the south of lake
+Tanganika, scared by day lest the long arm of the Eater-of-Men should
+overtake them and haunted by the terror of seeing another illuminated
+ghost by night.
+
+As the jewelled hand glittered in the lamp-light came the mutter of a
+distant drum on the moist darkness; zu Pfeiffer, abnormally irritable,
+raised his head, scowled, and muttering that he would have to issue an
+order to have the drums stopped, bent again to the uncongenial task of
+finishing the report due for headquarters before he left. The drum ceased;
+began again and was answered by another drum seemingly nearer at hand.
+
+Five or ten minutes elapsed. As zu Pfeiffer took up a fresh sheet of paper
+a shot rang out followed instantly by yells. Zu Pfeiffer with an oath
+sprang to his feet, snatched at the revolver hanging above his camp bed
+and rushed out as a fusillade of shots mingled with wilder cries. The
+gruff coughs of the corporal in charge of the guard competed with the
+sharp barks of Sergeant Schultz. Zu Pfeiffer, bawling for a sergeant, ran
+to the great gate where the pom-pom was stationed. On the opposite hill
+red flashes of rifle fire darted downwards. Came another outburst of
+yelling. Forms of askaris scurrying to their places round the fence
+brushed by him on every side.
+
+“Sergeant Schultz!” shouted zu Pfeiffer.
+
+A figure in white appeared beside him in the darkness.
+
+“Excellence!”
+
+“Put the gun on them! Quick!”
+
+At the bark of the sergeant the gun crew, already at their post, deftly
+manipulated the machine which coughed angry red bursts of flame into the
+darkness. The cries and howls ceased as suddenly as they had begun.
+
+“Cease fire!” commanded zu Pfeiffer.
+
+In the resulting stillness muttered shouts and cries from somewhere in the
+village below were punctuated by odd shots from the other hill.
+
+“Sergeant Ludwig!” yelled zu Pfeiffer.
+
+“Excellence!”
+
+“Report!” snapped zu Pfeiffer.
+
+“An unknown body of natives attacked and killed the sentry on the eastern
+gate, Excellence,” came Sergeant Ludwig’s voice from the gloom. “They
+entered and were repulsed according to instructions. That is all,
+Excellence.”
+
+“Losses?”
+
+“None other, Excellence.”
+
+“What about the lower guards?”
+
+“I do not know, Excellence.”
+
+“Take a platoon and investigate. We will cover you with the gun.”
+
+“Excellence.”
+
+The mutter of his orders was drowned in the excited jabber of the askaris.
+
+“Didimalla!” came the dreaded voice of the Eater-of-Men. Instantly there
+was silence. “Report!” commanded zu Pfeiffer to Sergeant Schultz.
+
+“A body of natives attacked upon the western gate, Excellence. They were
+repulsed.”
+
+“Losses?”
+
+“Two men killed and three wounded.”
+
+“Ugm! Where’s the interpreter?”
+
+“Bwana!”
+
+Cloth creaked as the man saluted in the dark.
+
+“Where is Sakamata?” demanded zu Pfeiffer in Kiswahili.
+
+“Here, Excellence,” replied Sergeant Schultz. “He was running away. I had
+him arrested.”
+
+“Good. Bring the animal to my quarters.”
+
+“Excellence.”
+
+The sergeant and the interpreter, with a trembling Sakamata between them,
+followed zu Pfeiffer to the tent. As he entered he picked up the portrait
+in the ivory frame and replaced it carefully on the table and sat down.
+
+“Ask the shenzie why he has not informed us of this attack?”
+
+The interpreter put the question to the terrified old man who mumbled that
+he had not known anything about it.
+
+“Ugm!” grunted zu Pfeiffer. “Send for a file of men, sergeant, and—— No!”
+Zu Pfeiffer rose. “I’ll get the truth out of him. Stand aside, corporal!”
+
+The corporal obeyed with alacrity as jerking his revolver downwards zu
+Pfeiffer pulled the trigger. The shot took off two of Sakamata’s smaller
+toes. The corporal grinned in appreciation. Zu Pfeiffer experienced a
+shadow of the pleasure he would have had in mutilating Birnier.
+
+“Pull him up!” commanded zu Pfeiffer. “Now ask him again!”
+
+For a moment or two Sakamata, scarcely conscious of any pain in his
+fright, could not comprehend what was said; at length he mumbled and
+muttered. The interpreter lowered his head to listen.
+
+“Well?”
+
+“He says, Bwana, that he does not know anything; that they will not tell
+him, but that he has heard that the god has come back.”
+
+“The god! What god?”
+
+“The god which these shenzie (savages) had here before the Bwana came.”
+
+“The idol!” Zu Pfeiffer ripped out an oath. Then glaring questioningly at
+the shrunken figure on the floor considered.
+
+“Tell him he lies. How does he know that the idol has come back if they
+will not tell him anything?”
+
+Again the interpreter jabbered at Sakamata who mumbled back.
+
+“He says, Bwana, that his words are white. That they have not told him,
+but that he has heard the message of the drums. ‘The Fire is lighted!’”
+
+“What is that?”
+
+“I don’t know, Bwana.”
+
+“Ask him, you swine pig!”
+
+“He says that whenever there is a new king that they call out those words,
+meaning that he is come.”
+
+“Ugm!” Zu Pfeiffer took out a cigar and lighted it as he considered. I
+believe the animal is right, he reflected. That swinehund American has
+done this! He turned sharply to Sergeant Schultz: “Post double guards;
+bring me Ludwig’s report and take this thing away and have it shot.”
+
+“Excellence!”
+
+The party went out. Zu Pfeiffer sat smoking fiercely. A single shot rang
+out. Presently came Sergeant Ludwig in person.
+
+“I have to report, Excellence, that the investigation infers that the
+attack was only made with the purpose of freeing the sons of chiefs, for
+the picket has been slain but all the others are unhurt save three
+wounded.”
+
+Zu Pfeiffer swore mightily, but he dismissed the sergeant with an
+admonition to have his troops ready for inspection at four-thirty. He
+drank a brandy neat and sat on, staring at the darkness. Then suddenly he
+exclaimed and wheeled to the abandoned report.
+
+“This is an undeniable overt act,” he muttered, seeing what he considered
+an opportunity to neutralise the suppositious complaint which Birnier had
+sent to Washington; and taking up his pen began a formal accusation
+against Birnier, as an American subject, for having violated the
+international laws of the Geneva Convention by aiding and abetting rebels
+of his Imperial Majesty.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 28
+
+
+Sergeant Schultz’s gloomy foreboding of the inevitable result attending
+the refusal to follow the teachings of his national preceptors was
+justified.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer, crazed with wounded pride or magic, according to the white or
+black point of view, had held rigidly to his schedule; precisely at
+four-thirty he had inspected the expedition and marched at the first
+streak of dawn. Schultz removed to the other hill, leaving twenty-five men
+and a gun under a black sergeant. Afterwards he visited the village. The
+bodies of five of the picket were lying in the sun mutilated. Not a native
+of any sort was to be seen or heard. He sent out scouts. A village a
+couple of miles away was deserted too. He wished to burn the huts and
+plantation to clear the ground around the fort but he dared not do so
+without orders. Muttering to himself he returned and posted double
+sentries.
+
+Throughout the day and the moonlight not a sound of a drum or the voice of
+a native disturbed the moist heat. He slept for a while and then took to
+pacing upon the levee outside the fort. He was aware of a restlessness
+among the men. About midnight a nervous sentry fired at a moving shadow in
+the village. Erratic shots followed; flickered and ceased at the
+sergeant’s angry order. The trees seemed to whisper mockingly. The
+sergeant decided that it must have been a prowling jackal or hyena; but
+the incident made him irritable.
+
+In ordinary circumstances he would have posted picket sentries as provided
+by the regulations, but he could not spare any of his fifty men, for in
+the case of an attack they would never regain the fort. The moon sank as
+if reluctantly, seeming to hesitate upon the fringe of banana fronds at
+something that she alone could see. But the night creaked slowly on.
+Schultz knew that the favourite hour for an attack was just at the first
+glimmer of dawn when the spirits are making for their homes and the light
+is deceptive.
+
+He was standing in front of the Nordenfeldt when a sentry’s keener ears
+caught a peculiar whispering rustle. As Schultz turned his head to listen,
+the whisper grew in volume to the sound of a hail-storm—the patter of bare
+feet on sand. Faint light on spears rippled round the base of the hills.
+Schultz sprang inside the barrier barking at his men to open fire. He
+deflected the muzzle of his gun and began pumping nickel into the
+advancing mass of yelling figures.…
+
+The rush carried the fort; for the defenders were out-numbered by fifty to
+one. Schultz fell under a dozen spear thrusts. The askaris were massacred
+to a man before the sun rose inquiringly beyond the sacred hill of Kawa
+Kendi.
+
+When all the bloody acts of war were done and the triumphant yelling
+quietened, there came from across the river a pulsing trickle of sound in
+the sizzling heat, which was answered by a thundering crash of spear
+against shield and the “Ough! Ough!” of three thousand warriors gathered
+upon the hill to do homage to the Unmentionable One.
+
+Across the river, at the ford where Bakuma had sung her swan song, came
+the procession led by the craft in full panoply. In the van stalked
+Bakahenzie, grave and solemn as befitted the high priest. Around him
+capered with untiring energy a group of lesser wizards whose duties were
+as those of professional dancers, having dried bladders and magic beads
+fastened to their ankles and wrists. Then behind Marufa a litter was borne
+by sacred slaves doomed to perish after performing their holy office, in
+which, swathed entirely from the public gaze, was Usakuma, the Incarnation
+of the Unmentionable One. In another litter, as securely screened, was the
+son of the Lord-of-many-Lands, endeavouring to endure a perpetual bath of
+sweat in the sacred cause, peeking professorial eyes through the
+interstices, scribbling in a notebook. Behind again marched Mungongo
+bearing a smouldering brand of the Sacred Fire; then Yabolo, reinstated in
+office for a reason that any politician will understand. After him came
+more litters bearing the magic “things” of the Incarnation of an
+Incarnation, the King-God.
+
+As they splashed across the river, like troops of bronze gazelle, women
+and girls dashed eager to gather of fertility from the water enchanted by
+the passage of the Bearer of the World.
+
+So they came through the banana plantation and up the wide street which
+the Son-of-the-Earthquake had planned. The chant quavered like a dragonfly
+in the sun and the chorus of the warriors replied with the rhythm and the
+profundity of gargantuan frogs. Then as Bakahenzie stepped upon the
+incline of the hill, burst from the women the cricket song which is made
+tremolo by the rapid beating of the fingers upon the lips, as from the
+drums went out the message over the land that the Unmentionable One had
+indeed returned to the Place of Kings, the City of the Snake.
+
+Ten minutes later a half-stewed god, as exhausted as any emperor after a
+state parade, was permitted to emerge from the litter and to recuperate
+within the cool of the unfinished house that was to have been the bungalow
+of the Kommandant. No one else save the Keeper of the Fires, Bakahenzie
+and Marufa, were within the stockade which ringed the fort. Outside rose
+the mutter and rumble of the warriors and the cries of the women. The
+huddled lines of huts which had been barracks were already in process of
+demolition at the hands of the slaves, and the square within the fort was
+cleared of the slain askaris by the simple process of heaving the bodies
+over the palisade. The idol remained within the litter until the
+consecrating of the defiled ground should be performed by Bakahenzie and
+the craft.
+
+No Wongolo nor any wizard, not even Bakahenzie, would touch the enchanted
+coughing monsters; but as the holy slaves were already doomed they were
+set to pull and to push the Nordenfeldt from the embrasure beside the
+entrance across the levee until it toppled over and rolled half-way down
+the hill, where it was allowed to stay, surrounded from morning to night
+by a crowd of women and children and idle warriors.
+
+The thirst which afflicted Birnier rendered him oblivious of his godhood
+and of the sacred office of Mungongo who was dutifully busy upon his knees
+blowing up the sacred fires from the ember which he had carried; so that
+at a summons to bring water he was both embarrassed and awed, for the
+presence of the High Priest intensified his natural terror of breaking any
+of the meshes of the tabu. At the second imperative demand Bakahenzie
+soothed the angry god by commanding a slave to run to fetch water from
+without. But even then Birnier had the parched felicity of waiting while
+the High Priest solemnly exorcised the gourd of water which, as all food,
+could not be permitted to pass the lips of the King-God without the
+prescribed incantations.
+
+However, within quite a reasonable time the sacred prisoner was
+accommodated with the possession of his goods, magic and culinary. The
+bungalow of the Kommandant, Birnier gathered, was to be converted into the
+temple after the ceremony of purification, and the idol was to stand in
+front in the place occupied by its predecessor at the coronation of the
+late Kawa Kendi.
+
+All that day were Bakahenzie and Marufa and the wizards working hard at
+the various ceremonies of purification of those who had slain, the
+consecration of the Holy Hill, and the exorcising of the evil spirits
+attached thereto by the residence of the Son-of-the-Earthquake. Meanwhile
+Birnier and Mungongo were left to themselves within the enclosure to
+listen to the chanting and thrumming of the drums. Birnier had much to do
+in compiling his notes and reflections; Mungongo nothing save to prepare
+their meals and attend the Sacred Fires.
+
+Exactly what had happened Birnier did not know and could not extract from
+Bakahenzie, who adopted his usual effective method of ignoring every
+direct question. Before they had left the place in the forest he had
+informed Birnier that the commands of the spirit of Tarum through the
+magic ear had been performed, but with what restrictions, modifications,
+or embroideries, Birnier had no means of ascertaining. His definite
+knowledge was that Zalu Zako, together with other chiefs and a vast crowd
+of warriors, were to remain in the forest where zu Pfeiffer was to be led
+into ambush by the power of the magic which he had sent, the American
+flag, an idea which certainly tickled Birnier’s sense of humour
+considerably, particularly as it appealed to him, if successful, as an
+ideal case of poetic justice.
+
+That zu Pfeiffer’s fort had fallen was obvious, although what the
+disposition of his forces had been and of how the assault had been
+carried, Birnier had no idea. But of one thing he was reasonably sure, and
+that was that his analysis of zu Pfeiffer’s reactions and the
+psychological effect upon the natives of having the idol reinstated in the
+Place of Kings, had been entirely correct. After all, as he admitted with
+a smile, zu Pfeiffer’s system of native psychology had been based on the
+same fundamental principles as his own except that he had not reckoned
+with the unknown quantity, the equal intelligence working against him and
+able to discount his moves, plus heavier artillery in the form of an
+emotional broadside, the possibility of which rather naturally had never
+occurred to him.
+
+An item which worried Birnier was that he had no means, and could hope for
+none apparently, of discovering whether and to what extent his orders
+through the phonograph had been carried out regarding the treatment of the
+white men. Their fate at the hands of the Wongolo, particularly after the
+merciless massacres inflicted by zu Pfeiffer, would scarcely bear
+imagining. From the fact of the instant and apparently easy success of the
+assault on the forts, he did not doubt that zu Pfeiffer, who had been
+foolish enough to be lured into dividing his forces, was doomed to defeat.
+In this instance he would not have any of the advantages of his triumphal
+entry into the country; would not be able to accomplish a surprise attack,
+and the weakening of the native moral by massacre and the downfall of the
+idol; in fact he had these very forces against him: for the success of
+their first venture, their overwhelming numbers in the forest, the
+exaltation of fanaticism excited by the restoration of their tribal god,
+practically tacked a label of suicide upon his military actions.
+
+During that day Bakahenzie, evidently too busy with the duties of his
+office, did not come near to him. But that evening, in order to ensure as
+far as possible obedience to his orders through the mouth of the oracle,
+Birnier caused Mungongo to chant further instructions into the phonograph
+commanding that the Son-of-the-Earthquake was to be brought alive to
+receive judgment from the Unmentionable One through the Incarnation, the
+son of the Lord-of-many-Lands. Whether this would work or not Birnier of
+course could not know. Already had he discovered that nobody could control
+the complicated machinery of the native tabu any more than any one
+statesman could manage always any vast political machine; indeed he, as
+many others, might more than conceivably be ground up by the gargantuan
+engine with whose starting lever he had played. All he could do had been
+done; nothing remained but to adopt Marufa’s favourite maxim: “wait and
+see.”
+
+In the evening Mungongo, who had at length been persuaded to project his
+eyes beyond the sacred ground even if he would not his feet, reported that
+much chanting and drumming indicated that the warriors, or a great number
+of them, had departed, evidently to reinforce the troops of Zalu Zako or
+with the object of taking zu Pfeiffer in the rear: a fact which made
+Birnier a little uneasy lest the news of the fall of the station might
+bring zu Pfeiffer to his senses and cause him to return, in which case the
+position might prove to be somewhat uncomfortable.
+
+However, the night passed to the soft thrumming of the drums. At dawn
+appeared Bakahenzie as solemnly as usual. He began by demanding that the
+“pod of the soul” of Tarum should be prepared to listen to him. Birnier
+observed a slight increase in the domineering manner and realized more
+keenly that unless he checked that tendency the worthy High Priest would
+become altogether unmanageable.
+
+Birnier commanded Mungongo to bring forth the instrument and reproduced
+for Bakahenzie’s benefit the oration of the previous night. Bakahenzie
+listened solemnly, grunted acquiescence, and again made his request.
+Birnier refused abruptly. Again Bakahenzie grunted acceptance which caused
+Birnier to speculate upon what move the wily doctor had in mind. However,
+after the usual starting of false trails, he announced that the
+consecration of the idol would take place that day and began to instruct
+the new god in his divine duties. That there was something unusual in the
+form, either exaggerated or curtailed, Birnier gathered from Bakahenzie’s
+method of expounding the rites; and the solution came in the announcement,
+just before leaving, that as soon as the Son-of-the-Earthquake had been
+“eaten up,” that he, Bakahenzie, would summon the craft and the people to
+the Harvest Festival.
+
+The form of the statement again drew Birnier’s attention to the fact that
+Bakahenzie was assuming the reins of power far too fast for his
+satisfaction; that unless he contrived to put on the curb he would never
+attain the goal of a beneficent agent nor be able to satisfy his
+professional curiosity.
+
+However, when he had gone, Birnier began anew to question Mungongo
+regarding the reputed ceremonies of the festival, but beyond the fact that
+it was an occasion allied to the Christian-Pagan festival of a kind of
+thanksgiving for the harvest and sacrifice to the god which involved the
+ceremony of the marriage of the Bride of the Banana, Mungongo knew
+nothing.
+
+In the afternoon Birnier was required to preside at the consecrating of
+the ground and the setting up of the idol. But all he had to do was to
+squat silently in front of the new temple and before Bakahenzie and the
+group of the cult, while the concourse of the other wizards and the few
+chiefs that were not away grunted a belly chorus upon the levee without.
+The ceremony was disappointing as ceremonies go, for beyond the stewing in
+the great calabash of a magic concoction with which to anoint the hole for
+the feet of the idol, the doorposts of the temple and the House of Fires,
+to the accompaniment of the usual chanting and drumming, it was ended by a
+dance, with Bakahenzie as the premier danseur.
+
+After his evening meal of boiled chicken, goat flesh and milk, Birnier
+squatted in the doorway of his new quarters smoking. He had no lights as
+his store of carbide was finished. Before leaving for the forest to carve
+the Incarnation of the new Unmentionable One, he had had the forethought
+to despatch a messenger to a certain village on the great lake to
+intercept his carriers with goods and the mail for which he had sent after
+escaping from the noble son of Banyala; he had already informed Bakahenzie
+of the coming of a fresh stock of magic and impressed upon him that great
+precaution must be taken to ensure that it came directly to him, lest
+contact with strangers should offend the spirits. Bakahenzie had assented
+in his usual non-committal manner, a manner that was beginning to get upon
+Birnier’s nerves.
+
+As he smoked, staring up at the great moon over the sinister head of the
+idol framed in the green light, he observed that the day after the next
+would be the full moon, the Harvest Moon, the time of the yearly festival.
+Then, by a coincidence which sometimes seems to have a telepathic basis as
+explanation, he heard a curious soft sound from apparently behind the hut.
+Mungongo, squatting near his Sacred Fires in the immobile manner of the
+native, heard the sound too. Again a sibilant whisper, almost like the
+hiss of a snake, brought a “Clk” of astonishment to Mungongo’s lips. He
+rose swiftly and disappeared behind the hut. Another muffled exclamation
+of astonishment aroused Birnier’s curiosity. He followed, to find Mungongo
+leaning over the palisade as if speaking to some one.
+
+“Ehh!” murmured a familiar voice. “’Tis Moonspirit!”
+
+With a grunt of horror Mungongo turned upon Birnier and began to push him
+away, gasping: “She is accursed! If the evil of her eyes rest upon thee
+thou art sick unto death!”
+
+“The devil take you!” muttered Birnier, angry at the touch of force; then
+recollecting that the tabu forbade alien eyes to gaze on his sacred body
+upon which the world depended, he realized that Mungongo was trying to
+save him. He held him off by the arms, saying: “Be quiet, thou fool! Hath
+not my magic shown thee that I am above all magic?”
+
+Mungongo appeared to consider that there was some truth in the statement
+and at any rate it gave him something to think about. He stood passively
+but as if momentarily expecting Birnier, magic or no, to melt before his
+eyes. Bending over the fence Birnier saw the slender form of Bakuma
+crouched against the earth.
+
+“What dost thou here, O little one?” he whispered, for of course he knew
+nothing of her fate after the abduction by MYalu.
+
+So horror-struck at her own temerity in approaching the person of the
+King-God was she that she dared not raise her eyes as she stuttered:
+
+“A demon hath driven the bird of my soul into the net of thy wrath.”
+
+“Still the black wings in thy breast, O Bakuma,” said Birnier, trying to
+soothe the child. “Come thou within and show thy father thy bosom.”
+
+“Ehh! Ehh!” gasped Bakuma, quivering in greater panic than ever.
+
+Aware of the danger Birnier stooped, took her by the arms and lifted her
+over the palisade, remarking the violent trembling of the frail little
+body whose limbs seemed like candles.
+
+“Come thou,” said Birnier, moving towards the hut.
+
+But she cowered where he had dumped her, covering her eyes with her hands
+so that she gazed not upon the sacred body. Mungongo stood like a tree,
+the whites of terrified eyes glimmering in the moonlight. Birnier picked
+up the girl and carried her into the hut, followed by a quaking Keeper of
+the Sacred Fires.
+
+“Go, thou fool,” commanded Birnier, “and watch that none approaches!”
+Mungongo gasped. But he obeyed. “Now, little one,” continued Birnier,
+“bare thy bosom that I may know how to make the magic of healing.”
+
+Squatting on the threshold, her emaciated arms still covering her eyes,
+Bakuma strove to obey. At length she faltered out the story of her double
+abduction. The capture by the askaris had made but little difference to
+her, for, as she phrased it, the beak of her soul was like unto the mouth
+of the crocodile. Her captor had thrust her into a hut in the village
+together with some other female captives, but as the man had had to
+continue his military duties, night had fallen before he returned, by
+which time she had bribed some of the women, whose captivity was not as
+loathsome to them as the pride of their race should have made it, with a
+powerful charm which Birnier had given her, a nickel-plated razor-strop.
+She had escaped. But more fearful of her doom as the Bride of the Banana
+than she was of MYalu or the askaris, she had hidden in the forest, living
+upon wild fruit and roots. Then had she heard the drums announcing the
+return of the Unmentionable One, and aware that Moonspirit had gone into
+the forest to seek Him, had guessed that he was triumphant. Away in the
+jungle she had heard the sound of the rejoicing at the homecoming of the
+King-God; had hesitated, and at last she had come to Moonspirit, in spite
+of his divinity, in the fluttering hope of aid, driven by a demon to break
+another tabu, the same demon which urges so many to break magic
+circles—the subconscious love motive.
+
+Poor kid! commented Birnier to himself as he regarded the pitiful cowering
+form. We haven’t gotten the nuptial torches for you yet, but we will, by
+God!… Give me thine ear, O little one.… But as he talked to her, soothing
+the terror by promises of mightier magic, came Mungongo crying in a
+terrified whisper that Bakahenzie was claiming audience. At the back of
+the next room of the bungalow, built upon a plan of the one in Ingonya,
+was a bathroom, and into that was Bakuma hurried and bidden to lie as
+quiet as a crocodile.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 29
+
+
+Bakahenzie had come to announce that the certain magic “things,” which a
+messenger had brought from the white man’s country, had arrived. Although
+he could not expect an answer to his letter to Lucille in Europe, there
+might be others; and such an event as the receipt of a mail once in six
+months is apt to be exciting. Birnier forgot his rôle for the moment,
+leaped to his feet preparatory to rushing out to meet the runner, but a
+grunt from Bakahenzie and an alarmed cry from Mungongo were just in time
+to prevent him from jeopardizing the stability of the world and all that
+he had won by violating the tabu by stepping beyond the sacred ground.
+Other gods and emperors have indeed wrecked empires through a lesser
+aberration. Even realization of the penalty was scarcely enough to hobble
+his impatient legs, for the very suggestion of what the mail represented
+melted the fetters of this native world as wax in the sun.
+
+Indeed more effort of will was required to return to his god-like throne
+upon the camp-bed, and to amble through the etiquette which discussion of
+such an important matter demanded, than to carry the idol on his back
+through the forest and bear the sound thrashing to boot. Then as a further
+test, Bakahenzie slowly developed a dictum that the magic things could not
+be permitted to enter the sacred enclosure until they had been disinfected
+from the multitude of evil eyes through which they must have passed. At
+that the god came near to swearing or weeping, he did not know which.
+
+But as he fumed inwardly he recollected that at any moment Zalu Zako and
+his troops might return; or if the battle had gone the other way, then zu
+Pfeiffer; in the former case the excitement would still further delay the
+goods and mail, and the latter event might entail the complete loss. As
+well as the growing irritation caused by Bakahenzie’s interminable list of
+tabus was the necessity of proclaiming, or rather gaining, his authority
+before he could be of any assistance either to Bakuma, the white men or
+himself. Indeed he had been waiting the arrival of these goods to secure
+the subjection of Bakahenzie to his will. He determined that the trial
+should be now. Merely to demand would, he felt, arouse the obstinacy of
+the chief witch-doctor, who would never, unless compelled by force or
+cunning, give up the reins of power which to him was the _raison d’être_
+of his life. Birnier must attack through the line of least resistance.
+With the carriers bearing the mail was a case of “imprisoned stars”
+(rockets) and a special cinema outfit, so that Birnier felt that he could
+afford to explode the last manifestation of magic which remained to him.
+After a judicious interval, he said to Bakahenzie:
+
+“O son of Maliko, is not my tongue the tongue of the Unmentionable One?”
+
+“He who knoweth all things knoweth that which is white,” retorted
+Bakahenzie.
+
+“Verily. Therefore do thou cause to be brought that which is come, that
+which the fingers of the Unmentionable One are hungry to touch. Thou
+knowest his power of magic. Therefore are the evil eyes of the multitude
+but dry leaves in the wind of his breath.”
+
+“Indeed thy words are white, O son of the Lord-of-many-Lands.”
+
+“Depart then that the hunger of His fingers may be appeased.”
+
+“The drums speak not yet of the eating up of Eyes-in-the-hands. Hath not
+the ear of the spirit of Tarum spoken upon these matters?” inquired
+Bakahenzie in his favourite dialectical manner.
+
+“The spirit of Tarum hath naught to say to thee,” replied Birnier, “but
+the fingers of Tarum will to make thee to itch even as his fingers.”
+
+Birnier called to Mungongo who brought and placed at his feet a fairly
+powerful electric battery. Bakahenzie eyed the box; curiosity was keenly
+awakened. He stared interestedly when Birnier raised the lid. Taking the
+handles he said:
+
+“These, O son of Maliko, are the hands of Tarum made manifest. He wishes
+that thou shouldst feel the itch of his desire!” and with the words he
+clapped one handle to the belly and the other at the base of the spine of
+the chief witch-doctor. Bakahenzie convulsed as he was compelled to do.
+Swiftly Birnier applied the shock to the shoulders, holding the handles
+there as he remarked to a violently trembling Bakahenzie: “Behold! the
+itch of the fingers of Tarum!”
+
+But as he lowered his hands towards the spine again, Bakahenzie moved
+rapidly and with no dignity.
+
+Solemnly Birnier replaced the handles and closed the lid, and said
+quietly:
+
+“Thou hast felt, O brother magician, that the fingers of Tarum do itch
+indeed?”
+
+“Truly!” responded Bakahenzie with a celerity as unusual as the quaver in
+his voice. “Indeed thy words are white, O mightiest of magicians. What are
+indeed the evil eyes of savages against the power of thy magic, O son of
+the Lord-of-many-Lands!”
+
+And contrary to all precedent Bakahenzie rose and left. Within a quarter
+of an hour his voice announced that slaves with the magic “things” were
+without the palisade, and called upon Mungongo to go to the gate to fetch
+them as strangers were forbidden even to look upon the King-God. Birnier,
+by the light of a torch, opened the mail, sent a wad of letters and a
+sheaf of telegraph slips on to the floor, and snatched a long green
+envelope scrawled in French characters:
+
+Monsieur le Curateur du Jardin des Plantes.
+
+For a moment he stared at it perplexedly, for there was no stamp or
+cancellation.
+
+“What in the name——” he muttered as he slit it open.
+
+                                                     Entebbe,
+                                                           Août 13, 19—
+
+Mon petit loup, what have you been doing? Oû est tu? Comment et pourquoi?
+Oh, I am cross with you, with Monsieur le Professeur! Why do you write me
+so ridiculous a letter? I laugh, but always I laugh, so what good is that
+to you? I will not reply to your letter, mon vieux—jamais. But I will tell
+you so that you may know why I am here. Yes, parmi les animaux!
+
+Birnier winced at the phrase which seemed to come back at him like a
+boomerang from the lips of zu Pfeiffer.
+
+I am to go for vacation to Wiesbaden with some very terrible peoples. Oh,
+on me dégoûte! I have an engagement for the winter in Berlin as before. I
+have engagement for Paris—eh! but—pouf! Figure me on the charming
+_Mauretania_ and I am sitting on the deck where you once made yourself so
+ridiculous. Rappelle toi? I am sick—No, mon vieux, pas du mal de mer! I
+should not be for everybody to look at. Oh, no! I am sick, I tell you. Je
+rêve de mon petit coco parmi les sales animaux! Je me dis: Zut! il est
+fou! il est tapé! Mais en moi même je l’adore! Tout de suite I tell a
+creature who brings me my books, my fan, un espèce de tapette, je m’en
+vais là, moi! He ask me where? I tell him I go to look for mon amant in
+Afrique Centrale! Mais oui! He thinks I am mad! I tell him so and I laugh!
+How I laugh. But he is right, yes, je suis folle—de toi!
+
+Alors I come to Marseilles and I catch a boat to Mombassa. Ouf! Je vais
+mourir à cause de mon petit loup! La mer rouge! Quel cauchemar! Enfin I
+still arrive what of Lucille is left and I ask for you, for Monsieur le
+Professeur Americain, but no one knows you. On the boat I have attached to
+myself trois mousquetaires Anglais. Tous les trois sont drôles! They bring
+me on the ever so funny little train to here. Entebbe. Les Anglais sont
+très polis, tu sais! Monsieur le Gouverneur stop drinking whisky politely
+to tell me that Monsieur has been and has gone! Quelle horreur! You have
+gone but three days! Pense tu! I ask myself what have I done that the bon
+Dieu should be so unkind. Then quel malheur! I remember to myself that I
+commence to come to you on _Friday!_ You laugh! Yes, I laugh too but—Quien
+sabe? I commence to come to you on a Friday and you are gone three little
+days!
+
+Then my good friends, les trois mousquetaires, send for me a what they
+call a runner—the red peas—C’est drôle! but the little pea black he did
+not find you. He brings a message that you had gone to some place with a
+terrible name.
+
+Then come the two most ridiculous letters. I will _not_ reply to any such
+ridiculous letters—jamais!
+
+Birnier scowled. Two letters? he muttered. What letters?
+
+You must come now. Immediately. I want you. I will wait here for you. You
+must leave your ridiculous animals as I have left mes affaires for you.
+Come to me. I wait for you.
+
+Lower down on the same page, but written with a thick pen, the letter
+continued:
+
+Again I have read your absurd letter. Tu es fou! You make such a noise
+because this foolish young man is jealous of mon mari and make you to go
+round the detestable country, which you like so much, instead of straight
+through to the ridiculous place you say you want to go.
+
+Birnier smiled grimly.
+
+Peuh! Écoute, mon cher, it is true I have met the young man in Washington.
+Mon Dieu, are there not plenty of young men in Washington, Paris, Berlin?
+He fell in love with me. Mon Dieu, they are as thick as the blackberries!
+Perhaps I tease him pour faire la blague! Pourquoi pas? I give him a
+photograph and I sign it, just as I sign plenty for amusing friends. But
+then he become too ridiculous. He has no sense of humour comme tous les
+Allemands. He wishes to fight all my friends, tes compatriotes si sombres
+et graves! Figure toi! Then he make a challenge and naturellement it is
+not the custom in thy country. Mon pauvre petit Dorsay refuse and this
+person become crazy wild, as you say, and he strike him with his cane in
+the street. Quelle horreur! Quel scandale! He run away of course. The
+Embassy help him. Qui sait? That is the last I hear until I receive this
+ridiculous letter, together with thy ridiculous letter. I send him to you.
+How drôle that you two should meet all among les animaux. It is so funny
+that he did not kill you, this monstre allemand! Tu es en cross encore
+avec moi? Zut! mon vieux it is not my fault that everybody goes mad after
+me except mon petit mari! Leave the ridiculous garçon where he is. But why
+do I talk so much about a cochon? Because you are ridiculous! Tant pis
+pour toi! Now sois gentil and come to me _immediately_—unless you love
+your sales animaux plus que moi! If you do not come I will never never,
+jamais de ma vie, give you one single baiser again! No! Mille baisers!
+Mais comme je te deteste!
+
+                                                               LUCILLE.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 30
+
+
+Forty-eight hours later, the furious drumming, chanting and screaming
+heralded the return of the victorious troops of Zalu Zako. Birnier from
+his gaol on the hill watched the bronze flood pour like a stream of lava
+out of the plantation and flood the village, spears flashing silver points
+in the slanting rays of the sun. But what had happened to zu Pfeiffer and
+the white sergeants? No sign of them could he see. Waves of sound lapped
+continuously around the temple.
+
+The long mauve shadow of the hill ate up the village. Fires began to
+flicker amid the huts and away in the recesses of the plantation. The
+lowing of cattle added to the general clamour. As the western sky was
+still ablaze with incandescent colour stole the cold green of the
+advancing moon in the east.
+
+“Mungongo, what are thy brethren about to do?”
+
+“It is the Festival of the Harvest, as I have told thee, O son of the
+Lord-of-many-Lands.”
+
+“But they have not the Bride?”
+
+“Nay.” Mungongo glanced apprehensively towards the temple where in what
+was to have been a bathroom, was Bakuma hidden.
+“He-who-may-not-be-mentioned demands but blood. The Bride is the food of
+the wizards. But to each warrior is every woman his bride this night.”
+
+“Why didst thou not tell me this thing before?” demanded Birnier, who knew
+that such was one of the customs of primitive tribes in all parts of the
+world and in all ages.
+
+“Thou didst not ask me,” retorted Mungongo, to whom the affair was such a
+matter of course that it was not worth mentioning.
+
+“Do they make sacrifice?”
+
+“The Bride is married to the Banana, but of the manner of her nuptial know
+I not. Am I a wizard?”
+
+The divine king grimly watched his subjects. In the growing light flitted
+gnomes around the huts in and out the sepia caverns of the plantation. As
+a banana front was etched in sepia against the great moon, the ocean of
+clamour was cleft by the high treble of the tribal troubadour. At the
+bottom of the wide street appeared dancing figures. As they approached,
+Birnier could distinguish Bakahenzie, Marufa and Yabolo in the van,
+dressed in full panoply, whirling and leaping with untiring energy. Behind
+them shuffled and pranced a vast mass of warriors, behind whom again
+several hundred women shrilled and wriggled in the mighty chorus. The
+rhythm of the drums increased to the maddening action impulse of the two
+short—long beat:
+
+Pm-pm—Pommmmm! Pm-pm—Pommmmm! Pm-pm—Pommmmm!
+
+The treble solo of the chant darted above that throb and grunt like a mad
+bird skimming the turbulent tops of a dark forest.
+
+Pm-pm—Pommmmm! Pm-pm—Pommmmm! Pm-pm—Pommmmm!
+
+The rhythm seemed like a febrile pulse within Birnier’s brain, dominating
+him with hypnotic suggestion to action. An urge to scream and to yell, to
+dance and to leap, plucked at his limbs. Resurgent desires from he knew
+not what subconscious catacombs, wriggled and struggled furiously within
+him. The great moon scattered blue stars upon the spears as if upon the
+green scales of some leviathan squirming in delirious torment.
+
+Control the twitching of his muscles to that rhythm Birnier could not. He
+had to fight to resist the waves of hysteria permeating the air. He
+glanced at Mungongo. The whites of his eyes were rolling. Birnier cursed
+the insistency of the drums and the orgiastical grunts. Forcibly he kept
+up a running fire of psychological explanations: “Annihilation of
+inhibitions … dissociation of personality … triumph of the subconscious
+animal,” as a wizard muttering incantations against evil spirits. He felt
+dizzy. “God, I’m drunk with rhythm!” he exclaimed.
+
+The priests were entering the large gate of the outer enclosure. In the
+village and on the opposite hill the people resembled a swarm of black
+locusts. The drums ceased. Bakahenzie and Marufa and Yabolo ran straight
+towards him screeching. This was the cue.
+
+Birnier walked back slowly. In awful silence they began to push the idol.
+The wood creaked protestingly. Slowly the mass slid on to Birnier’s back.
+He gripped it and began to walk to the entrance. As he passed Mungongo the
+Sacred Fires shot up yellow tongues. A sound like a moan rose dripping
+with screams and grew into a continuous thunder of noise. The drums
+rippled a furious tattoo. The three wizards dashed before him, leaping
+high in the air. Birnier shuffled a dozen yards to the left and turned. He
+stopped.
+
+Upon the ground, just within the outer gate in view of the multitude
+beyond, green ivory in the moonlight, was the naked figure of a white man.
+Above him pranced Bakahenzie in whose hand gleamed a knife.
+
+The training of his life enabled Birnier to throw upon the screen of his
+mind the essential points more rapidly than conscious thought. Bakahenzie,
+as well as the others, was in an abnormal state of excitement. There was
+no time to employ “magic” rockets or anything else. He swung the idol upon
+one shoulder and ran forward. He saw the blue eyes move and the bracelet
+wink in the moonlight as he stepped over the bound form. He bent,
+balancing the image upon his shoulders, and seized zu Pfeiffer by the arm.
+
+The throb of the drums and the roar of the people who knew not but that
+this act was in accordance with the rules, continued. The priests remained
+motionless: expectant. Bakahenzie stood rigid as if paralysed by the
+unexpected: the knife was a blue snake in his hand.
+
+Half blinded with sweat, with his muscles cracking, Birnier staggered on
+with the heavy burden, dragging the nude body after him. Hours seemed to
+pass, each second of which might bring a spear in his back before he
+reached the place before the temple. He slid the idol into the hole and
+turned.
+
+From the tumult of sound the screech of Bakahenzie shot up like a snipe
+from a rice field. The other wizards sprang with him. The moonlight kissed
+a spearhead beside the stone figure of Mungongo by the Sacred Fires.
+Birnier leaped, plucked the spear, caught zu Pfeiffer in his arms and
+raised him shoulder high that all might see.
+
+At the entrance of the enclosure Bakahenzie and the other two were
+arrested by astonishment. Lowering the body to the base of the idol which
+leaned sideways in a drunken leer, Birnier lifted the spear and brought it
+down accurately between zu Pfeiffer’s left arm and breast, and dropping
+swiftly upon his knees to cover his actions, slashed his own left forearm.
+Then he jumped to his feet and held the blooded spear aloft as he cried
+aloud:
+
+“The god hath taken his own!”
+
+Bakahenzie was the first to see that the white breast of the victim was
+indeed deluged in blood; perhaps the veneration engendered by “the fingers
+of Tarum” moved beneath the blood lust.
+
+“The god hath taken his own!” he repeated in a piercing scream. Marufa
+echoed the shout. As they turned the cry was ricocheted beyond the
+farthest hill.
+
+“The god hath taken his own!”
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 31
+
+
+The reflection of a shaft of moonlight through the half-completed thatch
+upon zu Pfeiffer’s “magic” mirror, which the natives had not dared to
+remove, set afire the sapphires upon his bracelet as he sat rigidly in a
+camp chair in a suit of pyjamas. Upon the bed lay Birnier, nursing his
+bandaged left arm. Now and again the thrumming, chanting and the shrilling
+of the saturnalia without rose into discordant yells like a gust of wind
+whipping tree-tops into fury.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer appeared taciturn and suspicious. Perhaps the slackening of
+his will, tautened to meet death as his caste demanded that he should, and
+the confrontation of the object of his violent hate, had completely
+unnerved him. When Birnier had dragged him within and cut his bonds, he
+had grunted curt, official thanks for the rescue. As sullenly he had
+hesitated at the offer of the pyjamas, but as if deciding that he could
+not retain any dignity in his own bloodied skin, had accepted them, as
+well as a sorely needed drink of water.
+
+The reaction after the crisis, and possibly the influence of the general
+hysteria in the air, had distorted Birnier’s vision of things. He was very
+conscious of a neurotic desire to laugh unrestrainedly. Thus it was that
+for nearly half an hour the two men remained in the gloom in silence.
+Birnier had a psychological comprehension of the highly nervous tension of
+his guest. For he had long ago realized that the only solution of zu
+Pfeiffer’s crazy statement that he was engaged to the wife of a man to
+whom he was speaking, indicated a form of insanity.
+
+A psychological law is that natural emotions must have an outlet; if they
+are repressed they are apt to cause a state of mental disease which in an
+aggravated form may lead the patient to the asylum, but in the incipient
+stage are as common as jackals in Africa. Zu Pfeiffer was suffering from
+such a case of mild psychosis. Brought up under an iron code which did not
+permit his instincts to react, the repressed emotions bubbled out in the
+form of a deification of his Kaiser and the adoration of Lucille, both
+states being absolutely apart from all reason, indeed approached to a
+state of dissociation of consciousness. The desired unattainable is
+projected into the dream plane, the realm of myth. Such a case is the
+historical one of the man who, keenly intelligent upon every subject
+mentioned, startles the visitor by the demand for a piece of toast,
+gravely explaining that he is a poached egg and that he wishes to sit
+down; or as Pascal, who ever had beside him the great black dog. To
+attempt to rationalise with such an one was merely to excite the insane
+part of him. So it was that Birnier determined to ignore the subject
+entirely, perfectly aware that the sullenness of the man sitting in the
+camp chair opposite to him was caused by an exaggerated terror that he
+would insist upon speaking of the one subject which should be tabu.
+
+The associative suggestion of Lucille diverted his mind until he became
+immersed in thoughts of her. A queer vision of a well-fed tiger playing
+with a kid entered his mind. More conscious than ever of her attraction by
+reason of the intensified sense of her wrought by her letter, he glanced
+surreptitiously at the rigid form in the chair and a wave of pity mixed
+with a half conscious pride that she belonged to him, rose within him.
+Then Birnier started as he was brought back to a realization of the
+passing of time by a harsh voice that told of creaking nerves:
+
+“Herr Professor, what is your pleasure to do with me, if you please?”
+
+“I beg your pardon!” Birnier sat up. “Er—naturally I shall endeavour to
+get you away as early as possible. It would be as well if you took
+advantage of the present—er—saturnalia to escape. I cannot do much. I can
+provide you with a gun and food. As you are not injured you should be able
+to get a reasonable distance from here by morning; for the rest I am
+afraid you must fend for yourself. I wish that I could do more, but I’m
+afraid that my power is not yet sufficient to ensure any help from the
+natives.”
+
+An inarticulate sound emerged from zu Pfeiffer’s mouth. Birnier’s eyes
+caught the sheen of the photograph upon the wall. Escape! Lucille! Almost
+involuntarily he stretched out a hand and took Lucille’s letter from the
+table. Again came zu Pfeiffer’s voice:
+
+“I thank you, Herr Professor, but I cannot accept—for myself.” Birnier
+stared at him. “I wish you to understand that for myself that is
+impossible.” The tall figure seemed to straighten in the chair. “But as I
+have the honour to serve his Imperial Majesty I am bound to preserve to
+the best of my ability my body in order to answer for my culpable
+negligence which has resulted in the loss of my two companies. Most
+distinctly, Herr Professor, I wish you to know that I accept your offer in
+order to place myself before the Court Martial that awaits me.”
+
+Birnier almost gasped. That this anomaly of a man, who was capable of
+cold-blooded murder at the prompting of an hallucination, and who now
+appeared equally capable of the utter annihilation of self at the service
+of his Imperial Master, meant what he said, Birnier did not doubt. Yet it
+was not anomalous. Logical in fact; the capability of supreme sacrifice
+for either of his idols.
+
+“I understand you, Lieutenant,” said he courteously. “I——” The two letters
+in his hand crackled. Before he could master the mean desire he had handed
+the second letter to zu Pfeiffer with the words:
+
+“Forgive me, I have here a letter which it is my duty to return to you.”
+
+The sapphires winked as zu Pfeiffer held up the letter in the shaft of
+moonlight. There was a suppressed grunt as of pain. Zu Pfeiffer rose
+stiffly and walked to the door. His tall figure was silhouetted in profile
+against the green sky and as Birnier watched he saw a gleam as of crystal
+upon an eyelash. Birnier, ashamed of his sole vengeance, turned away.
+
+But as if revenge were recoiling upon him came in the wake of that
+satisfied primitive instinct a surge of longing for Lucille. Lucille!
+Lucille! God! how he desired to see those eyes again! Feel those lips and
+hear the gurgle of her laughter! Sense the perfume of her hair as she
+murmured: “_Mon petit loup!_” Birnier sat holding the letter. He fought
+with an impulse to abandon everything to go to her—if he could get out!
+How stale and monotonous the adventure and the scientific interest
+suddenly seemed! After all, what had he accomplished? What could he
+accomplish? Even yet he had learned but little of the secrets of the
+witch-doctor’s craft. Perhaps there was little or nothing to learn? And zu
+Pfeiffer? He stared across at the portrait of Lucille. And as he gazed a
+wave of pity rose within him for this boy made mad by the witchery of
+those eyes and the music of that voice. A sentence in Lucille’s letter
+appeared to stand out from the context: “_Mon Dieu, they are as thick as
+the blackberries!_”
+
+And yet—and yet—— Why the devil had she taken it into her head to come out
+to Uganda above all places? he asked himself. She was so damnably near to
+him. He smiled satirically as he recollected her phrase about those fools
+who made of love a nuisance, and yet now what was she doing? After all the
+suspicion in his mind that love is everything to a woman seemed proven
+true.
+
+But how adorable she was! He fingered the letter as if it were part of
+her. Well, she was young; success and adulation from one capital to
+another had interested and amused her for a few years, but when Milady had
+suddenly discovered that the Career bored her she had thrown up everything
+and logically—to her mind—expected her mate to do likewise! With what
+insouciance had she treated the affair of zu Pfeiffer and the youngster
+whom he had struck. When Birnier had met her she had had a story of a
+young fool count in Paris who had shot himself, merely because she would
+not listen to his suit; and she had protested with one of those wonderful
+shrugs and a moue, saying that she could not marry all the men in the
+world! That apparently bloodthirsty indifference had of course tended to
+make more men “crazy wild,” as she put it, about her. And that reputation
+had added to her numerous attractions even to Birnier.
+
+He could escape if he wished—with zu Pfeiffer. He could take Mungongo with
+him. Yet would Mungongo dare the tabu at his bidding? Birnier doubted it.
+Would Mungongo even consent to let him, Birnier, who was now in his eyes
+the King-God, go and so imperil the foundations of the native world?
+Birnier was certain that he would not. They were all dominated by this
+confounded idol of wood, he reflected. Bakahenzie, or even Mungongo, would
+cheerfully sacrifice him if either imagined that the damned Unmentionable
+One desired it, at the suppositious bidding of something which was
+nothing.
+
+Through the sweet scent of her in the air like a compelling aura about
+him, came suddenly zu Pfeiffer’s voice speaking in the accents of agony;
+yet all he said was:
+
+“Herr Professor Birnier—I am compelled—to—to apologise for …”
+
+The voice failed and the haughty blond head turned away, unable to
+complete to the uttermost the greatest sacrifice he had ever attempted.
+
+“Please don’t,” said Birnier comprehendingly. “I understand.”
+
+And Birnier did comprehend; realised the small hell in zu Pfeiffer as a
+higher developed tabu did a childish tabu unto death. Zu Pfeiffer, white
+man, had been just as guilty of an attempt to commit murder at the
+suppositious inversion of a thumb of an idol as Bakahenzie; not an idol of
+wood but the projection of his subconscious desires. Zu Pfeiffer would
+sacrifice a million at the bidding of his Kaiser, whose divinity was the
+same myth, the projection of himself. Yet what had been Birnier’s object
+in undertaking all these pains and penalties but to study mankind in the
+making, the black microcosm of a white macrocosm; to aid them to a better
+understanding of themselves and each other? Was not Bakahenzie an
+embryonic zu Pfeiffer? How could one aid a zu Pfeiffer if one did not know
+a Bakahenzie?
+
+From the saturnalia in progress outside came another swirl of sound
+seeming to lap mockingly against the motionless figure of zu Pfeiffer
+silhouetted against a green sky; and above him towered the idol leaning
+sideways.
+
+As if in drunken laughter of the follies of black and white humanity!
+mused Birnier. Yet what am I doing? At the crook of a dainty finger am I,
+too, to bow to an idol? Am I to pity zu Pfeiffer and these children?…
+Savages! Good God, what am I?
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                               EXTRA PAGES
+
+
+
+
+                                                             Witch-Doctors
+
+
+
+
+        _L’homme est bien insensé! il_
+        _ne sçauroit forger un ciron, et_
+        _forge des dieux à douzaine!_
+
+                        MONTAIGNE
+
+
+
+
+
+                                  ERRATA
+
+
+      CHARACTERS
+      Changed: Ludwig    *do. do.*
+      To: Ludwig    *German sergeant*
+
+      CHARACTERS
+      Changed: Schneider    *do. do.*
+      To: Schneider    *German sergeant*
+
+      Chapter 1
+      Changed: “This Saka—Saka”—*Zu* Pfeiffer glanced at
+      To: “This Saka—Saka”—*zu* Pfeiffer glanced at
+
+      Chapter 1
+      Changed: retreat. At *MFunga* MPopo’s is the
+      To: retreat. At *MFunya* MPopo’s is the
+
+      Chapter 1
+      Changed: As *Zu* Pfeiffer nodded languidly
+      To: As *zu* Pfeiffer nodded languidly
+
+      Chapter 1
+      Changed: seemed to escape *Zu* Pfeiffer. He gave
+      To: seemed to escape *zu* Pfeiffer. He gave
+
+      Chapter 1
+      Changed: man’s arrival?” demanded *Zu* Pfeiffer harshly.
+      To: man’s arrival?” demanded *zu* Pfeiffer harshly.
+
+      Chapter 1
+      Changed: Zu *Peiffer* finished the report leisurely
+      To: Zu *Pfeiffer* finished the report leisurely
+
+      Chapter 3
+      Changed: I thank you*,* And if—— Were
+      To: I thank you*.* And if—— Were
+
+      Chapter 6
+      Changed: as balanced as a dancer’s* *
+      To: as balanced as a dancer’s*.*
+
+      Chapter 6
+      Changed: to matters of more importance.*”*
+      To: to matters of more importance.* *
+
+      Chapter 9
+      Changed: shall lave hungry ears of* *
+      To: shall lave hungry ears of *——!*
+
+      Chapter 9
+      Changed: *E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h*!
+      To: *E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h*!
+
+      Chapter 9
+      Changed: As we …* *
+      To: As we …*”*
+
+      Chapter 9
+      Changed: The personality of *Bernier* had been apparently
+      To: The personality of *Birnier* had been apparently
+
+      Chapter 9
+      Changed: and the two *Nordenfelts* and two pom-poms
+      To: and the two *Nordenfeldts* and two pom-poms
+
+      Chapter 11
+      Changed: “*Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*!”
+      To: “*Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*!”
+
+      Chapter 11
+      Changed: *Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*!
+      To: *Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*!
+
+      Chapter 13
+      Changed: in of fresh *masssacres* adding to the
+      To: in of fresh *massacres* adding to the
+
+      Chapter 14
+      Changed: Yabolo near to *Zaku* Zako’s continued. Neither
+      To: Yabolo near to *Zalu* Zako’s continued. Neither
+
+      Chapter 14
+      Changed: enemy, Bakahenzie, presented *Zaku* Zako with a
+      To: enemy, Bakahenzie, presented *Zalu* Zako with a
+
+      Chapter 14
+      Changed: which walk ever *the the* red devils in
+      To: which walk ever *the* red devils in
+
+      Chapter 14
+      Changed: the minds of *Zako Zalu* and Marufa the
+      To: the minds of *Zalu Zako* and Marufa the
+
+      Chapter 15
+      Changed: village of MFunya *MPope* —of that day
+      To: village of MFunya *MPopo* —of that day
+
+      Chapter 15
+      Changed: not his policy *tomake* his thunder too
+      To: not his policy *to make* his thunder too
+
+      Chapter 17
+      Changed: position of chief *witch doctor*, he would do
+      To: position of chief *witch-doctor*, he would do
+
+      Chapter 18
+      Changed: earth, and when*——* and when——” He
+      To: earth, and when*—* and when——” He
+
+      Chapter 19
+      Changed: in their solar *plexes*.
+      To: in their solar *plexus*.
+
+      Chapter 22
+      Changed: the village of *Yangonyama*, but shortage of
+      To: the village of *Yagonyana*, but shortage of
+
+      Chapter 24
+      Changed: the white god.* *
+      To: the white god.*”*
+
+      Chapter 29
+      Changed: Peuh! *Ecoute*, mon cher, it
+      To: Peuh! *Écoute*, mon cher, it
+
+      Chapter 30
+      Changed: Pm-pm—*Pommmm*!
+      To: Pm-pm—*Pommmmm*!
+
+
+
+
+
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+Title: Witch-Doctors
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+Author: Charles Beadle
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WITCH-DOCTORS***
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+
+                              Witch-Doctors
+
+                           _by_ Charles Beadle
+                    _Author of "A Whiteman's Burden"_
+
+Boston and New York
+Houghton Mifflin Company
+1922
+
+
+
+
+
+     _Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Frome and London_
+
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+
+                                CHARACTERS
+
+
+
+
+  LUCILLE CHARLTRAIN (Mrs. Gerald Birnier)                     A Photograph
+  USAKUMA (The Incarnation of the
+      Unmentionable One)                                            An Idol
+  GERALD BIRNIER                                                A Professor
+  ZU PFEIFFER (Hermann von Schnitzler und)                German Kommandant
+  ZALU ZAKO (son of Kawa Kendi)                               Heir Apparent
+  BAKUMA (daughter of Bakala)                        in love with Zalu Zako
+  MYALU (son of MBusa)                          a chief in love with Bakuma
+  BAKAHENZIE (son of Maliko)                             Chief Witch-Doctor
+  MARUFA (son of MTungo)                               another Witch-Doctor
+  KAWA KENDI (son of MFunya MPopo)                   King-God and Rainmaker
+  MFUNYA MPOPO (son of MKoffo)                    Predecessor of Kawa Kendi
+  KINGATA MATA (son of Kabolo)                   Keeper of the Sacred Fires
+  SAKAMATA                                     deposed Witch-Doctor and spy
+  YABOLO                                               another Witch-Doctor
+  MUNGONGO                                                Birnier's servant
+  SCHULTZ                                                   German sergeant
+  LUDWIG                                                    German sergeant
+  SCHNEIDER                                                 German sergeant
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 CONTENTS
+
+
+Chapter 1
+Chapter 2
+Chapter 3
+Chapter 4
+Chapter 5
+Chapter 6
+Chapter 7
+Chapter 8
+Chapter 9
+Chapter 10
+Chapter 11
+Chapter 12
+Chapter 13
+Chapter 14
+Chapter 15
+Chapter 16
+Chapter 17
+Chapter 18
+Chapter 19
+Chapter 20
+Chapter 21
+Chapter 22
+Chapter 23
+Chapter 24
+Chapter 25
+Chapter 26
+Chapter 27
+Chapter 28
+Chapter 29
+Chapter 30
+Chapter 31
+Extra Pages
+Errata
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                              WITCH-DOCTORS
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 1
+
+
+In a bayou in the south-eastern corner of the Victoria Nyanza was the
+station of Ingonya, a brown scab on the face of the green earth. The round
+mud huts of the askaris were like two columns of khaki troops marching
+rigidly on each side of the parade ground. To the north, upon a slight
+rise of ground, were the white men's quarters; the non-commissioned
+officers had four bungalows to the south of the orderly room and Court
+House; and beyond a green plot flanked by a store house and an ordnance
+building, was a bigger bungalow, florid in the amplitude and colour of the
+red pillared verandah, the residence of the Kommandant, Herr
+Ober-Lieutenant Hermann von Schnitzler und zu Pfeiffer.
+
+On the northern side, overlooking the swamp and the distant lake, was a
+flagpole, before which paced an ebon sentry in a uniform of white
+knickers, tunic and lancer cap, red faced. The glow of sunrise stained the
+green of the moon with crimson. A trumpet blared. From the rear of the
+Residence marched with stiff-legged precision a squad of askaris and the
+stocky figure of a non-commissioned officer in a white helmet.
+Simultaneously appeared on the verandah of the large bungalow the tall
+form of a white man in pink silk pyjamas. The sergeant barked. The squad
+presented arms. A coloured ball slid up the flagpole. The first rays of
+the sun splintered the bloodied waters beyond into silver spikes and
+caressed a fluttering black, white and red flag.
+
+Then the squad ported arms, relieved the sentry, and retired, their black
+legs gleaming blue points as they rose and fell. The pink figure
+disappeared. Sergeant Schultz strutted back to his bungalow, in the
+verandah of which squatted a native girl clad in gay trade cloths. He
+emerged lighting a cigar, and sjambok in hand, returned to the orderly
+room. Another trumpet blared. From beyond the askaris' camp came a line of
+natives, young and old, their scrawny necks linked together by a light
+iron chain which clanked musically. Filing on to the parade ground they
+were divided into gangs by Sergeant Schneider to labour under guard at the
+interminable work of the camp.
+
+The air above the swamp began to sizzle in the heat. The same slender
+figure clad in immaculate white reappeared upon the south verandah of the
+florid bungalow. Herr Ober-Lieutenant stood staring about the small square
+with a peevish glint in the fair eyes. A big negro in spotless white
+hurried around the house bearing a brass tray set with a cup, a liqueur
+glass and a decanter. Herr Lieutenant sprawled his legs on either arm of a
+Bombay chair. As he delicately mixed cognac with his coffee, his jewelled
+fingers sparkled in a shaft of sunlight which set afire the sapphires
+mounted in an ivory bracelet.
+
+At a yard from the table stood the servant as rigid as the flagpole. With
+a lazy insolence which marked his movements, the lieutenant sipped the
+caf�-cognac and smoked a cheroot, as if he were seated on the terrace of
+the Caf� de la Paix. The brutality of the round skull, emphasized by the
+cropped blonde hair, seemed at variance with the boyish rotundity of the
+face and the small, but dominant, nose. Two separate moustaches bristled
+so fiercely that they suggested sentries on guard over the feminine
+softness of the lips. When he had finished zu Pfeiffer arose languidly,
+lighted a fresh cigar, adjusted his helmet with care, took a gold-mounted
+sjambok from his servant, and strode across the square. The lines of his
+torso were so perfect that they suggested artificial aid.
+
+The orderly room was square and whitewashed; grass matting was upon the
+floor, and high screened doors opened on to the north verandah. Zu
+Pfeiffer sprawled in a swing chair before the office desk placed at an
+oblique angle to the wall, encumbered with books and papers. After tapping
+reflectively on a book cover with a polished nail zu Pfeiffer's hand
+sharply struck the bell. Instantly a corporal appeared at the farther door
+and stood as if petrified, black hand to black temple. Zu Pfeiffer snapped
+instructions in Kiswahili without removing his cigar. The man grunted,
+shot his hand away at right angles with as much energy as if he were
+trying to knock down an elephant, and vanished.
+
+"Sergeant!"
+
+"Ja, Excellence."
+
+At the other door like another Jack-in-the-box appeared Sergeant Schultz
+in exactly the same attitude. At a nod the sergeant melted into the
+semblance of human movement: he drew aside a chair, selected a certain
+document from a pile of them, and handed it to the lieutenant. Zu Pfeiffer
+pushed a box of cigars across the table, lolled back with one foot on the
+table, and began to peruse lazily. The sergeant retired respectfully with
+the cigar to the outer office. A fly buzzed hopefully at the mosquito
+wire. The tap of a typewriter sounded like some other insect. On the hot
+air came the faint barks of a drill-sergeant on the parade ground. From
+behind the building rose fitfully the murmur of voices from a herd of
+natives squatted in the sun awaiting the opening of the Court House.
+Leaves rustled largely under the Lieutenant's fingers.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+At length he pitched the report on to the table, carefully placed the butt
+of his cigar in an ash-tray, lighted another, and disposed of the match
+with equal care.
+
+"Sergeant."
+
+"Ja, Excellence!"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer indicated a chair by a thrust of the chin. The sergeant sat.
+Tapping the report with the highly polished and very long finger-nail of
+the left hand, the lieutenant demanded:
+
+"Who is the man who gave you this report?"
+
+"Ali Ben Hassan, an Arab trader, Excellence."
+
+"Trustworthy?"
+
+"Ja, Excellence. He has done much work for us."
+
+"Where?"
+
+"On the Tanganika district, sub-division B II, Excellence. He brought
+papers of first-class recommendation from the Kommandant."
+
+"Ben Hassan speaks of one Sakamata, nicht wahr?"
+
+"Ja, Excellence."
+
+"Of what tribe is he?"
+
+"Wongolo."
+
+"A witch-doctor?"
+
+"Ja, Excellence."
+
+"He is here? Let him come in."
+
+The sergeant rose, saluted and departed. Gutturals sounded lazily. The
+sergeant reappeared and behind him shuffled a native. Clad only in a dirty
+loin-cloth, his brown skin was wrinkled in scaly folds upon his chest and
+belly; his face was like an ancient tortoise; the small lack-lustre eyes
+were bloodshot and furtive; the limbs were almost fleshless. He squatted
+upon the ground and with lowered lids appeared to be absorbed in the
+contemplation of a white man's table leg. Zu Pfeiffer regarded the man as
+one would a stray dog and nodded to the sergeant, who sat down.
+
+"Does he speak Kiswahili?"
+
+"Nein, Excellence. Only his monkey speech."
+
+"Why do you suppose that he is trustworthy?"
+
+"Because, Excellence, his interests are with ours. There is no
+competition. The Schweinh�nde Engl�nder have no interest there--yet. They
+are too busy with the Uganda railroad."
+
+"Ja, ja. Again what is the tribal system there, King-God or----" The
+lieutenant permitted a slight smile--"or Dis-established Church?"
+
+"King-God, Excellence," replied Sergeant Schultz gravely.
+
+"This fellow then is an apostate priest, nicht wahr?"
+
+The sergeant noticed the movement of one of the sentry moustaches. A
+twitch of the lips recognized his superior's pleasantry.
+
+"Ja, Excellence."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer stuck the cigar into the corner of his mouth and regarded idly
+the dumb figure on the floor against the wall.
+
+"We must have the Wongolo country, c'est entendu. Now what's your opinion
+of the method, sergeant?"
+
+"With due deference, Excellence," responded Sergeant Schultz, "I propose
+that we advance and bring them to subjection in the usual manner."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer fingered a ring and stared out into the yellow glare.
+
+"Nein," he said at length, meditatively, removed the cigar from his lips
+and delicately knocked off the ash. "Circumstances alter cases. That
+method is too expensive. Son Altesse cannot afford the blood of the
+Fatherland in return for such ignoble carcasses. We--the price paid in the
+Herrero campaign was insupportable."
+
+"Pardon, Excellence, but Treitschke said----"
+
+"I know, sergeant. But Treitschke did not live in Central Africa."
+
+"True, Excellence."
+
+"Die Schweinh�nde Engl�nder have had more experience than we have. Even a
+fool learns wisdom by experience--sometimes."
+
+"True, Excellence."
+
+Again fell a silence save for the buzz of the persistent fly.
+
+"Also psychological research is more valuable than artillery--sometimes--in
+spite of Napoleon and Treitschke." Zu Pfeiffer glanced at the sergeant
+who, beneath the mask of his features, appeared shocked. "Blasphemy, nicht
+wahr, sergeant?"
+
+"If your Excellence thinks----"
+
+"But remember if Napoleon invented the science of artillery, we invented
+psychology."
+
+"True, Excellence."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer smiled complacently and stroked his moustaches.
+
+"Now for this animal here. Who and what was he?"
+
+"One of the principal witch-doctors, Excellence, wealthy and powerful. He
+attempted to overthrow the Chief Witch-doctor, one Bakahenzie, and was
+discredited."
+
+"How discredited?"
+
+"He attempted some form of magic, Excellence, which failed. Details are
+not given."
+
+"Who gave the dossier?"
+
+"Ali ben Hassan, Excellence."
+
+"From whom did he get his information?"
+
+"Name given as one Yabolo, another witch-doctor and relative."
+
+"This Saka--Saka"--zu Pfeiffer glanced at the document--"Sakamata. Is he in
+communication with this Yabolo?"
+
+"Ja, Excellence."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer smoked reflectively.
+
+"When did the last agent come in?"
+
+"But yesterday, Excellence."
+
+"And no report of any other white men in the country? No British
+missionaries or traders?"
+
+"Nein, Excellence."
+
+"Where is Saunders?"
+
+"On Lake Kivu."
+
+"No report?"
+
+"Not since the last three months ago, Excellence."
+
+"Umph!--Now, pay attention." Schultz leaned forward dutifully. Zu Pfeiffer
+unrolled a map on the wall beside him. "Here's Ingonya. The Wongolo
+country is twenty days' march from here, but across the lake it's twenty
+hours with the launch, and five days from there." The delicate finger-nail
+indicated a spot on the opposite side of the lake. "From here--what's the
+place? Ach--Timballa. To hell with the British boundary! We must not give
+them time to get the news. Always rush the seat of government. Surprise
+them and they're done."
+
+"But, Excellence, Treitschke says regarding retreat----"
+
+"There will be no retreat. At MFunya MPopo's is the idol, the fetish. We
+destroy it and they're done!" He brought down his fist with a crash on the
+table. "Faith unites a people; in unity is strength. Break the faith and
+you've broken the people."
+
+"But, Excellence!" exclaimed the Lutheran sergeant, aghast.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer's blue eyes hardened.
+
+"Understand, you fool, these are savages. _You_ have an abstract
+deity--which you cannot break in the concrete--obviously: they have a
+concrete god which we can and shall smash."
+
+"Excellence, you are right," said the sergeant humbly.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer flicked cigar ash from his sleeve and lolled back.
+
+"Those are your orders. Commandeer the necessary canoes and notify Ludwig
+to have the men in readiness for the full moon. Work out the details and
+give them to me to-morrow."
+
+"Ja, Excellence." Schultz stood to attention. "But, Excellence, this
+creature----"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer glanced casually at Sakamata.
+
+"Oh, that? Take it away!"
+
+Schultz saluted smartly and wheeled about.
+
+"Njoo!" he commanded sharply.
+
+Sakamata rose up quietly and disappeared through the door without glancing
+to the right or the left.
+
+"The Court awaits your Excellence," reminded the sergeant.
+
+As zu Pfeiffer nodded languidly, a booted foot clopped on the verandah.
+
+"Wa da?" queried Sergeant Schultz, startled at the intrusion of a
+stranger.
+
+"Oh, only I," responded a soft voice in English.
+
+Through the screen door a tall figure in a Tirai hat was silhouetted in
+sepia against the yellow glare. A brown hand pushed open the door.
+
+"Mon nom est Birnier, Gerald Birnier--er--Does any one speak English?"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer, in the act of rising, sank back into the chair, placing his
+left leg in a favourite position and selecting a cigar simultaneously.
+
+"Yes," said he, almost without accent. "What do you want?"
+
+"I wish to see the--the Herr Kommandant."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer struck a match without looking up.
+
+"I am he."
+
+One hand upon the open door, Birnier stroked his shaven chin perplexedly
+with the other. He glanced from the sergeant, standing rigidly by the
+table, to the lieutenant engaged in stoking his cigar to a nicety.
+
+"Well, it's usual to invite a white man to sit down, isn't it?" suggested
+Birnier, with a note of irritation.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer looked across the table.
+
+"Nein. This is the Orderly Room; not a general office."
+
+"Oh, I see. I beg your pardon!" There was a note of laughter in the voice.
+"Will you kindly instruct me where I am to apply?"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer continued to regard the stranger from head to foot, smoking
+slowly.
+
+"Please to come in," he said at length, gesturing with his cigar, "and sit
+down."
+
+"Thanks so much!"
+
+The trace of irony seemed to escape zu Pfeiffer. He gave a guttural order
+to the sergeant, who saluted and disappeared. The stranger placed his
+Tirai hat on the table, revealing rumpled brown hair flecked with grey, a
+high white forehead, and long features; the slight stoop of the shoulders
+and general carriage rather suggested a professional type than a hunter or
+trader. He regarded the slim figure staring insolently at him with a
+hardening look of disapproval.
+
+"What is it you wish?"
+
+"Well, principally I require an elephant licence and the usual permit to
+trade."
+
+"Where are you going?"
+
+"To the Kivu country."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer regarded his cigar tip interestedly.
+
+"You are going to the Wongolo country," he stated.
+
+Birnier's mouth tightened.
+
+"Quite possibly."
+
+"You have been to the Wongolo country already?"
+
+"Yes, I have been there, but what has that to do with it?"
+
+"We know all about you," stated zu Pfeiffer coldly, twiddling his cigar
+between slender fingers. He glanced at a gold repeater. "Pardon, but I
+must request you to return later. The Court is already awaiting me."
+Birnier frowned slightly. "If you will be so good as to return at, let us
+say, five o'clock, I will be pleased to listen to your application."
+
+Birnier rose, taking his hat.
+
+"Certainly," he said curtly. "Good morning!"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer watched him depart; then he struck the bell sharply. Sergeant
+Schultz appeared, a line of nervous expectancy upon his sallow face.
+
+"Why have you not reported that man's arrival?" demanded zu Pfeiffer
+harshly.
+
+"Excellence," returned Schultz, saluting, "he has but arrived within the
+hour in a launch, loaned to him by the Engl�nder."
+
+"Ach! An English spy!"
+
+"I do not know, Excellence."
+
+"We ought to know. Why have you not a report of the man's movements? He
+admits that he has been in the Wongolo country."
+
+"Excellence, it is already done." Schultz hurriedly searched a card index
+cabinet and handed a document to the lieutenant. "There is Saunders'
+report, Excellence; more than six months old."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer glanced at the page indicated and began to read while the
+sergeant stood stiffly at attention.
+
+"You may go, sergeant," announced zu Pfeiffer without looking up. Schultz
+saluted and departed. Zu Pfeiffer finished the report leisurely, put down
+the paper, and stared meditatively.
+
+No, he decided, as he rose, all the English are spies.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 2
+
+
+Like a topaz set in a jade ring was the city of the Snake, the place of
+Kings, a village of some eight hundred huts huddled upon a slight rise
+above a sea of banana fronds, some two hundred miles to the west of
+Ingonya.
+
+On the summit was a large conical hut like an enormous candle snuffer, the
+dwelling place of Usakuma, the spirit of the Snake, whose name was
+forbidden to all save the Priest-God and Rain Maker, King MFunya MPopo,
+who was so holy that after succeeding to the sacred office he was doomed
+to live within the compound, even as were the Kings of Eutopia, Sheba and
+China, a celibate for the remainder of his life: for, as the incarnation
+of the Idol, Usakuma, and therefore the controller of the Heavens and the
+Earth, his body must be kept from all danger of witchcraft lest the rains
+cease and the blue skies fall.
+
+From the compound, looking towards the north-west where the snow-capped
+Gamballagalla rose violet against the horizon, another brown cone peeped
+above the green fronds, the late residence, and now the tomb of King
+MKoffo, predecessor of MFunya MPopo. For where a King-God dies there is he
+buried, he and his wives after him; the site becomes holy ground, a place
+of pilgrimage and sanctuary.
+
+In each of the small huts to the rear of the temple of MFunya MPopo, but
+outside the sacred enclosure, lived his wives who, although forbidden to
+their husband, were permitted a royal promiscuity. Just within the
+precincts was a small replica of the temple where dwelt a young chief,
+also bound to celibacy, whose duties were to keep the royal fire burning
+as long as the king should reign. No one was allowed to converse with the
+king, save on matters of state, except this man; through him was spoken
+the royal will--what there was left of it--to the council which sat in a
+long rectangular building opposite to the temple entrance and open to the
+village, a body of witch-doctors and chiefs.
+
+Solely the kingly office existed as a beneficent agent, a matter of
+self-preservation on the part of the tribe. The King-God's functions were
+divine; to make magic for the victory of his warriors and principally to
+make rain, on which, of course, the alimentary needs of his subjects
+depended--an incarnation of a god who was in reality the scapegoat of the
+god's omissions.
+
+The office was hereditary. Perhaps no one else would willingly accept such
+an onerous post. The making of magic was performed before the god with the
+assistance of the chief witch-doctor, an exceedingly lucrative post won
+upon merit, occupied by one Bakahenzie, a tall muscular man in the prime
+of life, whose bearing was that of the native autocrat, fierce and
+remorseless. The King's personal wishes could be safely granted as long as
+he did not endanger the existence of the people by a desire to break any
+of the meshes of the tabus designed to ensure the safety of his sacred
+body, and therefore that of the tribe, on the assumption that if the
+incarnation were injured the god would be injured, and so would his
+creations be affected: any infringement of these laws entailed the penalty
+of death, a code which revealed the native logic in the confusion of cause
+and effect, the concrete and the abstract.
+
+In the door of a hut on the outskirts of the village squatted a wizened
+man with a tuft of grey beard upon his chin. He was clad in a loin-cloth
+fairly clean, and about his neck was suspended by a twisted fibre an
+amulet wrapped in banana leaves containing the gall and toenail of an
+enemy slain by a virgin warrior, a specific against black magic whose
+powerful properties were proven by the undisputed influence and wealth of
+the owner.
+
+A tall lithe savage, bearing upon his arms and ankles the ivory bracelets
+of the royal house and the elephant hair chaplet of the warrior, advanced
+leisurely towards him from the banana plantation. Marufa continued to gaze
+in rumination at the opposite hut. But as they had not met since the
+rising of the sun, he did not fail to make the orthodox greeting at the
+exact moment that the chief's shadow passed in front of him, which Zalu
+Zako returned punctiliously, thereby averting an evil omen. As soon as the
+young man had passed beyond the next hut appeared in the grove a girl,
+modelled like a bronze wood nymph. She wore the tiny girdle of the
+unmarried and walked furtively, carrying in her hand a parcel wrapped in
+banana leaves. In the shadow of a compound fence she halted, one slender
+brown arm set back in apprehension as her eyes followed the lithe figure
+of Zalu Zako.
+
+Motionless sat Marufa staring in mystic contemplation. Bakuma glanced
+swiftly about her. Apparently satisfied that no one was observing her save
+a lean dog and two gollywog children, she continued on as if to pass the
+old man, her eyes still ranging like a fawn's. But when she was beside
+Marufa she subsided on her haunches beside him, clutching the bundle as
+she whispered:
+
+"Greetings, O wise one!"
+
+"Greeting, daughter," returned Marufa without lessening the fixity of his
+gaze.
+
+"I would talk with thee."
+
+"Aye."
+
+Again she glanced around furtively.
+
+"I would talk in thine ear, O my father."
+
+"The knots of my hair are tied."
+
+"I thank thee. There's a fluttering bird in my breast."
+
+"And a snake around thy heart, O my daughter."
+
+"Aie-e!"
+
+"The grandson of the snake hath tied thy girdle."
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+The girl clasped her breast in surprised terror.
+
+"How dost thou know?"
+
+"All things are known to the son of MTungo," declared Marufa solemnly,
+still regarding the opposite wall. "Thou desirest a love charm.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} What hast
+thou?"
+
+Tremulously Bakuma put down the green package on the ground, darting
+terrified glances to right and left. Slowly the skinny hand of the wizard
+gently tore open the leaves; very impressively the eyes slanted down to
+appraise the stock of blue and white beads.
+
+"The spirit of Tarum hath a big belly," he announced tonelessly.
+
+"O wise one, intercede for me," pleaded Bakuma, "for more have I none, I,
+Bakuma, daughter of Bakala, a girl of the hut thatch."
+
+"The true love charm, infallible and powerful, is difficult to obtain, O
+Bakuma. The young huntress aims at big game."
+
+"Ehh! But I have no more, great one!"
+
+"The hair of a rutting leopardess, the liver of a forest rat, the tongue
+of a Baroto bird--these must I have to mix with thy blood to be drunk by
+thy man when the moon is full."
+
+"Ehh! Ehh!"
+
+"Such is the magic that no young man can resist."
+
+"Ehh-h!"
+
+"But these things are difficult to obtain."
+
+"Aie! Aie!" wailed Bakuma, clasping her hands in despair.
+
+"Difficult to obtain."
+
+"Aie-e!"
+
+"On the night of the half-moon will I take upon me the leopard form."
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+"I will talk with the spirits."
+
+"Ehh! Ehh!"
+
+"But they must be propitiated with the blood of a fat goat."
+
+"Aie! Aie! But I have no fat goat."
+
+"If there be no fat goat then will the spirits be wroth with me."
+
+"Aie-e-e!"
+
+Bakuma sat staring in dismal perplexity.
+
+"No fat goat have I, a girl of the hut thatch! Aie! Aie!"
+
+Marufa fumbled within the loin-cloth and thrust a tiny package along the
+ground.
+
+"See and know the power of my magic." Bakuma greedily snatched up the
+amulet. "Begone!" he whispered, jerking the parcel of beads behind him.
+"MYalu approaches."
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+Bakuma rose and fled with the grace of a startled antelope as appeared a
+tall, strongly built man, having a low-browed face, across which was a
+deep scar. Behind MYalu came two young slaves bearing a small elephant
+tusk. Opposite to Marufa the slaves stopped. Their master, careful that
+his shadow fell well away from the figure of the magician--for the shadow
+is one of the souls, so woe unto him who shall leave his soul in the hands
+of an enemy!--squatted gravely.
+
+"Greeting, son of MTungo!"
+
+"Greeting, son of MBusa!" returned Marufa.
+
+Gravely they spat into each other's palm, the sign of amity as they who
+exchange bonds of good behaviour inasmuch, as is well known, magic can be
+worked upon that which has been a part of the body as upon the body
+itself. Then solemnly they rubbed the spittle upon their respective
+chests.
+
+"The spirit of the snake nourisheth not the life of the banana."
+
+"Nay, for nigh unto two moons hath there been no blood of the snake,"
+returned the old man perfunctorily, as he lifted his eyes from a swift
+appraisement of the tusk to his favourite mud wall.
+
+"Nay, the crops sprout not. Maybe the Dweller in the Place of the Snake
+hath been visited by one from the forest."
+
+"Aye, but old blood runs not as swiftly as young blood."
+
+"Nay," replied MYalu, in answer to the reference to himself, "but the
+girdle is not yet tied by another."
+
+"When the first twig of the nest is laid," remarked Marufa, indolently
+eyeing the tusk, "it is difficult to entice the hen to another tree."
+
+"Here is a goodly twig with which to tempt spirits of the forest," and
+significantly, "Maybe there are others."
+
+"A mighty potion shall be prepared for thee, O son of MBusa," declared
+Marufa, moving slightly to conceal the package of beads. "A mighty potion,
+infallible; made from the hair of a rutting leopardess, the liver of the
+forest rat and the tongue of the Baroto bird; these must she take that she
+shall speak thee softly, together with a portion of that which remains
+from the ceremony of the lobolo. Infallible is it; never known to fail."
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+Marufa stared interestedly at a wandering hen. MYalu watched him covertly.
+Like bronzes sat the two young slaves. From the distance came a faint
+chanting and the beat of a drum.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+"The tusk is here, Marufa," remarked MYalu casually.
+
+"My eyes see it," observed Marufa, without altering his observation of the
+hen.
+
+"Where then is the potion?"
+
+Marufa glanced at the tusk, appraised it again, and fumbling within his
+loin-cloth, thrust another tiny package along the ground. MYalu greedily
+picked up the amulet and stared in awe, turning it over and about.
+
+"The tusk," murmured Marufa.
+
+MYalu gestured to his slaves. They rose and placed the tusk beside the old
+man, shuffled backwards and squatted again. After lifting one end to test
+the weight, Marufa examined the grain. Then sliding it behind him as if he
+wished to sit upon it, remarked:
+
+"The potion must be eaten at the full moon."
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+MYalu glanced up from an absorbed examination of the amulet.
+
+"And within the quarter shall the fruit be ripe for the plucking." The
+whites of MYalu's eyes gleamed. "Unless," continued the old man
+uninterestedly, "there be stronger magic made against thee."
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+The two hands holding the amulet came down.
+
+"If," explained Marufa, "another hath tied the grasses of her father's
+roof, will there be required a stronger spirit to overcome such magic."
+
+"But thou hast told me," expostulated MYalu, regarding the tusk
+regretfully, "that this is a mighty magic, powerful and infallible, never
+known to fail."
+
+"Thus is it," asserted the old man imperturbably, "for all save a stronger
+magic."
+
+MYalu's eyes wandered from the tusk to Marufa and back. He scowled.
+
+"Why didst thou not tell me?" he demanded sourly, dropping the amulet on
+the ground.
+
+"It is for thee to tell the wizard all that thou knowest. How else may he
+reckon with thine enemies?"
+
+"Enemy!" exclaimed MYalu. He stared questioningly at Marufa. "Enemy! Dost
+thou know whom I seek?"
+
+"Do not all the hens remark the strutting of the cock?" inquired Marufa
+unconcernedly, tapping his snuff box.
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+MYalu observed the taking of snuff as if he had never seen the operation
+before.
+
+"Ehh!" he remarked again succinctly.
+
+Marufa replaced the cork of twisted leaves, let fall the snuff box made of
+rhinoceros horn suspended from his neck by a copper wire, and contemplated
+a skinny goat scratching itself violently. MYalu stirred as if to rise,
+but subsided, cogitated and said slowly:
+
+"In the house of MYalu are four more tusks."
+
+"Four more tusks," repeated Marufa dreamily.
+
+"Bigger than this one," said MYalu suggestively.
+
+"Bigger than this one."
+
+"Knowest thou by whom the girdle is tied?"
+
+"By the grandson of the Snake."
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+MYalu squatted motionless. The old man appeared to doze. Women bearing
+gourds of water upon their heads passed in single file, their loins
+swaying rhythmically. The shadows dwindled. From close at hand began the
+rapid beat of a drum. A stir began through the village as each man herded
+his women and slaves to his own hut.
+
+"O Marufa," said MYalu, speaking with a slight snarl, "hast thou such a
+powerful medicine that can surely trap the soul of Zalu Zako when
+perchance it wanders (in sleep)?"
+
+"All things are possible to the son of MTungo," mumbled the old man.
+
+Two chiefs appeared walking through the grove at a middle distance. MYalu
+glanced round apprehensively.
+
+"Two tusks will I give thee," he whispered, "if thou wilt do this thing."
+
+"Three tusks. No less, for the matter is dangerous."
+
+"Two, two."
+
+"Nay."
+
+The old man stirred to rise.
+
+"Three be it," gasped MYalu. "But I must see the magic done."
+
+They rose together.
+
+"Bring me of his toe-nails one paring, of his hair one, and his spittle
+and a footprint. Then shalt thou come with me to the sacred grove where
+the magic shall be done."
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+"But the three tusks must be given to Yanoka, my first wife."
+
+MYalu hesitated.
+
+"Aye, thus shall it be done," he assented reluctantly.
+
+"It is agreed?" inquired Marufa.
+
+"May my cord be lost!" swore MYalu, and gesturing to the slaves, hurried
+away.
+
+A slight grin flecked the old man's eyes as he turned into the hut.
+
+"Already hath he drunken of her blood," he mumbled. "Ya, Inkombana! take
+the tusk!"
+
+When Marufa emerged, a head-dress of the tail feathers of the green
+parrot, professional uniform and potent specific against evil spirits,
+fluffed gently as he slowly stalked towards the council house. From the
+other side of a hut walked MYalu as if he had come from a different
+direction. In the open gate of the royal enclosure sat a muscular young
+man upon his haunches, tending the royal fire, which fed hungrily upon
+small faggots. Beyond him across the yellow glare upon the cleared ground
+beneath a thatched awning, stood an idol of wood, whose lopsided mouth
+snarled beneath a bridgeless nose; narrow slits for eyes squinted; baby
+arms stuck down beside triangular breasts above a melon belly having a
+protuberant navel like a small cucumber--the incarnation of the Snake-god,
+Usakuma.
+
+Without the palisade of the sacred ground was a taller one, barring the
+doings of the council of witch-doctors and chiefs from the lay public, who
+were confined to their own huts under the penalty of a hideous death, or
+an enormous fine, as the witch-doctors should decide.
+
+To the rear of the idol, cross-legged against the wall of the entrance to
+the conical hut, were the musicians beating a monotonous rhythm upon big
+and small drums and twanging a primitive lyre of five strings. Just as
+Marufa and MYalu took their respective places without among the wizards
+and the chiefs, a young goat skipped into the open and stared
+inquisitively at the Keeper of the Fires. As the man waved the animal back
+from the sacred ground, the goat lowered its head and threatened to
+charge, suddenly recollected its mate lying in the shade a few feet away,
+and began to bleat absent-mindedly.
+
+Gravely and silently sat the assembly: continuously throbbed the drums.
+The sun beat diagonally. As a lizard darted like a flash of a prism from
+the grass palisade, the band ceased. A man emerged from behind the idol.
+Although the grey woolly tufts upon his chin, the sacred snake skin around
+his waist above the cat skin loin-cloth, the jingle of the ivory bangles
+on arms and ankles, and his stature, imparted an air of barbaric royalty,
+King MFunya MPopo advanced with the manner of a pariah dog ordered to his
+master's side.
+
+As the King approached, the Keeper of the Fires hastily threw on a handful
+of faggots and bowed his head. In the centre of the opening of the
+enclosure the King squatted down with his back to the fire which streamed
+blue smoke. Not a limb or a muscle moved among the group of wizards and
+chiefs in the council house. Attracted by the movement, the goat stopped
+bleating and stared at the King; then, putting down its head, charged him.
+
+With a horrified click, the Keeper of the Fires sprang. But he was not
+swift enough to prevent the impact of the animal's horns with the royal
+arm thrust out in self-defence. Three young chiefs came running; one
+caught up the goat and carried it away bleating bellicosely; the others
+knelt, and while one carefully collected a gout of blood upon the King's
+forearm in a piece of banana leaf, his companion wiped the wound. When
+they were satisfied that the bleeding had ceased, the pieces were
+meticulously wrapped in another leaf and borne away by the Keeper of the
+Fires to be deposited in the temple: for as every man knows, the royal
+blood must not be spilt upon the ground lest the site be accursed for ever
+and like the tooth of the dragon of Colchis, arise from the spot ghostly
+warriors to annihilate the tribe.
+
+Neither upon the face of any of the elders nor upon the features of MFunya
+MPopo, the King, had a muscle moved. Yet the incident was regarded as an
+evil omen.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Then suddenly did Bakahenzie, the chief witch-doctor, plumed
+with a tall scarlet feather in addition to the green ones and a necklace
+of finger bones upon his bronze chest, who sat in the centre with Kawa
+Kendi, the King's son upon his right, and Zalu Zako, the grandson, upon
+his left, begin to chant in a high wailing voice to the rapid rhythm of
+the drums:
+
+  "Is there not a shadow come over the land?
+  The frown of the One-not-to-be-mentioned?
+  I, Bakahenzie, have seen it! have seen it!"
+
+And from the group within the council house, immobile, came the bass
+chorus of assent:
+
+                 "Ough! Ough!"
+
+  "Is there not a dry curse come over the land?
+  Is it not the hot breath of the soul of the Snake?
+  I, Bakahenzie, have seen it! have seen it!"
+                 "Ough! Ough!"
+
+  "Where is the false spirit that hath sinned in the act?
+  He that hath sinned in the shade of the name?
+  I, Bakahenzie, have seen him! have seen him!"
+                 "Ough! Ough!"
+
+  "Does not the keen sting of him scorch up the land?
+  Hath not the young bread of our bellies been slain?
+  I, Bakahenzie, have seen it! have seen it!"
+                 "Ough! Ough!"
+
+The throb of the drums grew faster. Bakahenzie leaped from the crowd.
+Immediately in front of the King he began to dance and to scream:
+
+  "Is the Burden too great for the Guard of the Name?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Hath the Bearer, too, fumbled the weight of the World?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Is His spirit bewitched by the soul of a girl?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Hath His magical power been slain by the sin?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Hath a prophet made words in the act of a goat?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Does a saviour in hairs thirst the blood of a King?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Shall we hearken, O Chiefs, to the wish of the One?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Or be shrivelled and die in the drought of His wrath?
+                 Aie! Aie!"
+
+Kawa Kendi, a man in early middle age, powerful and lithe-limbed, sat as
+motionless as the King, his father, staring, as did all, with the fixed
+stare of the anagogic.
+
+Abruptly the drums ceased. Again came a hot silence as Bakahenzie paused
+in front of MFunya MPopo. Then with a piercing yell, the witch-doctor spun
+on his toes. The drums broke into an hysterical rhythm. Bakahenzie leaped
+high in the air; whirled around and around screaming hoarsely; leaped and
+spun continually.
+
+The chiefs and doctors began to grunt; continued in crescendo until the
+whole body throbbed and grunted to the rhythm of the drums. Yet immobile
+sat MFunya MPopo.
+
+Suddenly Bakahenzie changed the erratic course of his wild dance. He
+whirled and screamed in front of the King and fell headlong, as if in a
+fit, with eyes injected and foam upon the black tufts of beard. Bakahenzie
+clutched his belly and began to howl like a hyena at the moon. The drums
+stopped. Howl and writhe did Bakahenzie as if a thousand fiends were
+tearing out his entrails.
+
+He lay rigid. The air seemed to quiver. The lines of every man's limbs,
+except the King's, were drawn in tension. Then from the prostrate body of
+the witch-doctor, whose legs and arms were twisted as in agony, whose
+dribbling mouth was closed like a vise, came a ventriloquous falsetto:
+
+  "Aie-e! Aie-e! I am the spirit of Kintu!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! I am he who first was!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! I am the banana from whom I was made!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! The Keeper of the Name hath betrayed me!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! The Bride of me is defiled!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! Let him arise who is pure!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! Let him arise who is bidden!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! Let the fires be put out!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! Let a new fire arise from the ashes!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! I have spoken, I, the Father of men!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! I, Tarum, the soul of your ancestors!"
+
+From the assembly came the belly grunt of acceptance. In silence rose Kawa
+Kendi, the heir-apparent. His face was as expressionless as his father's.
+He stepped around the body of Bakahenzie and across the open space
+followed by a young man, Kingata Mata. Ten feet away from the enclosure,
+Kingata Mata sank upon his haunches. Before MFunya MPopo squatted his son.
+They spat each in the other's hand and swallowed the spittle. Then the
+head of Kawa Kendi bent to the lips of MFunya MPopo to receive the sacred
+Name.
+
+In unison with Kawa Kendi rose Kingata Mata, who to him handed a cord of
+twisted bark. Bending behind the King, who remained motionless with the
+closed eyes of one already dead, Kingata Mata swiftly adjusted the cord
+and handed it back to the son, Kawa Kendi.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+When the muscular young Keeper of the Fires had poured solemnly a gourd of
+water upon the royal fire of MFunya MPopo, he knelt submissively and was
+strangled beside his master.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+From the assembly went up a great shout:
+
+"The fire is put out!"
+
+And from the village, listening in awe to the mighty doings, came like an
+echo:
+
+"The fire is put out! Aie! Aie-e!"
+
+Then shouted the elders and wizards:
+
+"Let there be a new fire!"
+
+Again came the wailing repetition from the village:
+
+"Let there be a new fire!"
+
+As in the Place of Fires was kindled a new fire by Kingata Mata with two
+sacred sticks, one of which is male and the other female, the assembled
+chiefs and magicians groaned in allegiance to the new King-God of the
+unmentionable spirit of the Snake, Usakuma, the Idol.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 3
+
+
+At five-thirty zu Pfeiffer was stretched in the long Bombay chair in the
+coolest portion of the screened verandah. On the table beside him was a
+tall glass, a decanter of cognac and a box of cigars; and suspended from
+the roof swung a canvas bag of water with a syphon attachment. A gape fly,
+which somehow had gotten through the screen, hit the lieutenant's
+forehead, fell on to the book and whirred up against the wire.
+
+"Ach, Gott verdammt!" exclaimed zu Pfeiffer irritably and shouted: "Ho,
+Bakunja--la." Instantly appeared the tall negro in white. "You son of a
+god! Look at that!"
+
+Bakunjala looked, leaped, and caught the fly in his hand.
+
+"Ow!" he exclaimed as the hornet stung him.
+
+"Ach, you woman of shame, catch it instantly!"
+
+Without hesitation Bakunjala made another grab, and clutching the fly
+tightly, made to open the screen door.
+
+"Halt!" commanded the lieutenant.
+
+Bakunjala obeyed.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer regarded the man standing with the wasp sting buried in his
+palm with a slight smile of amusement.
+
+"It hurts?" he inquired amiably.
+
+"Indio, Bwana!" asserted Bakunjala.
+
+"Good! Now stop there."
+
+Motionless remained the negro. Zu Pfeiffer leisurely selected a fresh
+cigar, lighted it, stoked it, and inhaling smoke stroked his left
+moustache.
+
+"It still hurts?"
+
+"Indio, Bwana!" said Bakunjala with a high note in his voice.
+
+"Splendid!" assured the lieutenant: and after a full minute added: "Now
+you may go. And remember if you are frightened of a fly's pain again I
+will give you twenty lashes."
+
+"Indio, Bwana," answered Bakunjala humbly and departed swiftly with the
+hornet in his clenched fist. Zu Pfeiffer smiled, again stared reflectively
+at the violet shadows creeping lazily across the square, sipped some
+brandy and picking up his book, began to read.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer frowned and looked round. Outside the screen stood Sergeant
+Schultz at the salute. Zu Pfeiffer nodded.
+
+"Well?"
+
+"Excellence," said the sergeant at attention, "the Englishman is here."
+
+"Ach, tell him to go----" The lieutenant drew out his gold chronometer. "It
+is my bath time. I cannot see him."
+
+"Ja, Excellence."
+
+"Wait." Zu Pfeiffer withdrew his legs and rose. "Ach, tell the fool to
+come over here and wait till I have had my bath."
+
+"Excellence!" agreed the sergeant and saluting, marched away. Zu Pfeiffer
+entered the bungalow. Across the square came Birnier with the sergeant who
+ushered him into the screened portion of the verandah.
+
+"His Excellence gom bresently," said the sergeant and left him.
+
+Birnier put his Tirai hat on the table, and seeing no other, sat in the
+Bombay chair; looked about him; idly examined the brand on the box of
+cigars and smiled. "Makes himself mighty comfortable," he remarked to
+himself. "Pity he appears such a boor." He glanced at the book on the
+armchair. _Allgemeine Geschichte der Philosophie_ von Prof. Dr. Paul
+Deussen. "And a philosopher, eh!" Having little German he turned away and
+lighted his pipe. After a while he began to fidget, wondering how long he
+was to be kept waiting. "Damn the fellow!" he muttered and picked up one
+of the books on the table, _Les Ba-Rongas_, par A. Junod, opened it at
+random and began to read.
+
+The shadows of one bungalow reached the verandah on the opposite side of
+the square. And still he read on, the dead pipe in his hand. Just as the
+twilight was snuffed out like a candle, a sharp step heralded the arrival
+of the lieutenant. Birnier rose, the book in his hand.
+
+"Good evening, sir!"
+
+"Good evening," responded zu Pfeiffer, who was in an undress uniform of
+white. "What is it that you require?"
+
+"Well," said Birnier, "first of all I must apologise for using your chair
+and reading your book. Most interesting, by the way."
+
+"That is nothing," said zu Pfeiffer as Bakunjala came in with a lamp and a
+chair. "Please to be seated."
+
+"Thank you."
+
+Birnier took the small chair and the lieutenant the Bombay.
+
+"I--er I--am sorry that I disturbed you this morning," began Birnier
+diffidently. "But I did not know----"
+
+"That is nothing. It was the fault of the sentry. He should not have
+allowed you to pass."
+
+"Regarding my application for the licence, Herr Lieutenant?"
+
+"I regret," said zu Pfeiffer coldly, using a cigar cutter, "that I am
+unable to grant you the licence you ask."
+
+"You cannot grant me a trading or shooting licence?"
+
+"I regret, no."
+
+Birnier stared.
+
+"May I inquire why I am refused?"
+
+"You may. We do not wish undesirables in the country."
+
+"Undesirables!" Birnier's lips tightened. "I am afraid that I do not
+understand you." The lieutenant was engaged in carefully stoking his
+cigar. "Will you kindly afford me a reason for--for such an insulting
+remark?"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer blew smoke luxuriously. Birnier stared for a moment, stuck his
+pipe in his mouth and bit the stem; removed it and snapped:
+
+"You can have no adequate reason for such action.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} If you intend to
+continue this ridiculous farce I shall be compelled to make a complaint
+through Washington."
+
+"Washington?" Zu Pfeiffer removed one leg from the chair-rest and the
+cigar from his mouth. "You are an American?"
+
+"I am."
+
+"So? We understood that you were an English agent. You have papers?"
+
+"Certainly. If you wish----"
+
+"We do not demand. No. My agent was wrong. He shall be punished." Then in
+an amiable voice: "I, too, have been a long time in America. Please to
+have a cigar, Mr. Birnier."
+
+Birnier hesitated, puzzled.
+
+"Thank you," he said diffidently, selected one, bit off the end and spat
+it into the corner. Zu Pfeiffer shuddered delicately; but as Birnier
+lighted his cigar he studied his face in the glow of the match; noted the
+breadth of the jaw, the width between the eyes and the slightly hard line
+at the corner of the mouth.
+
+"And forgive me!" Zu Pfeiffer shouted to Bakunjala. "I presume that you
+have been in Africa a long time," he continued.
+
+"Some ten years."
+
+"You do find the Wongolo country interesting?"
+
+"Oh, yes."
+
+"You were there long?"
+
+"No, I had been two years in the Congo and passed through on my way to
+Uganda to refit."
+
+"Ach. You permit me? You are mining?"
+
+"No." Birnier smiled thinly. "I have a professorial job in the American
+Museum of Natural History, Anthropological department."
+
+"Professor! Ach!" Zu Pfeiffer looked at him interestedly.
+
+"Yes. That is why I was so absorbed in _Les Ba-Rongas_ which I found here.
+You are interested in anthropology?"
+
+"Ach, yes, I love to study the animals. I have a library--a small one,
+here. You must see it."
+
+"Thank you."
+
+"You were studying the animals' ways and how d'you call it?--das
+Volksk�ndliches--in Wongolo?"
+
+"Yes. I do nothing else."
+
+"So?" Bakunjala arrived with fresh glasses and vermouth. "Which do you
+prefer, French or Italian, Herr Professor?"
+
+"French, please."
+
+"You will dine with me, please?"
+
+"That is very kind of you, Lieutenant." Birnier gazed quizzically, rather
+amused at the complete change of manner. Quite charming when he likes, he
+reflected.
+
+"From what part do you come, Herr Professor?" inquired zu Pfeiffer as he
+set down his glass.
+
+"Oh, I'm a Southerner. Louisiana. My name is French, you know."
+
+"Ach so? Che les aimes, les Fran�ais. Les femmes sont adorables!"
+
+"Oui, je les trouve comme �a!" agreed Birnier, smiling. "Ma femme est
+fran�aise."
+
+"So? {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} I, too, Professor, I am in love with a Fran�aise. She is wonderful!
+superbe! Ach, ent z�ckend!" The lieutenant gazed into the warm darkness.
+"Always I see her--in the darkness, the--chaleur--parmis les animaux." In the
+glow of the lamp, the blue eyes were soft, the feminine lips curved in a
+tender smile as he murmured:
+
+     "Die Jahre kommen und gehen,
+     Geschlechter steigen ins Grab,
+     Doch nimmer vergeht die Liebe,
+     Die ich im Herzen hab!
+     Nur einmal noch m�cht ich dich sehen,
+     Und sinken vor dir aufs Knie
+     Und sterbend zu dir sprechen:
+     'Madam, ich liebe Sie!' "
+
+"Thank you," said Birnier quietly. "I, too, would say that."
+
+"Ach, sprechen Sie Deutsch?" demanded zu Pfeiffer quickly.
+
+"No, unfortunately I don't speak it, but I understand a little; and
+particularly Heine."
+
+"Ach, Gott!"
+
+The note was of satisfaction. A gong sounded. Zu Pfeiffer turned sharply:
+"Come, Herr Professor, let us go to dinner. You would wish to wash?"
+
+The bungalow, unusually lofty, was divided into three compartments. The
+ceiling, made of stout white calico, to shelter from snakes and the
+continual dust from the wood borers, was suspended from the rafters like
+the roof of a marquee tent. The centre room was furnished with cane lounge
+chairs like a smoking-room and decorated with skins, native musical
+instruments, spears and shields; drums served as small tables with
+elephant's toe-nails for ash trays.
+
+In the bedroom was a brass bedstead and mosquito net. Behind was a
+bathroom having a corrugated cistern upon the cross beams which gave force
+for a shower. The towels and appointments were specklessly clean. When
+Birnier appeared he found zu Pfeiffer sprawled in the lounge. On a red
+lacquer tray upon a great war drum, covered with the striped skin of a
+zebra, was a crystal liqueur set and a large silver box of Egyptian
+cigarettes.
+
+"Ach, Professor," said he, "it is good to speak to a white man again" (by
+which he meant an equal). "Please be seated, I beg you. A little liqueur
+is good for the aperitif and a cigarette; for there is no time for another
+cigar."
+
+As Birnier sat he remarked the blonde head of the lieutenant in his
+meticulous uniform touched with gold and caught a glimpse of the jewelled
+bracelet of ivory and the Chinese finger-nail.
+
+Another summons of the gong brought zu Pfeiffer to his feet. As he led his
+guest out through the side verandah along a screened porch to the mess
+room, built away from the main building to keep away the plague of flies,
+a native girl whose close-wrapped white robes revealed a lithe figure,
+flitted through a doorway. The table was set in immaculate linen, aglitter
+with glass and decorated with a profusion of wild orchids. Behind the
+chairs stood two negroes in spotless white, immobile. On each plate were
+hors d'oeuvres of anchovy and cheese upon a patterned piece of toast.
+Salted almonds, sweets, and olives were in green china; wine glasses of
+three kinds. Broiled fish followed the soup.
+
+"So, Professor," remarked the lieutenant, "you will go back some day to
+Wongolo?"
+
+"Yes, I--unless I discover some tribe who have a more interesting system
+of--er--theology."
+
+"They are a powerful tribe, nicht wahr?"
+
+"Oh yes, very. Their system ensures unity which provides for concerted
+action. Here I believe it is different."
+
+"Yes, yes; they are poor here. Each village was at war with the
+other--before we came. Their superstitions are not--how would you say it?"
+
+"Systematised?"
+
+"Yes. They have neither any supreme chief nor god. There you see," he
+added, smiling, "that autocracy is the only form of government.
+Democracy--pah! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} I apologise, Professor!"
+
+"Please don't," replied Birnier, "although of course I cannot agree with
+you."
+
+"But the Wongolo, they have a god and king?"
+
+"Yes, the King-Priest system. One of the most interesting I have ever
+encountered or read of."
+
+"You did see the King-God, MFunya MPopo?"
+
+"Oh no. He is forbidden to be seen by a foreigner--a similar law to that of
+the Medes; only by the witch-doctors--and by the people once a year at a
+harvest festival. That is why I intend to go back. It is impossible to
+procure reliable statistics of their customs, practices and real beliefs
+without--without winning their confidence. That is my mission."
+
+"I do not longer wonder, Herr Professor, that you were most justly
+annoyed. Ach, yes. But please do not worry about your ridiculous licence.
+It is not necessary in my jurisdiction, I assure you. You may come and go
+as you please, shoot what you wish. I will always be so glad to help so
+distinguished a professor."
+
+"I thank you very much."
+
+"It is nothing. And perhaps when you are there, you will be so kind as to
+write to me? To tell me things that are not known--so that I may, too,
+continue to study the animals--again what is it? das Volksk�ndliches?"
+
+"Folk-lore, isn't it?"
+
+"Yes. Please to have some more wine, Herr Professor. Please, I insist. It
+is the real Mumm. That is a promise? I thank you. And if---- Were there any
+others--whites--when you were there?"
+
+"Only one."
+
+"Where was he, I wonder?"
+
+"On the southern boundary."
+
+"Near lake Kivu?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"Saunders," muttered zu Pfeiffer.
+
+"I beg your pardon?"
+
+"It was nothing, but I do not like to have--aliens in my province. They
+are--missionaries and traders--spies."
+
+"Indeed."
+
+"Yes, it is always so. Herr Professor, I ask you a favour. Will you be so
+kind as to write to me if some other white comes into the Wongolo
+country?"
+
+"I shall be delighted," said Birnier.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} "Do you intend to come there some
+day, Herr Lieutenant?"
+
+"Ach, no, it is not--not our territory; although I should very much like to
+see it and to shoot. There is much elephant there?"
+
+"Oh yes, quantities."
+
+"Please to try some of this curried egg, Herr Professor. It is excellent,
+I assure you. I thank you.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} And rubber, is there much rubber there?"
+
+"Yes, I believe so."
+
+"Now I wonder if you noticed whether it was tree or vine?"
+
+"I really couldn't say." Birnier smiled thinly. "I am not interested in
+such things."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer glanced at him keenly and changed the subject. When they had
+finished the best boned chicken that Birnier had ever tasted in Africa, zu
+Pfeiffer rose.
+
+"Let us go to my study, Herr Professor, if you so permit, for some coffee
+and a little good port--and I will have the pleasure to show you my little
+library."
+
+"I should be delighted," assented Birnier willingly.
+
+Around the white walls of the cool room which was zu Pfeiffer's study, ran
+low bookshelves made of native wood, containing some hundreds of volumes
+which had been carried five hundred miles on the heads of porters. Grass
+mats and leopard skins were upon the floor. In the centre, upon a heavy
+table, was a green shaded lamp set in a silver-mounted elephant's foot.
+Upon the bookcases were various odd curios, and a coffee service in
+copper; and from opposite sides, marbles of Bismarck and Voltaire stared
+into each other's eyes. On the south wall was a large oil of Kaiser
+Wilhelm II; and in the centre of the other wall a photograph of a woman
+set in an ivory frame made from a section of a tusk.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer strove to be more agreeable than ever. They talked mythology
+and folklore. With the port, zu Pfeiffer rose, an erect martial figure
+above the glow of the lamp.
+
+"Herr Professor!" he remarked. "I beg you."
+
+Slightly bewildered, Birnier rose, too, glass in hand. Wheeling with
+military precision zu Pfeiffer raised his glass to the great portrait on
+the wall.
+
+"Ihre Hochheit!"
+
+Politely Birnier followed suit, his democratic ideas slightly astonished
+at the veneration of the kingly office; almost, he reflected, as curious
+as the native superstition of the King-God. Then zu Pfeiffer turned to the
+left and lifting his glass to the portrait in the ivory frame, drank
+silently.
+
+"I was wondering, Professor," remarked he, as he resumed his seat without
+explanation, "from what college--you call it?--you come?"
+
+"Harvard," said Birnier, rather amused and noticing that as a true
+connoisseur, zu Pfeiffer refrained from smoking while drinking his port.
+
+"I have met many of the Harvard men--at Washington."
+
+"Ah, you know Washington?"
+
+"Yes, I was there nearly two years."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer drained his port, selected a cigar, lighted it and gazed
+abstractedly towards the ivory frame. The lips softened and he smiled
+gently.
+
+"Do you know many people there?"
+
+"Oh, a few."
+
+"Ach {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} I wonder.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} You must know that I met her there, my divine Lucille!"
+
+"Lucille! How strange! That is my wife's name too."
+
+"Really?" Zu Pfeiffer still peered dreamily at the corner. He gathered up
+his legs and rose like an eager boy. "Permit me, Herr Professor, she is
+so--so----" He bent over the portrait and struck a match. Politely Birnier
+stooped to look. He saw a portrait of a French woman in an evening gown, a
+woman of charm with the vivacious eyes and tempting mouth of the coquette.
+
+"My God!"
+
+Birnier bent closer and stared intently. Across the corner of the
+photograph were written in ink in familiar characters the words: '� toi,
+Lucille.'
+
+"Lucille!" he gasped. "Lu--Good God!" He stood up abruptly. "I--What in
+God's name--who is this woman?"
+
+The match fell to the floor. He was vaguely conscious of the tall white
+figure stiffening as a dog does.
+
+"That lady is my fianc�e."
+
+"Fianc�e! She--Good God, you're mad! She is my wife!"
+
+"Wife!{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Gott verdampf, der Teufel solls holen! Das ist der Schweinh�nd!"
+
+The gutturals exploded from zu Pfeiffer. The sleeve of his white jacket
+quivered, the arm came up to the gold braided chest and jerked out a
+silver whistle. He hesitated, glaring at the astonished figure of Birnier.
+Suddenly zu Pfeiffer sat down by the table. His blue eyes were as hard as
+malachite.
+
+"Sit down!" he commanded harshly.
+
+Birnier did not appear to notice him. He struck a match and bent over the
+photograph again.
+
+"Good God!" he muttered. "I--I--don't understand--O God!"
+
+"Sit down!" shouted zu Pfeiffer. Birnier merely blinked at him.
+
+"Would you mind explaining?" demanded Birnier.
+
+"Explain!{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Is your wife Mademoiselle Lucille Charltrain?"
+
+"Why, of course. That is her professional name. But how on earth has this
+mistake happened? I--I--that is her writing--but it can't be. I mean it's
+impossible.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}" Birnier put his hand to his head. "I--God, it can't be! I or
+you must be mad! Which is----"
+
+A prolonged whistle startled him. He saw the whistle at zu Pfeiffer's
+lips, but the act conveyed no meaning. He turned away, struck another
+match and peered again at the photograph.
+
+"Lucille! Lucille!" he whispered. "What on earth----"
+
+A powerful clutch closed upon his arm. He was whirled backwards into a
+chair. For a moment he was too dazed to grasp what had happened. He saw zu
+Pfeiffer's face. The sentries over his moustaches quivered like a row of
+fixed bayonets. The eyes seemed needle points. Then the fact of the
+assault penetrated beyond the unprecedented incident of finding his wife's
+photograph in another man's room. The ugly line about the mouth hardened.
+He rose slowly.
+
+"Am I to understand that you have laid your hands upon your guest?" he
+began, stuttering over the choice of words. "I am--I am----"
+
+The scuffle of many feet interrupted him. Into the room rushed Sergeant
+Schultz and several soldiers. Zu Pfeiffer stood up and pointed.
+
+"Sergeant, arrest that man!" he barked.
+
+"Ja, Excellence!"
+
+The sergeant saluted and barked at the askaris. Birnier gazed stupidly at
+the uniforms around him as if unable to comprehend. He looked at zu
+Pfeiffer who stood erect, his face lost in shadow above the lamp, and back
+at the soldiers.
+
+"Is this a joke, Lieutenant--or are you mad?" he demanded angrily.
+
+"Sergeant, put that man in the guard-room," zu Pfeiffer commanded.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer sat down with his back to Birnier and facing the photograph.
+Birnier's face twitched; he raised his arm. The sergeant barked and the
+line of bayonets lowered menacingly.
+
+"You gom with me, Herr American," ordered the sergeant.
+
+Birnier controlled himself.
+
+"One moment, sergeant, please! Herr Lieutenant, on what charge do you
+arrest me?" The perfect lines of the white-clad back did not quiver. "Very
+good! I give you warning, Herr Lieutenant, that you have committed an
+assault upon an American citizen."
+
+"Gom! Gom!" insisted the sergeant impatiently.
+
+Birnier raised his head and walked as indicated by the sergeant. As the
+footsteps plodded across the square zu Pfeiffer turned to the table,
+examining his left hand.
+
+"Ach!" he growled gutturally, "the dirty pig has broken my nail!"
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 4
+
+
+Over the city of the Snake the sun sank red dry, leaving the Place of
+Kings hot in the electric air of magic and world happenings. The people
+were still confined to their huts, trembling in the knowledge that for
+three days love must be eschewed, no water drawn nor any food cooked with
+fire; nor might any man, woman or child leave the precincts of the
+compound.
+
+All the night Bakuma crouched in her hut listening in awe to the swish of
+the ghosts through the air, to the moans, groans and howls of the wizards
+doing battle with them. Tightly did she hold the amulet as she strove to
+conceal curiosity regarding the welfare of Zalu Zako; for did her mother
+suspect the presence of this evil spirit would she cause Bakuma to take a
+decoction of the castor-oil plant in order that the demon might be
+expelled; and the more to aid her conquer this unlawful impulse to peep
+without did she most persistently recite to herself the fate of the
+daughter of MTasa, the foolish Tangulbala whose body had been discovered
+impaled upon a tree by the angry spirits of the dead, because she had
+rashly ventured forth the third day after the death of the grandfather of
+Zalu Zako. Bakuma dared not mention the name of one who had died, for, as
+everybody knows, such an impious person runs the risk of summoning the
+ghosts to their presence.
+
+The "putting out of the fire" had changed Bakuma's prospects, had made
+Zalu Zako heir-apparent, implying half a hundred responsibilities, the
+chief of which was that now he was compelled to choose his official first
+wife, she who would be the mother of the "divine" Son of the Snake: an
+alteration that excited Bakuma to frantic clutching at the amulet. Would
+the charm work or would it not? How to insure that it would be
+efficacious? Marufa's greedy demands worried her. She feared even if she
+obtained the goat that he might require something else as well. Anybody
+knows how greedy doctors are and how wealthy. He would be sure to increase
+the fee, knowing the value of the prize. Bakuma only possessed one really
+valuable article, and that was a charm against sterility; but this was the
+last thing that she wished to part with as the only possible occurrence
+that could ever divorce her from the position of chief wife, once she had
+won Zalu Zako, would be failure to provide the male heir. She was
+impatient, too, at the delay caused by the three days' tabu. Time was
+important. Soon she would be under the ban of the unclean which entailed
+the curtailment of her liberty again, and she dreaded that possibly the
+charm might grow stale. The greatest need for speed was MYalu's suit. As
+her father was dead she belonged to his brother. Already MYalu had offered
+four tusks of ivory and three oxen for her. Her uncle was lazy, mean, and
+greedy. Fortunately he thought that by waiting he could get double that
+amount. Yet MYalu might decide to pay the price demanded. Once Zalu Zako
+had selected her as his bride, her uncle dared not accept any other man's
+offer, no matter how wealthy he might be; besides, the old man would not
+wish to refuse a relationship with the heir to the king-godhood.
+
+Again her cousin was sick. The diagnosis of Yabolo, the wizard, was that
+her soul had wandered in sleep down to the river and had been swallowed by
+a fish. Yabolo had caught the fish and lured the soul into a tree, but now
+he demanded such a big price to restore the errant soul to the girl that
+her father, Bakuma's uncle, would not pay it, so she would surely die;
+then they would all have to be exorcised, which inferred a further loss of
+relative freedom for another four days. Indeed with all these actual and
+possible delays it seemed to Bakuma that some one had made much magic
+against her. Unless she knew who he or she was, how could she employ the
+same means to annul the terrible effects? And more, how could she obtain
+the wherewithal to pay the fees of the best doctors? Life was very
+complicated to the daughter of Bakala.
+
+Up on the hill of MFunya MPopo had the magicians been busy all the
+afternoon after the "putting out of the fire." Zalu Zako and the chiefs
+also were barred from the sacred enclosure; for being mere laymen they
+could not hope to withstand the evil spirits of the dead. Even Bakahenzie
+and the inner circle of the cult were compelled to employ the most potent
+methods of protection to preserve them from being bewitched or slain
+outright.
+
+After Bakahenzie, Marufa, Yabolo and two other master magicians had
+released the souls of the dead King by making incisions in the body with a
+sacred spear to the thrumming of the drums, the mighty groaning of the
+other wizards, and the persistent wailing of the dead man's wives, the
+corpse was borne by twelve doomed slaves to the temple and there interred
+with the gouts of blood shed by the prophetic goat, the nail parings and
+hair clippings of his lifetime, and his personal effects.
+
+Upon the hill of MFunya MPopo, soon to be a temple and sanctuary, sat Kawa
+Kendi beside the New Fire tended by Kingata Mata, facing Zalu Zako, MYalu
+and the lay chiefs, while upon his own hill slaves were tearing down his
+old hut, erecting a temporary palisade around the quarters of his wives
+who were forever forbidden to him, and beginning the building of the new
+temple.
+
+As the violet shadows were creeping from one hut to another did Bakahenzie
+and his satellites return from the ghoulish offices of the dead. Zalu
+Zako, the chiefs and magicians arose to the wild beating of the drums and
+the wailing chant of the hereditary troubadour with the five stringed
+lyre. With Kingata Mata carrying a brand of the newly lighted sacred fire,
+was Kawa Kendi led in procession through the deserted village to his
+sacred home.
+
+Under the hard stars set in a dry sapphire, the fire cast yellow flickers
+upon the carven features of Kawa Kendi. In the still heat the distant
+wailing of the women from the opposite hill drifted into the continuous
+throb of the drums, the plaintive wail of the singer, and the hysterical
+groaning of the magicians, yelling ferociously ever and again to
+intimidate the baulked spirits around the magic circle.
+
+Then was a white goat, previously selected from the flock of Kawa Kendi,
+slain by Zalu Zako, disembowelled by Bakahenzie, and the entrails rubbed
+upon the brow, the chest and the right arm of the slayer of man, a
+ceremony of purification designed to protect the royal executioner by
+appeasing the justly angry spirits of the dead; to Marufa were given other
+parts of the slain beast to smear likewise upon Zalu Zako, the son; and
+Yabolo ran screaming with portions to the quarters of the women of Kawa
+Kendi: for must every blood relative be so enchanted lest the vengeful
+ghost seek substitute victims.
+
+As a pallid moon rose, as if fearfully, above the deep ultramarine of the
+banana fronds, was a magic potion brewed from certain herbs in enchanted
+water, with which the King, Zalu Zako, his son, and the King's wives were
+laved. Amid a tempest of screams and drums rose Kawa Kendi purified, to be
+driven by Bakahenzie and the wizards back to the hill of his father,
+leaving the assembled lay chiefs squatting humbly and in dread of the
+spirits abroad in the night. While the procession leaped and twirled,
+screamed and groaned to the frantic thrum of the drums through the blue
+darkness, the magicians ran and pranced through and around the village,
+seeking any blasphemer who dared to look upon sacred things; banging on
+hut doors and shaking thatches, the more to terrify the shrinking
+inhabitants.
+
+Without the gate of the old enclosure all remained, except Bakahenzie and
+the four wizards who encircled Kawa Kendi and Kingata Mata and hustled
+them across the clearing. With his back to the dim form of the idol stood
+Kawa Kendi as behind it grouped the master magicians. From the base
+Bakahenzie took two large gourds and gave them into the keeping of Kingata
+Mata.
+
+Came an abrupt cessation of the drums and cries. The wailing of the women
+behind the temple died. The tense air pulsed with electricity. A cock
+crowed feebly in the village. Then at a rippling splash of the drums and
+the sudden screaming of the wizards, they began to push the idol. The base
+had already been loosened in the earth by the slaves. The idol began to
+totter. Louder screeched the magicians; faster fled the drums. Slowly the
+idol leaned and subsided on to the shoulders of Kawa Kendi. Grasping the
+mass firmly upon his bent back, he bore the burden out of the enclosure
+and down the hill.
+
+Behind his unsteady steps pranced and yelled the doctors with more
+prodigious a noise than ever before as they scourged the King's legs and
+arms with cords of fibre. Through the listening village panted the King.
+As he gasped slowly up the hill the thrashing was redoubled. But into the
+new enclosure the King staggered, let slide the heavy mass into a hole
+prepared for the sacred feet and, gleaming blue points of sweat in the
+faint moon, let out a hoarse yell, proving to the assembly of magicians
+and chiefs that he was powerful enough to bear the burden of the world and
+moreover that none could wrest his office from him.
+
+No time was given for the incarnation of a god to recoup from his labours.
+The motive principle of the accusation and for the death of the king was
+the drought. That only concerned the soul of the tribe in the person of
+Bakahenzie. For him and his brothers of the inner cult, while certain
+pretensions of power over the supernatural were for the "good of the
+people," the truths of magic and divine functions were inviolable. The
+person of Kawa Kendi, heretofore merely one in whom was a potentiality,
+became after the purification and "coronation" the very incarnation of the
+god. Kawa Kendi had crossed from the comparative safe haven of the
+potential into divine activity.
+
+Also there were, as ever, political reasons for the hastening of the
+offices of the god. Should the new King-God fail, as his father had done,
+to accomplish the duties of the rainmaker, then, as no precedent had ever
+been known for the failure of two kings in succession, an enemy might
+accuse Bakahenzie of having committed some sacrilege which had displeased
+the Unmentionable One. Politics and religion are often inseparable.
+Therefore, as soon as Zalu Zako had witnessed the ascent of his father
+into the dangerous zone of the gods, was he bidden as the victim apparent,
+to produce the sacred rain-making paraphernalia. From the Keeper of the
+Fire, Kingata Mata, Zalu Zako received one of the large gourds, which he
+deposited at the feet of his father squatting before the sacred fire, and
+retired to his allotted place among the other lay chiefs. Only Bakahenzie
+and the four of the inner cult were permitted within the enclosure.
+
+Fumbling within the pot Kawa Kendi produced a bundle of twigs tied with
+banana fibre, which he unbound and cast into the fire. The herbs
+smouldered and sent up a pungent smoke forming a heavy cloud like some
+strange blue tree sheltering the form of the idol against the green sky.
+Save for the faint wailing of the distant women there was silence, in
+which an owl screeched harshly, a good omen. Little flames flickered. The
+smoke grew denser, obliterating the figure of the King. The drums began to
+mutter, Bakahenzie cried out in a loud voice:
+
+"O great God, the Unmentionable One! let thy powers be made manifest!"
+
+The Keeper of the Fires came forward upon his hands and thrust the other
+sacred gourd in front of the King, a deep one containing water, and a wand
+made from a sacred tree which had upon the end a crook. To the groaning of
+the magicians, the King took from the one gourd two stones of quartz and
+granite, the male and the female, and spat upon each one, thus placing
+part of his royal body upon them; then did he put them on the ground, and
+pouring water, chanted:
+
+  "Go forth, male spirit, with my ghost in thy hands!
+  Go forth, female soul, with my ghost in thy breast!
+  Make love together in the shade of great Tarum,
+  Of him whom fear of me hath frozen the breath!"
+                 "Ough! Ough!"
+
+grunted the priests and magicians.
+
+  "Go forth, male spirit, with my ghost in thy hand!
+  Go forth, female soul, with my ghost in thy breast!
+  Love one another that the crops of our land
+  May marry as well and be as fruitful as thee!"
+                 "Ough! Ough!"
+
+  "Go forth, male spirit, with my ghost in thy hand!
+  Go forth, female soul, with my ghost in thy breast!
+  Rise high up to heaven and mount on the black back
+  Of the bird of the wet wind: poke your hands in his eyes!"
+                 "Ough! Ough!"
+
+Save for the distant wailing, there was the silence of those waiting for a
+miracle. In the sky, at the back of the idol, was the paling of dawn.
+Suddenly, as if exasperated by the non-obedience of the elements, Kawa
+Kendi sprang to his feet, with the magic wand in his right hand, turned
+and stared apparently into the face of the idol. For a full two minutes he
+stood as if carven, while the doctors and the chiefs moaned dismally.
+Around him like a pall still hovered the smoke of the magic fire. From the
+village a cock's challenge was answered from point to point. Then shooting
+out his right hand, Kawa Kendi made gestures as if hooking something
+invisible and began to scream furiously:
+
+  "Thus do I, the One-not-to-be-mentioned,
+  Drag forth from the belly of heaven
+  The disobedient One, the lazy One!
+  The insolent One who sinneth in sleep!
+  The black-snouted One whose udders are choked!
+  The womanly One whose nipples are dry!
+  The sluttish One who refuseth her milk!
+  The gorbellied One whose voice is a wind!
+  Come forth, lest I give thee sorrow and pain!
+  And make thee to weep the bitterest tears!
+  Come forth, lest I tear out thy black bosom!
+  Tear out thy guts for a feast unto Tarum!
+  Come forth, lest I throw off the yoke of the burden
+  Of the Earth and the Sky upon thy sweating black belly!"
+
+In a slight puff of wind, the smoke, lace-edged with the dawn light,
+swayed, seeming to twine about the figure of the King as he stood with the
+wand outheld, as if firmly hooked in the guts of the recalcitrant
+elements.
+
+Against the rose of the dawn appeared a dark line which increased as the
+magicians and chiefs moaned and groaned in sympathy with the furious
+efforts of the rainmaker, who threatened and pulled with the magic crook,
+so that everybody could see that he was indeed dragging the reluctant
+clouds from over the end of the earth. As the dark mass swelled the more
+he wrestled and screamed abuse at the dilatory spirit of the rain.
+
+And behold, within half an hour, great black spirits sailed across the
+scarlet sunrise and wept exceeding bitterly; while from the village went
+up a great shout of praise to the triumphant King still prancing and
+cursing to such good effect up on the hill.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 5
+
+
+The same vast balloons of sepia rolled over the lake, vomited a host of
+liquid ramrods and, after short intervals of brilliant glare, were
+succeeded by others. The gutters of the station were turned into burbling
+brooks and the grass plot into a morass.
+
+Behind the screen on the south verandah sat zu Pfeiffer in his pink silk
+pyjamas, a scowl upon his brow. He sipped his caf� cognac distastefully
+and inhaled a cigarette so fiercely that the heat burned his tongue. He
+had not slept. Yet the broken nail on the left little finger had been cut
+and polished. Half the night he had sat before the photograph in the ivory
+frame, pondering upon, and rehearsing, the past; muttering aloud to
+Lucille, sometimes words of love and sometimes savage curses; wondering
+what she was doing and where she was; gritting his teeth at visions which
+aroused insane jealousy; calculating what the consequences of his action
+would be were he to obey the impulse that had leaped into his mind in the
+first flush of passion. If he were to release the prisoner the fellow
+would probably expect an explanation and an apology which was, of course,
+out of the question. No, he must carry out the thing thoroughly without
+leaving any chance for the man to make trouble at the coast, or through
+the Embassy at Washington; at all costs not through Washington. For him,
+Birnier merely existed as a person whose feelings mattered nothing.
+
+With the greening of the moon zu Pfeiffer had retired. As he had lain
+sleeplessly watching the pallor of the dawn he had savagely corroborated
+the decision. Now the roar of the deluge appeared to him in the form of an
+abettor to his plan. He watched the grey wall of rain with satisfaction,
+stroking the left sentry moustache as if to tame the fierce bristles of an
+outraged dignity. When he had emerged from the bath, the pink of his face
+appeared to have spread to the whites of his eyes, a fact which Bakunjala
+had noted with sullen dread.
+
+Between the storms the sun glared yellow upon the smoking earth. Across
+the square squelched zu Pfeiffer to the orderly room. He grunted at
+Sergeant Schultz's greeting and sprawled in the chair. When Schultz
+proffered him some official documents he waved them aside irritably.
+
+"Bring the prisoner to the Court, sergeant. I will try him immediately."
+
+"Excellence!" said the sergeant, saluting. "What charge am I to enter
+against him, Excellence?"
+
+"Arms and liquor running," responded zu Pfeiffer quickly. "I hold papers
+which prove the case completely; moreover you will see that Ali ben Hassan
+and others are prepared to testify. But--the charge will be margined as
+political: not criminal. Understand, sergeant?"
+
+"Perfectly, Excellence. Ali ben Hassan and the others have to testify
+before your Excellence now?"
+
+"There will be no need."
+
+"Very good, Excellence."
+
+"And, sergeant, what is the personnel of the launch and the prisoner's
+party?"
+
+"The launch returned immediately to Jinja, Excellence, as soon as the
+prisoner had landed."
+
+"Ach, good."
+
+"The prisoner has a considerable battery, equipment and provisions; a
+headman and personal servants. He intended to obtain porters here,
+Excellence."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer meditated, tapping the desk with a gold pencil.
+
+"What is the headman?"
+
+"Bambeeba, Excellence."
+
+"Good. And the servants?"
+
+"One is a Wongolo youth, the others are mixed Walegga and Kavirondo."
+
+"Arrest them all and see that none gets away."
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+Schultz saluted and departed. Zu Pfeiffer frowned at the glare which was
+suddenly extinguished by falling water. He lighted a cigar and waited.
+Presently the sergeant returned in a waterproof cape, dripping, and
+announced that the prisoner was ready. Zu Pfeiffer gathered up his long
+legs and marched stiffly into the Court House adjoining.
+
+Upon a slight dais was a large desk and a cane armchair beneath the
+Imperial Eagles and a portrait of the Kaiser Wilhelm II. Pale, stubble
+bearded, and tense eyed with anger, sat Birnier upon a form against the
+wall; beside him stood Sergeant Schneider, for it is not usual etiquette
+to put a white prisoner in charge of a black guard. The grizzled sergeant
+stood stuffy to attention, which zu Pfeiffer acknowledged. Although he did
+not meet Birnier's gaze, he scowled as if he had expected him to salute
+the majesty of the judge as well.
+
+But as zu Pfeiffer mounted the step to the chair of justice he looked up
+at the portrait of the Kaiser, stopped, and hesitated; then he wheeled
+abruptly, and barked:
+
+"Sergeant, bring the prisoner to the orderly room!"
+
+In the orderly room Birnier was placed between Sergeant Schultz at his
+table and Sergeant Schneider by the door. Birnier watched zu Pfeiffer
+intently, but zu Pfeiffer regarded him icily as if he were a piece of
+furniture. Without a word Birnier reached out and lifted a chair. Sergeant
+Schneider started forward, evidently fearing that the prisoner was about
+to attack his officer. Birnier said acidly: "I merely wish to sit down."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer scowled again, but he made no objection. He took up some
+papers at random and began to peruse them. Said Birnier sharply:
+
+"When you have finished with this farce I shall be obliged if you will
+kindly explain your insane actions!"
+
+The tap-tap of a typewriter sounded from another room. A fly buzzed. Zu
+Pfeiffer's eyelids did not blink. The sergeants stared woodenly to the
+front. Birnier looked from one to the other, bit his lips, and then
+exclaimed in exasperation: "What in hell do you mean by this damned
+nonsense?"
+
+The tap-tap continued; the fly buzzed irritatedly. Birnier clenched his
+fist. But he sat still. Another storm so darkened the room that zu
+Pfeiffer could scarcely have seen the print, but apparently he read on.
+The deluge roared, passed, and the glare came as suddenly. Zu Pfeiffer
+lifted his head and said in German:
+
+"Sergeant, record the opening of the Court."
+
+"Excellence!" assented Sergeant Schultz and poised his pen ready to write.
+
+"The prisoner, a Swiss subject----"
+
+"I am American, as I have told you," said Birnier in leashed anger.
+
+"A pseudo trader and hunter, named Carl Bornstadt," continued zu Pfeiffer
+imperturbably, "is charged under sub-section 79 of section 8 with
+supplying guns and liquor to the native subjects of his Imperial Majesty."
+
+"Good God!" began Birnier. But as he realised zu Pfeiffer's purpose and
+his own position, he closed his lips tightly.
+
+Methodically the sergeant finished the entries and waited. Zu Pfeiffer
+stroked his favourite moustache and considered. He glanced at Birnier, but
+without a vestige of expression and continued:
+
+"Make a special note, sergeant, that we have reason to suspect that the
+prisoner is in the political service of"--a slight smile flicked the
+lieutenant's face--"in the service of the Portuguese, and so under
+sub-section 109 of section 8, I am referring the case to Dar-es-salaam for
+investigation; witnesses, documentary and personal, to accompany the
+prisoner. Owing to unusual pressure of service we are unable to afford the
+prisoner, although apparently of European descent, a white guard;
+therefore, Sergeant Ludwig will detail a corporal and six men for the
+duty."
+
+He paused. The sergeant's pen scratched on. Zu Pfeiffer lighted a cigar
+and added impersonally:
+
+"The prisoner and escort will leave to-morrow morning. Sergeant Schneider,
+remove the prisoner!"
+
+Birnier's face was a little paler, the eyes were slightly more bloodshot;
+but he did not attempt to speak. Zu Pfeiffer rose. The sergeants stood to
+attention and saluted. As he left the room towards the Court House, he
+smiled with slight satisfaction as the gruff voice of Sergeant Schneider
+barked: "Prisoner, shun! Right turn! Quick marrch!"
+
+But zu Pfeiffer did not remain long in the Court House. After fidgeting
+about with papers on the table and reprimanding Sergeant Schultz because
+he had not arranged the next native case to his satisfaction, he rose
+abruptly and marched swiftly across the square in the brilliant glare
+without his helmet and into his study. There he straddled a chair and
+leaned on the back sucking a dead cigar absent-mindedly. As he stared at
+the portrait in the ivory frame, the blue eyes grew soft and the delicate
+lips quivered like a child about to weep. He sighed heavily and then
+rapping out an oath, rose violently, overturning the chair, poured out a
+half-glass of neat cognac, and drank it at a gulp. As he neared the Court
+House the sentry, turning at the end of his short beat, was so startled at
+the proximity of the Kommandant, or incompletely disciplined, that he
+became flurried. Zu Pfeiffer clicked his heels together and haughtily
+watched the fumbled efforts to salute. The bolt caught in the man's tunic.
+Gold flashed in the sun as the sjambok descended. Zu Pfeiffer walked on
+unconcernedly, leaving a grey weal on the terrified native's face. To
+Sergeant Schultz, rigid in the doorway, he snapped an order to have fifty
+lashes given to the "clumsy dog."
+
+Sentences were harsher than usual that morning. All the native world about
+him knew that a demon had taken possession of the Eater-of-men; he was
+usually inhabited by an evil spirit, but this time the demon of Bakra who,
+as everybody knows, tears the vitals with hot claws, making the victim to
+have fits, to foam at the mouth, to be quite mad, had entered the white
+man. Bakunjala, coming to the Court House with vermouth and biscuits at
+eleven o'clock, distinctly saw the devil glaring through zu Pfeiffer's
+eyes, and was so scared that he let fall the tray, which was the reason
+that he also was doomed to have twenty-five lashes that evening. Even the
+stolid Sergeant Schultz remarked that the Herr Lieutenant had gotten a
+touch of the sun; but the grizzled Schneider, who came from Luthuania,
+opined that the Herr Kommandant had left his table knife edge uppermost.
+
+When zu Pfeiffer went across to tiffin the hot sun had dried up the
+gutters and the plot of grass. He did not return to the Court House, much
+to the gratitude of many innocent and guilty. After drinking more wine
+than usual he lay down for the siesta and fell asleep. But at five he
+awoke with a mouth like a burnt cooking pot and the temper of the said
+devil. He yelled for Bakunjala, who came, so trembling with fright that he
+stuttered. Zu Pfeiffer threw a glass which missed him and broke a mirror.
+
+"Another seven years' ill luck!" shouted zu Pfeiffer, sitting on the bed
+in his shirt. He glared at Bakunjala standing in the door, too
+terror-stricken to flee, convinced that he would be blamed for breaking
+the glass. "You--you superstitious nigger!" yelled zu Pfeiffer, and added
+more calmly in Kiswahili: "Fetch me a brandy-soda! Upesi, you son of a
+baboon!"
+
+"Bwana!" exclaimed Bakunjala and fled gladly.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer sat and scowled at the scattered pieces of mirror until
+Bakunjala arrived with the drink. An hour later he emerged in his
+immaculate undress uniform and sat on the north verandah, drank vermouth
+and smoked cigars, staring out across the flat swamp where the pewter of
+the lake was flecked with silver and blood of the sinking sun. From beyond
+the fort came the yaps of the drill-sergeant busy in the cool of the
+afternoon. At the bark of the relieving guard, zu Pfeiffer rose and walked
+around the house to watch, with tetchy eyes, the saluting of the flag.
+
+As he stalked off to dinner in the messroom eyes glimmered in the darkness
+about him. Bakunjala, after receiving punishment, was indisposed, in fact
+incapable of attending to his duties in the spritely manner required.
+Another servant, who had taken his place, was nervous of the probable
+consequences, and had a keen eye for the appearance of the devil so
+realistically described by Bakunjala. But the demon apparently slept, for
+zu Pfeiffer took the dishes placed before him with an unaccustomed
+meekness, pushed them away absent-mindedly, and rising, retired to his
+study. Even when the deputy brought the wrong bottle he reprimanded him
+mildly without taking his eyes off the photograph in the ivory frame.
+
+Yet, with the port, he did not omit to rise, and heels together, raise his
+glass to the "Ihre Hochheit." Then sprawling in the chair he began to
+drink and to smoke steadily.
+
+As the notes of the last post stuttered out in the clammy stillness he
+summoned the "boy" and bade him fetch Sergeant Schultz. At the sound of
+the sergeant's steps on the verandah zu Pfeiffer stiffened up and patted
+his lips as if desiring to erase the lines that were graven thereon; and
+with one foot pushed the chair from the direct angle to the photograph.
+
+"Take a cigar," said zu Pfeiffer, when the man had entered. The words were
+rather an order than an invitation. Sergeant Schultz obeyed. Zu Pfeiffer
+smoked reflectively, still regarding the photograph out of the corner of
+his eyes as if unable to resist the fascination.
+
+"How long have you been in this benighted country, sergeant?"
+
+"Nine years, Excellence."
+
+"You wish to retire on the pension at the year's term?"
+
+"I have not seen my wife and children for three years, Excellence."
+
+"You shall have special leave as soon as the Wongolo affair is over."
+
+"I thank you, Excellence."
+
+"And I will recommend you for the special colonial service medal and
+pension."
+
+"I thank you, Excellence."
+
+"Take a drink, sergeant."
+
+"I thank you, Excellence."
+
+The sergeant obeyed with some semblance of initiative and he remarked that
+the lieutenant drank half a tumbler of neat brandy at a gulp. As if to
+drag himself away from the contemplation of the photograph zu Pfeiffer
+stood up and sat on the arm of the chair with his face in shadow above the
+lamp-shade. Gazing keenly at the sergeant, he said sharply:
+
+"You are quite aware of the regulations regarding official secrets,
+sergeant?"
+
+"Ach, yes, Excellence!"
+
+As the sergeant paused to answer with the glass in his hand there was just
+a suspicion of astonishment in the tone.
+
+"Good. Don't forget it!" A note of menace was in zu Pfeiffer's voice. He
+added more mildly, "Political reasons may cause stringent measures
+sometimes."
+
+"Yes, Excellence."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer smoked, coldly regarding the sergeant.
+
+"Who is Sergeant Schneider detailing for the prisoner's escort to-morrow?"
+
+"Corporal Inyira, Excellence."
+
+"A long service man?"
+
+"Ja, Excellence."
+
+"Good. Go and fetch him here."
+
+Not a shadow of surprise showed on Sergeant Schultz's face as he departed.
+Zu Pfeiffer smoked hard and drank another brandy thirstily with a slight
+unsteadiness as he lifted the glass to his mouth. The sergeant returned
+and stood at attention just within the door.
+
+"The man is here, Excellence." Zu Pfeiffer nodded.
+
+"Forward, quick marrch," commanded the sergeant in a muffled bark.
+"Halttt!"
+
+"Very good, sergeant, you may wait."
+
+Schultz saluted and retired without. The tall powerfully built native in
+uniform stood as if he had a bayonet beneath his chin. There was a slight
+nervousness about the blues of the eyes as he squinted in the attempt to
+look straight ahead and to watch the Kommandant at the same time. One
+nostril was slit, in the lobes of the ears were three can keys, and the
+temples were tattooed with tribal scars.
+
+"Corporal Inyira!" said zu Pfeiffer sharply. The black body twitched at
+the voice. "You are to leave to-morrow for Dar-es-salaam and you will take
+as a prisoner a white man who has been taking your tribe as slaves and
+selling them to the Abyssinians. The Bwana Mkubwa protects you from these
+evil white men and Arabs. You know that?" sharply.
+
+"Bwana!"
+
+"Very good. You know what would happen to you if you were sold as a slave?
+You have had many brothers who have been sold to the Abyssinians?"
+
+"Bwana! Many, Bwana!"
+
+"Very good. Now listen! This white man is very bad. He leaves with you
+to-morrow morning for Dar-es-salaam, but--he is never to arrive there. I
+give him to you. You may do what you like with him, but never let me see
+him again. You have my protection. Understand?"
+
+"Bwana!"
+
+The rubber lips pouted in the emphatic utterance.
+
+"These are your secret orders. But you are not to tell them to any man,
+woman, or child here; you may tell your men when you are gone. If you
+disobey I will cut out your tongue and give you three hundred lashes.
+Understand?"
+
+"Bwana!"
+
+"This man is the enemy of the Bwana Mkubwa. His enemies are your enemies.
+His goods are yours. Begone!"
+
+The black hand came up jerkily to the black forehead, shot away out and
+down; the polished calves moved like the eccentrics of an engine, and
+Corporal Inyira melted into the shadows.
+
+"Sergeant Schultz!"
+
+To smart heel taps on the verandah entered the sergeant.
+
+"You will see that Corporal Inyira and the escort leave before daybreak;
+moreover, that he talks with no one before he leaves."
+
+"Excellence."
+
+"Take a drink, sergeant."
+
+With legs as stiff as his sjambok, Sergeant Schultz obeyed the order;
+lifted the glass and drank.
+
+"You may go! Good night, sergeant."
+
+"Excellence, good night!"
+
+As zu Pfeiffer shifted from the chair-arm to the seat his movements were
+slightly erratic. He sat forward, staring at the photograph, as he drank
+more brandy. Outside, the p�an of the frogs pulsed steadily. From a
+distance came the throb of a native drum. A cricket shrilled
+intermittently.
+
+"Bwana!"
+
+The ghostly figure of Bakunjala whispered from the doorway. Zu Pfeiffer
+started nervously.
+
+"Zingala," began Bakunjala timorously.
+
+"Gott verdamf--Emshi!" snapped zu Pfeiffer, his ring flashing in an
+irritable gesture.
+
+Bakunjala melted. Came a mutter of voices and a subdued giggle.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer sat and drank and stared. Above the insectile anthem of the
+night, rose a gurgling voice in a drinking song.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Later the crash of a
+breaking glass was accompanied by an oath. The glimmer of three pairs of
+eyes through the window screen vanished and reappeared.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Once more rose
+the voice singing:
+
+     "Scheiden tut weh,
+     Scheiden, ja scheiden, scheiden tut weh!"
+
+Just as the cricket began anew, after having politely ceased to hear the
+lieutenant's song, trickled out upon the clammy air the sound of weeping.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 6
+
+
+In the violet shadow of his square hut inside the compound, squatted Zalu
+Zako. The lips and nose were nearer to the Aryan delicacy than the negroid
+bluntness; for the Wongolo, like the Wahima, are a mixed Bantu-Somali
+race. In colour his skin had the red of bronze rather than the blue of the
+negro, and the planes of his moulded chest were as light as the worn ivory
+bracelets upon his polished limbs. Broad in the shoulders he had almost
+the slender hips of a young girl and his carriage was as balanced as a
+dancer's.
+
+From a group of small round huts behind his square hut, where dwelt his
+two wives, concubines and slaves, came the clutter of voices. A distant
+drum throbbed gently on the hot air. Away in the cool green of the banana
+plantation rose the crooning chant of the unmarried girls and slaves
+bringing water from the river.
+
+Apparently Zalu Zako was absorbed in the movements of a diminutive chicken
+scratching in the soil. The omen of the goat was occupying his mind: that
+and the death of his grandfather, MFunya MPopo. There was no sense of
+grief, for he was not a woman. Now, at the beginning of his warrior's
+career, he had not any desire for divine honours and celibacy. No man had.
+Yet Zalu Zako no more dreamed of questioning the necessity than of
+spitting in the face of an enemy. Always had the first born male of his
+family been doomed to the kingly office. There was never a second born
+male, for it was not meet that a god should have paternal brothers. The
+wives of his youth and his concubines could have as many children as they
+could bear; but according to the law, did he select the chief wife from
+whom should spring the one regal son only when he had become heir
+apparent; for then was he not already half divine, being so near the
+sacred enclosure up on the hill?
+
+The choice of that chief wife was free as there were no royal families in
+the sense of divine descent save the direct male line of the King-God. But
+the mind of Zalu Zako dwelt more upon his personal career. The life of a
+warrior was frequently short and that of a god even briefer. MFunya MPopo
+had reigned but twenty moons; MKoffo, so said the elders, had reigned for
+full two hundred moons; but then he had been a mighty magician.
+
+With a harsh squawk a brilliant scarlet and blue bird with an enormous
+yellow bill perched on the palisade of the compound. Immediately the young
+man forgot his musing and rose, calling for his spear. A stocky man, coal
+black, with a fuzzy tuft of a beard, came out of the hut. From the slave
+Zalu Zako took a broad-bladed spear with a short haft. Watching to see
+that the bird was still sitting on the fence as he passed out of the
+compound, he set off rapidly through the village and into the banana
+plantations in search of a wart hog which had been rooting up one of his
+fields of sweet potatoes. Just as he came within sight of them a black
+field rat sprang out of the grass in his path, glanced round at him, and
+disappeared. The young man's steps slackened, for he knew that the black
+rat had spoiled the luck which the banana eater had portended. Scarcely
+troubling to glance around the field, he diverged across at an angle
+making for a break in the jungle where he knew was the trail of the boar.
+But he grunted contemptuously as he examined the last spoor, which was at
+least half a day old. Of course the hog would not be there.
+
+He bethought himself of another field where sometimes came buck. But there
+was no game. The black rat again! Yet if one waited long enough a good
+omen might appear. As he squatted beneath a banana plant to take snuff
+came a squawk and the banana eater--for it appeared to be the same
+one--alighted on a frond near to him. Zalu Zako waited. Leisurely and
+cautiously he arose. The bird peered at him. Zalu Zako passed and left the
+banana eater still sitting there. He felt the weight of his spear
+tentatively, for a double omen of luck must mean big game: possibly an
+eland or a leopard.
+
+He circled right round the outskirts of the plantation. But he saw no
+signs. As he began to make the big circle again the shadows were
+lengthening appreciably. Passing by the ford of the small river, which was
+swollen from the rains, he heard a group of young girls chattering on the
+river bank as they filled their gourds. He paused to test which way the
+wind was blowing in order to avoid going down wind where the sound of
+their voices would scare away any game.
+
+But as he turned to move on he caught a glimpse of a figure mounting the
+incline. The motion was as lithe as a young giraffe; the legs were as
+straight as spears and as supple as a kiboko; the moulded hips swayed
+rhythmically like a banana frond in the breeze; the fluted arch of her
+back swelled proudly upwards to the resilient shoulders; and an arm as
+slender as a lizard's tail steadied the gourd upon a small black head set
+upon a neck like a sapling. The dappled shadows of a tree played hide and
+seek upon the tiny hills that were her firm young breasts, upon the
+smoothness of her torso of light bronze. As he gazed her face came into
+view in speaking to a comrade just beneath. An errant shaft of sunlight
+glinted the pearl of teeth, glowed the tiny nose and blued the whites of
+eyes which were as soft as any antelope.
+
+Zalu Zako clicked the syllable that means astonishment.
+
+"Wait there, O Bayakala," she called, "for I have to do the making of
+mighty magic with the spirits of the wood."
+
+"Eh, eh!" responded one of those left by the water edge, "a girl of the
+hut thatch hath nought to do with spirits of the wood for their bellies
+are as big as a pregnant woman!"
+
+The young girl laughed and her notes seemed to Zalu Zako like the dripping
+of water upon a river rock.
+
+"Thou knowest less than the Baroto bird who as everybody knows is the
+spirit of one!"
+
+"'Tis more than thou wilt ever be!" retorted the rival beneath.
+
+"Ehh! Ehh!" exclaimed the girl at the sneer, "thy girdle is rotted long
+since with juice!"
+
+"And thine," shouted the insulted one, who was old for a spinster, "wilt
+rot with the dryness!"
+
+"Tscch! It is dry for the lord whom I will conquer with magic such as thou
+hast never dreamed on, O Bayakala!"
+
+"And who is he for whom thou makest magic, O daughter of the hut thatch?"
+demanded Zalu Zako, stepping from the shelter of the tree.
+
+"Ehh!" ejaculated Bakuma. "I--we do but tickle the fronds (jest), O Chief!"
+
+The only sign of her nervousness was the slight swaying of the gourd of
+water upon her head as she turned up her eyes to the young chief who
+regarded her slowly. She edged away. He moved a pace in front of her. She
+clutched at the amulet around her neck as she turned her eyes and said:
+
+"The cooking fires are low, O Chief, and need be tended."
+
+"Thy breasts are like unto small anthills," he said, "and thy belly is as
+smooth as yonder river rock."
+
+"Thy tongue is sweeter than the honey of the kinglan tree."
+
+"Thy voice is softer than the muted lyre and thy nose is formed of two
+petals of an orchid."
+
+"Thy praise is more refreshing than the morning dew to a thirsty flower."
+
+"And by thy figure am I made more drunken than by the wine of the Soka
+palm."
+
+For a full minute they stood, a study in light bronze against the dappled
+green foliage. The shrill chatter of the other girls approaching startled
+Bakuma into action. She swayed to one side.
+
+"The spirits of the cooking pot cry aloud for me, O Chief."
+
+"Who is thy father, little one?" he demanded.
+
+"I am Bakuma, the daughter of Bakala, O Chief."
+
+"There has been a veil before my eyes that I have not seen thee before."
+
+"The mountains see not the tiny brooks amid the mighty forests," murmured
+Bakuma and sped up the path.
+
+Zalu Zako stood motionless watching her form melt into the green, and as
+he turned towards the river he met Bayakala and the other women who shrank
+aside from the path to allow the Son of the Snake to pass in silence. Yet
+at the ford he paused. He had forgotten the omen of the banana eater and
+the purpose for which he had come.
+
+As Bakuma sped along in a gliding lope the amulet swayed rhythmically to
+the whispered praises of the power of Marufa, mixed with ardent prayers to
+the spirits to provide the fat goat with which to propitiate the spirit of
+the woods; for had not the love charm already manifested its wondrous
+power? As she hastened through the banana plantation she could not resist
+diverging a little in the direction of the magician's hut. As she passed,
+she saw him seated on the threshold of the compound gathering inspiration
+from his favourite wall. But Marufa observed her demeanour, and being
+something of a student of men, he deducted that the charm had already
+begun to work.
+
+Marufa, as all successful men, had a strain of luck. Before the shadows
+had crept a hand's breadth came MYalu, indignant and exasperated. The
+three tusks had been paid and the footprint obtained; but he had
+discovered that it was no easy matter to procure the other ingredients
+which he suspected the wizard had known well and intended as a means to
+extract more ivory. After the ceremonious greetings he protested that the
+task given was almost impossible to execute. Marufa remained imperturbably
+interested in his wall.
+
+"But as thou knowest," insisted MYalu, "the hair and the toe-nail and the
+spittle of the Son of the Snake are more than difficult to obtain. Does a
+man so carelessly render himself unto his enemies, and he the Son of the
+Snake? None save one of his household could purloin a single hair. Even
+this morning was his hair shaved and the remnants, as thou knowest well,
+deposited in the temple with him who was his father."
+
+"The hair, the toe-nail, and the spittle," mumbled the old man, "must I
+have for such mighty magic."
+
+"Ehh!" snorted MYalu, "with a man of the clay, but with one who is half
+divine, the Son of the Snake! Ehh!"
+
+"The bow is useless without the arrows," mumbled the old man.
+
+"Tsch. 'Tis a mighty hunter that hath not the arrows for his bow," sneered
+MYalu.
+
+"Verily," retorted Marufa disinterestedly, "and still more a mighty man
+who cannot do his own hunting!"
+
+"No warrior hath been purified more frequently than I," boasted MYalu,
+referring to the ceremony incumbent upon those who have taken life to
+appease the ghosts of the slain.
+
+"The spirits obey not the crowing of a cockerel," reminded Marufa.
+
+"Tsch!" For a while both sat silent, MYalu gloomily watching a hen.
+
+"Aie! Aie!" he lamented at last, "what is there that I may do, for indeed
+she hath caught my soul in a trap. Aie! Aie!"
+
+"If the hunter cannot make arrows, he may buy them," remarked Marufa, who
+had been patiently waiting for this state of mind.
+
+"Eh! The bowstring hath been costly but the arrows! Aie! Aie! What
+would'st thou?"
+
+"The rich man payeth in his kind. Four tusks of fine grain."
+
+"Eh! Eh!"
+
+"Maybe there are others whose hands are not withered."
+
+"Others than the Son of the Snake?" demanded MYalu quickly.
+
+"Who knows? There are more fools than chickens," muttered the old man.
+
+MYalu stared disconsolately at the distant bananas. Perhaps, he reflected,
+it would be cheaper to pay the price the girl's uncle demanded, yet----
+MYalu had bought other wives whose unimpassioned charms had quickly
+staled. His soul, as he put it, had indeed been tempted into a trap by
+Bakuma; for he wished only that she should desire him as he desired her.
+Yet was he angry. Love seemed to be a costly business. Marufa tapped out
+snuff and sniffed delicately with the air of a connoisseur devoting
+himself to the pleasure of the moment. Replacing the cork of twisted
+leaves he stirred as if to rise.
+
+"Canst thou procure then the nail and the hairs that are asked by the
+spirits?" inquired MYalu sulkily.
+
+"All things are possible to the son of MTungo," asserted Marufa. "Four
+tusks, and these things are found; but of fine grain, for the others were
+old and coarse."
+
+"Ehh! How wilt thou procure these things?" demanded MYalu sceptically.
+
+"The ways of the wise are not the ways of fools."
+
+"The tusks are thine," said MYalu reluctantly, "if thou wilt tell me how
+thou wilt procure them."
+
+"Thy words are like unto the vomit of a dog," muttered the old man.
+
+"But how? My heart is not bound in clay."
+
+"Tch!" clicked Marufa contemptuously. "Every fool must needs see the spoor
+of the god which he cannot read. I have spoken." MYalu regarded the old
+wizard incredulously. "Tch! Send the four tusks as we have agreed and so
+shall it be. Begone!"
+
+Slowly MYalu rose, made his greeting, and departed more impressed than
+ever that the old man was a mighty magician.
+
+During the hour when the soul is small and dwells timidly around the feet
+Marufa dozed in the cool of his hut; but later when it spread boldly out
+was he squatted once more in his favourite seat at the entrance to the
+compound, taking snuff and contemplating. The shadows grew from violet to
+blue; the small hens pecked for worms with avidity and the goats scratched
+with vigour in the cool. Patiently Marufa sat. At length that for which he
+had waited with a sound though primitive knowledge of psychology, came to
+pass. Bakuma appeared, apprehensive, but with yet an abandon which sang
+her happiness. Beside Marufa she sat so as to avoid the shadow of one foot
+protruding beyond that of the fence.
+
+"O great and mighty magician," she began eagerly, after the formal
+greetings. "Indeed all that thou hast said hath come to pass. Thy charm is
+infallible."
+
+"Ugh!" grunted Marufa unconcernedly.
+
+"All that my heart desireth hath already begun to be. I thank thee."
+
+"Ugh!"
+
+"O mighty son of MTungo, what must I now do?"
+
+"Thou knowest," mumbled Marufa, fumbling for the snuff case.
+
+"Aie! Aie! but I have no fat goat!" cried Bakuma, who had hoped fatuously
+that the wizard would have forgotten. "I, a girl of the hut thatch, how
+should I have a goat?" Marufa tapped snuff as if no romance were in the
+making. Bakuma's bright eyes, sharpened by the proximity of the promise of
+her love, watched the old man keenly. "Listen, O great and mighty son of
+MTungo, to whom all things are known, who canst accomplish all that thou
+desireth, Bayakala, my cousin, hath a goat, but it is old and skinny.
+Perhaps----"
+
+"In the nostrils of the spirits," asserted Marufa instantly, "all odours
+are the same except that of the fat goat whom they love."
+
+"Aie! then am I undone, for no fat goat have I!" wailed Bakuma. "Know I
+not one who hath a goat who would smile on me, a girl of the hut thatch."
+
+"Ugh!"
+
+Bakuma regarded him imploringly, but Marufa's gaze was fixed upon the wall
+as if his mind were turned to matters of more importance.
+
+"O mighty wizard, what must I do?" implored Bakuma desperately.
+
+"Ugh!"
+
+After a prolonged contemplation, said Marufa: "If thou canst get no goat,
+then is there another path by which thou mayest accomplish thy end."
+
+"Eh!"
+
+"But it is very difficult."
+
+"By my cord, will I do all that thou canst bid me to do!" swore Bakuma in
+anxious haste.
+
+"Ugh! This path is more certain of success for the will of the spirits are
+oftentimes chary of their favours."
+
+"O mighty one!" breathed Bakuma, as he paused tantalisingly.
+
+"But the matter is exceedingly difficult--and dangerous."
+
+"If the flower hath no sun hath it ever lived?"
+
+"As even thou shouldst know," mumbled Marufa, more casually than ever, "he
+who possesses a part of the soul may do magic thereon."
+
+"Aye! Aye!"
+
+"Bring me then of the nail parings one, of his hairs one, and of his
+spittle. Then may I do magic thereon which he cannot resist."
+
+"O mighty magician!" gasped Bakuma, appalled at the difficulty and the
+danger of the task.
+
+"That path is sure. There is no other."
+
+"Eh! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} But if they of thy craft should know then am I doomed!"
+
+"There is no other."
+
+Torn between her love and the dread of the penalty incurred by the
+sacrilege of the theft of the parts of one who might any day be King-God,
+Bakuma stared distraught.
+
+"Were not my words white? Hath not the love charm thou hast already had
+done even as I did say?"
+
+"O mighty one!"
+
+"But that is only as the goat to the leopard. The trap must be dug--or the
+scent of the bait will be blown."
+
+"Ehh!" gasped Bakuma, in desperation, "by my twin soul which dwells
+beneath the banana plant, will I do it!"
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 7
+
+
+Gerald Birnier had flattered himself that he was a philosopher with a
+sense of humour, fairly well developed by ten years' wandering about
+Central Africa, but deep emotions submerge such cherished qualities.
+
+The presence of the photograph was explicable by several surmises: zu
+Pfeiffer might have met Lucille at Washington, Paris, or Berlin: she might
+have given him the photograph or he might have bought it, or even stolen
+it. But--the signature "� toi, Lucille"! There lay the sting which maddened
+Birnier and strangled reason, the fact at which his mind yawed futilely.
+
+So great had been the shock that the arrest had seemed but a secondary
+matter in accord with the insanity of zu Pfeiffer's statement that he was
+engaged to Lucille. The affair had been so sudden that for some time he
+could progress no farther in an attempt to think than a gasp, pawing
+mentally at an intangible substance which eluded him like a child's small
+hand trying to grasp a toy balloon. Sense of reality appeared to have been
+dissolved. He had followed the sergeant across the square meekly without
+realising what was happening, and when he had been placed in a whitewashed
+room at the back of the native guard house which served as a jail, he sat
+down upon a chair, too bewildered to comprehend where he was. That "� toi,
+Lucille" rang like the clanging in a belfry, drowning the sound of other
+thoughts.
+
+By the light of a hurricane lamp he regarded the soldiers bringing in an
+old camp bed with indifference. When they had gone he began to pace up and
+down the small room frantically trying to gain control. To the first
+prompting of a logical reason for the whole affair he did not dare to
+listen. The disrupting cause was the complete inability to explain the
+familiar signature. To his Anglo-Saxonised mind, bred in the strict code
+of the south, tutoyer was only permissible to dogs, inferiors, most
+intimate relations and lovers. He was far too unbalanced to see the humour
+as he solemnly announced that certainly zu Pfeiffer was not a dog, nor in
+the social code an inferior; he was not a relation; therefore.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} His mind
+baulked and raced into incoherence.
+
+A point of view which added false premises, as well as his attitude to
+those two little words, was the consciousness that many would consider
+that he had not treated his wife as a husband should do. This possibility
+had never occurred to him before, so that it came with disproportionate
+emphasis.
+
+As a young man he had been too absorbed in his profession to be a lady's
+man; and of love he had reckoned little until he had met the Lucille
+Charltrain with whom half the world was in love. And she doubtless, like
+many a spoiled beauty, was a little piqued that the professor did not join
+the throng of her courtiers. In Birnier's mind there had ever been
+associated with love the fear that the woman would demand too much, that
+no woman could understand that a man's profession must of necessity come
+before all things. Lucille was the first woman whom he had met who really
+seemed to understand this point of view, as she, too, was devoted to her
+art. This had grown to be the biggest bond and attraction between them.
+Most men wished to make of love a nuisance, as Lucille once put it. So the
+good-looking professor had won the beauty. They were married on the mutual
+understanding that each should pursue their respective professions.
+Shortly afterwards Birnier was offered a special mission to go to Africa
+for the purpose of studying the customs and superstitions of the natives.
+Lucille had consented, forbidden, relented, and laughed.
+
+So Lucille sang from musical height to height and her husband sped from
+depth to depth in the seas of human fatuity. Whenever he took a furlough
+he went, of course, straight to her, wheresoever she was, in Berlin, New
+York, or Paris. To Birnier the situation was ideal. He had never dreamed
+of any other woman. Indeed the tracts of his mind were so filled with
+statistics of anthropology and Lucille that there was little or no room
+for any one else. The delight and satisfaction in Birnier's mind were so
+sincere that he never had dreamed of questioning whether Lucille's point
+of view had remained the same. But now?
+
+That "� toi" stung and baited him into the unprecedented realisation that
+after all women had been known to change their opinions. Perhaps pride had
+prevented her from ever openly demanding other ways. Lucille was young and
+beautiful, courted and flattered on every hand. Perhaps he had been wrong
+to leave her for years at a stretch. Of her loyalty he had had no doubt,
+but for the first time in his marital life the professor's profound
+knowledge of human nature was shot like a spot-light on to his own
+affairs. Yet his erudition did not in the least relieve him from the laws
+of emotional reaction.
+
+Perhaps in an emotional moment.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} That knowledge of the frailties of genus
+homo was too deep for comfort in such actuation.
+
+"� toi, Lucille! � toi, Lucille!" rang and echoed as he paced that room,
+striving for control.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} And--and--why else should zu Pfeiffer have gone
+crazy?--why had he exclaimed: "Das ist der Schweinh�nd"? The husband, of
+course, whom he wanted out of the way, and he had immediately seized the
+opportunity to secure that end, seemingly indifferent to
+consequences--symptomatic of the state of "being in love."
+
+Around and about, about and around a field of weeds which had sprung from
+that seed "� toi," had paced the professor all night. When the green was
+creeping through the high barred window, Sergeant Schneider had brought to
+him some coffee and biscuits. Birnier had drunk the coffee thirstily, and
+as the sergeant had no English nor French, had tried in broken German to
+extract some information. But the sergeant had merely grunted and retired.
+At seven he had returned again and escorted Birnier to the Court House. He
+returned from the mock trial a little more in touch with reality, and more
+impressed with the malignity of zu Pfeiffer. Yet the gratuitous insults,
+the laboured farce of the registering of an alleged Swiss trader, Birnier
+saw through, and was relieved, for it argued that zu Pfeiffer's intention
+was to make Lucille a widow. No other reason could account for the
+homicidal intentions displayed.
+
+At the glow of dawn next day he was aroused by the big corporal who
+ordered him out. The tone of the man's voice naturally stimulated a
+violent reaction. But Birnier realised that his sole chance lay in
+controlling himself to accept stoically whatever treatment was offered;
+for he saw instantly that any protest or indignation would be interpreted
+as insubordination and possibly be made an excuse to shoot him down.
+
+Outside in the grey light he saw under the guard of six native soldiers,
+the five others of his party. Mungongo, his personal "boy," cried out at
+the sight of him, asking what was the meaning of these strange happenings.
+Before Birnier could reply, the big corporal struck the man savagely with
+a kiboko, bidding him to be silent. In spite of his resolution, the
+reaction made Birnier turn angrily upon the soldier, who deliberately
+repeated the order, and struck the white man across the face. As Birnier
+raised his fist the man lowered his bayonet and grinned, adding,
+apparently for the benefit of his men, that now the white would learn what
+it was to be a slave.
+
+Furiously Birnier looked around for Sergeant Schneider: but no white man
+was in sight.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} He turned to Mungongo and said quickly: "Take no heed. Do
+as they bid thee for the moment."
+
+"Be silent!" shouted the corporal, but as he raised his kiboko, Birnier
+looked him quietly straight in the eyes. The black hand was lowered; the
+man turned away, ordering the party in general to march.
+
+Dishevelled and without any camp equipment, Birnier began to march as the
+blood of the sky paled to orange. At the bottom of the great parade ground
+he turned in time to see the relieving guard falling in behind the Court
+House. For one moment he hesitated whether to put all to the test by
+refusing to go; but a significant gesture with the ever ready rifle of the
+corporal signified that he would not be given a chance. Humiliated, he
+obeyed. But just beyond the last hut, waiting by the path, was a group of
+women loaded with the soldiers' gear; and beside them were some carriers
+bearing his green tent and apparently all his equipment. The sight cheered
+him a little. He attempted to find immediate consolation in the idea that
+the savagery of the corporal might possibly abate when they were away from
+the neighbourhood of the inciting agent, whom he was sure was zu Pfeiffer.
+
+Leading the caravan was a soldier; next to him came Birnier and behind him
+was another soldier, after whom walked Mungongo and the four other
+prisoners, with a soldier between each; and then the corporal, strutting
+portentously important within easy shooting distance of the white man. The
+carriers and women brought up the rear.
+
+The path led for some miles through the dreary swamp following the course
+of the small bayou, crossing and recrossing small streams swollen with the
+rains, through which the white man was forced to wade to his hips. For the
+first mile Birnier was so angry and humiliated that he dared not catch the
+troubled eyes of Mungongo. But by force of will he attained a reasonable
+plane of philosophic resignation, temporary at least, and smiled at the
+boy, who grinned back like a tickled child. At any rate, soliloquised
+Birnier, he had at least one man upon whom he could rely.
+
+At the head of the bayou they reached higher ground and the path zigzagged
+through dense jungle thick with fan palms. The longer Birnier pondered
+upon the situation the nearer he came towards the conclusion that he had
+better make his escape as soon as possible, or he would never have the
+chance. Rather by the uneasy glances of Mungongo, who dared not speak, did
+he guess that they had left the regular trail to the coast. What their
+destination was he could not imagine. Probably, he thought grimly, to make
+an end of the whole party and return to the camp. Yet why trouble to
+travel so far? And another good reason to hasten an escape was that,
+although for the moment he was in good health, a few days of exposure
+would subject him to fever and consequent weakness.
+
+Now and again the theme "� toi" would return like the refrain of a song to
+which he found himself keeping step; but the words sometimes became
+meaningless; for in the merciful way that nature has, the impulse of
+self-preservation so occupied his mind that he had scarcely leisure to
+worry over marital troubles.
+
+At the end of about two hours, when the heat of the sun was beginning to
+be felt severely, the corporal called a halt in the shade of a great
+baobab. Birnier sat down with his back against the bole. Alongside him
+squatted the corporal deliberately and called to the women for a gourd of
+juwala. There is a certain acid odour which native beer has that is
+particularly irritating to a dry palate. The corporal drank deep, sighed
+with satisfaction and set the gourd beside him almost touching the feet of
+the white. Involuntarily Birnier swallowed. The corporal saw and grinned.
+Birnier understood and turned his back to the man. Immediately the
+corporal arose and lowering his bayonet until it pricked the sleeve of
+Birnier's coat, ordered him to get up. In the knowledge that he would be
+instantly shot by the others if he attempted to resist, he had perforce to
+obey.
+
+Outside the shade of the great tree, in the full glare of the sun, was the
+white man compelled to sit while the black corporal, with the rifle ready
+across his knee, drank deep and handed the gourd to his fellows. Again
+Birnier turned his back to him. But he began to realise faintly what
+treatment he would receive before the end came and an intimate knowledge
+of native ingenuity made him feel physically sick.
+
+Half an hour later they were on the march again. The path became rugged
+and difficult, passing through thorny ground, following burbling
+watercourses of rough stones. To make the going more trying Birnier wore
+light moccasins intended for camp use instead of his high field boots.
+Once when a long thorn penetrated the flank of his shoe he stopped to
+extract it. The corporal shouted at him; the soldier behind called him
+unmentionable names in the dialect and pushed him with his foot. The
+insult and the heat of the sun maddened him. He leaped to his feet. The
+corporal raised his gun promptly and jeered. For a moment Birnier stood
+trembling with passion; then he closed his eyes as if to shut out sight
+and sound and limped forward, fighting with himself.
+
+With natives had Birnier always been able to negotiate, to live, and to
+quarrel when necessary, on terms of amity; but this black "swine," as he
+termed him in his wrath, prinked out in a masquerade of a white man's
+clothes.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} He jammed his heel down savagely upon the thorn to divert the
+southern passion. After all it was not the man's fault but zu Pfeiffer's.
+Put a white man in a uniform and he becomes a beast; put a nigger in a
+uniform and he becomes a devil, Birnier forced himself to reflect.
+
+The sun grew incandescent. The heat and the flies quickened his thirst. He
+plodded on, stumbling over the stones, sagging heavily in sandy patches.
+They had left the comparative shelter of the jungle and were crossing a
+flat plain approaching, he judged, to a river bed. The carriers, he noted,
+had lagged behind. Soon they must halt. Even the fiend of a corporal would
+not fatigue himself too much for the sake of tormenting a white man.
+
+Then a new idea was added to the plagues. He had tasted nothing save the
+coffee, canned beef, and native bread which had been given him for dinner
+on the previous evening. The corporal had manifested his conception of
+humour by refusing him beer and water on the march; was he going to
+torment him by starvation as well as by thirst? And if torture were
+reserved for him by that grinning black brute, then he knew what would be
+the end that awaited him.
+
+Within an hour they came to a river about forty yards broad, a swollen
+rushing torrent. There was no village as he had expected. The corporal
+halted. Birnier slid down the bank and thrust his muzzle into the flood.
+There was torture in the restraint not to drink too much. He clambered up
+the slope to find the corporal grinning at him. He turned his back and lay
+down. There was no shade; only short scrub and grass. Small sand flies
+buzzed and stung. He heard the gurgle of the corporal's military
+water-bottle. But this time the sting was extracted; his belly was moist.
+
+Birnier stretched out, shielding from the glare the little that he could
+with his hands. Faint echoes of "� toi" strolled across his field of
+consciousness. He observed the apparently stoical indifference of Mungongo
+squatted a few feet from him, a soldier sprawling between them; but he
+cursed because investigations had taught him that that "stoical" should
+usually be read as "bovinity," as he had termed it; and he smiled dismally
+at the ancient story that so well illustrated the point, of the peasant
+who expressed his occupation through the long winter hours as "sometimes
+we sits and thinks but mostly we just sits."
+
+Mungongo "just sits," he repeated, and envied him. Yet in that heat and
+hunger, waiting for his savage captor to wreak some new fancy upon him, so
+saturated with philosophic interest in life was Birnier, that he wandered
+off into a meditation upon the mechanical fatuity of human conduct;
+illustrating his reflections by his own actions when stirred by emotion.
+"The loaded gun may be as wise as Solomon was reputed to be," he remarked
+beneath his hands, "but all the same when some one pulls the trigger the
+damn thing goes off," and sat up to confront the muzzle of the corporal's
+rifle, who was ordering him to get up. Birnier rose. But to the savage's
+amazement, he smiled.
+
+The corporal backed away.
+
+"Ah, my friend," remarked Birnier blandly in English. "You've lost, for I
+have found that which was lost!"
+
+The corporal scowled and bade him to follow. Birnier obeyed but he felt
+that he was obliging the man. The carriers had arrived and the green tent
+was pitched, invitingly cool against the grey flood of the river. He
+followed the corporal gladly, but at ten feet from his tent, beside a
+thorn bush four feet tall which spread in a fan shape, he was bidden to
+sit. For the moment, newly arrived from his philosophic dreams, he did not
+comprehend.
+
+"But that is my tent!" he said in Kiswahili.
+
+"Sit down!" commanded the corporal, grinning. "The white seller of slaves
+sits in the place of the slave, but his owner dwells in the place of the
+blessed."
+
+"O God!" remarked Birnier as he bumped his head against black reality.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 8
+
+
+Bakuma sat in the shade of the reed fence preparing the evening meal of
+boiled bananas. From her slender neck swung the precious amulet at which,
+as if to reassure herself of its safety, she clutched occasionally. Her
+half-sister, who had not yet passed through the initiation at maturity,
+sprawled upon her belly in the dwindling rays of the sun, scratching her
+woolly head. Beyond her were two slaves tending a fire beneath two large
+calabashes, preparatory to the brewing of banana beer, which had of course
+to be done by the chief widow, Bakuma's half-sister's mother.
+
+The mind of Bakuma was occupied by percepts of the charms of Zalu Zako;
+particularly as memorised on that afternoon by the river when the effect
+of the love charm had begun to work. These memories, as sweet as they
+would have been to any maid, were shot with gay colours by the words of
+the wizard; for he had assured her that with the toe-nail and hair to work
+magic upon, Zalu Zako would be bewitched by her charms for all time. And
+she had obtained them! She could have gotten the goat, not a skinny goat
+as described under the inhibiting influence of a wild hope that the wizard
+would relent. Her cousin, smarting under the reproaches of her husband,
+had such a goat, fat as goats in Wongolo go, and she was eager to exchange
+it or anything for an infallible charm against sterility. Bakuma feared to
+part with the charm, yet the matter was pressing; immediately she was the
+wife of Zalu Zako she would be in a position to purchase all the charms in
+the village.
+
+But difficult to obtain as they were, for as everybody knows no man leaves
+portions of himself around that may fall into the hands of an enemy to
+work magic upon, least of all a rich man, "half divine," she had obtained
+some nail parings and one hair. With that charm against sterility, the
+only thing of value Bakuma possessed, had she bribed a concubine of Zalu
+Zako's household to steal the ingredients required from the hut thatch
+where they had been hidden after the official shaving and paring following
+the ceremony of his father, pending their removal to the sacred precincts
+of the temple.
+
+Above her passion for Zalu Zako was her natural feminine appreciation of a
+good match. The Son of the Snake was far better from a woman's point of
+view than union with a successful wizard. In the event of the death of the
+King-God, Kawa Kendi, the wives of his son and successor, although denied
+to him, were accorded special privileges; and upon his demise these royal
+wives retained their home upon the hill which had become his tomb.
+Moreover, as Bakuma knew well, now that Zalu Zako was heir-apparent, he
+must choose the principal wife who would for her life remain paramount in
+the household, avoiding the dread of every ageing woman that her husband
+would take unto him another wife younger and more supple.
+
+The one mosquito in paradise was the fear that as soon as her uncle, her
+father's brother to whom she belonged by inheritance, learned the august
+personage who desired her, he would raise the price to a prohibitive
+figure; for he was mean as well as stupid and lazy, wherefore he had few
+goods, and although Zalu Zako was a rich man she knew that any man save a
+fool loves to drive a good bargain if only to prove his astuteness.
+Therefore was another imperative necessity to procure every means of magic
+and charm to fan the flame of her lover's desires.
+
+Yet always flashed a bright-hued lizard in the sun of her joy when she
+imagined herself installed as the chief wife in the household of Zalu
+Zako, an unassailable position as long as she had one male child; the
+practical mistress of his first two wives as well as the retinue of
+slaves.
+
+Bazila, the younger wife, Bakuma knew well; the favourite and haughty,
+covered with the most expensive amulets against every ill and black magic,
+she was overfond of sneering at young girls of the hut thatch whose charms
+had not yet netted a victim.
+
+"Ehh!" gasped Bakuma and flashed her teeth as she rolled the warm leaves
+around the sticky mess, "then will the scent of my body be more bitter
+than the flower of the fish-faced cactus!"
+
+And so through the night did Bakuma nibble at anticipatory joys as she lay
+upon her reed mat on the slightly raised dais of the floor which was her
+bed, watching the smoke of the fire in the middle of the hut lose itself
+in the shadows of the roof, and listening in the hope of hearing some
+voice of the spirits whom Marufa was to invoke on her behalf. Save for the
+occasional bleating of a goat and once the harsh scream of the Baroto
+bird, which made her heart contract, for it is a bad omen, the night was
+still. However, at the hour of the monkey Bakuma arose to replenish the
+fire. As the western star was melting in the warm green she left the
+compound. On the outskirts of the village the tall figure of MYalu
+appeared from the shadows of the plantation.
+
+"Greeting, daughter of Bakala," said he, his eyes greedily devouring her.
+
+"Greeting, O Chief!" returned Bakuma, as she politely stepped to one side
+to avoid standing on the vague shadow of the chief.
+
+"The fawn seeks the pastures early," remarked MYalu.
+
+"Before the breath of the sun the grass is sweeter," retorted Bakuma,
+edging away.
+
+"Aye," remarked MYalu, with a hungry glint in his eyes, "thou art eager to
+slake thy thirst? But in the valley will no buck walk this day!"
+
+"Ehh!" gasped Bakuma, recollecting instantly the omen of the Baroto bird
+heard that night. "What meanest thou?"
+
+"Maybe the soul of him hath wandered and been caught in a trap or maybe----"
+He paused to watch her closely--"maybe an enemy hath made magic upon the
+parts of him."
+
+"Ehh!" Bakuma started nervously.
+
+MYalu smiled and touched her upon the shoulder.
+
+"Thy flesh is cooler than the dew."
+
+"Nay, nay, O Chief, thou hast not tied my girdle," she protested, as she
+backed away from him, her eyes wide like a terrified deer's.
+
+"Nay, but will I untie it soon," he retorted.
+
+But as he stepped towards her she turned and fled. As MYalu watched her
+running as swiftly as a pookoo into the plantation he grinned and called
+out: "Even now is the cooling draught steaming in the breath of the
+Unmentionable One! But the goblet shall hold a sweeter draught for me!"
+
+"Aie! Aie-e!" wailed Bakuma, her heart beating furiously, "what devil hath
+bewitched me! O, that father of many goats hath betrayed me! Aie! Aie-e!
+O, the cry of the Baroto bird! Aie! Aie-e!"
+
+And when Bakuma, distraught with terror by the menace that she had only
+procured the nail paring and hair to give her lover into the hands of the
+false magician who, of course, had been bought by MYalu, arrived at the
+"pastures" by the river, as MYalu had foretold, no buck walked there.
+
+The sun spilled blue shadows on the village from the sacred hill where
+another scene was being enacted, and it was not as imagined by the amorous
+MYalu.
+
+In the council house, which was within the outer fence and before the
+sacred enclosure, was in progress a meeting of the doctors. In the door of
+the enclosure squatted Kawa Kendi, with Kingata Mata in attendance tending
+the royal fires. Before him, in front of their fellows, were seated
+Bakahenzie and Marufa in full dress of green feathers and the scarlet
+plume. The left side of the idol, which was so set that the shadow never
+fell upon the entrance to the compound, was gilded by the sun; the mouth
+grinned in one corner, one eye was closed in shadow, seemingly like a
+prodigious wink.
+
+To the thrumming of the sacred band Bakahenzie was rocking himself to and
+fro mumbling incantations. Kawa Kendi squatted immobile, but the others
+swayed and grunted softly in rhythm. Then on a sudden did Bakahenzie lift
+up his head and cry in a great voice. The drums ceased and the body of
+witch-doctors remained motionless, expectant. Bakahenzie dropped his head
+and began to chant:
+
+  "Behold! I have heard the voice of the trees
+  Crying softly by night!
+  Lo! the soul of the plant is in labour!
+  As a woman with child!
+  Behold! is she not to break forth?
+  For she crieth for aid.
+  Unless she be heard the infant will slip!
+  The fruit will not be!
+  The plants will not break!
+  The milk will be sour!
+  The beer will be green!
+  Women will not bear!
+  Our spears will be blunt!
+  Our magic will wane!
+  And He will be wroth!"
+
+"Eh! Ah! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Eh! Ah! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Eh! Ah! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Eh! Ah! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Eh! Ah! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}"
+grunted the chorus of the doctors. Then chanted Marufa:
+
+  "Lo! I have slept and been that which I must!
+  Preying swiftly by night!
+  Behold! I have bloodied my fangs in the throat
+  Of a mighty bull eland!
+  Blood succoured the earth and upsprang a plant!
+  Which panted for blood!
+  The sap of the plant is the soul of the tree!
+  Take heed to the thirst
+  Of Him who first was!
+  Who lusts for a maid!
+  Full breasted, soft thighed!
+  Supple, bow arched!
+  Clean blooded and strong!
+  Whose name is forbid!
+  Whose name is a sin!"
+
+"Who hath stolen the name?" screamed Bakahenzie, leaping to his feet. "Who
+is she that hath stolen the name?"
+
+"Eh! Ahh! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Eh! Ahh! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Eh! Ahh! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Eh! Ahh! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Eh! Ahh! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}"
+
+As the drums throbbed swifter Bakahenzie began to shuffle in a stooping
+posture as if he were snuffing a trail. To the continuous grunting he
+continued this dance for fully a quarter of an hour. Then stopping
+abruptly in front of the king he screamed:
+
+  "Let her be bidden
+  To come to the feast!
+  Let her be oiled!
+  Let her be shaved!
+  Let her come dancing!
+  Let her be joyful!
+  Let her be decked!
+  Let her be glad!
+  Lips of the groom
+  Thirst for her mouth!
+  Let her be drunken
+  To bear his sweet weight!
+  That the crops will be full!
+  That the cattle grow fat
+  Wives will throw men!
+  Spears will slice foes!"
+
+He sank suddenly upon his haunches. The drums ceased. A slave appeared
+bearing a pure white kid. Kingata Mata took the animal and held it before
+Kawa Kendi, who muttered a long incantation over it and cut the throat
+with a spear head. Then to Marufa was the bleeding carcass carried and
+while still alive he slit open the belly, smeared the liquid over his
+chest and right arm, and tore out the guts. The corpse was removed.
+Marufa, working only with the enchanted arm, turned the entrails over and
+about, peering closely.
+
+There was silence. The shadows grew in depth. From the village came an
+occasional bleat and the voice of a distant girl chanting.
+
+After a prolonged and studious search, Marufa caught up and wrapt round
+his neck an intestine. As he rose, the group of witch-doctors broke out
+into a mighty groaning. Marufa speeded across the small clearing and
+kneeled before Kawa Kendi. Through the bloody necklet he whispered two
+syllables: "kuma."
+
+The groaning ceased as suddenly as it had commenced. Kawa Kendi cried out
+in a loud voice:
+
+"The bride is found!"
+
+Instantly the drums began a furious beat. A mighty shout rose from all
+assembled and they fell to the chest and belly grunting: "Eh! Ahh! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Eh!
+Ahh! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}" as Bakahenzie and Marufa began to dance the dance of thanksgiving.
+
+Ba_kuma_ had been doomed to be the victim for the Feast of the Harvest
+Festival, to be sacrificed in the orgy as the Bride of the Spirit of the
+Banana, because Marufa had discovered by divination that two syllables of
+her name were those of the secret name which only the King-God knew, of
+the Unmentionable One, the Usa_kuma_.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 9
+
+
+Before the green tent strutted a sentry as pompously as if he were on duty
+before the Kommandant's bungalow. Inside, sprawling in a camp chair, was
+the corporal, in blue striped pyjamas, smoking a cigarette. Upon the floor
+crouched one of his women with a safety razor stuck in her woolly thatch,
+opening a can of beef. On the camp table were a bottle of brandy which had
+had its neck knocked off, a shaving mirror and an open tin of cigarettes.
+Squatting on the bed was another woman in field boots, cleaning up a can
+of salmon with one finger. The rest of the tent was a litter of broken
+cases, bottles, cans and papers.
+
+Ten yards away under the thorn shrub, lay Birnier, and near to him were
+Mungongo and the others. Mungongo's regard shuttled between this scene in
+the tent and the white man with a mingled expression of terror and
+amazement: terror at the temerity of the corporal in treating a white in
+such a manner and incredulous bewilderment that the white did not
+immediately strike them all dead. But the others, more sophisticated to
+the white man's ways, were solely occupied in envying the corporal's
+debauch.
+
+The mauve shadows turned to blue as they lengthened. The clouds of small
+flies thinned and their ranks began to be refilled by the mosquitoes.
+Birnier lay with his back to the tent with a fly switch of grass, but he
+watched the doings of the corporal covertly. The corporal and his women
+had been drinking a good deal of the brandy and now he was supplying
+generous quantities to his men. Once he had come out to jeer. Birnier had
+taken no notice, nor even of the kick implanted by one of his own field
+boots on the foot of the woman. Already there was a bloodshot glint in the
+corporal's yellow eyes and a pronounced uncertainty in his movements.
+Whether the man had had any particular instructions regarding the manner
+of his death Birnier did not know until he became loquacious and took to
+shouting insults at his white prisoner. The great white chief had given
+the white man to him as a slave, he yelled, and now he was going to take
+him home with him. This idea seemed to tickle him vastly and also his
+women, who giggled and applauded as the corporal began to describe what
+obscene acts they would make their white dog perform every day, what they
+would give him to eat, how he should be made to dance.
+
+They grew noisier and the women began to sing lewd songs. The soldiers too
+revealed signs of their frequent potations. Soon the whole crowd would go
+mad, Birnier knew, and sooner or later collapse, which would give him a
+chance to escape, unless they chained him, or, what was far more probable,
+they decided to bait him to death during an orgy. What they would probably
+do to him was unthinkable. Somehow he must find a way out by
+self-destruction. Even should he escape, he would be unarmed and without
+food, and there was every possibility that they would trail and overtake
+him in the morning. He was lame and footsore; also he was weak from want
+of food. Once, when despoiling his chop boxes, the corporal had
+contemptuously thrown him a half eaten tin of sardines and a cigarette. He
+let the cigarette lie. Nourishment he must have; and so after an inward
+struggle he had eaten it, having to claw out the fish like a monkey, while
+the big black and his women sprawled and laughed.
+
+The soldiers, except the one on sentry who still paced a trifle
+erratically, were grouped on their haunches around the fire in front of
+the tent on the threshold of which the corporal presided with as much
+pomposity as if he were the great Mogul, all drinking and smoking and
+eating. Now and again the women would screech insults over their heads at
+the white; and once the corporal threw an empty bottle at him, evoking a
+gale of applause. The women began the belly dance, crooning while the men
+accompanied with the rhythmic grunt, which ever leads to hysterical
+exaltation.
+
+The sun was dipping. They might come for him at any moment. He watched the
+sentry and contemplated making a rush, taking a venture on the man's bad
+aim and unsteady hand. They would not follow him far in the dark for dread
+of the spirits that walk by night. The only alternative to suicide was the
+river, in flood and full of crocodiles, a slender chance. He determined to
+try it. He considered making the attempt then. But the darker the better;
+they would more easily miss. At any risk he must never let them get their
+hands upon him. He drew himself together, flexing his limbs for a leap and
+a rush, anxiously observing the chanting crowd around the fire in the
+sunset glow.
+
+The leashes of discipline were fraying. The sentry still plodded up and
+down, but with a rolling eye for his companions. The working of his mind
+was revealed when he walked round tying knots in the long grass which, as
+every Munyamwezi knows, is a sure method to prevent a prisoner's escape;
+then he halted in front of Birnier, grinned, and pointed to the fire;
+evidently he knew or had heard that an orgy was coming. The man stood and
+watched him. Fearful that the fellow was about to drag him over or suggest
+that the victim be seized, if only in order to release him from his
+irksome duty, Birnier snatched up the cigarette lying in the grass and
+asked for a light to distract the man's attention. The sentry shook his
+head and pointed to the fire. Hastily Birnier searched his pockets for a
+match; recollected that he had used the last, and took out a small tin box
+of wax vestas wrapped in oiled silk which he kept as a reserve in a
+special pouch of his belt. In the very act of striking the match Birnier
+ejaculated: "God!"
+
+"Nini?" demanded the sentry.
+
+"I burned myself," returned Birnier.
+
+"Nothing to what you will soon!" retorted the nigger, grinning, made an
+obscene suggestion and swaggered across to the fire.
+
+Birnier cursed his own stupidity as he thought swiftly. If Mungongo and
+the others ran at the same time the numbers would confuse the soldiers the
+more. He spoke across to Mungongo in the Wongolo dialect, hoping that the
+Munyamwezi would not understand.
+
+"Let thy heart be like unto the bullet of my big gun, and obey me! When I
+throw up in the air this cigarette, thou shalt run and plunge into the
+river, but not into the depth; lie hidden in the reeds of the bank until
+thou shalt hear a frog croak thrice and then once. Come out and go to the
+frog, and be not afraid, for thou shalt see me in the spirit form. Dost
+understand?"
+
+"Truly, my master!"
+
+"Tell the washenzie that they also obey or shall my spirit eat them up as
+it shall these children of dung!"
+
+"Truly, master!"
+
+Birnier glanced at the horizon. The shadows had melted into the violet
+twilight, which in equatorial Africa is almost as short as the snuffing of
+a candle. The stars were popping out. Dusky forms were circling round the
+yellow of the fire which threw pale flickers on the figure of Corporal
+Inyira, revealing the beginning of the hysterical gleam in the yellows of
+his eyes as, reverting to habit, he squatted on his haunches in the chair.
+They might make a rush for the victims at any moment. The sentry,
+excitement overcoming discipline, was, rifle still in hand, dancing round
+the outskirts of the throng.
+
+Birnier threw the cigarette towards Mungongo. As he dived round the thorn
+bush he heard the rustle of movement and the "boy's" gasped exclamation to
+the others. The bank of the river was not fifteen yards away. On the brink
+Birnier crouched and listened. He heard a splash a little to the right,
+which was Mungongo or one of the others literally obeying his
+instructions.
+
+The mosquitoes buzzed and stung in clouds. A cricket shrilled persistently
+above the chorus of the frogs and the throb of the hand-drum and the
+chanting. The sentry had not yet discovered the flight; he was probably
+drunker than Birnier had guessed. By raising himself on his hands he could
+see the gleam of the fire and the inverted V of the tent through the
+scrub. He hesitated whether to begin operations immediately or wait until
+after they had discovered the flight and were further intoxicated. Yet the
+excitement of the loss of the prisoner might sober them a little, Birnier
+reflected. No, it did not matter even if they were completely sober. The
+spirits of the night would be perhaps more real to them then than when
+they were drugged by alcohol. Yet he would wait. They might come as far as
+the river with lanterns and should he be compelled to take to the water he
+would have to take the risk of crocodiles seizing him. Almost had he begun
+to curse the askaris for being so slow, when a rifle cracked and a bullet
+hummed over his head.
+
+He scrambled hastily down the bank, thinking for a moment that he had been
+spotted. But it must have been a random shot. The chanting ceased. A
+hoarse shout from the sentry was echoed by uproar from the others.
+
+Birnier crawled up the bank cautiously and peered. He could not see well,
+for one eye was nearly closed by mosquito bites, but he could make out
+vague forms passing and repassing across the glow of the fire. Lights
+glimmered. Amid shouts and yells, figures began to advance towards the
+river. Whether the water was deep or shallow he could not know; only could
+he make out in the sheen of the stars a dark patch of reed or bushes for
+some yards. He slid down the slope as noiselessly as possible, although
+the pursuers were making noise enough to scare all the spirits in Africa.
+He sank to his chest, standing on stones. He waded out a little, buried
+his head and shoulders behind a half-submerged bush, and remained still.
+
+For some time he could only hear the shouts and yells. He kept the water
+up to his chin and continuously splashed his face in the endeavour to
+slacken the efforts of the mosquitoes. The cries approached. He saw men
+outlined against the stars and then some gleams of lanterns. Something
+stirred ponderously near to him. It might be a crocodile, but he dared not
+move. The figures seemed to stay on the top of the bank for hours. He
+remained rigid, expecting a swirl of water and teeth.
+
+Suddenly a spurt of flame shot out above him and was followed by a
+fusillade of shots in the direction of up river. Had they spotted Mungongo
+or were they merely letting drive at a bush or the spirits in general? The
+latter was most probable. The water swirled near to him. All his will
+power was required not to leap frantically for the bank. Yet a crocodile
+would be far more merciful than those black devils. Again a swirl and
+something passed close to him at high speed. Probably an otter scared by
+the firing; at any rate it was not a crocodile. The lights and figures on
+the bank disappeared.
+
+Shots rang out again, and were followed by a wild outburst of yelling.
+Birnier began to wade for the bank, continually splashing water at the
+mosquitoes which were so thick that they reminded him of the bayou
+Lafourche in far-off Louisiana. Crouching, he waited on the edge of the
+bank to listen. The corporal might have had enough sense to post men in
+the grass. Yet he might be too fuddled to think of that, and no native
+would willingly stay there in the dark, unless under white discipline.
+Voices still muttered, but they sounded as if from the camp. Had they
+given him up for the night, relying on the chance that if he had not been
+taken by a crocodile they could trail him in the morning? Probably.
+
+Birnier squatted in the water, ready to plunge back, until he was sure
+they were in camp. Then as cautiously he crawled up the bank. Through the
+scrub with his uninjured eye he could make out the figures around the
+yellow of the fire which had gone down considerably. Now what would they
+do? He could hear the mumble of the corporal's voice. Would they be
+sufficiently sobered to be ready for the chase in the morning? Birnier did
+not think so with that case of brandy there; the corporal would not, at
+all events. There was a scream of pain and the chatter of women's voices.
+
+Was the corporal punishing the sentry for having let the prisoners escape,
+or were they beginning to fight among themselves? The latter was
+improbable, as non-commissioned officers are usually chosen from petty
+chiefs and the men under them, as far as possible, from their own village.
+Had they captured Mungongo or one of the others? Birnier listened again.
+Another scream was stoppered to a groan.
+
+"Devils!" muttered Birnier. Lying flat to watch the grass and shrub tops
+against the stars, he gave the frog croaks arranged, at intervals of ten
+seconds. About five minutes later he saw some grass tops quiver
+unnaturally. He croaked again. Came a whisper:
+
+"Is it thee, Infunyana?" (a name given in reference to Birnier's gold
+fillings).
+
+"Aye." A dark form glided towards him. "Where are the other men?"
+
+"I know not. I told them as thou hadst told me to do. When thou didst give
+the sign, I fled and plunged into the river."
+
+"Thou wast not frightened of the crocodiles?"
+
+"Nay; for I have a mighty charm against all river beasts, enchanted by
+Bakahenzie, the greatest of magicians."
+
+"Ehh!" commented Birnier, contorting his swollen lips in the dark, "would
+that I had such an one! Thinkest thou that the men did as they were
+bidden?"
+
+"Who knows what is in the heart of a goat?" returned Mungongo
+contemptuously, for they were of another tribe.
+
+"Ah, listen!"
+
+The mutter of the hand-drum grew swifter as a high tenor chanted to the
+accompaniment of the abdominal grunting and the laryngeal shrilling:
+
+ "We have come from afar from the Place of the waters!
+ From the place where dwells the mighty Eater-of-Men!
+ Hard was the road as the hills of Kilimanjaro!
+ Hot was the sun as the wrath of Inyira the bold!
+                The son of Banyala!
+                Ough! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Ough!
+                E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!
+
+ But strong are we still as the trunk of an elephant!
+ For have we not walked in the shade of a great chief!
+ Blacker and fiercer than the male rhinoceros!
+ Swifter and more terrible than the mother of whelps?
+                The son of Banyala!
+                Ough! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Ough!
+                E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!
+
+ What hath he given us to tickle our spears?
+ A dainty white dog whose meat is so tender!
+ Fattened and groomed by the Eater-of-Men!
+ A gift from the great Chief to his ally and friend.
+                The son of Banyala!
+                Ough! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Ough!
+                E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!
+
+ We will tickle his white flesh with the tongue of our spears!
+ Our women shall pluck out his hair and his manhood!
+ He shall dance to our liking in the midst of the fire!
+ His girl screams for mercy shall lave hungry ears of ----!
+                The son of Banyala!
+                Ough! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Ough!
+                E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!
+
+ Great was the gift of the great Eater-of-Men!
+ A white slave so sleek to dance the dance of the ants!
+ Eh! We'll slit up his nostrils and pull out his hairs!
+ A white slave and four black ones to wait on one great chief!
+                The son of Banyala!
+                Ough! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Ough!
+                E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!
+
+"Those children of folly have not obeyed," whispered Birnier. "The time is
+come.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Wait here for me, O Mungongo. I go to take my spirit form. When I
+return be not afraid!"
+
+"Truly," answered Mungongo, as Birnier crawled away and down the bank. By
+the water's edge he swiftly stripped himself to his moccasins and taking
+out the wax vestas, damped each precious one and carefully rubbed lines
+over his face and body, endeavouring to get the most distinctive
+phosphorescent effect around the eyes. Leaving his clothes he crawled back
+to Mungongo.
+
+"Ehh!" exclaimed Mungongo in a muffled scream when he saw the glowing
+apparition. Birnier heard the rustle of grass. As the boy stood up to run
+he leaped and pulled him down savagely.
+
+"Be quiet, thou fool!" he whispered. "It is I. Be silent!"
+
+"Eh! Eh!" gasped Mungongo, who was trembling violently.
+
+"If thou dost not be quiet will I tie up thy heart," threatened Birnier.
+
+Mungongo continued to quiver, but he remained passive.
+
+"Eh! Eh!" he gasped, "truly thou art a more mighty magician than
+Bakahenzie."
+
+"Be quiet!"
+
+The drums and the song were still going and the chant had become more
+obscene.
+
+"Follow me!" whispered Birnier, when Mungongo was more reassured.
+
+They made a detour. As they drew near they could hear muffled screams and
+groans beneath the howl of the chorus and song. The mighty son of Banyala
+and his merry men were so engrossed in the orgy that Birnier could have
+walked right up to the fire before anyone would have seen him. But he
+would not take any unnecessary risk. Leaving Mungongo outside he crawled
+under the back flap of the tent. Crouched there he paused. The tent was
+empty; for all were engaged in the dance. His two shot-guns and two light
+rifles were stacked in the corner and the big express which the corporal
+had appropriated, leaned against the tent door behind the chair. He
+glanced hurriedly around for ammunition, but he could not see any open,
+and he had left his belt of cartridges with his clothes. Outside the men
+and women were circling in contrary directions, each with a spear, a knife
+or a firebrand in hand, around the fire beside which, trussed like bundles
+of faggots, were the four servants, their feet singeing on the outside hot
+ashes.
+
+For a second Birnier hesitated. He could not know whether any of the guns
+was loaded. The fire was of glowing embers which did not throw much light
+into the tent. Swiftly Birnier rose and glided into his own chair in the
+deep shadow of the tent flap. Then summoning all his nerve he uttered a
+yell and began to shout the first song which he could recollect:
+
+  "Hurrah! Hurrahhhhhhh! It is the Jubileeeee!
+  Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that set you free!"
+
+The native minstrel stopped in the middle of his chant; the whole
+shuffling, grunting crowd was petrified in as many different poses.
+Birnier leaped to his feet waving his arms wildly, yelling:
+
+  "Thus we sang the chor-uss from Atlanta to the Sea-aa!
+  As we {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}"
+
+But before he had gotten to "Georgia," only the prostrate forms around the
+fire had not fled.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 10
+
+
+On the morning of Birnier's departure there was much movement in Ingonya
+station. Every sign of preparation for the expedition had been carefully
+concealed while a stranger was in the vicinity. Trumpets blared
+importantly. On the great parade ground companies were formed, long lines
+of rigid, ebon figures, down which strolled zu Pfeiffer inspecting
+personally kits and rifles. Afterwards they were drawn up before the
+flag-pole. In an address zu Pfeiffer informed them that they served under
+a greater Bwana than he, the greatest Bwana in the countries of the white
+or the black, who was the son of Ngai (an uncertain term meaning "son of
+God" or the "son of nobody"); that the flag they bore, the brother of the
+big one upon the pole, was so powerful in magic that none could withstand
+it, the Totem of the Bwana Mkubwa Kuba. No wives were allowed for black or
+white, and he himself set them the example; for they were embarking on a
+war expedition to take a country which they knew was full of ivory, cattle
+and women.
+
+The row upon row of eyes in black faces bulged, as from the mass came the
+long grunt of assent and allegiance. The three white sergeants barked at
+their various companies, which wheeled into column formation and marched
+past zu Pfeiffer beneath the flag in review order, their alignment and
+precision a credit to their drill masters. Down below the fort on the
+mouth of the bayou Sergeant Ludwig superintended the overhauling of the
+steam-launch, and a native sergeant and a file of men overseered lines of
+carriers bearing white men's provisions, the bulk of which was zu
+Pfeiffer's personal supplies. Around the launch was a flotilla of native
+canoes in charge of a small crowd of nude Kavirondo paddlers, jabbering at
+the prospect of a war expedition.
+
+Most of the day zu Pfeiffer spent in the orderly room going over documents
+and giving detailed instructions to the grizzled Sergeant Schneider, who
+was to take over the station with fifty of the least competent men,
+pending the arrival of an officer, which again would depend upon the
+success of the expedition. In zu Pfeiffer's manner was evident the
+controlled excitement of a boy on the eve of a house match, and indeed for
+him it was the game for which he was bred and lived, "das Kriegspiel."
+Perpetually his long fingers caressed the sentry moustaches; an unusual
+glitter was in his blue eyes.
+
+The personality of Birnier had been apparently wiped from his mind as a
+spoor in the sand by rain; indeed in addition to the competing excitement
+of the expedition, the previous night's alcoholic and sentimental debauch
+had served to exhaust the emotions stimulated by jealousy. To him had
+appeared an obstruction in his emotional life in the shape of the husband
+of the woman whom he adored; therefore, according to his nature and
+training, he had endeavoured to remove that obstacle as swiftly and as
+efficiently as possible. Superlative confidence in himself, reflected in
+his pride of family and nationality, the apotheosis of which was the
+Kaiser, enabled him to devote all his energies to the business in hand,
+never doubting that his interpretation of native psychology would ensure
+the extinction of his adversary.
+
+Beyond the mere joy of the game of war was present the fundamental impulse
+to win the approval of the All Highest by gaining another place in the sun
+as well as the half-suppressed conviction that such a distinction would
+naturally further his suit in love. In the orbit of these two poles
+revolved the life actions of zu Pfeiffer.
+
+That evening zu Pfeiffer dined as leisurely and as sumptuously as usual;
+drank his port and smoked his cigar while his servants packed the last of
+his kitchen battery. Then at the first green of the moon he gave the order
+to march.
+
+The three companies of askaris fell in, marched down to the bayou and
+embarked without fuss or confusion, each group under a non-commissioned
+officer to the appointed canoe.
+
+The launch laboured busily out of the bayou past misty reed-girt islands
+into the indolent waters of the great lake, dragging after her the fleet
+of forty odd canoes. A cigar under the awning of the tiny poop suggested a
+great firefly in the blue shadows, where lounged zu Pfeiffer with his
+favourite brandy and seltzer at his elbow.
+
+Resembling an enormous water-fowl leading a strange black brood, the
+launch towed the flotilla through the night. A war chant pulsed like a
+fevered heart as the moon upon her back lazily chased the stars into the
+dawn upon her way to her home in the Mountains of the Moon, to be in turn
+extinguished by a furious sun. And all that day, while incandescent heat
+tried to boil illimitable waters, the strange fowl waddled on with her
+noxious brood. Huddled in the cramped canoes the soldiers slept and
+snuffed and sang, to which zu Pfeiffer contentedly listened beneath the
+awning. Three times grey walls of falling water enveloped them, sending
+frantic black hands to bailing. Once more the moon made the skies to
+laugh. When the sun had played his part of a flaming Nemesis, a fringe
+grew upon the horizon like the stubble upon a white man's chin.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer had calculated to arrive at the village of Timballa just
+within the river at sundown. The headman came down to the strand to meet
+them. Immediately he was seized, and the soldiers, as joyous and as
+mischievous as children released from school, surrounded the village.
+
+Sitting in full uniform upon the poop of the launch, together with the two
+sergeants, zu Pfeiffer held a shauri and demanded sufficient paddlers to
+man his forty canoes. The headman, to whom all white men were alike,
+thought they were British and hastened to proffer his services, promising
+that the Bwana should have the men within two days. Zu Pfeiffer curtly
+ordered him to procure them before the sun was overhead on the next day;
+and to insure that he was obeyed, detained him as hostage and forbade any
+man to pass his line of pickets around the village. The old man protested
+that they had not sufficient men in the village, but zu Pfeiffer's spies
+had afforded him practically correct information. He gave the headman the
+right to send a number of messengers, each accompanied by a soldier, to
+the neighbouring villages and promised him fifty lashes and to rase his
+village, if the paddlers were not forthcoming.
+
+Solely because he wished to give his men time to recover from their
+stiffness did he not insist upon starting that night upon the river trip.
+As a good commander he considered his men from every point of view of
+efficiency. They loved him. He was a warrior chief as they understood such
+to be; carefully he fostered their warrior pride; never were they ordered
+to work at menial offices, to fetch or to carry; only to drill and to
+fight; his punishments were ferocious, but he gave them liberty in pillage
+and rape. Eh! but the Eater-of-Men was a mighty chief! and of his name
+they boasted to every man.
+
+With foresight he had demanded twice as many men as he needed, knowing
+that the panic-stricken chief would round up the halt, the blind, and the
+sick. By an hour after the stipulated time they were assembled in the
+village, a motley crew. Those of the most powerful physique he selected to
+man the soldiers' canoes, and the next in competency he allotted to the
+baggage canoes.
+
+They started immediately. They made about two and a half miles an hour,
+for although the river was swollen it was sluggish and slow streamed,
+tortuous. Each canoe load of soldiers was made responsible for the
+paddlers and the speed was set by zu Pfeiffer in a large canoe with
+Sakamata as guide. Never had those paddlers driven canoes so speedily and
+persistently. At sundown they halted in a convenient bend where there was
+no village near; pickets were set on the bank and no other man allowed to
+land, no lights and no talking. They were ordered to rest.
+
+At the first glint of the moon they started again. The canoes were hauled
+by the aid of the soldiers over the slight rapids which divided the river
+into pools in the dry season. Throughout the night the misty forest and
+swamp slipped by to the perpetual rhythm of the paddles. About the hour of
+the monkey a hippopotamus charged the flotilla and upset two boats. Zu
+Pfeiffer forbade any shooting, nor would he permit the expedition a
+moment's delay to pick up the occupants. Just as they heard the distant
+crowing of cocks from the village for which they were bound, four paddlers
+collapsed. The soldiers, acting on their own initiative, threw them
+overboard to swim if they could, and took the paddles themselves.
+Afterwards they were thrashed for disobedience to orders in having given a
+possible chance for one of the men to escape to warn the Wongolo. At an
+hour after sunrise they arrived at the village. The majority of the
+paddlers were so exhausted that they dropped in the canoes and had to be
+thrown ashore, where they lay inert, their backs, bloody with the urgent
+bayonet pricks, caking in the sun.
+
+Beyond this point the river was not navigable, but the village was upon
+the Wongolo border and within two days or fifteen hours' continuous march
+of MFunya MPopo's (as zu Pfeiffer knew it). Zu Pfeiffer adopted the same
+tactics to procure porters. But to the chief, in case he should require
+his services again, he gave an extravagant present and left bales of cloth
+for the carriers upon their return. Zu Pfeiffer and Sergeant Ludwig
+travelled in machilas (hammocks) each with a crew of six; the soldiers
+carried nothing save their rifles, double cartridge belts, a day's
+rations; the pick of the carriers bore ammunition and the two Nordenfeldts
+and two pom-poms slung upon poles, and the chop boxes; the men's blankets
+and the heavy stuff were to follow more slowly under Sergeant Schultz and
+fifty men. The country between this village and MFunya MPopo's was mostly
+forest and very sparsely inhabited, which afforded some shade and
+concealment, and lessened the risk of a warning being given.
+
+The expedition started at noon. The carriers were kept on the native
+shuffling lope by the aid of attentions from the askaris. Two unfortunate
+small villages which lay on the line of march were surrounded and the
+inhabitants massacred. Twenty porters collapsed; they were bayoneted to
+prevent any chance of a successful ruse in escaping to give the alarm, and
+their loads given to relay men brought for that purpose. The column halted
+at sundown. The men ate their rations, but the carriers were too exhausted
+to eat; they drank water and lay prostrate. According to Sakamata they
+were within two hands' breadth of the moon of Kawa Kendi's.
+
+In full uniform of white, girded with sword and revolver, zu Pfeiffer ate,
+drank, and smoked cigars until the forest roof was patterned against the
+cold pallor of the moon. Then, after giving final instructions to Sergeant
+Ludwig and the various native non-commissioned officers, he ordered the
+jabbering men to march, with the carriers staggering on at the point of
+the bayonet.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 11
+
+
+The doom pronounced by the Council of Witch-Doctors was to Bakuma and all
+concerned as a Bull of Excommunication in medi�val Europe. MYalu was the
+one who exhibited the most emotion. Had he not paid seven tusks of good
+ivory to have the object of his passion placed under the most terrible
+tabu? Against Marufa, who had seemingly betrayed him, was his anger
+directed. But the rage of MYalu was tempered with fear. A man had not
+merely to kill an enemy: he had also to appease his justly wrathful ghost;
+and who knew what the disembodied spirit of the most powerful magician in
+the land, save Bakahenzie, could do! Moreover, no other wizard would give
+him absolution in the form of the magic of purification. A chief though he
+be; he dared not slay a magician. He sought Marufa and found him as usual
+squatting on his threshold contemplating infinity in a mud wall. He
+saluted Marufa politely, choking back words of bitter recrimination, for
+if he even offended him, the wizard might cast a spell upon him instantly.
+Marufa returned the greeting as courteously as ever. When at length MYalu
+reproachfully reminded him of the seven tusks which he had paid apparently
+to secure his love's terrible fate, Marufa replied uninterestedly:
+
+"I have done that for which thou hast paid."
+
+"What man buyeth a bride for another?" retorted MYalu.
+
+"When I did make magic upon 'the things' did I place in the power of the
+spirits the owner. Behold, hath not the owner of 'the things' been
+accursed?"
+
+"Ehh!" gasped MYalu. "But how may that be? Didst thou not thyself take the
+paring and the hair?"
+
+"I bade the One who is tabu to bring them that he might be bewitched to
+her girdle. She thought to deceive me by bringing that which was of
+herself."
+
+"E--eh!" muttered MYalu, impressed at the awful effect of deceiving a
+wizard. Marufa continued to stare. MYalu meditated ruefully.
+
+"But the tusks," murmured MYalu at length dismally.
+
+"It is not I who have two tongues," responded Marufa indifferently.
+
+And with that MYalu had to rest content. Marufa indeed had no interest at
+all in the passions of Zalu Zako, MYalu and Bakuma. Merely the time had
+come for the witch-doctors to choose the victim for the Harvest Festival:
+Bakuma was young and good looking, a dainty morsel that should please the
+taste of the officiating doctors, and her owner and uncle was a man of no
+importance: so accordingly he had made known the sin of her name through
+the divination.
+
+In the solitude of his own hut upon the hill Zalu Zako sat and pondered
+sulkily. His young and fierce temper was stimulated and the seed of
+rebellion against the domination of the priesthood was quickened by the
+fate of his new love; although the masonic secrets of the craft were
+denied to him, he, as son of the royal house, was suspicious of the powers
+of the Unmentionable One and the priesthood, as many an one had been
+before him; yet in spite of that the verdict was absolute, for he was too
+crushed by terror of the consequences to permit of any hope of annulling
+it.
+
+The fiat not only doomed Bakuma to a terrible death at the third blooming
+of the moon, but from that very instant the tabu came into force; for
+being thus accursed by the possession of two sounds of the sacred name,
+she was deemed unholy. Her half-sisters and their mother, with whom Bakuma
+shared the hut, fled to another and were exorcised by the wizard, which,
+as everybody knows, is an expensive ceremony; gourds and pots, spoons and
+utensils of all sorts, were left to the sole use of the unclean one and
+would be burned upon her demise. A magic line was drawn around the hut out
+of which the soul of the girl as she slept could not escape to bewitch
+anybody. Neither her name nor anything that had been hers would be ever
+mentioned again; any word of a household article or any thing or beast
+which had one syllable of the name "Bakuma" was changed, lest the user be
+accursed and bewitched.
+
+For the whole day, in this isolation, sat the girl Bakuma, Marufa's
+useless love charm clutched in her hand, as bewildered as if the earth had
+suddenly turned inside out under this fact so stupendous and stupefying.
+She did not weep. She squatted in the door, her eyes staring with the
+glazed inquiring expression of a dying gazelle, a bronze question to Fate.
+At the feeding time her mother threw her bananas into the circle. Bakuma
+looked at them as they flopped near to her as if she did not realize what
+they were. She made no stir to cook or prepare them. The cool twilight
+came and passed like a blue breath. Above the insectile chorus of the
+night beneath the crystal stars came the faint thrumming of a drum from
+MKoffo's hill. The sound of music and dancing reminded Bakuma of her
+ambitious dreams. She could neither weep nor wail; she merely emitted a
+faint gasping sound. But her mind began to work jerkily, yet more
+fluently. Visions of the form of Zalu Zako were weaved and spun in the
+darkness: the lithe walk of him, the haughty carriage of the head. Slowly
+greened the sky until the banana fronds were etched in sepia against the
+swollen moon. The dismal croak of the Baroto bird shattered the black
+cocoon of Bakuma's mind.
+
+"Aie-eee! the foul bird of my despair!" she wailed, and at last wept. Then
+she rose and flitted like some green ghost into the plantation and across
+to the place of water where her lover had first spoken her sweet, recking
+naught in her mist of despair of spirits of the night nor of the breaking
+of the magic circle. The moon spattered the squatted form with blue
+spangles and turned the falling tears to quivering opals. Bakuma broke
+into wild lament.
+
+  "The black Goat hath cried three times in my hut!
+  My soul hath wandered and been caught in a trap!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  A wizard hath stolen a hair from my head!
+  The beak of Baroto pecketh my gall!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  A rival hath lain in wait for my love!
+  She hath slain my bird in the nest of his breast!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  A porcupine dwells in the place of my heart!
+  The bird of my soul is fluttering faint!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  An ember of fire hath entered my mouth!
+  The milk of my breasts is curdled to-night!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  The strings of my bosom are tied with fine knots!
+  My belly is void! My nipples are dead!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  A monkey hath bitten the back of my tongue!
+  Hath stolen my breath to make magic by night!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  The blood in my veins hath turned to sour porridge!
+  My throat is choked up by the sudd of the Lake!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  A grey forest rat hath swallowed my heart!
+  My thighs have been scratched by a poisonous thorn!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!"
+
+As the last quiver of the wail blended with the anthem of the forest came
+from a figure squatted above the ford of the river, his spear a blue flame
+in the moonlight, an answer:
+
+  "My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her flesh will be tasted by a hungrier mouth!
+  Her flesh which is sweeter than honey and wine!
+  Her flesh which is softer than a newly born kid!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!
+
+  My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her breasts will be pillowed by a much broader chest!
+  Her breasts which do swell like a tender young gourd!
+  Her breasts which are as firm as the meat of the plum!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!"
+
+And answered Bakuma's wail:
+
+                 "Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
+
+  "My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her chines will be gripped by a far fiercer hand!
+  Her chines which are smoother than elephants' tusks!
+  Her chines which are as plump as the breast of a fowl!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her eyes will be touched by longer fingers than mine!
+  Her eyes which are like unto moons veiled by rain!
+  Her eyes which are like the starlit river at dawn!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her scent will be drunk by nostrils broader than mine!
+  Her scent which is pungent and sweet like the smoke!
+  Her scent which slakes thirst more than driest of beer!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her breath will be sipped by a thirstier throat!
+  Her breath which is hotter than the flame of a fire!
+  Her breath which makes more drunken than enemies' blood!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her voice will be heard by ears mightier than mine!
+  Her voice which is like unto burbling beer!
+  Her voice which is gentler than the rustle of fronds!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
+
+A slight breeze stirred gently the trees. The crickets shrilled their
+perpetual chorus. A crocodile flopped in the river. Dogs yapped from a
+village down the river. Again Bakuma lifted up her voice:
+
+  "Mightier than elephants was the tread of my man!
+  Keener than a leopard was the flash of his eye!
+  Stronger than an oak tree was the strength of his arm!
+  Swifter than lightning was the stroke of his spear!
+                 Enemies died!
+
+  Taller than the wine palm was the height of my man!
+  Broader than the temple was the span of his chest!
+  More graceful than antelope was the carriage of him!
+  More slender than saplings was the build of his legs!
+                 Women lamented!
+
+  Sweeter than warm honey was the scent of my man!
+  Whiter than a spear flash was the gleam of his teeth!
+  Fiercer than scorpions was the grip of his hand!
+  Smooth and like stone was----"
+
+A gale of yells and shots destroyed the song of Bakuma like a foot
+crushing a flower.
+
+Zalu Zako leaped to his feet and stood for a moment listening intently.
+Across the river some strange beast spat spears of red flames. A little
+farther down another beast coughed violently like a hippopotamus. The sky
+seemed falling. Such volumes of sound he had never heard before.
+
+As he raced with the speed of a koodoo through the plantation he saw the
+glow of fire ahead and heard the moan of some terrible monster near him.
+He leaped five feet in the air as the world appeared to crack in half
+beside him. He felt a sting like a brand of fire in his shoulder, but he
+ran on towards the village from whence fled dim figures on all sides amid
+shouts and screams and wailing.
+
+Several huts were already blazing. The leviathan coughed and moaned again
+and once more the earth seemed to crash to pieces near him. Appalled and
+bewildered, choking with rage, he reached the outer enclosure where his
+fellow warriors were shouting and yelling that the white gods were
+attacking. Bakahenzie, gun in hand, was bidding them charge they knew not
+what. Then out of the clutter of the village broke line upon line of
+yelling figures clothed in uniform. Screaming the battle-cry, the warriors
+charged, led by Zalu Zako, Bakahenzie, and Kawa Kendi, who in the
+excitement had dashed from the enclosure. Howls and yells were drowned in
+the spiteful crackle and cough. Warriors were mown like weeds under a
+sickle. Scarce a hundred scrambled inside the enclosure at the rallying
+call from Bakahenzie.
+
+Again came a short rush of those uniformed figures; again scarlet spears
+pierced the green moonlight like a hailstorm; small red flames rippled in
+a line resembling a forest fire as the soldiers charged through and over
+the palisade. Hand to hand was the fighting, spear and sword against
+bayonet and rifle around the idol, the askaris outyelling the warriors.
+The temple was on fire. In the light of the flames they saw a tall figure
+in white with a glow of fire in his mouth and magic eyes upon his hands,
+eyes which flashed rays of scarlet and blue as he cut and hacked at the
+base of the idol.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+"Tarum hath come!" screamed some one, and as the cry was taken up, the
+Unmentionable One tottered and crashed to the ground.
+
+They fled, Zalu Zako, Bakahenzie and those that were left.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 12
+
+
+The village of Yagonyana, the son of Zahilazaan, was situated some five
+days' march to the north-west of Kawa Kendi's, in open cattle country near
+the fringe of the forest. Here were gathered nearly every witch-doctor and
+warrior of the tribe. Most of the women, children, and slaves had been
+sent still farther to the west, driving the cattle before them.
+
+Bakahenzie, Zalu Zako, Marufa, and all those warriors who had escaped from
+the massacre by zu Pfeiffer were distinguished from their brethren by
+circles of yellow earth around each left eye, and each right breast and
+arm was smeared with red, which is part of the ceremony of magic
+purification for those who have slain, lest, as is well known, the ghost
+of the dead wreak their wrath upon their slayers.
+
+The affairs of the tribe were in a parlous state. The netting of the tabu
+had been tangled by the death of the King-God, Kawa Kendi, and the
+unprecedented act of the overthrow of the idol. Kawa Kendi's body, which
+had not been recovered so that the doctors could release his unhappy soul,
+might be used to make more magic against the tribe.
+
+For three weeks there had been much discussion among the doctors, the
+chiefs, and the people. Opinions were at variance; no two men could agree.
+Lesser wizards, who before had been content with the perquisites of the
+smaller offices, were now made drunken by the insecurity of Bakahenzie's
+position. Each of the doctors, seeing a chance to prove his superior merit
+and win Bakahenzie's post as chief doctor, had busily made magic to
+destroy the usurper, and each and every one provided a different reason
+for the failure thereof. Every day came news of the doings of the white
+god with eyes upon his hands, of shootings and floggings, of the burning
+of the village including the idol, the temple, and the sacred tombs of
+MFunya MPopo, of MKoffo, of MZrakombinyana, and other kings before them.
+
+The council of the craft could not even decide whether Zalu Zako was to be
+King-God or not. Bakahenzie, whose interest lay in supporting the dynasty
+of the present royal family, maintained that he should be anointed
+forthwith. But with the downfall of the idol and his own impotence to make
+successful magic, Bakahenzie's prestige had been badly shaken; no longer
+dared he issue dicta autocratically. As ever, political ambition tore
+patriotism to shreds.
+
+Marufa, former close ally of Bakahenzie, but lacking his active principle,
+continued to mutter incantations most impressively by himself, waiting
+cautiously to see which side of the river the arrow fell. Bakahenzie
+became seriously alarmed at the growth of Yabolo's faction and the
+indifference of Marufa. He knew well that submission would entail the loss
+of his post as well as his worldly goods; and he was aware that all men
+knew that his most potent and strenuous magic had failed as utterly as
+that of the youngest novice in the craft. His only chance to retrieve a
+portion of his lost reputation was to invent a more plausible excuse for
+failure than any other doctor had done. He did.
+
+Although he did not know that Bakuma had broken the magic circle of her
+own volition, he had the shrewd imagination to suggest that she had either
+fled with the other women during the attack or that, even if she had
+stayed, the askaris would have taken her from the hut. Therefore did he
+demand an assembly of the craft and chiefs. One of the reasons, if not the
+reason, of Bakahenzie's success, as of other witch-doctors before, such as
+Savonarola, had been a faculty, inspired by, or derived from, hysterical
+epilepsy, of working himself up at will into a state of convulsion without
+actual loss of consciousness and the spectacular exhibition of foam, which
+no other sorcerer had been able to simulate so successfully. Therefore
+Bakahenzie invoked the great Tarum (apotheosis of ancestors' spirits) who,
+through the convulsed body, did proclaim that the disaster had been caused
+by the breaking of the magic circle by one whose name was accursed; and
+that only could the magic of Bakahenzie be made potent, and the consequent
+overthrow of the Eyes-in-the-hands be assured, by the sacrifice of the
+victim to her destiny as the Bride of the Banana.
+
+Marufa, appreciating the shrewdness of this move, immediately abandoned
+his incantations to reassume his allegiance to the cause of Bakahenzie.
+The prophecy was hailed by nearly every one as a most timely excuse for
+the failure of magic in general. The miraculous recall of the
+Unmentionable One now seemed so easy of accomplishment through the person
+of Bakuma that many of those who had sided with Yabolo deserted him,
+foreseeing the renewed ascendancy of Bakahenzie and fearing his wrath.
+
+Yabolo, however, made an attempt to recover the lost adherents by
+protesting that the Moon of the Harvest Festival had not yet come, and
+that therefore victory could not be obtained until two more moons had
+waned. But MYalu saw that by submitting to the new god he might be able to
+have removed the tabu upon Bakuma--all things were possible to one who had
+overthrown the Unmentionable One--and thus obtain her by the price of
+submission; also he might possibly recover his wealth of ivory abandoned
+after the massacre. Therefore did he with his people go over to the Yabolo
+faction.
+
+Uproar and confusion ensued. Bakahenzie recovered from his trance with
+unprecedented rapidity and even did not require to be told what the spirit
+of Tarum had said through his lips. The tribe was split into fiercer
+factions than ever. They argued and screamed and cursed. Bakahenzie had
+lost the hold over them; for as the god, of which he was the sponsor, was
+dead, his credit had gone too. He dared no longer to remove a troublesome
+brother or chief by magic. His only hope was to restore the god: so to
+that end he declared that Zalu Zako must be anointed King-God. Uproar
+arose once more. But Bakahenzie's purpose had been served; he had diverted
+their attention from the subject of submission.
+
+From time to time came terrified runners with horrific stories of the
+burning of villages, of massacre and rapine. Bakahenzie, determined not to
+yield, secretly dispatched a slave to Eyes-in-the-hands with an arrow
+which is a sign of war; Yabolo, whose mind ran in the same tracts, sent a
+banana which is a sign of peace. In the meantime factions grew and
+multiplied. One chief counselled his followers to take their cattle and
+women and seek to conquer another tribe to the south-west; another wished
+to go west. But each and every follower began to bargain with his chief
+for disproportionate rewards for service. Two chiefs and five hundred men
+started to the south-west, but they returned because they had met in their
+path the skeleton of a slain elephant, which is, as everybody knows, a
+sure sign of disaster.
+
+Bakahenzie sent runners far and wide to discover Bakuma. As she could not
+be found he concluded that she had been killed or taken as a slave and
+urged the warriors to fight. Zalu Zako immediately desired the anointing
+to be delayed in order that he should not be debarred from fighting.
+Bakahenzie, none too sure of his authority, was compelled to acquiesce.
+Marufa, observing that the arrow was still in the air, took to his
+non-committal incantations again. Bakahenzie strove to keep the warriors
+and chiefs occupied by dissension until the result of his challenge to
+battle should mature. Yabolo, equally perturbed for his influence, did
+exactly the same with the banana in view.
+
+Yabolo and MYalu contemplated going in to make submission, but the former
+wished to negotiate through Sakamata for the best terms, although he tried
+to persuade MYalu to go; but MYalu was suspicious and would not do so
+without Yabolo. But at the hour of the monkey one morning came a terrified
+goatherd crying news that cut the tangled threads of their intrigues as a
+sword cuts a goat's throat. The white god, Eyes-in-the-hands, was within
+an arrow's flight of the village of Yagonyana.
+
+Consternation ensued. The village and the temporary camp of grass huts
+buzzed and hummed. Zalu Zako dashed out, sword and spear in hand, and in
+the glow of the awakened fires harangued the warriors, urged that they
+should make a swift detour through the forest and attack the white man as
+he entered the village. Bakahenzie supported this plan of campaign. MYalu,
+stung by the recollection of the loss of many tusks to the invader,
+incontinently abandoned Yabolo and pressed for a frontal attack. Yabolo
+contended that they send an envoy to make terms, but not very insistently.
+In spite of the assurance of Sakamata, he was suspicious of the new god's
+gentle ways. Marufa, the wise, collected those of his household who had
+remained with him, and quietly made his way to the forest.
+
+But Zalu Zako's martial spirit was overcome by the clamour of those who
+would flee before worse befell, crying that the white god,
+Eyes-in-the-hands, would eat them all up with the terrible monsters who
+coughed flames and death; others screeched that the uniformed devils were
+spirits of the night and therefore invincible; for always they came in the
+dark. So they hesitated, shouted and argued. Then came a scout screaming
+that the enemy was upon them, corroborated by a vicious cough.
+
+A pom-pom shell landed in the midst of the crowded village. Zalu Zako,
+Bakahenzie and their small following were nearly swept away in the rush of
+five thousand odd warriors in flight. From the forest they watched with
+awestruck eyes the burning of the village.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 13
+
+
+On the morning on which zu Pfeiffer burned the village of Yagonyana,
+Birnier was encamped upon the southern boundary of Wongolo. By his "coup
+de superstition" had he recovered all his equipment except several bottles
+of brandy, some canned goods and two and a half pairs of pyjamas; also the
+field boots. The noble Inyira, son of Banyala, and his merry men never
+attempted to recapture their prisoners; no one save the Eater-of-Men in
+person could have persuaded them to return to that camp even had they had
+their rifles.
+
+After Birnier had dressed his own foot and the charred feet of his men,
+had had a good drink and a better meal, he had sought to address the
+balance of his mind through a medium designed for the cure of melancholy,
+but efficacious for many other ills, _The Anatomy of Melancholy_. He
+opened the one big volume which had been his companion throughout his
+travels at a page marked at haphazard by an ivory paper knife with the
+American flag upon the flat hilt, an early gift from Lucille, and began to
+read the remarks of Robert Burton of quaintly glorious memory upon the
+source of his late adventure.
+
+"Those which are jealous, most part, if they be not otherwise relieved,
+proceed from suspicion to hatred, from hatred to frenzy, madness, injury,
+murder and despair {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Amestris, Xerxes's wife, because she found her
+husband's cloak in Masista's house, cut off Masista's wife's paps and gave
+them to the dogs, flayed her besides and cut off her ears, lips, tongue,
+and slit the nose of Artaynta, her daughter."
+
+
+
+"Cheerful lady! She ought to have been zu Pfeiffer's wife," commented
+Birnier and went to sleep.
+
+Birnier arose feeling rational enough to reconsider his position. The
+recollection of the signature on the photograph now failed to stimulate
+the emotional reaction as once it had done. The experience through which
+he had passed had had a beneficial effect in breaking or disconnecting the
+train of suggestive images. At first in the recess of his mind had lurked
+the desire to abandon everything, to rush straight to Lucille to demand an
+explanation. Now the rising sun of reason cast quite different shadows
+upon the incident. The high light was the fact that should he do so he
+would be sacrificing his mission for what might prove to be ridiculous. As
+his mind contemplated the subject the echo of "� toi, Lucille" tended to
+carry a high note, but this he vented by writing a long letter to Lucille
+recounting the facts and frankly admitting that he had been sufficiently
+insane with jealousy to "go up in the air." Once or twice he ceased to
+write and gazed anxiously into the glare as his imagination suggested the
+long period of waiting for an answer, wondering whether the echo of that
+cursed "� toi" might not become unbearably shrill. He became a little more
+sentimental towards the end of the letter, remarking that perhaps he had
+been wrong in deserting her for so long and emphasising the rather
+ridiculous point that he was aware that he was not a young man. However,
+he let it remain, and at the first opportunity sent off the letter by
+runner to the nearest station in Uganda, together with an order for
+certain goods to be sent to a village on the Wongolo border.
+
+Although still inclined to be emotional over the photograph, Birnier did
+not waste any energy over vindictive thoughts upon zu Pfeiffer, whom he
+philosophically regarded as irresponsible for his actions, inasmuch as he
+had been made that way just as any savage. He had gotten out of the toils
+set for him, so why should he spend time and trouble in seeking revenge
+which would merely consist in reporting the incident through a British
+station to Washington, who would open up interminable polite
+correspondence with the German Embassy, who would again write prodigious
+letters to the Colonial Minister in Berlin, who would{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Ludicrous! No; he
+would not permit zu Pfeiffer to interfere with his plans. He would
+continue straight to Wongolo instead of investigating the Kivu country,
+where zu Pfeiffer might perhaps have another opportunity to cause more
+trouble. Accordingly he negotiated with the nearest village for carriers
+and set out, striking due west, thus approaching the Wongolo territory
+towards the southern boundary.
+
+The people to the south of the Wongolo country was an inferior race, whom
+the Wongolo periodically raided to replenish their slaves. These Wamongo
+were split up into several petty chiefdoms, usually at war with one
+another. They had no defined theology. For they had not progressed beyond
+the stage of magic as far as any concept of religion, that is of praying
+for intercession to any power greater than themselves; whereas the mental
+state of the Wongolo was half-way between magic and religion, mixing and
+confusing the two as exemplified in the Rain-making ceremony of employing
+magic and alternately invoking the god and threatening him with dire
+penalties if he did not behave. There seemed to be no royal family or clan
+of the Wamongo; chiefs changed constantly as one more powerful for the
+moment arose; the wizards did not appear to have any political power,
+acting as general physicians and confining their efforts apparently to
+simple magic for the growing of corn, the curing of the evil eye and
+wounds. They were terrified of the Wongolo, much to Mungongo's pride, who
+never let slip an opportunity of swaggering and bruiting abroad the fame
+of his master as the greatest of magicians the world had ever seen. Never
+was he tired of relating to a grunting audience the terrible sight and
+effect of his master's transposition into a spirit. The yarn lost nothing
+in the telling.
+
+Progress was slow. Every afternoon, as regular as the sun set, clouds of
+sepia sailed up from the west to clothe the world in a grey deluge of
+falling water. Fortunately they were travelling up a watershed so that
+there were no large rivers to cross. As they approached the Wongolo border
+rumours began of a white god with eyes upon his hands and live fire in his
+mouth who, so said the delighted Wamongo, had entirely eaten up the hated
+Wongolo. They seemed prepared to accept Birnier, when suggesting that he
+should make magic for them to conquer the Wongolo, as another terrible
+white god, and were accordingly polite. But Mungongo, vastly indignant,
+denied the story; according to him, no power on earth could have subdued
+his race, except perhaps the mighty Moonspirit (the name he had bestowed
+upon Birnier).
+
+But when Birnier arrived at the first village of the Wongolo the absence
+of warriors corroborated the wild tales they had heard. The inhabitants of
+old men, boys and women surrounded the camp to gaze in awestruck curiosity
+at the white whom they believed to be the brother of the
+Eyes-in-the-hands. This calumny Mungongo strenuously gainsaid, and anew
+recounted the marvellous feats of magic of Moonspirit who could, he
+assured his compatriots, eat up Eyes-in-the-hands as easily as a crocodile
+would swallow a goat. Yet in spite of their terror they insisted that
+Birnier must go through the ceremony of purification incumbent upon all
+strangers in order to exorcise the evil influence of their eyes and souls;
+also the customary present must be sent to the king and his august
+permission to enter awaited, although no man knew where he was since the
+capital had been burned. Mungongo waxed furious. He informed them that
+Moonspirit was a friend of the Son-of-the-Snake, and moreover had before
+been in the country; that if they vexed Moonspirit he would enchant the
+whole village so that no man could move hand or foot. No matter, said
+they, that was the rule and must be done. They were impressed but
+obstinate.
+
+From the description of this destroying god, who was the colour of a
+stripped banana and tall as a palm tree, had fire in his mouth and eyes
+upon his hands--it was some time before he could recognise the "eyes"--and
+whose companions were devils strangely clothed, dragging horrific monsters
+who spat earthquakes, Birnier had no difficulty in recognising zu
+Pfeiffer, and recollected the significant pumping at dinner regarding the
+Wongolo country. However he had renounced any idea of revenge, but the
+discovery of friend zu Pfeiffer as the terrifying god amused him:
+quickened a desire to overset the gentleman's plans. He smiled with a
+slight hardening of the line about his mouth as he began to consider what
+might be done.
+
+As far as he could estimate by recalling the size of the native barracks
+at Fort Ingonya, he reckoned that zu Pfeiffer could not possibly have more
+than three hundred men, unless he had been reinforced from the east.
+Roughly he calculated that the Wongolo ought to be able to put about ten
+thousand warriors in the field. That number under any sort of leadership,
+even though they were only armed with spears and swords, should wipe out
+the three hundred, in spite of the discipline and two or three
+machine-guns, by sheer weight of numbers. But, from what he had already
+heard, zu Pfeiffer had evidently caught them unprepared, wiped out a mass
+and secured a supernatural effect by destroying the idol. He remembered
+his talk on das Volkliches and his comment that zu Pfeiffer was unusually
+well informed upon the psychology of the native mind.
+
+During two days disputing in the native manner news came in of fresh
+massacres, adding to the general terror. He sent for the headman and with
+him held a long shauri. The result was that the old fellow conceived the
+wonderful idea, already suggested by his lesser brethren, of enlisting the
+services of this white man, reputed to be a most marvellous magician, in
+their protection.
+
+Then having had his wits sharpened by his own originality and a sheath
+knife, the headman promptly discovered that the ceremony of exorcism could
+not be performed because the local wizard had departed with every ounce of
+magic for the front. Still there were obstinate and fearful persons who
+wished that Birnier should send a message to the king and wait until he
+had the permission. Another two days were lost until this objection was
+overcome by certain presents of "bafta," destined for the king, being
+handed over to the village.
+
+On the week's march across Wongolo, Mungongo triumphantly held spellbound
+audiences at every village through which they passed. As they neared the
+site of the City of the Snake, where they heard zu Pfeiffer was encamped,
+they encountered deserted villages. When they came upon the smouldering
+embers of one Birnier consented to turn aside from the regular trail in
+order to pass to the west of Kawa Kendi's where, so the natives said, were
+Zalu Zako and Bakahenzie.
+
+Beyond a belt of forest was open rolling country. They came to a village
+of five huts where dwelt some herdsmen, although most of the cattle had
+been driven westwards. Mungongo, seeking at Birnier's suggestion for some
+one who had actually been present at the village when zu Pfeiffer
+attacked, discovered a young girl who had escaped. He brought the daughter
+of Bakala into the presence of Moonspirit still pathetically clutching the
+amulet which Marufa had sold her. But from Bakuma, who had fled to the
+forest at the first assault and afterwards to this herdsmen's village
+where the fact of the tabu would not yet have penetrated, Birnier could
+interpret little of value. Of the whereabouts of Zalu Zako she knew no
+more than the peasants. She remembered Infunyana, as he had been called on
+his previous visit to the City of the Snake, and to her it seemed that a
+god had descended from the blue sky personally to aid her. So utterly
+incomprehensible and terrifying had the attack appeared that unconsciously
+the inevitability of her doom was shaken; if such things could happen, she
+felt rather than thought, then who could say what else was possible? She
+asked permission to travel with Moonspirit. Birnier, who knew from her
+dress, or lack of it, that she was unmarried, smiled as he wondered
+whether she was seeking her lover.
+
+Throughout their journey they had not met a single warrior; but as they
+neared the place of the king they began to meet groups of them. At the
+sight of the first headdress Bakuma bolted into the grass, nor did she
+reappear until after they had gone. Later she came to Birnier and asked
+permission to hide within his tent when the warriors appeared, and to his
+question began to explain the fate to which she had been doomed. Naturally
+this account of the Marriage of the Bride of the Banana at the Harvest
+Festival was of value as well as of interest to Birnier, from whom it had
+been concealed when in the country before. He cross-questioned her and
+made notes; but Bakuma could give him practically no details of what
+actually happened, a secret well guarded by the craft.
+
+They looked downcast, these warriors, and were doubtful what to do on
+meeting another white. Many had never before seen a white man and were
+inclined to bestow upon Moonspirit all the attributes which they had given
+to Eyes-in-the-hands. Eh! said they, Eyes-in-the-hands is a more powerful
+god than the Unmentionable One, for has he not eaten him up?
+Eyes-in-the-hands has imprisoned the thunder and the lightning in a bag
+which he looses at will. Who could withstand him? Had they better not
+submit before his wrath had eaten them all up? E-eh! man cannot fight with
+a god, as any fool knows.
+
+They were returning to their homes to make pilgrimage to the new god, to
+propitiate him with oxen and with ivory lest worse befall. However they
+knew where Zalu Zako was hidden, also the wizards whose magic was as a
+drop of water in a fire. Mungongo did not fail to relate the marvels of
+Moonspirit which he had seen with his own eyes, he and those with him. The
+warriors listened without being in the least impressed. That, said they,
+was merely woman's magic to what Eyes-in-the-hands could do! Aie-e! had
+not they fallen dead in masses at the cough of one of his monster spirits!
+Aie-e! had not the look of him burned up the Unmentionable One as a straw
+in a fire! Therefore was he not greater than the god? Aie-e! was he not
+burning their villages at will! Aie-e, brothers, they must hasten to
+appease the wrath of so terrible a god!
+
+Birnier saw that it was useless to attempt to argue with them. Zu
+Pfeiffer, with his shrewd stroke at the kernel of their faith in the
+symbol of the idol, had established a kind of godhead; and by his
+ferocious massacres had thoroughly cowed them. However Birnier secured one
+man to guide him to where Zalu Zako, the witch-doctors and those who
+remained with him, were in hiding.
+
+On the fringe of the dense forest they camped. The warrior guide went to
+acquaint Zalu Zako of their approach, else otherwise the sight of a white
+might provoke an attempt at massacre or flight. On the third day the man
+returned bearing greetings from Zalu Zako personally who remembered well
+Infunyana, the only white man whom he had ever met.
+
+For two days, on a faint trail, in a steamy heat pulsing with chromatic
+birds and lizards, they journeyed through the forest, the skirts of the
+vast Ituri whose deepest recess is the home of the pygmy. One early
+forenoon they were halted by the warrior in apparently trackless jungle
+and bidden to camp. Mungongo was indignant, but protest was useless as the
+man refused to conduct them any farther, saying that Zalu Zako would come
+to them. So the carriers cut a circle and built a zareba and the messenger
+was swallowed by the green wall bearing presents of two rifles.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 14
+
+
+About a mile from Birnier's camp, through forest so dense that even the
+progress of a native clambering from trunk to trunk and over undergrowth
+ten feet deep was slow and tortuous, was the temporary village of Zalu
+Zako; some six or seven hundred huts of branches and creepers straggling
+over a wide area of ground which had been roughly cleared from undergrowth
+by a few slaves and women.
+
+The hut of Zalu Zako, as those of most of the bigger chiefs and wizards,
+was furnished with reeds upon the floor to avoid squatting actually in the
+green slime, and boasted a palisade run from tree to tree enclosing the
+huts of his two wives, women and slaves. Every morning the leader of a
+long line of slaves bringing supplies from the villages in the open,
+chanting softly the song of the march, entered the village through a mass
+of creepers which hung like a curtain of humid green. Many hundreds of
+warriors with their chiefs had deserted their king after the flight from
+Yagonyana's village.
+
+In the mind of Zalu Zako was doubt and perplexity as in those of his
+people. All the accepted "laws" and "facts" of his world had been set at
+naught; it was as if buck lived in the rivers and fish ran roaring through
+the forests. Fear, curiosity, and resentment filled him. Sometimes it
+appeared that Eyes-in-the-hands had indeed proved to be a more powerful
+god than the Unmentionable One, of whom he was, or should have been, high
+priest and king; that he had eaten him up as they said; so perhaps the
+better course was to submit to this being invincible. Yet this very
+anarchy of his beliefs had released once more the passion for Bakuma whom
+he had renounced, the desire for whom had been inhibited by the sense of
+the inevitability of the mandate of the witch-doctors. Hereditary custom,
+which made him feel that it was incumbent upon him--a primitive sense of
+duty--to be king-god warred with this longing for Bakuma. The fact that he
+was not yet bound to celibacy quickened the seed of rebellion against the
+domination of the wizards. If he could escape the godhood then Bakuma was
+alive again. For to his mind a ban upon the personal ego was far stronger
+than any ban upon a second person.
+
+Chewing the cud of this sweet grass of hope squatted Zalu Zako one morning
+in the dignified solitude of his compound on the threshold of his hut.
+Opposite him sat the brother conspirator of Bakahenzie, Marufa, a brown
+shadow in comparison to the gleaming of the royal insignia of the ivory
+bangles. They sat silent, motionless, save for the occasional sparse
+movement of snuff taking. In the steamy heat a continual mutter and rustle
+persisted, punctuated by the harsh scream of a green parrot or the squawks
+of a troop of monkeys. In the faintly spattered sunlight percolating
+through the bowered roof vivid lizards rivalled in colour the rare finger
+of an orchid clinging to the great tree beside the hut. Through the humid
+air came the faint chant of carriers at the end of a journey; swelled
+louder and ceased. At the mutter of greeting near by Marufa grunted.
+
+"The beaten dog returns to nose in the garbage," he mumbled.
+
+"Maybe he hath news of the doings," commented Zalu Zako after a pause.
+
+"The young dog starts a buck in every tree stump," returned Marufa.
+
+The mumble of voices in the hut of Yabolo near to Zalu Zako's continued.
+Neither Zalu Zako nor Marufa knew other than that, after his downfall,
+Sakamata had retired to his native village on the southern boundary where
+the people, being laymen, had believed the excuse for his absence given by
+Sakamata that he had retired to the forest for one moon in the guise of
+his totem, the wart hog, which animal became accordingly tabu to their
+killing for that period. At length came a young slave from Yabolo who,
+after saluting, delivered a message from Yabolo requesting that Zalu Zako
+receive him and his relative, Sakamata, who had weighty news for him.
+
+Presently entered the recusant bearing signs of prosperity in the flowered
+print about his loins, the ancient cartridge pouch slung around his waist
+and a huge revolver of the pin-fire model dangling from a neck which
+appeared more tortoise-like than ever. Before Zalu Zako he squatted and
+after they had exchanged the usual hostages to hostility, Sakamata
+inquired most politely after the health of the Son-of-the-Snake, of his
+cattle and of his fortune, and last of all of his women. Sakamata, aware
+of the loss of prestige suffered by his old enemy, Bakahenzie, presented
+Zalu Zako with a duplicate of the pin-fire revolver. Followed an equally
+extensive greeting to Marufa. Only when these ceremonies had been
+punctiliously performed did they begin to discuss the news.
+
+At first Sakamata proceeded to repeat the popular saying regarding the
+doings of Eyes-in-the-hands. Various chiefs had visited the fort of the
+white man bringing presents in their hands, terrified of what might
+happen, yet, according to Sakamata, their fears had been dispelled
+immediately; for the wise new god had received them as brothers and had
+made offerings to them as was the custom for strangers to do. It was true,
+he admitted in cross-examination, that whole villages had been put to the
+sword and burned; but, he demanded, was not that the way of a mighty
+warrior to those who resisted him?
+
+Moreover, continued Sakamata, to fight him was death. His magic was such
+that no man could prevail against him. Had any doctor yet succeeded in
+making successful magic against the Invincible One? His magic was terrible
+to behold. Spirits which were imprisoned in houses of trees (boxes) spoke
+and sang according to their tribe.
+
+"Clk!" commented Zalu Zako incredulously.
+
+"These words are as the wind in the trees at night speaking to girls,"
+commented Marufa slowly. "What man hath beheld those things with his own
+eyes?"
+
+Deliberately Sakamata tapped snuff, inhaled it with relish, meticulously,
+that not one grain was lost upon his white caterpillar moustache, and said
+indifferently:
+
+"Even he who sits before you."
+
+"Eh!"
+
+Another point was scored. But both Zalu Zako and Marufa regarded him as
+one who, having had dealings with the devil and yet had emerged safely,
+was to be suspected of some ghastly pact. After a calculated pause
+Sakamata continued nonchalantly:
+
+"There is no magic like unto Eyes-in-the-hands, the Mighty One. A great
+fort hath he made upon the hill of thy grandfather (MFunya MPopo), O Zalu
+Zako, girded with a great palisade, around which walk ever the red devils
+in uniform, each one of whom hath a gun with seven voices. And peering
+through that palisade, like a terrible black leopard from his lair, are
+the monster coughing devils. Eh! who are they who can withstand them?"
+
+"Eh!" echoed his audience with lively memories of the "coughing devils."
+
+"And he hath a mighty hut made from the white man's cloth of colour like
+to the forest full of things to make magic. Seated upon his chair like
+unto a man plucking bananas, the eyes upon his hands and in his head gleam
+so fiercely that water is made within a man. He who dares to look sees not
+only Eyes-in-the-hands, but his two souls, even as thou seest thine own
+two souls staring at thee with the frightened eyes that are thine!"
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+This time a genuine belly grunt was elicited, and even Marufa moved
+uneasily.
+
+"Thou hast been bewitched," he added to mask his astonishment. "For a man
+may see his own soul in any pool, but never two souls!"
+
+"Even is it as I have told thee, O son of MTungo," asserted Sakamata.
+
+Sakamata discovered the use of snuff again to be necessary. He watched
+covertly the repressed excitement in the eyes of Zalu Zako.
+
+"And what said the great magician unto thee?" Marufa demanded to cover his
+discomfort.
+
+"He spoke white words as a warrior should," said Sakamata. "He gave words
+which told me that he was but a small wizard. He made my eyes to see the
+soul of a greater god than he, who was there and yet was not there; for at
+the touch of his magic hand with many eyes, behold! there were two more
+souls of the god which returned even as I looked."
+
+"Ehh! A greater god than he?" demanded Zalu Zako, with a flicker of the
+white of his eyes.
+
+"Even as I have said, a greater god who is king of all the white man's
+countries in the sea, who eats up those whom he pleases. Yet, even though
+he may bewitch with one of his eyes, did he speak softly to Yagombi, the
+son of Bagazaan, and Zalayan, the son of Kilmanyana, who were with me,
+bidding us to tell our brethren that if they would not acknowledge the
+true king that then he would eat us up, even as he ate up the
+Unmentionable One. But to those who would submit and make due tribute,
+would he protect in peace from the white men who, fleeing from the wrath
+of the great god, would soon come to eat up our country like the locusts."
+
+"Eh! ehh! white men as the locusts!"
+
+"Thus he spoke and bade us to go forth and tell our brethren."
+
+This was a wholly new notion and proportionally serious if true. But
+Marufa, recovering from the first shock, wrapped himself in his
+professional cloak of omniscient indifference as he recollected that
+Sakamata was an unfrocked priest of the craft. The group took snuff
+sternly until Sakamata, having accomplished his mission, deemed it wise to
+retire to allow the suggestive ideas to germinate. So gravely he arose and
+departed from the hut of Zalu Zako and went under the patronage of Yabolo
+to another compound where, to a group of the most disaffected chiefs,
+including MYalu, he repeated nearly word for word the same harangue.
+
+In the minds of Zalu Zako and Marufa the report of Sakamata had been
+exceedingly disquieting. Marufa began to wonder whether he had not better
+make terms with the new god before worse came to the worst in the form of
+white men like locusts, a menace fraught with dire possibilities which
+were based upon the rumours which every native had heard of the ways of
+white men in bulk: to the Wongolo merely vague stories from the north of
+the conquest of the Sudan by the British. Marufa's ambitions in the craft
+were almost submerged in the dread that, wizard though he was, he would
+have small chance of distinction and power among a race of wizards. To
+Zalu Zako, although the prospect of unlimited white men swooping upon them
+was terrifying, his semi-conscious mind was rather occupied with Bakuma
+than with affairs of state which seemed merely to exist to torment lovers.
+However he, too, was sufficiently impressed to consider seriously the
+advisability of submitting before it was too late; the motivating
+principle of the scheme was an idea which suggested that, in some
+indefinable way, such action might lead to the avoidance of the ban of
+godhood and thus to the reinstatement of Bakuma in the realm of
+possibilities.
+
+To Bakahenzie the report was more alarming than to the others, inasmuch as
+it appeared to portend the irretrievable loss of his power. He saw the
+effect upon their minds, the inclination to yield to the new conqueror,
+which, of course, would mean the last of his followers being swept away in
+the crowd like dry leaves in the wind. But more than the others he
+suspected the motives of Sakamata, the man whom he had unfrocked. Arguing
+in terms of his own mental processes he saw correctly enough that Sakamata
+was surely playing for himself, and guessed equally truly that Sakamata
+would get, or imagined that he would get, many rewards, political as well
+as in kind, for his services as jackal to the white man. But he listened
+and said no word for, or against, him. He was astute enough never to make
+a move until he had, or thought that he had, all the moves of the game
+worked out. Marufa was just as wily; he related the news given by Sakamata
+in a voice which gave no hint by tone or word what any of his opinions
+might be. Then, as they sat like graven images, supremely indifferent to
+the doings of Sakamata or aught else, entered the warrior bearing
+greetings from Birnier to Zalu Zako.
+
+Immediately Zalu Zako, to whose less skilled mind in intrigue this
+succession of world-shaking events was bewildering, feared that already
+the plague of white men like locusts had commenced. But when he learned
+that the white man was alone and was Infunyana, the only white man whom he
+had ever met, he perceived vaguely some remote prospect of achieving his
+desires. Almost eagerly, for a native, he commanded the messenger to
+summon the white man to his presence.
+
+To Bakahenzie the unexpected arrival of another white was an unforeseen
+potentiality of force which might be utilized to his own benefit; so
+thought Marufa, which was in effect exactly the same reaction as Zalu
+Zako's. Therefore Bakahenzie immediately protested upon the ground that no
+stranger could be allowed to approach the Son-of-the-Snake, or even the
+village, who had not been purified according to custom. When Zalu Zako
+demurred he retorted:
+
+"Hath not one white man who was permitted to enter our country without the
+demon being exorcised wreaked disaster upon us? Wouldst thou then destroy
+us utterly?"
+
+Zalu Zako was silent. Much as he would have desired to browbeat
+Bakahenzie, much as his confidence in the powers of the chief witch-doctor
+had waned in his estimation, yet there remained sufficient to overawe him
+when the matter was put to a crucial test. Bakahenzie would, so he stated,
+go himself to see the new white man, thus unselfishly taking upon his
+person the whole risk of the lasting magic of a stranger unpurified. But
+Marufa had no intention of allowing Bakahenzie to obtain a monopoly of
+this possible new ally. Unlike Zalu Zako he was not burdened with awe and
+had confidence in his own magic to overcome any evil that Bakahenzie might
+seek to work against him. So when he announced that he would accompany
+Bakahenzie, that distressed wizard was too conscious of his dwindling
+prestige to object.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 15
+
+
+Just after sun-up next morning as Birnier was seated at the door of his
+tent reading his _Melancholy_ and drinking his coffee, a startled "clk"
+caused him to glance round. He saw Bakuma rise suddenly from the fire and
+disappear. The next moment materialized out of the miasma of the morning
+the figures of Bakahenzie and Marufa, followed by a file of warriors.
+
+Portentously Bakahenzie stalked to the fire and squatted down without even
+a murmur to Mungongo busy with the breakfast. Bakahenzie remembered
+Infunyana very well, but nevertheless designedly Birnier ignored him in
+return. So they sat, the two wizards taking snuff with grave concern
+almost at the feet of the white who continued to smoke and to read.
+
+The sign boded ill, for the insistence upon the punctilious etiquette
+inferred that Bakahenzie was disposed to be suspicious, if not directly
+hostile. And indeed the warriors' description of the magic of Moonspirit,
+vide Mungongo, had made Bakahenzie uneasy.
+
+After a full half-hour Bakahenzie, as if beaten in this solemn game,
+turned gravely and saluted the white. Birnier looked down from his chair
+with the affectation of just having noticed that some one was there. After
+a pause he returned the greeting, a little point which Bakahenzie
+thoroughly appreciated. Birnier had learned that according to Mungongo and
+the warrior, Zalu Zako had not yet been anointed king-god; therefore that
+Bakahenzie evidently intended to keep the young man in the background.
+
+After preliminaries, Birnier inquired after Zalu Zako and informed
+Bakahenzie that he had journeyed expressly to see him. Bakahenzie ignored
+the question and began to talk about Eyes-in-the-hands, demanding to know
+whether Birnier was his brother.
+
+"Nay," said Birnier, "Eyes-in-the-hands is not of the same tribe as
+Moonspirit," for he sedulously followed up the title which Mungongo had
+given him. "Eyes-in-the-hands comes from a country twelve moons distant
+from my country."
+
+Marufa squatting beside him grunted; Bakahenzie took snuff nonchalantly as
+if he did not believe a word.
+
+"Eyes-in-the-hands is a mighty magician in his own country," said
+Bakahenzie in the form of an assertion.
+
+"The magic of Eyes-in-the-hands to the magic of Moonspirit," stated
+Birnier, "is as water to the beer of the banana."
+
+"Eyes-in-the-hands," remarked Bakahenzie indifferently, "hath magic to
+make the souls of man to be seen by all."
+
+"Those are but the souls of the belly and body, but Moonspirit can enchant
+so that the spirit of the head of man be seen at night," boasted Birnier,
+wondering what trick of zu Pfeiffer's had produced the effect.
+
+"Eyes-in-the-hands," insisted Bakahenzie, "hath a spirit in a piece of a
+tree which cries or laughs, sings or talks to his magic."
+
+"Moonspirit," retorted Birnier (thinking "Gramophone, but I can go one
+better, my friend"), "hath also a spirit in a piece of tree who will speak
+words of wisdom unto thee in thine own tongue, who will repeat that which
+is said unto him in thy tongue or in my tongue, who will speak words of
+wisdom even unto thee."
+
+Bakahenzie seemed outmatched in the boasting tournament. He tapped snuff
+woodenly. Marufa scratched his skinny ribs thoughtfully. Then Bakahenzie
+remarked:
+
+"He that hath not been cleansed may not look upon the Son-of-the-Snake."
+
+"He that hath not been anointed need have no fear of the evil eye."
+
+"Hath not one who was not cleansed entered and cast evil upon the tribe?"
+demanded Bakahenzie.
+
+"If the fence is not strong the leopard will enter."
+
+"If the leopard be not strong and swift indeed may he not be killed in the
+hut?" inquired Bakahenzie.
+
+"If a leopard and a wild-cat break in, then wilt thou not kill the leopard
+first?"
+
+"Even so," retorted Bakahenzie; "then is water stronger than beer, even as
+the beer does reveal?"
+
+Birnier nearly smiled in recognition of the hit.
+
+"Nay, does not beer make the fool to talk foolishness? Dost thou then cast
+away the banana? Does not one talk foolishness also who is sick and yet
+discardeth good medicine, because he feareth to poison his belly?"
+
+"Even so," said Bakahenzie obstinately, "does the sick man exorcise the
+good medicine lest an enemy hath made magic thereupon?"
+
+"Then," said Birnier, whose only objection to the ceremony was the delay
+and the messiness, "let the good medicine be purified."
+
+Bakahenzie grunted and covertly took stock of the tent and equipment
+visible. Upon the pile of cases stacked just inside the tent his eyes
+rested some time, but he would not make any inquiry. Marufa, too, was
+occupied in the same manner. Bakahenzie was recalling the previous meeting
+with Birnier in the village of MFunya MPopo--of that day when Birnier had
+not made any attempt to impress the native mind with "magic" other than
+the ordinary "miracles" in the routine of a white man's life.
+
+"When the Son-of-the-Snake," inquired Birnier, who had learned as much of
+the hagiocracy as Mungongo knew, "hath taken up the Burden, wilt thou then
+drive Eyes-in-the-hands from the country?"
+
+Bakahenzie slowly withdrew his eyes from the fascinating case as far as
+Birnier's booted foot.
+
+"Hast thou, white man, the magic twig that makes fire?" he demanded.
+
+"Even so."
+
+Birnier took a box of matches from his pocket and struck one. Bakahenzie
+and Marufa watched him solemnly. Then a lean bronze hand was outstretched.
+Birnier gave him the box. Slowly and gravely Bakahenzie, the chief
+witch-doctor, extracted a match, turned it over and over, smelt it, tasted
+it, regarded it, and struck it on the top of the box. It was a safety
+match, so nothing happened. Birnier, without a vestige of a smile,
+instructed him to strike it only upon the black piece at the side. That
+impressed Bakahenzie and Marufa. The former tried again as directed and
+succeeded. Holding the match too near the head he burned the quick of the
+nail, but not a muscle quivered. He would not even admit that the white
+man's devil stick had bitten him. But he was still more impressed.
+
+At a sign from Birnier, Mungongo brought from the tent a nickel-plated
+revolver and cartridges, which he placed at the feet of Bakahenzie without
+comment. Apparently Bakahenzie did not notice the action or the gift. He
+held out the matches to return to the white man. Birnier requested him to
+keep them. He wrapped up the box in his loin-cloth and fell to further
+contemplation of the cases. He was cogitating. The value of this white had
+suddenly increased. Evidently he could make small magic. Perhaps he could
+make as much big magic as Eyes-in-the-hands. Who knew? But then if that
+was so he could make greater magic than he, Bakahenzie, could. Bakahenzie
+saw that if Moonspirit were such a great magician he would be difficult or
+impossible to control. Naturally Bakahenzie could only understand his own
+motives in others. His problem now was to discover some means by which he
+could control Moonspirit, make of him a familiar to work to his own ends.
+Why was he so insistent upon seeing Zalu Zako? Bakahenzie became more and
+more suspicious. He saw another reason why the white man must be kept away
+from Zalu Zako. To refuse to purify him would give a valid excuse that he
+may not look upon the Son-of-the-Snake. But he did not wish to displease
+him; also Marufa could perform the purification.
+
+Again Birnier repeated the question regarding the overthrow of
+Eyes-in-the-hands. Bakahenzie took snuff, regarded the revolver lying at
+his feet idly, and deigned to reply.
+
+"When that which must be hath come to pass, then shall the children of the
+Snake eat up their enemies as a lizard eats flies."
+
+"And what is that which must come to pass?"
+
+Bakahenzie sat silent awhile, slightly shocked at the directness of the
+question; then as if to humour the white man, he replied:
+
+"When the Bridegroom hath taken the Bride."
+
+The ceremony of purification could not take place until the following day,
+because such things may not be hurried; and moreover, various potent
+charms had to be sent for to the native village. Meanwhile Bakahenzie
+squatted by the fire, contemplating the nickel-plated revolver and affairs
+of policy, and opposite him sat the meditative Marufa.
+
+From the hour of the monkey, Bakahenzie, unconscious of the small face and
+anxious eyes watching the camp from the tangle of green, was busy
+muttering spells over a calabash containing a magic concoction composed of
+the entrails of a white goat, certain herbs and the eyes of a black
+wild-cat. When the roof of the forest was a patterned ceiling against an
+incandescent glow, Birnier stripped to the waist, and submitted himself to
+the hands of the wizard who, after scattering the feathers of a scarlet
+parrot into the calabash, smeared the left breast, the forehead and the
+right arm of the white man, to the accompaniment of an incantation. These
+insignia and specifics he must not remove for three suns; nor could he be
+permitted to look upon the semi-divine Zalu Zako until whatever evil
+influence his foreign body might possess should have been exorcised by
+this powerful medicine.
+
+To sit around half nude in such heat was no arduous undertaking, but to
+sleep without rubbing off the concoction was another matter; also the
+odour thereof was not pleasing to the nostrils of a white man. But Birnier
+accomplished the feat by smoking excessively and by marking with a pencil
+the various nostrums recommended by the amiable Burton, many of which were
+hardly less disagreeable than Doctor Bakahenzie's prescription.
+
+That worthy's slaves had erected a hut for him nigh to the tent in the
+door of which he squatted, usually with Marufa beside him, throughout the
+day, with ever a contemplative eye upon his victim, an eye which Birnier
+was sure was eagerly seeking some excuse to plead that he had
+inadvertently rendered the magic impotent, and must accordingly have the
+ceremony repeated.
+
+Amused by the ridiculous sight he presented, plastered over with this
+filth, Birnier made Mungongo, whom he had taught to operate a camera, take
+a photograph of him, which would entertain Lucille, as well as be of
+scientific interest. Bakahenzie and Marufa watched this performance from
+the fire with amazement, for they imagined that the camera was some kind
+of gun. When they heard the click, they grunted as if expecting the white
+man to fall dead. Birnier of course knew the universal native belief in
+the picture being the soul, or one of the souls. He summoned Bakahenzie
+and Marufa and showed them a photograph which, after some difficulty, they
+recognised as Mungongo.
+
+"Eh," grunted a warrior, "indeed is Mungongo the slave of the white man,
+for hath he not imprisoned his soul?"
+
+Mungongo laughed, yet he believed in the superstition as implicitly as any
+of his compatriots, for said he:
+
+"It is a wise man who hath that which is his always within his hand, even
+as Moonspirit hath the soul of his favourite wife with him always, so that
+she may not be unfaithful unto him."
+
+"Eh, he is wiser than the Banana Eater!" grunted the warrior in
+admiration.
+
+Birnier's training to control his features was strained in the effort not
+to express surprise. He could not imagine from what Mungongo had derived
+this astonishing statement, until he recollected that the boy had seen a
+photograph of Lucille among his papers.
+
+After this successful demonstration of his sophistication, Mungongo was
+anxious that Moonspirit give an exhibition of his magic to dumbfound the
+chief witch-doctor, desiring most ardently to work the gramophone, to
+operate which he had also learned. But on reflection, Birnier decided that
+it was not his policy to make his thunder too cheap.
+
+Each evening as the last subtle violet quivered in the trees had Bakuma
+glided from the shelter of the undergrowth under the flap of Birnier's
+tent, where she had lain until the first tint of dawn on the foliage of
+the forest. Birnier had wished her to leave for some village until
+Bakahenzie had left the camp, but Bakuma had frantically pleaded to
+remain, knowing that the craft was seeking her throughout the country
+since Bakahenzie's latest interview with mighty Tarum.
+
+But upon the third day as Birnier was seated reading philosophically at
+his tent door, the inevitable happened. A loud outcry arose and from the
+tangle of creepers started the lithe figure of Bakuma, who darted past him
+into the tent. For a moment there was silence. But Birnier guessed what
+the matter was. Bakahenzie emerged from the wall of green and cried out in
+a loud voice. Instantly the warriors around leaped to their feet, and
+broke out into great clamour.
+
+Mungongo, busy with the cooking pots, rushed to Birnier's side,
+gesticulating wildly. Inside the tent crouched Bakuma. Towards Birnier
+advanced Bakahenzie and the warriors, whose dilated eyes and spears in
+their hands betokened that Bakahenzie had stirred their deepest feelings
+of terror and murder. Birnier smoked placidly, neither stirring nor
+permitting a sign of their presence to cross his features.
+
+Mungongo, startled out of his confidence in Moonspirit, excitedly bade
+Bakuma go forth as Bakahenzie, stopping in front of the white man, broke
+into a harangue, bidding him to give up Bakuma whose sacrilege in breaking
+the magic circle, as he had said, had brought the terrible
+Eyes-in-the-hands upon them; that the welfare of the tribe depended upon
+her sacrifice to the angered Unmentionable One even as she had been
+doomed; and threatening that they would take the insolent white man, whose
+magic was as water, and sacrifice him as well, as was desired by the
+spirit of Tarum.
+
+The longer he spoke the more excited he grew. Motivated by the sudden
+conviction that the sacrifice of Bakuma, whose action he had foretold so
+successfully, and the slaughter of the white would really restore to him
+his repute and remove at the same time the problem of controlling a
+superior magician who threatened to become his rival, Bakahenzie began to
+work himself up into the necessary state of prophetic hysteria. Cowering
+against the camp-bed Bakuma whimpered with terror; Mungongo incoherently
+begged Moonspirit to give up the girl.
+
+Not a muscle moved upon Birnier's face; nor even did his eyes turn in the
+direction of the menacing crowd who with uplifted spears joggled each
+other around Bakahenzie. Birnier knew that it was a supreme test of nerve;
+knew that any attempt to snatch a rifle or a movement of any sort, would
+precipitate action on their side. He had no intention of surrendering the
+girl to a hideous fate, and also he saw beyond the incident that if
+Bakahenzie were to triumph over him now, not only would his prestige with
+the natives be gone for ever, but that his fate would be surely sealed.
+Slowly, exaggeratedly, as if he were alone, he killed a mosquito upon his
+bare right breast and lighted his pipe anew.
+
+Bakahenzie advanced a step followed by the warriors. His voice had reached
+the falsetto timbre. Mungongo lost his head entirely and seizing Bakuma,
+began to drag her out of the tent. Birnier turned his head leisurely
+towards him. Said he very loudly:
+
+"It is not seemly to rape a woman in my presence, O Mungongo. Let her be,
+for I will buy thee one."
+
+Mungongo ceased to pull at Bakuma's arms and stared as if paralysed.
+Birnier saw the eyes switch in a terrified glance at the warriors behind
+him and heard Bakahenzie's yell to kill.
+
+For one moment he thought that indeed the end had come. Before he could
+reach the rifle a dozen spears would be in his back. He sat motionless,
+the _Anatomy of Melancholy_ still in his hand, and watched the gauge of
+Mungongo's eyes. Bakahenzie's voice rose to a screech. Suddenly Birnier
+wheeled round in his chair, snatched up the pencil and staring hard at
+them, began to sketch faces on the open page of the book.
+
+At the sight the warriors ceased their shuffling dance, were arrested with
+the spears in their hands in as many poses. Bakahenzie's scream was
+stoppered as if by a hand upon his mouth. In the silence their heavy
+breathing rivalled the twitter and hum of the forest. Birnier sketched
+furiously, glaring portentously from the group to the paper. Bakahenzie
+took a step forward, a nervous step, and yelled, "Kill!" but his voice
+released those of the warriors. In one loud shout they cried:
+
+"He bewitches us! He bewitches us!"
+
+As Birnier bent his head to make another magic mark upon the magic book he
+heard the rush of feet.
+
+"They have fled!" squealed Mungongo, still clutching Bakuma.
+
+Birnier sighed and dropped his pencil as he glanced up. Bakahenzie and the
+warriors had disappeared, but by the fire squatted Marufa unconcernedly
+scratching his skinny ribs.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 16
+
+
+Changed was the City of the Snake, the place of kings. Upon the site where
+had been the hive of huts wrapped in the green arms of the banana
+plantation, laboured under the incandescent sun gangs of prisoners under
+armed guards upon the building of larger huts laid out in streets, broad
+and geometrical, lined with correct ditches for drainage. Around the
+outskirts here and there remained charred posts.
+
+Upon the hill of MKoffo was a palisade enclosing the barracks of two
+companies of the askaris and two guns. No brown cones peeped like
+candle-snuffers above the sea of green fronds upon the hills of the tombs
+of kings, but from the sacred hill of Kawa Kendi commanding the approach
+to the valley rose, black against the sky, the triangle of the roof frame
+of a large bungalow; around the crown of the hill was a stout palisade
+through which grinned in the sun the muzzles of a Nordenfeldt and a
+pom-pom; and outside upon a levee strutted rigidly four sentries night and
+day, a perpetual reminder to the passer-by below of efficient vigilance.
+
+Within was a methodical formation of round huts dominated by a square one;
+at the far end, and in solitary grandeur beneath the Imperial flag upon a
+roughly-hewn flag-pole, was a green marquee tent, the temporary quarters
+of the Kommandant.
+
+Under the tent verandah at the rear where were his private quarters sat zu
+Pfeiffer with a towel tucked around his neck upon which was scattered
+inch-lengths of hair. Sergeant Schultz sheared deftly with clippers like a
+reaper in a field of corn. When he had completed the final trimming behind
+the ears, he stood aside with the air of an artist viewing his work.
+
+"Is that pleasing to your Excellence?"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer ran a hand around his skull.
+
+"Ya, that is better and cooler, sergeant."
+
+With a professional air Schultz whisked around the Kommandant's neck with
+a light brush, untucked the towel and brushed him down. As zu Pfeiffer
+rose Bakunjala appeared with a broom of small branches and a pan and
+proceeded to sweep the earthen floor. Schultz neatly folded up the towel,
+placed it on the chair, and stood at attention.
+
+"Is that all, Excellence?"
+
+"Ya, sergeant. Take a cigar."
+
+"Thank you, Excellence!"
+
+The sergeant selected one, saluted and departed. Zu Pfeiffer lounged in a
+basket chair. The usual water bag and syphon were suspended at his elbow
+above sparklet and brandy bottles, and a box of cigars. Around him on the
+floor was a litter of papers, envelopes and documents. On his wrist
+sparkled the jewelled bracelet and between fingers, one of which bore the
+large diamond which had earned him his native name, was an official
+document bearing the Imperial Eagles.
+
+As he read he smiled and patted his left moustache approvingly. Officially
+the authorities would not comply with his request made before leaving
+Ingonya for two more companies of askaris with white non-commissioned
+officers and two more guns; but unofficially he was informed that they
+would be supplied later and that the authorities were pleased. He picked
+up a private letter and re-read it. Then he smiled again, a sneering twist
+remaining at the corner of the mouth. Always he was informed by
+sympathetic friends and an agency of the whereabouts and doings of
+Lucille. On the 1st of August she had been due at Wiesbaden.
+
+He threw the letter on the table with an irritable gesture and scowled as
+he drank. The arrival of the mail always brought vivid regrets for the
+glories and comforts he was missing by being condemned to war with "dirty
+swines of niggers." That was part of the penalty he had had to pay for
+being a gentleman in a land of dollar grubbers, yet a matter to be written
+up against the account of Lucille, the entz�ckend Lucille. He must have
+been verr�ckt, he reflected savagely. The delicate lips softened in
+ludicrous contrast to the brutal outline of a cropped skull. The blare of
+a trumpet disturbed his reveries, reveries which were apt to rankle until
+among his satellites went the word that the Eater-of-men was possessed by
+the demon once more.
+
+After he had elegantly finished a small cup of caf� cognac and a
+cigarette, Sergeant Schultz strutted up, saluted, and at a nod from zu
+Pfeiffer handed a document to the Kommandant, a roster of the chiefs who
+had submitted with the approximate number of their followers. Officially
+there were five chiefs with some six thousand men who had nominally
+accepted the new ruler, each one of whom had to leave as hostage for his
+fidelity a son, who lived under guard in the village beneath the guns.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer needed the extra companies and white men to establish stations
+at various points with the object of gradually extending the sphere of
+military occupation. Zu Pfeiffer left nothing, as far as he could foresee,
+to chance; his maxim was to conserve his force to the utmost, to attain
+his objective at the least possible cost in men and material. The policy
+of terrorisation was based on the reasoning that eventually
+schrecklichkeit saved both the conqueror and the conquered bloodshed and
+trouble; for if the enemy were not so impressed with the fact that all
+resistance was utterly useless, he would resort to the sporadic risings
+which would entail more slaughter on both sides. Zu Pfeiffer, acting on
+the teachings of the German masters, sought to make war psychologically as
+well as militarily, economically as well as geographically. Hence his
+dramatic step in the overthrow of the idol in person, and the care with
+which he planned to impress each chief and native with his omnipotence and
+magic. This system of the application of political science as well as of
+military science, of course, was sound, save for a temperamental error:
+the lack of sufficient imagination to realize the unknown quantity of
+chance, the inevitable mistake of military scientists who are loath to
+admit the artist to their counsels, exemplified by men of genius, such as
+Napoleon and Leonardo da Vinci, who were both mathematicians and artists.
+
+In zu Pfeiffer's case, as in others of his type, the motivating principle
+was not bourgeois greed of material gain for himself; gain he could afford
+to despise in his wealth; such would have been contrary to the code of a
+gentleman. While he had not hesitated for a moment to destroy his rival,
+Birnier, he would not touch with one finger any of his goods; for that
+reason had he given permission to the corporal to take Birnier's
+equipment, so that he would not even be contaminated by the possession of
+them, a temperamental error again which had led to Birnier's escape.
+
+The driving power in his caste and tribe was love of power to an excess
+masked with portentous solemnity under the cloak of benefiting this people
+and the peoples of the world; forcing them to have broad streets and
+sanitary arrangements, compelling them to laugh, to sing, and to be happy
+whether they would or no: an urge which is the curse of the world, the
+impulse to interfere in other folk's affairs, to teach them, to make them
+to know the true God, the right way of living, the right way of doing
+everything from the rising of the first sun of consciousness to that happy
+crack of doom when our planet tries to enforce its orbit upon some other
+planet.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer pinched a cigar tip, lighted it meticulously and considered
+the roster.
+
+"Sergeant, this man--what's the animal's name? Kalomato--has his son
+surrendered himself?"
+
+"No, Excellence. The man says that he has fled the country."
+
+"Where does he come from?"
+
+"The neighbourhood, Excellence."
+
+"That means that his son is with the rebels?"
+
+"Probably not, Excellence. He is very young, they say."
+
+"That does not matter. Sequester all the chief's property. If he won't
+give it up let the askaris deal with him. If that doesn't work, have him
+shot."
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+For such obstinate cases zu Pfeiffer had fallen upon the custom of serving
+two purposes by handing over the victim to the mercies of his askaris
+which whetted their sadistic appetites and usually secured the desired
+revelation of the whereabouts of the hidden ivory or other goods under the
+torture of the burning feet, and divers other ingenious methods. Of late
+this practice had proved so satisfactory that the mere threat was usually
+sufficient.
+
+"This man," continued zu Pfeiffer tapping the roster with his long nail,
+"his son is here?"
+
+"Ja, Excellence."
+
+"Has he paid the tithe due?"
+
+"No, Excellence. He refuses."
+
+"Have the son shot."
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+"Any report this morning?"
+
+"Ja, Excellence. A Wamungo spy brings news that a white man entered the
+country from the south."
+
+"Description?"
+
+"They say he is a trader, Excellence, coming from the Kivu direction, but
+the savage cannot give any satisfactory description. It is the first white
+he has seen, he says."
+
+"He won't be the last!" snapped zu Pfeiffer with a twitch of the left
+sentry moustache. "Saunders, possibly. If so he should be here shortly to
+report. Well?"
+
+"The King and the few men left with him are in hiding, Excellence, in
+dense forest. They are demoralized and quarrel among themselves. Many are
+coming to surrender, for they say that you, Excellence, have eaten their
+god."
+
+"Ach!" said zu Pfeiffer with satisfaction. "What did I tell you,
+sergeant?"
+
+"Your Excellence was correct in every respect."
+
+"Um! Pity I can't spare a company. That would settle them before they have
+a chance to reorganize. Ach, but they haven't the sense, the animals, to
+do that.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Parade, sergeant."
+
+Schultz saluted.
+
+"Ready, Excellence."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer rose, took up his gold-mounted sjambok, and the two walked
+around the big marquee to the front where between the orderly lines of
+huts those askaris not on duty were drawn up for inspection. The sergeant
+barked. Bayonets flashed as they presented arms. Another bark and they
+ported arms. Zu Pfeiffer walked down the line inspecting buttons, bolts,
+and rifles as meticulously as he had lighted his cigar. The fifteenth
+barrel he thrust away petulantly and flicked the askari's face with his
+sjambok. The muscles of the man's face twitched as the blow came and the
+eyes bulged, but he did not flinch.
+
+"Twenty-five, sergeant!"
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer passed on. When the inspection was finished he stood rigidly
+smoking, coldly watching Schultz dismiss the men. Then he stalked down the
+hill with Schultz slightly in the rear, followed by a big black Munyamwezi
+sergeant-major, towards the opposite hill, of MKoffo. But at the bottom of
+where there were some half-constructed huts he paused.
+
+"The women, sergeant?"
+
+"The large hut, Excellence. Two hundred as ordered."
+
+"No women of chiefs?"
+
+"No, Excellence. Those attending on the hostages are housed apart."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer strode towards the hut indicated which stood near to the edge
+of a rased banana plantation. Two sentries without the fence presented
+arms stiffly and remained immobile. Within the compound were some sixty or
+more young girls, mostly having the black complexion of the slave type.
+The chattering and giggling ceased as the tall form of the dreaded
+Eyes-in-the-hands stood in the gate. A slight smile flirted his lips.
+
+From the deep violet of the hut interior darted a young girl into the
+sunlight. At the sight of the white men she poised on her toes, one foot
+forward and hands extended as if about to whirl into a dance, staring with
+the curiosity of a fawn.
+
+Tall for a native maid, the light bronze of her immature breasts revealed
+that she was of the Wongolo ruling caste. Around her slender neck was a
+circlet of bright blue beads. As zu Pfeiffer stiffened and stared she
+wheeled and fled into the hut.
+
+"Gott im Himmel!" he muttered. "The body of Lucille in Carmen!"
+
+"Who is that woman?" he demanded of Schultz.
+
+"I don't know, Excellence," replied the sergeant and spoke to the black
+sergeant-major. "She is the daughter of the chief Bamana, Excellence,
+visiting these other women. I will have her removed."
+
+"I will not have the sense of caste abused," said zu Pfeiffer, gazing into
+the hut. "That is not policy. Have her sent to the fort, sergeant, and
+placed under guard."
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer swung on his heels and strode out and up the hill of MKoffo.
+The inspection was more hurried than usual that day. Then he returned to
+the hill of Kawa Kendi to hold court in the big marquee tent. After a
+lunch and a long siesta in the heat of the noonday he strolled around the
+village superintending the rasing of huts and the staking out of the new
+village which was to rise upon the ashes of the old one, a concrete
+example of the wisdom and power of the new lord, Eyes-in-the-hands.
+
+Under squads of askaris gangs of prisoners, criminal and political, bound
+by a light chain about each neck, laboured at clearing away charred stumps
+and debris, while other natives portered in saplings and loads of grass,
+each village which had submitted sending its allotted quota.
+
+Trumpets blared. The keepers of the coughing monsters made magical dances
+with their fire sticks up on the hill of Kawa Kendi. The black, white and
+red totem of the conqueror fluttered to earth like a wounded bird. Night
+closed like a black lid placed upon the steaming cauldron of the sun.
+
+After dinner zu Pfeiffer sat in his private tent at the rear of the
+marquee drinking brandy. Upon a camp table covered by a violet cloth was
+the portrait in the ivory frame at which he gazed as he smoked. The blue
+eyes and the feminine lips softened as sentimentally as any sex-starved
+Puritan virgin; perhaps not in spite of, but because of, a medi�val code
+as senseless as the native system of tabu, for natural emotions suppressed
+find an outlet in some form.
+
+From outside came the twitter and hum of the forest, the rhythm of frogs,
+the dim bleating of a goat and the distant wailing of the women's death
+lament. Zu Pfeiffer drank and smoked and stared at the portrait in the
+ivory frame. Once he slapped irritably at a mosquito which had escaped the
+double net over the tent door. A wave of emotion seemed to well within
+him. He looked as if he were about to blubber as leaning over the table he
+peered intently at the pictured face and whispered:
+
+     "Nur einmal noch m�cht ich dich sehen,
+     Und sinken vor dir aufs Knie
+     Und sterbend zu dir sprechen:
+     'Madam, ich liebe Sie!' {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+"Lucille! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Ach, Lucille!"
+
+He drew himself back with a jerk, drank his brandy at a gulp and called
+angrily:
+
+"Bakunjala!"
+
+The flutter of sand preceded a gasped:
+
+"Bwana!"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer gave him an irritable command. Four minutes elapsed during
+which he gazed steadily at the portrait. He turned at the slither of feet.
+Bright blue beads glittered in the lamplight as the daughter of Bamana
+sank upon her heels.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 17
+
+
+In his favourite seat by the door of his hut sat Zalu Zako waiting as
+patiently as only a native can to see the white man, symbol of a
+subconscious hope. The fact that Bakuma had not been found by the
+emissaries of the bloodthirsty Bakahenzie evoked a sensation of pleasure
+which was expressed merely in a feeling of well-being. Of her in person he
+thought consciously little; his attitude was much as a white lover who
+might discover his loved one to be a sister, and hence, by consanguinity,
+barred from him for ever, a terrible fact of fate; but, lacking the
+sentimental inhibition, Zalu Zako did not disguise the death wish because
+she was denied him. Desires are simpler in the savage, yet the driving
+motives are the same as in the "cultured" ex-animal overlaid with
+generations of inhibitions--tabus--which form complex strata making the
+truth more and more difficult to recognise. From that very obfuscation of
+motives arises civilisation.
+
+Then from the blue depths of the humid green came a great outcry, answered
+by the ululation of the women in warning.
+
+"Eyes-in-the-hands!" grunted Zalu Zako, voicing the perpetual fear of the
+camp, as he leaped for his gun which Moonspirit had sent him.
+
+Above the medley of sounds arose an articulate shout:
+
+"He has bewitched our souls! He has bewitched our souls!"
+
+Zalu Zako paused and listened; replaced the gun and squatted, resuming his
+pose of dignity before the first man made entrance. For a few moments the
+shrilling of the women and the wild jabber continued. Then entered a slave
+followed by a warrior who, excitedly falling upon his knees, gasped out:
+
+"He hath bewitched our souls! He hath bewitched our souls! Our spears were
+blunted by his magic! Our swords were turned by the wall of his soul! He
+is a mighty magician!"
+
+"Of whom speakest thou, fool?"
+
+As Zalu Zako put the question the tall figure of Bakahenzie stalked slowly
+into the courtyard. The warrior rose and fled at a command from Zalu Zako.
+Bakahenzie greeted him gravely and very elaborately took snuff in order to
+show how casual the matter was. When he had meticulously restored the cork
+of twisted leaves, he announced slowly:
+
+"As I have prophesied the breaking of the sacred circle has delivered us
+into the hands of the false magician, Eyes-in-the-hands. The daughter of
+Bakala is even now at the camp of the white man, whom they call
+Moonspirit."
+
+"Ehh!" commented Zalu Zako.
+
+"The brother of Eyes-in-the-hands hath taken her in concubinage,"
+continued Bakahenzie.
+
+Zalu Zako made no response. Grimly approached Marufa and squatted beside
+them.
+
+"Even as I have prophesied," commented Marufa, who never failed to seize
+an opportunity of suggestion.
+
+"I bade him render up the Bride of the Banana; but she hath bitten his
+soul in his sleep. He held her in his arms. He breathed upon her so that
+she would not obey. The magic of this brother of Eyes-in-the-hands hath
+indeed rotted the livers of our people, for they fled like young jackals."
+
+"Eh!"
+
+Zalu Zako stared cautiously at the compound fence; Marufa regarded
+Bakahenzie's left knee with interest. For fully five minutes no word was
+said. Then Bakahenzie portentously:
+
+"Tarum demands the brother of Eyes-in-the-hands, this Moonspirit, for if
+one be taken then will the other, Eyes-in-the-hands, wither away and the
+Unmentionable One will be revealed."
+
+"Thou hast spoken!" assented Marufa.
+
+But Zalu Zako continued to stare blankly at the fence. His mind was aflame
+for Bakuma. Bakahenzie had no suspicion of his passion, yet the fear of
+his enmity acted like a douche of water in spite of the fact that the
+implicit faith in the doctors had been weakened. But disbelief was not
+positive enough to stimulate action. However, from the news of Bakuma's
+proximity, he had gotten strength to doubt the efficacy of Bakuma's
+sacrifice to restore the kingdom, a strength which prompted him to say:
+
+"Who is he that has said that Moonspirit be the twin of Eyes-in-the-hands?
+Enemies there are even among whites. If he be an enemy of
+Eyes-in-the-hands and he be a great magician, as they say, then through
+his magic may not Eyes-in-the-hands be slain?"
+
+"He hath but young words," asserted Bakahenzie stonily.
+
+"But Mungongo, the son of Marula, saith that----"
+
+"Dost thou ask an infant to teach thee to hunt?" retorted Bakahenzie.
+
+"Doth a warrior ask his women to mend his wounds?" added Marufa, putting
+in a gentle reminder that Zalu Zako was merely a chief and not of the
+craft.
+
+"He hath been exorcised, let him be brought and put to the test before
+me," persisted Zalu Zako.
+
+"That may not be," objected Bakahenzie, "for thou art not yet anointed."
+
+"But that which is necessary has not yet been done," objected Zalu Zako
+obstinately. "If he have no magic and his heart be not white, then let him
+be doomed for the Feast of the Moon." And gaining courage, added the royal
+phrase: "I have spoken."
+
+The three sat motionless. The silence twittered and hummed. The shadows
+swelled. Bakahenzie rose slowly and stalked away through the compound.
+Zalu Zako watched his departure without remark or expression. After an
+interval, Marufa also went.
+
+Another person upon whom the news of the discovery had had a similar
+reaction was MYalu. Her proximity released the primitive desire to go
+forth and seize her. But such action was arrested by fear of the
+consequences from his fellows to whom the tabu was still real, and of the
+white man, Moonspirit. MYalu could never overcome the fiat of the
+witch-doctors while he remained with them. Yonder--his decision to go with
+Yabolo and Sakamata was clinched, but--he would take Bakuma with him.
+
+Straight to the hut of Bakahenzie, who seemed to be expecting him, stalked
+Marufa. Marufa squatted solemnly near to him. These catastrophic events
+had caused a general unrest which had weakened the discipline of
+superstition.
+
+There are two types of magicians: those who are partially conscious
+hypocrites, and those who are gulled by their own fakes; for he who makes
+magic must be ever ready with an explanation of failure and very ingenious
+in the making. The fool, believing in his own medicine, is as much
+astounded at failure as the victim is angry. Bakahenzie and Marufa
+belonged to the first class; yet being of their particular mental
+development they were possessed of beliefs just as deeply as the most
+credulous layman. That the wizard, personally, of his own individual power
+could slay an enemy by incantation they did not believe; but that the
+spirit of the Banana or of other inanimate objects could do so, they
+believed most profoundly. Their creed was a form of pure animism; the
+storms, the winds, the lightning, trees, rocks, rivers had separate and
+conscious souls; other inanimate objects not included in an arbitrary
+list, had unconscious souls, each and every one capable of doing mischief
+or of good; hence the essence of religion in the act of imploring the good
+offices of the most powerful spirits, or in moments of exasperation of
+threatening them with dire punishments. Their hypocrisy lay not in
+disbelief but in pretending to the people that their intercession with the
+gods was infallible; they knew only too well that the said gods would
+seldom incline an ear to the magician.
+
+Of course nearly every doctor had a slightly different dogma, usually
+based upon an incorrect deduction from a false premise. One doctor would
+place all his confidence in the spirit of the Banana--the most popular
+spirit; and another in the spirit of the river, because out of a dozen
+times that he had implored aid, five "miracles" at least had been
+vouchsafed, therefore, argued he, the spirit of the river is the true and
+most powerful god. The arguments of others were equally unsound as they
+were dominated by some hidden desire, much as reputable scientists, while
+rejecting phenomena accepted by the populace, cling fatuously to a belief
+in spooks in order to satisfy a subconscious desire for immortality, fear
+of death.
+
+Hence the confusion in the heart of Bakahenzie. To him it appeared that
+the spirits had deserted him entirely; to him it seemed that perhaps these
+white men had indeed the true "magic," the art of controlling the spirits
+to their will. This terror had urged him to the destruction of the white
+man, Moonspirit. Now Zalu Zako had mutinied, and being unaware of the
+powerful impulse from which Zalu Zako had gotten this sudden strength,
+Bakahenzie attributed it to the magic influence of Moonspirit. At any
+cost, he argued, must Zalu Zako and the white man be kept apart.
+
+But other pressing points were how to accomplish the slaughter of the
+white man, and what he should do now after the attempt to kill him had
+failed. Either Moonspirit would flee, which would be most happy proof to
+Bakahenzie that he was an impostor and no magician, or he would seek
+revenge immediately. No other action was conceivable to Bakahenzie.
+Therefore in such a case the obvious act was to strike the quicker. He
+contemplated his colleague without looking at him. What was his attitude?
+Bakahenzie, on general principles, was suspicious. If Marufa thought that
+by supporting the white man he might be able to attain Bakahenzie's
+overthrow and gain the position of chief witch-doctor, he would do it,
+even as he, Bakahenzie, would have done in his place. Therefore upon these
+matters did he talk very guardedly with Marufa, who was unusually
+reticent. However, after communing with himself in sphinx-like gravity,
+Marufa assented to the proposal that Zalu Zako be isolated in the godhood
+immediately.
+
+So the slow rhythmic beat, which was the summons to the craft to assemble,
+throbbed in the clammy air. Before the humid shadows had lengthened a
+hand's breadth, were some twenty wizards, greater and lesser, fully
+dressed in the green feathers of the order, collected within the compound
+of Bakahenzie. Silently and woodenly they squatted in a half circle before
+the chief witch-doctor, each and every one excited by the marvellous
+stories circulated by the warriors returned from the camp of Moonspirit,
+stories which amply corroborated the tales of Mungongo. Those who
+supported Bakahenzie's party believed implicitly, because they wished so
+to do, the "reason" for the impotence of their united magic to be the
+breaking of the magic circle by Bakuma. But others who cherished personal
+ambitions for the head witch-doctorship were suspicious of each other and
+of Bakahenzie, each one according to his grade and consequent knowledge in
+the craft.
+
+When the drum had ceased and they sat in impressive silence, Bakahenzie,
+squatting motionless on the threshold of his hut, began to mutter
+incantations and to rock from side to side. Now every one of the inner
+cult knew well enough that this performance was merely a ceremony
+prescribed by tradition and expediency; yet for that very reason and
+particularly for the benefit of the lesser wizards, they solemnly accepted
+it, grunting in chorus as heartily as the others to the chant of
+Bakahenzie. As suddenly as dramatically, Bakahenzie stopped with eyes
+staring upon another world and fell upon his back, to scream and to writhe
+realistically as practice assured him. Then when the mouth was flecked
+with foam, the spirit of Tarum spake through the rigid body which lay as
+in catalepsy with eyes inverted:
+
+  "Aie! Aie! I am the spirit of Kintu!
+  Aie! Aie! I am he who first was!
+  Aie! Aie! I am the banana from whom I was made!
+  Aie! Aie! The time of the nuptial draweth nigh!
+  Aie! Aie! But where is the bride of my bed?
+  Aie! Aie! Let her be found and prepared!
+  Aie! Aie! For my lips are athirst for her blood!
+  Aie! Aie! Let the son of the Snake be anointed!
+  Aie! Aie! Let him be ready to assist at my feast!
+  Aie! Aie! I have spoken, I, the father of Men!
+  Aie! Aie! I, Tarum, the soul of your ancestors!"
+
+From the assembly came the low belly grunt of acceptance, for they were,
+by suggestion, infected with the induced hysteria almost as much as the
+superb actor himself; they believed; even the members of the inner cult
+were convinced for the moment that indeed the mighty spirit of their
+ancestors was speaking.
+
+Slowly, with many prodigious grunts and twists, did Bakahenzie's soul
+return to his body. He sat up and after a long pause said impressively:
+
+"What hath He said unto you?"
+
+And Marufa, as solemnly, related all that He had said.
+
+"Eh!" said Bakahenzie tonelessly, "it is even as I have prophesied. These
+indeed are the words of wisdom. Is it not so, O my brethren?" Again came
+the low grunt of assent. "Let us obey, that these foul spirits may pass
+and the Unmentionable One return unto his children!"
+
+Then, according to custom, all save those of the inner cult arose and went
+forth silently. In the heart of Yabolo, as he squatted as expressionless
+as the others, was satisfaction, for he saw, or thought he saw, that
+Eyes-in-the-hands would be pleased with the destruction of a man who might
+possibly become his rival; and on that principle imagined himself
+introduced by his relative, Sakamata, to Eyes-in-the-hands as the slayer,
+or initiator of the slaying, of his rival, Moonspirit. That Zalu Zako
+should be anointed King-God suited him as well as the other wizards and
+for the same reason. Therefore Yabolo for once raised no objection to the
+behests of Bakahenzie.
+
+Already from the encampment rose the excited voices of the warriors who
+had been informed of the decision of the assembly of wizards. But the
+shadows were long. The forest was even more thickly peopled with spirits
+than their own park-like country. One of the inner cult of five suggested
+that the attack be made at dawn; but Bakahenzie, still baited by
+uncertainty regarding the reality of the magic of Moonspirit and the
+possible influence of Zalu Zako now that he had apparently developed a
+will of his own before they could shut him up in the godhead, was for
+immediate action, and insisted that they call together the warriors and
+make special magic to protect them from the forest demons. Yabolo, as
+anxious as Bakahenzie, became his ally in urging that this be done. But
+Marufa was not at all of this way of thinking. While the fate of Zalu Zako
+was quite immaterial, his attitude to Moonspirit was much the same as the
+young man's, but prompted by a different motive; a power possible to
+utilize for his benefit. But he said no word, listening indifferently
+apparently to the throbbing of the drums summoning the warriors. When the
+inner circle broke up he stalked solemnly to his own hut, but when he was
+within he took from a gourd a special amulet, slipped through a hole in
+the palisade behind the hut, and disappeared into the forest.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 18
+
+
+Meanwhile the object of Bakahenzie's political perplexities was also
+holding a council of war. Mungongo and Bakuma were divided in opinion. The
+former had recovered his complete confidence in Moonspirit. After the
+repulse of the greatest magician and his warriors he became filled with a
+martial ardour and strongly advocated advancing upon the village
+immediately. Birnier smiled and considered. As a matter of fact the plan
+was not so utterly insane as it appeared. Did he follow up swiftly upon
+the heels of the terror-stricken warriors the probability was that the
+whole camp would be infected by the spirit of panic and bolt. However, he
+could not see any object to be attained by stampeding the village.
+Mungongo, ever eager for a miracle, urged that Moonspirit should take upon
+him the spirit form and descend upon them at night. To his disgust
+Moonspirit refused, so Mungongo retired to the fire and consoled himself
+by another vivid description of the powers of his master--growing every
+day!--to Bakuma, who sat and listened dully with ever an anxious eye and
+ear upon the forest trail.
+
+Bakuma was obsessed by terror inspired by the fact that Bakahenzie had
+discovered her presence; the inherent awe of the witch-doctor which had
+been temporarily allayed by the presence of the white, was revived, as
+well as the inevitability of her doom. Only the strict injunctions of
+Moonspirit prevented her fleeing through the jungle to take refuge in some
+distant goatherd village. She was convinced the wizard would soon find out
+where she had gone; for she was persuaded that Bakahenzie had discovered
+her former hiding place by magic divination, maintaining as proof that
+although she had been as usual completely hidden in the undergrowth,
+Bakahenzie had walked directly to her.
+
+Birnier foresaw that the situation might become serious. Bakahenzie's
+attitude was one of suspicion based, he guessed correctly, on professional
+jealousy. The finding of Bakuma had probably been more of an excuse to
+assail the possible rival and thus to satisfy this subconscious death
+wish. Now, reckoned Birnier, Bakahenzie would probably be more exasperated
+than ever at the triumph of the said rival's magic. He would therefore,
+knowing the strength of the driving force of religious conviction,
+endeavour to play upon the emotions of the tribe by advocation of the
+efficacy of appeasing their fallen god by the sacrifice of the girl, and
+so work them up to an exalted state of fanaticism to attack in force; an
+additional stimulant to such action on their part would be the unconscious
+satisfaction in slaying the "brother" of the one who had invaded their
+country, Eyes-in-the-hands.
+
+Another point was that the more a person is scared the less easy it is for
+him to forgive, hence the greater resistance to the overtures of amity.
+Beyond the partially formed idea to overset zu Pfeiffer's petty
+sovereignty was the strictly professional one of studying from the most
+intimate view-point possible a system of primitive theology of a most
+complex and illuminating kind. The main object to be attained therefore
+was resolved by the best method calculated to win the friendship and
+confidence of all concerned, particularly of Bakahenzie. To Birnier, who
+was not as yet conversant with the system, Bakahenzie seemed of less
+importance than Zalu Zako, the King-God, or potential King-God. Yet
+apparently he could not hope to approach Zalu Zako without overcoming the
+opposition offered by Bakahenzie. To give up little Bakuma to the
+sacrificial orgy was unthinkable; such an act would have appeared to him
+tantamount to sacrificing the girl to attain his own ends.
+
+For precaution he placed two of his men as pickets in the jungle to give
+warning of any surprise, although he did not consider that they would be
+likely to renew the attack that day; then, as usual when in difficulties,
+he retired to his tent for a smoke. As he browsed upon his estimable
+friend Burton, his eyes caught a paragraph upon cures for love melancholy
+recommended by the amiable doctor.
+
+
+
+"Lemnius, imstit. cap 58. admires rue and commends it to have excellent
+virtues, to expel vain imaginations, devils and to {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Other things are much
+magnified by writers, as an old cock, a ram's head, a wolf's heart borne
+or eaten, which Mercurialis approves: Prosper Altinus, the water of the
+Nile; Gomesius, all sea water, and at seasonable times to be sick {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} the
+bone in a stag's heart, a monocerot's horn {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}"
+
+
+
+He glanced up to see Bakuma squatting disconsolately by the fire listening
+to the hundredth repetition of his wonder working according to Mungongo.
+The outline of her rounded back and hunched shoulders, the bronze hands
+clasped beneath the chin and the misty brown eyes apprehensively regarding
+the trail was a sculpture of melancholy. He smiled as he reflected that
+the devils and witches of Chrysostom and Paracelsus were as real to them
+as the forest spirits and the magic of Bakahenzie to this girl. After all
+some of these concoctions sounded as if they should most certainly appeal
+to Bakahenzie and his brethren of the craft. He wandered off into a
+reverie, wondering why it was that superstition is so hard to eradicate
+from the human mind. In Birnier was a strain of humorous melancholy which
+appreciated the comedy of human marionettes made to dance to the legion of
+devils and bugaboos invented by themselves, and as a stimulant to the
+dominant scientific absorption was the knowledge that upon him and his
+fellows depended their only hope of release--which was the greater reason
+that Bakahenzie should slay him, he added whimsically, did he but know it!
+
+Moved by the ever-present curiosity to know what was going on inside other
+people's minds, he called Bakuma and Mungongo to him, observing the
+sprightly action of the boy moved by his faith in him for his good in
+contrast to the dull movements of the girl in her lack of confidence to
+make for her good. And when they were come to him and were seated on the
+ground at his feet he said to Bakuma:
+
+"Wherefore hast thou the black bird within thy breast, O Bakuma?"
+
+She gazed up at him with the pathetic pleading of a gazelle.
+
+"Do not birds seek the broken twigs for the building of nests, O
+Moonspirit?"
+
+"Truly, but why are the branches of thy tree rotted and broken?"
+
+"When the axe of the peasant pecks at the roots of the tree dost thou
+think then that the sap runs the more swiftly, knowing?"
+
+"A devil hast told thee this thing, O Bakuma. When the sun was but a man's
+height did not a jackal break out of the forest seeking to devour, and yet
+the chicken was neither hurt nor taken. Are these not white words?"
+
+"Truly, O Moonspirit," acknowledged Bakuma reluctantly.
+
+"Was not then the magic of Moonspirit more potent than that of thy
+wizards?"
+
+"Thy words are white," she admitted.
+
+"Wherefore then hast thou ashes in thy mouth?"
+
+Bakuma dismally contemplated Birnier's booted leg.
+
+"Eh!" grunted the sophisticated Mungongo, "to those who live on the
+mountain the crocodile is not!"
+
+"Open thy breasts unto me, O Bakuma," said Birnier.
+
+"Clk!" she gasped, making a little gesture of hopelessness. "When the sun
+shines are not the flowers open? But when the night hath come where are
+the flowers? The deer feed on sweet pastures, but when the shadow of the
+lion falleth upon the grass hath not a great cloud come over the world?"
+
+"But thy lion hath fled, O Bakuma!"
+
+She gazed at the white man with curious wonderment at the stupidity of one
+failing to comprehend the simplest problem. She sighed and then as if with
+much patience for another's shortcomings:
+
+"Thou hast strong magic, O white man," said she, "magic that makes the
+magic of Bakahenzie to fall as water. Yet was the daughter of Bakala not
+found by divination? Was the daughter of Bakala not revealed to be the
+bride of the Banana by divination? There shall be made magic that the
+voice of the one shall be obeyed. Eh! Aiee! Aie!"
+
+The brown eyes welled opals which splashed upon a bronze breast. As
+Birnier watched her, pity stimulated a desire to relieve this symbol of
+self-torture, and he thought of a favourite passage in the "Anatomy":
+
+
+
+"Ay, but we are more miserable than others, what shall we do? Beside
+private miseries, we live in perpetual fear and danger; for epithalamiums,
+for pleasant music, that fearful noise of ordnance, drums, and warlike
+trumpets still sounding in our ears; instead of nuptial torches, we have
+the firing of towns and cities; for triumph, lamentations; for joy,
+tears."
+
+
+
+"Well, Bakuma," said he in English, smiling covertly, "we'll see if we
+can't get you the nuptial torches!"
+
+Bakuma gazed at him perplexedly with big eyes.
+
+"Already Moonspirit begins the incantation of mighty magic," explained
+Mungongo solemnly.
+
+"Eh!" murmured Bakuma expectantly.
+
+Birnier smoked and pondered. The walls of the forest were growing closer
+in the beginning of twilight. The soul of fear, reflected Birnier, dwells
+in the unknown. Reveal the god in the machine and the mystery dies. To
+Bakuma he said:
+
+"Listen, O Bakuma, I would speak heavy words to thee. When thou puttest
+the seed of the gourd into the ground then within half a moon there
+appears the plant of the gourd; is it not so?"
+
+"Truly," answered Bakuma disinterestedly.
+
+"Is that then magic?"
+
+"Eh!" commented Bakuma, as in astonishment. "Nay, how could that be? Does
+not the soul of the plant grow even as a child grows?"
+
+"Good. Turn thine eyes to me." Bakuma watched the operation of striking
+and lighting a match with indifference. "Then is this fire which I make
+done by magic?"
+
+"Truly."
+
+"And thou, Mungongo, what thinkest thou?"
+
+"Moonspirit tickles the souls of my feet!"
+
+"H'm." Birnier repressed a smile. "Thou knowest that my words are white?"
+
+"Truly."
+
+"Then I tell thee that this is not done by magic."
+
+"Ehh! Ehh!" chorused the twain.
+
+"This thing on the end of this thing which you call a magic fire twig is
+made of--of--is made of several kinds of--of earth found in the--earth, and
+when--and when----" He sought frantically for native words which were not,
+"the two are brought together--as one strikes a spear----" Birnier hesitated,
+finding himself as perplexed as a psychologist endeavouring to explain the
+abstract working of consciousness in concrete words. "When one strikes a
+spear upon a rock there is an eye of fire, is it not so?"
+
+Mungongo's eyes dimly reflected a growing horror. Bakuma stared.
+
+"The magic of Bakahenzie," murmured Mungongo.
+
+"Already is his soul bewitched," muttered Bakuma.
+
+"Is it not so?" persisted Birnier.
+
+"Aye," admitted Mungongo, moving uneasily and speaking as if humouring a
+dangerous lunatic. "It is the eye of the angry spirit of the rock."
+
+Birnier saw his danger and made another effort.
+
+"Even so. Also thou knowest that thou canst make fire by the rubbing
+together of two sticks. Is that then magic also?"
+
+"Truly," continued Mungongo in the same tone. "Can the spirits of the
+souls of the twigs be summoned without the incantations by the Keeper of
+Fires?"
+
+"O my God!" groaned Birnier, sotto voce, and he abandoned the effort to
+explain combustion. "Thus is it then with these that ye call the magic
+fire twigs."
+
+"Even as we have said," asserted Mungongo triumphantly.
+
+Birnier lapsed into silent defeat. Bakuma began to edge away. As Mungongo
+rose came a stifled scream from Bakuma who sprang to her feet and dashed
+towards the tent; then as if recollecting that her saviour had been
+bewitched by Bakahenzie, fled into the gloom beyond. Mungongo had seized a
+spear stuck in the earth near to him. As appeared the wizened figure of
+Marufa, who saluted as he squatted in the native manner, Birnier
+recollected that he had been with Bakahenzie and wondered what he wanted.
+Mungongo replaced his spear and came to the tent.
+
+"Greeting, O son of MTungo!"
+
+Marufa mumbled the orthodox return.
+
+"Thou hast need of Moonspirit?" demanded Mungongo, some of his officious
+confidence in Birnier returning.
+
+"Doth the leopard go to the goat pen to seek nuts?" grumbled the old man.
+He tapped out snuff slowly and grunted.
+
+Presently said Marufa:
+
+"Moonspirit is the brother of Eyes-in-the-hands?"
+
+"Nay," answered Birnier, wondering at the persistency of this idea.
+"Eyes-in-the-hands is of another tribe ten moons distant from Moonspirit."
+
+Marufa grunted. Another long pause. Then:
+
+"The magic of Moonspirit hath blunted the spears of Bakahenzie?"
+
+"Even so," said Birnier modestly.
+
+"The son of Maliko maketh much magic that the bride of the Banana be taken
+from the white stranger."
+
+"The monkey makes many faces and much noise, but does he eat up the
+leopard?"
+
+"The bite of the spear is more deadly than the bleat of a goat," retorted
+Marufa.
+
+"Doth the wise man eat the heart of a goat to gain courage?"
+
+"The louder the lion roars the less teeth has he!"
+
+"But only the fool opens his mouth to see how many he has!"
+
+"The wise father examines the grain of the tusks before he sells his
+daughter."
+
+"But the wise man sees the daughter before he offers the tusks!"
+
+"Ugm!"
+
+Marufa took more snuff and contemplated the interior of the tent where a
+native was lighting a lamp. Birnier reflected. Evidently Marufa had come
+with an object and had inferred that he had something to bargain about.
+What was it? Also he wanted to be sure that he was setting his trap at the
+right pool. Birnier decided that he was probably acting on his own
+initiative and willing to conspire against Bakahenzie. An impulse to
+experiment upon him as he had upon Mungongo and Bakuma was repressed, for
+from the previous effort he had cemented the conclusion that it was
+impossible to explain rational phenomena to irrational minds; that as ever
+the adventurous champion of reason would be either regarded as insane or
+inspired; that which is not comprehended is divine or ridiculous. However,
+through Marufa might come a suggestion for the tactics of campaign to gain
+the good-will of Bakahenzie or Zalu Zako and the attainment of his
+scientific object--as well as to give Bakuma the torches he had promised
+her. Whether I will or no, he reflected smiling in the dark, must I be
+either a magician or a fool. Fools get nowhere; witch-doctors do here as
+elsewhere. He saw that in order to influence these peoples or any others,
+he had perforce to work in terms of their own understanding, as the early
+Christian missionaries practised in their conversion of the Teutons, the
+Scandinavians and the Britons. A nucleus of a plan had been given by
+Mungongo's impetuous suggestion. He decided to develop it. But through
+Marufa, who first of all must be impressed with the fact that Moonspirit
+was the greatest magician the world had ever seen. So therefore he called
+to the native within: "O Bakombi, put out the light." And to Marufa: "O
+wise man, thunder has not always lightning. Behold! I am part of that
+which is and is not!"
+
+"Clk!"
+
+A click of astonishment was squeezed from Marufa by the chance mystic
+phrase which was interpreted by him as referring to the Unmentionable One.
+
+Then taking out his metal box of vestas Birnier moistened one. As he
+rubbed around his eyes Marufa, who was expecting a miracle, observed the
+growing phosphorescence in stoical calm, while Mungongo, delighted at the
+long deferred proof of his boasts, grunted admiringly.
+
+But when a glowing skeleton hand, which Birnier had prepared behind his
+back, hovered over the old wizard's head, he grunted and made a slight
+convulsive movement.
+
+"Have no fear, O my friend," came Birnier's voice, "the spirit loves my
+friends and destroys my enemies."
+
+That belly grunt had registered the degree of impression that Birnier
+sought. So he lighted the lamp, bade the excited Mungongo to bring out the
+phonograph, a machine adjusted with the recording cylinders as well as the
+reproduction, and after a successful demonstration of magic, discussed
+with Marufa a certain scheme to which the old wizard, quick to see the
+possibilities, afforded many invaluable suggestions.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 19
+
+
+When Zalu Zako was notified of the verdict of the Council and the words of
+Tarum the sense of the inevitable returned, extinguishing the spark of
+rebellion that had been kindled by his passion for Bakuma. To Bakahenzie,
+or to the wizards separately, or collectively, he had had the strength to
+voice his own desires, but to the veritable voice of Tarum was no
+resistance dared. He was bidden to preside by right and precedent at the
+anointing of the warriors. He did not make any feint at refusal, for his
+will was crushed, as it had been weeks before by the doom of godhood and
+celibacy.
+
+Beyond the fact that Bakuma would soon be forbidden to him for ever, he
+did not think; desire was strangled. Even the recollection that Bakahenzie
+had stated that Moonspirit had taken her gave him no reaction. To him as
+to his brethren, while in physical love is bound up the control of the
+universe, because it is vaguely apprehended as a creative force, it is of
+no importance to the individual lover unless he be guilty of breaking the
+sexual tabu: if the girl is not a consenting party to the illicit union
+then she is free; if she is, then it is death to both of them, for as
+every one knows, such criminal action endangers the balance of the burden
+of the world upon the shoulders of the King-God. Thus it was that the
+words of Bakahenzie had produced no reaction against Moonspirit in the
+mind of Zalu Zako; indeed, if the words were true and he could yet obtain
+Bakuma, she might have a son by the white which would obviously bring the
+marvellous power of white magic to his successor, the next King-God; and
+possibly, had mused Zalu Zako, dimly straining at such a radical thought
+against the influence of the priesthood, make the king more powerful a
+magician than the witch-doctors themselves.
+
+But he obeyed the mandate and took his place as bidden. Bakahenzie had
+caused preparation to be begun immediately for the ceremony of making
+enchantment against the spirits of the night. In the circle of cleared
+ground, where sat the temporary Council of Elders, big fires were lighted
+as the dark wall of the forest drew in upon them. Bakahenzie squatted
+before a big calabash, specially reserved and enchanted for the making of
+magic, in which a mess of certain herbs whose spirits were violent haters
+of the demons of all trees, rocks and streams, were to be released from
+the vegetable bondage by stewing that they might be distributed among the
+warriors for the night assault. These warriors, some fifty chosen from the
+followers of Bakahenzie and Marufa, sat on their hams within the circle of
+fires, uneasily casting glances behind them at the deepening sepia, from
+whence arose the nocturnal chant of the spirits of the forest. In order to
+insure no interference from malign animals, Bakahenzie caused to be
+brought a pure white goat whose throat was cut and bled into the cauldron;
+for as any one knows, that soul which is white must necessarily fight well
+against anything that be black. Yet in spite of this potent magic the
+warriors grew unquiet; they felt, rather than thought, that if the magic
+of their witch-doctors had failed against one white why should it succeed
+against another like unto him? And their faith thus weakened, doubts
+regarding the efficacy of the same magic against spirits of the forest
+bred as mosquitoes after rain.
+
+Bakahenzie remarked the uneasiness, but the stronger grew his need to
+restore the waning confidence in his powers by removing the white; the
+blood desire had now been transferred from Bakuma to Moonspirit as the
+most effective demonstration possible to him.
+
+The fires smouldered and flickered yellow tongues upon the greens of the
+warriors' bodies and the blues of the wizards' head-dresses. Faint blue
+vapour swirled around the scarlet feather above Bakahenzie's graven face
+as he muttered incantations and stirred the cauldron. Then as the drums
+throbbed and the warriors grunted rhythmically to Bakahenzie's song of
+enchantment came a squawk as of a parrot. The chant ceased. Branches
+rustled. Every head quirked automatically towards the sound. Came a low
+belly grunt of terror as if an invisible hand had punched them in their
+solar plexus.
+
+Just in the shadow line where the glow of the fires faintly tinted and
+greened the curves of his bronze body against the sepia of his feathers,
+appeared the figure of Marufa, his spear lifted on high as he cried out in
+a loud voice:
+
+"Greetings, O people of the Banana, I bring you tidings of him who is and
+is not, of him who was lost and yet is come. 'Behold, I show you a sign!'"
+
+Against the gloom his left arm and hand glowed with a strange light. An
+unanimous "Ehh!" rose from the assembled warriors and wizards alike.
+
+"Raise your ears!" continued Marufa, "that the Voice may speak unto you!"
+
+In the silence came a subdued click and commenced a high-pitched voice in
+the dialect:
+
+  "Aie! Aie! I am the spirit of Kintu!
+  Aie! Aie! I am he who first was!
+  Aie! Aie! I am the Banana from whom I was made!"
+
+Whites of eyes glimmered like butterflies in starlight. Nothing was
+visible. The voice appeared to rise from every direction. The new miracle
+petrified the limbs of all.
+
+  "Aie! Aie! My soul is defiled and my children enslaved!
+  Aie! Aie! My face hath been scratched by an alien claw!
+  Aie! Aie! I send you the revenge which is white!
+  Aie! Aie! I send you the One who is bidden!
+  Aie! Aie! Let that One arise who is I!
+  Aie! Aie! The mighty One who will blot out the curse!
+  Aie! Aie! I have spoken, I, the Father of Men!
+  Aie! Aie! I, Tarum; the soul of your Ancestors!"
+
+A faint whirr as of wings was drowned in the automatic grunt of acceptance
+squeezed from all the warriors and the wizards by the sacred chant, except
+those of the inner circle. In dread sat the warriors of the terrible magic
+of their doctors which they had once doubted. But the minds of Bakahenzie,
+Yabolo, and the other two master craftsmen were stunned. The phenomenon of
+the glowing hand had they never seen before, but they recollected the
+stones of Mungongo. Even was Sakamata, sophisticated to the wonders of
+Eyes-in-the-hands, impressed and bewildered. Dormant awe for the
+Unmentionable One was awakened in every one of them. Zalu Zako felt that
+his doom was upon him; that the Unmentionable One was about to call him to
+his duty, which invoked fear for the sacrilege he had committed in
+entertaining such radical thoughts in the immediate past. But in
+Bakahenzie was a streak of suspicion; how was it that Marufa was thus
+chosen as the divine messenger? Yet perhaps the veritable god was, or gods
+were, speaking! Doubt held him silent.
+
+"O my brethren, would ye that we seek the voice of the Unmentionable One?"
+cried Marufa.
+
+"Ough! Ough!" grunted the wizards.
+
+Marufa stalked slowly to the nearest fire, muttering a spell. From his
+loin cloth he took the three digital bones of an enemy and proceeded to
+discover the whereabouts by geomancy. And behold! the fingers pointed in
+one direction which all could see. Oblivious to the tight indifference of
+Bakahenzie the old man rose and began to gyrate, mumbling incantations,
+towards a thicket of grass on the fringe of the undergrowth, holding aloft
+the magic bones in the glowing hand. Anxiously the assembly watched the
+skinny figure, half bent, glide out from the glow of the fires into the
+blue shadows. A small log collapsed, throwing a red gleam upon the form
+poised upright before the clump of grass as Marufa cried out:
+
+"Let him who-may-not-be-mentioned speak that his children may hear!"
+
+Immediately commenced a high voice chanting:
+
+"Take up, O Marufa, the wise, the pod of my soul!"
+
+Then in the sight of every man Marufa bent upon his knees, muttering, and
+arose unharmed. Save for the slow turn of each head the better to follow
+the progress of the magician no limb nor muscle moved as in silence Marufa
+bore the like of which had never before been seen; a thing like unto a
+stone, having an ear almost as large and as erect as an angry elephant,
+the colour of a lion yet hairless. "The pod of the soul" Marufa placed
+within the circle of the fires so that all should see. More incantations
+did Marufa make, sitting fearlessly; he caressed it as a young man
+caresses a maid and came forth again the voice of Tarum:
+
+  "Rejoice, O my children, for he that is bidden shall come!
+  Rejoice, O ye warriors, for he that shall lead you shall come!
+  Rejoice, O ye wizards, for he that is greater than ye shall come!
+  Rejoice, O ye women, for he that fertilizes shall come!
+  He shall eat up your enemies as a lion eateth buck.
+  He shall make your dead to be seen and your phantoms to talk!
+  He shall give to your women to have sons of your breed!
+  He shall give you that which was slain on the hill!
+  He that walks in a flame in the night!
+  He that is whiter than the flesh of the baobab!
+  He shall come forth bearing that which ye seek!
+  He shall come forth bearing that which is yours!
+  Hear me, my people, and give voice to my word!"
+
+"Ough! Ough!" came the chorus of assent.
+
+Not a limb nor a hand moved among the concourse of warriors and wizards
+until a new voice, deep, as one who commands, cried out:
+
+"Let the son of Kawa Kendi, the son of MFunya MPopo, the son of MKoffo,
+move not; neither he nor Marufa, the son of MTungo! Unto ye others we say
+unto you, depart that we speak in peace with this our son and priest!"
+
+And simultaneously appeared in the gloom of the undergrowth three pairs of
+eyes as luminous as the glowworm, vaster than any human; and beside the
+souls of the dead King-Gods were terrible hands. Warriors and wizards, all
+save Bakahenzie and Zalu Zako, literally leaped for the forest and village
+in one convulsive bound and grunt. Zalu Zako had remained upon the ground,
+green with terror. Bakahenzie stood upright, his scarlet feather
+fluorescent in the fire-glow. The anthem of the forest was only broken by
+the rustle of branches and the breathing of Zalu Zako and Bakahenzie. A
+harsh voice cried:
+
+"Begone, Bakahenzie, son of a dog! Lest we take thy soul to be with us!"
+
+The eyes appeared to float nearer; hands pointed menacingly. Bakahenzie
+boggled; hesitated; then the dignity of his pose melted into the graceful
+bounds of a fleeing leopard. Even for the professional ghost manipulator,
+such a phenomenon of the spirits, with whom he was supposed to be on
+familiar terms, was demoralizing. But half-way through a thicket of
+undergrowth, where he could no longer see the horrific eyes, his courage
+began to return.
+
+To his ears came a new voice chanting:
+
+  "Sweeter than warm honey is the scent of my man!
+  Fiercer than scorpions is the grip of his hand!
+  Whiter than a spear flash is the gleam of his teeth!
+  Smoother than river stone is the feel of his chest!
+                 Bakuma rejoices!"
+
+Peering through the interstices Bakahenzie could see the gleam of the fire
+upon the bangles of the Son-of-the-Snake and the blue flash upon his spear
+as he melted into the forest wall.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 20
+
+
+The actual sight of spirits from ghostland, of which hitherto they had
+only heard, had been too much for the nerves of the tribe already
+overstrung by the overthrow of the idol and the magic and slaughter of zu
+Pfeiffer; the warriors had fled like scared poultry to the jungle, up
+trees, in the undergrowth and in their huts, where they cowered among
+their women and slaves, reading awful omens and portents in every sound of
+the forest.
+
+The phenomenon had been just as startling and awe-inspiring to Bakahenzie
+as it had been to his most ignorant dupe. His belief in ghostland was
+implicit, but now he had seen what, professionally, he was supposed to see
+and converse with on familiar terms. As Zalu Zako disappeared he continued
+to listen intently. Above the slight rustle of the bushes as the
+Son-of-the-Snake moved through the undergrowth rose a feminine laugh.
+Bakahenzie's liver was squeezed by that sardonic chuckle; for, as is well
+known, female demons are much more malignant than the male. For the space
+of a chant he remained crouching there, curiosity and the dread of
+revealing his terror to his fellows tugging at his feet and fear of the
+demons clutching him around the waist. Save the anthem of the forest no
+further sound of the ghosts was audible.
+
+Cautiously rose Bakahenzie, wriggled out of his nest and with as much
+dignity as maybe, strode back to the fire. From the village came a slight
+whimpering. With satisfaction Bakahenzie noted that no one else was in
+sight. For another space he sat with unquiet eyes and ears upon the
+forest. Then gathering courage as nothing happened, he pondered upon what
+attitude he should assume.
+
+Yabolo stalked from round a hut and squatting calmly beside Bakahenzie,
+nonchalantly proceeded to tap out snuff and offered some to Bakahenzie,
+who grunted acceptance and sniffed with even greater indifference.
+Motionless they continued to sit and silently. Bakahenzie wondered whether
+Yabolo knew that he, too, had fled, and Yabolo, who did know, waited for
+the first move on Bakahenzie's part to retort.
+
+Yabolo, indeed, who had been as panic-stricken as Bakahenzie, was more
+suspicious in view of the accounts he had heard of the magic of
+Eyes-in-the-hands. Who knew but this vision might not be another
+manifestation of Eyes-in-the-hands? And more slowly a similar idea began
+to occur to Bakahenzie, save that he had in mind the incident of
+Moonspirit's magic in the face of his bravest warriors. The calmer he
+became the more was he inclined to accept this explanation of the
+apparitions; such was infinitely more comforting to him than the
+conception that they had been in truth spirits from ghostland. As the
+doubt grew the wisdom of propitiating this powerful Moonspirit became
+apparent; yet was present the dread of loosing what remained of his
+autocratic power. The problem now was to enlist the white and discover
+some means of controlling him and his magic.
+
+But to both men the vital question was, what had become of Zalu Zako?
+There were two alternatives: if the visions had been genuine ghosts, then
+undoubtedly Zalu Zako was dead; but if they had been produced through the
+magic of a white man, then, Bakahenzie argued, Zalu Zako and Marufa must
+be in league with Moonspirit, and Yabolo opined that Zalu Zako had been
+captured by Eyes-in-the-hands. To the latter the effect was to strengthen
+the determination to go over to Eyes-in-the-hands. If the first
+possibility was correct the greater need had he of strong magic if real
+ghosts were taking to walking abroad visibly, and the other case merely
+proved beyond question the invincible magic of Eyes-in-the-hands. But to
+Bakahenzie the reaction was slightly different, for his elemental reason
+took him a little farther than Yabolo by pointing out that in all his wide
+experience never had spirits taken demons' shape, so that the suspicion
+that they had been due to Moonspirit became more plausible, and was
+supported by the recollection of Marufa's unexplained absence and sudden
+reappearance on familiar terms with the spirits.
+
+The longer he pondered on the strange actions of Marufa the more he was
+persuaded that that wily colleague was acting upon sound information, and
+the tangle of his affairs made him so desperate that he decided to gamble
+upon that assumption: for magician Bakahenzie began to realize that Marufa
+had somehow scored a point and that now was approaching the crux which
+would determine whether he won back or lost for ever that which was the
+essence of life to him.
+
+Meanwhile the two puzzled plotters sat motionless and silent as if
+mutually agreeing that no question regarding each other's late movements
+had better be asked.
+
+Accordingly to the depth of his superstition returned each witch-doctor.
+When they were come, without one word of explanation, Bakahenzie lifted
+his voice in a high falsetto, bidding the lay warriors to return to hear
+the voice of the elders. Reassured by this command which carried far on
+the still air, they began to emerge from hut and undergrowth. The first to
+arrive was MYalu, angry to find the whole assembly of wizards apparently
+sitting as if they had never moved, engaged in mystic incantations. MYalu
+had not fled far and from his cranny had seen the flight of Bakahenzie and
+the departure of Zalu Zako, but he dared not betray the doctors. He
+squatted sullenly and waited while the remainder of the warriors, of whom
+many had also seen the general stampede, filed to their places.
+
+When all were assembled Bakahenzie looked up from his spell and bade them
+to listen to what message the faculty--for obvious policy's sake he
+included the whole of the ghosts--had received from ghostland by the three
+spirits, emphasising the vision of the magicians as proof positive of the
+terrible power of the craft. By reason of the sin committed by one who had
+broken the magic circle, as they all knew, said Bakahenzie, had this wrath
+of the Unmentionable One come upon them, permitting the incarnation of a
+demon, Eyes-in-the-hands, to work his will upon them and to make them
+slaves, as were their dogs the Wamungo; and so in the depth of their
+tribulation he, Bakahenzie, whose magic had been rendered impotent by the
+betrayal of the Bride of the Banana, had invoked the spirits of the three,
+as they all had witnessed.
+
+"Ough! Ough!" grunted the warriors in assent, although many of them were
+sorely puzzled to know why the doctors themselves had fled. Yabolo began
+to grow restless in his mind. To allow Bakahenzie to steal all the thunder
+and condemn the possible source of political power to the level of an evil
+demon was contrary to his policy, but he gave no physical sign save to
+become engrossed in his snuff box.
+
+Then Bakahenzie continued with a long harangue maintaining the necessity
+of the consummation of the Marriage of the Banana and announced that Zalu
+Zako had been taken by the spirit of his forefathers in order to prepare
+magic for the eating up of the terrible Eyes-in-the-hands; that as the
+voice of Tarum had said, Zalu Zako would return with "That which was slain
+on the hill--that which ye seek, that which is yours." Although Bakahenzie
+was not sure to what these words had referred, yet he was sagacious enough
+to know that if Marufa had engineered that scene, then there must be some
+plan at the back of it, and in any case knew, as any white medicine man,
+that words in mystic phrasing are always soul-satisfying to the credulous
+who interpret them in terms of their subconscious desires. Then with
+political prudence he avoided any reference to uncomfortable topics, by
+dismissing the assembly before any pertinent questions could be asked.
+
+But when Bakahenzie had retired to his hut, presumably for the night, as
+Marufa had done before him, he girded himself with an amulet containing
+the gall of an enemy killed in battle and a short stabbing spear and
+sallied forth through a hole in the fence to brave the spirits of the
+forests in his need.
+
+In the village generally sleep was not entertained with enthusiasm by any
+save those women and slaves who knew not of the great happenings. In the
+hut of Yabolo were MYalu and Sakamata. From the old men MYalu received
+much consolation and advice, but no information as to why the wizards had
+bolted as fast as the laymen from ghosts invoked by their own magic.
+Sakamata confirmed authoritatively Yabolo's suspicion that the phenomena
+had been produced through the magic of Eyes-in-the-hands, urging that they
+lose no time in going to him to make submission. Yabolo had already
+decided on that course, but MYalu refused to give a definite decision as
+to when he would go. He sat sullenly, saying no word, and eventually
+departed to his own hut where he dismissed his wives and continued to
+brood.
+
+The fear and rage aroused by the anointing of the warriors for the capture
+of Bakuma had been dissipated by the general panic produced by the ghosts.
+Afterwards MYalu had unconsciously hoped, because he so desired it, that
+the pursuit of the Bride would be abandoned; hence Bakahenzie's renewal of
+the chase had angered and frightened him anew. As all the rest of them, he
+wondered and pondered upon the fate of Zalu Zako and Marufa. Marufa, as he
+well knew, had a black heart and two tongues; therefore was he suspicious
+of any manifestation with which the son of MTungo could be connected. Zalu
+Zako was wealthy; perhaps he had bribed Marufa to make magic in order to
+enable him to escape the doom of the king-godship and to flee to another
+country with Bakuma under the protection of Moonspirit. A lover's jealousy
+is as powerful a driving force as ambition. In this case it drove even
+MYalu to defy the spirits of the night, for at the hour of the monkey he
+too stole away into the gloom.
+
+So it was that as the patterned roof of the forest was etched in the timid
+green of dawn peeped MYalu through the gate of the zareba of Moonspirit to
+discover the gaunt form of Bakahenzie squatted by the embers of a fire
+within a deserted compound. Bakahenzie's quick eyes, on the alert for
+ghosts or any moving thing, saw him; so coldly MYalu advanced and sat
+beside him, grunting the formal greeting.
+
+MYalu noted the age of the spoor about the compound, the tent peg holes
+newly pulled. Now was he sure that Marufa and Zalu Zako were in league
+with Moonspirit. Wrath smouldered in his broad chest. At length spoke
+Bakahenzie casually:
+
+"The Bride of the Banana hath been taken away." Bakahenzie paused as if
+weighing his words, and added: "But the feet of spirits are heavy on the
+land." MYalu grunted. Bakahenzie had an idea and to MYalu was born another
+about the same instant. Said Bakahenzie, who wished to know the
+whereabouts of Marufa, Moonspirit and company: "If the Marriage of the
+Bride be not consummated then will the power of Eyes-in-the-hands
+prevail." And after a long pause: "Who will seek the Bride?"
+
+MYalu remained silent, revolving his own notion in his mind. There
+remained with him still many traces of the awe and belief in the power and
+knowledge of Bakahenzie, and so his words threatening the triumph of
+Eyes-in-the-hands assured and strengthened his purpose; for he thought
+that if he could accomplish his plan then would Eyes-in-the-hands surely
+triumph as Bakahenzie predicted. Thus it was that he said:
+
+"O master of Wisdom, give unto me a mighty charm against the evil eye of
+traitors and will I and those that follow me seek the Bride and bring her
+so that which is bidden may be, that the children of the Banana may
+triumph."
+
+MYalu rose. The two started on the return to the village. On the road
+Bakahenzie sought to flatter MYalu by pretending to take him into his
+confidence, adjuring him to secrecy and informing him that he would cause
+it to be known that MYalu, the son of MBusa, would bring back the Bride of
+the Banana. MYalu assented gravely. Just before reaching the village his
+keen eyes noticed a slight trail from the regular path. Broken, twisted
+and crushed leaves and strained branches indicated the recent passage of
+two or three people through the undergrowth.
+
+With difficulty, for the Wongolo are not forest people, he followed the
+spoor in a semi-circle towards the village and a footprint in the slime
+revealed the track of Zalu Zako or Marufa coming from the fires. MYalu
+grunted, but he said nothing to Bakahenzie or anybody else. That the
+vision had been caused by Moonspirit's magic he had now no doubt, and his
+estimation of Moonspirit's power increased to the point of terror; yet the
+smouldering jealousy and desire for Bakuma drove him dreadfully on.
+
+Before the sun was two spans high MYalu left the village with some two
+hundred of his followers anointed against magic and spirits. The track
+from Moonspirit's camp was like an elephant's path. Through the steamy
+heat they followed all day until they came out upon a river near to a
+village upon the border of the forest. The headman of the village was away
+with his chief; but women, children and slaves remained. Zalu Zako, in the
+company of a white man called Moonspirit, Marufa, the wizard, and a girl
+had arrived, had taken three canoes and had left up-stream within a hand's
+breadth of a shadow. MYalu took all the canoes available and started in
+pursuit, leaving the rest of his men to follow as soon as they had
+procured other canoes from the nearest village.
+
+The river was small but deep and flowed swiftly between the vast curtains
+of the overhanging trees. When the dungeon of the forest was glooming to
+night they saw the gleam of a fire. Swiftly and silently they landed,
+surrounded the camp and uttering the war yell, rushed.
+
+But Moonspirit, Zalu Zako or Marufa they found not--only Bakuma with some
+dozen Wamungo carriers. Even the dismal squawk of a Baroto bird could not
+damp the relief and joy of MYalu. Next morning he despatched a secret
+messenger to Yabolo, making a rendezvous at a certain village and with a
+weeping Bakuma in his train set out to seek the rest of his fortune at the
+camp of Eyes-in-the-hands.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 21
+
+
+In the village of Bakahenzie was discontent.
+
+The desertion of Sakamata, Yabolo, and three chiefs, had corroborated his
+suspicions of the unfrocked priest. That Sakamata had been preaching open
+sedition he had known, yet Bakahenzie was in the situation of many a
+president or prime minister; he had feared to put his own position in
+jeopardy by having the offender removed expeditiously. This treachery,
+which synchronised with the time when MYalu should have either returned or
+sent a messenger, implied another grave error. All the information he
+could gather was that MYalu had returned through the village by the river
+with the girl Bakuma, some prisoners and some of the white man's
+equipment, on his way to the north-east; but no one apparently had seen
+Zalu Zako, Marufa nor the white man.
+
+Bakahenzie was at a loss to discover a plausible theory to account for
+MYalu having kidnapped Bakuma, who could not be of any political
+importance to him in going over to Eyes-in-the-hands, but would rather
+prejudice him seriously with the rest of the tribe for the sin of
+sacrilege in taking the Bride of the Banana. Shrewd judge of his
+compatriots though he was, the possibility of a love motive never occurred
+to Bakahenzie. A dominating passion in an individual for any particular
+female was rare in the native world; attractive wives or concubines were
+chosen and bought as one buys a goat or an ox. Bakuma, in her capacity as
+a sacrificial victim, was to him merely a good-looking girl, well selected
+by Marufa for the orgy of the Harvest Festival.
+
+Bakahenzie was distraught. He feared that he had not the authority to
+prevent further desertions; he did not know how far Sakamata's propaganda
+had permeated; he could not guess what Zalu Zako, Marufa and the white man
+were going to do. As many a wise statesman before and after him he adopted
+a policy of "wait and see." To provide an exciting distraction to keep his
+constituents amused and from thinking too much, he borrowed another
+political tactic of abusing some one vigorously. He called a meeting of
+the faculty and the warriors. There he solemnly denounced MYalu as a
+traitor and accused him of the crime of having abducted the Bride of the
+Banana, and consequently as the cause of the continuance of the
+misfortunes of the tribe.
+
+The move was successful, inasmuch that it afforded discussion and absorbed
+wrath for two whole days. Various chiefs proposed as many plans. But none
+was taken. Everybody was discontented and quarrelsome, as fearful of
+Eyes-in-the-hands as he was of his tribal god; many were impressed by the
+propaganda of Sakamata and Yabolo and the impunity with which Yabolo and
+Sakamata and company had quietly gone over to the enemy. Meanwhile
+Bakahenzie squatted in oracular silence, murmuring incantations that were
+prayers to the Unmentionable One interlarded with promises of the things
+he would accomplish for the said Deity, with solemnity and sincerity, for
+he felt that the result of Marufa's intrigue with the magician Moonspirit
+would mature very shortly. What that would be he had no notion; only he
+strained every nerve to be alert when the crisis came to snatch from
+Marufa the advantage that wily old man had gained.
+
+On the third day two more chiefs followed in the wake of Yabolo.
+Bakahenzie made no comment, but he realised that before long, unless the
+unknown happened, he would be unable to retain any of his followers;
+realised that his one chance lay in procrastination. In his despair he
+began to contemplate an alliance with Marufa, even if he had to take a
+subordinate r�le--which would at any rate give him his only ally, time, to
+help checkmate his colleague.
+
+On the next day yet another chief and his men departed. Bakahenzie knew
+that they were like a herd of goats and that to stop the stampede he must
+adopt desperate measures. To quell the restlessness which murmured
+ominously throughout the camp he called another meeting as soon as the
+news had come of the last desertion. While the drum tapped out the summons
+Bakahenzie sat muttering his most impressive spells alone, endeavouring to
+discover a plausible excuse for some sort of excitement to distract the
+public mind.
+
+Slowly and sulkily the remainder of the brethren of the craft and those
+lay chiefs that were left, assembled within the circle of fires. Squatted
+in the prescribed order they eyed the figure of Bakahenzie in his red and
+green feathers mumbling incantations with doubt and disfavour. Indeed
+Bakahenzie seemed to them the symbol of the fallen god and a past r�gime;
+impotent and as mistaken as they were. In each and every one of them were
+suspicions and fears growing like weeds in tropic rain that he had made an
+error in not propitiating the new god in time, an impulse which required
+but a few hours' growth to propel them out to the north-east after
+Sakamata and the others.
+
+As they watched in silence Bakahenzie was aware of the state of their
+minds towards him and grew the more perplexed in his search for an
+entertainment sufficiently stimulating to postpone the effects of their
+discontent. Sapiently he decided that any more messages from Tarum would
+be unwise in the present atmosphere. An idea of a revelation by divination
+to appoint a substitute for Bakuma as the Bride of the Banana and thus
+thrust forward a reason for a feast, as there was now no Yabolo to object,
+was abandoned because such an orgy was exclusive to the craft and would
+serve to exasperate the lay chiefs.
+
+His resource suggested a method. Suddenly he uttered a piercing yell and
+fell sideways as in the manner of one about to receive a communication
+from Tarum; but instead of the habitual seizure and cries and groans he
+lay rigid and silent. The divergence from the usual distracted the doubts
+of the audience.
+
+The fires flickered and danced to the insectile anthem as for twenty
+minutes or more he lay there as one dead. But at the first flutter of
+inattention among the doctors he sat up with closed eyes and called out in
+a loud voice:
+
+"That which is and must be, shall be!"
+
+Intuitively he had followed the precept of witch-doctors the world over of
+saying nothing at all in such a way that as many interpretations may be
+deduced as there are listeners. Each and every doctor and chief
+accordingly saw in these mystic words, as Marufa had done in the chance
+phrase of Moonspirit, that which he was most urged to do. Bakahenzie had
+accomplished his temporary object. Once more he cried out:
+
+"Let the children of the Banana be as the wild-cat at the fishpool that
+that which I have prophesied may come to pass!"
+
+The charging of the air with the familiar suggestion of magical doings
+gripped the audience and forced from them the conventional grunt of
+assent. Bakahenzie began again to mutter incantations. He had, he knew,
+averted the immediate danger for at least another sun, or perhaps two. Now
+was there only to wait and see. But Bakahenzie, as all great men, had the
+distinct vein of luck that follows the bold. Even as they squatted there,
+thoroughly worked up for the reception of a miracle, came a rustle among
+the leaves. Every head turned as one to see once more the mystic gleam of
+eyes in the gloom as the voice of Marufa cried:
+
+"Let there be a new fire!"
+
+From the cavern of the undergrowth emerged a white man bearing upon his
+shoulders a burden which, as he staggered into the gleam of the fires, was
+seen to be in form and in shape that of the burned idol. Then did
+Bakahenzie leap to his feet and in one stroke recover his lead and fetter
+his most dangerous enemy by proclaiming in a loud voice:
+
+"Behold! The bearer of the Burden of the World even as Bakahenzie hath
+prophesied!"
+
+And as Birnier set down the idol, from warrior and wizard, with the chief
+witch-doctor's declaration, "That which is and must be, shall be," echoing
+in their ears, came the deep grunt of acceptance of the new King-God of
+the lost Usakuma, the Incarnation of the Unmentionable One.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 22
+
+
+In the humid heat of the forenoon the small hills of Fort Eitel, as zu
+Pfeiffer had renamed the Place of Kings, in the centre of the rased banana
+plantations, resembled scabby pimples upon a shaven patch of a green head
+seething with a verminous activity.
+
+Across the ford of the river came a puckered-faced Bakuma in the train of
+carriers and slaves of MYalu, who with Yabolo was coming to make obeisance
+to Eyes-in-the-hands, under the protection of Sakamata. To Bakuma there
+was no joy in the prospect of the sight of her old home; the bitter taste
+of the oleander was in her mouth as she trudged despondently with downcast
+head.
+
+But the breast of MYalu was filled with the song of the cricket. The
+terrors that had haunted him throughout the journey, of being overtaken by
+the magic of Bakahenzie or his emissaries, for the sacrilege of stealing
+the Bride of the Banana, began to evaporate at the approach to his village
+where now dwelt a new god more powerful than any, from whom he was about
+to gain protection, honours, and incidentally the ivory, which his anxious
+eyes pictured still within his hut. But when they broke from the outer
+banana plantation a mighty grunt was punched from the chests of Yabolo and
+MYalu at the vision of the half-completed street of large huts in the
+midst of desolation.
+
+"Eh!" quoth Sakamata, "is not the way of the mighty one more wonderful
+than he who is gone? Behold, he maketh a city like unto that of his
+people, a city of gods!"
+
+But MYalu had no admiration to spare, for to him the alleged beauty
+thereof was fogged by the fact that his own huts were but blackened ruins.
+The next moment MYalu, in spite of his native dignity, started as one of
+those uniformed keepers of the coughing monsters barked at them magic
+words.
+
+Sakamata replied. Yabolo and MYalu stiffened as they observed the cringe
+of the shoulders as he fumbled hastily within his loin-cloth and presented
+a piece of hard substance, the colour of blue clay with magic marks upon
+it. The demon grunted at them to proceed as if talking to a slave.
+Followed in file the rest of the caravan. As Bakuma passed the uniformed
+demon standing with the sword and gun with seven voices upon his shoulder,
+leered, and grunting in a strange tongue, stepped forward and spun her
+round by the shoulders. Bakuma cried out in terror and the carriers gasped
+fearfully. MYalu and Yabolo wheeled. MYalu's facial scar twitched with
+rage as he raised his spear. But Sakamata clung to his arm as the soldier,
+grinning, raised his rifle in their direction. Bakuma ran on. The man
+laughed and turned his back to them, calling out something that the
+Wongolo could not understand.
+
+"Eh!" commented Sakamata indignantly, "the dog hath eaten poison grass! We
+will tell his words to Eyes-in-the-hands and he will be beaten until he
+stales."
+
+MYalu, slightly mollified by this promise of revenge, strode on in
+silence, bewildered and resentful, wondering at these strange things in
+the camp of the new god. In a large open space resembling a public square,
+was a big unfinished hut: the guest house, Sakamata informed them, for
+those who sought an audience with the Invincible One. As they squatted on
+the floor waiting patiently until the sun was two hand's-breadth above the
+hill for the appointed time, food and beer were brought to them by a
+Wamungo slave. Zu Pfeiffer was careful to foster the class distinction.
+Sakamata duly held forth upon the generosity of Eyes-in-the-hands, the
+wonder of his works and presence; but his words were received in
+unsympathetic silence, for the incident on the road had wounded the
+dignity of both chief and witch-doctor; raised dim fears and forebodings.
+
+At length a strange sound rang out on the still hot air. The signal,
+Sakamata explained, that Eyes-in-the-hands would receive his guests.
+Leaving Bakuma squatted in the lethargy which appeared to be habitual to
+her now, the three slowly mounted the sacred hill, marvelling greatly at
+the black triangle of the roof of the new temple, gazing with veiled
+suspicion at the gleaming brass fittings of the coughing monster in the
+great gate, and eyeing uneasily the double lines of uniformed devils,
+their bayonets flaming in the sun, who were drawn up outside the green
+palace of Eyes-in-the-hands.
+
+On each side of the tent door stood the two tallest men in the companies,
+coal-black forms which towered above the slighter build of the Wongolo, as
+rigid and as silent as trees. Through this terrifying guard walked
+Sakamata leading his two compatriots, already startled and impressed.
+Immediately within Sakamata fell upon his knees. Before them at the end of
+the tent sat zu Pfeiffer in the full dress of his regiment, plumed helmet,
+blazoned uniform and sword; and beside him, erect, the two sergeants
+Schultz and Ludwig in full parade uniform. Above them was a blaze of red,
+white and black and in the midst another splash of colour. But before this
+vision had penetrated their brains, had risen the voice of Sakamata
+bidding them to kneel likewise. Bewildered and awed they obeyed. Then came
+a voice saying:
+
+"Rise, approach, O chiefs!"
+
+Accordingly they arose and following Sakamata, advanced and squatted,
+their eyes dominated and held by those myriad gleams of magic "eyes" on
+hands and wrists. Then the interpreter, standing at attention, spoke this
+harangue tonelessly:
+
+"Greeting and welcome, children of the Banana! Eyes-in-the-hands who is
+known to the people where the sun rises as the Eater-of-Men, hath come
+from afar, the messenger of a greater than he, the Lord of the World, the
+Earthquake, the World Trembler, who eats up what he pleases, whose eyes
+see all things, whose sword slays all things, whose breath is the rain,
+whose voice is the thunder, whose teeth are the lightning, whose frown is
+the earthquake, whose smile is the sun, whose ear is the moon, whose eyes
+are the stars, whose body is the world! Look upon one soul of him which he
+hath sent that ye may worship and know him!"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer raised the jewelled hand above his shoulder as the man ceased.
+From out the medley of colours to the unaccustomed native eyes grew slowly
+the form and face of a white man as strangely clothed as
+Eyes-in-the-hands, covered with amulets and charms upon his breast. For
+four minutes by his wrist-watch, zu Pfeiffer sat silent and as frozen as
+his sergeants; then secretly he pulled a string.
+
+"Ehh!" grunted Yabolo and MYalu involuntarily, for before them appeared
+even, as Sakamata had related, the two souls of every person present.
+Stunned at such a manifestation of magic, they slowly turned from one to
+the other. As silently as they had appeared did the visions vanish.
+
+"O son of MYana, tell the tale of the possession of these thy friends and
+allies," commanded zu Pfeiffer.
+
+Sakamata obeyed. But as he recited the approximate number of MYalu's
+followers, the number of his oxen and goats, the number of fine tusks and
+small, the number of wives, concubines, and children, and slaves, the eyes
+of MYalu grew unquiet. Had he known that he would be required to render an
+account he would have computed at half the actual amount, whereas, in
+order to impress Sakamata with his importance, he had exaggerated to
+almost double what he had ever possessed. Then as Sakamata proceeded to
+perform the same service for Yabolo, relating, by arrangement with his
+relative, about one-third of his possession, MYalu observed in a corner a
+man making magic upon a table, a native clerk keeping tally; for zu
+Pfeiffer kept an exact record of every chief's alleged possessions, as
+given by Sakamata and corroborated--by silent consent--by the said chief, so
+that when afterwards any discrepancy with the said list was discovered,
+the chief was proven a liar and subject to the punishment of further
+confiscation as such, and served as well to enhance the reputation for
+omniscience of Eyes-in-the-hands.
+
+At the end of the recitals of property, MYalu was told, not asked, to bow
+his head to the ground in token of allegiance. He obeyed in bewilderment
+which changed to rage when he was informed that the third of his property
+must be rendered to the august being before one sun's delay; that he was
+to be ready at a summons to produce a given number of warriors; and that
+his small and only son was immediately to be placed in the "village of
+sons of chiefs" as guaranty of obedience and good behaviour.
+
+In a mist of fright, anger and awe, he sat motionless. Sakamata proceeded
+to relate the doings of Zalu Zako and those who had remained faithful to
+him. Zu Pfeiffer had fairly precise information from spies of the
+movements of the Wongolo since the return of Sergeant Ludwig, who had
+burned the village of Yagonyana, but shortage of men and the serious
+disadvantage of traversing and fighting in the forest had prevented him
+from sending another punitive expedition. Also had he heard of a white man
+who had passed through the country. Sakamata, native-like, eager to
+placate, asserted that he had actually seen the white man who was called
+Moonspirit, and from the same motive, ever wishing to flatter, announced
+positively that he had no magic at all, was dark and small and a trader,
+the only kind of white man other than the military at Ingonya of whom
+Sakamata had ever seen.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer stroked his left moustache and reflected. He had at first
+thought that the man might possibly be Saunders, a trader who was in his
+pay, but now decided that he was probably some new trader or hunter from
+the Tanganyika district. He instructed Sakamata that he was to send a
+messenger to this white man and command him to come to him immediately.
+Then waving the imperious jewelled hand, he dismissed them. But noticing
+the sullen countenance of MYalu, he drew Sergeant Schultz's attention,
+ordering him to mark the man and if the tax was not forthcoming quickly,
+to have him given fifty lashes. Silently Schultz saluted.
+
+So it was that MYalu, sulky, smouldering with anger against Sakamata, for
+he felt that he had been betrayed into a trap, followed Yabolo out into
+the sun. Not only had he not gotten back his ivory left in the village,
+but he was ordered to pay much more than he actually possessed.
+
+But when he had descended the hill to the guest house he came to the
+weeping and wailing of his people, who informed him that Bakuma had been
+taken away by three of the demon keepers of the coughing monsters.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 23
+
+
+Upon the site of Birnier's old camp in the forest was a high palisade
+built from tree to tree. Inside of the gate beside a small conical hut
+burned the sacred fires tended by Mungongo; before a green canvas tent
+stood the new idol, which differed from the original in having a better
+perspective and proportion of features and body, yet lacked the master
+touch of expression given by the subconscious fingers of the native
+artist.
+
+Against the wall were stacked uniform cases to make a table, upon which
+were a hand-mirror and toilet articles; above a photograph of Lucille was
+pinned upon the canvas. Upon the camp bed, screened by a mosquito net, lay
+the new King-God, Moonspirit, the magic book in his hands.
+
+
+
+"Kings, princes, monarchs, and magistrates seem to be most happy, but look
+into their estate; you shall find them to be most cumbered with cares, in
+perpetual fear, agony, suspicion, jealousy: that as he (Valer. i. 7, c. 3)
+saith of a crown, if they but knew the discontents that accompany it, they
+would not stoop to pick it up. Quem mihi regem dabis (saith Chrysostom)
+non curis plenum?"
+
+
+
+The Incarnation of the Unmentionable One smiled, put down the book and
+glanced across at the photograph.
+
+"And yet they still talk of the advantages of a monarchy!" he commented.
+
+The original plan concocted with Marufa and Zalu Zako in the forest when
+making the new idol was that Birnier should become chief witch-doctor and
+Zalu Zako be anointed King-God, with Marufa as the power behind the
+throne. Although Zalu Zako desired to escape the yoke, his protest was
+enfeebled by the sense of fatality, and had been utterly squashed by the
+promise of Marufa, at Birnier's suggestion, that the sex tabu would be
+lifted from the godhead. But the negligence of Marufa in allowing the
+white man to carry the idol, arranged with the idea of investing
+Moonspirit with greater prestige according to the prophecies already
+announced by Tarum, had permitted Bakahenzie to make his _coup
+d'�tat_--thrust the godhood upon the white and recover his own position.
+
+Birnier in truth had little option of refusal as well as little time for
+reflection upon a situation the possibility of which had not occurred to
+him; for Marufa was completely out-manoeuvred by his rival, and the
+certainty of escape from his doom offered by Bakahenzie revived the image
+of Bakuma in Zalu Zako and bought his partisanship instantly.
+
+With Napoleonic swiftness to grasp the advantages gained Bakahenzie drove
+the lay chiefs from the sacred presence, which he surrounded by a
+bodyguard of the awed brethren; expelled the household from Zalu Zako's
+compound and hustled the incarnation, bearing the new god, into holy
+isolation.
+
+Bewildered by the rapidity of the moves Marufa and Zalu Zako were
+separated from Moonspirit. In the general confusion, not knowing exactly
+what was happening, Birnier complied with what he believed to be the
+regulations regarding gods. But when he perceived that he was about to be
+left alone he clutched Mungongo and refused to part with him. Bakahenzie,
+compelled to avoid any delay before consolidating his position, instantly
+shut up Mungongo in the same web by declaring him the Keeper of the Sacred
+Fires and so disposed of any agent outside the tabu or craft. As soon as
+this was accomplished and a dance to celebrate the lighting of the new
+fires commanded, the wily chief witch-doctor approached Marufa who,
+realizing that he was hopelessly outwitted, was only too eager to make the
+best terms possible.
+
+Birnier had known that the King-God was never allowed to be seen by the
+populace except at the Harvest Festival, yet he accepted his isolation
+philosophically, lured by the expectation of the secrets he was about to
+learn, although his curiosity led sometimes to the vision of a god peeping
+through a fence.
+
+While the drums summoning the council of chiefs and wizards were muttering
+through the moist air, to Birnier, squatting on the floor of Zalu Zako's
+hut with Mungongo beside him, came Bakahenzie to instruct him in his r�le.
+To whet his curiosity still more he learned that from the moment of
+appearance in the gate of the sacred enclosure for the ceremony of the
+lighting of the royal fires, every movement of body and speech was
+regulated as rigidly as the etiquette of the Court of Spain. At a signal
+from the chief witch-doctor was the King-God to leave the hut and appear
+from behind the idol; with arms in a certain position was he to approach
+and squat at an exact spot. To Mungongo was given charge of the two fire
+sticks, newly consecrated.
+
+As the chief witch-doctor retired the chanting began. Interested to know
+what was about to happen Birnier obeyed in the spirit of a game. So in the
+warm darkness they squatted, these two, listening to the chanting, cries
+and groans to the accompaniment of the drums and lyres and the perpetual
+twitter of the forest. At last came a violent howl from Bakahenzie which
+Mungongo declared was their cue.
+
+Around the circle of the fence to avoid the eyes of the audience ran
+Mungongo to the temporary Place of Fires. Feeling as if he were once more
+playing in an amateur dramatic club, Birnier stalked with portentous
+dignity from the hut, past the idol, and took his seat upon the enchanted
+place. Without the palisade and within another squatted in correct order
+the lines of wizards and chiefs, Zalu Zako retaining, rather by prestige
+of his former holiness and indecision as to what his status really was,
+his position at their head.
+
+Upon his haunches before a large calabash upon a fire Bakahenzie finished
+the mumbling of incantations over the sacred ingredients, and leaping to
+his feet began a wild dance to the throb of the drums and the
+diaphragmatic chorus of the assembled cult.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Swifter and swifter spun the
+chief witch-doctor. The glow of the fire tinted his whirling bronze body
+with flecks of green and red as he gyrated in and out of the shadows.
+Suddenly he threw a handful of herbs upon the fire which was immediately
+enveloped in a cloud of smoke, into which with a screech Bakahenzie
+disappeared.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} The drums and grunting ceased. Then in the swirling column
+of blue appeared his figure holding something in his hands. To the wild
+outburst of drums and groans he sprang towards the King-God elect and
+anointed his breast and shoulders with a pungent compound, and leaped away
+into another dance, while Mungongo plied the two fire sticks. When the
+spark was blown upon the dry tinder and the first flame flickered
+Bakahenzie dropped flat before the gate as from the wizards went up the
+great shout:
+
+"The fire is lighted!"
+
+And from the mass of warriors and folk confined to their huts behind the
+outer palisade the phrase was echoed in a mighty wail, startling monkeys
+and parrots into as wild an acclamation of the new King-God.
+
+Bakahenzie, rising to his haunches, began a chant in honour of the new
+King, a chant based upon the song composed by Marufa and repeated on the
+phonograph, but developing even stranger merits and attributes. Until the
+first glimmer of dawn through the forest roof squatted Birnier, as
+motionless as etiquette demanded, listening to the strange psalm of praise
+with avid interest and observation.
+
+Suddenly, amid a furious clamour of the drums, Bakahenzie, Marufa, and one
+other of the inner cult of the five who had not deserted, led the body of
+the doctors in a rush into the sacred enclosure, seized upon the startled
+King and hustled him to the base of the idol where, yielding to the
+whispered instructions of Marufa, he took the idol once more upon his
+shoulders and guided by Bakahenzie, walked out of the gate and through the
+village to the yelling and screaming of the wizards, some of whom,
+according to precedent, ran about screeching and rattling hut doors,
+pulling thatches and howling ferociously in search of any sacrilegious
+peeper.
+
+As he tramped on with his load Marufa yelled in his ear that he must carry
+the Burden of the World no matter what happened to him, for if he let the
+idol fall then would he be killed upon the spot to save the sky from
+falling too. Wondering what this meant and where he was going, the cut of
+thongs upon his legs surprised him into a halt. Immediately a terrific cry
+went up:
+
+"The Bearer of the World stumbles! Aie! Aieeeeeeeee!"
+
+Despite the furious flogging the intellectual interest in this strange
+conception distracted his mind from the pain of the blows; also his bare
+back was protected by the idol and his leggings and trousers deadened the
+lashes. A moment more he hesitated. But he was unarmed and had voluntarily
+taken on the adventure, so he would see it through. As he broke into a
+shuffling run, for the idol fortunately was lighter than the previous one
+and he was a more powerful man than Kawa Kendi, another howl of joy and
+relief echoed throughout the village.
+
+So along the old forest trail he travelled as fast as he could, assisted
+slightly by wizards' hands as he crawled over clumps of undergrowth. The
+intensity of the whipping had decreased as soon as they were out of the
+village but throughout an occasional vicious whack testified to the
+presence of some devout doctor. Thus it was that the white King-God came
+to his throne and sat in state upon his bed to smile at the reflections of
+a melancholic philosopher.
+
+So far so good, reflected Birnier, although the enforced isolation and
+strict curtailment of his actions had already begun to be irksome; yet to
+attain so difficult a goal sacrifice must be borne, he argued
+philosophically.
+
+The royal larder, he noticed with thankfulness, was kept well stocked.
+Every day appeared a slave who left just within the entrance chickens,
+bananas, milk and fresh water, and sometimes a young goat. All such
+provisions which he had happened to take into the forest with him and so
+had escaped MYalu's marauding hands had been placed in his tent with other
+cases, as containing no man knew what mighty magic.
+
+For three days he had been left utterly alone. Sounds of drums and
+chanting from the distant village had reached them on the still air, but
+what they were doing he could not discover. No layman was allowed to come
+near the sacred enclosure. While he strolled, taking a smoke and
+constitutional around and around his "pen," as he put it, several of the
+lesser wizards appeared and stood at a distance from the gate to stare at
+him. When addressed they made no reply. On the second occasion he began to
+be irritated, but he kept his temper and went to cover in his tent,
+muttering: "Why the devil don't they bring me some buns?"
+
+On the fourth day patience began to fray. He had no notion of knowing how
+long this quarantine was going to last. He was on the point of going to
+find out, but Mungongo pleaded so earnestly that they would instantly be
+killed if they did, that he desisted. So Birnier retired to the tent to
+seek consolation from a record of Lucille's voice.
+
+Birnier attempted to cross-examine Mungongo to find out what was the
+object of this isolation, but beyond the fact that strangers were never
+permitted to behold the King-God, even lay natives, without special magic,
+which was only made once a year at the Harvest Festival, lest evil be made
+upon his person and so endanger the world, Mungongo did not know; merely,
+that so it was. What power over the head witch-doctor the King really had,
+Mungongo had no notion. The King-God was the most powerful magician known,
+asserted Mungongo. Did he not make rain and bear the world upon his
+shoulders? When Birnier unwisely denied this feat, Mungongo looked pained
+and began a remark, but balked before the name Moonspirit to ask the name
+of Birnier's father.
+
+At the mental image conjured up of a handsome white-haired planter and
+ex-owner of many slaves Birnier smiled, but he knew the tabu regarding the
+ban upon the names of the dead and that he, presumably, having ascended
+into the divine plane, was therefore classed with the departed. He
+recollected that the old man, who belonged to a cadet branch of a royalist
+family, had been called "le Marquis," of which he was excessively proud.
+Birnier translated into the dialect the nearest possible rendition of the
+title: The Lord-of-many-Lands.
+
+"The son of the Lord-of-many-Lands," continued Mungongo satisfied, "doth
+but tickle the feet of his slave."
+
+On the fifth afternoon, while the god was engrossed in a cure for love
+madness which, he reflected, might be of service to zu Pfeiffer, came a
+voice without crying:
+
+"The son of Maliko would speak with the Lord, the Bearer of the World!"
+
+Birnier glanced across at the photograph of Lucille.
+
+"Some job I've gotten!" he remarked as he rose. In the gate sat
+Bakahenzie. Birnier was conscious of an idiotic impulse to rush forward to
+greet him as an old and long lost friend. But remembering the dignity of
+his godhood he remained in the tent doorway, bidding the chief
+witch-doctor to advance.
+
+Birnier retired backwards and sat beneath the net, for the mosquitoes were
+as thick as they are on the bayou Barataria. Mungongo, possibly to prove
+his erudition, sat upon one of the cases containing much magic, at which
+Bakahenzie from the floor in the doorway looked askance. Birnier was
+keenly anxious to know what was happening regarding the fortunes of the
+tribe, hoping that with the restoration of the Unmentionable One that they
+would return to their allegiance. According to etiquette he remained
+silent, waiting for Bakahenzie to open the conversation, until, realizing
+that he was a god and that the chief witch-doctor was doing the same
+thing, reflected swiftly and desiring to make an impression, repeated
+Bakahenzie's mystic phrase which he had overheard whilst hiding in the
+jungle previous to the d�nouement:
+
+"That which is and must be, shall be!" Bakahenzie grunted his
+acknowledgment of the profundity of the statement. "He who would trap the
+leopard must needs dig the pit!" Another uncompromising silence urged
+Birnier to force the pace a little: "O son of Maliko, what say the omens
+and the signs of the evil one, Eyes-in-the-hands?"
+
+"When shall the Unmentionable One return unto the Place of Kings?"
+demanded Bakahenzie.
+
+"The Holy One returneth not unto the place appointed until that which
+defileth is removed," retorted Birnier.
+
+Bakahenzie took snuff and appeared to consider. Then he glanced around the
+tent as if in search of something.
+
+"When will the voice of Tarum speak through the pod of the soul?"
+
+Mungongo looked expectant and stood up. But Birnier ignored him.
+
+"The fruit doth not fall until it be ripe. He would know what hath been
+done by his slaves for the baiting of the pit for the unclean one."
+
+"Would the magician that cometh from the sea make pretence that an
+elephant is a mouse?" inquired Bakahenzie.
+
+For a moment Birnier was perplexed; then he realized that the chief
+witch-doctor inferred that he, as King-God, mocked his priest by
+pretending that he did not know all things.
+
+"Doth the chief witch-doctor make magic for the curing of the scratch of a
+girl of the hut thatch?" he retorted. "Lest thy heart wither like unto a
+fallen leaf, know then that the soul of Tarum hath made words for the
+return of the Unmentionable One to the Place of Kings, but that his
+children may not be as the dogs of the village who are driven, he wills
+that you prepare the pit for the trapping of the defiled one."
+Bakahenzie's eyes stolidly regarded the tent wall. "O son of Maliko, hast
+thou sent forth the sound of the drum throughout the land that the
+children may know of the Coming?"
+
+"When will the voice of Tarum speak through the pod of the soul?" demanded
+Bakahenzie insistently.
+
+Birnier sat motionless in the native manner. Irritated by this childish
+tenacity to apparently a fixed idea, he yielded to an impulse which was
+almost a weakness.
+
+"O son of Maliko," said he, "thou art a mighty magician!" Bakahenzie
+grunted modest assent. "Even as I am." Another grunt. "Give unto me thine
+ears and thine eyes that I may reveal unto thee that which is known to the
+mightiest of magicians." Commanding the delighted Mungongo to bring out
+the phonograph, he continued: "Thou hast heard of the mighty doings of the
+unclean devourer of men, Eyes-in-the-hands. I have magic the like of which
+man hath never seen. Is it not so?"
+
+"Ough!"
+
+"Yet will the son of the Lord-of-many-Lands make thee to see that which
+is, is not!"
+
+"That which is, is not," repeated Bakahenzie, whose professional mind was
+pleased with the phrase.
+
+In the desire to explain rationally the mystery of a phonograph and
+despairing of any attempt to describe the laws of vibration, Birnier
+sought for a likely simile. Encouraged by the almost imperceptible fact
+that he had awakened Bakahenzie's visible interest, he plunged on: "Within
+this piece of tree is there nought but many pieces of iron such as thy
+spears are made of. Thou knowest that there are places by the river and in
+the rocks where a man may speak and that his words will be returned to
+him. Is it not so?"
+
+"They are white words, O son of the Lord-of-many-Lands!" returned
+Bakahenzie. "For the spirits of the river and the rocks mock the voices of
+those who have not eaten of the Sacred Banana" (the uninitiated).
+
+"But they mock thy voice as well," protested Birnier.
+
+"Are there not goats in ghostland who bleat at the wizard and the
+peasant?"
+
+"By the Lord!" murmured Birnier, although the mask of his face did not
+change. "Ghostland is full of goats if one were to credit some of the most
+modern witch-doctors! Still demonstration {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+"Thou seest, fellow magician," he continued, "the pod of the soul of
+mighty Tarum, his ear like unto an elephant, his colour like unto a lion!"
+Birnier got out of the mosquito net and knelt beside the phonograph in
+front of Bakahenzie. Taking off the trumpet and cylinder carrier he opened
+up the inside, revealing the clockwork motor, wound it up, stopped it and
+released it. "Thine eyes see that my words are white. These things are but
+as pieces of metal of thy spears. Is it not so?"
+
+"Ough!"
+
+Birnier closed the machine, adjusted the trumpet and put on the cylinder
+of Marufa's record.
+
+  "Aie! Aiee! I am the spirit of Kintu!
+  Aie! Aiee! I am he who first was!"
+
+chanted the machine.
+
+Birnier, noticing that the desired astonishment was registered by an
+almost impalpable start, stopped the machine and changed the record.
+
+  "Rejoice, O my children, for he that is bidden shall come!
+  Rejoice, O ye warriors, for he that shall lead you shall come!
+  Rejoice, O ye wizards, for he that is greater than ye shall come!
+  Rejoice, O ye women, for he that fertilizes shall come!"
+
+Birnier allowed the machine to run through the chant until the end:
+
+  "He shall come forth bearing that which ye seek!
+  Hear ye, my people, and give voice to my word!"
+
+The machine whirred and stopped. Birnier turned to Bakahenzie.
+
+"Thou hast seen, O my brother magician, that my words are white?"
+
+"Ough!" assented Bakahenzie.
+
+"Thou hast seen, O my brother magician, that at the will of my finger upon
+that which is made but of spear-heads that the voice of Tarum hath spoken,
+the voice which is but the mocking voice of Marufa amid the trees of the
+forest?"
+
+"Ough!"
+
+"Dost thou not know that he who knows the ways of rocks, who can make
+pieces of spear into that which will say and do that which he wills, is a
+greater magician than he who must needs go unto the rocks to be mocked?"
+
+"Thou art the greatest of magicians, O son of the Lord-of-many-Lands,"
+responded Bakahenzie in a burst of eloquence. "For thou hast entrapped the
+spirits of rocks and spears to do thy bidding."
+
+"O God!" sighed the professor, "what is the use of language?"
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 24
+
+
+A favourite panacea for the results of a stupid action is the sentiment of
+martyrdom. When MYalu persisted in bitter reproaches to Yabolo and
+Sakamata the first retorted that the punishment was the result of having
+committed the sacrilege of kidnapping the sacred Bride of the Banana. Then
+MYalu considered that not only had he been trapped by one of his own
+people whom he had deserted, but to add insult to injury he felt he was
+not understood. Neither Yabolo nor Sakamata, as Bakahenzie, could
+comprehend a chief and a warrior making such a fuss over a girl. That the
+confiscation of MYalu's property was an insult they both agreed, but
+biassed by both fear of Eyes-in-the-hands and their own interests, they
+were disposed to pretend that after all such a small matter as the
+abduction of a girl could be overlooked when committed by the follower of
+such a powerful god and magician, as expedience is so often the father of
+a dispensation. Yet nevertheless in Yabolo, if not in Sakamata, whose
+hatred of the tribal craft was deep in ratio to the degeneracy of his
+native code, the outrage upon Bakuma as the Bride of the Banana, while an
+act of dangerous sacrilege when performed by a Wongolo, violated the half
+suppressed traditions and kindled a spark of bitter resentment ready to
+flare up against Eyes-in-the-hands or Sakamata; but being a diplomatist,
+he concealed that anger, even from himself to a certain degree.
+
+Upon MYalu's arrival in the guest-house to find that Bakuma had been
+taken, his passion had nearly led to his instant destruction, for he had
+desired to run amok among the grinning askaris. Afterwards, when the
+efforts of his friends and the hungry points of bayonets had cooled his
+ardour, he had wanted to rush straight to Eyes-in-the-hands who, according
+to Sakamata employed as master of ceremony at the daily audiences, would
+instantly restore Bakuma to him and visit a terrible punishment upon the
+evil-doer. But the august presence could not be approached so casually:
+petition must be made in orthodox form and the royal pleasure awaited
+meekly.
+
+According to the words of the Son-of-the-Earthquake, as zu Pfeiffer was
+officially designated by his men, who placed the actual name under the
+tabu in token of the acceptance of the magic purple, came a guard to take
+away MYalu's first-born as hostage to the village of the sons of chiefs.
+Seething with red rage MYalu mutely followed Yabolo to the place appointed
+for their housing. Then on the following afternoon at the time of audience
+MYalu waited in the broiling heat for three hand's-spans of the sun
+without being summoned to the green temple. And thus it was for three
+days.
+
+But upon the fourth, when MYalu squatted in the general hut in company
+with Yabolo, Sakamata, and other renegade chiefs, smouldering with bitter
+resentment, came the pulse of a distant drum, the furious tattoo and long
+pause, tattoo and long pause, which accompanies the mighty shout at the
+coronation of a new King-God, "The Fire is lighted!" news that had
+throbbed from that point within the forest from village to village to the
+slopes of the Gamballagalla and to the Wamungo country. The perceptible
+effect upon that circle of bronze figures was a scarcely audible grunt,
+yet nevertheless the message was like unto a live ember dropped in the dry
+grass of the cattle country.
+
+That morning one of the renegade chiefs had brought in two others to make
+their allegiance and received as reward for his fidelity a remittance of
+one-third of the tax levy upon his property, a policy adopted by zu
+Pfeiffer calculated to encourage the recruiting of his followers by
+establishing a reputation for lavish generosity to those who obeyed him,
+in contrast to his merciless severity to the recalcitrant ones.
+
+An hour later MYalu was summoned from the sweating throng squatted before
+the line of demon keepers through the giant ebon guards to audience with
+the Son-of-the-Earthquake. At the entrance as bidden he knelt, for he knew
+that he would be compelled did he refuse. A white flame was in his heart,
+but yet the magnificence of the son of the World Trembler and his
+satellites, the terrible ghosts of the distant white god, with amulets and
+charms upon his breast, had awed and subdued MYalu. Then came the voice of
+Sakamata relating that the chief MYalu, son of MBusa, made complaint to
+the Son-of-the-Earthquake that his slaves, the keepers of the coughing
+demons, had taken a girl named Bakuma, daughter of Bakala, and that he
+craved restitution of his property. While this was being translated by the
+corporal interpreter, MYalu watched the magic flame in the mouth of
+Eyes-in-the-hands, marvelling greatly at the smoke which emerged. Then
+said the interpreter:
+
+"The son of the Lord-of-the-World, the Earthquake, the World Trembler who
+eats up whom he pleases, whose eyes see all things, whose sword slays all
+things, whose breath is the rain, whose voice is the thunder, whose teeth
+are the lightning, whose frown is the earthquake, whose smile is the sun,
+whose ear is the moon, whose eyes are the stars, whose body is the world,
+saith that when the son of MBusa (MYalu) bringeth three chiefs of the same
+rank to sit at the Feet then shall the daughter of Bakala return unto him,
+but in the meantime shall her girdle remain untied. He hath spoken!"
+
+As he finished zu Pfeiffer made the signal of dismissal with his jewelled
+hand, but MYalu with the throb of that distant drum in his ears, cried out
+in protest, saying:
+
+"The words of the Son-of-the-Earthquake are like unto spears made of
+grass!"
+
+The interpreter boggled at the translation of the sentence. Zu Pfeiffer
+saw a ripple of insubordination. He rapped out an order to have the man
+taken away and given fifty lashes. Instantly the guards surrounded MYalu,
+who submitted in sudden misgiving, and led him away to receive the
+punishment.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer gave orders that the girl Bakuma should be found and called
+the next case, Kalomato the elderly chief who had had all his property
+sequestered until he should deliver his eldest son as hostage. He was a
+slight withered old man with a white tuft of beard and at the hands of the
+askaris, after considerable endurance, had screamed his submission. Now he
+hobbled into zu Pfeiffer's presence with the aid of a stick. Pompously the
+interpreter recited the list of the titles of the august one, and then
+dwelt upon the wondrous benefits to be obtained at the magic jewelled
+hands, and demanded that the old chief "eat the dust" and obey the royal
+mandate.
+
+But the sharp eyes gazed steadily from their wrinkled sockets with a
+curious gleam in them as he mumbled that "his soul had wandered" (he had
+dreamed) "and had met the spirit of Tarum, who had forbidden him to obey
+the white god."
+
+"The shenzie" (savage--used contemptuously) "longs for more fire for his
+paws, O Bwana," translated the interpreter into Kiswahili.
+
+"What does he say?" demanded zu Pfeiffer.
+
+"He says, Bwana, that he hath dreamed that his god hath told him that he
+must not obey you. Indio, Bwana."
+
+"Tell him that I slew his god, as every man knows."
+
+"The Son-of-the-Earthquake bids thee to know that he hath eaten up thy god
+as he eateth up thy warriors when his wrath is aroused. Eat dust that thy
+beard grow yet longer; stretch thy tongue and thou shalt be eaten entirely
+and all that is thine!"
+
+"The Fire is lighted," mumbled the old man.
+
+"What does he say?" demanded zu Pfeiffer sharply.
+
+"He attempts to make magic against thee, Bwana," replied the interpreter
+who knew not the meaning of the phrase.
+
+"Take away the animal," commanded zu Pfeiffer.
+
+The old man was accordingly led out to the further attentions of the
+soldiery. But during that afternoon zu Pfeiffer became conscious of a
+subtle air of defiance, a restlessness and exchanging of glances, so that
+the demon which Bakunjala had once seen so vividly came back to roost
+somewhere beneath the immaculate uniform.
+
+Neither he nor his sergeants nor their men could speak the Wongolo tongue
+fluently, so that for interpreter he was compelled to employ one of the
+corporals. To employ any newly subjected race or tribe as soldiers or in
+any responsible capacity is unwise, for ties of blood are liable to lead
+to treachery; to trust to the idiosyncrasies and personal values of any
+native interpreter is equally impolitic. Zu Pfeiffer and his party were as
+unaware of the meaning of the phrases exchanged as they were of the
+message in the throbbing of that distant drum. Between the conqueror and
+the subjected tribe was a wall denser than any steel; the same wall of
+tabu of the craft that Birnier was finding so difficult to penetrate.
+
+Every attempt to persuade any of the witch-doctors to disclose the secrets
+of their craft through the interpreter was doomed to failure; even had zu
+Pfeiffer been able to speak the dialect as well as Birnier he would never
+have accomplished it. Yet he tried the impossible. The answer was
+invariably a mask of ox-like stupidity or the retort that he, being a
+mighty magician, must needs know that he did but "tickle their feet"! At
+length, irritated by this persistence, he had Sakamata put to the torture
+and had for his pains a story in which the idol as the first man was the
+father of the tribe whom the people believed to have been eaten up
+literally, so that the conqueror had become the father of the people,
+having the idol inside him, and the chance that the tale had a faint
+resemblance to an account by a Frenchman of the superstitions of a West
+African tribe, convinced him. Implicitly he believed the ingenious yarn
+invented by a wily witch-doctor to save his hide and the perquisites of
+his job by placating the white man, the trap into which most white
+chroniclers have fallen. This conviction, which flattered his sagacity and
+lulled any suspicions, strengthened his arm in the delivering of
+punishment and reward.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 25
+
+
+In the camp of Bakahenzie was the low mutter of the drums by day and
+night. The village had straggled farther through the forest in each
+direction save that of the sacred enclosure. Already were some five
+hundred warriors there and more were pouring in every day. Busy were
+Bakahenzie and wizards, great and small, in the preparing of amulets of
+the hearts of lions, livers of leopards and galls of birds, and the
+brewing of potent decoctions to be smeared with parrot feathers upon the
+warriors old and young against the evil eye and the spirits of the night.
+And dispensed by Bakahenzie and Marufa, from whom had come the original
+idea, was a special and rather expensive charm against the coughing
+monsters, which was made by, and invested with, the magic of the King-God
+himself, a can key. That morning had there been a special meeting of the
+craft and the chiefs before the sacred enclosure, where they had looked
+upon the sacred form of the King-God and heard the magic elephant's ear
+give them instructions and a prophecy. Around and about a hundred fires,
+flickering mystically in the moist cavern of the forest, shuffled and
+chanted the warriors invoking the aid of Tarum, the spirit of their
+ancestors.
+
+On the threshold of his hut squatted a sullen Zalu Zako. He had discovered
+that he had escaped from the river bearing him to the pool of celibacy to
+find that the bird had been captured by another. Although he had known
+that before attaining his desire he would have had to extricate Bakuma
+from the net of the tabu, yet, lover-like and human, that task
+unconsidered had seemed as easy as stalking a buck in a wood. But the joy
+of his own release had been dissipated as a cloud of dust by a shower by
+the news of MYalu's abduction of the girl and his desertion. Zalu Zako was
+so obsessed by chagrin at this wholly unexpected appearance of a rival
+that he was inclined to regret that he had ever thought of the move by
+which he could escape his late doom and rescue Bakuma at the same time.
+The illusion of nearness to the desired object had served naturally to
+whet his appetite; the balked love motive dominated him almost to the
+exclusion of political affairs. What his official status was now that all
+precedent had been broken Bakahenzie did not know and had not decided, and
+Zalu Zako cared less.
+
+Though his faith in most of the tribal theology was unshaken, he did not
+believe in the sanctity, or the necessity, of the marriage of the Bride of
+the Banana, because he had a defensive complex of desire for her that
+inhibited that belief. Towards MYalu, Zalu Zako's natural reaction was
+revenge. The matter was how to accomplish that end. To reveal to
+Bakahenzie that he was the lover of Bakuma would be tantamount to
+admitting sacrilege in having a passion for the Bride of the Banana.
+
+As Zalu Zako was unable to get at the person of his rival the most logical
+method to his mind was by witchcraft. To obtain some relics of the body of
+MYalu proved easy, as his wives and slaves being forced to flee, had been
+unable to burn the deserted hut, thus leaving in the customary place in
+the thatch some of the hair and nail clippings. Also to find an excuse for
+the cursing of MYalu was still easier. So at a meeting of the chiefs he
+rivalled Bakahenzie in denunciation of the absconding chief, insisted that
+a mighty magic be made against him and produced the necessary corporeal
+parts upon which to work. So it was that Bakahenzie and Marufa, a quiet
+watchful Marufa, brewed the magic brew and condemned MYalu by the proxy of
+his nail clippings to die, a process that took root in a very firm
+conviction in the mind of Zalu Zako and the others that die MYalu would.
+
+After this satisfaction of the first fierce instinct Zalu Zako was more at
+liberty to consider other matters, which resulted in an effort to quicken
+the collective will to recover the tribe's country and possessions,
+symbolised in Zalu Zako's mind by the delicate figure of Bakuma.
+
+The ceremony of the lighting of the new fires he had attended
+perfunctorily. To have regret or pity for the white man, Moonspirit who
+had taken over his doom, never occurred to Zalu Zako, for to him as to
+Bakahenzie Moonspirit was a mighty magician who, if competent to effect
+the magic he had already displayed, was capable of looking after himself;
+moreover, as he had recalled the Unmentionable One, he stood as the
+incarnation of the tribe, the god, therefore beyond human consideration.
+
+Bakahenzie's chief regard was, of course, to unify the tribe once more and
+to rouse those who had submitted to Eyes-in-the-hands to rebellion, which
+was but a projection of his desire, as that of all patriots, to
+consolidate his own position and to regain his lost prestige. He had had
+no need to command that the news be sent abroad. At the ceremony of the
+Lighting of the Fires the drum notes had been picked up by the nearest
+village and sent ricocheting across the length and breadth of the country,
+rippling through the Court of the Son-of-the-Earthquake.
+
+Bakahenzie's confidence had increased tenfold since, by his clever coup,
+he had locked up the white magician in the godhead. He believed that
+Moonspirit was the mightiest magician the world had ever seen, a demi-god;
+for had he, Bakahenzie, not seen these wondrous miracles with his own
+eyes? Had not he, Bakahenzie, captured and tamed this marvellous power to
+his own ends?
+
+So absolute was this confidence in the powers of the white that Bakahenzie
+was perfectly sincere, as Mungongo and Bakuma had been, in asserting that
+the "son of the Lord-of-many-Lands" was pleased to pretend that "an
+elephant was a mouse," that he "tickled their feet." The only doubt raised
+in his mind at that interview was whether he could persuade this powerful
+being to destroy the usurper "out of hand," as it were, or even whether
+Moonspirit could do so; for it was quite reasonable to him to suppose that
+even a god, in fighting another god, might have to do battle for the
+victory.
+
+Not in spite of, but because of, this firm faith Bakahenzie took more
+precautions than ever before to surround the captured god with the
+toughest fibres of the tabu to keep him in isolation. Obviously such a
+valuable prize demanded special precautions. He promulgated an ordinance,
+in the amplitude of his regained power, that no lay man nor any wizard
+save the inner cult, whom he dared not forbid, were to approach within
+sight of the sacred enclosure. In the jungle of his mind lurked the fear
+that the new god might be seen to leave the sacred ground and thus render
+the penalty of death imperative according to the laws of the tabu upon a
+god who jeopardised the tribal welfare as MFunya MPopo had done by his
+failure to bring rain. The belief that he could control a force which he
+admitted was infinitely greater than he, and of punishing it if it did not
+behave, was not at all inconsistent to the native mind, nor more illogical
+than many theological ideas of whites.
+
+At the last interview Bakahenzie had tried to persuade Birnier to permit
+him to speak into the mighty ear of the magic box; in effect an attempt to
+gain complete control. But Birnier, when he at length had realised that
+Bakahenzie's mental development was little greater than Mungongo's, and
+keenly aware of the isolation to which he was to be subjected, as well as
+the purpose in the witch-doctor's mind, had resolutely refused. Bakahenzie
+had accepted the intimation that the god would not work miracles through
+any other mouth than that of his incarnation, and after a long cogitative
+silence had departed without further comment.
+
+But of course he came back again next day, as Birnier had known that he
+would. Birnier hinted at the expected initiation into the "mysteries" of
+the craft, particularly of the Festival of the Banana and the other
+ceremonies connected with his r�le as King-God. But Bakahenzie's gaze,
+fixed upon an object on the toilet table, did not quiver. Birnier repeated
+the inquiry more bluntly. Said Bakahenzie:
+
+"The fingers of the son of Maliko are hungry to touch the magic knife of
+the son of the Lord-of-many-Lands."
+
+"Damn it," muttered Birnier. "That's my favourite!" But he handed the
+razor to Bakahenzie, saying: "Is not the porridge pot free to all
+brothers?" Gravely Bakahenzie slipped the safety razor into his loin
+cloth, mumbled the orthodox adieu and departed.
+
+Although devoted to Birnier as much as ever, Mungongo was bound just as
+much by the articles of the tabu as any other native; in fact, since his
+appointment to the high office of Keeper of the Fires, he was if possible
+more terrified by the bogies of their theology than before. Put one foot
+out of the sacred ground he would not, for he was convinced that
+immediately he did so, the ghosts of the dead kings would instantly
+strangle him. Birnier attempted to persuade him to get into communication
+with Marufa, but that wily gentleman, grieving over the failure of the
+coup he had aided Birnier to make, and for the moment completely under the
+domination of Bakahenzie, who, he knew, had him watched every moment of
+the day and night, would never approach the Place of the Unmentionable
+One. Nor dared Zalu Zako break the tabu placed by Bakahenzie. To
+Bakahenzie and not to Birnier he owed his escape from the dreaded godhood.
+One who had released him might quite reasonably have him back again if
+annoyed. The few wizards who came to gaze at the imprisoned god like
+children at the Zoo, as Birnier had commented, were deaf to any remark,
+instruction, or plea of the Holy One. So it was that Birnier began to
+realise that the functions of a god were so very purely divine that he
+would never be allowed to interfere in human affairs at all except by
+grace of the high priest, and possibly he was not the first god who had
+found that out.
+
+This jungle of secrecy and the denial of any active part in the organising
+of the tribe began to irritate Birnier. Yet he perceived clearly enough
+from his knowledge of the native mind that a premature effort to force
+either confidence or action would end in disaster. Patience and
+perseverance alone would bring success; and the moulding of the material
+through forces which already controlled it. He must play the witch-doctor
+to the full. Working upon this hypothesis he determined to control
+Bakahenzie through "messages" from the spirit of Tarum. The trouble was to
+find out whether Bakahenzie would obey him or not and to what extent.
+
+So in the early hours of one morning Bakahenzie's watchers in the forest
+shuddered as they heard more of the mysterious voices of the Unmentionable
+One making wondrous magic within the temple as Mungongo chanted, at
+Birnier's prompting, the god's instructions to his high priest and people.
+The form of the chant was not correct as Mungongo's memory was very
+unreliable, but as Birnier remarked to the portrait of Lucille, "I don't
+suppose Maestro Bakahenzie is such a stylist as he would have the public
+suppose." Afterwards, to Mungongo's delight, who was never tired of any
+manifestation of Moonspirit's magic, he put out the light and lay upon his
+bed within the temple listening to the voice of Lucille pouring out the
+passion of "Mon coeur s'ouvre � ta voix," in _Samson et Delilah_, to the
+sleepy ears of the monkeys above the figure of the idol limned against the
+moon-patterned roof of the forest.
+
+But scarcely had the moist ultramarine shadows turned to mauve than the
+voice of Bakahenzie hailed the god most punctiliously from without.
+However Birnier happened to be sleepy, and the chance of the early hour
+presented such an opportunity to gain prestige that he sent the Keeper of
+the Fires to inform the High Priest that the god was not yet up and that
+he must needs wait. And wait did Bakahenzie, like unto a graven image at
+the gate until the sun was four hand's-spans above the trees. When Birnier
+had breakfasted upon broiled kid, eggs, banana and weak tea, Bakahenzie
+was summoned to the august presence.
+
+Wondering what new idea Bakahenzie had gotten into his head Birnier
+solemnly talked the usual preliminaries, intending to announce in the best
+manner that Tarum had a message for the son of Maliko; but to his
+astonishment Bakahenzie forestalled him by demanding to know when the god
+would speak again.
+
+When Mungongo had gravely placed the machine at his feet Birnier set the
+record. The chant bade the son of Maliko to summon the wizards and the
+warriors of the tribe to the abode of the Unmentionable One; to send to
+those who had fallen into the power of Eyes-in-the-hands instructions that
+they were not to reveal by word or deed that the Unmentionable One had
+been pleased to return, but to wait like a wild cat at a fish pool until a
+signal was given through the drums, when they were to smite swiftly at
+every keeper of the demons and to flee immediately to their brethren in
+the forest; that they were on no account to kill or wound
+Eyes-in-the-hands nor any white man that was his, lest their powerful
+ghosts exact a terrible penalty and refuse to be propitiated; that when
+these things had been done would the spirit of Tarum issue further
+instructions.
+
+In composing this message Bernier had sought to gain the advantage of a
+surprise attack and to secure the massacre of as many of the askaris as
+possible; to save zu Pfeiffer and his white sergeants from the fate which
+would await them should they fall into the hands of the Wongolo; to
+minimise the loss of men which would occur were the tribe to attempt to
+face the guns; afterwards to lure zu Pfeiffer away from his fortifications
+and the open country, in order to compel him to fight in the forest where
+he could not ascertain what force was against him; and in the meantime to
+slip round and establish the idol in the Place of Kings, which act would
+consolidate the moral of the tribe as well as cut the line of zu
+Pfeiffer's communications with Ingonya.
+
+As Bakahenzie listened gravely and attentively, Birnier keenly watched his
+face. Although the mask did not quiver, a half suppressed grunt at the end
+persuaded him that Bakahenzie was duly impressed, but he made no comment.
+After regarding Mungongo solemnly putting away the machine Bakahenzie
+remarked casually:
+
+"In the village is a messenger from Eyes-in-the-hands who sends thee
+greetings."
+
+This was the first news that Birnier had received since his ascent to the
+godhood. He had expected that sooner or later zu Pfeiffer would hear of
+the presence of a white man, but he was rather startled at the inference
+that zu Pfeiffer knew who he was. He made no visible sign as he waited.
+Bakahenzie took snuff interestedly and continued:
+
+"Eyes-in-the-hands bids thee to go unto the Place of Kings to eat the dust
+before him."
+
+Bakahenzie regarded him with keen eyes. Birnier considered swiftly. From
+the latter part of the message he gathered that zu Pfeiffer was not aware
+of his identity. His opinion of zu Pfeiffer's character suggested certain
+psychological possibilities. His policy was to lure him away from his
+fort; to destroy his military judgment. Therefore to cause him at this
+juncture to be violently disturbed by a personal emotion might tend to
+confuse his mind. Enmity--fear--might equally serve as the lure required. In
+spite of committing a breach of native etiquette Birnier could not resist
+smiling. He reached for the "Anatomy" and as he scribbled two words he
+said to Bakahenzie solemnly:
+
+"O son of Maliko, say unto this man of many tongues as well as many eyes,
+'that the jackal follows the lion that he may feed upon his leavings; that
+the voice of the hyena is loudest when he eateth offal.' And shall the
+slave take unto him that which is mighty magic, such magic that when
+Eyes-in-the-hands doth but touch it shall he trumpet like unto a wounded
+cow elephant. Bid him to mark that my words be white!"
+
+And when Bakahenzie had gone Birnier turned to the portrait on the wall
+and remarked as he indulged in the luxury of a grin: "Say, honey, but if
+that doesn't make him mad, I'll--I'll eat my own manuscripts!"
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 26
+
+
+In a corner of one of the half-completed huts in a half-completed street
+of the new village of the Place of Kings squatted Yabolo and other chiefs.
+As Sakamata was up in the fort serving Eyes-in-the-hands they could talk
+freely, yet in low tones and with wary eyes for the interstices of the
+unfinished wall. More than one chief had been thrashed but none as high in
+rank as MYalu; moreover, those that had been severely punished had been
+taken in fair fight or had attempted to escape, whereas MYalu had done
+nothing that they considered to merit punishment. The growing detestation
+and hatred smouldering within all of them against the new ruler had burst
+into flame at the first hint of the news vibrating upon the moist air.
+Later had come another drum message bidding them await new words of Tarum,
+and forty-eight hours afterwards the messenger sent by zu Pfeiffer to
+summon Moonspirit, who squatted in the group, whispered word for word
+Birnier's message on the phonograph, adding further instructions from
+Bakahenzie that the signal should be another message upon the drums: "The
+Fire is lighted."
+
+Warm banana wrapped in leaves, which a slave had brought in, was placed
+before the chiefs while the messenger related the gossip of the village in
+the forest. Later, while lolling through the mid-day heat waiting for the
+time of audience, he produced from his loin cloth the magic charm which
+the son of the Lord-of-many-Lands, the King-God, had sent to
+Eyes-in-the-hands and repeated the prophecy that he should trumpet like
+unto a wounded cow elephant, eliciting many grunts of admiration and awe.
+Then he inquired for Sakamata and MYalu, and upon hearing the account,
+reported that they were both traitors and had been condemned to die by the
+magic of Bakahenzie and Marufa.
+
+Each and every chief felt that he had been betrayed by Sakamata. Even
+Yabolo, his relative, particularly because his visionary schemes had come
+to nought, was against Sakamata. Sakamata had heard the message of the
+drums, "The Fire is lighted." But of the details of the return of the
+Unmentionable One and of the new King-God he knew nothing, although every
+other Wongolo man, woman, and child, knew it. The terror of the tabu, of
+the power of the Unmentionable One, was more overwhelming than his fear of
+Eyes-in-the-hands, wizard and ex-member of the inner cult though he be.
+The Unmentionable One had returned, a miracle! In a thousand signs of
+birds and beasts, twigs and shadows, Sakamata saw omens of evil. He knew
+that he was an outcast, that his fellows were plotting; that they knew
+something that he did not; yet he dared not tell Eyes-in-the-hands lest he
+be killed on the instant, not by Eyes-in-the-hands but by the mystic power
+of the Unmentionable One.
+
+Farther down the line, in a small hut, lay MYalu motionless. His mind was
+a whirling red spot of rage and pain, obliterating the image of Bakuma,
+his ivory, and everything. From the base of the spine to his neck he was
+criss-crossed with bloody weals administered with a kiboko (whip of
+hippopotamus hide) by one of the black giants who formed the door guard at
+the tent of Eyes-in-the-hands. More stimulating to his anger even than the
+excessive pain was the indignity, that he, MYalu, son of MBusa, a chief,
+had been flogged like a slave before all men! Could he have gotten free he
+would have leaped upon zu Pfeiffer, god or no, and torn him to pieces with
+hands and teeth. But he could scarcely move. Never had such an act been
+conceived by MYalu. The native dignity and reserve was shattered. He lay
+upon his belly and glared with the eyes of a maddened and tortured animal.
+
+The yellow glare in the open doorway was darkened, but MYalu did not stir.
+The figure of Yabolo, a short throwing sword in hand, moved towards him
+and squatted down, muttering greetings. MYalu made no response. Yabolo
+repeated the message from the spirit of Tarum.
+
+"Let thy spear be made sharp, O son of MBusa, that we may make the jackal
+who would command the lion to eat offal!" MYalu grunted. "The son of
+Bayakala saith that it will be soon, so that thou mayest yet eat of thy
+defiler ere thou art gone to ghostland." MYalu turned his head. "The son
+of MTungo and the son of Maliko," explained the old man, "have made magic
+upon the parts which thou didst foolishly leave within thy hut."
+
+Again MYalu merely grunted and turned away his head. But that dread news
+had quenched the white flame of anger. The spirits were wroth; even had
+they caused him to eat the dust before all men. Conviction in the efficacy
+of the magic for which he would have bought Marufa to make against Zalu
+Zako was as absolute as his faith in the death magic made against him by
+the two powerful witch-doctors, and intensified by the miraculous return
+of the Unmentionable One against whom he had committed sacrilege. He
+recollected the cry of the Baroto bird on the night on which he had
+kidnapped the Bride of the Banana. The spirit of Tarum was wroth. The
+mighty new King-God of the Unmentionable One was about to eat up all the
+enemies of the land. MYalu was convinced that he was doomed; certain that
+Yabolo knew that he was doomed; that every man knew that he was doomed.
+
+For ten minutes the figures, squatting and lying, remained as motionless
+as bronzes. Then MYalu rose to his knees and said calmly: "Give me thy
+sword, O son of Zingala."
+
+Silently Yabolo handed him the sword which MYalu placed beneath him and
+laid down again. So quietly he died.
+
+From the sacred hill blared the harsh cry of the yellow bird, as the
+natives called the trumpet, announcing that the august presence was in
+audience. But instead of the usual crowd of immobile figures squatted
+almost under the shadow of the pom-pom within the gate of the fort, sat
+only the messenger. Sakamata, knowing that something portended and yet not
+exactly what, was so scared that his skinny limbs quivered as if with an
+ague. Although he desired to warn Eyes-in-the-hands in order to save
+himself, he dared not attempt to do so lest the august one visit his anger
+upon his person; vague ideas of redeeming his treachery by delivering
+Eyes-in-the-hands over to his countrymen were stoppered by terror of the
+wrath of the Unmentionable One.
+
+So it was that the pomp of the Son-of-the-Earthquake and the glory of the
+soul of the World-Trembler with many charms upon his breast was reserved
+for the humble messenger who entered escorted by Sakamata. After bowing in
+the prescribed manner the messenger squatted at zu Pfeiffer's feet and
+addressed himself to the corporal interpreter.
+
+"The son of the Lord-of-many-lands, that is the King-God of the
+One-not-to-be-mentioned, sends greeting to the son of the World-Trembler,
+called Eyes-in-the-hands, and this message: 'Say unto the man of many
+tongues as well as many eyes that the jackal follows the lion that he may
+feed on the leavings; the voice of the hyena is loudest when he eateth
+offal!'"
+
+"What does the animal say?" demanded zu Pfeiffer, impatient of the native
+preamble.
+
+"He says, Bwana," said the interpreter, "that the white man is sick and
+cannot move, but that he will come as soon as he is well."
+
+From the folds of his loin cloth the messenger was dutifully extracting
+something wrapped up in a banana leaf, which he handed to the interpreter
+as he finished the message:
+
+"And by his slave he sendeth that which is mighty magic; such magic that
+he who toucheth it shall trumpet like unto a wounded cow elephant."
+
+"He says, Bwana," continued the interpreter glibly, "that he sends to the
+mighty Eater-of-Men a small present," and with the words the corporal
+guilelessly proffered the small package. Zu Pfeiffer took it and tore off
+the covering.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+Then was the magic of the new King-god of the Unmentionable One made
+manifest to all men, and particularly a group of chiefs hiding in a small
+thicket beneath the hill, for indeed did the Son-of-the-Earthquake trumpet
+like unto a wounded cow elephant at the sight of an ivory disc on which
+was written:
+
+"Amantes--Amentes!"
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 27
+
+
+All day at Fort Eitel had been stir and bustle, the blare of trumpets and
+the barking of sergeants, white and black. Long lines of women and slaves
+streamed in from the surrounding countryside bearing loads of corn and
+bananas. In the half-made parade ground at the foot of the hill of Kawa
+Kendi, half a company of Wongolo whom zu Pfeiffer had conscripted from the
+chiefs, stumbled and ran in awkward squads. In the hut of the Wongolo
+chiefs squatted Yabolo among the rest, silently observing the preparations
+for the punitive expedition which Sakamata had informed them was being
+prepared in response to the insolent challenge of the white man who had
+allied himself with the "rebels." But over them, as well as every Wongolo
+in and about the place, was a sullen air not of defiance but of expectant
+listening.
+
+In the mess hut a nervous Bakunjala prepared the table for dinner, the
+whites of his eyes rolling at every sound of zu Pfeiffer's voice from the
+marquee adjoining. Never in his experience, nor in that of other servants
+or soldiers, had the demon so utterly possessed the dread Eater-of-Men as
+since the receipt of some terrible magic sent to him by the white man.
+Opinion was divided as to whether this white man was the one who had been
+arrested and sent to the coast with Corporal Inyira or whether he was a
+brother; some said that the magic leaf which the messenger had brought was
+the soul of the white man, others maintained that it was the incarnation
+of Bakra, which explained why the Eater-of-Men was so entirely possessed.
+Had he not screamed? they demanded, which clearly proved, as everybody
+knew, the dreadful agony as the ghost entered into the body.
+
+Even the white sergeants were frightened of their chief. They had been
+seen talking together secretly, doubtless discussing what medicine they
+could give him to exorcise the demon. Had he not been commanded by this
+demon to leave the safety of the fort where they had the guns on the
+hills, and to go into the forest where, as anybody knew, their eyes would
+be taken from them so that they could not see to kill the dogs of Wongolo?
+They were all conscious, native-like, that something was brewing among the
+Wongolo, but what it was exactly they did not know. Two men had had fifty
+lashes that morning because they had not saluted the totem--flag--correctly;
+and a Wongolo chief had been shot because he had not brought in the amount
+of ivory commanded. None dared to warn the Eater-of-Men. Some one had said
+that the "leaf" was the soul of the idol come to lead the Eater-of-Men to
+destruction. This idea took deep root among the Wunyamwezi soldiers, for
+although they had delighted in the slaughter and rapine under the
+leadership of the Eater-of-Men, yet always had there been an uneasy
+feeling of sacrilege in destroying an idol.
+
+In the half of the marquee reserved for the Kommandant's private quarters
+sat zu Pfeiffer in his camp chair with the inevitable stinger at his
+elbow. Erect by the door stood Sergeant Schultz taking details for the
+disposition of stores and troops during the absence of the punitive
+expedition. Never had he in four years' service seen the lieutenant as he
+was now. Although Schultz could speak Kiswahili fluently he knew no word
+of Munyamwezi, else he might have been disposed to agree with Bakunjala
+and his friends. As it was he thought that the Herr Lieutenant had gotten
+a touch of the sun or was drinking too heavily or perhaps a bit of both;
+for to his mind the act of dividing up their scanty forces and leaving
+their fortified positions to enter the forest, with no chance of keeping
+open the line of communication, appeared to be military suicide.
+
+He deemed it his duty to bring this point of view to his Kommandant's
+notice, but he was uncomfortably aware of zu Pfeiffer's headstrong
+character.
+
+"What time does the moon set, sergeant?" demanded zu Pfeiffer.
+
+"About three, Excellence."
+
+"Good. Then at five precisely the column will move. Warn Sergeant
+Schneider."
+
+"Ya, Excellence."
+
+"You will transfer the remainder of your men and the Nordenfeldt as soon
+as we have gone."
+
+"Ya, Excellence."
+
+"That is all, sergeant."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer dropped his head wearily on to his hand. Schultz remained
+rigidly by the door. Zu Pfeiffer glanced up peevishly.
+
+"I said that was all, sergeant," he exclaimed tetchily.
+
+"Ya, Excellence."
+
+"Herr Gott, what are you standing there for like a stuffed pig?"
+
+Schultz saluted.
+
+"Excellence, it is my duty to remind your Excellence that according to
+regulation 47 of {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}"
+
+"To hell with you and your regulations, damn you.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Will you leave me
+alone!" The last was almost a plea.
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+Schultz saluted briskly and went. Again zu Pfeiffer's head dropped on to
+the cupped hand and he gazed at the portrait in the ivory frame.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Against
+the blue twilight of the door appeared a tall figure in white.
+
+"What in the name of----" began zu Pfeiffer.
+
+"Chakula tayari, Bwana," announced Bakunjala timidly.
+
+"I don't want any chakula," said zu Pfeiffer. "Wait. Bring some here."
+
+"Bwana!"
+
+Bakunjala fled, to reappear almost instantly with a covered plate, which
+he placed on the table as bidden and vanished. Zu Pfeiffer regarded
+distastefully his favourite dish of curried eggs. Then he bawled
+irritably:
+
+"Lights, animal!"
+
+"Bwana!" gasped Bakunjala appearing in the doorway with the lamp.
+
+But zu Pfeiffer pushed the plate away to stare at the photograph of
+Lucille. The stare turned to a glare, and then as if mutinying against his
+god, as Kawa Kendi had done when summoning rain, he suddenly snatched at
+the frame and flung it upon the floor with an oath, grabbed up a fountain
+pen and began to write.
+
+Indeed zu Pfeiffer was half insane with anger which he was disposed to
+vent upon Lucille by proxy as the source of yet another trouble and
+possibly official disgrace. He had not had a notion that Birnier could
+have survived the gentle hands of the corporal until without warning came
+that ivory disc with "Amantes--Amentes!" scribbled upon it, which not only
+inferred that Birnier had escaped, but that he was near to him and
+intended to champion these native dogs against the Imperial Government in
+the person of himself.
+
+The message had been made the more insulting by the note of exclamation at
+the end implying derisive laughter. It had, as Birnier had calculated that
+it would, struck zu Pfeiffer upon the most tender spot in his mental
+anatomy, evoking a homicidal mania which dominated his consciousness. To
+be cheated, to be swindled, to be sworn at, cursed, even to be beaten was
+sufferable to a degree, but to be laughed at--zu Pfeiffer's haughty soul
+exploded like a bomb at an impact. For a time he had been absolutely
+incoherent with rage. His one impulse had been to rush out and tear
+Birnier limb from limb. Well might the listening natives believe in the
+mighty magic of the new King-God, that it should make the
+Son-of-the-Earthquake to trumpet like a wounded cow elephant!
+
+Then out of the dissolving acrid smoke of wounded pride begin to loom
+arbitrary points. First, that Birnier would have complained, as he once
+had threatened to do, to Washington, which would infuriate the authorities
+in Berlin; and secondly, that he would have written to Lucille revealing
+the attempt he had made upon the life of her husband as well as the things
+he had said. How Birnier had escaped was immaterial, but the particular
+fate that awaited Corporal Inyira was decided but futilely; for the bold
+son of Banyala and his merry men were footing it to the south of lake
+Tanganika, scared by day lest the long arm of the Eater-of-Men should
+overtake them and haunted by the terror of seeing another illuminated
+ghost by night.
+
+As the jewelled hand glittered in the lamp-light came the mutter of a
+distant drum on the moist darkness; zu Pfeiffer, abnormally irritable,
+raised his head, scowled, and muttering that he would have to issue an
+order to have the drums stopped, bent again to the uncongenial task of
+finishing the report due for headquarters before he left. The drum ceased;
+began again and was answered by another drum seemingly nearer at hand.
+
+Five or ten minutes elapsed. As zu Pfeiffer took up a fresh sheet of paper
+a shot rang out followed instantly by yells. Zu Pfeiffer with an oath
+sprang to his feet, snatched at the revolver hanging above his camp bed
+and rushed out as a fusillade of shots mingled with wilder cries. The
+gruff coughs of the corporal in charge of the guard competed with the
+sharp barks of Sergeant Schultz. Zu Pfeiffer, bawling for a sergeant, ran
+to the great gate where the pom-pom was stationed. On the opposite hill
+red flashes of rifle fire darted downwards. Came another outburst of
+yelling. Forms of askaris scurrying to their places round the fence
+brushed by him on every side.
+
+"Sergeant Schultz!" shouted zu Pfeiffer.
+
+A figure in white appeared beside him in the darkness.
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+"Put the gun on them! Quick!"
+
+At the bark of the sergeant the gun crew, already at their post, deftly
+manipulated the machine which coughed angry red bursts of flame into the
+darkness. The cries and howls ceased as suddenly as they had begun.
+
+"Cease fire!" commanded zu Pfeiffer.
+
+In the resulting stillness muttered shouts and cries from somewhere in the
+village below were punctuated by odd shots from the other hill.
+
+"Sergeant Ludwig!" yelled zu Pfeiffer.
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+"Report!" snapped zu Pfeiffer.
+
+"An unknown body of natives attacked and killed the sentry on the eastern
+gate, Excellence," came Sergeant Ludwig's voice from the gloom. "They
+entered and were repulsed according to instructions. That is all,
+Excellence."
+
+"Losses?"
+
+"None other, Excellence."
+
+"What about the lower guards?"
+
+"I do not know, Excellence."
+
+"Take a platoon and investigate. We will cover you with the gun."
+
+"Excellence."
+
+The mutter of his orders was drowned in the excited jabber of the askaris.
+
+"Didimalla!" came the dreaded voice of the Eater-of-Men. Instantly there
+was silence. "Report!" commanded zu Pfeiffer to Sergeant Schultz.
+
+"A body of natives attacked upon the western gate, Excellence. They were
+repulsed."
+
+"Losses?"
+
+"Two men killed and three wounded."
+
+"Ugm! Where's the interpreter?"
+
+"Bwana!"
+
+Cloth creaked as the man saluted in the dark.
+
+"Where is Sakamata?" demanded zu Pfeiffer in Kiswahili.
+
+"Here, Excellence," replied Sergeant Schultz. "He was running away. I had
+him arrested."
+
+"Good. Bring the animal to my quarters."
+
+"Excellence."
+
+The sergeant and the interpreter, with a trembling Sakamata between them,
+followed zu Pfeiffer to the tent. As he entered he picked up the portrait
+in the ivory frame and replaced it carefully on the table and sat down.
+
+"Ask the shenzie why he has not informed us of this attack?"
+
+The interpreter put the question to the terrified old man who mumbled that
+he had not known anything about it.
+
+"Ugm!" grunted zu Pfeiffer. "Send for a file of men, sergeant, and---- No!"
+Zu Pfeiffer rose. "I'll get the truth out of him. Stand aside, corporal!"
+
+The corporal obeyed with alacrity as jerking his revolver downwards zu
+Pfeiffer pulled the trigger. The shot took off two of Sakamata's smaller
+toes. The corporal grinned in appreciation. Zu Pfeiffer experienced a
+shadow of the pleasure he would have had in mutilating Birnier.
+
+"Pull him up!" commanded zu Pfeiffer. "Now ask him again!"
+
+For a moment or two Sakamata, scarcely conscious of any pain in his
+fright, could not comprehend what was said; at length he mumbled and
+muttered. The interpreter lowered his head to listen.
+
+"Well?"
+
+"He says, Bwana, that he does not know anything; that they will not tell
+him, but that he has heard that the god has come back."
+
+"The god! What god?"
+
+"The god which these shenzie (savages) had here before the Bwana came."
+
+"The idol!" Zu Pfeiffer ripped out an oath. Then glaring questioningly at
+the shrunken figure on the floor considered.
+
+"Tell him he lies. How does he know that the idol has come back if they
+will not tell him anything?"
+
+Again the interpreter jabbered at Sakamata who mumbled back.
+
+"He says, Bwana, that his words are white. That they have not told him,
+but that he has heard the message of the drums. 'The Fire is lighted!'"
+
+"What is that?"
+
+"I don't know, Bwana."
+
+"Ask him, you swine pig!"
+
+"He says that whenever there is a new king that they call out those words,
+meaning that he is come."
+
+"Ugm!" Zu Pfeiffer took out a cigar and lighted it as he considered. I
+believe the animal is right, he reflected. That swinehund American has
+done this! He turned sharply to Sergeant Schultz: "Post double guards;
+bring me Ludwig's report and take this thing away and have it shot."
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+The party went out. Zu Pfeiffer sat smoking fiercely. A single shot rang
+out. Presently came Sergeant Ludwig in person.
+
+"I have to report, Excellence, that the investigation infers that the
+attack was only made with the purpose of freeing the sons of chiefs, for
+the picket has been slain but all the others are unhurt save three
+wounded."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer swore mightily, but he dismissed the sergeant with an
+admonition to have his troops ready for inspection at four-thirty. He
+drank a brandy neat and sat on, staring at the darkness. Then suddenly he
+exclaimed and wheeled to the abandoned report.
+
+"This is an undeniable overt act," he muttered, seeing what he considered
+an opportunity to neutralise the suppositious complaint which Birnier had
+sent to Washington; and taking up his pen began a formal accusation
+against Birnier, as an American subject, for having violated the
+international laws of the Geneva Convention by aiding and abetting rebels
+of his Imperial Majesty.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 28
+
+
+Sergeant Schultz's gloomy foreboding of the inevitable result attending
+the refusal to follow the teachings of his national preceptors was
+justified.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer, crazed with wounded pride or magic, according to the white or
+black point of view, had held rigidly to his schedule; precisely at
+four-thirty he had inspected the expedition and marched at the first
+streak of dawn. Schultz removed to the other hill, leaving twenty-five men
+and a gun under a black sergeant. Afterwards he visited the village. The
+bodies of five of the picket were lying in the sun mutilated. Not a native
+of any sort was to be seen or heard. He sent out scouts. A village a
+couple of miles away was deserted too. He wished to burn the huts and
+plantation to clear the ground around the fort but he dared not do so
+without orders. Muttering to himself he returned and posted double
+sentries.
+
+Throughout the day and the moonlight not a sound of a drum or the voice of
+a native disturbed the moist heat. He slept for a while and then took to
+pacing upon the levee outside the fort. He was aware of a restlessness
+among the men. About midnight a nervous sentry fired at a moving shadow in
+the village. Erratic shots followed; flickered and ceased at the
+sergeant's angry order. The trees seemed to whisper mockingly. The
+sergeant decided that it must have been a prowling jackal or hyena; but
+the incident made him irritable.
+
+In ordinary circumstances he would have posted picket sentries as provided
+by the regulations, but he could not spare any of his fifty men, for in
+the case of an attack they would never regain the fort. The moon sank as
+if reluctantly, seeming to hesitate upon the fringe of banana fronds at
+something that she alone could see. But the night creaked slowly on.
+Schultz knew that the favourite hour for an attack was just at the first
+glimmer of dawn when the spirits are making for their homes and the light
+is deceptive.
+
+He was standing in front of the Nordenfeldt when a sentry's keener ears
+caught a peculiar whispering rustle. As Schultz turned his head to listen,
+the whisper grew in volume to the sound of a hail-storm--the patter of bare
+feet on sand. Faint light on spears rippled round the base of the hills.
+Schultz sprang inside the barrier barking at his men to open fire. He
+deflected the muzzle of his gun and began pumping nickel into the
+advancing mass of yelling figures.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+The rush carried the fort; for the defenders were out-numbered by fifty to
+one. Schultz fell under a dozen spear thrusts. The askaris were massacred
+to a man before the sun rose inquiringly beyond the sacred hill of Kawa
+Kendi.
+
+When all the bloody acts of war were done and the triumphant yelling
+quietened, there came from across the river a pulsing trickle of sound in
+the sizzling heat, which was answered by a thundering crash of spear
+against shield and the "Ough! Ough!" of three thousand warriors gathered
+upon the hill to do homage to the Unmentionable One.
+
+Across the river, at the ford where Bakuma had sung her swan song, came
+the procession led by the craft in full panoply. In the van stalked
+Bakahenzie, grave and solemn as befitted the high priest. Around him
+capered with untiring energy a group of lesser wizards whose duties were
+as those of professional dancers, having dried bladders and magic beads
+fastened to their ankles and wrists. Then behind Marufa a litter was borne
+by sacred slaves doomed to perish after performing their holy office, in
+which, swathed entirely from the public gaze, was Usakuma, the Incarnation
+of the Unmentionable One. In another litter, as securely screened, was the
+son of the Lord-of-many-Lands, endeavouring to endure a perpetual bath of
+sweat in the sacred cause, peeking professorial eyes through the
+interstices, scribbling in a notebook. Behind again marched Mungongo
+bearing a smouldering brand of the Sacred Fire; then Yabolo, reinstated in
+office for a reason that any politician will understand. After him came
+more litters bearing the magic "things" of the Incarnation of an
+Incarnation, the King-God.
+
+As they splashed across the river, like troops of bronze gazelle, women
+and girls dashed eager to gather of fertility from the water enchanted by
+the passage of the Bearer of the World.
+
+So they came through the banana plantation and up the wide street which
+the Son-of-the-Earthquake had planned. The chant quavered like a dragonfly
+in the sun and the chorus of the warriors replied with the rhythm and the
+profundity of gargantuan frogs. Then as Bakahenzie stepped upon the
+incline of the hill, burst from the women the cricket song which is made
+tremolo by the rapid beating of the fingers upon the lips, as from the
+drums went out the message over the land that the Unmentionable One had
+indeed returned to the Place of Kings, the City of the Snake.
+
+Ten minutes later a half-stewed god, as exhausted as any emperor after a
+state parade, was permitted to emerge from the litter and to recuperate
+within the cool of the unfinished house that was to have been the bungalow
+of the Kommandant. No one else save the Keeper of the Fires, Bakahenzie
+and Marufa, were within the stockade which ringed the fort. Outside rose
+the mutter and rumble of the warriors and the cries of the women. The
+huddled lines of huts which had been barracks were already in process of
+demolition at the hands of the slaves, and the square within the fort was
+cleared of the slain askaris by the simple process of heaving the bodies
+over the palisade. The idol remained within the litter until the
+consecrating of the defiled ground should be performed by Bakahenzie and
+the craft.
+
+No Wongolo nor any wizard, not even Bakahenzie, would touch the enchanted
+coughing monsters; but as the holy slaves were already doomed they were
+set to pull and to push the Nordenfeldt from the embrasure beside the
+entrance across the levee until it toppled over and rolled half-way down
+the hill, where it was allowed to stay, surrounded from morning to night
+by a crowd of women and children and idle warriors.
+
+The thirst which afflicted Birnier rendered him oblivious of his godhood
+and of the sacred office of Mungongo who was dutifully busy upon his knees
+blowing up the sacred fires from the ember which he had carried; so that
+at a summons to bring water he was both embarrassed and awed, for the
+presence of the High Priest intensified his natural terror of breaking any
+of the meshes of the tabu. At the second imperative demand Bakahenzie
+soothed the angry god by commanding a slave to run to fetch water from
+without. But even then Birnier had the parched felicity of waiting while
+the High Priest solemnly exorcised the gourd of water which, as all food,
+could not be permitted to pass the lips of the King-God without the
+prescribed incantations.
+
+However, within quite a reasonable time the sacred prisoner was
+accommodated with the possession of his goods, magic and culinary. The
+bungalow of the Kommandant, Birnier gathered, was to be converted into the
+temple after the ceremony of purification, and the idol was to stand in
+front in the place occupied by its predecessor at the coronation of the
+late Kawa Kendi.
+
+All that day were Bakahenzie and Marufa and the wizards working hard at
+the various ceremonies of purification of those who had slain, the
+consecration of the Holy Hill, and the exorcising of the evil spirits
+attached thereto by the residence of the Son-of-the-Earthquake. Meanwhile
+Birnier and Mungongo were left to themselves within the enclosure to
+listen to the chanting and thrumming of the drums. Birnier had much to do
+in compiling his notes and reflections; Mungongo nothing save to prepare
+their meals and attend the Sacred Fires.
+
+Exactly what had happened Birnier did not know and could not extract from
+Bakahenzie, who adopted his usual effective method of ignoring every
+direct question. Before they had left the place in the forest he had
+informed Birnier that the commands of the spirit of Tarum through the
+magic ear had been performed, but with what restrictions, modifications,
+or embroideries, Birnier had no means of ascertaining. His definite
+knowledge was that Zalu Zako, together with other chiefs and a vast crowd
+of warriors, were to remain in the forest where zu Pfeiffer was to be led
+into ambush by the power of the magic which he had sent, the American
+flag, an idea which certainly tickled Birnier's sense of humour
+considerably, particularly as it appealed to him, if successful, as an
+ideal case of poetic justice.
+
+That zu Pfeiffer's fort had fallen was obvious, although what the
+disposition of his forces had been and of how the assault had been
+carried, Birnier had no idea. But of one thing he was reasonably sure, and
+that was that his analysis of zu Pfeiffer's reactions and the
+psychological effect upon the natives of having the idol reinstated in the
+Place of Kings, had been entirely correct. After all, as he admitted with
+a smile, zu Pfeiffer's system of native psychology had been based on the
+same fundamental principles as his own except that he had not reckoned
+with the unknown quantity, the equal intelligence working against him and
+able to discount his moves, plus heavier artillery in the form of an
+emotional broadside, the possibility of which rather naturally had never
+occurred to him.
+
+An item which worried Birnier was that he had no means, and could hope for
+none apparently, of discovering whether and to what extent his orders
+through the phonograph had been carried out regarding the treatment of the
+white men. Their fate at the hands of the Wongolo, particularly after the
+merciless massacres inflicted by zu Pfeiffer, would scarcely bear
+imagining. From the fact of the instant and apparently easy success of the
+assault on the forts, he did not doubt that zu Pfeiffer, who had been
+foolish enough to be lured into dividing his forces, was doomed to defeat.
+In this instance he would not have any of the advantages of his triumphal
+entry into the country; would not be able to accomplish a surprise attack,
+and the weakening of the native moral by massacre and the downfall of the
+idol; in fact he had these very forces against him: for the success of
+their first venture, their overwhelming numbers in the forest, the
+exaltation of fanaticism excited by the restoration of their tribal god,
+practically tacked a label of suicide upon his military actions.
+
+During that day Bakahenzie, evidently too busy with the duties of his
+office, did not come near to him. But that evening, in order to ensure as
+far as possible obedience to his orders through the mouth of the oracle,
+Birnier caused Mungongo to chant further instructions into the phonograph
+commanding that the Son-of-the-Earthquake was to be brought alive to
+receive judgment from the Unmentionable One through the Incarnation, the
+son of the Lord-of-many-Lands. Whether this would work or not Birnier of
+course could not know. Already had he discovered that nobody could control
+the complicated machinery of the native tabu any more than any one
+statesman could manage always any vast political machine; indeed he, as
+many others, might more than conceivably be ground up by the gargantuan
+engine with whose starting lever he had played. All he could do had been
+done; nothing remained but to adopt Marufa's favourite maxim: "wait and
+see."
+
+In the evening Mungongo, who had at length been persuaded to project his
+eyes beyond the sacred ground even if he would not his feet, reported that
+much chanting and drumming indicated that the warriors, or a great number
+of them, had departed, evidently to reinforce the troops of Zalu Zako or
+with the object of taking zu Pfeiffer in the rear: a fact which made
+Birnier a little uneasy lest the news of the fall of the station might
+bring zu Pfeiffer to his senses and cause him to return, in which case the
+position might prove to be somewhat uncomfortable.
+
+However, the night passed to the soft thrumming of the drums. At dawn
+appeared Bakahenzie as solemnly as usual. He began by demanding that the
+"pod of the soul" of Tarum should be prepared to listen to him. Birnier
+observed a slight increase in the domineering manner and realized more
+keenly that unless he checked that tendency the worthy High Priest would
+become altogether unmanageable.
+
+Birnier commanded Mungongo to bring forth the instrument and reproduced
+for Bakahenzie's benefit the oration of the previous night. Bakahenzie
+listened solemnly, grunted acquiescence, and again made his request.
+Birnier refused abruptly. Again Bakahenzie grunted acceptance which caused
+Birnier to speculate upon what move the wily doctor had in mind. However,
+after the usual starting of false trails, he announced that the
+consecration of the idol would take place that day and began to instruct
+the new god in his divine duties. That there was something unusual in the
+form, either exaggerated or curtailed, Birnier gathered from Bakahenzie's
+method of expounding the rites; and the solution came in the announcement,
+just before leaving, that as soon as the Son-of-the-Earthquake had been
+"eaten up," that he, Bakahenzie, would summon the craft and the people to
+the Harvest Festival.
+
+The form of the statement again drew Birnier's attention to the fact that
+Bakahenzie was assuming the reins of power far too fast for his
+satisfaction; that unless he contrived to put on the curb he would never
+attain the goal of a beneficent agent nor be able to satisfy his
+professional curiosity.
+
+However, when he had gone, Birnier began anew to question Mungongo
+regarding the reputed ceremonies of the festival, but beyond the fact that
+it was an occasion allied to the Christian-Pagan festival of a kind of
+thanksgiving for the harvest and sacrifice to the god which involved the
+ceremony of the marriage of the Bride of the Banana, Mungongo knew
+nothing.
+
+In the afternoon Birnier was required to preside at the consecrating of
+the ground and the setting up of the idol. But all he had to do was to
+squat silently in front of the new temple and before Bakahenzie and the
+group of the cult, while the concourse of the other wizards and the few
+chiefs that were not away grunted a belly chorus upon the levee without.
+The ceremony was disappointing as ceremonies go, for beyond the stewing in
+the great calabash of a magic concoction with which to anoint the hole for
+the feet of the idol, the doorposts of the temple and the House of Fires,
+to the accompaniment of the usual chanting and drumming, it was ended by a
+dance, with Bakahenzie as the premier danseur.
+
+After his evening meal of boiled chicken, goat flesh and milk, Birnier
+squatted in the doorway of his new quarters smoking. He had no lights as
+his store of carbide was finished. Before leaving for the forest to carve
+the Incarnation of the new Unmentionable One, he had had the forethought
+to despatch a messenger to a certain village on the great lake to
+intercept his carriers with goods and the mail for which he had sent after
+escaping from the noble son of Banyala; he had already informed Bakahenzie
+of the coming of a fresh stock of magic and impressed upon him that great
+precaution must be taken to ensure that it came directly to him, lest
+contact with strangers should offend the spirits. Bakahenzie had assented
+in his usual non-committal manner, a manner that was beginning to get upon
+Birnier's nerves.
+
+As he smoked, staring up at the great moon over the sinister head of the
+idol framed in the green light, he observed that the day after the next
+would be the full moon, the Harvest Moon, the time of the yearly festival.
+Then, by a coincidence which sometimes seems to have a telepathic basis as
+explanation, he heard a curious soft sound from apparently behind the hut.
+Mungongo, squatting near his Sacred Fires in the immobile manner of the
+native, heard the sound too. Again a sibilant whisper, almost like the
+hiss of a snake, brought a "Clk" of astonishment to Mungongo's lips. He
+rose swiftly and disappeared behind the hut. Another muffled exclamation
+of astonishment aroused Birnier's curiosity. He followed, to find Mungongo
+leaning over the palisade as if speaking to some one.
+
+"Ehh!" murmured a familiar voice. "'Tis Moonspirit!"
+
+With a grunt of horror Mungongo turned upon Birnier and began to push him
+away, gasping: "She is accursed! If the evil of her eyes rest upon thee
+thou art sick unto death!"
+
+"The devil take you!" muttered Birnier, angry at the touch of force; then
+recollecting that the tabu forbade alien eyes to gaze on his sacred body
+upon which the world depended, he realized that Mungongo was trying to
+save him. He held him off by the arms, saying: "Be quiet, thou fool! Hath
+not my magic shown thee that I am above all magic?"
+
+Mungongo appeared to consider that there was some truth in the statement
+and at any rate it gave him something to think about. He stood passively
+but as if momentarily expecting Birnier, magic or no, to melt before his
+eyes. Bending over the fence Birnier saw the slender form of Bakuma
+crouched against the earth.
+
+"What dost thou here, O little one?" he whispered, for of course he knew
+nothing of her fate after the abduction by MYalu.
+
+So horror-struck at her own temerity in approaching the person of the
+King-God was she that she dared not raise her eyes as she stuttered:
+
+"A demon hath driven the bird of my soul into the net of thy wrath."
+
+"Still the black wings in thy breast, O Bakuma," said Birnier, trying to
+soothe the child. "Come thou within and show thy father thy bosom."
+
+"Ehh! Ehh!" gasped Bakuma, quivering in greater panic than ever.
+
+Aware of the danger Birnier stooped, took her by the arms and lifted her
+over the palisade, remarking the violent trembling of the frail little
+body whose limbs seemed like candles.
+
+"Come thou," said Birnier, moving towards the hut.
+
+But she cowered where he had dumped her, covering her eyes with her hands
+so that she gazed not upon the sacred body. Mungongo stood like a tree,
+the whites of terrified eyes glimmering in the moonlight. Birnier picked
+up the girl and carried her into the hut, followed by a quaking Keeper of
+the Sacred Fires.
+
+"Go, thou fool," commanded Birnier, "and watch that none approaches!"
+Mungongo gasped. But he obeyed. "Now, little one," continued Birnier,
+"bare thy bosom that I may know how to make the magic of healing."
+
+Squatting on the threshold, her emaciated arms still covering her eyes,
+Bakuma strove to obey. At length she faltered out the story of her double
+abduction. The capture by the askaris had made but little difference to
+her, for, as she phrased it, the beak of her soul was like unto the mouth
+of the crocodile. Her captor had thrust her into a hut in the village
+together with some other female captives, but as the man had had to
+continue his military duties, night had fallen before he returned, by
+which time she had bribed some of the women, whose captivity was not as
+loathsome to them as the pride of their race should have made it, with a
+powerful charm which Birnier had given her, a nickel-plated razor-strop.
+She had escaped. But more fearful of her doom as the Bride of the Banana
+than she was of MYalu or the askaris, she had hidden in the forest, living
+upon wild fruit and roots. Then had she heard the drums announcing the
+return of the Unmentionable One, and aware that Moonspirit had gone into
+the forest to seek Him, had guessed that he was triumphant. Away in the
+jungle she had heard the sound of the rejoicing at the homecoming of the
+King-God; had hesitated, and at last she had come to Moonspirit, in spite
+of his divinity, in the fluttering hope of aid, driven by a demon to break
+another tabu, the same demon which urges so many to break magic
+circles--the subconscious love motive.
+
+Poor kid! commented Birnier to himself as he regarded the pitiful cowering
+form. We haven't gotten the nuptial torches for you yet, but we will, by
+God!{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Give me thine ear, O little one.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} But as he talked to her, soothing
+the terror by promises of mightier magic, came Mungongo crying in a
+terrified whisper that Bakahenzie was claiming audience. At the back of
+the next room of the bungalow, built upon a plan of the one in Ingonya,
+was a bathroom, and into that was Bakuma hurried and bidden to lie as
+quiet as a crocodile.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 29
+
+
+Bakahenzie had come to announce that the certain magic "things," which a
+messenger had brought from the white man's country, had arrived. Although
+he could not expect an answer to his letter to Lucille in Europe, there
+might be others; and such an event as the receipt of a mail once in six
+months is apt to be exciting. Birnier forgot his r�le for the moment,
+leaped to his feet preparatory to rushing out to meet the runner, but a
+grunt from Bakahenzie and an alarmed cry from Mungongo were just in time
+to prevent him from jeopardizing the stability of the world and all that
+he had won by violating the tabu by stepping beyond the sacred ground.
+Other gods and emperors have indeed wrecked empires through a lesser
+aberration. Even realization of the penalty was scarcely enough to hobble
+his impatient legs, for the very suggestion of what the mail represented
+melted the fetters of this native world as wax in the sun.
+
+Indeed more effort of will was required to return to his god-like throne
+upon the camp-bed, and to amble through the etiquette which discussion of
+such an important matter demanded, than to carry the idol on his back
+through the forest and bear the sound thrashing to boot. Then as a further
+test, Bakahenzie slowly developed a dictum that the magic things could not
+be permitted to enter the sacred enclosure until they had been disinfected
+from the multitude of evil eyes through which they must have passed. At
+that the god came near to swearing or weeping, he did not know which.
+
+But as he fumed inwardly he recollected that at any moment Zalu Zako and
+his troops might return; or if the battle had gone the other way, then zu
+Pfeiffer; in the former case the excitement would still further delay the
+goods and mail, and the latter event might entail the complete loss. As
+well as the growing irritation caused by Bakahenzie's interminable list of
+tabus was the necessity of proclaiming, or rather gaining, his authority
+before he could be of any assistance either to Bakuma, the white men or
+himself. Indeed he had been waiting the arrival of these goods to secure
+the subjection of Bakahenzie to his will. He determined that the trial
+should be now. Merely to demand would, he felt, arouse the obstinacy of
+the chief witch-doctor, who would never, unless compelled by force or
+cunning, give up the reins of power which to him was the _raison d'�tre_
+of his life. Birnier must attack through the line of least resistance.
+With the carriers bearing the mail was a case of "imprisoned stars"
+(rockets) and a special cinema outfit, so that Birnier felt that he could
+afford to explode the last manifestation of magic which remained to him.
+After a judicious interval, he said to Bakahenzie:
+
+"O son of Maliko, is not my tongue the tongue of the Unmentionable One?"
+
+"He who knoweth all things knoweth that which is white," retorted
+Bakahenzie.
+
+"Verily. Therefore do thou cause to be brought that which is come, that
+which the fingers of the Unmentionable One are hungry to touch. Thou
+knowest his power of magic. Therefore are the evil eyes of the multitude
+but dry leaves in the wind of his breath."
+
+"Indeed thy words are white, O son of the Lord-of-many-Lands."
+
+"Depart then that the hunger of His fingers may be appeased."
+
+"The drums speak not yet of the eating up of Eyes-in-the-hands. Hath not
+the ear of the spirit of Tarum spoken upon these matters?" inquired
+Bakahenzie in his favourite dialectical manner.
+
+"The spirit of Tarum hath naught to say to thee," replied Birnier, "but
+the fingers of Tarum will to make thee to itch even as his fingers."
+
+Birnier called to Mungongo who brought and placed at his feet a fairly
+powerful electric battery. Bakahenzie eyed the box; curiosity was keenly
+awakened. He stared interestedly when Birnier raised the lid. Taking the
+handles he said:
+
+"These, O son of Maliko, are the hands of Tarum made manifest. He wishes
+that thou shouldst feel the itch of his desire!" and with the words he
+clapped one handle to the belly and the other at the base of the spine of
+the chief witch-doctor. Bakahenzie convulsed as he was compelled to do.
+Swiftly Birnier applied the shock to the shoulders, holding the handles
+there as he remarked to a violently trembling Bakahenzie: "Behold! the
+itch of the fingers of Tarum!"
+
+But as he lowered his hands towards the spine again, Bakahenzie moved
+rapidly and with no dignity.
+
+Solemnly Birnier replaced the handles and closed the lid, and said
+quietly:
+
+"Thou hast felt, O brother magician, that the fingers of Tarum do itch
+indeed?"
+
+"Truly!" responded Bakahenzie with a celerity as unusual as the quaver in
+his voice. "Indeed thy words are white, O mightiest of magicians. What are
+indeed the evil eyes of savages against the power of thy magic, O son of
+the Lord-of-many-Lands!"
+
+And contrary to all precedent Bakahenzie rose and left. Within a quarter
+of an hour his voice announced that slaves with the magic "things" were
+without the palisade, and called upon Mungongo to go to the gate to fetch
+them as strangers were forbidden even to look upon the King-God. Birnier,
+by the light of a torch, opened the mail, sent a wad of letters and a
+sheaf of telegraph slips on to the floor, and snatched a long green
+envelope scrawled in French characters:
+
+Monsieur le Curateur du Jardin des Plantes.
+
+For a moment he stared at it perplexedly, for there was no stamp or
+cancellation.
+
+"What in the name----" he muttered as he slit it open.
+
+                                                     Entebbe,
+                                                           Ao�t 13, 19--
+
+Mon petit loup, what have you been doing? O� est tu? Comment et pourquoi?
+Oh, I am cross with you, with Monsieur le Professeur! Why do you write me
+so ridiculous a letter? I laugh, but always I laugh, so what good is that
+to you? I will not reply to your letter, mon vieux--jamais. But I will tell
+you so that you may know why I am here. Yes, parmi les animaux!
+
+Birnier winced at the phrase which seemed to come back at him like a
+boomerang from the lips of zu Pfeiffer.
+
+I am to go for vacation to Wiesbaden with some very terrible peoples. Oh,
+on me d�go�te! I have an engagement for the winter in Berlin as before. I
+have engagement for Paris--eh! but--pouf! Figure me on the charming
+_Mauretania_ and I am sitting on the deck where you once made yourself so
+ridiculous. Rappelle toi? I am sick--No, mon vieux, pas du mal de mer! I
+should not be for everybody to look at. Oh, no! I am sick, I tell you. Je
+r�ve de mon petit coco parmi les sales animaux! Je me dis: Zut! il est
+fou! il est tap�! Mais en moi m�me je l'adore! Tout de suite I tell a
+creature who brings me my books, my fan, un esp�ce de tapette, je m'en
+vais l�, moi! He ask me where? I tell him I go to look for mon amant in
+Afrique Centrale! Mais oui! He thinks I am mad! I tell him so and I laugh!
+How I laugh. But he is right, yes, je suis folle--de toi!
+
+Alors I come to Marseilles and I catch a boat to Mombassa. Ouf! Je vais
+mourir � cause de mon petit loup! La mer rouge! Quel cauchemar! Enfin I
+still arrive what of Lucille is left and I ask for you, for Monsieur le
+Professeur Americain, but no one knows you. On the boat I have attached to
+myself trois mousquetaires Anglais. Tous les trois sont dr�les! They bring
+me on the ever so funny little train to here. Entebbe. Les Anglais sont
+tr�s polis, tu sais! Monsieur le Gouverneur stop drinking whisky politely
+to tell me that Monsieur has been and has gone! Quelle horreur! You have
+gone but three days! Pense tu! I ask myself what have I done that the bon
+Dieu should be so unkind. Then quel malheur! I remember to myself that I
+commence to come to you on _Friday!_ You laugh! Yes, I laugh too but--Quien
+sabe? I commence to come to you on a Friday and you are gone three little
+days!
+
+Then my good friends, les trois mousquetaires, send for me a what they
+call a runner--the red peas--C'est dr�le! but the little pea black he did
+not find you. He brings a message that you had gone to some place with a
+terrible name.
+
+Then come the two most ridiculous letters. I will _not_ reply to any such
+ridiculous letters--jamais!
+
+Birnier scowled. Two letters? he muttered. What letters?
+
+You must come now. Immediately. I want you. I will wait here for you. You
+must leave your ridiculous animals as I have left mes affaires for you.
+Come to me. I wait for you.
+
+Lower down on the same page, but written with a thick pen, the letter
+continued:
+
+Again I have read your absurd letter. Tu es fou! You make such a noise
+because this foolish young man is jealous of mon mari and make you to go
+round the detestable country, which you like so much, instead of straight
+through to the ridiculous place you say you want to go.
+
+Birnier smiled grimly.
+
+Peuh! �coute, mon cher, it is true I have met the young man in Washington.
+Mon Dieu, are there not plenty of young men in Washington, Paris, Berlin?
+He fell in love with me. Mon Dieu, they are as thick as the blackberries!
+Perhaps I tease him pour faire la blague! Pourquoi pas? I give him a
+photograph and I sign it, just as I sign plenty for amusing friends. But
+then he become too ridiculous. He has no sense of humour comme tous les
+Allemands. He wishes to fight all my friends, tes compatriotes si sombres
+et graves! Figure toi! Then he make a challenge and naturellement it is
+not the custom in thy country. Mon pauvre petit Dorsay refuse and this
+person become crazy wild, as you say, and he strike him with his cane in
+the street. Quelle horreur! Quel scandale! He run away of course. The
+Embassy help him. Qui sait? That is the last I hear until I receive this
+ridiculous letter, together with thy ridiculous letter. I send him to you.
+How dr�le that you two should meet all among les animaux. It is so funny
+that he did not kill you, this monstre allemand! Tu es en cross encore
+avec moi? Zut! mon vieux it is not my fault that everybody goes mad after
+me except mon petit mari! Leave the ridiculous gar�on where he is. But why
+do I talk so much about a cochon? Because you are ridiculous! Tant pis
+pour toi! Now sois gentil and come to me _immediately_--unless you love
+your sales animaux plus que moi! If you do not come I will never never,
+jamais de ma vie, give you one single baiser again! No! Mille baisers!
+Mais comme je te deteste!
+
+                                                               LUCILLE.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 30
+
+
+Forty-eight hours later, the furious drumming, chanting and screaming
+heralded the return of the victorious troops of Zalu Zako. Birnier from
+his gaol on the hill watched the bronze flood pour like a stream of lava
+out of the plantation and flood the village, spears flashing silver points
+in the slanting rays of the sun. But what had happened to zu Pfeiffer and
+the white sergeants? No sign of them could he see. Waves of sound lapped
+continuously around the temple.
+
+The long mauve shadow of the hill ate up the village. Fires began to
+flicker amid the huts and away in the recesses of the plantation. The
+lowing of cattle added to the general clamour. As the western sky was
+still ablaze with incandescent colour stole the cold green of the
+advancing moon in the east.
+
+"Mungongo, what are thy brethren about to do?"
+
+"It is the Festival of the Harvest, as I have told thee, O son of the
+Lord-of-many-Lands."
+
+"But they have not the Bride?"
+
+"Nay." Mungongo glanced apprehensively towards the temple where in what
+was to have been a bathroom, was Bakuma hidden.
+"He-who-may-not-be-mentioned demands but blood. The Bride is the food of
+the wizards. But to each warrior is every woman his bride this night."
+
+"Why didst thou not tell me this thing before?" demanded Birnier, who knew
+that such was one of the customs of primitive tribes in all parts of the
+world and in all ages.
+
+"Thou didst not ask me," retorted Mungongo, to whom the affair was such a
+matter of course that it was not worth mentioning.
+
+"Do they make sacrifice?"
+
+"The Bride is married to the Banana, but of the manner of her nuptial know
+I not. Am I a wizard?"
+
+The divine king grimly watched his subjects. In the growing light flitted
+gnomes around the huts in and out the sepia caverns of the plantation. As
+a banana front was etched in sepia against the great moon, the ocean of
+clamour was cleft by the high treble of the tribal troubadour. At the
+bottom of the wide street appeared dancing figures. As they approached,
+Birnier could distinguish Bakahenzie, Marufa and Yabolo in the van,
+dressed in full panoply, whirling and leaping with untiring energy. Behind
+them shuffled and pranced a vast mass of warriors, behind whom again
+several hundred women shrilled and wriggled in the mighty chorus. The
+rhythm of the drums increased to the maddening action impulse of the two
+short--long beat:
+
+Pm-pm--Pommmmm! Pm-pm--Pommmmm! Pm-pm--Pommmmm!
+
+The treble solo of the chant darted above that throb and grunt like a mad
+bird skimming the turbulent tops of a dark forest.
+
+Pm-pm--Pommmmm! Pm-pm--Pommmmm! Pm-pm--Pommmmm!
+
+The rhythm seemed like a febrile pulse within Birnier's brain, dominating
+him with hypnotic suggestion to action. An urge to scream and to yell, to
+dance and to leap, plucked at his limbs. Resurgent desires from he knew
+not what subconscious catacombs, wriggled and struggled furiously within
+him. The great moon scattered blue stars upon the spears as if upon the
+green scales of some leviathan squirming in delirious torment.
+
+Control the twitching of his muscles to that rhythm Birnier could not. He
+had to fight to resist the waves of hysteria permeating the air. He
+glanced at Mungongo. The whites of his eyes were rolling. Birnier cursed
+the insistency of the drums and the orgiastical grunts. Forcibly he kept
+up a running fire of psychological explanations: "Annihilation of
+inhibitions {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} dissociation of personality {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} triumph of the subconscious
+animal," as a wizard muttering incantations against evil spirits. He felt
+dizzy. "God, I'm drunk with rhythm!" he exclaimed.
+
+The priests were entering the large gate of the outer enclosure. In the
+village and on the opposite hill the people resembled a swarm of black
+locusts. The drums ceased. Bakahenzie and Marufa and Yabolo ran straight
+towards him screeching. This was the cue.
+
+Birnier walked back slowly. In awful silence they began to push the idol.
+The wood creaked protestingly. Slowly the mass slid on to Birnier's back.
+He gripped it and began to walk to the entrance. As he passed Mungongo the
+Sacred Fires shot up yellow tongues. A sound like a moan rose dripping
+with screams and grew into a continuous thunder of noise. The drums
+rippled a furious tattoo. The three wizards dashed before him, leaping
+high in the air. Birnier shuffled a dozen yards to the left and turned. He
+stopped.
+
+Upon the ground, just within the outer gate in view of the multitude
+beyond, green ivory in the moonlight, was the naked figure of a white man.
+Above him pranced Bakahenzie in whose hand gleamed a knife.
+
+The training of his life enabled Birnier to throw upon the screen of his
+mind the essential points more rapidly than conscious thought. Bakahenzie,
+as well as the others, was in an abnormal state of excitement. There was
+no time to employ "magic" rockets or anything else. He swung the idol upon
+one shoulder and ran forward. He saw the blue eyes move and the bracelet
+wink in the moonlight as he stepped over the bound form. He bent,
+balancing the image upon his shoulders, and seized zu Pfeiffer by the arm.
+
+The throb of the drums and the roar of the people who knew not but that
+this act was in accordance with the rules, continued. The priests remained
+motionless: expectant. Bakahenzie stood rigid as if paralysed by the
+unexpected: the knife was a blue snake in his hand.
+
+Half blinded with sweat, with his muscles cracking, Birnier staggered on
+with the heavy burden, dragging the nude body after him. Hours seemed to
+pass, each second of which might bring a spear in his back before he
+reached the place before the temple. He slid the idol into the hole and
+turned.
+
+From the tumult of sound the screech of Bakahenzie shot up like a snipe
+from a rice field. The other wizards sprang with him. The moonlight kissed
+a spearhead beside the stone figure of Mungongo by the Sacred Fires.
+Birnier leaped, plucked the spear, caught zu Pfeiffer in his arms and
+raised him shoulder high that all might see.
+
+At the entrance of the enclosure Bakahenzie and the other two were
+arrested by astonishment. Lowering the body to the base of the idol which
+leaned sideways in a drunken leer, Birnier lifted the spear and brought it
+down accurately between zu Pfeiffer's left arm and breast, and dropping
+swiftly upon his knees to cover his actions, slashed his own left forearm.
+Then he jumped to his feet and held the blooded spear aloft as he cried
+aloud:
+
+"The god hath taken his own!"
+
+Bakahenzie was the first to see that the white breast of the victim was
+indeed deluged in blood; perhaps the veneration engendered by "the fingers
+of Tarum" moved beneath the blood lust.
+
+"The god hath taken his own!" he repeated in a piercing scream. Marufa
+echoed the shout. As they turned the cry was ricocheted beyond the
+farthest hill.
+
+"The god hath taken his own!"
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 31
+
+
+The reflection of a shaft of moonlight through the half-completed thatch
+upon zu Pfeiffer's "magic" mirror, which the natives had not dared to
+remove, set afire the sapphires upon his bracelet as he sat rigidly in a
+camp chair in a suit of pyjamas. Upon the bed lay Birnier, nursing his
+bandaged left arm. Now and again the thrumming, chanting and the shrilling
+of the saturnalia without rose into discordant yells like a gust of wind
+whipping tree-tops into fury.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer appeared taciturn and suspicious. Perhaps the slackening of
+his will, tautened to meet death as his caste demanded that he should, and
+the confrontation of the object of his violent hate, had completely
+unnerved him. When Birnier had dragged him within and cut his bonds, he
+had grunted curt, official thanks for the rescue. As sullenly he had
+hesitated at the offer of the pyjamas, but as if deciding that he could
+not retain any dignity in his own bloodied skin, had accepted them, as
+well as a sorely needed drink of water.
+
+The reaction after the crisis, and possibly the influence of the general
+hysteria in the air, had distorted Birnier's vision of things. He was very
+conscious of a neurotic desire to laugh unrestrainedly. Thus it was that
+for nearly half an hour the two men remained in the gloom in silence.
+Birnier had a psychological comprehension of the highly nervous tension of
+his guest. For he had long ago realized that the only solution of zu
+Pfeiffer's crazy statement that he was engaged to the wife of a man to
+whom he was speaking, indicated a form of insanity.
+
+A psychological law is that natural emotions must have an outlet; if they
+are repressed they are apt to cause a state of mental disease which in an
+aggravated form may lead the patient to the asylum, but in the incipient
+stage are as common as jackals in Africa. Zu Pfeiffer was suffering from
+such a case of mild psychosis. Brought up under an iron code which did not
+permit his instincts to react, the repressed emotions bubbled out in the
+form of a deification of his Kaiser and the adoration of Lucille, both
+states being absolutely apart from all reason, indeed approached to a
+state of dissociation of consciousness. The desired unattainable is
+projected into the dream plane, the realm of myth. Such a case is the
+historical one of the man who, keenly intelligent upon every subject
+mentioned, startles the visitor by the demand for a piece of toast,
+gravely explaining that he is a poached egg and that he wishes to sit
+down; or as Pascal, who ever had beside him the great black dog. To
+attempt to rationalise with such an one was merely to excite the insane
+part of him. So it was that Birnier determined to ignore the subject
+entirely, perfectly aware that the sullenness of the man sitting in the
+camp chair opposite to him was caused by an exaggerated terror that he
+would insist upon speaking of the one subject which should be tabu.
+
+The associative suggestion of Lucille diverted his mind until he became
+immersed in thoughts of her. A queer vision of a well-fed tiger playing
+with a kid entered his mind. More conscious than ever of her attraction by
+reason of the intensified sense of her wrought by her letter, he glanced
+surreptitiously at the rigid form in the chair and a wave of pity mixed
+with a half conscious pride that she belonged to him, rose within him.
+Then Birnier started as he was brought back to a realization of the
+passing of time by a harsh voice that told of creaking nerves:
+
+"Herr Professor, what is your pleasure to do with me, if you please?"
+
+"I beg your pardon!" Birnier sat up. "Er--naturally I shall endeavour to
+get you away as early as possible. It would be as well if you took
+advantage of the present--er--saturnalia to escape. I cannot do much. I can
+provide you with a gun and food. As you are not injured you should be able
+to get a reasonable distance from here by morning; for the rest I am
+afraid you must fend for yourself. I wish that I could do more, but I'm
+afraid that my power is not yet sufficient to ensure any help from the
+natives."
+
+An inarticulate sound emerged from zu Pfeiffer's mouth. Birnier's eyes
+caught the sheen of the photograph upon the wall. Escape! Lucille! Almost
+involuntarily he stretched out a hand and took Lucille's letter from the
+table. Again came zu Pfeiffer's voice:
+
+"I thank you, Herr Professor, but I cannot accept--for myself." Birnier
+stared at him. "I wish you to understand that for myself that is
+impossible." The tall figure seemed to straighten in the chair. "But as I
+have the honour to serve his Imperial Majesty I am bound to preserve to
+the best of my ability my body in order to answer for my culpable
+negligence which has resulted in the loss of my two companies. Most
+distinctly, Herr Professor, I wish you to know that I accept your offer in
+order to place myself before the Court Martial that awaits me."
+
+Birnier almost gasped. That this anomaly of a man, who was capable of
+cold-blooded murder at the prompting of an hallucination, and who now
+appeared equally capable of the utter annihilation of self at the service
+of his Imperial Master, meant what he said, Birnier did not doubt. Yet it
+was not anomalous. Logical in fact; the capability of supreme sacrifice
+for either of his idols.
+
+"I understand you, Lieutenant," said he courteously. "I----" The two letters
+in his hand crackled. Before he could master the mean desire he had handed
+the second letter to zu Pfeiffer with the words:
+
+"Forgive me, I have here a letter which it is my duty to return to you."
+
+The sapphires winked as zu Pfeiffer held up the letter in the shaft of
+moonlight. There was a suppressed grunt as of pain. Zu Pfeiffer rose
+stiffly and walked to the door. His tall figure was silhouetted in profile
+against the green sky and as Birnier watched he saw a gleam as of crystal
+upon an eyelash. Birnier, ashamed of his sole vengeance, turned away.
+
+But as if revenge were recoiling upon him came in the wake of that
+satisfied primitive instinct a surge of longing for Lucille. Lucille!
+Lucille! God! how he desired to see those eyes again! Feel those lips and
+hear the gurgle of her laughter! Sense the perfume of her hair as she
+murmured: "_Mon petit loup!_" Birnier sat holding the letter. He fought
+with an impulse to abandon everything to go to her--if he could get out!
+How stale and monotonous the adventure and the scientific interest
+suddenly seemed! After all, what had he accomplished? What could he
+accomplish? Even yet he had learned but little of the secrets of the
+witch-doctor's craft. Perhaps there was little or nothing to learn? And zu
+Pfeiffer? He stared across at the portrait of Lucille. And as he gazed a
+wave of pity rose within him for this boy made mad by the witchery of
+those eyes and the music of that voice. A sentence in Lucille's letter
+appeared to stand out from the context: "_Mon Dieu, they are as thick as
+the blackberries!_"
+
+And yet--and yet---- Why the devil had she taken it into her head to come out
+to Uganda above all places? he asked himself. She was so damnably near to
+him. He smiled satirically as he recollected her phrase about those fools
+who made of love a nuisance, and yet now what was she doing? After all the
+suspicion in his mind that love is everything to a woman seemed proven
+true.
+
+But how adorable she was! He fingered the letter as if it were part of
+her. Well, she was young; success and adulation from one capital to
+another had interested and amused her for a few years, but when Milady had
+suddenly discovered that the Career bored her she had thrown up everything
+and logically--to her mind--expected her mate to do likewise! With what
+insouciance had she treated the affair of zu Pfeiffer and the youngster
+whom he had struck. When Birnier had met her she had had a story of a
+young fool count in Paris who had shot himself, merely because she would
+not listen to his suit; and she had protested with one of those wonderful
+shrugs and a moue, saying that she could not marry all the men in the
+world! That apparently bloodthirsty indifference had of course tended to
+make more men "crazy wild," as she put it, about her. And that reputation
+had added to her numerous attractions even to Birnier.
+
+He could escape if he wished--with zu Pfeiffer. He could take Mungongo with
+him. Yet would Mungongo dare the tabu at his bidding? Birnier doubted it.
+Would Mungongo even consent to let him, Birnier, who was now in his eyes
+the King-God, go and so imperil the foundations of the native world?
+Birnier was certain that he would not. They were all dominated by this
+confounded idol of wood, he reflected. Bakahenzie, or even Mungongo, would
+cheerfully sacrifice him if either imagined that the damned Unmentionable
+One desired it, at the suppositious bidding of something which was
+nothing.
+
+Through the sweet scent of her in the air like a compelling aura about
+him, came suddenly zu Pfeiffer's voice speaking in the accents of agony;
+yet all he said was:
+
+"Herr Professor Birnier--I am compelled--to--to apologise for {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}"
+
+The voice failed and the haughty blond head turned away, unable to
+complete to the uttermost the greatest sacrifice he had ever attempted.
+
+"Please don't," said Birnier comprehendingly. "I understand."
+
+And Birnier did comprehend; realised the small hell in zu Pfeiffer as a
+higher developed tabu did a childish tabu unto death. Zu Pfeiffer, white
+man, had been just as guilty of an attempt to commit murder at the
+suppositious inversion of a thumb of an idol as Bakahenzie; not an idol of
+wood but the projection of his subconscious desires. Zu Pfeiffer would
+sacrifice a million at the bidding of his Kaiser, whose divinity was the
+same myth, the projection of himself. Yet what had been Birnier's object
+in undertaking all these pains and penalties but to study mankind in the
+making, the black microcosm of a white macrocosm; to aid them to a better
+understanding of themselves and each other? Was not Bakahenzie an
+embryonic zu Pfeiffer? How could one aid a zu Pfeiffer if one did not know
+a Bakahenzie?
+
+From the saturnalia in progress outside came another swirl of sound
+seeming to lap mockingly against the motionless figure of zu Pfeiffer
+silhouetted against a green sky; and above him towered the idol leaning
+sideways.
+
+As if in drunken laughter of the follies of black and white humanity!
+mused Birnier. Yet what am I doing? At the crook of a dainty finger am I,
+too, to bow to an idol? Am I to pity zu Pfeiffer and these children?{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+Savages! Good God, what am I?
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                               EXTRA PAGES
+
+
+
+
+                                                             Witch-Doctors
+
+
+
+
+        _L'homme est bien insens�! il_
+        _ne s�auroit forger un ciron, et_
+        _forge des dieux � douzaine!_
+
+                        MONTAIGNE
+
+
+
+
+
+                                  ERRATA
+
+
+      CHARACTERS
+      Changed: Ludwig    *do. do.*
+      To: Ludwig    *German sergeant*
+
+      CHARACTERS
+      Changed: Schneider    *do. do.*
+      To: Schneider    *German sergeant*
+
+      Chapter 1
+      Changed: "This Saka--Saka"--*Zu* Pfeiffer glanced at
+      To: "This Saka--Saka"--*zu* Pfeiffer glanced at
+
+      Chapter 1
+      Changed: retreat. At *MFunga* MPopo's is the
+      To: retreat. At *MFunya* MPopo's is the
+
+      Chapter 1
+      Changed: As *Zu* Pfeiffer nodded languidly
+      To: As *zu* Pfeiffer nodded languidly
+
+      Chapter 1
+      Changed: seemed to escape *Zu* Pfeiffer. He gave
+      To: seemed to escape *zu* Pfeiffer. He gave
+
+      Chapter 1
+      Changed: man's arrival?" demanded *Zu* Pfeiffer harshly.
+      To: man's arrival?" demanded *zu* Pfeiffer harshly.
+
+      Chapter 1
+      Changed: Zu *Peiffer* finished the report leisurely
+      To: Zu *Pfeiffer* finished the report leisurely
+
+      Chapter 3
+      Changed: I thank you*,* And if---- Were
+      To: I thank you*.* And if---- Were
+
+      Chapter 6
+      Changed: as balanced as a dancer's* *
+      To: as balanced as a dancer's*.*
+
+      Chapter 6
+      Changed: to matters of more importance.*"*
+      To: to matters of more importance.* *
+
+      Chapter 9
+      Changed: shall lave hungry ears of* *
+      To: shall lave hungry ears of *----!*
+
+      Chapter 9
+      Changed: *E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h*!
+      To: *E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h*!
+
+      Chapter 9
+      Changed: As we {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}* *
+      To: As we {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}*"*
+
+      Chapter 9
+      Changed: The personality of *Bernier* had been apparently
+      To: The personality of *Birnier* had been apparently
+
+      Chapter 9
+      Changed: and the two *Nordenfelts* and two pom-poms
+      To: and the two *Nordenfeldts* and two pom-poms
+
+      Chapter 11
+      Changed: "*Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*!"
+      To: "*Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*!"
+
+      Chapter 11
+      Changed: *Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*!
+      To: *Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*!
+
+      Chapter 13
+      Changed: in of fresh *masssacres* adding to the
+      To: in of fresh *massacres* adding to the
+
+      Chapter 14
+      Changed: Yabolo near to *Zaku* Zako's continued. Neither
+      To: Yabolo near to *Zalu* Zako's continued. Neither
+
+      Chapter 14
+      Changed: enemy, Bakahenzie, presented *Zaku* Zako with a
+      To: enemy, Bakahenzie, presented *Zalu* Zako with a
+
+      Chapter 14
+      Changed: which walk ever *the the* red devils in
+      To: which walk ever *the* red devils in
+
+      Chapter 14
+      Changed: the minds of *Zako Zalu* and Marufa the
+      To: the minds of *Zalu Zako* and Marufa the
+
+      Chapter 15
+      Changed: village of MFunya *MPope* --of that day
+      To: village of MFunya *MPopo* --of that day
+
+      Chapter 15
+      Changed: not his policy *tomake* his thunder too
+      To: not his policy *to make* his thunder too
+
+      Chapter 17
+      Changed: position of chief *witch doctor*, he would do
+      To: position of chief *witch-doctor*, he would do
+
+      Chapter 18
+      Changed: earth, and when*----* and when----" He
+      To: earth, and when*--* and when----" He
+
+      Chapter 19
+      Changed: in their solar *plexes*.
+      To: in their solar *plexus*.
+
+      Chapter 22
+      Changed: the village of *Yangonyama*, but shortage of
+      To: the village of *Yagonyana*, but shortage of
+
+      Chapter 24
+      Changed: the white god.* *
+      To: the white god.*"*
+
+      Chapter 29
+      Changed: Peuh! *Ecoute*, mon cher, it
+      To: Peuh! *�coute*, mon cher, it
+
+      Chapter 30
+      Changed: Pm-pm--*Pommmm*!
+      To: Pm-pm--*Pommmmm*!
+
+
+
+
+
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+Author: Charles Beadle
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+  <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+    
+  </div>
+
+  <hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-titlePage" style="text-align: center">
+  <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page3">[pg 3]</span><a name="Pg3" id="Pg3" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a>
+    <span class="tei tei-docTitle" style="text-align: center">
+      <span class="tei tei-titlePart" style="text-align: center">
+        <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 325%">Witch-Doctors</span></span><br />
+        <br />
+      </span>
+    </span>
+    <div class="tei tei-byline" style="text-align: center">
+      <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 175%; font-style: italic">by</span></span>
+      <span class="tei tei-docAuthor" style="text-align: center">
+        <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 175%">Charles Beadle</span></span><br />
+        <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">Author of “A Whiteman’s
+          Burden”</span></span><br />
+        <br />
+      </span>
+    </div>
+    <span class="tei tei-docImprint" style="text-align: center">
+      <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 125%">Boston and New York</span></span><br />
+      <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 150%">Houghton Mifflin Company</span></span><br />
+    </span>
+    <span class="tei tei-docDate" style="text-align: center">
+      <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 75%">1922</span></span><br />
+    </span>
+  </div>
+
+  <hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+    <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page4">[pg 4]</span><a name="Pg4" id="Pg4" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+    <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 75%; font-style: italic">Printed in Great Britain by Butler &amp; Tanner, Frome and
+    London</span></span></p>
+  </div>
+
+  <hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+    <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page5">[pg 5]</span><a name="Pg5" id="Pg5" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+    <h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+      <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 150%">CHARACTERS</span></span>
+    </h1>
+    <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 4.00em">
+      <table summary="This is a table" cellspacing="0" class="tei tei-table" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><colgroup span="2"></colgroup><tbody><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Lucille Charltrain</span></span>
+          (Mrs. Gerald Birnier)</td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">A Photograph</td>
+        </tr><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Usakuma</span></span> (The
+          Incarnation of the</td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"></td>
+        </tr><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">  Unmentionable One)</td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">An Idol</td>
+        </tr><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Gerald Birnier</span></span></td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">A Professor</td>
+        </tr><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">zu Pfeiffer</span></span>
+          (Hermann von Schnitzler und)</td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">German Kommandant</td>
+        </tr><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Zalu Zako</span></span>
+          (son of Kawa Kendi)</td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">Heir Apparent</td>
+        </tr><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Bakuma</span></span>
+          (daughter of Bakala)</td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">in love with Zalu Zako</td>
+        </tr><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">MYalu</span></span>
+          (son of MBusa)</td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">a chief in love with Bakuma</td>
+        </tr><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Bakahenzie</span></span>
+          (son of Maliko)</td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">Chief Witch-Doctor</td>
+        </tr><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Marufa</span></span>
+          (son of MTungo)</td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">another Witch-Doctor</td>
+        </tr><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Kawa Kendi</span></span>
+          (son of MFunya MPopo)</td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">King-God and Rainmaker</td>
+        </tr><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">MFunya MPopo</span></span>
+          (son of MKoffo)</td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">Predecessor of Kawa Kendi</td>
+        </tr><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Kingata Mata</span></span>
+          (son of Kabolo)</td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">Keeper of the Sacred Fires</td>
+        </tr><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Sakamata</span></span></td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">deposed Witch-Doctor and spy</td>
+        </tr><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Yabolo</span></span></td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">another Witch-Doctor</td>
+        </tr><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mungongo</span></span></td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">Birnier’s servant</td>
+        </tr><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Schultz</span></span></td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">German sergeant</td>
+        </tr><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Ludwig</span></span></td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">
+            <span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E1" id="E1" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e1" class="tei tei-ref">German sergeant</a></span>
+          </td>
+        </tr><tr class="tei tei-row">
+          <td class="tei tei-cell"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Schneider</span></span></td>
+          <td class="tei tei-cell">
+            <span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E2" id="E2" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e2" class="tei tei-ref">German sergeant</a></span>
+          </td>
+        </tr></tbody></table>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+    <a name="pdf1" id="pdf1"></a>
+    <h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Contents</span></h1>
+    <ul class="tei tei-index tei-index-toc"><li><a href="#toc2">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 1</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc4">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 2</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc6">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 3</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc8">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 4</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc10">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 5</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc12">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 6</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc14">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 7</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc16">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 8</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc18">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 9</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc20">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 10</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc22">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 11</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc24">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 12</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc26">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 13</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc28">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 14</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc30">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 15</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc32">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 16</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc34">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 17</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc36">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 18</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc38">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 19</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc40">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 20</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc42">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 21</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc44">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 22</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc46">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 23</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc48">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 24</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc50">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 25</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc52">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 26</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc54">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 27</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc56">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 28</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc58">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 29</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc60">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 30</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc62">
+  <span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 31</span>
+</a></li><li><a href="#toc64">
+      <span style="font-size: 100%">Extra Pages</span>
+    </a></li><li><a href="#toc66">
+      <span style="font-size: 100%">Errata</span>
+    </a></li></ul>
+  </div>
+</div>
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+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD01" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page7">[pg 7]</span><a name="Pg7" id="Pg7" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc2" id="toc2"></a>
+<a name="pdf3" id="pdf3"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 150%">WITCH-DOCTORS</span></span>
+</h1>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 1</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In a bayou in the south-eastern corner of the
+Victoria Nyanza was the station of Ingonya, a brown
+scab on the face of the green earth. The round mud
+huts of the askaris were like two columns of khaki troops
+marching rigidly on each side of the parade ground.
+To the north, upon a slight rise of ground, were the
+white men’s quarters; the non-commissioned officers
+had four bungalows to the south of the orderly room
+and Court House; and beyond a green plot flanked
+by a store house and an ordnance building, was a
+bigger bungalow, florid in the amplitude and colour of
+the red pillared verandah, the residence of the Kommandant,
+Herr Ober-Lieutenant Hermann von Schnitzler
+und zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On the northern side, overlooking the swamp and
+the distant lake, was a flagpole, before which paced
+an ebon sentry in a uniform of white knickers, tunic
+and lancer cap, red faced. The glow of sunrise
+stained the green of the moon with crimson. A
+trumpet blared. From the rear of the Residence
+marched with stiff-legged precision a squad of askaris
+and the stocky figure of a non-commissioned officer in a
+white helmet. Simultaneously appeared on the verandah
+of the large bungalow the tall form of a white man
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page8">[pg 8]</span><a name="Pg8" id="Pg8" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+in pink silk pyjamas. The sergeant barked. The squad
+presented arms. A coloured ball slid up the flagpole.
+The first rays of the sun splintered the bloodied
+waters beyond into silver spikes and caressed a fluttering
+black, white and red flag.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then the squad ported arms, relieved the sentry,
+and retired, their black legs gleaming blue points as
+they rose and fell. The pink figure disappeared.
+Sergeant Schultz strutted back to his bungalow, in the
+verandah of which squatted a native girl clad in gay
+trade cloths. He emerged lighting a cigar, and
+sjambok in hand, returned to the orderly room.
+Another trumpet blared. From beyond the askaris’
+camp came a line of natives, young and old, their
+scrawny necks linked together by a light iron chain
+which clanked musically. Filing on to the parade
+ground they were divided into gangs by Sergeant
+Schneider to labour under guard at the interminable
+work of the camp.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The air above the swamp began to sizzle in the heat.
+The same slender figure clad in immaculate white
+reappeared upon the south verandah of the florid
+bungalow. Herr Ober-Lieutenant stood staring about
+the small square with a peevish glint in the fair eyes.
+A big negro in spotless white hurried around the house
+bearing a brass tray set with a cup, a liqueur glass and
+a decanter. Herr Lieutenant sprawled his legs on
+either arm of a Bombay chair. As he delicately
+mixed cognac with his coffee, his jewelled fingers
+sparkled in a shaft of sunlight which set afire the
+sapphires mounted in an ivory bracelet.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At a yard from the table stood the servant as rigid
+as the flagpole. With a lazy insolence which marked
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page9">[pg 9]</span><a name="Pg9" id="Pg9" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+his movements, the lieutenant sipped the café-cognac
+and smoked a cheroot, as if he were seated on the terrace
+of the Café de la Paix. The brutality of the round
+skull, emphasized by the cropped blonde hair, seemed
+at variance with the boyish rotundity of the face and the
+small, but dominant, nose. Two separate moustaches
+bristled so fiercely that they suggested sentries on
+guard over the feminine softness of the lips. When
+he had finished zu Pfeiffer arose languidly, lighted a
+fresh cigar, adjusted his helmet with care, took a gold-mounted
+sjambok from his servant, and strode across
+the square. The lines of his torso were so perfect
+that they suggested artificial aid.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The orderly room was square and whitewashed;
+grass matting was upon the floor, and high screened
+doors opened on to the north verandah. Zu Pfeiffer
+sprawled in a swing chair before the office desk placed
+at an oblique angle to the wall, encumbered with
+books and papers. After tapping reflectively on a book
+cover with a polished nail zu Pfeiffer’s hand sharply
+struck the bell. Instantly a corporal appeared at the
+farther door and stood as if petrified, black hand to
+black temple. Zu Pfeiffer snapped instructions in
+Kiswahili without removing his cigar. The man
+grunted, shot his hand away at right angles with as
+much energy as if he were trying to knock down an
+elephant, and vanished.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sergeant!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ja, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At the other door like another Jack-in-the-box
+appeared Sergeant Schultz in exactly the same attitude.
+At a nod the sergeant melted into the semblance of
+human movement: he drew aside a chair, selected a
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page10">[pg 10]</span><a name="Pg10" id="Pg10" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+certain document from a pile of them, and handed it to
+the lieutenant. Zu Pfeiffer pushed a box of cigars
+across the table, lolled back with one foot on the table,
+and began to peruse lazily. The sergeant retired
+respectfully with the cigar to the outer office. A fly
+buzzed hopefully at the mosquito wire. The tap of
+a typewriter sounded like some other insect. On the
+hot air came the faint barks of a drill-sergeant on the
+parade ground. From behind the building rose fitfully
+the murmur of voices from a herd of natives
+squatted in the sun awaiting the opening of the Court
+House. Leaves rustled largely under the Lieutenant’s
+fingers.…</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At length he pitched the report on to the table, carefully
+placed the butt of his cigar in an ash-tray, lighted
+another, and disposed of the match with equal care.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sergeant.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ja, Excellence!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer indicated a chair by a thrust of the chin.
+The sergeant sat. Tapping the report with the highly
+polished and very long finger-nail of the left hand, the
+lieutenant demanded:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Who is the man who gave you this report?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ali Ben Hassan, an Arab trader, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Trustworthy?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ja, Excellence. He has done much work for us.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Where?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“On the Tanganika district, sub-division B 
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">II</span></span>,
+Excellence. He brought papers of first-class recommendation
+from the Kommandant.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ben Hassan speaks of one Sakamata, nicht wahr?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ja, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Of what tribe is he?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page11">[pg 11]</span><a name="Pg11" id="Pg11" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Wongolo.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“A witch-doctor?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ja, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He is here? Let him come in.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sergeant rose, saluted and departed. Gutturals
+sounded lazily. The sergeant reappeared and behind
+him shuffled a native. Clad only in a dirty loin-cloth,
+his brown skin was wrinkled in scaly folds upon
+his chest and belly; his face was like an ancient
+tortoise; the small lack-lustre eyes were bloodshot and
+furtive; the limbs were almost fleshless. He squatted
+upon the ground and with lowered lids appeared to
+be absorbed in the contemplation of a white man’s table
+leg. Zu Pfeiffer regarded the man as one would a
+stray dog and nodded to the sergeant, who sat
+down.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Does he speak Kiswahili?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nein, Excellence. Only his monkey speech.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why do you suppose that he is trustworthy?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Because, Excellence, his interests are with ours.
+There is no competition. The Schweinhünde Engländer
+have no interest there—yet. They are too busy
+with the Uganda railroad.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ja, ja. Again what is the tribal system there,
+King-God or&mdash;&mdash;”</span> The lieutenant permitted a
+slight smile—<span class="tei tei-q">“or Dis-established Church?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“King-God, Excellence,”</span> replied Sergeant Schultz
+gravely.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“This fellow then is an apostate priest, nicht wahr?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sergeant noticed the movement of one of the
+sentry moustaches. A twitch of the lips recognized
+his superior’s pleasantry.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ja, Excellence.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page12">[pg 12]</span><a name="Pg12" id="Pg12" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer stuck the cigar into the corner of his
+mouth and regarded idly the dumb figure on the
+floor against the wall.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“We must have the Wongolo country, c’est
+entendu. Now what’s your opinion of the method,
+sergeant?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“With due deference, Excellence,”</span> responded
+Sergeant Schultz, <span class="tei tei-q">“I propose that we advance and
+bring them to subjection in the usual manner.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer fingered a ring and stared out into the
+yellow glare.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nein,”</span> he said at length, meditatively, removed
+the cigar from his lips and delicately knocked off the
+ash. <span class="tei tei-q">“Circumstances alter cases. That method is
+too expensive. Son Altesse cannot afford the blood of
+the Fatherland in return for such ignoble carcasses.
+We—the price paid in the Herrero campaign was
+insupportable.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Pardon, Excellence, but Treitschke said&mdash;&mdash;”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I know, sergeant. But Treitschke did not live in
+Central Africa.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“True, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Die Schweinhünde Engländer have had more
+experience than we have. Even a fool learns wisdom
+by experience—sometimes.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“True, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Again fell a silence save for the buzz of the persistent
+fly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Also psychological research is more valuable than
+artillery—sometimes—in spite of Napoleon and
+Treitschke.”</span> Zu Pfeiffer glanced at the sergeant who,
+beneath the mask of his features, appeared shocked.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Blasphemy, nicht wahr, sergeant?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page13">[pg 13]</span><a name="Pg13" id="Pg13" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“If your Excellence thinks&mdash;&mdash;”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But remember if Napoleon invented the science of
+artillery, we invented psychology.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“True, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer smiled complacently and stroked his
+moustaches.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Now for this animal here. Who and what was
+he?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“One of the principal witch-doctors, Excellence,
+wealthy and powerful. He attempted to overthrow
+the Chief Witch-doctor, one Bakahenzie, and was
+discredited.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“How discredited?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He attempted some form of magic, Excellence,
+which failed. Details are not given.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Who gave the dossier?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ali ben Hassan, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“From whom did he get his information?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Name given as one Yabolo, another witch-doctor
+and relative.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“This Saka—Saka”</span>—<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E3" id="E3" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e3" class="tei tei-ref">zu</a></span>
+Pfeiffer glanced at the
+document—<span class="tei tei-q">“Sakamata. Is he in communication with
+this Yabolo?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ja, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer smoked reflectively.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“When did the last agent come in?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But yesterday, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And no report of any other white men in the
+country? No British missionaries or traders?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nein, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Where is Saunders?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“On Lake Kivu.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No report?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page14">[pg 14]</span><a name="Pg14" id="Pg14" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Not since the last three months ago, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Umph!—Now, pay attention.”</span> Schultz leaned
+forward dutifully. Zu Pfeiffer unrolled a map on the
+wall beside him. <span class="tei tei-q">“Here’s Ingonya. The Wongolo
+country is twenty days’ march from here, but across
+the lake it’s twenty hours with the launch, and five
+days from there.”</span> The delicate finger-nail indicated
+a spot on the opposite side of the lake. <span class="tei tei-q">“From
+here—what’s the place? Ach—Timballa. To hell
+with the British boundary! We must not give them
+time to get the news. Always rush the seat of government.
+Surprise them and they’re done.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But, Excellence, Treitschke says regarding retreat&mdash;&mdash;”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“There will be no retreat. At
+<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E4" id="E4" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e4" class="tei tei-ref">MFunya</a></span>
+MPopo’s
+is the idol, the fetish. We destroy it and they’re
+done!”</span> He brought down his fist with a crash on
+the table. <span class="tei tei-q">“Faith unites a people; in unity is
+strength. Break the faith and you’ve broken the
+people.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But, Excellence!”</span> exclaimed the Lutheran sergeant,
+aghast.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer’s blue eyes hardened.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Understand, you fool, these are savages.
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">You</span></span>
+have an abstract deity—which you cannot break in
+the concrete—obviously: they have a concrete god
+which we can and shall smash.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence, you are right,”</span> said the sergeant
+humbly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer flicked cigar ash from his sleeve and
+lolled back.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Those are your orders. Commandeer the necessary
+canoes and notify Ludwig to have the men in
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page15">[pg 15]</span><a name="Pg15" id="Pg15" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+readiness for the full moon. Work out the details and
+give them to me to-morrow.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ja, Excellence.”</span> Schultz stood to attention.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“But, Excellence, this creature&mdash;&mdash;”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer glanced casually at Sakamata.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, that? Take it away!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Schultz saluted smartly and wheeled about.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Njoo!”</span> he commanded sharply.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sakamata rose up quietly and disappeared through
+the door without glancing to the right or the left.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The Court awaits your Excellence,”</span> reminded the
+sergeant.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As
+<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E5" id="E5" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e5" class="tei tei-ref">zu</a></span>
+Pfeiffer nodded languidly, a booted foot
+clopped on the verandah.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Wa da?”</span> queried Sergeant Schultz, startled at
+the intrusion of a stranger.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, only I,”</span> responded a soft voice in English.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Through the screen door a tall figure in a Tirai
+hat was silhouetted in sepia against the yellow glare.
+A brown hand pushed open the door.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Mon nom est Birnier, Gerald Birnier—er—Does
+any one speak English?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer, in the act of rising, sank back into the
+chair, placing his left leg in a favourite position and
+selecting a cigar simultaneously.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes,”</span> said he, almost without accent. <span class="tei tei-q">“What do
+you want?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I wish to see the—the Herr Kommandant.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer struck a match without looking up.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I am he.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">One hand upon the open door, Birnier stroked his
+shaven chin perplexedly with the other. He glanced
+from the sergeant, standing rigidly by the table, to
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page16">[pg 16]</span><a name="Pg16" id="Pg16" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+the lieutenant engaged in stoking his cigar to a
+nicety.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, it’s usual to invite a white man to sit down,
+isn’t it?”</span> suggested Birnier, with a note of irritation.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer looked across the table.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nein. This is the Orderly Room; not a general
+office.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, I see. I beg your pardon!”</span> There was a
+note of laughter in the voice. <span class="tei tei-q">“Will you kindly
+instruct me where I am to apply?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer continued to regard the stranger from
+head to foot, smoking slowly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Please to come in,”</span> he said at length, gesturing
+with his cigar, <span class="tei tei-q">“and sit down.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thanks so much!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The trace of irony seemed to escape
+<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E6" id="E6" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e6" class="tei tei-ref">zu</a></span>
+Pfeiffer. He
+gave a guttural order to the sergeant, who saluted and
+disappeared. The stranger placed his Tirai hat on the
+table, revealing rumpled brown hair flecked with grey,
+a high white forehead, and long features; the slight
+stoop of the shoulders and general carriage rather
+suggested a professional type than a hunter or trader.
+He regarded the slim figure staring insolently at him
+with a hardening look of disapproval.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What is it you wish?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, principally I require an elephant licence
+and the usual permit to trade.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Where are you going?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“To the Kivu country.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer regarded his cigar tip interestedly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You are going to the Wongolo country,”</span> he stated.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier’s mouth tightened.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Quite possibly.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page17">[pg 17]</span><a name="Pg17" id="Pg17" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You have been to the Wongolo country already?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I have been there, but what has that to do
+with it?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“We know all about you,”</span> stated zu Pfeiffer coldly,
+twiddling his cigar between slender fingers. He
+glanced at a gold repeater. <span class="tei tei-q">“Pardon, but I must
+request you to return later. The Court is already
+awaiting me.”</span> Birnier frowned slightly. <span class="tei tei-q">“If you
+will be so good as to return at, let us say, five o’clock,
+I will be pleased to listen to your application.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier rose, taking his hat.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Certainly,”</span> he said curtly. <span class="tei tei-q">“Good morning!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer watched him depart; then he struck
+the bell sharply. Sergeant Schultz appeared, a line of
+nervous expectancy upon his sallow face.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why have you not reported that man’s arrival?”</span>
+demanded 
+<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E7" id="E7" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e7" class="tei tei-ref">zu</a></span>
+Pfeiffer harshly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence,”</span> returned Schultz, saluting, <span class="tei tei-q">“he has
+but arrived within the hour in a launch, loaned to him
+by the Engländer.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ach! An English spy!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I do not know, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“We ought to know. Why have you not a report of
+the man’s movements? He admits that he has been
+in the Wongolo country.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence, it is already done.”</span> Schultz hurriedly
+searched a card index cabinet and handed a document
+to the lieutenant. <span class="tei tei-q">“There is Saunders’ report, Excellence;
+more than six months old.”</span></p>
+
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer glanced at the page indicated and began
+to read while the sergeant stood stiffly at attention.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You may go, sergeant,”</span> announced zu Pfeiffer
+without looking up. Schultz saluted and departed.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page18">[pg 18]</span><a name="Pg18" id="Pg18" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Zu
+<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E8" id="E8" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e8" class="tei tei-ref">Pfeiffer</a></span>
+finished the report leisurely, put down the
+paper, and stared meditatively.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">No, he decided, as he rose, all the English are
+spies.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD02" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page19">[pg 19]</span><a name="Pg19" id="Pg19" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc4" id="toc4"></a>
+<a name="pdf5" id="pdf5"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 2</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Like a topaz set in a jade ring was the city of the
+Snake, the place of Kings, a village of some eight
+hundred huts huddled upon a slight rise above a sea of
+banana fronds, some two hundred miles to the west of
+Ingonya.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On the summit was a large conical hut like an enormous
+candle snuffer, the dwelling place of Usakuma,
+the spirit of the Snake, whose name was forbidden to
+all save the Priest-God and Rain Maker, King MFunya
+MPopo, who was so holy that after succeeding to the
+sacred office he was doomed to live within the compound,
+even as were the Kings of Eutopia, Sheba and
+China, a celibate for the remainder of his life: for, as
+the incarnation of the Idol, Usakuma, and therefore the
+controller of the Heavens and the Earth, his body
+must be kept from all danger of witchcraft lest the
+rains cease and the blue skies fall.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From the compound, looking towards the north-west
+where the snow-capped Gamballagalla rose violet
+against the horizon, another brown cone peeped above
+the green fronds, the late residence, and now the tomb
+of King MKoffo, predecessor of MFunya MPopo.
+For where a King-God dies there is he buried, he and
+his wives after him; the site becomes holy ground, a
+place of pilgrimage and sanctuary.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In each of the small huts to the rear of the temple of
+MFunya MPopo, but outside the sacred enclosure, lived
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page20">[pg 20]</span><a name="Pg20" id="Pg20" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+his wives who, although forbidden to their husband,
+were permitted a royal promiscuity. Just within the
+precincts was a small replica of the temple where dwelt
+a young chief, also bound to celibacy, whose duties
+were to keep the royal fire burning as long as the king
+should reign. No one was allowed to converse with
+the king, save on matters of state, except this man;
+through him was spoken the royal will—what there
+was left of it—to the council which sat in a long
+rectangular building opposite to the temple entrance
+and open to the village, a body of witch-doctors and
+chiefs.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Solely the kingly office existed as a beneficent agent,
+a matter of self-preservation on the part of the tribe.
+The King-God’s functions were divine; to make
+magic for the victory of his warriors and principally to
+make rain, on which, of course, the alimentary needs of
+his subjects depended—an incarnation of a god who
+was in reality the scapegoat of the god’s omissions.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The office was hereditary. Perhaps no one else
+would willingly accept such an onerous post. The
+making of magic was performed before the god with the
+assistance of the chief witch-doctor, an exceedingly
+lucrative post won upon merit, occupied by one
+Bakahenzie, a tall muscular man in the prime of life,
+whose bearing was that of the native autocrat, fierce
+and remorseless. The King’s personal wishes could be
+safely granted as long as he did not endanger the
+existence of the people by a desire to break any of the
+meshes of the tabus designed to ensure the safety of his
+sacred body, and therefore that of the tribe, on the
+assumption that if the incarnation were injured the god
+would be injured, and so would his creations be
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page21">[pg 21]</span><a name="Pg21" id="Pg21" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+affected: any infringement of these laws entailed the
+penalty of death, a code which revealed the native
+logic in the confusion of cause and effect, the concrete
+and the abstract.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the door of a hut on the outskirts of the village
+squatted a wizened man with a tuft of grey beard upon
+his chin. He was clad in a loin-cloth fairly clean, and
+about his neck was suspended by a twisted fibre an
+amulet wrapped in banana leaves containing the gall
+and toenail of an enemy slain by a virgin warrior, a
+specific against black magic whose powerful properties
+were proven by the undisputed influence and wealth
+of the owner.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A tall lithe savage, bearing upon his arms and ankles
+the ivory bracelets of the royal house and the elephant
+hair chaplet of the warrior, advanced leisurely towards
+him from the banana plantation. Marufa continued
+to gaze in rumination at the opposite hut. But as they
+had not met since the rising of the sun, he did not fail to
+make the orthodox greeting at the exact moment that
+the chief’s shadow passed in front of him, which Zalu
+Zako returned punctiliously, thereby averting an evil
+omen. As soon as the young man had passed beyond
+the next hut appeared in the grove a girl, modelled like
+a bronze wood nymph. She wore the tiny girdle of the
+unmarried and walked furtively, carrying in her hand a
+parcel wrapped in banana leaves. In the shadow of a
+compound fence she halted, one slender brown arm set
+back in apprehension as her eyes followed the lithe
+figure of Zalu Zako.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Motionless sat Marufa staring in mystic contemplation.
+Bakuma glanced swiftly about her. Apparently
+satisfied that no one was observing her save a lean dog
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page22">[pg 22]</span><a name="Pg22" id="Pg22" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+and two gollywog children, she continued on as if to
+pass the old man, her eyes still ranging like a fawn’s.
+But when she was beside Marufa she subsided on her
+haunches beside him, clutching the bundle as she
+whispered:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Greetings, O wise one!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Greeting, daughter,”</span> returned Marufa without
+lessening the fixity of his gaze.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I would talk with thee.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aye.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Again she glanced around furtively.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I would talk in thine ear, O my father.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The knots of my hair are tied.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I thank thee. There’s a fluttering bird in my
+breast.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And a snake around thy heart, O my daughter.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aie-e!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The grandson of the snake hath tied thy girdle.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The girl clasped her breast in surprised terror.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“How dost thou know?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“All things are known to the son of MTungo,”</span>
+declared Marufa solemnly, still regarding the opposite
+wall. <span class="tei tei-q">“Thou desirest a love charm.… What hast
+thou?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Tremulously Bakuma put down the green package on
+the ground, darting terrified glances to right and left.
+Slowly the skinny hand of the wizard gently tore open
+the leaves; very impressively the eyes slanted down to
+appraise the stock of blue and white beads.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The spirit of Tarum hath a big belly,”</span> he
+announced tonelessly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“O wise one, intercede for me,”</span> pleaded Bakuma,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page23">[pg 23]</span><a name="Pg23" id="Pg23" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<span class="tei tei-q">“for more have I none, I, Bakuma, daughter of Bakala,
+a girl of the hut thatch.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The true love charm, infallible and powerful, is
+difficult to obtain, O Bakuma. The young huntress
+aims at big game.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh! But I have no more, great one!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The hair of a rutting leopardess, the liver of a
+forest rat, the tongue of a Baroto bird—these must I
+have to mix with thy blood to be drunk by thy man
+when the moon is full.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh! Ehh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Such is the magic that no young man can
+resist.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh-h!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But these things are difficult to obtain.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aie! Aie!”</span> wailed Bakuma, clasping her hands in
+despair.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Difficult to obtain.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aie-e!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“On the night of the half-moon will I take upon me
+the leopard form.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I will talk with the spirits.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh! Ehh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But they must be propitiated with the blood of a
+fat goat.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aie! Aie! But I have no fat goat.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“If there be no fat goat then will the spirits be
+wroth with me.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aie-e-e!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakuma sat staring in dismal perplexity.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No fat goat have I, a girl of the hut thatch! Aie!
+Aie!”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page24">[pg 24]</span><a name="Pg24" id="Pg24" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Marufa fumbled within the loin-cloth and thrust a
+tiny package along the ground.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“See and know the power of my magic.”</span> Bakuma
+greedily snatched up the amulet. <span class="tei tei-q">“Begone!”</span> he
+whispered, jerking the parcel of beads behind him.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“MYalu approaches.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakuma rose and fled with the grace of a startled
+antelope as appeared a tall, strongly built man, having a
+low-browed face, across which was a deep scar. Behind
+MYalu came two young slaves bearing a small elephant
+tusk. Opposite to Marufa the slaves stopped. Their
+master, careful that his shadow fell well away from the
+figure of the magician—for the shadow is one of the
+souls, so woe unto him who shall leave his soul in the
+hands of an enemy!—squatted gravely.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Greeting, son of MTungo!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Greeting, son of MBusa!”</span> returned Marufa.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gravely they spat into each other’s palm, the sign
+of amity as they who exchange bonds of good behaviour
+inasmuch, as is well known, magic can be worked upon
+that which has been a part of the body as upon the body
+itself. Then solemnly they rubbed the spittle upon
+their respective chests.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The spirit of the snake nourisheth not the life of
+the banana.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nay, for nigh unto two moons hath there been no
+blood of the snake,”</span> returned the old man perfunctorily,
+as he lifted his eyes from a swift appraisement of the
+tusk to his favourite mud wall.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nay, the crops sprout not. Maybe the Dweller
+in the Place of the Snake hath been visited by one from
+the forest.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page25">[pg 25]</span><a name="Pg25" id="Pg25" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aye, but old blood runs not as swiftly as young
+blood.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nay,”</span> replied MYalu, in answer to the reference
+to himself, <span class="tei tei-q">“but the girdle is not yet tied by
+another.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“When the first twig of the nest is laid,”</span> remarked
+Marufa, indolently eyeing the tusk, <span class="tei tei-q">“it is difficult to
+entice the hen to another tree.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Here is a goodly twig with which to tempt spirits
+of the forest,”</span> and significantly, <span class="tei tei-q">“Maybe there are
+others.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“A mighty potion shall be prepared for thee, O son
+of MBusa,”</span> declared Marufa, moving slightly to
+conceal the package of beads. <span class="tei tei-q">“A mighty potion,
+infallible; made from the hair of a rutting leopardess,
+the liver of the forest rat and the tongue of the Baroto
+bird; these must she take that she shall speak thee
+softly, together with a portion of that which remains
+from the ceremony of the lobolo. Infallible is it;
+never known to fail.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Marufa stared interestedly at a wandering hen.
+MYalu watched him covertly. Like bronzes sat the
+two young slaves. From the distance came a faint
+chanting and the beat of a drum.…</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The tusk is here, Marufa,”</span> remarked MYalu
+casually.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“My eyes see it,”</span> observed Marufa, without altering
+his observation of the hen.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Where then is the potion?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Marufa glanced at the tusk, appraised it again, and
+fumbling within his loin-cloth, thrust another tiny
+package along the ground. MYalu greedily picked up
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page26">[pg 26]</span><a name="Pg26" id="Pg26" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+the amulet and stared in awe, turning it over and
+about.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The tusk,”</span> murmured Marufa.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">MYalu gestured to his slaves. They rose and placed
+the tusk beside the old man, shuffled backwards and
+squatted again. After lifting one end to test the
+weight, Marufa examined the grain. Then sliding it
+behind him as if he wished to sit upon it, remarked:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The potion must be eaten at the full moon.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">MYalu glanced up from an absorbed examination of
+the amulet.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And within the quarter shall the fruit be ripe for
+the plucking.”</span> The whites of MYalu’s eyes gleamed.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Unless,”</span> continued the old man uninterestedly,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“there be stronger magic made against thee.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The two hands holding the amulet came down.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“If,”</span> explained Marufa, <span class="tei tei-q">“another hath tied the
+grasses of her father’s roof, will there be required a
+stronger spirit to overcome such magic.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But thou hast told me,”</span> expostulated MYalu,
+regarding the tusk regretfully, <span class="tei tei-q">“that this is a mighty
+magic, powerful and infallible, never known to fail.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thus is it,”</span> asserted the old man imperturbably,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“for all save a stronger magic.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">MYalu’s eyes wandered from the tusk to Marufa and
+back. He scowled.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why didst thou not tell me?”</span> he demanded
+sourly, dropping the amulet on the ground.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It is for thee to tell the wizard all that thou
+knowest. How else may he reckon with thine
+enemies?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page27">[pg 27]</span><a name="Pg27" id="Pg27" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Enemy!”</span> exclaimed MYalu. He stared questioningly
+at Marufa. <span class="tei tei-q">“Enemy! Dost thou know whom I
+seek?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Do not all the hens remark the strutting of the
+cock?”</span> inquired Marufa unconcernedly, tapping his
+snuff box.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">MYalu observed the taking of snuff as if he had
+never seen the operation before.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span> he remarked again succinctly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Marufa replaced the cork of twisted leaves, let fall
+the snuff box made of rhinoceros horn suspended from
+his neck by a copper wire, and contemplated a skinny
+goat scratching itself violently. MYalu stirred as if to
+rise, but subsided, cogitated and said slowly:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“In the house of MYalu are four more tusks.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Four more tusks,”</span> repeated Marufa dreamily.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bigger than this one,”</span> said MYalu suggestively.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bigger than this one.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Knowest thou by whom the girdle is tied?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“By the grandson of the Snake.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">MYalu squatted motionless. The old man appeared
+to doze. Women bearing gourds of water upon their
+heads passed in single file, their loins swaying rhythmically.
+The shadows dwindled. From close at
+hand began the rapid beat of a drum. A stir began
+through the village as each man herded his women and
+slaves to his own hut.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“O Marufa,”</span> said MYalu, speaking with a slight
+snarl, <span class="tei tei-q">“hast thou such a powerful medicine that can
+surely trap the soul of Zalu Zako when perchance it
+wanders (in sleep)?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page28">[pg 28]</span><a name="Pg28" id="Pg28" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“All things are possible to the son of MTungo,”</span>
+mumbled the old man.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Two chiefs appeared walking through the grove at a
+middle distance. MYalu glanced round apprehensively.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Two tusks will I give thee,”</span> he whispered, <span class="tei tei-q">“if
+thou wilt do this thing.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Three tusks. No less, for the matter is dangerous.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Two, two.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nay.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The old man stirred to rise.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Three be it,”</span> gasped MYalu. <span class="tei tei-q">“But I must see the
+magic done.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">They rose together.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bring me of his toe-nails one paring, of his hair
+one, and his spittle and a footprint. Then shalt thou
+come with me to the sacred grove where the magic
+shall be done.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But the three tusks must be given to Yanoka, my
+first wife.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">MYalu hesitated.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aye, thus shall it be done,”</span> he assented reluctantly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It is agreed?”</span> inquired Marufa.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“May my cord be lost!”</span> swore MYalu, and gesturing
+to the slaves, hurried away.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A slight grin flecked the old man’s eyes as he turned
+into the hut.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Already hath he drunken of her blood,”</span> he
+mumbled. <span class="tei tei-q">“Ya, Inkombana! take the tusk!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When Marufa emerged, a head-dress of the tail
+feathers of the green parrot, professional uniform and
+potent specific against evil spirits, fluffed gently as he
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page29">[pg 29]</span><a name="Pg29" id="Pg29" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+slowly stalked towards the council house. From the
+other side of a hut walked MYalu as if he had come
+from a different direction. In the open gate of the
+royal enclosure sat a muscular young man upon his
+haunches, tending the royal fire, which fed hungrily
+upon small faggots. Beyond him across the yellow
+glare upon the cleared ground beneath a thatched
+awning, stood an idol of wood, whose lopsided mouth
+snarled beneath a bridgeless nose; narrow slits for
+eyes squinted; baby arms stuck down beside triangular
+breasts above a melon belly having a protuberant navel
+like a small cucumber—the incarnation of the Snake-god,
+Usakuma.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Without the palisade of the sacred ground was a
+taller one, barring the doings of the council of witch-doctors
+and chiefs from the lay public, who were
+confined to their own huts under the penalty of a
+hideous death, or an enormous fine, as the witch-doctors
+should decide.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To the rear of the idol, cross-legged against the wall
+of the entrance to the conical hut, were the musicians
+beating a monotonous rhythm upon big and small
+drums and twanging a primitive lyre of five strings.
+Just as Marufa and MYalu took their respective places
+without among the wizards and the chiefs, a young
+goat skipped into the open and stared inquisitively at
+the Keeper of the Fires. As the man waved the
+animal back from the sacred ground, the goat lowered
+its head and threatened to charge, suddenly recollected
+its mate lying in the shade a few feet away, and began
+to bleat absent-mindedly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gravely and silently sat the assembly: continuously
+throbbed the drums. The sun beat diagonally. As a
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page30">[pg 30]</span><a name="Pg30" id="Pg30" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+lizard darted like a flash of a prism from the grass
+palisade, the band ceased. A man emerged from
+behind the idol. Although the grey woolly tufts upon
+his chin, the sacred snake skin around his waist above
+the cat skin loin-cloth, the jingle of the ivory bangles
+on arms and ankles, and his stature, imparted an air of
+barbaric royalty, King MFunya MPopo advanced with
+the manner of a pariah dog ordered to his master’s side.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As the King approached, the Keeper of the Fires
+hastily threw on a handful of faggots and bowed his
+head. In the centre of the opening of the enclosure
+the King squatted down with his back to the fire which
+streamed blue smoke. Not a limb or a muscle moved
+among the group of wizards and chiefs in the council
+house. Attracted by the movement, the goat stopped
+bleating and stared at the King; then, putting down
+its head, charged him.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With a horrified click, the Keeper of the Fires
+sprang. But he was not swift enough to prevent the
+impact of the animal’s horns with the royal arm thrust
+out in self-defence. Three young chiefs came running;
+one caught up the goat and carried it away bleating
+bellicosely; the others knelt, and while one carefully
+collected a gout of blood upon the King’s forearm in a
+piece of banana leaf, his companion wiped the wound.
+When they were satisfied that the bleeding had ceased,
+the pieces were meticulously wrapped in another
+leaf and borne away by the Keeper of the Fires to be
+deposited in the temple: for as every man knows, the
+royal blood must not be spilt upon the ground lest the
+site be accursed for ever and like the tooth of the dragon
+of Colchis, arise from the spot ghostly warriors to
+annihilate the tribe.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page31">[pg 31]</span><a name="Pg31" id="Pg31" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Neither upon the face of any of the elders nor upon
+the features of MFunya MPopo, the King, had a
+muscle moved. Yet the incident was regarded as an
+evil omen.… Then suddenly did Bakahenzie, the
+chief witch-doctor, plumed with a tall scarlet feather in
+addition to the green ones and a necklace of finger bones
+upon his bronze chest, who sat in the centre with Kawa
+Kendi, the King’s son upon his right, and Zalu Zako,
+the grandson, upon his left, begin to chant in a high
+wailing voice to the rapid rhythm of the drums:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Is there not a shadow come over the land?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The frown of the One-not-to-be-mentioned?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I, Bakahenzie, have seen it! have seen it!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And from the group within the council house,
+immobile, came the bass chorus of assent:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 17.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Ough! Ough!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Is there not a dry curse come over the land?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is it not the hot breath of the soul of the Snake?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I, Bakahenzie, have seen it! have seen it!”</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">“Ough! Ough!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Where is the false spirit that hath sinned in the act?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He that hath sinned in the shade of the name?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I, Bakahenzie, have seen him! have seen him!”</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">“Ough! Ough!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Does not the keen sting of him scorch up the land?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hath not the young bread of our bellies been slain?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I, Bakahenzie, have seen it! have seen it!”</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">“Ough! Ough!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The throb of the drums grew faster. Bakahenzie
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page32">[pg 32]</span><a name="Pg32" id="Pg32" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+leaped from the crowd. Immediately in front of the
+King he began to dance and to scream:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Is the Burden too great for the Guard of the Name?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aie! Aie!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hath the Bearer, too, fumbled the weight of the World?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aie! Aie!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is His spirit bewitched by the soul of a girl?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aie! Aie!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hath His magical power been slain by the sin?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aie! Aie!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hath a prophet made words in the act of a goat?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aie! Aie!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Does a saviour in hairs thirst the blood of a King?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aie! Aie!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Shall we hearken, O Chiefs, to the wish of the One?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aie! Aie!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or be shrivelled and die in the drought of His wrath?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aie! Aie!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Kawa Kendi, a man in early middle age, powerful
+and lithe-limbed, sat as motionless as the King, his
+father, staring, as did all, with the fixed stare of the
+anagogic.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Abruptly the drums ceased. Again came a hot
+silence as Bakahenzie paused in front of MFunya
+MPopo. Then with a piercing yell, the witch-doctor
+spun on his toes. The drums broke into an hysterical
+rhythm. Bakahenzie leaped high in the air; whirled
+around and around screaming hoarsely; leaped and
+spun continually.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The chiefs and doctors began to grunt; continued in
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page33">[pg 33]</span><a name="Pg33" id="Pg33" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+crescendo until the whole body throbbed and grunted
+to the rhythm of the drums. Yet immobile sat
+MFunya MPopo.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Suddenly Bakahenzie changed the erratic course of
+his wild dance. He whirled and screamed in front of
+the King and fell headlong, as if in a fit, with eyes
+injected and foam upon the black tufts of beard.
+Bakahenzie clutched his belly and began to howl like a
+hyena at the moon. The drums stopped. Howl and
+writhe did Bakahenzie as if a thousand fiends were
+tearing out his entrails.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He lay rigid. The air seemed to quiver. The lines
+of every man’s limbs, except the King’s, were drawn in
+tension. Then from the prostrate body of the witch-doctor,
+whose legs and arms were twisted as in agony,
+whose dribbling mouth was closed like a vise, came a
+ventriloquous falsetto:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Aie-e! Aie-e! I am the spirit of Kintu!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie-e! Aie-e! I am he who first was!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie-e! Aie-e! I am the banana from whom I was made!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie-e! Aie-e! The Keeper of the Name hath betrayed me!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie-e! Aie-e! The Bride of me is defiled!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie-e! Aie-e! Let him arise who is pure!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie-e! Aie-e! Let him arise who is bidden!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie-e! Aie-e! Let the fires be put out!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie-e! Aie-e! Let a new fire arise from the ashes!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie-e! Aie-e! I have spoken, I, the Father of men!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie-e! Aie-e! I, Tarum, the soul of your
+  ancestors!”</div>
+</div>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page34">[pg 34]</span><a name="Pg34" id="Pg34" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From the assembly came the belly grunt of acceptance.
+In silence rose Kawa Kendi, the heir-apparent.
+His face was as expressionless as his father’s. He
+stepped around the body of Bakahenzie and across the
+open space followed by a young man, Kingata Mata.
+Ten feet away from the enclosure, Kingata Mata sank
+upon his haunches. Before MFunya MPopo squatted
+his son. They spat each in the other’s hand and
+swallowed the spittle. Then the head of Kawa Kendi
+bent to the lips of MFunya MPopo to receive the
+sacred Name.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In unison with Kawa Kendi rose Kingata Mata, who
+to him handed a cord of twisted bark. Bending behind
+the King, who remained motionless with the closed
+eyes of one already dead, Kingata Mata swiftly adjusted
+the cord and handed it back to the son, Kawa
+Kendi.…</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When the muscular young Keeper of the Fires had
+poured solemnly a gourd of water upon the royal fire
+of MFunya MPopo, he knelt submissively and was
+strangled beside his master.…</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From the assembly went up a great shout:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The fire is put out!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And from the village, listening in awe to the mighty
+doings, came like an echo:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The fire is put out! Aie! Aie-e!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then shouted the elders and wizards:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Let there be a new fire!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Again came the wailing repetition from the
+village:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Let there be a new fire!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As in the Place of Fires was kindled a new fire by
+Kingata Mata with two sacred sticks, one of which is
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page35">[pg 35]</span><a name="Pg35" id="Pg35" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+male and the other female, the assembled chiefs and
+magicians groaned in allegiance to the new King-God
+of the unmentionable spirit of the Snake, Usakuma,
+the Idol.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD03" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page36">[pg 36]</span><a name="Pg36" id="Pg36" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc6" id="toc6"></a>
+<a name="pdf7" id="pdf7"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 3</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At five-thirty zu Pfeiffer was stretched in the long
+Bombay chair in the coolest portion of the screened
+verandah. On the table beside him was a tall glass,
+a decanter of cognac and a box of cigars; and suspended
+from the roof swung a canvas bag of water with
+a syphon attachment. A gape fly, which somehow had
+gotten through the screen, hit the lieutenant’s forehead,
+fell on to the book and whirred up against the
+wire.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ach, Gott verdammt!”</span> exclaimed zu Pfeiffer
+irritably and shouted: <span class="tei tei-q">“Ho, Bakunja—la.”</span> Instantly
+appeared the tall negro in white. <span class="tei tei-q">“You son of a god!
+Look at that!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakunjala looked, leaped, and caught the fly in his
+hand.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ow!”</span> he exclaimed as the hornet stung him.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ach, you woman of shame, catch it instantly!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Without hesitation Bakunjala made another grab,
+and clutching the fly tightly, made to open the screen
+door.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Halt!”</span> commanded the lieutenant.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakunjala obeyed.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer regarded the man standing with the wasp
+sting buried in his palm with a slight smile of amusement.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It hurts?”</span> he inquired amiably.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Indio, Bwana!”</span> asserted Bakunjala.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page37">[pg 37]</span><a name="Pg37" id="Pg37" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Good! Now stop there.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Motionless remained the negro. Zu Pfeiffer leisurely
+selected a fresh cigar, lighted it, stoked it, and
+inhaling smoke stroked his left moustache.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It still hurts?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Indio, Bwana!”</span> said Bakunjala with a high note
+in his voice.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Splendid!”</span> assured the lieutenant: and after a
+full minute added: <span class="tei tei-q">“Now you may go. And remember
+if you are frightened of a fly’s pain again I will
+give you twenty lashes.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Indio, Bwana,”</span> answered Bakunjala humbly and
+departed swiftly with the hornet in his clenched fist.
+Zu Pfeiffer smiled, again stared reflectively at the
+violet shadows creeping lazily across the square, sipped
+some brandy and picking up his book, began to read.…</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer frowned and looked round. Outside the
+screen stood Sergeant Schultz at the salute. Zu
+Pfeiffer nodded.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence,”</span> said the sergeant at attention, <span class="tei tei-q">“the
+Englishman is here.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ach, tell him to go&mdash;&mdash;”</span> The lieutenant drew
+out his gold chronometer. <span class="tei tei-q">“It is my bath time. I
+cannot see him.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ja, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Wait.”</span> Zu Pfeiffer withdrew his legs and rose.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Ach, tell the fool to come over here and wait till I
+have had my bath.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence!”</span> agreed the sergeant and saluting,
+marched away. Zu Pfeiffer entered the bungalow.
+Across the square came Birnier with the sergeant who
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page38">[pg 38]</span><a name="Pg38" id="Pg38" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+ushered him into the screened portion of the verandah.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“His Excellence gom bresently,”</span> said the sergeant
+and left him.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier put his Tirai hat on the table, and seeing no
+other, sat in the Bombay chair; looked about him;
+idly examined the brand on the box of cigars and
+smiled. <span class="tei tei-q">“Makes himself mighty comfortable,”</span> he
+remarked to himself. <span class="tei tei-q">“Pity he appears such a boor.”</span>
+He glanced at the book on the armchair.
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Allgemeine
+Geschichte der Philosophie</span></span> von Prof. Dr. Paul Deussen.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“And a philosopher, eh!”</span> Having little German he
+turned away and lighted his pipe. After a while he
+began to fidget, wondering how long he was to be kept
+waiting. <span class="tei tei-q">“Damn the fellow!”</span> he muttered and
+picked up one of the books on the table,
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Les Ba-Rongas</span></span>,
+par A. Junod, opened it at random and began to
+read.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The shadows of one bungalow reached the verandah
+on the opposite side of the square. And still he read on,
+the dead pipe in his hand. Just as the twilight was
+snuffed out like a candle, a sharp step heralded the
+arrival of the lieutenant. Birnier rose, the book in his
+hand.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Good evening, sir!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Good evening,”</span> responded zu Pfeiffer, who was in
+an undress uniform of white. <span class="tei tei-q">“What is it that you
+require?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well,”</span> said Birnier, <span class="tei tei-q">“first of all I must apologise
+for using your chair and reading your book. Most
+interesting, by the way.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That is nothing,”</span> said zu Pfeiffer as Bakunjala
+came in with a lamp and a chair. <span class="tei tei-q">“Please to be
+seated.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page39">[pg 39]</span><a name="Pg39" id="Pg39" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thank you.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier took the small chair and the lieutenant the
+Bombay.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I—er I—am sorry that I disturbed you this
+morning,”</span> began Birnier diffidently. <span class="tei tei-q">“But I did not
+know&mdash;&mdash;”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That is nothing. It was the fault of the sentry.
+He should not have allowed you to pass.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Regarding my application for the licence, Herr
+Lieutenant?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I regret,”</span> said zu Pfeiffer coldly, using a cigar
+cutter, <span class="tei tei-q">“that I am unable to grant you the licence
+you ask.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You cannot grant me a trading or shooting
+licence?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I regret, no.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier stared.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“May I inquire why I am refused?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You may. We do not wish undesirables in the
+country.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Undesirables!”</span> Birnier’s lips tightened. <span class="tei tei-q">“I am
+afraid that I do not understand you.”</span> The lieutenant
+was engaged in carefully stoking his cigar. <span class="tei tei-q">“Will you
+kindly afford me a reason for—for such an insulting
+remark?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer blew smoke luxuriously. Birnier stared
+for a moment, stuck his pipe in his mouth and bit the
+stem; removed it and snapped:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You can have no adequate reason for such action.…
+If you intend to continue this ridiculous farce
+I shall be compelled to make a complaint through
+Washington.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Washington?”</span> Zu Pfeiffer removed one leg
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page40">[pg 40]</span><a name="Pg40" id="Pg40" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+from the chair-rest and the cigar from his mouth.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“You are an American?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I am.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“So? We understood that you were an English
+agent. You have papers?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Certainly. If you wish&mdash;&mdash;”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“We do not demand. No. My agent was wrong.
+He shall be punished.”</span> Then in an amiable voice:
+<span class="tei tei-q">“I, too, have been a long time in America. Please
+to have a cigar, Mr. Birnier.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier hesitated, puzzled.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thank you,”</span> he said diffidently, selected one,
+bit off the end and spat it into the corner. Zu
+Pfeiffer shuddered delicately; but as Birnier lighted
+his cigar he studied his face in the glow of the
+match; noted the breadth of the jaw, the width
+between the eyes and the slightly hard line at the corner
+of the mouth.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And forgive me!”</span> Zu Pfeiffer shouted to Bakunjala.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“I presume that you have been in Africa a long
+time,”</span> he continued.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Some ten years.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You do find the Wongolo country interesting?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, yes.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You were there long?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No, I had been two years in the Congo and passed
+through on my way to Uganda to refit.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ach. You permit me? You are mining?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No.”</span> Birnier smiled thinly. <span class="tei tei-q">“I have a professorial
+job in the American Museum of Natural History,
+Anthropological department.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Professor! Ach!”</span> Zu Pfeiffer looked at him
+interestedly.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page41">[pg 41]</span><a name="Pg41" id="Pg41" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes. That is why I was so absorbed in
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Les Ba-Rongas</span></span>
+which I found here. You are interested in
+anthropology?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ach, yes, I love to study the animals. I have a
+library—a small one, here. You must see it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thank you.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You were studying the animals’ ways and how
+d’you call it?—das Volkskündliches—in Wongolo?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes. I do nothing else.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“So?”</span> Bakunjala arrived with fresh glasses and
+vermouth. <span class="tei tei-q">“Which do you prefer, French or Italian,
+Herr Professor?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“French, please.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You will dine with me, please?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That is very kind of you, Lieutenant.”</span> Birnier
+gazed quizzically, rather amused at the complete
+change of manner. Quite charming when he likes,
+he reflected.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“From what part do you come, Herr Professor?”</span>
+inquired zu Pfeiffer as he set down his glass.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, I’m a Southerner. Louisiana. My name is
+French, you know.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ach so? Che les aimes, les Français. Les femmes
+sont adorables!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oui, je les trouve comme ça!”</span> agreed Birnier,
+smiling. <span class="tei tei-q">“Ma femme est française.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“So? … I, too, Professor, I am in love with a
+Française. She is wonderful! superbe! Ach, ent
+zückend!”</span> The lieutenant gazed into the warm
+darkness. <span class="tei tei-q">“Always I see her—in the darkness,
+the—chaleur—parmis
+les animaux.”</span> In the glow of the
+lamp, the blue eyes were soft, the feminine lips curved
+in a tender smile as he murmured:</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page42">[pg 42]</span><a name="Pg42" id="Pg42" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 5.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Die Jahre kommen und gehen,</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Geschlechter steigen ins Grab,</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Doch nimmer vergeht die Liebe,</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Die ich im Herzen hab!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nur einmal noch möcht ich dich sehen,</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Und sinken vor dir aufs Knie</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Und sterbend zu dir sprechen:</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">‘Madam, ich liebe Sie!’ ”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thank you,”</span> said Birnier quietly. <span class="tei tei-q">“I, too,
+would say that.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ach, sprechen Sie Deutsch?”</span> demanded zu
+Pfeiffer quickly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No, unfortunately I don’t speak it, but I understand
+a little; and particularly Heine.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ach, Gott!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The note was of satisfaction. A gong sounded.
+Zu Pfeiffer turned sharply: <span class="tei tei-q">“Come, Herr Professor,
+let us go to dinner. You would wish to
+wash?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The bungalow, unusually lofty, was divided into
+three compartments. The ceiling, made of stout
+white calico, to shelter from snakes and the continual
+dust from the wood borers, was suspended from the
+rafters like the roof of a marquee tent. The centre
+room was furnished with cane lounge chairs like a
+smoking-room and decorated with skins, native musical
+instruments, spears and shields; drums served as small
+tables with elephant’s toe-nails for ash trays.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the bedroom was a brass bedstead and mosquito
+net. Behind was a bathroom having a corrugated
+cistern upon the cross beams which gave force for a
+shower. The towels and appointments were specklessly
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page43">[pg 43]</span><a name="Pg43" id="Pg43" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+clean. When Birnier appeared he found zu
+Pfeiffer sprawled in the lounge. On a red lacquer
+tray upon a great war drum, covered with the striped
+skin of a zebra, was a crystal liqueur set and a large
+silver box of Egyptian cigarettes.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ach, Professor,”</span> said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“it is good to speak to a
+white man again”</span> (by which he meant an equal).
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Please be seated, I beg you. A little liqueur is good
+for the aperitif and a cigarette; for there is no time for
+another cigar.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As Birnier sat he remarked the blonde head of the
+lieutenant in his meticulous uniform touched with gold
+and caught a glimpse of the jewelled bracelet of ivory
+and the Chinese finger-nail.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Another summons of the gong brought zu Pfeiffer to
+his feet. As he led his guest out through the side
+verandah along a screened porch to the mess room,
+built away from the main building to keep away the
+plague of flies, a native girl whose close-wrapped white
+robes revealed a lithe figure, flitted through a doorway.
+The table was set in immaculate linen, aglitter with
+glass and decorated with a profusion of wild orchids.
+Behind the chairs stood two negroes in spotless white,
+immobile. On each plate were hors d’œuvres of
+anchovy and cheese upon a patterned piece of toast.
+Salted almonds, sweets, and olives were in green china;
+wine glasses of three kinds. Broiled fish followed the
+soup.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“So, Professor,”</span> remarked the lieutenant, <span class="tei tei-q">“you
+will go back some day to Wongolo?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I—unless I discover some tribe who have a
+more interesting system of—er—theology.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“They are a powerful tribe, nicht wahr?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page44">[pg 44]</span><a name="Pg44" id="Pg44" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh yes, very. Their system ensures unity which
+provides for concerted action. Here I believe it is
+different.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, yes; they are poor here. Each village was
+at war with the other—before we came. Their
+superstitions are not—how would you say it?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Systematised?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes. They have neither any supreme chief nor
+god. There you see,”</span> he added, smiling, <span class="tei tei-q">“that
+autocracy is the only form of government. Democracy—pah! …
+I apologise, Professor!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Please don’t,”</span> replied Birnier, <span class="tei tei-q">“although of course
+I cannot agree with you.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But the Wongolo, they have a god and king?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, the King-Priest system. One of the most
+interesting I have ever encountered or read of.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You did see the King-God, MFunya MPopo?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh no. He is forbidden to be seen by a foreigner—a
+similar law to that of the Medes; only by the witch-doctors—and
+by the people once a year at a harvest
+festival. That is why I intend to go back. It is
+impossible to procure reliable statistics of their customs,
+practices and real beliefs without—without winning
+their confidence. That is my mission.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I do not longer wonder, Herr Professor, that you
+were most justly annoyed. Ach, yes. But please do
+not worry about your ridiculous licence. It is not
+necessary in my jurisdiction, I assure you. You may
+come and go as you please, shoot what you wish. I
+will always be so glad to help so distinguished a professor.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I thank you very much.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It is nothing. And perhaps when you are there,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page45">[pg 45]</span><a name="Pg45" id="Pg45" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+you will be so kind as to write to me? To tell me
+things that are not known—so that I may, too,
+continue to study the animals—again what is it?
+das Volkskündliches?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Folk-lore, isn’t it?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes. Please to have some more wine, Herr
+Professor. Please, I insist. It is the real Mumm.
+That is a promise? I thank you<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E33" id="E33" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e33" class="tei tei-ref">.</a></span> And if&mdash;&mdash; Were
+there any others—whites—when you were there?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Only one.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Where was he, I wonder?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“On the southern boundary.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Near lake Kivu?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Saunders,”</span> muttered zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I beg your pardon?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It was nothing, but I do not like to have—aliens
+in my province. They are—missionaries and traders—spies.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Indeed.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, it is always so. Herr Professor, I ask you a
+favour. Will you be so kind as to write to me if some
+other white comes into the Wongolo country?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I shall be delighted,”</span> said Birnier.… <span class="tei tei-q">“Do
+you intend to come there some day, Herr Lieutenant?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ach, no, it is not—not our territory; although I
+should very much like to see it and to shoot. There
+is much elephant there?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh yes, quantities.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Please to try some of this curried egg, Herr Professor.
+It is excellent, I assure you. I thank you.…
+And rubber, is there much rubber there?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I believe so.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page46">[pg 46]</span><a name="Pg46" id="Pg46" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Now I wonder if you noticed whether it was tree
+or vine?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I really couldn’t say.”</span> Birnier smiled thinly.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“I am not interested in such things.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer glanced at him keenly and changed the
+subject. When they had finished the best boned
+chicken that Birnier had ever tasted in Africa, zu
+Pfeiffer rose.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Let us go to my study, Herr Professor, if you
+so permit, for some coffee and a little good port—and
+I will have the pleasure to show you my little
+library.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I should be delighted,”</span> assented Birnier willingly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Around the white walls of the cool room which was
+zu Pfeiffer’s study, ran low bookshelves made of native
+wood, containing some hundreds of volumes which had
+been carried five hundred miles on the heads of porters.
+Grass mats and leopard skins were upon the floor. In
+the centre, upon a heavy table, was a green shaded
+lamp set in a silver-mounted elephant’s foot. Upon
+the bookcases were various odd curios, and a coffee
+service in copper; and from opposite sides, marbles of
+Bismarck and Voltaire stared into each other’s eyes.
+On the south wall was a large oil of Kaiser Wilhelm II;
+and in the centre of the other wall a photograph of a
+woman set in an ivory frame made from a section of a
+tusk.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer strove to be more agreeable than ever.
+They talked mythology and folklore. With the port,
+zu Pfeiffer rose, an erect martial figure above the glow
+of the lamp.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Herr Professor!”</span> he remarked. <span class="tei tei-q">“I beg you.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Slightly bewildered, Birnier rose, too, glass in hand.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page47">[pg 47]</span><a name="Pg47" id="Pg47" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Wheeling with military precision zu Pfeiffer raised his
+glass to the great portrait on the wall.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ihre Hochheit!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Politely Birnier followed suit, his democratic ideas
+slightly astonished at the veneration of the kingly
+office; almost, he reflected, as curious as the native
+superstition of the King-God. Then zu Pfeiffer turned
+to the left and lifting his glass to the portrait in the
+ivory frame, drank silently.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I was wondering, Professor,”</span> remarked he, as he
+resumed his seat without explanation, <span class="tei tei-q">“from what
+college—you call it?—you come?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Harvard,”</span> said Birnier, rather amused and noticing
+that as a true connoisseur, zu Pfeiffer refrained from
+smoking while drinking his port.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I have met many of the Harvard men—at Washington.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ah, you know Washington?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I was there nearly two years.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer drained his port, selected a cigar, lighted
+it and gazed abstractedly towards the ivory frame. The
+lips softened and he smiled gently.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Do you know many people there?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, a few.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ach … I wonder.… You must know that
+I met her there, my divine Lucille!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Lucille! How strange! That is my wife’s name
+too.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Really?”</span> Zu Pfeiffer still peered dreamily at the
+corner. He gathered up his legs and rose like an eager
+boy. <span class="tei tei-q">“Permit me, Herr Professor, she is so—so&mdash;&mdash;”</span>
+He bent over the portrait and struck a match. Politely
+Birnier stooped to look. He saw a portrait of a French
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page48">[pg 48]</span><a name="Pg48" id="Pg48" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+woman in an evening gown, a woman of charm with
+the vivacious eyes and tempting mouth of the coquette.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“My God!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier bent closer and stared intently. Across the
+corner of the photograph were written in ink in familiar
+characters the words: ‘à toi, Lucille.’</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Lucille!”</span> he gasped. <span class="tei tei-q">“Lu—Good God!”</span> He
+stood up abruptly. <span class="tei tei-q">“I—What in God’s name—who
+is this woman?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The match fell to the floor. He was vaguely conscious
+of the tall white figure stiffening as a dog does.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That lady is my fiancée.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Fiancée! She—Good God, you’re mad! She
+is my wife!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Wife!… Gott verdampf, der Teufel solls
+holen! Das ist der Schweinhünd!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The gutturals exploded from zu Pfeiffer. The
+sleeve of his white jacket quivered, the arm came up to
+the gold braided chest and jerked out a silver whistle.
+He hesitated, glaring at the astonished figure of Birnier.
+Suddenly zu Pfeiffer sat down by the table. His blue
+eyes were as hard as malachite.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sit down!”</span> he commanded harshly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier did not appear to notice him. He struck a
+match and bent over the photograph again.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Good God!”</span> he muttered.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“I—I—don’t understand—O
+God!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sit down!”</span> shouted zu Pfeiffer. Birnier merely
+blinked at him.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Would you mind explaining?”</span> demanded Birnier.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Explain!… Is your wife Mademoiselle Lucille
+Charltrain?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why, of course. That is her professional name.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page49">[pg 49]</span><a name="Pg49" id="Pg49" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+But how on earth has this mistake happened? I—I—that
+is her writing—but it can’t be. I mean it’s
+impossible.…”</span>
+Birnier put his hand to his head. <span class="tei tei-q">“I—God,
+it can’t be! I or you must be mad! Which is&mdash;&mdash;”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A prolonged whistle startled him. He saw the
+whistle at zu Pfeiffer’s lips, but the act conveyed no
+meaning. He turned away, struck another match and
+peered again at the photograph.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Lucille! Lucille!”</span> he whispered. <span class="tei tei-q">“What on
+earth&mdash;&mdash;”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A powerful clutch closed upon his arm. He was
+whirled backwards into a chair. For a moment he
+was too dazed to grasp what had happened. He
+saw zu Pfeiffer’s face. The sentries over his moustaches
+quivered like a row of fixed bayonets. The eyes seemed
+needle points. Then the fact of the assault penetrated
+beyond the unprecedented incident of finding his
+wife’s photograph in another man’s room. The ugly
+line about the mouth hardened. He rose slowly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Am I to understand that you have laid your hands
+upon your guest?”</span> he began, stuttering over the
+choice of words. <span class="tei tei-q">“I am—I am&mdash;&mdash;”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The scuffle of many feet interrupted him. Into the
+room rushed Sergeant Schultz and several soldiers.
+Zu Pfeiffer stood up and pointed.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sergeant, arrest that man!”</span> he barked.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ja, Excellence!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sergeant saluted and barked at the askaris.
+Birnier gazed stupidly at the uniforms around him as
+if unable to comprehend. He looked at zu Pfeiffer
+who stood erect, his face lost in shadow above the lamp,
+and back at the soldiers.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page50">[pg 50]</span><a name="Pg50" id="Pg50" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Is this a joke, Lieutenant—or are you mad?”</span>
+he demanded angrily.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sergeant, put that man in the guard-room,”</span> zu
+Pfeiffer commanded.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer sat down with his back to Birnier and
+facing the photograph. Birnier’s face twitched; he
+raised his arm. The sergeant barked and the line of
+bayonets lowered menacingly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You gom with me, Herr American,”</span> ordered the
+sergeant.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier controlled himself.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“One moment, sergeant, please! Herr Lieutenant,
+on what charge do you arrest me?”</span> The perfect
+lines of the white-clad back did not quiver. <span class="tei tei-q">“Very
+good! I give you warning, Herr Lieutenant, that
+you have committed an assault upon an American
+citizen.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Gom! Gom!”</span> insisted the sergeant impatiently.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier raised his head and walked as indicated by
+the sergeant. As the footsteps plodded across the
+square zu Pfeiffer turned to the table, examining his
+left hand.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ach!”</span> he growled gutturally, <span class="tei tei-q">“the dirty pig has
+broken my nail!”</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD04" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page51">[pg 51]</span><a name="Pg51" id="Pg51" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc8" id="toc8"></a>
+<a name="pdf9" id="pdf9"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 4</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Over the city of the Snake the sun sank red dry,
+leaving the Place of Kings hot in the electric air
+of magic and world happenings. The people were
+still confined to their huts, trembling in the knowledge
+that for three days love must be eschewed, no water
+drawn nor any food cooked with fire; nor might any
+man, woman or child leave the precincts of the
+compound.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">All the night Bakuma crouched in her hut listening
+in awe to the swish of the ghosts through the air, to
+the moans, groans and howls of the wizards doing
+battle with them. Tightly did she hold the amulet as
+she strove to conceal curiosity regarding the welfare
+of Zalu Zako; for did her mother suspect the presence
+of this evil spirit would she cause Bakuma to
+take a decoction of the castor-oil plant in order that
+the demon might be expelled; and the more to aid
+her conquer this unlawful impulse to peep without did
+she most persistently recite to herself the fate of the
+daughter of MTasa, the foolish Tangulbala whose
+body had been discovered impaled upon a tree by
+the angry spirits of the dead, because she had rashly
+ventured forth the third day after the death of the
+grandfather of Zalu Zako. Bakuma dared not mention
+the name of one who had died, for, as everybody
+knows, such an impious person runs the risk of summoning
+the ghosts to their presence.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page52">[pg 52]</span><a name="Pg52" id="Pg52" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The <span class="tei tei-q">“putting out of the fire”</span> had changed Bakuma’s
+prospects, had made Zalu Zako heir-apparent, implying
+half a hundred responsibilities, the chief of which was
+that now he was compelled to choose his official first
+wife, she who would be the mother of the <span class="tei tei-q">“divine”</span>
+Son of the Snake: an alteration that excited Bakuma
+to frantic clutching at the amulet. Would the charm
+work or would it not? How to insure that it would be
+efficacious? Marufa’s greedy demands worried her.
+She feared even if she obtained the goat that he might
+require something else as well. Anybody knows
+how greedy doctors are and how wealthy. He would
+be sure to increase the fee, knowing the value of the
+prize. Bakuma only possessed one really valuable
+article, and that was a charm against sterility; but
+this was the last thing that she wished to part with as
+the only possible occurrence that could ever divorce her
+from the position of chief wife, once she had won
+Zalu Zako, would be failure to provide the male heir.
+She was impatient, too, at the delay caused by the
+three days’ tabu. Time was important. Soon she
+would be under the ban of the unclean which entailed
+the curtailment of her liberty again, and she dreaded
+that possibly the charm might grow stale. The
+greatest need for speed was MYalu’s suit. As her
+father was dead she belonged to his brother. Already
+MYalu had offered four tusks of ivory and three oxen
+for her. Her uncle was lazy, mean, and greedy.
+Fortunately he thought that by waiting he could
+get double that amount. Yet MYalu might decide
+to pay the price demanded. Once Zalu Zako had
+selected her as his bride, her uncle dared not accept
+any other man’s offer, no matter how wealthy he might
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page53">[pg 53]</span><a name="Pg53" id="Pg53" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+be; besides, the old man would not wish to refuse a
+relationship with the heir to the king-godhood.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Again her cousin was sick. The diagnosis of Yabolo,
+the wizard, was that her soul had wandered in sleep
+down to the river and had been swallowed by a fish.
+Yabolo had caught the fish and lured the soul into a
+tree, but now he demanded such a big price to restore
+the errant soul to the girl that her father, Bakuma’s
+uncle, would not pay it, so she would surely die; then
+they would all have to be exorcised, which inferred
+a further loss of relative freedom for another four days.
+Indeed with all these actual and possible delays it seemed
+to Bakuma that some one had made much magic
+against her. Unless she knew who he or she was, how
+could she employ the same means to annul the terrible
+effects? And more, how could she obtain the wherewithal
+to pay the fees of the best doctors? Life was
+very complicated to the daughter of Bakala.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Up on the hill of MFunya MPopo had the magicians
+been busy all the afternoon after the <span class="tei tei-q">“putting out of
+the fire.”</span> Zalu Zako and the chiefs also were barred
+from the sacred enclosure; for being mere laymen
+they could not hope to withstand the evil spirits of the
+dead. Even Bakahenzie and the inner circle of the
+cult were compelled to employ the most potent
+methods of protection to preserve them from being
+bewitched or slain outright.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After Bakahenzie, Marufa, Yabolo and two other
+master magicians had released the souls of the dead
+King by making incisions in the body with a sacred
+spear to the thrumming of the drums, the mighty
+groaning of the other wizards, and the persistent wailing
+of the dead man’s wives, the corpse was borne by
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page54">[pg 54]</span><a name="Pg54" id="Pg54" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+twelve doomed slaves to the temple and there interred
+with the gouts of blood shed by the prophetic goat,
+the nail parings and hair clippings of his lifetime, and
+his personal effects.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Upon the hill of MFunya MPopo, soon to be a temple
+and sanctuary, sat Kawa Kendi beside the New Fire
+tended by Kingata Mata, facing Zalu Zako, MYalu
+and the lay chiefs, while upon his own hill slaves were
+tearing down his old hut, erecting a temporary palisade
+around the quarters of his wives who were forever
+forbidden to him, and beginning the building of the
+new temple.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As the violet shadows were creeping from one hut
+to another did Bakahenzie and his satellites return
+from the ghoulish offices of the dead. Zalu Zako,
+the chiefs and magicians arose to the wild beating of
+the drums and the wailing chant of the hereditary
+troubadour with the five stringed lyre. With Kingata
+Mata carrying a brand of the newly lighted sacred
+fire, was Kawa Kendi led in procession through the
+deserted village to his sacred home.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Under the hard stars set in a dry sapphire, the fire
+cast yellow flickers upon the carven features of Kawa
+Kendi. In the still heat the distant wailing of the
+women from the opposite hill drifted into the continuous
+throb of the drums, the plaintive wail of the
+singer, and the hysterical groaning of the magicians,
+yelling ferociously ever and again to intimidate the
+baulked spirits around the magic circle.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then was a white goat, previously selected from
+the flock of Kawa Kendi, slain by Zalu Zako, disembowelled
+by Bakahenzie, and the entrails rubbed upon
+the brow, the chest and the right arm of the slayer
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page55">[pg 55]</span><a name="Pg55" id="Pg55" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+of man, a ceremony of purification designed to protect
+the royal executioner by appeasing the justly angry
+spirits of the dead; to Marufa were given other parts
+of the slain beast to smear likewise upon Zalu Zako,
+the son; and Yabolo ran screaming with portions to
+the quarters of the women of Kawa Kendi: for must
+every blood relative be so enchanted lest the vengeful
+ghost seek substitute victims.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As a pallid moon rose, as if fearfully, above the deep
+ultramarine of the banana fronds, was a magic potion
+brewed from certain herbs in enchanted water, with
+which the King, Zalu Zako, his son, and the King’s
+wives were laved. Amid a tempest of screams and
+drums rose Kawa Kendi purified, to be driven by
+Bakahenzie and the wizards back to the hill of his
+father, leaving the assembled lay chiefs squatting
+humbly and in dread of the spirits abroad in the night.
+While the procession leaped and twirled, screamed and
+groaned to the frantic thrum of the drums through the
+blue darkness, the magicians ran and pranced through
+and around the village, seeking any blasphemer who
+dared to look upon sacred things; banging on hut
+doors and shaking thatches, the more to terrify the
+shrinking inhabitants.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Without the gate of the old enclosure all remained,
+except Bakahenzie and the four wizards who encircled
+Kawa Kendi and Kingata Mata and hustled them
+across the clearing. With his back to the dim form
+of the idol stood Kawa Kendi as behind it grouped
+the master magicians. From the base Bakahenzie took
+two large gourds and gave them into the keeping of
+Kingata Mata.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Came an abrupt cessation of the drums and cries.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page56">[pg 56]</span><a name="Pg56" id="Pg56" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+The wailing of the women behind the temple died.
+The tense air pulsed with electricity. A cock crowed
+feebly in the village. Then at a rippling splash of
+the drums and the sudden screaming of the wizards,
+they began to push the idol. The base had already
+been loosened in the earth by the slaves. The idol
+began to totter. Louder screeched the magicians;
+faster fled the drums. Slowly the idol leaned and
+subsided on to the shoulders of Kawa Kendi. Grasping
+the mass firmly upon his bent back, he bore the burden
+out of the enclosure and down the hill.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Behind his unsteady steps pranced and yelled
+the doctors with more prodigious a noise than ever
+before as they scourged the King’s legs and arms with
+cords of fibre. Through the listening village panted
+the King. As he gasped slowly up the hill the thrashing
+was redoubled. But into the new enclosure the King
+staggered, let slide the heavy mass into a hole prepared
+for the sacred feet and, gleaming blue points of
+sweat in the faint moon, let out a hoarse yell, proving
+to the assembly of magicians and chiefs that he was
+powerful enough to bear the burden of the world and
+moreover that none could wrest his office from him.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">No time was given for the incarnation of a god to
+recoup from his labours. The motive principle of the
+accusation and for the death of the king was the
+drought. That only concerned the soul of the tribe
+in the person of Bakahenzie. For him and his brothers
+of the inner cult, while certain pretensions of power
+over the supernatural were for the <span class="tei tei-q">“good of the people,”</span>
+the truths of magic and divine functions were inviolable.
+The person of Kawa Kendi, heretofore merely
+one in whom was a potentiality, became after the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page57">[pg 57]</span><a name="Pg57" id="Pg57" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+purification and <span class="tei tei-q">“coronation”</span> the very incarnation
+of the god. Kawa Kendi had crossed from the
+comparative safe haven of the potential into divine
+activity.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Also there were, as ever, political reasons for the
+hastening of the offices of the god. Should the new
+King-God fail, as his father had done, to accomplish
+the duties of the rainmaker, then, as no precedent had
+ever been known for the failure of two kings in succession,
+an enemy might accuse Bakahenzie of having
+committed some sacrilege which had displeased the
+Unmentionable One. Politics and religion are often
+inseparable. Therefore, as soon as Zalu Zako had
+witnessed the ascent of his father into the dangerous
+zone of the gods, was he bidden as the victim apparent,
+to produce the sacred rain-making paraphernalia.
+From the Keeper of the Fire, Kingata Mata, Zalu Zako
+received one of the large gourds, which he deposited at
+the feet of his father squatting before the sacred fire,
+and retired to his allotted place among the other lay
+chiefs. Only Bakahenzie and the four of the inner
+cult were permitted within the enclosure.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Fumbling within the pot Kawa Kendi produced a
+bundle of twigs tied with banana fibre, which he unbound
+and cast into the fire. The herbs smouldered
+and sent up a pungent smoke forming a heavy cloud like
+some strange blue tree sheltering the form of the idol
+against the green sky. Save for the faint wailing of the
+distant women there was silence, in which an owl
+screeched harshly, a good omen. Little flames flickered.
+The smoke grew denser, obliterating the figure
+of the King. The drums began to mutter, Bakahenzie
+cried out in a loud voice:</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page58">[pg 58]</span><a name="Pg58" id="Pg58" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“O great God, the Unmentionable One! let thy
+powers be made manifest!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Keeper of the Fires came forward upon his
+hands and thrust the other sacred gourd in front of
+the King, a deep one containing water, and a wand
+made from a sacred tree which had upon the end a
+crook. To the groaning of the magicians, the King
+took from the one gourd two stones of quartz and
+granite, the male and the female, and spat upon each
+one, thus placing part of his royal body upon them;
+then did he put them on the ground, and pouring
+water, chanted:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Go forth, male spirit, with my ghost in thy hands!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Go forth, female soul, with my ghost in thy breast!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Make love together in the shade of great Tarum,</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of him whom fear of me hath frozen the breath!”</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">“Ough! Ough!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">grunted the priests and magicians.</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Go forth, male spirit, with my ghost in thy hand!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Go forth, female soul, with my ghost in thy breast!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love one another that the crops of our land</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">May marry as well and be as fruitful as thee!”</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">“Ough! Ough!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Go forth, male spirit, with my ghost in thy hand!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Go forth, female soul, with my ghost in thy breast!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rise high up to heaven and mount on the black back</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of the bird of the wet wind: poke your hands in his eyes!”</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">“Ough! Ough!”</div>
+</div>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page59">[pg 59]</span><a name="Pg59" id="Pg59" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Save for the distant wailing, there was the silence
+of those waiting for a miracle. In the sky, at the back
+of the idol, was the paling of dawn. Suddenly, as if
+exasperated by the non-obedience of the elements,
+Kawa Kendi sprang to his feet, with the magic wand
+in his right hand, turned and stared apparently into the
+face of the idol. For a full two minutes he stood as
+if carven, while the doctors and the chiefs moaned
+dismally. Around him like a pall still hovered the
+smoke of the magic fire. From the village a cock’s
+challenge was answered from point to point. Then
+shooting out his right hand, Kawa Kendi made
+gestures as if hooking something invisible and began
+to scream furiously:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Thus do I, the One-not-to-be-mentioned,</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Drag forth from the belly of heaven</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The disobedient One, the lazy One!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The insolent One who sinneth in sleep!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The black-snouted One whose udders are choked!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The womanly One whose nipples are dry!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The sluttish One who refuseth her milk!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The gorbellied One whose voice is a wind!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Come forth, lest I give thee sorrow and pain!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And make thee to weep the bitterest tears!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Come forth, lest I tear out thy black bosom!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Tear out thy guts for a feast unto Tarum!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Come forth, lest I throw off the yoke of the burden</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of the Earth and the Sky upon thy sweating black belly!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In a slight puff of wind, the smoke, lace-edged with
+the dawn light, swayed, seeming to twine about the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page60">[pg 60]</span><a name="Pg60" id="Pg60" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+figure of the King as he stood with the wand outheld,
+as if firmly hooked in the guts of the recalcitrant
+elements.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Against the rose of the dawn appeared a dark line
+which increased as the magicians and chiefs moaned
+and groaned in sympathy with the furious efforts of
+the rainmaker, who threatened and pulled with the
+magic crook, so that everybody could see that he was
+indeed dragging the reluctant clouds from over the
+end of the earth. As the dark mass swelled the more
+he wrestled and screamed abuse at the dilatory spirit
+of the rain.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And behold, within half an hour, great black spirits
+sailed across the scarlet sunrise and wept exceeding
+bitterly; while from the village went up a great shout
+of praise to the triumphant King still prancing and
+cursing to such good effect up on the hill.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD05" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page61">[pg 61]</span><a name="Pg61" id="Pg61" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc10" id="toc10"></a>
+<a name="pdf11" id="pdf11"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 5</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The same vast balloons of sepia rolled over the
+lake, vomited a host of liquid ramrods and, after
+short intervals of brilliant glare, were succeeded by
+others. The gutters of the station were turned into
+burbling brooks and the grass plot into a morass.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Behind the screen on the south verandah sat zu
+Pfeiffer in his pink silk pyjamas, a scowl upon his brow.
+He sipped his café cognac distastefully and inhaled a
+cigarette so fiercely that the heat burned his tongue.
+He had not slept. Yet the broken nail on the left
+little finger had been cut and polished. Half the night
+he had sat before the photograph in the ivory frame,
+pondering upon, and rehearsing, the past; muttering
+aloud to Lucille, sometimes words of love and sometimes
+savage curses; wondering what she was doing
+and where she was; gritting his teeth at visions which
+aroused insane jealousy; calculating what the consequences
+of his action would be were he to obey the
+impulse that had leaped into his mind in the first
+flush of passion. If he were to release the prisoner the
+fellow would probably expect an explanation and an
+apology which was, of course, out of the question. No,
+he must carry out the thing thoroughly without leaving
+any chance for the man to make trouble at the coast, or
+through the Embassy at Washington; at all costs not
+through Washington. For him, Birnier merely existed
+as a person whose feelings mattered nothing.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page62">[pg 62]</span><a name="Pg62" id="Pg62" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With the greening of the moon zu Pfeiffer had
+retired. As he had lain sleeplessly watching the pallor
+of the dawn he had savagely corroborated the decision.
+Now the roar of the deluge appeared to him in the
+form of an abettor to his plan. He watched the grey
+wall of rain with satisfaction, stroking the left sentry
+moustache as if to tame the fierce bristles of an outraged
+dignity. When he had emerged from the bath,
+the pink of his face appeared to have spread to the
+whites of his eyes, a fact which Bakunjala had noted
+with sullen dread.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Between the storms the sun glared yellow upon the
+smoking earth. Across the square squelched zu
+Pfeiffer to the orderly room. He grunted at Sergeant
+Schultz’s greeting and sprawled in the chair. When
+Schultz proffered him some official documents he
+waved them aside irritably.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bring the prisoner to the Court, sergeant. I will
+try him immediately.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence!”</span> said the sergeant, saluting. <span class="tei tei-q">“What
+charge am I to enter against him, Excellence?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Arms and liquor running,”</span> responded zu Pfeiffer
+quickly. <span class="tei tei-q">“I hold papers which prove the case
+completely; moreover you will see that Ali ben Hassan
+and others are prepared to testify. But—the charge
+will be margined as political: not criminal. Understand,
+sergeant?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Perfectly, Excellence. Ali ben Hassan and the
+others have to testify before your Excellence now?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“There will be no need.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Very good, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And, sergeant, what is the personnel of the launch
+and the prisoner’s party?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page63">[pg 63]</span><a name="Pg63" id="Pg63" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The launch returned immediately to Jinja,
+Excellence, as soon as the prisoner had landed.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ach, good.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The prisoner has a considerable battery, equipment
+and provisions; a headman and personal servants. He
+intended to obtain porters here, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer meditated, tapping the desk with a gold
+pencil.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What is the headman?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bambeeba, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Good. And the servants?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“One is a Wongolo youth, the others are mixed
+Walegga and Kavirondo.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Arrest them all and see that none gets away.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Schultz saluted and departed. Zu Pfeiffer frowned
+at the glare which was suddenly extinguished by falling
+water. He lighted a cigar and waited. Presently the
+sergeant returned in a waterproof cape, dripping, and
+announced that the prisoner was ready. Zu Pfeiffer
+gathered up his long legs and marched stiffly into the
+Court House adjoining.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Upon a slight dais was a large desk and a cane
+armchair beneath the Imperial Eagles and a portrait
+of the Kaiser Wilhelm II. Pale, stubble bearded, and
+tense eyed with anger, sat Birnier upon a form against
+the wall; beside him stood Sergeant Schneider, for it
+is not usual etiquette to put a white prisoner in charge
+of a black guard. The grizzled sergeant stood stuffy to
+attention, which zu Pfeiffer acknowledged. Although
+he did not meet Birnier’s gaze, he scowled as if he had
+expected him to salute the majesty of the judge as
+well.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page64">[pg 64]</span><a name="Pg64" id="Pg64" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But as zu Pfeiffer mounted the step to the chair of
+justice he looked up at the portrait of the Kaiser,
+stopped, and hesitated; then he wheeled abruptly,
+and barked:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sergeant, bring the prisoner to the orderly room!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the orderly room Birnier was placed between
+Sergeant Schultz at his table and Sergeant Schneider
+by the door. Birnier watched zu Pfeiffer intently, but
+zu Pfeiffer regarded him icily as if he were a piece of
+furniture. Without a word Birnier reached out and
+lifted a chair. Sergeant Schneider started forward,
+evidently fearing that the prisoner was about to attack
+his officer. Birnier said acidly: <span class="tei tei-q">“I merely wish to
+sit down.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer scowled again, but he made no objection.
+He took up some papers at random and began to peruse
+them. Said Birnier sharply:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“When you have finished with this farce I shall be
+obliged if you will kindly explain your insane actions!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The tap-tap of a typewriter sounded from another
+room. A fly buzzed. Zu Pfeiffer’s eyelids did not
+blink. The sergeants stared woodenly to the front.
+Birnier looked from one to the other, bit his lips, and
+then exclaimed in exasperation: <span class="tei tei-q">“What in hell do you
+mean by this damned nonsense?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The tap-tap continued; the fly buzzed irritatedly.
+Birnier clenched his fist. But he sat still. Another
+storm so darkened the room that zu Pfeiffer could
+scarcely have seen the print, but apparently he read on.
+The deluge roared, passed, and the glare came as
+suddenly. Zu Pfeiffer lifted his head and said in
+German:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sergeant, record the opening of the Court.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page65">[pg 65]</span><a name="Pg65" id="Pg65" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence!”</span> assented Sergeant Schultz and
+poised his pen ready to write.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The prisoner, a Swiss subject&mdash;&mdash;”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I am American, as I have told you,”</span> said Birnier in
+leashed anger.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“A pseudo trader and hunter, named Carl Bornstadt,”</span>
+continued zu Pfeiffer imperturbably, <span class="tei tei-q">“is
+charged under sub-section 79 of section 8 with supplying
+guns and liquor to the native subjects of his
+Imperial Majesty.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Good God!”</span> began Birnier. But as he realised
+zu Pfeiffer’s purpose and his own position, he closed
+his lips tightly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Methodically the sergeant finished the entries and
+waited. Zu Pfeiffer stroked his favourite moustache
+and considered. He glanced at Birnier, but without a
+vestige of expression and continued:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Make a special note, sergeant, that we have reason
+to suspect that the prisoner is in the political service of”</span>—a
+slight smile flicked the lieutenant’s face—<span class="tei tei-q">“in the
+service of the Portuguese, and so under sub-section 109
+of section 8, I am referring the case to Dar-es-salaam
+for investigation; witnesses, documentary and personal,
+to accompany the prisoner. Owing to unusual
+pressure of service we are unable to afford the prisoner,
+although apparently of European descent, a white
+guard; therefore, Sergeant Ludwig will detail a
+corporal and six men for the duty.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He paused. The sergeant’s pen scratched on. Zu
+Pfeiffer lighted a cigar and added impersonally:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The prisoner and escort will leave to-morrow
+morning. Sergeant Schneider, remove the prisoner!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier’s face was a little paler, the eyes were slightly
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page66">[pg 66]</span><a name="Pg66" id="Pg66" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+more bloodshot; but he did not attempt to speak. Zu
+Pfeiffer rose. The sergeants stood to attention and
+saluted. As he left the room towards the Court
+House, he smiled with slight satisfaction as the gruff
+voice of Sergeant Schneider barked: <span class="tei tei-q">“Prisoner,
+shun! Right turn! Quick marrch!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But zu Pfeiffer did not remain long in the Court
+House. After fidgeting about with papers on the
+table and reprimanding Sergeant Schultz because he
+had not arranged the next native case to his satisfaction,
+he rose abruptly and marched swiftly across
+the square in the brilliant glare without his helmet and
+into his study. There he straddled a chair and leaned
+on the back sucking a dead cigar absent-mindedly. As
+he stared at the portrait in the ivory frame, the blue
+eyes grew soft and the delicate lips quivered like a child
+about to weep. He sighed heavily and then rapping
+out an oath, rose violently, overturning the chair,
+poured out a half-glass of neat cognac, and drank it
+at a gulp. As he neared the Court House the sentry,
+turning at the end of his short beat, was so startled at
+the proximity of the Kommandant, or incompletely
+disciplined, that he became flurried. Zu Pfeiffer
+clicked his heels together and haughtily watched the
+fumbled efforts to salute. The bolt caught in the
+man’s tunic. Gold flashed in the sun as the sjambok
+descended. Zu Pfeiffer walked on unconcernedly,
+leaving a grey weal on the terrified native’s face. To
+Sergeant Schultz, rigid in the doorway, he snapped an
+order to have fifty lashes given to the <span class="tei tei-q">“clumsy dog.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sentences were harsher than usual that morning.
+All the native world about him knew that a demon had
+taken possession of the Eater-of-men; he was usually
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page67">[pg 67]</span><a name="Pg67" id="Pg67" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+inhabited by an evil spirit, but this time the demon of
+Bakra who, as everybody knows, tears the vitals with
+hot claws, making the victim to have fits, to foam at the
+mouth, to be quite mad, had entered the white man.
+Bakunjala, coming to the Court House with vermouth
+and biscuits at eleven o’clock, distinctly saw the devil
+glaring through zu Pfeiffer’s eyes, and was so scared
+that he let fall the tray, which was the reason that he
+also was doomed to have twenty-five lashes that
+evening. Even the stolid Sergeant Schultz remarked
+that the Herr Lieutenant had gotten a touch of the
+sun; but the grizzled Schneider, who came from
+Luthuania, opined that the Herr Kommandant had
+left his table knife edge uppermost.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When zu Pfeiffer went across to tiffin the hot sun
+had dried up the gutters and the plot of grass. He did
+not return to the Court House, much to the gratitude
+of many innocent and guilty. After drinking more
+wine than usual he lay down for the siesta and fell asleep.
+But at five he awoke with a mouth like a burnt cooking
+pot and the temper of the said devil. He yelled for
+Bakunjala, who came, so trembling with fright that he
+stuttered. Zu Pfeiffer threw a glass which missed him
+and broke a mirror.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Another seven years’ ill luck!”</span> shouted zu Pfeiffer,
+sitting on the bed in his shirt. He glared at Bakunjala
+standing in the door, too terror-stricken to flee,
+convinced that he would be blamed for breaking the
+glass. <span class="tei tei-q">“You—you superstitious nigger!”</span> yelled zu
+Pfeiffer, and added more calmly in Kiswahili: <span class="tei tei-q">“Fetch
+me a brandy-soda! Upesi, you son of a baboon!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bwana!”</span> exclaimed Bakunjala and fled gladly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer sat and scowled at the scattered pieces of
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page68">[pg 68]</span><a name="Pg68" id="Pg68" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+mirror until Bakunjala arrived with the drink. An
+hour later he emerged in his immaculate undress
+uniform and sat on the north verandah, drank vermouth
+and smoked cigars, staring out across the flat swamp
+where the pewter of the lake was flecked with silver
+and blood of the sinking sun. From beyond the fort
+came the yaps of the drill-sergeant busy in the cool of
+the afternoon. At the bark of the relieving guard,
+zu Pfeiffer rose and walked around the house to watch,
+with tetchy eyes, the saluting of the flag.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As he stalked off to dinner in the messroom eyes
+glimmered in the darkness about him. Bakunjala,
+after receiving punishment, was indisposed, in fact
+incapable of attending to his duties in the spritely
+manner required. Another servant, who had taken his
+place, was nervous of the probable consequences, and
+had a keen eye for the appearance of the devil so
+realistically described by Bakunjala. But the demon
+apparently slept, for zu Pfeiffer took the dishes placed
+before him with an unaccustomed meekness, pushed
+them away absent-mindedly, and rising, retired to his
+study. Even when the deputy brought the wrong
+bottle he reprimanded him mildly without taking his
+eyes off the photograph in the ivory frame.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Yet, with the port, he did not omit to rise, and heels
+together, raise his glass to the <span class="tei tei-q">“Ihre Hochheit.”</span>
+Then sprawling in the chair he began to drink and to
+smoke steadily.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As the notes of the last post stuttered out in the
+clammy stillness he summoned the <span class="tei tei-q">“boy”</span> and bade him
+fetch Sergeant Schultz. At the sound of the sergeant’s
+steps on the verandah zu Pfeiffer stiffened up
+and patted his lips as if desiring to erase the lines that
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page69">[pg 69]</span><a name="Pg69" id="Pg69" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+were graven thereon; and with one foot pushed the
+chair from the direct angle to the photograph.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Take a cigar,”</span> said zu Pfeiffer, when the man had
+entered. The words were rather an order than an
+invitation. Sergeant Schultz obeyed. Zu Pfeiffer
+smoked reflectively, still regarding the photograph out
+of the corner of his eyes as if unable to resist the
+fascination.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“How long have you been in this benighted country,
+sergeant?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nine years, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You wish to retire on the pension at the year’s
+term?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I have not seen my wife and children for three
+years, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You shall have special leave as soon as the Wongolo
+affair is over.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I thank you, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And I will recommend you for the special colonial
+service medal and pension.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I thank you, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Take a drink, sergeant.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I thank you, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sergeant obeyed with some semblance of
+initiative and he remarked that the lieutenant drank
+half a tumbler of neat brandy at a gulp. As if to
+drag himself away from the contemplation of the
+photograph zu Pfeiffer stood up and sat on the
+arm of the chair with his face in shadow above the
+lamp-shade. Gazing keenly at the sergeant, he said
+sharply:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You are quite aware of the regulations regarding
+official secrets, sergeant?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page70">[pg 70]</span><a name="Pg70" id="Pg70" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ach, yes, Excellence!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As the sergeant paused to answer with the glass in his
+hand there was just a suspicion of astonishment in the
+tone.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Good. Don’t forget it!”</span> A note of menace was
+in zu Pfeiffer’s voice. He added more mildly,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Political reasons may cause stringent measures
+sometimes.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer smoked, coldly regarding the sergeant.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Who is Sergeant Schneider detailing for the
+prisoner’s escort to-morrow?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Corporal Inyira, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“A long service man?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ja, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Good. Go and fetch him here.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Not a shadow of surprise showed on Sergeant
+Schultz’s face as he departed. Zu Pfeiffer smoked hard
+and drank another brandy thirstily with a slight
+unsteadiness as he lifted the glass to his mouth. The
+sergeant returned and stood at attention just within
+the door.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The man is here, Excellence.”</span> Zu Pfeiffer
+nodded.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Forward, quick marrch,”</span> commanded the sergeant
+in a muffled bark. <span class="tei tei-q">“Halttt!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Very good, sergeant, you may wait.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Schultz saluted and retired without. The tall
+powerfully built native in uniform stood as if he had a
+bayonet beneath his chin. There was a slight nervousness
+about the blues of the eyes as he squinted in the
+attempt to look straight ahead and to watch the
+Kommandant at the same time. One nostril was slit,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page71">[pg 71]</span><a name="Pg71" id="Pg71" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+in the lobes of the ears were three can keys, and the
+temples were tattooed with tribal scars.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Corporal Inyira!”</span> said zu Pfeiffer sharply. The
+black body twitched at the voice. <span class="tei tei-q">“You are to leave
+to-morrow for Dar-es-salaam and you will take as a
+prisoner a white man who has been taking your tribe
+as slaves and selling them to the Abyssinians. The
+Bwana Mkubwa protects you from these evil white
+men and Arabs. You know that?”</span> sharply.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bwana!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Very good. You know what would happen to you
+if you were sold as a slave? You have had many
+brothers who have been sold to the Abyssinians?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bwana! Many, Bwana!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Very good. Now listen! This white man is very
+bad. He leaves with you to-morrow morning for
+Dar-es-salaam, but—he is never to arrive there. I give
+him to you. You may do what you like with him, but
+never let me see him again. You have my protection.
+Understand?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bwana!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The rubber lips pouted in the emphatic utterance.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“These are your secret orders. But you are not to
+tell them to any man, woman, or child here; you may
+tell your men when you are gone. If you disobey I
+will cut out your tongue and give you three hundred
+lashes. Understand?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bwana!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“This man is the enemy of the Bwana Mkubwa.
+His enemies are your enemies. His goods are yours.
+Begone!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The black hand came up jerkily to the black forehead,
+shot away out and down; the polished calves moved
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page72">[pg 72]</span><a name="Pg72" id="Pg72" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+like the eccentrics of an engine, and Corporal Inyira
+melted into the shadows.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sergeant Schultz!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To smart heel taps on the verandah entered the
+sergeant.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You will see that Corporal Inyira and the escort
+leave before daybreak; moreover, that he talks with
+no one before he leaves.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Take a drink, sergeant.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With legs as stiff as his sjambok, Sergeant Schultz
+obeyed the order; lifted the glass and drank.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You may go! Good night, sergeant.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence, good night!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As zu Pfeiffer shifted from the chair-arm to the seat
+his movements were slightly erratic. He sat forward,
+staring at the photograph, as he drank more brandy.
+Outside, the pæan of the frogs pulsed steadily. From
+a distance came the throb of a native drum. A cricket
+shrilled intermittently.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bwana!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The ghostly figure of Bakunjala whispered from the
+doorway. Zu Pfeiffer started nervously.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Zingala,”</span> began Bakunjala timorously.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Gott verdamf—Emshi!”</span> snapped zu Pfeiffer, his
+ring flashing in an irritable gesture.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakunjala melted. Came a mutter of voices and a
+subdued giggle.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer sat and drank and stared. Above the
+insectile anthem of the night, rose a gurgling voice in a
+drinking song.… Later the crash of a breaking
+glass was accompanied by an oath. The glimmer of
+three pairs of eyes through the window screen vanished
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page73">[pg 73]</span><a name="Pg73" id="Pg73" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+and reappeared.… Once more rose the voice
+singing:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 5.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Scheiden tut weh,</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scheiden, ja scheiden, scheiden tut weh!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Just as the cricket began anew, after having politely
+ceased to hear the lieutenant’s song, trickled out upon
+the clammy air the sound of weeping.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD06" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page74">[pg 74]</span><a name="Pg74" id="Pg74" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc12" id="toc12"></a>
+<a name="pdf13" id="pdf13"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 6</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the violet shadow of his square hut inside the
+compound, squatted Zalu Zako. The lips and nose
+were nearer to the Aryan delicacy than the negroid
+bluntness; for the Wongolo, like the Wahima, are a
+mixed Bantu-Somali race. In colour his skin had the
+red of bronze rather than the blue of the negro, and
+the planes of his moulded chest were as light as the
+worn ivory bracelets upon his polished limbs. Broad
+in the shoulders he had almost the slender hips of a
+young girl and his carriage was as balanced as a
+dancer’s<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E9" id="E9" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e9" class="tei tei-ref">.</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From a group of small round huts behind his square
+hut, where dwelt his two wives, concubines and slaves,
+came the clutter of voices. A distant drum throbbed
+gently on the hot air. Away in the cool green of the
+banana plantation rose the crooning chant of the
+unmarried girls and slaves bringing water from the
+river.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Apparently Zalu Zako was absorbed in the movements
+of a diminutive chicken scratching in the soil.
+The omen of the goat was occupying his mind: that
+and the death of his grandfather, MFunya MPopo.
+There was no sense of grief, for he was not a woman.
+Now, at the beginning of his warrior’s career, he had
+not any desire for divine honours and celibacy. No
+man had. Yet Zalu Zako no more dreamed of
+questioning the necessity than of spitting in the face of
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page75">[pg 75]</span><a name="Pg75" id="Pg75" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+an enemy. Always had the first born male of his
+family been doomed to the kingly office. There was
+never a second born male, for it was not meet that a
+god should have paternal brothers. The wives of his
+youth and his concubines could have as many children
+as they could bear; but according to the law, did he
+select the chief wife from whom should spring the one
+regal son only when he had become heir apparent; for
+then was he not already half divine, being so near the
+sacred enclosure up on the hill?</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The choice of that chief wife was free as there were
+no royal families in the sense of divine descent save the
+direct male line of the King-God. But the mind of
+Zalu Zako dwelt more upon his personal career. The
+life of a warrior was frequently short and that of a god
+even briefer. MFunya MPopo had reigned but twenty
+moons; MKoffo, so said the elders, had reigned for full
+two hundred moons; but then he had been a mighty
+magician.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With a harsh squawk a brilliant scarlet and blue bird
+with an enormous yellow bill perched on the palisade
+of the compound. Immediately the young man
+forgot his musing and rose, calling for his spear. A
+stocky man, coal black, with a fuzzy tuft of a beard,
+came out of the hut. From the slave Zalu Zako took a
+broad-bladed spear with a short haft. Watching to
+see that the bird was still sitting on the fence as he
+passed out of the compound, he set off rapidly through
+the village and into the banana plantations in search of a
+wart hog which had been rooting up one of his fields of
+sweet potatoes. Just as he came within sight of them
+a black field rat sprang out of the grass in his path,
+glanced round at him, and disappeared. The young
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page76">[pg 76]</span><a name="Pg76" id="Pg76" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+man’s steps slackened, for he knew that the black rat
+had spoiled the luck which the banana eater had
+portended. Scarcely troubling to glance around the
+field, he diverged across at an angle making for a break
+in the jungle where he knew was the trail of the boar.
+But he grunted contemptuously as he examined the
+last spoor, which was at least half a day old. Of
+course the hog would not be there.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He bethought himself of another field where sometimes
+came buck. But there was no game. The
+black rat again! Yet if one waited long enough a
+good omen might appear. As he squatted beneath a
+banana plant to take snuff came a squawk and the
+banana eater—for it appeared to be the same one—alighted
+on a frond near to him. Zalu Zako waited.
+Leisurely and cautiously he arose. The bird peered
+at him. Zalu Zako passed and left the banana eater
+still sitting there. He felt the weight of his spear
+tentatively, for a double omen of luck must mean big
+game: possibly an eland or a leopard.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He circled right round the outskirts of the plantation.
+But he saw no signs. As he began to make the big
+circle again the shadows were lengthening appreciably.
+Passing by the ford of the small river, which was swollen
+from the rains, he heard a group of young girls chattering
+on the river bank as they filled their gourds. He
+paused to test which way the wind was blowing in
+order to avoid going down wind where the sound of
+their voices would scare away any game.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But as he turned to move on he caught a glimpse of a
+figure mounting the incline. The motion was as lithe
+as a young giraffe; the legs were as straight as spears
+and as supple as a kiboko; the moulded hips swayed
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page77">[pg 77]</span><a name="Pg77" id="Pg77" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+rhythmically like a banana frond in the breeze; the
+fluted arch of her back swelled proudly upwards to the
+resilient shoulders; and an arm as slender as a lizard’s
+tail steadied the gourd upon a small black head set
+upon a neck like a sapling. The dappled shadows of a
+tree played hide and seek upon the tiny hills that were
+her firm young breasts, upon the smoothness of her
+torso of light bronze. As he gazed her face came into
+view in speaking to a comrade just beneath. An
+errant shaft of sunlight glinted the pearl of teeth,
+glowed the tiny nose and blued the whites of eyes
+which were as soft as any antelope.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zalu Zako clicked the syllable that means astonishment.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Wait there, O Bayakala,”</span> she called, <span class="tei tei-q">“for I have
+to do the making of mighty magic with the spirits of
+the wood.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh, eh!”</span> responded one of those left by the water
+edge, <span class="tei tei-q">“a girl of the hut thatch hath nought to do with
+spirits of the wood for their bellies are as big as a
+pregnant woman!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The young girl laughed and her notes seemed to
+Zalu Zako like the dripping of water upon a river
+rock.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thou knowest less than the Baroto bird who as
+everybody knows is the spirit of one!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“’Tis more than thou wilt ever be!”</span> retorted the
+rival beneath.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh! Ehh!”</span> exclaimed the girl at the sneer,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“thy girdle is rotted long since with juice!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And thine,”</span> shouted the insulted one, who was old
+for a spinster, <span class="tei tei-q">“wilt rot with the dryness!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Tscch! It is dry for the lord whom I will conquer
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page78">[pg 78]</span><a name="Pg78" id="Pg78" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+with magic such as thou hast never dreamed on, O
+Bayakala!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And who is he for whom thou makest magic, O
+daughter of the hut thatch?”</span> demanded Zalu Zako,
+stepping from the shelter of the tree.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span> ejaculated Bakuma. <span class="tei tei-q">“I—we do but tickle
+the fronds (jest), O Chief!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The only sign of her nervousness was the slight
+swaying of the gourd of water upon her head as she
+turned up her eyes to the young chief who regarded
+her slowly. She edged away. He moved a pace in
+front of her. She clutched at the amulet around her
+neck as she turned her eyes and said:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The cooking fires are low, O Chief, and need be
+tended.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thy breasts are like unto small anthills,”</span> he said,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“and thy belly is as smooth as yonder river rock.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thy tongue is sweeter than the honey of the
+kinglan tree.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thy voice is softer than the muted lyre and thy
+nose is formed of two petals of an orchid.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thy praise is more refreshing than the morning
+dew to a thirsty flower.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And by thy figure am I made more drunken than
+by the wine of the Soka palm.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For a full minute they stood, a study in light bronze
+against the dappled green foliage. The shrill chatter
+of the other girls approaching startled Bakuma into
+action. She swayed to one side.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The spirits of the cooking pot cry aloud for me, O
+Chief.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Who is thy father, little one?”</span> he demanded.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I am Bakuma, the daughter of Bakala, O Chief.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page79">[pg 79]</span><a name="Pg79" id="Pg79" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“There has been a veil before my eyes that I have
+not seen thee before.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The mountains see not the tiny brooks amid the
+mighty forests,”</span> murmured Bakuma and sped up the
+path.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zalu Zako stood motionless watching her form melt
+into the green, and as he turned towards the river he
+met Bayakala and the other women who shrank aside
+from the path to allow the Son of the Snake to pass in
+silence. Yet at the ford he paused. He had forgotten
+the omen of the banana eater and the purpose for
+which he had come.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As Bakuma sped along in a gliding lope the amulet
+swayed rhythmically to the whispered praises of the
+power of Marufa, mixed with ardent prayers to the
+spirits to provide the fat goat with which to propitiate
+the spirit of the woods; for had not the love charm
+already manifested its wondrous power? As she
+hastened through the banana plantation she could not
+resist diverging a little in the direction of the magician’s
+hut. As she passed, she saw him seated on the threshold
+of the compound gathering inspiration from his
+favourite wall. But Marufa observed her demeanour,
+and being something of a student of men, he deducted
+that the charm had already begun to work.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Marufa, as all successful men, had a strain of luck.
+Before the shadows had crept a hand’s breadth came
+MYalu, indignant and exasperated. The three tusks
+had been paid and the footprint obtained; but he had
+discovered that it was no easy matter to procure the
+other ingredients which he suspected the wizard had
+known well and intended as a means to extract more
+ivory. After the ceremonious greetings he protested
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page80">[pg 80]</span><a name="Pg80" id="Pg80" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+that the task given was almost impossible to execute.
+Marufa remained imperturbably interested in his wall.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But as thou knowest,”</span> insisted MYalu, <span class="tei tei-q">“the hair
+and the toe-nail and the spittle of the Son of the Snake
+are more than difficult to obtain. Does a man so
+carelessly render himself unto his enemies, and he the
+Son of the Snake? None save one of his household
+could purloin a single hair. Even this morning was
+his hair shaved and the remnants, as thou knowest well,
+deposited in the temple with him who was his father.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The hair, the toe-nail, and the spittle,”</span> mumbled
+the old man, <span class="tei tei-q">“must I have for such mighty magic.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span> snorted MYalu, <span class="tei tei-q">“with a man of the clay,
+but with one who is half divine, the Son of the Snake!
+Ehh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The bow is useless without the arrows,”</span> mumbled
+the old man.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Tsch. ’Tis a mighty hunter that hath not the
+arrows for his bow,”</span> sneered MYalu.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Verily,”</span> retorted Marufa disinterestedly, <span class="tei tei-q">“and
+still more a mighty man who cannot do his own
+hunting!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No warrior hath been purified more frequently
+than I,”</span> boasted MYalu, referring to the ceremony
+incumbent upon those who have taken life to appease
+the ghosts of the slain.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The spirits obey not the crowing of a cockerel,”</span>
+reminded Marufa.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Tsch!”</span> For a while both sat silent, MYalu
+gloomily watching a hen.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aie! Aie!”</span> he lamented at last, <span class="tei tei-q">“what is there
+that I may do, for indeed she hath caught my soul in a
+trap. Aie! Aie!”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page81">[pg 81]</span><a name="Pg81" id="Pg81" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“If the hunter cannot make arrows, he may buy
+them,”</span> remarked Marufa, who had been patiently
+waiting for this state of mind.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh! The bowstring hath been costly but the
+arrows! Aie! Aie! What would’st thou?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The rich man payeth in his kind. Four tusks of
+fine grain.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh! Eh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Maybe there are others whose hands are not
+withered.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Others than the Son of the Snake?”</span> demanded
+MYalu quickly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Who knows? There are more fools than
+chickens,”</span> muttered the old man.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">MYalu stared disconsolately at the distant bananas.
+Perhaps, he reflected, it would be cheaper to pay
+the price the girl’s uncle demanded, yet&mdash;&mdash; MYalu
+had bought other wives whose unimpassioned charms
+had quickly staled. His soul, as he put it, had indeed
+been tempted into a trap by Bakuma; for he wished
+only that she should desire him as he desired her. Yet
+was he angry. Love seemed to be a costly business.
+Marufa tapped out snuff and sniffed delicately with the
+air of a connoisseur devoting himself to the pleasure of
+the moment. Replacing the cork of twisted leaves he
+stirred as if to rise.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Canst thou procure then the nail and the hairs
+that are asked by the spirits?”</span> inquired MYalu
+sulkily.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“All things are possible to the son of MTungo,”</span>
+asserted Marufa. <span class="tei tei-q">“Four tusks, and these things are
+found; but of fine grain, for the others were old and
+coarse.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page82">[pg 82]</span><a name="Pg82" id="Pg82" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh! How wilt thou procure these things?”</span>
+demanded MYalu sceptically.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The ways of the wise are not the ways of fools.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The tusks are thine,”</span> said MYalu reluctantly, <span class="tei tei-q">“if
+thou wilt tell me how thou wilt procure them.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thy words are like unto the vomit of a dog,”</span>
+muttered the old man.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But how? My heart is not bound in clay.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Tch!”</span> clicked Marufa contemptuously. <span class="tei tei-q">“Every
+fool must needs see the spoor of the god which he
+cannot read. I have spoken.”</span> MYalu regarded the
+old wizard incredulously. <span class="tei tei-q">“Tch! Send the four
+tusks as we have agreed and so shall it be. Begone!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Slowly MYalu rose, made his greeting, and departed
+more impressed than ever that the old man was a
+mighty magician.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">During the hour when the soul is small and dwells
+timidly around the feet Marufa dozed in the cool
+of his hut; but later when it spread boldly out was
+he squatted once more in his favourite seat at the
+entrance to the compound, taking snuff and contemplating.
+The shadows grew from violet to blue;
+the small hens pecked for worms with avidity and the
+goats scratched with vigour in the cool. Patiently
+Marufa sat. At length that for which he had waited
+with a sound though primitive knowledge of psychology,
+came to pass. Bakuma appeared, apprehensive,
+but with yet an abandon which sang her happiness.
+Beside Marufa she sat so as to avoid the shadow of
+one foot protruding beyond that of the fence.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“O great and mighty magician,”</span> she began eagerly,
+after the formal greetings. <span class="tei tei-q">“Indeed all that thou hast
+said hath come to pass. Thy charm is infallible.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page83">[pg 83]</span><a name="Pg83" id="Pg83" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ugh!”</span> grunted Marufa unconcernedly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“All that my heart desireth hath already begun to
+be. I thank thee.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ugh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“O mighty son of MTungo, what must I now do?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thou knowest,”</span> mumbled Marufa, fumbling for
+the snuff case.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aie! Aie! but I have no fat goat!”</span> cried
+Bakuma, who had hoped fatuously that the wizard
+would have forgotten. <span class="tei tei-q">“I, a girl of the hut thatch,
+how should I have a goat?”</span> Marufa tapped snuff as
+if no romance were in the making. Bakuma’s bright
+eyes, sharpened by the proximity of the promise of her
+love, watched the old man keenly. <span class="tei tei-q">“Listen, O great
+and mighty son of MTungo, to whom all things are
+known, who canst accomplish all that thou desireth,
+Bayakala, my cousin, hath a goat, but it is old and
+skinny. Perhaps&mdash;&mdash;”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“In the nostrils of the spirits,”</span> asserted Marufa
+instantly, <span class="tei tei-q">“all odours are the same except that of the
+fat goat whom they love.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aie! then am I undone, for no fat goat have
+I!”</span> wailed Bakuma. <span class="tei tei-q">“Know I not one who hath
+a goat who would smile on me, a girl of the hut
+thatch.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ugh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakuma regarded him imploringly, but Marufa’s
+gaze was fixed upon the wall as if his mind were turned
+to matters of more importance.<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E10" id="E10" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e10" class="tei tei-ref"> </a></span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“O mighty wizard, what must I do?”</span> implored
+Bakuma desperately.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ugh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After a prolonged contemplation, said Marufa:
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page84">[pg 84]</span><a name="Pg84" id="Pg84" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<span class="tei tei-q">“If thou canst get no goat, then is there another path
+by which thou mayest accomplish thy end.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But it is very difficult.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“By my cord, will I do all that thou canst bid me to
+do!”</span> swore Bakuma in anxious haste.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ugh! This path is more certain of success for
+the will of the spirits are oftentimes chary of their
+favours.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“O mighty one!”</span> breathed Bakuma, as he paused
+tantalisingly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But the matter is exceedingly difficult—and
+dangerous.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“If the flower hath no sun hath it ever lived?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“As even thou shouldst know,”</span> mumbled Marufa,
+more casually than ever, <span class="tei tei-q">“he who possesses a part of
+the soul may do magic thereon.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aye! Aye!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bring me then of the nail parings one, of his hairs
+one, and of his spittle. Then may I do magic thereon
+which he cannot resist.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“O mighty magician!”</span> gasped Bakuma, appalled at
+the difficulty and the danger of the task.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That path is sure. There is no other.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh! … But if they of thy craft should know
+then am I doomed!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“There is no other.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Torn between her love and the dread of the penalty
+incurred by the sacrilege of the theft of the parts of
+one who might any day be King-God, Bakuma stared
+distraught.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Were not my words white? Hath not the love
+charm thou hast already had done even as I did say?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page85">[pg 85]</span><a name="Pg85" id="Pg85" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“O mighty one!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But that is only as the goat to the leopard. The
+trap must be dug—or the scent of the bait will be
+blown.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span> gasped Bakuma, in desperation, <span class="tei tei-q">“by my
+twin soul which dwells beneath the banana plant, will
+I do it!”</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD07" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page86">[pg 86]</span><a name="Pg86" id="Pg86" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc14" id="toc14"></a>
+<a name="pdf15" id="pdf15"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 7</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gerald Birnier had flattered himself that he
+was a philosopher with a sense of humour, fairly
+well developed by ten years’ wandering about Central
+Africa, but deep emotions submerge such cherished
+qualities.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The presence of the photograph was explicable by
+several surmises: zu Pfeiffer might have met Lucille
+at Washington, Paris, or Berlin: she might have given
+him the photograph or he might have bought it, or
+even stolen it. But—the signature <span class="tei tei-q">“à toi, Lucille”</span>!
+There lay the sting which maddened Birnier and
+strangled reason, the fact at which his mind yawed
+futilely.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So great had been the shock that the arrest had
+seemed but a secondary matter in accord with the
+insanity of zu Pfeiffer’s statement that he was engaged
+to Lucille. The affair had been so sudden that for
+some time he could progress no farther in an attempt
+to think than a gasp, pawing mentally at an intangible
+substance which eluded him like a child’s small hand
+trying to grasp a toy balloon. Sense of reality appeared
+to have been dissolved. He had followed the sergeant
+across the square meekly without realising what was
+happening, and when he had been placed in a whitewashed
+room at the back of the native guard house
+which served as a jail, he sat down upon a chair, too
+bewildered to comprehend where he was. That <span class="tei tei-q">“à
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page87">[pg 87]</span><a name="Pg87" id="Pg87" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+toi, Lucille”</span> rang like the clanging in a belfry, drowning
+the sound of other thoughts.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">By the light of a hurricane lamp he regarded the
+soldiers bringing in an old camp bed with indifference.
+When they had gone he began to pace up and down
+the small room frantically trying to gain control. To
+the first prompting of a logical reason for the whole
+affair he did not dare to listen. The disrupting cause
+was the complete inability to explain the familiar
+signature. To his Anglo-Saxonised mind, bred in the
+strict code of the south, tutoyer was only permissible
+to dogs, inferiors, most intimate relations and lovers.
+He was far too unbalanced to see the humour as he
+solemnly announced that certainly zu Pfeiffer was not
+a dog, nor in the social code an inferior; he was not
+a relation; therefore.… His mind baulked and
+raced into incoherence.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A point of view which added false premises, as well
+as his attitude to those two little words, was the
+consciousness that many would consider that he had
+not treated his wife as a husband should do. This
+possibility had never occurred to him before, so that it
+came with disproportionate emphasis.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As a young man he had been too absorbed in his
+profession to be a lady’s man; and of love he had
+reckoned little until he had met the Lucille Charltrain
+with whom half the world was in love. And she
+doubtless, like many a spoiled beauty, was a little
+piqued that the professor did not join the throng of
+her courtiers. In Birnier’s mind there had ever been
+associated with love the fear that the woman would
+demand too much, that no woman could understand
+that a man’s profession must of necessity come before
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page88">[pg 88]</span><a name="Pg88" id="Pg88" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+all things. Lucille was the first woman whom he had
+met who really seemed to understand this point of
+view, as she, too, was devoted to her art. This had
+grown to be the biggest bond and attraction between
+them. Most men wished to make of love a nuisance,
+as Lucille once put it. So the good-looking professor
+had won the beauty. They were married on the
+mutual understanding that each should pursue their
+respective professions. Shortly afterwards Birnier
+was offered a special mission to go to Africa for the
+purpose of studying the customs and superstitions
+of the natives. Lucille had consented, forbidden,
+relented, and laughed.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So Lucille sang from musical height to height and
+her husband sped from depth to depth in the seas of
+human fatuity. Whenever he took a furlough he went,
+of course, straight to her, wheresoever she was, in
+Berlin, New York, or Paris. To Birnier the situation
+was ideal. He had never dreamed of any other woman.
+Indeed the tracts of his mind were so filled with
+statistics of anthropology and Lucille that there was
+little or no room for any one else. The delight and
+satisfaction in Birnier’s mind were so sincere that he
+never had dreamed of questioning whether Lucille’s
+point of view had remained the same. But
+now?</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">That <span class="tei tei-q">“à toi”</span> stung and baited him into the unprecedented
+realisation that after all women had been
+known to change their opinions. Perhaps pride had
+prevented her from ever openly demanding other ways.
+Lucille was young and beautiful, courted and flattered
+on every hand. Perhaps he had been wrong to leave
+her for years at a stretch. Of her loyalty he had had
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page89">[pg 89]</span><a name="Pg89" id="Pg89" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+no doubt, but for the first time in his marital life the
+professor’s profound knowledge of human nature was
+shot like a spot-light on to his own affairs. Yet his
+erudition did not in the least relieve him from the laws
+of emotional reaction.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Perhaps in an emotional moment.… That
+knowledge of the frailties of genus homo was too deep
+for comfort in such actuation.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“À toi, Lucille! À toi, Lucille!”</span> rang and echoed
+as he paced that room, striving for control.… And—and—why
+else should zu Pfeiffer have gone crazy?—why
+had he exclaimed: <span class="tei tei-q">“Das ist der Schweinhünd”</span>?
+The husband, of course, whom he wanted
+out of the way, and he had immediately seized the
+opportunity to secure that end, seemingly indifferent
+to consequences—symptomatic of the state of <span class="tei tei-q">“being
+in love.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Around and about, about and around a field of weeds
+which had sprung from that seed <span class="tei tei-q">“à toi,”</span> had paced
+the professor all night. When the green was creeping
+through the high barred window, Sergeant Schneider
+had brought to him some coffee and biscuits. Birnier
+had drunk the coffee thirstily, and as the sergeant had
+no English nor French, had tried in broken German to
+extract some information. But the sergeant had merely
+grunted and retired. At seven he had returned again
+and escorted Birnier to the Court House. He returned
+from the mock trial a little more in touch with reality,
+and more impressed with the malignity of zu Pfeiffer.
+Yet the gratuitous insults, the laboured farce of the
+registering of an alleged Swiss trader, Birnier saw
+through, and was relieved, for it argued that zu
+Pfeiffer’s intention was to make Lucille a widow. No
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page90">[pg 90]</span><a name="Pg90" id="Pg90" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+other reason could account for the homicidal intentions
+displayed.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At the glow of dawn next day he was aroused by the
+big corporal who ordered him out. The tone of the
+man’s voice naturally stimulated a violent reaction.
+But Birnier realised that his sole chance lay in controlling
+himself to accept stoically whatever treatment
+was offered; for he saw instantly that any protest or
+indignation would be interpreted as insubordination
+and possibly be made an excuse to shoot him down.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Outside in the grey light he saw under the guard of
+six native soldiers, the five others of his party. Mungongo,
+his personal <span class="tei tei-q">“boy,”</span> cried out at the sight of
+him, asking what was the meaning of these strange
+happenings. Before Birnier could reply, the big
+corporal struck the man savagely with a kiboko, bidding
+him to be silent. In spite of his resolution, the reaction
+made Birnier turn angrily upon the soldier, who
+deliberately repeated the order, and struck the white
+man across the face. As Birnier raised his fist the
+man lowered his bayonet and grinned, adding, apparently
+for the benefit of his men, that now the white
+would learn what it was to be a slave.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Furiously Birnier looked around for Sergeant
+Schneider: but no white man was in sight.…
+He turned to Mungongo and said quickly: <span class="tei tei-q">“Take no
+heed. Do as they bid thee for the moment.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Be silent!”</span> shouted the corporal, but as he raised
+his kiboko, Birnier looked him quietly straight in the
+eyes. The black hand was lowered; the man turned
+away, ordering the party in general to march.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Dishevelled and without any camp equipment,
+Birnier began to march as the blood of the sky paled
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page91">[pg 91]</span><a name="Pg91" id="Pg91" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+to orange. At the bottom of the great parade ground
+he turned in time to see the relieving guard falling in
+behind the Court House. For one moment he
+hesitated whether to put all to the test by refusing to
+go; but a significant gesture with the ever ready
+rifle of the corporal signified that he would not be
+given a chance. Humiliated, he obeyed. But just
+beyond the last hut, waiting by the path, was a group
+of women loaded with the soldiers’ gear; and beside
+them were some carriers bearing his green tent and
+apparently all his equipment. The sight cheered him
+a little. He attempted to find immediate consolation
+in the idea that the savagery of the corporal might
+possibly abate when they were away from the neighbourhood
+of the inciting agent, whom he was sure was
+zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Leading the caravan was a soldier; next to him came
+Birnier and behind him was another soldier, after whom
+walked Mungongo and the four other prisoners, with
+a soldier between each; and then the corporal, strutting
+portentously important within easy shooting
+distance of the white man. The carriers and women
+brought up the rear.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The path led for some miles through the dreary
+swamp following the course of the small bayou,
+crossing and recrossing small streams swollen with the
+rains, through which the white man was forced to
+wade to his hips. For the first mile Birnier was so
+angry and humiliated that he dared not catch the
+troubled eyes of Mungongo. But by force of will he
+attained a reasonable plane of philosophic resignation,
+temporary at least, and smiled at the boy, who grinned
+back like a tickled child. At any rate, soliloquised
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page92">[pg 92]</span><a name="Pg92" id="Pg92" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Birnier, he had at least one man upon whom he
+could rely.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At the head of the bayou they reached higher ground
+and the path zigzagged through dense jungle thick with
+fan palms. The longer Birnier pondered upon the
+situation the nearer he came towards the conclusion
+that he had better make his escape as soon as possible,
+or he would never have the chance. Rather by the
+uneasy glances of Mungongo, who dared not speak,
+did he guess that they had left the regular trail to the
+coast. What their destination was he could not
+imagine. Probably, he thought grimly, to make an
+end of the whole party and return to the camp. Yet
+why trouble to travel so far? And another good reason
+to hasten an escape was that, although for the moment
+he was in good health, a few days of exposure would
+subject him to fever and consequent weakness.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Now and again the theme <span class="tei tei-q">“à toi”</span> would return like
+the refrain of a song to which he found himself keeping
+step; but the words sometimes became meaningless;
+for in the merciful way that nature has, the impulse
+of self-preservation so occupied his mind that he had
+scarcely leisure to worry over marital troubles.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At the end of about two hours, when the heat of the
+sun was beginning to be felt severely, the corporal
+called a halt in the shade of a great baobab. Birnier
+sat down with his back against the bole. Alongside
+him squatted the corporal deliberately and called to
+the women for a gourd of juwala. There is a certain
+acid odour which native beer has that is particularly
+irritating to a dry palate. The corporal drank deep,
+sighed with satisfaction and set the gourd beside him
+almost touching the feet of the white. Involuntarily
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page93">[pg 93]</span><a name="Pg93" id="Pg93" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Birnier swallowed. The corporal saw and grinned.
+Birnier understood and turned his back to the man.
+Immediately the corporal arose and lowering his
+bayonet until it pricked the sleeve of Birnier’s coat,
+ordered him to get up. In the knowledge that he
+would be instantly shot by the others if he attempted
+to resist, he had perforce to obey.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Outside the shade of the great tree, in the full glare
+of the sun, was the white man compelled to sit while
+the black corporal, with the rifle ready across his knee,
+drank deep and handed the gourd to his fellows.
+Again Birnier turned his back to him. But he began
+to realise faintly what treatment he would receive
+before the end came and an intimate knowledge of
+native ingenuity made him feel physically sick.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Half an hour later they were on the march again.
+The path became rugged and difficult, passing through
+thorny ground, following burbling watercourses of
+rough stones. To make the going more trying Birnier
+wore light moccasins intended for camp use instead
+of his high field boots. Once when a long
+thorn penetrated the flank of his shoe he stopped to
+extract it. The corporal shouted at him; the soldier
+behind called him unmentionable names in the dialect
+and pushed him with his foot. The insult and the
+heat of the sun maddened him. He leaped to his
+feet. The corporal raised his gun promptly and jeered.
+For a moment Birnier stood trembling with passion;
+then he closed his eyes as if to shut out sight and
+sound and limped forward, fighting with himself.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With natives had Birnier always been able to
+negotiate, to live, and to quarrel when necessary, on
+terms of amity; but this black <span class="tei tei-q">“swine,”</span> as he termed
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page94">[pg 94]</span><a name="Pg94" id="Pg94" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+him in his wrath, prinked out in a masquerade of a
+white man’s clothes.… He jammed his heel down
+savagely upon the thorn to divert the southern passion.
+After all it was not the man’s fault but zu Pfeiffer’s.
+Put a white man in a uniform and he becomes a beast;
+put a nigger in a uniform and he becomes a devil,
+Birnier forced himself to reflect.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sun grew incandescent. The heat and the
+flies quickened his thirst. He plodded on, stumbling
+over the stones, sagging heavily in sandy patches. They
+had left the comparative shelter of the jungle and were
+crossing a flat plain approaching, he judged, to a river
+bed. The carriers, he noted, had lagged behind.
+Soon they must halt. Even the fiend of a corporal
+would not fatigue himself too much for the sake of
+tormenting a white man.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then a new idea was added to the plagues. He had
+tasted nothing save the coffee, canned beef, and native
+bread which had been given him for dinner on the
+previous evening. The corporal had manifested his
+conception of humour by refusing him beer and water
+on the march; was he going to torment him by
+starvation as well as by thirst? And if torture were
+reserved for him by that grinning black brute, then
+he knew what would be the end that awaited him.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Within an hour they came to a river about forty
+yards broad, a swollen rushing torrent. There was
+no village as he had expected. The corporal halted.
+Birnier slid down the bank and thrust his muzzle into
+the flood. There was torture in the restraint not to
+drink too much. He clambered up the slope to find
+the corporal grinning at him. He turned his back
+and lay down. There was no shade; only short
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page95">[pg 95]</span><a name="Pg95" id="Pg95" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+scrub and grass. Small sand flies buzzed and stung.
+He heard the gurgle of the corporal’s military water-bottle.
+But this time the sting was extracted; his
+belly was moist.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier stretched out, shielding from the glare the
+little that he could with his hands. Faint echoes of
+<span class="tei tei-q">“à toi”</span> strolled across his field of consciousness.
+He observed the apparently stoical indifference of
+Mungongo squatted a few feet from him, a soldier
+sprawling between them; but he cursed because
+investigations had taught him that that <span class="tei tei-q">“stoical”</span>
+should usually be read as <span class="tei tei-q">“bovinity,”</span> as he had termed
+it; and he smiled dismally at the ancient story that
+so well illustrated the point, of the peasant who expressed
+his occupation through the long winter hours
+as <span class="tei tei-q">“sometimes we sits and thinks but mostly we just
+sits.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mungongo <span class="tei tei-q">“just sits,”</span> he repeated, and envied him.
+Yet in that heat and hunger, waiting for his savage
+captor to wreak some new fancy upon him, so saturated
+with philosophic interest in life was Birnier, that he
+wandered off into a meditation upon the mechanical
+fatuity of human conduct; illustrating his reflections
+by his own actions when stirred by emotion. <span class="tei tei-q">“The
+loaded gun may be as wise as Solomon was reputed
+to be,”</span> he remarked beneath his hands, <span class="tei tei-q">“but all the
+same when some one pulls the trigger the damn thing
+goes off,”</span> and sat up to confront the muzzle of the
+corporal’s rifle, who was ordering him to get up.
+Birnier rose. But to the savage’s amazement, he
+smiled.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The corporal backed away.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ah, my friend,”</span> remarked Birnier blandly in
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page96">[pg 96]</span><a name="Pg96" id="Pg96" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+English. <span class="tei tei-q">“You’ve lost, for I have found that which
+was lost!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The corporal scowled and bade him to follow.
+Birnier obeyed but he felt that he was obliging the
+man. The carriers had arrived and the green tent
+was pitched, invitingly cool against the grey flood of
+the river. He followed the corporal gladly, but at
+ten feet from his tent, beside a thorn bush four feet
+tall which spread in a fan shape, he was bidden to sit.
+For the moment, newly arrived from his philosophic
+dreams, he did not comprehend.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But that is my tent!”</span> he said in Kiswahili.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sit down!”</span> commanded the corporal, grinning.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“The white seller of slaves sits in the place of the
+slave, but his owner dwells in the place of the blessed.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“O God!”</span> remarked Birnier as he bumped his head
+against black reality.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD08" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page97">[pg 97]</span><a name="Pg97" id="Pg97" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc16" id="toc16"></a>
+<a name="pdf17" id="pdf17"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 8</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakuma sat in the shade of the reed fence
+preparing the evening meal of boiled bananas.
+From her slender neck swung the precious amulet
+at which, as if to reassure herself of its safety, she
+clutched occasionally. Her half-sister, who had not
+yet passed through the initiation at maturity, sprawled
+upon her belly in the dwindling rays of the sun, scratching
+her woolly head. Beyond her were two slaves
+tending a fire beneath two large calabashes, preparatory
+to the brewing of banana beer, which had of course
+to be done by the chief widow, Bakuma’s half-sister’s
+mother.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The mind of Bakuma was occupied by percepts of
+the charms of Zalu Zako; particularly as memorised
+on that afternoon by the river when the effect of the
+love charm had begun to work. These memories, as
+sweet as they would have been to any maid, were shot
+with gay colours by the words of the wizard; for he
+had assured her that with the toe-nail and hair to work
+magic upon, Zalu Zako would be bewitched by her
+charms for all time. And she had obtained them!
+She could have gotten the goat, not a skinny goat as
+described under the inhibiting influence of a wild
+hope that the wizard would relent. Her cousin,
+smarting under the reproaches of her husband, had
+such a goat, fat as goats in Wongolo go, and she was
+eager to exchange it or anything for an infallible
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page98">[pg 98]</span><a name="Pg98" id="Pg98" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+charm against sterility. Bakuma feared to part with
+the charm, yet the matter was pressing; immediately
+she was the wife of Zalu Zako she would be in a
+position to purchase all the charms in the village.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But difficult to obtain as they were, for as everybody
+knows no man leaves portions of himself around
+that may fall into the hands of an enemy to work magic
+upon, least of all a rich man, <span class="tei tei-q">“half divine,”</span> she had
+obtained some nail parings and one hair. With that
+charm against sterility, the only thing of value Bakuma
+possessed, had she bribed a concubine of Zalu Zako’s
+household to steal the ingredients required from the
+hut thatch where they had been hidden after the
+official shaving and paring following the ceremony of
+his father, pending their removal to the sacred precincts
+of the temple.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Above her passion for Zalu Zako was her natural
+feminine appreciation of a good match. The Son of
+the Snake was far better from a woman’s point of view
+than union with a successful wizard. In the event
+of the death of the King-God, Kawa Kendi, the
+wives of his son and successor, although denied to him,
+were accorded special privileges; and upon his demise
+these royal wives retained their home upon the hill
+which had become his tomb. Moreover, as Bakuma
+knew well, now that Zalu Zako was heir-apparent, he
+must choose the principal wife who would for her life
+remain paramount in the household, avoiding the dread
+of every ageing woman that her husband would take
+unto him another wife younger and more supple.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The one mosquito in paradise was the fear that as
+soon as her uncle, her father’s brother to whom she
+belonged by inheritance, learned the august personage
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page99">[pg 99]</span><a name="Pg99" id="Pg99" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+who desired her, he would raise the price to a prohibitive
+figure; for he was mean as well as stupid and
+lazy, wherefore he had few goods, and although Zalu
+Zako was a rich man she knew that any man save a
+fool loves to drive a good bargain if only to prove his
+astuteness. Therefore was another imperative necessity
+to procure every means of magic and charm to
+fan the flame of her lover’s desires.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Yet always flashed a bright-hued lizard in the sun
+of her joy when she imagined herself installed as the
+chief wife in the household of Zalu Zako, an unassailable
+position as long as she had one male child; the practical
+mistress of his first two wives as well as the retinue of
+slaves.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bazila, the younger wife, Bakuma knew well;
+the favourite and haughty, covered with the most
+expensive amulets against every ill and black magic,
+she was overfond of sneering at young girls of the
+hut thatch whose charms had not yet netted a victim.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span> gasped Bakuma and flashed her teeth as
+she rolled the warm leaves around the sticky mess,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“then will the scent of my body be more bitter than
+the flower of the fish-faced cactus!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And so through the night did Bakuma nibble at
+anticipatory joys as she lay upon her reed mat on the
+slightly raised dais of the floor which was her bed,
+watching the smoke of the fire in the middle of the
+hut lose itself in the shadows of the roof, and listening
+in the hope of hearing some voice of the spirits whom
+Marufa was to invoke on her behalf. Save for the
+occasional bleating of a goat and once the harsh
+scream of the Baroto bird, which made her heart
+contract, for it is a bad omen, the night was still.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page100">[pg 100]</span><a name="Pg100" id="Pg100" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+However, at the hour of the monkey Bakuma arose
+to replenish the fire. As the western star was melting
+in the warm green she left the compound. On the
+outskirts of the village the tall figure of MYalu
+appeared from the shadows of the plantation.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Greeting, daughter of Bakala,”</span> said he, his eyes
+greedily devouring her.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Greeting, O Chief!”</span> returned Bakuma, as she
+politely stepped to one side to avoid standing on the
+vague shadow of the chief.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The fawn seeks the pastures early,”</span> remarked
+MYalu.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Before the breath of the sun the grass is sweeter,”</span>
+retorted Bakuma, edging away.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aye,”</span> remarked MYalu, with a hungry glint in
+his eyes, <span class="tei tei-q">“thou art eager to slake thy thirst? But
+in the valley will no buck walk this day!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span> gasped Bakuma, recollecting instantly
+the omen of the Baroto bird heard that night. <span class="tei tei-q">“What
+meanest thou?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Maybe the soul of him hath wandered and been
+caught in a trap or maybe&mdash;&mdash;”</span> He paused to watch
+her closely—<span class="tei tei-q">“maybe an enemy hath made magic
+upon the parts of him.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span> Bakuma started nervously.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">MYalu smiled and touched her upon the shoulder.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thy flesh is cooler than the dew.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nay, nay, O Chief, thou hast not tied my girdle,”</span>
+she protested, as she backed away from him, her eyes
+wide like a terrified deer’s.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nay, but will I untie it soon,”</span> he retorted.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But as he stepped towards her she turned and fled.
+As MYalu watched her running as swiftly as a pookoo
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page101">[pg 101]</span><a name="Pg101" id="Pg101" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+into the plantation he grinned and called out: <span class="tei tei-q">“Even
+now is the cooling draught steaming in the breath of
+the Unmentionable One! But the goblet shall hold
+a sweeter draught for me!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aie! Aie-e!”</span> wailed Bakuma, her heart beating
+furiously, <span class="tei tei-q">“what devil hath bewitched me! O, that
+father of many goats hath betrayed me! Aie!
+Aie-e! O, the cry of the Baroto bird! Aie! Aie-e!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And when Bakuma, distraught with terror by the
+menace that she had only procured the nail paring
+and hair to give her lover into the hands of the false
+magician who, of course, had been bought by MYalu,
+arrived at the <span class="tei tei-q">“pastures”</span> by the river, as MYalu had
+foretold, no buck walked there.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sun spilled blue shadows on the village from the
+sacred hill where another scene was being enacted,
+and it was not as imagined by the amorous MYalu.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the council house, which was within the outer
+fence and before the sacred enclosure, was in progress
+a meeting of the doctors. In the door of the enclosure
+squatted Kawa Kendi, with Kingata Mata in attendance
+tending the royal fires. Before him, in front
+of their fellows, were seated Bakahenzie and Marufa
+in full dress of green feathers and the scarlet plume.
+The left side of the idol, which was so set that the
+shadow never fell upon the entrance to the compound,
+was gilded by the sun; the mouth grinned in one
+corner, one eye was closed in shadow, seemingly like
+a prodigious wink.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To the thrumming of the sacred band Bakahenzie
+was rocking himself to and fro mumbling incantations.
+Kawa Kendi squatted immobile, but the others swayed
+and grunted softly in rhythm. Then on a sudden did
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page102">[pg 102]</span><a name="Pg102" id="Pg102" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Bakahenzie lift up his head and cry in a great voice.
+The drums ceased and the body of witch-doctors
+remained motionless, expectant. Bakahenzie dropped
+his head and began to chant:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Behold! I have heard the voice of the trees</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Crying softly by night!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Lo! the soul of the plant is in labour!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As a woman with child!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Behold! is she not to break forth?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For she crieth for aid.</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Unless she be heard the infant will slip!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The fruit will not be!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The plants will not break!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The milk will be sour!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The beer will be green!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Women will not bear!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Our spears will be blunt!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Our magic will wane!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And He will be wroth!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh! Ah! … Eh! Ah! … Eh! Ah! …
+Eh! Ah! … Eh! Ah! …”</span>
+<br />grunted the chorus of the doctors. Then chanted Marufa:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Lo! I have slept and been that which I must!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Preying swiftly by night!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Behold! I have bloodied my fangs in the throat</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of a mighty bull eland!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Blood succoured the earth and upsprang a plant!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Which panted for blood!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The sap of the plant is the soul of the tree!</div>
+  <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page103">[pg 103]</span><a name="Pg103" id="Pg103" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Take heed to the thirst</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of Him who first was!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who lusts for a maid!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Full breasted, soft thighed!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Supple, bow arched!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Clean blooded and strong!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whose name is forbid!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whose name is a sin!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Who hath stolen the name?”</span> screamed Bakahenzie,
+leaping to his feet. <span class="tei tei-q">“Who is she that hath
+stolen the name?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh! Ahh! … Eh! Ahh! … Eh! Ahh! … Eh!
+Ahh! … Eh! Ahh! …”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As the drums throbbed swifter Bakahenzie began to
+shuffle in a stooping posture as if he were snuffing a
+trail. To the continuous grunting he continued this
+dance for fully a quarter of an hour. Then stopping
+abruptly in front of the king he screamed:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Let her be bidden</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To come to the feast!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let her be oiled!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let her be shaved!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let her come dancing!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let her be joyful!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let her be decked!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let her be glad!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Lips of the groom</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thirst for her mouth!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let her be drunken</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To bear his sweet weight!</div>
+  <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page104">[pg 104]</span><a name="Pg104" id="Pg104" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That the crops will be full!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That the cattle grow fat</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wives will throw men!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spears will slice foes!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He sank suddenly upon his haunches. The drums
+ceased. A slave appeared bearing a pure white kid.
+Kingata Mata took the animal and held it before
+Kawa Kendi, who muttered a long incantation over
+it and cut the throat with a spear head. Then to
+Marufa was the bleeding carcass carried and while
+still alive he slit open the belly, smeared the liquid
+over his chest and right arm, and tore out the guts.
+The corpse was removed. Marufa, working only
+with the enchanted arm, turned the entrails over and
+about, peering closely.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There was silence. The shadows grew in depth.
+From the village came an occasional bleat and the
+voice of a distant girl chanting.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After a prolonged and studious search, Marufa
+caught up and wrapt round his neck an intestine. As
+he rose, the group of witch-doctors broke out into a
+mighty groaning. Marufa speeded across the small
+clearing and kneeled before Kawa Kendi. Through
+the bloody necklet he whispered two syllables: <span class="tei tei-q">“kuma.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The groaning ceased as suddenly as it had commenced.
+Kawa Kendi cried out in a loud voice:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The bride is found!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Instantly the drums began a furious beat. A mighty
+shout rose from all assembled and they fell to the chest
+and belly grunting: <span class="tei tei-q">“Eh! Ahh! … Eh! Ahh! …”</span> as
+Bakahenzie and Marufa began to dance the
+dance of thanksgiving.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page105">[pg 105]</span><a name="Pg105" id="Pg105" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ba<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">kuma</span></span> had been doomed to be the
+victim for the Feast of the Harvest Festival, to be sacrificed in the
+orgy as the Bride of the Spirit of the Banana, because
+Marufa had discovered by divination that two syllables
+of her name were those of the secret name which only
+the King-God knew, of the Unmentionable One, the
+Usa<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">kuma</span></span>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD09" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page106">[pg 106]</span><a name="Pg106" id="Pg106" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc18" id="toc18"></a>
+<a name="pdf19" id="pdf19"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 9</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Before the green tent strutted a sentry as
+pompously as if he were on duty before the
+Kommandant’s bungalow. Inside, sprawling in a
+camp chair, was the corporal, in blue striped pyjamas,
+smoking a cigarette. Upon the floor crouched one
+of his women with a safety razor stuck in her woolly
+thatch, opening a can of beef. On the camp table
+were a bottle of brandy which had had its neck knocked
+off, a shaving mirror and an open tin of cigarettes.
+Squatting on the bed was another woman in field
+boots, cleaning up a can of salmon with one finger.
+The rest of the tent was a litter of broken cases, bottles,
+cans and papers.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ten yards away under the thorn shrub, lay Birnier,
+and near to him were Mungongo and the others.
+Mungongo’s regard shuttled between this scene in
+the tent and the white man with a mingled expression
+of terror and amazement: terror at the temerity
+of the corporal in treating a white in such a manner
+and incredulous bewilderment that the white did not
+immediately strike them all dead. But the others,
+more sophisticated to the white man’s ways, were
+solely occupied in envying the corporal’s debauch.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The mauve shadows turned to blue as they lengthened.
+The clouds of small flies thinned and their
+ranks began to be refilled by the mosquitoes. Birnier
+lay with his back to the tent with a fly switch of grass,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page107">[pg 107]</span><a name="Pg107" id="Pg107" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+but he watched the doings of the corporal covertly.
+The corporal and his women had been drinking a good
+deal of the brandy and now he was supplying generous
+quantities to his men. Once he had come out to
+jeer. Birnier had taken no notice, nor even of the
+kick implanted by one of his own field boots on the
+foot of the woman. Already there was a bloodshot
+glint in the corporal’s yellow eyes and a pronounced
+uncertainty in his movements. Whether the man
+had had any particular instructions regarding the
+manner of his death Birnier did not know until he
+became loquacious and took to shouting insults at
+his white prisoner. The great white chief had given
+the white man to him as a slave, he yelled, and now
+he was going to take him home with him. This idea
+seemed to tickle him vastly and also his women, who
+giggled and applauded as the corporal began to describe
+what obscene acts they would make their white dog
+perform every day, what they would give him to eat,
+how he should be made to dance.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">They grew noisier and the women began to sing
+lewd songs. The soldiers too revealed signs of their
+frequent potations. Soon the whole crowd would
+go mad, Birnier knew, and sooner or later collapse,
+which would give him a chance to escape, unless they
+chained him, or, what was far more probable, they
+decided to bait him to death during an orgy. What
+they would probably do to him was unthinkable.
+Somehow he must find a way out by self-destruction.
+Even should he escape, he would be unarmed and
+without food, and there was every possibility that
+they would trail and overtake him in the morning. He
+was lame and footsore; also he was weak from want
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page108">[pg 108]</span><a name="Pg108" id="Pg108" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+of food. Once, when despoiling his chop boxes, the
+corporal had contemptuously thrown him a half
+eaten tin of sardines and a cigarette. He let the
+cigarette lie. Nourishment he must have; and so
+after an inward struggle he had eaten it, having to
+claw out the fish like a monkey, while the big black
+and his women sprawled and laughed.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The soldiers, except the one on sentry who still
+paced a trifle erratically, were grouped on their
+haunches around the fire in front of the tent on the
+threshold of which the corporal presided with as much
+pomposity as if he were the great Mogul, all drinking
+and smoking and eating. Now and again the women
+would screech insults over their heads at the white;
+and once the corporal threw an empty bottle at him,
+evoking a gale of applause. The women began the
+belly dance, crooning while the men accompanied
+with the rhythmic grunt, which ever leads to hysterical
+exaltation.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sun was dipping. They might come for him
+at any moment. He watched the sentry and contemplated
+making a rush, taking a venture on the man’s
+bad aim and unsteady hand. They would not follow
+him far in the dark for dread of the spirits that walk
+by night. The only alternative to suicide was the
+river, in flood and full of crocodiles, a slender chance.
+He determined to try it. He considered making the
+attempt then. But the darker the better; they
+would more easily miss. At any risk he must never
+let them get their hands upon him. He drew himself
+together, flexing his limbs for a leap and a rush,
+anxiously observing the chanting crowd around the
+fire in the sunset glow.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page109">[pg 109]</span><a name="Pg109" id="Pg109" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The leashes of discipline were fraying. The sentry
+still plodded up and down, but with a rolling eye for
+his companions. The working of his mind was
+revealed when he walked round tying knots in the long
+grass which, as every Munyamwezi knows, is a sure
+method to prevent a prisoner’s escape; then he halted
+in front of Birnier, grinned, and pointed to the fire;
+evidently he knew or had heard that an orgy was
+coming. The man stood and watched him. Fearful
+that the fellow was about to drag him over or suggest
+that the victim be seized, if only in order to release
+him from his irksome duty, Birnier snatched up the
+cigarette lying in the grass and asked for a light to
+distract the man’s attention. The sentry shook his
+head and pointed to the fire. Hastily Birnier
+searched his pockets for a match; recollected that he
+had used the last, and took out a small tin box of wax
+vestas wrapped in oiled silk which he kept as a reserve
+in a special pouch of his belt. In the very act of
+striking the match Birnier ejaculated: <span class="tei tei-q">“God!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nini?”</span> demanded the sentry.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I burned myself,”</span> returned Birnier.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nothing to what you will soon!”</span> retorted the
+nigger, grinning, made an obscene suggestion and
+swaggered across to the fire.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier cursed his own stupidity as he thought
+swiftly. If Mungongo and the others ran at the same
+time the numbers would confuse the soldiers the
+more. He spoke across to Mungongo in the Wongolo
+dialect, hoping that the Munyamwezi would not
+understand.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Let thy heart be like unto the bullet of my big
+gun, and obey me! When I throw up in the air this
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page110">[pg 110]</span><a name="Pg110" id="Pg110" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+cigarette, thou shalt run and plunge into the river,
+but not into the depth; lie hidden in the reeds of the
+bank until thou shalt hear a frog croak thrice and then
+once. Come out and go to the frog, and be not afraid,
+for thou shalt see me in the spirit form. Dost understand?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Truly, my master!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Tell the washenzie that they also obey or shall
+my spirit eat them up as it shall these children of
+dung!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Truly, master!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier glanced at the horizon. The shadows had
+melted into the violet twilight, which in equatorial
+Africa is almost as short as the snuffing of a candle.
+The stars were popping out. Dusky forms were
+circling round the yellow of the fire which threw
+pale flickers on the figure of Corporal Inyira, revealing
+the beginning of the hysterical gleam in the yellows
+of his eyes as, reverting to habit, he squatted on his
+haunches in the chair. They might make a rush for
+the victims at any moment. The sentry, excitement
+overcoming discipline, was, rifle still in hand, dancing
+round the outskirts of the throng.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier threw the cigarette towards Mungongo.
+As he dived round the thorn bush he heard the rustle
+of movement and the <span class="tei tei-q">“boy’s”</span> gasped exclamation to
+the others. The bank of the river was not fifteen
+yards away. On the brink Birnier crouched and
+listened. He heard a splash a little to the right, which
+was Mungongo or one of the others literally obeying
+his instructions.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The mosquitoes buzzed and stung in clouds. A
+cricket shrilled persistently above the chorus of the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page111">[pg 111]</span><a name="Pg111" id="Pg111" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+frogs and the throb of the hand-drum and the chanting.
+The sentry had not yet discovered the flight; he was
+probably drunker than Birnier had guessed. By
+raising himself on his hands he could see the gleam
+of the fire and the inverted V of the tent through the
+scrub. He hesitated whether to begin operations
+immediately or wait until after they had discovered
+the flight and were further intoxicated. Yet the
+excitement of the loss of the prisoner might sober
+them a little, Birnier reflected. No, it did not matter
+even if they were completely sober. The spirits of
+the night would be perhaps more real to them then
+than when they were drugged by alcohol. Yet he
+would wait. They might come as far as the river
+with lanterns and should he be compelled to take to
+the water he would have to take the risk of crocodiles
+seizing him. Almost had he begun to curse the
+askaris for being so slow, when a rifle cracked and a
+bullet hummed over his head.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He scrambled hastily down the bank, thinking for
+a moment that he had been spotted. But it must
+have been a random shot. The chanting ceased. A
+hoarse shout from the sentry was echoed by uproar
+from the others.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier crawled up the bank cautiously and peered.
+He could not see well, for one eye was nearly closed
+by mosquito bites, but he could make out vague
+forms passing and repassing across the glow of the
+fire. Lights glimmered. Amid shouts and yells,
+figures began to advance towards the river. Whether
+the water was deep or shallow he could not know;
+only could he make out in the sheen of the stars a
+dark patch of reed or bushes for some yards. He slid
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page112">[pg 112]</span><a name="Pg112" id="Pg112" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+down the slope as noiselessly as possible, although the
+pursuers were making noise enough to scare all the
+spirits in Africa. He sank to his chest, standing on
+stones. He waded out a little, buried his head and
+shoulders behind a half-submerged bush, and remained
+still.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For some time he could only hear the shouts and
+yells. He kept the water up to his chin and continuously
+splashed his face in the endeavour to slacken the
+efforts of the mosquitoes. The cries approached.
+He saw men outlined against the stars and then some
+gleams of lanterns. Something stirred ponderously
+near to him. It might be a crocodile, but he dared
+not move. The figures seemed to stay on the top of
+the bank for hours. He remained rigid, expecting a
+swirl of water and teeth.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Suddenly a spurt of flame shot out above him and
+was followed by a fusillade of shots in the direction
+of up river. Had they spotted Mungongo or were
+they merely letting drive at a bush or the spirits in
+general? The latter was most probable. The water
+swirled near to him. All his will power was required not
+to leap frantically for the bank. Yet a crocodile would
+be far more merciful than those black devils. Again
+a swirl and something passed close to him at high speed.
+Probably an otter scared by the firing; at any rate it
+was not a crocodile. The lights and figures on the
+bank disappeared.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Shots rang out again, and were followed by a wild
+outburst of yelling. Birnier began to wade for the
+bank, continually splashing water at the mosquitoes
+which were so thick that they reminded him of the
+bayou Lafourche in far-off Louisiana. Crouching,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page113">[pg 113]</span><a name="Pg113" id="Pg113" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+he waited on the edge of the bank to listen. The
+corporal might have had enough sense to post men in
+the grass. Yet he might be too fuddled to think of
+that, and no native would willingly stay there in the
+dark, unless under white discipline. Voices still
+muttered, but they sounded as if from the camp.
+Had they given him up for the night, relying on the
+chance that if he had not been taken by a crocodile
+they could trail him in the morning? Probably.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier squatted in the water, ready to plunge back,
+until he was sure they were in camp. Then as cautiously
+he crawled up the bank. Through the scrub
+with his uninjured eye he could make out the figures
+around the yellow of the fire which had gone down
+considerably. Now what would they do? He could
+hear the mumble of the corporal’s voice. Would they
+be sufficiently sobered to be ready for the chase in
+the morning? Birnier did not think so with that
+case of brandy there; the corporal would not, at all
+events. There was a scream of pain and the chatter
+of women’s voices.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Was the corporal punishing the sentry for having
+let the prisoners escape, or were they beginning to
+fight among themselves? The latter was improbable,
+as non-commissioned officers are usually chosen from
+petty chiefs and the men under them, as far as possible,
+from their own village. Had they captured Mungongo
+or one of the others? Birnier listened again. Another
+scream was stoppered to a groan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Devils!”</span> muttered Birnier. Lying flat to watch
+the grass and shrub tops against the stars, he gave the
+frog croaks arranged, at intervals of ten seconds.
+About five minutes later he saw some grass tops quiver
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page114">[pg 114]</span><a name="Pg114" id="Pg114" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+unnaturally. He croaked again. Came a whisper:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Is it thee, Infunyana?”</span> (a name given in reference
+to Birnier’s gold fillings).</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aye.”</span> A dark form glided towards him. <span class="tei tei-q">“Where
+are the other men?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I know not. I told them as thou hadst told me to
+do. When thou didst give the sign, I fled and plunged
+into the river.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thou wast not frightened of the crocodiles?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nay; for I have a mighty charm against all river
+beasts, enchanted by Bakahenzie, the greatest of
+magicians.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span> commented Birnier, contorting his swollen
+lips in the dark, <span class="tei tei-q">“would that I had such an
+one! Thinkest thou that the men did as they were
+bidden?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Who knows what is in the heart of a goat?”</span>
+returned Mungongo contemptuously, for they were of
+another tribe.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ah, listen!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The mutter of the hand-drum grew swifter as
+a high tenor chanted to the accompaniment of the
+abdominal grunting and the laryngeal shrilling:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“We have come from afar from the Place of the waters!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From the place where dwells the mighty Eater-of-Men!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hard was the road as the hills of Kilimanjaro!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hot was the sun as the wrath of Inyira the bold!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">The son of Banyala!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Ough! … Ough!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!</div>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page115">[pg 115]</span><a name="Pg115" id="Pg115" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But strong are we still as the trunk of an elephant!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For have we not walked in the shade of a great chief!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Blacker and fiercer than the male rhinoceros!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Swifter and more terrible than the mother of whelps?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">The son of Banyala!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Ough! … Ough!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What hath he given us to tickle our spears?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A dainty white dog whose meat is so tender!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Fattened and groomed by the Eater-of-Men!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A gift from the great Chief to his ally and friend.</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">The son of Banyala!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Ough! … Ough!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We will tickle his white flesh with the tongue of our spears!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Our women shall pluck out his hair and his manhood!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He shall dance to our liking in the midst of the fire!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His girl screams for mercy shall lave hungry ears of <span class="tei tei-corr" style="text-align: left"><a name="E11" id="E11" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: left"></a><a href="#e11" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">&mdash;&mdash;!</a></span></div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">The son of Banyala!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Ough! … Ough!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em"> <span class="tei tei-corr" style="text-align: left"><a name="E12" id="E12" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: left"></a><a href="#e12" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h</a></span>!</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Great was the gift of the great Eater-of-Men!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A white slave so sleek to dance the dance of the ants!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Eh! We’ll slit up his nostrils and pull out his hairs!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A white slave and four black ones to wait on one great chief!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">The son of Banyala!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Ough! … Ough!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!</div>
+</div>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page116">[pg 116]</span><a name="Pg116" id="Pg116" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Those children of folly have not obeyed,”</span>
+whispered Birnier. <span class="tei tei-q">“The time is come.… Wait
+here for me, O Mungongo. I go to take my spirit
+form. When I return be not afraid!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Truly,”</span> answered Mungongo, as Birnier crawled
+away and down the bank. By the water’s edge he
+swiftly stripped himself to his moccasins and taking out
+the wax vestas, damped each precious one and carefully
+rubbed lines over his face and body, endeavouring to
+get the most distinctive phosphorescent effect around
+the eyes. Leaving his clothes he crawled back to
+Mungongo.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span> exclaimed Mungongo in a muffled scream
+when he saw the glowing apparition. Birnier heard
+the rustle of grass. As the boy stood up to run he
+leaped and pulled him down savagely.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Be quiet, thou fool!”</span> he whispered. <span class="tei tei-q">“It is I.
+Be silent!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh! Eh!”</span> gasped Mungongo, who was trembling
+violently.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“If thou dost not be quiet will I tie up thy heart,”</span>
+threatened Birnier.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mungongo continued to quiver, but he remained
+passive.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh! Eh!”</span> he gasped, <span class="tei tei-q">“truly thou art a more
+mighty magician than Bakahenzie.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Be quiet!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The drums and the song were still going and the
+chant had become more obscene.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Follow me!”</span> whispered Birnier, when Mungongo
+was more reassured.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">They made a detour. As they drew near they could
+hear muffled screams and groans beneath the howl of
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page117">[pg 117]</span><a name="Pg117" id="Pg117" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+the chorus and song. The mighty son of Banyala and
+his merry men were so engrossed in the orgy that
+Birnier could have walked right up to the fire before
+anyone would have seen him. But he would not take
+any unnecessary risk. Leaving Mungongo outside he
+crawled under the back flap of the tent. Crouched
+there he paused. The tent was empty; for all were
+engaged in the dance. His two shot-guns and two
+light rifles were stacked in the corner and the big
+express which the corporal had appropriated, leaned
+against the tent door behind the chair. He glanced
+hurriedly around for ammunition, but he could not see
+any open, and he had left his belt of cartridges with his
+clothes. Outside the men and women were circling
+in contrary directions, each with a spear, a knife or a
+firebrand in hand, around the fire beside which, trussed
+like bundles of faggots, were the four servants, their
+feet singeing on the outside hot ashes.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For a second Birnier hesitated. He could not know
+whether any of the guns was loaded. The fire was of
+glowing embers which did not throw much light into
+the tent. Swiftly Birnier rose and glided into his own
+chair in the deep shadow of the tent flap. Then
+summoning all his nerve he uttered a yell and began to
+shout the first song which he could recollect:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Hurrah! Hurrahhhhhhh! It is the Jubileeeee!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that set you free!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The native minstrel stopped in the middle of his
+chant; the whole shuffling, grunting crowd was
+petrified in as many different poses. Birnier leaped
+to his feet waving his arms wildly, yelling:</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page118">[pg 118]</span><a name="Pg118" id="Pg118" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Thus we sang the chor-uss from Atlanta to the Sea-aa!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As we …<span class="tei tei-corr" style="text-align: left"><a name="E13" id="E13" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: left"></a><a href="#e13" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">”</a></span></div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But before he had gotten to <span class="tei tei-q">“Georgia,”</span> only the
+prostrate forms around the fire had not fled.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD10" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page119">[pg 119]</span><a name="Pg119" id="Pg119" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc20" id="toc20"></a>
+<a name="pdf21" id="pdf21"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 10</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On the morning of Birnier’s departure there was
+much movement in Ingonya station. Every sign
+of preparation for the expedition had been carefully
+concealed while a stranger was in the vicinity. Trumpets
+blared importantly. On the great parade ground
+companies were formed, long lines of rigid, ebon
+figures, down which strolled zu Pfeiffer inspecting
+personally kits and rifles. Afterwards they were
+drawn up before the flag-pole. In an address zu
+Pfeiffer informed them that they served under a
+greater Bwana than he, the greatest Bwana in the
+countries of the white or the black, who was the son of
+Ngai (an uncertain term meaning <span class="tei tei-q">“son of God”</span> or
+the <span class="tei tei-q">“son of nobody”</span>); that the flag they bore, the
+brother of the big one upon the pole, was so powerful
+in magic that none could withstand it, the Totem of
+the Bwana Mkubwa Kuba. No wives were allowed for
+black or white, and he himself set them the example;
+for they were embarking on a war expedition to take a
+country which they knew was full of ivory, cattle and
+women.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The row upon row of eyes in black faces bulged, as
+from the mass came the long grunt of assent and
+allegiance. The three white sergeants barked at their
+various companies, which wheeled into column formation
+and marched past zu Pfeiffer beneath the flag in
+review order, their alignment and precision a credit to
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page120">[pg 120]</span><a name="Pg120" id="Pg120" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+their drill masters. Down below the fort on the
+mouth of the bayou Sergeant Ludwig superintended
+the overhauling of the steam-launch, and a native
+sergeant and a file of men overseered lines of carriers
+bearing white men’s provisions, the bulk of which was
+zu Pfeiffer’s personal supplies. Around the launch
+was a flotilla of native canoes in charge of a small
+crowd of nude Kavirondo paddlers, jabbering at the
+prospect of a war expedition.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Most of the day zu Pfeiffer spent in the orderly room
+going over documents and giving detailed instructions
+to the grizzled Sergeant Schneider, who was to take
+over the station with fifty of the least competent men,
+pending the arrival of an officer, which again would
+depend upon the success of the expedition. In zu
+Pfeiffer’s manner was evident the controlled excitement
+of a boy on the eve of a house match, and indeed for
+him it was the game for which he was bred and lived,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“das Kriegspiel.”</span> Perpetually his long fingers caressed
+the sentry moustaches; an unusual glitter was in his
+blue eyes.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The personality of
+<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E14" id="E14" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e14" class="tei tei-ref">Birnier</a></span>
+had been apparently
+wiped from his mind as a spoor in the sand by rain;
+indeed in addition to the competing excitement of the
+expedition, the previous night’s alcoholic and sentimental
+debauch had served to exhaust the emotions
+stimulated by jealousy. To him had appeared an
+obstruction in his emotional life in the shape of the
+husband of the woman whom he adored; therefore,
+according to his nature and training, he had endeavoured
+to remove that obstacle as swiftly and as
+efficiently as possible. Superlative confidence in himself,
+reflected in his pride of family and nationality,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page121">[pg 121]</span><a name="Pg121" id="Pg121" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+the apotheosis of which was the Kaiser, enabled him to
+devote all his energies to the business in hand, never
+doubting that his interpretation of native psychology
+would ensure the extinction of his adversary.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Beyond the mere joy of the game of war was present
+the fundamental impulse to win the approval of the All
+Highest by gaining another place in the sun as well as
+the half-suppressed conviction that such a distinction
+would naturally further his suit in love. In the orbit
+of these two poles revolved the life actions of zu
+Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">That evening zu Pfeiffer dined as leisurely and as
+sumptuously as usual; drank his port and smoked his
+cigar while his servants packed the last of his kitchen
+battery. Then at the first green of the moon he gave
+the order to march.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The three companies of askaris fell in, marched down
+to the bayou and embarked without fuss or confusion,
+each group under a non-commissioned officer to the
+appointed canoe.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The launch laboured busily out of the bayou past
+misty reed-girt islands into the indolent waters of the
+great lake, dragging after her the fleet of forty odd
+canoes. A cigar under the awning of the tiny poop
+suggested a great firefly in the blue shadows, where
+lounged zu Pfeiffer with his favourite brandy and
+seltzer at his elbow.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Resembling an enormous water-fowl leading a strange
+black brood, the launch towed the flotilla through the
+night. A war chant pulsed like a fevered heart as the
+moon upon her back lazily chased the stars into the dawn
+upon her way to her home in the Mountains of the
+Moon, to be in turn extinguished by a furious sun.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page122">[pg 122]</span><a name="Pg122" id="Pg122" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+And all that day, while incandescent heat tried to boil
+illimitable waters, the strange fowl waddled on with her
+noxious brood. Huddled in the cramped canoes the
+soldiers slept and snuffed and sang, to which zu
+Pfeiffer contentedly listened beneath the awning.
+Three times grey walls of falling water enveloped
+them, sending frantic black hands to bailing. Once
+more the moon made the skies to laugh. When the sun
+had played his part of a flaming Nemesis, a fringe grew
+upon the horizon like the stubble upon a white man’s
+chin.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer had calculated to arrive at the village of
+Timballa just within the river at sundown. The
+headman came down to the strand to meet them.
+Immediately he was seized, and the soldiers, as joyous
+and as mischievous as children released from school,
+surrounded the village.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sitting in full uniform upon the poop of the launch,
+together with the two sergeants, zu Pfeiffer held a
+shauri and demanded sufficient paddlers to man his
+forty canoes. The headman, to whom all white men
+were alike, thought they were British and hastened to
+proffer his services, promising that the Bwana should
+have the men within two days. Zu Pfeiffer curtly
+ordered him to procure them before the sun was
+overhead on the next day; and to insure that he was
+obeyed, detained him as hostage and forbade any man
+to pass his line of pickets around the village. The old
+man protested that they had not sufficient men in the
+village, but zu Pfeiffer’s spies had afforded him
+practically correct information. He gave the headman
+the right to send a number of messengers, each
+accompanied by a soldier, to the neighbouring villages
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page123">[pg 123]</span><a name="Pg123" id="Pg123" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+and promised him fifty lashes and to rase his village, if
+the paddlers were not forthcoming.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Solely because he wished to give his men time to
+recover from their stiffness did he not insist upon
+starting that night upon the river trip. As a good
+commander he considered his men from every point
+of view of efficiency. They loved him. He was a
+warrior chief as they understood such to be; carefully
+he fostered their warrior pride; never were they
+ordered to work at menial offices, to fetch or to carry;
+only to drill and to fight; his punishments were
+ferocious, but he gave them liberty in pillage and rape.
+Eh! but the Eater-of-Men was a mighty chief! and
+of his name they boasted to every man.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With foresight he had demanded twice as many men
+as he needed, knowing that the panic-stricken chief
+would round up the halt, the blind, and the sick. By
+an hour after the stipulated time they were assembled
+in the village, a motley crew. Those of the most
+powerful physique he selected to man the soldiers’
+canoes, and the next in competency he allotted to the
+baggage canoes.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">They started immediately. They made about two
+and a half miles an hour, for although the river was
+swollen it was sluggish and slow streamed, tortuous.
+Each canoe load of soldiers was made responsible for
+the paddlers and the speed was set by zu Pfeiffer in a
+large canoe with Sakamata as guide. Never had those
+paddlers driven canoes so speedily and persistently.
+At sundown they halted in a convenient bend where
+there was no village near; pickets were set on the bank
+and no other man allowed to land, no lights and no
+talking. They were ordered to rest.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page124">[pg 124]</span><a name="Pg124" id="Pg124" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At the first glint of the moon they started again.
+The canoes were hauled by the aid of the soldiers over
+the slight rapids which divided the river into pools in
+the dry season. Throughout the night the misty
+forest and swamp slipped by to the perpetual rhythm
+of the paddles. About the hour of the monkey a
+hippopotamus charged the flotilla and upset two boats.
+Zu Pfeiffer forbade any shooting, nor would he permit
+the expedition a moment’s delay to pick up the
+occupants. Just as they heard the distant crowing of
+cocks from the village for which they were bound, four
+paddlers collapsed. The soldiers, acting on their own
+initiative, threw them overboard to swim if they could,
+and took the paddles themselves. Afterwards they
+were thrashed for disobedience to orders in having
+given a possible chance for one of the men to escape
+to warn the Wongolo. At an hour after sunrise they
+arrived at the village. The majority of the paddlers
+were so exhausted that they dropped in the canoes and
+had to be thrown ashore, where they lay inert, their
+backs, bloody with the urgent bayonet pricks, caking in
+the sun.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Beyond this point the river was not navigable, but the
+village was upon the Wongolo border and within two
+days or fifteen hours’ continuous march of MFunya
+MPopo’s (as zu Pfeiffer knew it). Zu Pfeiffer adopted
+the same tactics to procure porters. But to the chief,
+in case he should require his services again, he gave an
+extravagant present and left bales of cloth for the
+carriers upon their return. Zu Pfeiffer and Sergeant
+Ludwig travelled in machilas (hammocks) each with a
+crew of six; the soldiers carried nothing save their
+rifles, double cartridge belts, a day’s rations; the pick
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page125">[pg 125]</span><a name="Pg125" id="Pg125" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+of the carriers bore ammunition and the two
+<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E15" id="E15" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e15" class="tei tei-ref">Nordenfeldts</a></span>
+and two pom-poms slung upon poles, and the chop
+boxes; the men’s blankets and the heavy stuff were to
+follow more slowly under Sergeant Schultz and fifty
+men. The country between this village and MFunya
+MPopo’s was mostly forest and very sparsely inhabited,
+which afforded some shade and concealment, and
+lessened the risk of a warning being given.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The expedition started at noon. The carriers were
+kept on the native shuffling lope by the aid of attentions
+from the askaris. Two unfortunate small villages
+which lay on the line of march were surrounded and
+the inhabitants massacred. Twenty porters collapsed;
+they were bayoneted to prevent any chance of a
+successful ruse in escaping to give the alarm, and their
+loads given to relay men brought for that purpose. The
+column halted at sundown. The men ate their rations,
+but the carriers were too exhausted to eat; they
+drank water and lay prostrate. According to Sakamata
+they were within two hands’ breadth of the moon of
+Kawa Kendi’s.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In full uniform of white, girded with sword and
+revolver, zu Pfeiffer ate, drank, and smoked cigars until
+the forest roof was patterned against the cold pallor
+of the moon. Then, after giving final instructions to
+Sergeant Ludwig and the various native non-commissioned
+officers, he ordered the jabbering men to
+march, with the carriers staggering on at the point of
+the bayonet.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD11" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page126">[pg 126]</span><a name="Pg126" id="Pg126" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc22" id="toc22"></a>
+<a name="pdf23" id="pdf23"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 11</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The doom pronounced by the Council of Witch-Doctors
+was to Bakuma and all concerned as a
+Bull of Excommunication in mediæval Europe. MYalu
+was the one who exhibited the most emotion. Had he
+not paid seven tusks of good ivory to have the object
+of his passion placed under the most terrible tabu?
+Against Marufa, who had seemingly betrayed him, was
+his anger directed. But the rage of MYalu was
+tempered with fear. A man had not merely to kill an
+enemy: he had also to appease his justly wrathful
+ghost; and who knew what the disembodied spirit
+of the most powerful magician in the land, save
+Bakahenzie, could do! Moreover, no other wizard
+would give him absolution in the form of the magic
+of purification. A chief though he be; he dared not
+slay a magician. He sought Marufa and found him
+as usual squatting on his threshold contemplating
+infinity in a mud wall. He saluted Marufa politely,
+choking back words of bitter recrimination, for if he
+even offended him, the wizard might cast a spell upon
+him instantly. Marufa returned the greeting as
+courteously as ever. When at length MYalu reproachfully
+reminded him of the seven tusks which he had
+paid apparently to secure his love’s terrible fate,
+Marufa replied uninterestedly:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I have done that for which thou hast paid.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What man buyeth a bride for another?”</span> retorted
+MYalu.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page127">[pg 127]</span><a name="Pg127" id="Pg127" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“When I did make magic upon ‘the things’ did I
+place in the power of the spirits the owner. Behold,
+hath not the owner of ‘the things’ been accursed?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span> gasped MYalu. <span class="tei tei-q">“But how may that
+be? Didst thou not thyself take the paring and the
+hair?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I bade the One who is tabu to bring them that he
+might be bewitched to her girdle. She thought to
+deceive me by bringing that which was of herself.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“E—eh!”</span> muttered MYalu, impressed at the awful
+effect of deceiving a wizard. Marufa continued to
+stare. MYalu meditated ruefully.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But the tusks,”</span> murmured MYalu at length
+dismally.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It is not I who have two tongues,”</span> responded
+Marufa indifferently.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And with that MYalu had to rest content. Marufa
+indeed had no interest at all in the passions of Zalu
+Zako, MYalu and Bakuma. Merely the time had come
+for the witch-doctors to choose the victim for the
+Harvest Festival: Bakuma was young and good
+looking, a dainty morsel that should please the taste
+of the officiating doctors, and her owner and uncle
+was a man of no importance: so accordingly he had
+made known the sin of her name through the divination.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the solitude of his own hut upon the hill Zalu
+Zako sat and pondered sulkily. His young and fierce
+temper was stimulated and the seed of rebellion
+against the domination of the priesthood was quickened
+by the fate of his new love; although the masonic
+secrets of the craft were denied to him, he, as son of
+the royal house, was suspicious of the powers of the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page128">[pg 128]</span><a name="Pg128" id="Pg128" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Unmentionable One and the priesthood, as many an
+one had been before him; yet in spite of that the
+verdict was absolute, for he was too crushed by terror
+of the consequences to permit of any hope of annulling
+it.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The fiat not only doomed Bakuma to a terrible death
+at the third blooming of the moon, but from that very
+instant the tabu came into force; for being thus
+accursed by the possession of two sounds of the sacred
+name, she was deemed unholy. Her half-sisters and
+their mother, with whom Bakuma shared the hut, fled
+to another and were exorcised by the wizard, which, as
+everybody knows, is an expensive ceremony; gourds
+and pots, spoons and utensils of all sorts, were left to
+the sole use of the unclean one and would be burned
+upon her demise. A magic line was drawn around the
+hut out of which the soul of the girl as she slept could
+not escape to bewitch anybody. Neither her name nor
+anything that had been hers would be ever mentioned
+again; any word of a household article or any thing or
+beast which had one syllable of the name <span class="tei tei-q">“Bakuma”</span>
+was changed, lest the user be accursed and bewitched.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For the whole day, in this isolation, sat the girl
+Bakuma, Marufa’s useless love charm clutched in her
+hand, as bewildered as if the earth had suddenly turned
+inside out under this fact so stupendous and stupefying.
+She did not weep. She squatted in the door, her eyes
+staring with the glazed inquiring expression of a dying
+gazelle, a bronze question to Fate. At the feeding
+time her mother threw her bananas into the circle.
+Bakuma looked at them as they flopped near to her as
+if she did not realize what they were. She made no
+stir to cook or prepare them. The cool twilight came
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page129">[pg 129]</span><a name="Pg129" id="Pg129" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+and passed like a blue breath. Above the insectile
+chorus of the night beneath the crystal stars came the
+faint thrumming of a drum from MKoffo’s hill. The
+sound of music and dancing reminded Bakuma of her
+ambitious dreams. She could neither weep nor wail;
+she merely emitted a faint gasping sound. But her
+mind began to work jerkily, yet more fluently. Visions
+of the form of Zalu Zako were weaved and spun in the
+darkness: the lithe walk of him, the haughty carriage
+of the head. Slowly greened the sky until the banana
+fronds were etched in sepia against the swollen moon.
+The dismal croak of the Baroto bird shattered the black
+cocoon of Bakuma’s mind.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aie-eee! the foul bird of my despair!”</span> she
+wailed, and at last wept. Then she rose and flitted like
+some green ghost into the plantation and across to the
+place of water where her lover had first spoken her
+sweet, recking naught in her mist of despair of spirits
+of the night nor of the breaking of the magic circle.
+The moon spattered the squatted form with blue
+spangles and turned the falling tears to quivering opals.
+Bakuma broke into wild lament.</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“The black Goat hath cried three times in my hut!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My soul hath wandered and been caught in a trap!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aieeeeeeeeeee!</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A wizard hath stolen a hair from my head!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The beak of Baroto pecketh my gall!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aieeeeeeeeeee!</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A rival hath lain in wait for my love!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">She hath slain my bird in the nest of his breast!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aieeeeeeeeeee!</div>
+</div>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page130">[pg 130]</span><a name="Pg130" id="Pg130" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A porcupine dwells in the place of my heart!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The bird of my soul is fluttering faint!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aieeeeeeeeeee!</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">An ember of fire hath entered my mouth!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The milk of my breasts is curdled to-night!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aieeeeeeeeeee!</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The strings of my bosom are tied with fine knots!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My belly is void! My nipples are dead!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aieeeeeeeeeee!</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A monkey hath bitten the back of my tongue!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hath stolen my breath to make magic by night!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aieeeeeeeeeee!</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The blood in my veins hath turned to sour porridge!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My throat is choked up by the sudd of the Lake!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aieeeeeeeeeee!</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A grey forest rat hath swallowed my heart!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My thighs have been scratched by a poisonous thorn!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aieeeeeeeeeee!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As the last quiver of the wail blended with the
+anthem of the forest came from a figure squatted above
+the ford of the river, his spear a blue flame in the
+moonlight, an answer:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“My love hath been taken by a greater than I!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her flesh will be tasted by a hungrier mouth!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her flesh which is sweeter than honey and wine!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her flesh which is softer than a newly born kid!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Ough! My spear is bent!</div>
+</div>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page131">[pg 131]</span><a name="Pg131" id="Pg131" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My love hath been taken by a greater than I!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her breasts will be pillowed by a much broader chest!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her breasts which do swell like a tender young gourd!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her breasts which are as firm as the meat of the plum!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Ough! My spear is bent!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And answered Bakuma’s wail:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 17.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“<span class="tei tei-corr" style="text-align: left"><a name="E17" id="E17" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: left"></a><a href="#e17" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</a></span>!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“My love hath been taken by a greater than I!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her chines will be gripped by a far fiercer hand!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her chines which are smoother than elephants’ tusks!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her chines which are as plump as the breast of a fowl!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Ough! My spear is bent!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em"><span class="tei tei-corr" style="text-align: left"><a name="E18" id="E18" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: left"></a><a href="#e18" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</a></span>!</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My love hath been taken by a greater than I!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her eyes will be touched by longer fingers than mine!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her eyes which are like unto moons veiled by rain!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her eyes which are like the starlit river at dawn!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Ough! My spear is bent!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My love hath been taken by a greater than I!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her scent will be drunk by nostrils broader than mine!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her scent which is pungent and sweet like the smoke!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her scent which slakes thirst more than driest of beer!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Ough! My spear is bent!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My love hath been taken by a greater than I!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her breath will be sipped by a thirstier throat!</div>
+  <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page132">[pg 132]</span><a name="Pg132" id="Pg132" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her breath which is hotter than the flame of a fire!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her breath which makes more drunken than enemies’ blood!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Ough! My spear is bent!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My love hath been taken by a greater than I!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her voice will be heard by ears mightier than mine!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her voice which is like unto burbling beer!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her voice which is gentler than the rustle of fronds!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Ough! My spear is bent!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A slight breeze stirred gently the trees. The
+crickets shrilled their perpetual chorus. A crocodile
+flopped in the river. Dogs yapped from a village down
+the river. Again Bakuma lifted up her voice:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Mightier than elephants was the tread of my man!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Keener than a leopard was the flash of his eye!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Stronger than an oak tree was the strength of his arm!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Swifter than lightning was the stroke of his spear!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Enemies died!</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Taller than the wine palm was the height of my man!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Broader than the temple was the span of his chest!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">More graceful than antelope was the carriage of him!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">More slender than saplings was the build of his legs!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Women lamented!</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sweeter than warm honey was the scent of my man!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whiter than a spear flash was the gleam of his teeth!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Fiercer than scorpions was the grip of his hand!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Smooth and like stone was&mdash;&mdash;”</div>
+</div>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page133">[pg 133]</span><a name="Pg133" id="Pg133" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A gale of yells and shots destroyed the song of Bakuma
+like a foot crushing a flower.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zalu Zako leaped to his feet and stood for a moment
+listening intently. Across the river some strange
+beast spat spears of red flames. A little farther
+down another beast coughed violently like a hippopotamus.
+The sky seemed falling. Such volumes of
+sound he had never heard before.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As he raced with the speed of a koodoo through the
+plantation he saw the glow of fire ahead and heard the
+moan of some terrible monster near him. He leaped
+five feet in the air as the world appeared to crack in half
+beside him. He felt a sting like a brand of fire in his
+shoulder, but he ran on towards the village from whence
+fled dim figures on all sides amid shouts and screams
+and wailing.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Several huts were already blazing. The leviathan
+coughed and moaned again and once more the earth
+seemed to crash to pieces near him. Appalled and
+bewildered, choking with rage, he reached the outer
+enclosure where his fellow warriors were shouting and
+yelling that the white gods were attacking. Bakahenzie,
+gun in hand, was bidding them charge they knew not
+what. Then out of the clutter of the village broke
+line upon line of yelling figures clothed in uniform.
+Screaming the battle-cry, the warriors charged, led by
+Zalu Zako, Bakahenzie, and Kawa Kendi, who in the
+excitement had dashed from the enclosure. Howls and
+yells were drowned in the spiteful crackle and cough.
+Warriors were mown like weeds under a sickle.
+Scarce a hundred scrambled inside the enclosure at
+the rallying call from Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Again came a short rush of those uniformed figures;
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page134">[pg 134]</span><a name="Pg134" id="Pg134" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+again scarlet spears pierced the green moonlight like a
+hailstorm; small red flames rippled in a line resembling
+a forest fire as the soldiers charged through and over the
+palisade. Hand to hand was the fighting, spear and
+sword against bayonet and rifle around the idol, the
+askaris outyelling the warriors. The temple was on
+fire. In the light of the flames they saw a tall figure in
+white with a glow of fire in his mouth and magic eyes
+upon his hands, eyes which flashed rays of scarlet and
+blue as he cut and hacked at the base of the idol.…</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Tarum hath come!”</span> screamed some one, and as
+the cry was taken up, the Unmentionable One tottered
+and crashed to the ground.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">They fled, Zalu Zako, Bakahenzie and those that
+were left.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD12" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page135">[pg 135]</span><a name="Pg135" id="Pg135" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc24" id="toc24"></a>
+<a name="pdf25" id="pdf25"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 12</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The village of Yagonyana, the son of Zahilazaan,
+was situated some five days’ march to the north-west
+of Kawa Kendi’s, in open cattle country near
+the fringe of the forest. Here were gathered nearly
+every witch-doctor and warrior of the tribe. Most
+of the women, children, and slaves had been sent
+still farther to the west, driving the cattle before
+them.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakahenzie, Zalu Zako, Marufa, and all those
+warriors who had escaped from the massacre by zu
+Pfeiffer were distinguished from their brethren by
+circles of yellow earth around each left eye, and each
+right breast and arm was smeared with red, which
+is part of the ceremony of magic purification for
+those who have slain, lest, as is well known, the
+ghost of the dead wreak their wrath upon their
+slayers.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The affairs of the tribe were in a parlous state. The
+netting of the tabu had been tangled by the death of
+the King-God, Kawa Kendi, and the unprecedented
+act of the overthrow of the idol. Kawa Kendi’s
+body, which had not been recovered so that the doctors
+could release his unhappy soul, might be used to make
+more magic against the tribe.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For three weeks there had been much discussion
+among the doctors, the chiefs, and the people.
+Opinions were at variance; no two men could agree.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page136">[pg 136]</span><a name="Pg136" id="Pg136" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Lesser wizards, who before had been content with the
+perquisites of the smaller offices, were now made
+drunken by the insecurity of Bakahenzie’s position.
+Each of the doctors, seeing a chance to prove his superior
+merit and win Bakahenzie’s post as chief doctor, had
+busily made magic to destroy the usurper, and each
+and every one provided a different reason for the failure
+thereof. Every day came news of the doings of the
+white god with eyes upon his hands, of shootings and
+floggings, of the burning of the village including the
+idol, the temple, and the sacred tombs of MFunya
+MPopo, of MKoffo, of MZrakombinyana, and other
+kings before them.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The council of the craft could not even decide
+whether Zalu Zako was to be King-God or not.
+Bakahenzie, whose interest lay in supporting the
+dynasty of the present royal family, maintained that
+he should be anointed forthwith. But with the
+downfall of the idol and his own impotence to make
+successful magic, Bakahenzie’s prestige had been badly
+shaken; no longer dared he issue dicta autocratically.
+As ever, political ambition tore patriotism to
+shreds.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Marufa, former close ally of Bakahenzie, but lacking
+his active principle, continued to mutter incantations
+most impressively by himself, waiting cautiously to
+see which side of the river the arrow fell. Bakahenzie
+became seriously alarmed at the growth of Yabolo’s
+faction and the indifference of Marufa. He knew well
+that submission would entail the loss of his post as
+well as his worldly goods; and he was aware that all
+men knew that his most potent and strenuous magic
+had failed as utterly as that of the youngest novice
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page137">[pg 137]</span><a name="Pg137" id="Pg137" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+in the craft. His only chance to retrieve a portion of
+his lost reputation was to invent a more plausible excuse
+for failure than any other doctor had done. He
+did.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Although he did not know that Bakuma had broken
+the magic circle of her own volition, he had the shrewd
+imagination to suggest that she had either fled with
+the other women during the attack or that, even if she
+had stayed, the askaris would have taken her from the
+hut. Therefore did he demand an assembly of the craft
+and chiefs. One of the reasons, if not the reason, of
+Bakahenzie’s success, as of other witch-doctors before,
+such as Savonarola, had been a faculty, inspired by, or
+derived from, hysterical epilepsy, of working himself up
+at will into a state of convulsion without actual loss of
+consciousness and the spectacular exhibition of foam,
+which no other sorcerer had been able to simulate so
+successfully. Therefore Bakahenzie invoked the great
+Tarum (apotheosis of ancestors’ spirits) who, through
+the convulsed body, did proclaim that the disaster had
+been caused by the breaking of the magic circle by one
+whose name was accursed; and that only could the
+magic of Bakahenzie be made potent, and the consequent
+overthrow of the Eyes-in-the-hands be assured,
+by the sacrifice of the victim to her destiny as the Bride
+of the Banana.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Marufa, appreciating the shrewdness of this move,
+immediately abandoned his incantations to reassume
+his allegiance to the cause of Bakahenzie. The prophecy
+was hailed by nearly every one as a most timely
+excuse for the failure of magic in general. The
+miraculous recall of the Unmentionable One now
+seemed so easy of accomplishment through the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page138">[pg 138]</span><a name="Pg138" id="Pg138" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+person of Bakuma that many of those who had
+sided with Yabolo deserted him, foreseeing the renewed
+ascendancy of Bakahenzie and fearing his
+wrath.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Yabolo, however, made an attempt to recover the
+lost adherents by protesting that the Moon of the
+Harvest Festival had not yet come, and that therefore
+victory could not be obtained until two more moons
+had waned. But MYalu saw that by submitting to
+the new god he might be able to have removed the
+tabu upon Bakuma—all things were possible to one
+who had overthrown the Unmentionable One—and
+thus obtain her by the price of submission; also he
+might possibly recover his wealth of ivory abandoned
+after the massacre. Therefore did he with his people
+go over to the Yabolo faction.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Uproar and confusion ensued. Bakahenzie recovered
+from his trance with unprecedented rapidity
+and even did not require to be told what the spirit of
+Tarum had said through his lips. The tribe was split
+into fiercer factions than ever. They argued and
+screamed and cursed. Bakahenzie had lost the hold
+over them; for as the god, of which he was the
+sponsor, was dead, his credit had gone too. He dared
+no longer to remove a troublesome brother or chief
+by magic. His only hope was to restore the god:
+so to that end he declared that Zalu Zako must be
+anointed King-God. Uproar arose once more. But
+Bakahenzie’s purpose had been served; he had
+diverted their attention from the subject of submission.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From time to time came terrified runners with
+horrific stories of the burning of villages, of massacre
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page139">[pg 139]</span><a name="Pg139" id="Pg139" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+and rapine. Bakahenzie, determined not to yield,
+secretly dispatched a slave to Eyes-in-the-hands with
+an arrow which is a sign of war; Yabolo, whose mind
+ran in the same tracts, sent a banana which is a sign of
+peace. In the meantime factions grew and multiplied.
+One chief counselled his followers to take their cattle
+and women and seek to conquer another tribe to the
+south-west; another wished to go west. But each
+and every follower began to bargain with his chief for
+disproportionate rewards for service. Two chiefs and
+five hundred men started to the south-west, but they
+returned because they had met in their path the
+skeleton of a slain elephant, which is, as everybody
+knows, a sure sign of disaster.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakahenzie sent runners far and wide to discover
+Bakuma. As she could not be found he concluded
+that she had been killed or taken as a slave and urged
+the warriors to fight. Zalu Zako immediately desired
+the anointing to be delayed in order that he should
+not be debarred from fighting. Bakahenzie, none
+too sure of his authority, was compelled to acquiesce.
+Marufa, observing that the arrow was still in the air,
+took to his non-committal incantations again. Bakahenzie
+strove to keep the warriors and chiefs occupied
+by dissension until the result of his challenge to battle
+should mature. Yabolo, equally perturbed for his
+influence, did exactly the same with the banana in
+view.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Yabolo and MYalu contemplated going in to make
+submission, but the former wished to negotiate through
+Sakamata for the best terms, although he tried to
+persuade MYalu to go; but MYalu was suspicious and
+would not do so without Yabolo. But at the hour of
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page140">[pg 140]</span><a name="Pg140" id="Pg140" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+the monkey one morning came a terrified goatherd
+crying news that cut the tangled threads of their
+intrigues as a sword cuts a goat’s throat. The white
+god, Eyes-in-the-hands, was within an arrow’s flight
+of the village of Yagonyana.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Consternation ensued. The village and the temporary
+camp of grass huts buzzed and hummed. Zalu
+Zako dashed out, sword and spear in hand, and in the
+glow of the awakened fires harangued the warriors,
+urged that they should make a swift detour through
+the forest and attack the white man as he entered the
+village. Bakahenzie supported this plan of campaign.
+MYalu, stung by the recollection of the loss of many
+tusks to the invader, incontinently abandoned Yabolo
+and pressed for a frontal attack. Yabolo contended
+that they send an envoy to make terms, but not very
+insistently. In spite of the assurance of Sakamata, he
+was suspicious of the new god’s gentle ways. Marufa,
+the wise, collected those of his household who had
+remained with him, and quietly made his way to the
+forest.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But Zalu Zako’s martial spirit was overcome by the
+clamour of those who would flee before worse befell,
+crying that the white god, Eyes-in-the-hands, would
+eat them all up with the terrible monsters who coughed
+flames and death; others screeched that the uniformed
+devils were spirits of the night and therefore invincible;
+for always they came in the dark. So they hesitated,
+shouted and argued. Then came a scout screaming
+that the enemy was upon them, corroborated by a
+vicious cough.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A pom-pom shell landed in the midst of the crowded
+village. Zalu Zako, Bakahenzie and their small
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page141">[pg 141]</span><a name="Pg141" id="Pg141" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+following were nearly swept away in the rush of five
+thousand odd warriors in flight. From the forest they
+watched with awestruck eyes the burning of the
+village.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD13" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page142">[pg 142]</span><a name="Pg142" id="Pg142" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc26" id="toc26"></a>
+<a name="pdf27" id="pdf27"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 13</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On the morning on which zu Pfeiffer burned the
+village of Yagonyana, Birnier was encamped upon
+the southern boundary of Wongolo. By his <span class="tei tei-q">“coup de
+superstition”</span> had he recovered all his equipment
+except several bottles of brandy, some canned goods
+and two and a half pairs of pyjamas; also the field
+boots. The noble Inyira, son of Banyala, and his
+merry men never attempted to recapture their
+prisoners; no one save the Eater-of-Men in person
+could have persuaded them to return to that camp
+even had they had their rifles.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After Birnier had dressed his own foot and the
+charred feet of his men, had had a good drink and a
+better meal, he had sought to address the balance of his
+mind through a medium designed for the cure of
+melancholy, but efficacious for many other ills,
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The
+Anatomy of Melancholy</span></span>. He opened the one big
+volume which had been his companion throughout
+his travels at a page marked at haphazard by an ivory
+paper knife with the American flag upon the flat hilt,
+an early gift from Lucille, and began to read the remarks
+of Robert Burton of quaintly glorious memory upon
+the source of his late adventure.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Those which are jealous, most part, if they be
+not otherwise relieved, proceed from suspicion to
+hatred, from hatred to frenzy, madness, injury, murder
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page143">[pg 143]</span><a name="Pg143" id="Pg143" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+and despair … Amestris, Xerxes’s wife, because
+she found her husband’s cloak in Masista’s house,
+cut off Masista’s wife’s paps and gave them to the
+dogs, flayed her besides and cut off her ears, lips,
+tongue, and slit the nose of Artaynta, her daughter.”</span></p><br />
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Cheerful lady! She ought to have been zu
+Pfeiffer’s wife,”</span> commented Birnier and went to sleep.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier arose feeling rational enough to reconsider his
+position. The recollection of the signature on the
+photograph now failed to stimulate the emotional
+reaction as once it had done. The experience through
+which he had passed had had a beneficial effect in
+breaking or disconnecting the train of suggestive
+images. At first in the recess of his mind had lurked
+the desire to abandon everything, to rush straight to
+Lucille to demand an explanation. Now the rising
+sun of reason cast quite different shadows upon the
+incident. The high light was the fact that should he
+do so he would be sacrificing his mission for what
+might prove to be ridiculous. As his mind contemplated
+the subject the echo of <span class="tei tei-q">“à toi, Lucille”</span> tended
+to carry a high note, but this he vented by writing a
+long letter to Lucille recounting the facts and frankly
+admitting that he had been sufficiently insane with
+jealousy to <span class="tei tei-q">“go up in the air.”</span> Once or twice he
+ceased to write and gazed anxiously into the glare as
+his imagination suggested the long period of waiting
+for an answer, wondering whether the echo of that
+cursed <span class="tei tei-q">“à toi”</span> might not become unbearably shrill.
+He became a little more sentimental towards the end
+of the letter, remarking that perhaps he had been
+wrong in deserting her for so long and emphasising
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page144">[pg 144]</span><a name="Pg144" id="Pg144" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+the rather ridiculous point that he was aware that he
+was not a young man. However, he let it remain, and
+at the first opportunity sent off the letter by runner to
+the nearest station in Uganda, together with an order
+for certain goods to be sent to a village on the Wongolo
+border.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Although still inclined to be emotional over the
+photograph, Birnier did not waste any energy over
+vindictive thoughts upon zu Pfeiffer, whom he
+philosophically regarded as irresponsible for his actions,
+inasmuch as he had been made that way just as any
+savage. He had gotten out of the toils set for him,
+so why should he spend time and trouble in seeking
+revenge which would merely consist in reporting the
+incident through a British station to Washington, who
+would open up interminable polite correspondence
+with the German Embassy, who would again write
+prodigious letters to the Colonial Minister in Berlin,
+who would… Ludicrous! No; he would not
+permit zu Pfeiffer to interfere with his plans. He
+would continue straight to Wongolo instead of
+investigating the Kivu country, where zu Pfeiffer
+might perhaps have another opportunity to cause
+more trouble. Accordingly he negotiated with the
+nearest village for carriers and set out, striking due
+west, thus approaching the Wongolo territory towards
+the southern boundary.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The people to the south of the Wongolo country
+was an inferior race, whom the Wongolo periodically
+raided to replenish their slaves. These Wamongo
+were split up into several petty chiefdoms, usually at
+war with one another. They had no defined theology.
+For they had not progressed beyond the stage of magic
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page145">[pg 145]</span><a name="Pg145" id="Pg145" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+as far as any concept of religion, that is of praying for
+intercession to any power greater than themselves;
+whereas the mental state of the Wongolo was half-way
+between magic and religion, mixing and confusing
+the two as exemplified in the Rain-making ceremony
+of employing magic and alternately invoking the god
+and threatening him with dire penalties if he did not
+behave. There seemed to be no royal family or clan
+of the Wamongo; chiefs changed constantly as one
+more powerful for the moment arose; the wizards
+did not appear to have any political power, acting as
+general physicians and confining their efforts apparently
+to simple magic for the growing of corn, the curing of
+the evil eye and wounds. They were terrified of the
+Wongolo, much to Mungongo’s pride, who never let
+slip an opportunity of swaggering and bruiting abroad
+the fame of his master as the greatest of magicians the
+world had ever seen. Never was he tired of relating
+to a grunting audience the terrible sight and effect of
+his master’s transposition into a spirit. The yarn
+lost nothing in the telling.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Progress was slow. Every afternoon, as regular as
+the sun set, clouds of sepia sailed up from the west to
+clothe the world in a grey deluge of falling water.
+Fortunately they were travelling up a watershed so
+that there were no large rivers to cross. As they
+approached the Wongolo border rumours began of a
+white god with eyes upon his hands and live fire in his
+mouth who, so said the delighted Wamongo, had
+entirely eaten up the hated Wongolo. They seemed
+prepared to accept Birnier, when suggesting that he
+should make magic for them to conquer the Wongolo,
+as another terrible white god, and were accordingly
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page146">[pg 146]</span><a name="Pg146" id="Pg146" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+polite. But Mungongo, vastly indignant, denied the
+story; according to him, no power on earth could
+have subdued his race, except perhaps the mighty
+Moonspirit (the name he had bestowed upon
+Birnier).</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But when Birnier arrived at the first village of the
+Wongolo the absence of warriors corroborated the wild
+tales they had heard. The inhabitants of old men,
+boys and women surrounded the camp to gaze in awestruck
+curiosity at the white whom they believed to be
+the brother of the Eyes-in-the-hands. This calumny
+Mungongo strenuously gainsaid, and anew recounted
+the marvellous feats of magic of Moonspirit who could,
+he assured his compatriots, eat up Eyes-in-the-hands
+as easily as a crocodile would swallow a goat. Yet in
+spite of their terror they insisted that Birnier must go
+through the ceremony of purification incumbent upon
+all strangers in order to exorcise the evil influence of
+their eyes and souls; also the customary present must
+be sent to the king and his august permission to enter
+awaited, although no man knew where he was since
+the capital had been burned. Mungongo waxed
+furious. He informed them that Moonspirit was a
+friend of the Son-of-the-Snake, and moreover had before
+been in the country; that if they vexed Moonspirit
+he would enchant the whole village so that no man
+could move hand or foot. No matter, said they, that
+was the rule and must be done. They were impressed
+but obstinate.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From the description of this destroying god, who was
+the colour of a stripped banana and tall as a palm tree,
+had fire in his mouth and eyes upon his hands—it was
+some time before he could recognise the <span class="tei tei-q">“eyes”</span>—and
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page147">[pg 147]</span><a name="Pg147" id="Pg147" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+whose companions were devils strangely clothed,
+dragging horrific monsters who spat earthquakes,
+Birnier had no difficulty in recognising zu Pfeiffer, and
+recollected the significant pumping at dinner regarding
+the Wongolo country. However he had renounced
+any idea of revenge, but the discovery of friend zu
+Pfeiffer as the terrifying god amused him: quickened
+a desire to overset the gentleman’s plans. He smiled
+with a slight hardening of the line about his mouth
+as he began to consider what might be done.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As far as he could estimate by recalling the size of
+the native barracks at Fort Ingonya, he reckoned that
+zu Pfeiffer could not possibly have more than three
+hundred men, unless he had been reinforced from the
+east. Roughly he calculated that the Wongolo ought
+to be able to put about ten thousand warriors in the
+field. That number under any sort of leadership, even
+though they were only armed with spears and swords,
+should wipe out the three hundred, in spite of the discipline
+and two or three machine-guns, by sheer weight
+of numbers. But, from what he had already heard,
+zu Pfeiffer had evidently caught them unprepared,
+wiped out a mass and secured a supernatural effect
+by destroying the idol. He remembered his talk on
+das Volkliches and his comment that zu Pfeiffer was
+unusually well informed upon the psychology of the
+native mind.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">During two days disputing in the native manner
+news came in of fresh
+<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E19" id="E19" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e19" class="tei tei-ref">massacres</a></span>,
+adding to the general
+terror. He sent for the headman and with him held a
+long shauri. The result was that the old fellow conceived
+the wonderful idea, already suggested by his
+lesser brethren, of enlisting the services of this white
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page148">[pg 148]</span><a name="Pg148" id="Pg148" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+man, reputed to be a most marvellous magician, in
+their protection.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then having had his wits sharpened by his own
+originality and a sheath knife, the headman promptly
+discovered that the ceremony of exorcism could not
+be performed because the local wizard had departed
+with every ounce of magic for the front. Still there
+were obstinate and fearful persons who wished that
+Birnier should send a message to the king and wait
+until he had the permission. Another two days were
+lost until this objection was overcome by certain
+presents of <span class="tei tei-q">“bafta,”</span> destined for the king, being handed
+over to the village.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On the week’s march across Wongolo, Mungongo
+triumphantly held spellbound audiences at every
+village through which they passed. As they neared
+the site of the City of the Snake, where they heard zu
+Pfeiffer was encamped, they encountered deserted
+villages. When they came upon the smouldering
+embers of one Birnier consented to turn aside from the
+regular trail in order to pass to the west of Kawa
+Kendi’s where, so the natives said, were Zalu Zako and
+Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Beyond a belt of forest was open rolling country.
+They came to a village of five huts where dwelt some
+herdsmen, although most of the cattle had been
+driven westwards. Mungongo, seeking at Birnier’s
+suggestion for some one who had actually been present
+at the village when zu Pfeiffer attacked, discovered
+a young girl who had escaped. He brought the
+daughter of Bakala into the presence of Moonspirit
+still pathetically clutching the amulet which Marufa
+had sold her. But from Bakuma, who had fled to the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page149">[pg 149]</span><a name="Pg149" id="Pg149" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+forest at the first assault and afterwards to this herdsmen’s
+village where the fact of the tabu would not yet
+have penetrated, Birnier could interpret little of
+value. Of the whereabouts of Zalu Zako she knew
+no more than the peasants. She remembered Infunyana,
+as he had been called on his previous visit to
+the City of the Snake, and to her it seemed that a
+god had descended from the blue sky personally to
+aid her. So utterly incomprehensible and terrifying
+had the attack appeared that unconsciously the inevitability
+of her doom was shaken; if such things could
+happen, she felt rather than thought, then who could
+say what else was possible? She asked permission to
+travel with Moonspirit. Birnier, who knew from her
+dress, or lack of it, that she was unmarried, smiled as
+he wondered whether she was seeking her lover.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Throughout their journey they had not met a
+single warrior; but as they neared the place of the
+king they began to meet groups of them. At the
+sight of the first headdress Bakuma bolted into the
+grass, nor did she reappear until after they had gone.
+Later she came to Birnier and asked permission to hide
+within his tent when the warriors appeared, and to
+his question began to explain the fate to which she had
+been doomed. Naturally this account of the Marriage
+of the Bride of the Banana at the Harvest Festival was
+of value as well as of interest to Birnier, from whom
+it had been concealed when in the country before.
+He cross-questioned her and made notes; but Bakuma
+could give him practically no details of what actually
+happened, a secret well guarded by the craft.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">They looked downcast, these warriors, and were
+doubtful what to do on meeting another white.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page150">[pg 150]</span><a name="Pg150" id="Pg150" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Many had never before seen a white man and were
+inclined to bestow upon Moonspirit all the attributes
+which they had given to Eyes-in-the-hands. Eh!
+said they, Eyes-in-the-hands is a more powerful
+god than the Unmentionable One, for has he not
+eaten him up? Eyes-in-the-hands has imprisoned
+the thunder and the lightning in a bag which he looses
+at will. Who could withstand him? Had they
+better not submit before his wrath had eaten them all
+up? E-eh! man cannot fight with a god, as any
+fool knows.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">They were returning to their homes to make pilgrimage
+to the new god, to propitiate him with oxen
+and with ivory lest worse befall. However they knew
+where Zalu Zako was hidden, also the wizards
+whose magic was as a drop of water in a fire. Mungongo
+did not fail to relate the marvels of Moonspirit
+which he had seen with his own eyes, he and those
+with him. The warriors listened without being in the
+least impressed. That, said they, was merely woman’s
+magic to what Eyes-in-the-hands could do! Aie-e!
+had not they fallen dead in masses at the cough of one
+of his monster spirits! Aie-e! had not the look of
+him burned up the Unmentionable One as a straw in
+a fire! Therefore was he not greater than the god?
+Aie-e! was he not burning their villages at will!
+Aie-e, brothers, they must hasten to appease the wrath
+of so terrible a god!</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier saw that it was useless to attempt to argue
+with them. Zu Pfeiffer, with his shrewd stroke at the
+kernel of their faith in the symbol of the idol, had
+established a kind of godhead; and by his ferocious
+massacres had thoroughly cowed them. However
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page151">[pg 151]</span><a name="Pg151" id="Pg151" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Birnier secured one man to guide him to where Zalu
+Zako, the witch-doctors and those who remained with
+him, were in hiding.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On the fringe of the dense forest they camped. The
+warrior guide went to acquaint Zalu Zako of their
+approach, else otherwise the sight of a white might
+provoke an attempt at massacre or flight. On the third
+day the man returned bearing greetings from Zalu
+Zako personally who remembered well Infunyana,
+the only white man whom he had ever met.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For two days, on a faint trail, in a steamy heat
+pulsing with chromatic birds and lizards, they journeyed
+through the forest, the skirts of the vast Ituri whose
+deepest recess is the home of the pygmy. One early
+forenoon they were halted by the warrior in apparently
+trackless jungle and bidden to camp. Mungongo was
+indignant, but protest was useless as the man refused
+to conduct them any farther, saying that Zalu Zako
+would come to them. So the carriers cut a circle and
+built a zareba and the messenger was swallowed by
+the green wall bearing presents of two rifles.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD14" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page152">[pg 152]</span><a name="Pg152" id="Pg152" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc28" id="toc28"></a>
+<a name="pdf29" id="pdf29"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 14</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">About a mile from Birnier’s camp, through
+forest so dense that even the progress of a native
+clambering from trunk to trunk and over undergrowth
+ten feet deep was slow and tortuous, was the temporary
+village of Zalu Zako; some six or seven hundred
+huts of branches and creepers straggling over
+a wide area of ground which had been roughly
+cleared from undergrowth by a few slaves and
+women.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The hut of Zalu Zako, as those of most of the bigger
+chiefs and wizards, was furnished with reeds upon the
+floor to avoid squatting actually in the green slime, and
+boasted a palisade run from tree to tree enclosing the
+huts of his two wives, women and slaves. Every
+morning the leader of a long line of slaves bringing
+supplies from the villages in the open, chanting softly
+the song of the march, entered the village through a
+mass of creepers which hung like a curtain of humid
+green. Many hundreds of warriors with their chiefs
+had deserted their king after the flight from Yagonyana’s
+village.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the mind of Zalu Zako was doubt and perplexity
+as in those of his people. All the accepted <span class="tei tei-q">“laws”</span>
+and <span class="tei tei-q">“facts”</span> of his world had been set at naught;
+it was as if buck lived in the rivers and fish ran roaring
+through the forests. Fear, curiosity, and resentment
+filled him. Sometimes it appeared that Eyes-in-the-hands
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page153">[pg 153]</span><a name="Pg153" id="Pg153" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+had indeed proved to be a more powerful god
+than the Unmentionable One, of whom he was, or
+should have been, high priest and king; that he had
+eaten him up as they said; so perhaps the better course
+was to submit to this being invincible. Yet this very
+anarchy of his beliefs had released once more the
+passion for Bakuma whom he had renounced, the desire
+for whom had been inhibited by the sense of the
+inevitability of the mandate of the witch-doctors.
+Hereditary custom, which made him feel that it was
+incumbent upon him—a primitive sense of duty—to be
+king-god warred with this longing for Bakuma. The
+fact that he was not yet bound to celibacy quickened
+the seed of rebellion against the domination of the
+wizards. If he could escape the godhood then Bakuma
+was alive again. For to his mind a ban upon the personal
+ego was far stronger than any ban upon a second
+person.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Chewing the cud of this sweet grass of hope squatted
+Zalu Zako one morning in the dignified solitude of his
+compound on the threshold of his hut. Opposite him
+sat the brother conspirator of Bakahenzie, Marufa, a
+brown shadow in comparison to the gleaming of the
+royal insignia of the ivory bangles. They sat silent,
+motionless, save for the occasional sparse movement of
+snuff taking. In the steamy heat a continual mutter
+and rustle persisted, punctuated by the harsh scream
+of a green parrot or the squawks of a troop of monkeys.
+In the faintly spattered sunlight percolating through
+the bowered roof vivid lizards rivalled in colour the
+rare finger of an orchid clinging to the great tree
+beside the hut. Through the humid air came the
+faint chant of carriers at the end of a journey; swelled
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page154">[pg 154]</span><a name="Pg154" id="Pg154" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+louder and ceased. At the mutter of greeting near
+by Marufa grunted.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The beaten dog returns to nose in the garbage,”</span>
+he mumbled.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Maybe he hath news of the doings,”</span> commented
+Zalu Zako after a pause.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The young dog starts a buck in every tree stump,”</span>
+returned Marufa.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The mumble of voices in the hut of Yabolo near to
+<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E20" id="E20" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e20" class="tei tei-ref">Zalu</a></span>
+Zako’s continued. Neither Zalu Zako nor
+Marufa knew other than that, after his downfall,
+Sakamata had retired to his native village on the southern
+boundary where the people, being laymen, had
+believed the excuse for his absence given by Sakamata
+that he had retired to the forest for one moon
+in the guise of his totem, the wart hog, which animal
+became accordingly tabu to their killing for that
+period. At length came a young slave from Yabolo
+who, after saluting, delivered a message from
+Yabolo requesting that Zalu Zako receive him and
+his relative, Sakamata, who had weighty news for
+him.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Presently entered the recusant bearing signs of prosperity
+in the flowered print about his loins, the ancient
+cartridge pouch slung around his waist and a huge
+revolver of the pin-fire model dangling from a neck
+which appeared more tortoise-like than ever. Before
+Zalu Zako he squatted and after they had exchanged
+the usual hostages to hostility, Sakamata inquired
+most politely after the health of the Son-of-the-Snake,
+of his cattle and of his fortune, and last of all of his
+women. Sakamata, aware of the loss of prestige
+suffered by his old enemy, Bakahenzie, presented
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page155">[pg 155]</span><a name="Pg155" id="Pg155" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E21" id="E21" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e21" class="tei tei-ref">Zalu</a></span>
+Zako with a duplicate of the pin-fire revolver.
+Followed an equally extensive greeting to Marufa.
+Only when these ceremonies had been punctiliously
+performed did they begin to discuss the
+news.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At first Sakamata proceeded to repeat the popular
+saying regarding the doings of Eyes-in-the-hands.
+Various chiefs had visited the fort of the white man
+bringing presents in their hands, terrified of what
+might happen, yet, according to Sakamata, their fears
+had been dispelled immediately; for the wise new
+god had received them as brothers and had made
+offerings to them as was the custom for strangers
+to do. It was true, he admitted in cross-examination,
+that whole villages had been put to the sword
+and burned; but, he demanded, was not that the
+way of a mighty warrior to those who resisted
+him?</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Moreover, continued Sakamata, to fight him was
+death. His magic was such that no man could
+prevail against him. Had any doctor yet succeeded
+in making successful magic against the Invincible
+One? His magic was terrible to behold.
+Spirits which were imprisoned in houses of
+trees (boxes) spoke and sang according to their
+tribe.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Clk!”</span> commented Zalu Zako incredulously.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“These words are as the wind in the trees at
+night speaking to girls,”</span> commented Marufa slowly.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“What man hath beheld those things with his own
+eyes?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Deliberately Sakamata tapped snuff, inhaled it
+with relish, meticulously, that not one grain was
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page156">[pg 156]</span><a name="Pg156" id="Pg156" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+lost upon his white caterpillar moustache, and said
+indifferently:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Even he who sits before you.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Another point was scored. But both Zalu Zako
+and Marufa regarded him as one who, having had
+dealings with the devil and yet had emerged safely,
+was to be suspected of some ghastly pact. After a
+calculated pause Sakamata continued nonchalantly:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“There is no magic like unto Eyes-in-the-hands, the
+Mighty One. A great fort hath he made upon the hill
+of thy grandfather (MFunya MPopo), O Zalu Zako,
+girded with a great palisade, around which walk ever
+<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E22" id="E22" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e22" class="tei tei-ref">the</a></span>
+red devils in uniform, each one of whom hath a gun
+with seven voices. And peering through that palisade,
+like a terrible black leopard from his lair, are the monster
+coughing devils. Eh! who are they who can
+withstand them?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh!”</span> echoed his audience with lively memories
+of the <span class="tei tei-q">“coughing devils.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And he hath a mighty hut made from the white
+man’s cloth of colour like to the forest full of things to
+make magic. Seated upon his chair like unto a man
+plucking bananas, the eyes upon his hands and in his
+head gleam so fiercely that water is made within a
+man. He who dares to look sees not only Eyes-in-the-hands,
+but his two souls, even as thou seest thine own
+two souls staring at thee with the frightened eyes that
+are thine!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This time a genuine belly grunt was elicited, and
+even Marufa moved uneasily.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thou hast been bewitched,”</span> he added to mask his
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page157">[pg 157]</span><a name="Pg157" id="Pg157" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+astonishment. <span class="tei tei-q">“For a man may see his own soul in
+any pool, but never two souls!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Even is it as I have told thee, O son of MTungo,”</span>
+asserted Sakamata.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sakamata discovered the use of snuff again to be
+necessary. He watched covertly the repressed excitement
+in the eyes of Zalu Zako.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And what said the great magician unto thee?”</span>
+Marufa demanded to cover his discomfort.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He spoke white words as a warrior should,”</span> said
+Sakamata. <span class="tei tei-q">“He gave words which told me that he was
+but a small wizard. He made my eyes to see the soul
+of a greater god than he, who was there and yet was
+not there; for at the touch of his magic hand with
+many eyes, behold! there were two more souls of the
+god which returned even as I looked.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh! A greater god than he?”</span> demanded
+Zalu Zako, with a flicker of the white of his
+eyes.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Even as I have said, a greater god who is king of
+all the white man’s countries in the sea, who eats up
+those whom he pleases. Yet, even though he may
+bewitch with one of his eyes, did he speak softly to
+Yagombi, the son of Bagazaan, and Zalayan, the son
+of Kilmanyana, who were with me, bidding us to
+tell our brethren that if they would not acknowledge
+the true king that then he would eat us up, even as
+he ate up the Unmentionable One. But to those who
+would submit and make due tribute, would he protect
+in peace from the white men who, fleeing from the
+wrath of the great god, would soon come to eat up
+our country like the locusts.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh! ehh! white men as the locusts!”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page158">[pg 158]</span><a name="Pg158" id="Pg158" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thus he spoke and bade us to go forth and tell
+our brethren.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This was a wholly new notion and proportionally
+serious if true. But Marufa, recovering from the
+first shock, wrapped himself in his professional cloak
+of omniscient indifference as he recollected that
+Sakamata was an unfrocked priest of the craft. The
+group took snuff sternly until Sakamata, having accomplished
+his mission, deemed it wise to retire to allow
+the suggestive ideas to germinate. So gravely he arose
+and departed from the hut of Zalu Zako and went
+under the patronage of Yabolo to another compound
+where, to a group of the most disaffected chiefs, including
+MYalu, he repeated nearly word for word
+the same harangue.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the minds of 
+<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E23" id="E23" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e23" class="tei tei-ref">Zalu Zako</a></span>
+and Marufa the report
+of Sakamata had been exceedingly disquieting. Marufa
+began to wonder whether he had not better make terms
+with the new god before worse came to the worst in the
+form of white men like locusts, a menace fraught with
+dire possibilities which were based upon the rumours
+which every native had heard of the ways of white men
+in bulk: to the Wongolo merely vague stories from the
+north of the conquest of the Sudan by the British.
+Marufa’s ambitions in the craft were almost submerged
+in the dread that, wizard though he was, he would
+have small chance of distinction and power among a
+race of wizards. To Zalu Zako, although the prospect
+of unlimited white men swooping upon them was
+terrifying, his semi-conscious mind was rather occupied
+with Bakuma than with affairs of state which seemed
+merely to exist to torment lovers. However he, too,
+was sufficiently impressed to consider seriously the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page159">[pg 159]</span><a name="Pg159" id="Pg159" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+advisability of submitting before it was too late; the
+motivating principle of the scheme was an idea which
+suggested that, in some indefinable way, such action
+might lead to the avoidance of the ban of godhood
+and thus to the reinstatement of Bakuma in the realm
+of possibilities.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To Bakahenzie the report was more alarming than
+to the others, inasmuch as it appeared to portend the
+irretrievable loss of his power. He saw the effect
+upon their minds, the inclination to yield to the new
+conqueror, which, of course, would mean the last
+of his followers being swept away in the crowd like
+dry leaves in the wind. But more than the others he
+suspected the motives of Sakamata, the man whom he
+had unfrocked. Arguing in terms of his own mental
+processes he saw correctly enough that Sakamata was
+surely playing for himself, and guessed equally truly
+that Sakamata would get, or imagined that he would
+get, many rewards, political as well as in kind, for his
+services as jackal to the white man. But he listened
+and said no word for, or against, him. He was astute
+enough never to make a move until he had, or thought
+that he had, all the moves of the game worked out.
+Marufa was just as wily; he related the news given
+by Sakamata in a voice which gave no hint by tone or
+word what any of his opinions might be. Then, as
+they sat like graven images, supremely indifferent to
+the doings of Sakamata or aught else, entered the
+warrior bearing greetings from Birnier to Zalu
+Zako.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Immediately Zalu Zako, to whose less skilled mind
+in intrigue this succession of world-shaking events
+was bewildering, feared that already the plague of
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page160">[pg 160]</span><a name="Pg160" id="Pg160" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+white men like locusts had commenced. But when he
+learned that the white man was alone and was Infunyana,
+the only white man whom he had ever met,
+he perceived vaguely some remote prospect of achieving
+his desires. Almost eagerly, for a native, he commanded
+the messenger to summon the white man to
+his presence.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To Bakahenzie the unexpected arrival of another
+white was an unforeseen potentiality of force which
+might be utilized to his own benefit; so thought
+Marufa, which was in effect exactly the same reaction
+as Zalu Zako’s. Therefore Bakahenzie immediately
+protested upon the ground that no stranger could
+be allowed to approach the Son-of-the-Snake, or
+even the village, who had not been purified according
+to custom. When Zalu Zako demurred he
+retorted:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Hath not one white man who was permitted to
+enter our country without the demon being exorcised
+wreaked disaster upon us? Wouldst thou then
+destroy us utterly?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zalu Zako was silent. Much as he would have
+desired to browbeat Bakahenzie, much as his confidence
+in the powers of the chief witch-doctor had waned in
+his estimation, yet there remained sufficient to overawe
+him when the matter was put to a crucial test.
+Bakahenzie would, so he stated, go himself to see the
+new white man, thus unselfishly taking upon his person
+the whole risk of the lasting magic of a stranger
+unpurified. But Marufa had no intention of allowing
+Bakahenzie to obtain a monopoly of this possible new
+ally. Unlike Zalu Zako he was not burdened with
+awe and had confidence in his own magic to overcome
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page161">[pg 161]</span><a name="Pg161" id="Pg161" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+any evil that Bakahenzie might seek to work against
+him. So when he announced that he would accompany
+Bakahenzie, that distressed wizard was too conscious
+of his dwindling prestige to object.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD15" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page162">[pg 162]</span><a name="Pg162" id="Pg162" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc30" id="toc30"></a>
+<a name="pdf31" id="pdf31"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 15</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Just after sun-up next morning as Birnier was
+seated at the door of his tent reading his
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Melancholy</span></span>
+and drinking his coffee, a startled <span class="tei tei-q">“clk”</span> caused
+him to glance round. He saw Bakuma rise suddenly
+from the fire and disappear. The next moment
+materialized out of the miasma of the morning the
+figures of Bakahenzie and Marufa, followed by a file
+of warriors.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Portentously Bakahenzie stalked to the fire and
+squatted down without even a murmur to Mungongo
+busy with the breakfast. Bakahenzie remembered
+Infunyana very well, but nevertheless designedly
+Birnier ignored him in return. So they sat, the two
+wizards taking snuff with grave concern almost at the
+feet of the white who continued to smoke and to
+read.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sign boded ill, for the insistence upon the
+punctilious etiquette inferred that Bakahenzie was
+disposed to be suspicious, if not directly hostile. And
+indeed the warriors’ description of the magic of
+Moonspirit, vide Mungongo, had made Bakahenzie
+uneasy.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After a full half-hour Bakahenzie, as if beaten in this
+solemn game, turned gravely and saluted the white.
+Birnier looked down from his chair with the affectation
+of just having noticed that some one was there. After
+a pause he returned the greeting, a little point which
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page163">[pg 163]</span><a name="Pg163" id="Pg163" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Bakahenzie thoroughly appreciated. Birnier had
+learned that according to Mungongo and the warrior,
+Zalu Zako had not yet been anointed king-god; therefore
+that Bakahenzie evidently intended to keep the
+young man in the background.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After preliminaries, Birnier inquired after Zalu Zako
+and informed Bakahenzie that he had journeyed expressly
+to see him. Bakahenzie ignored the question
+and began to talk about Eyes-in-the-hands, demanding
+to know whether Birnier was his brother.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nay,”</span> said Birnier, <span class="tei tei-q">“Eyes-in-the-hands is not of
+the same tribe as Moonspirit,”</span> for he sedulously followed
+up the title which Mungongo had given him.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Eyes-in-the-hands comes from a country twelve
+moons distant from my country.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Marufa squatting beside him grunted; Bakahenzie
+took snuff nonchalantly as if he did not believe a
+word.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eyes-in-the-hands is a mighty magician in his
+own country,”</span> said Bakahenzie in the form of an
+assertion.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The magic of Eyes-in-the-hands to the magic of
+Moonspirit,”</span> stated Birnier, <span class="tei tei-q">“is as water to the beer of
+the banana.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eyes-in-the-hands,”</span> remarked Bakahenzie indifferently,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“hath magic to make the souls of man to be
+seen by all.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Those are but the souls of the belly and body, but
+Moonspirit can enchant so that the spirit of the head
+of man be seen at night,”</span> boasted Birnier, wondering
+what trick of zu Pfeiffer’s had produced the
+effect.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eyes-in-the-hands,”</span> insisted Bakahenzie, <span class="tei tei-q">“hath
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page164">[pg 164]</span><a name="Pg164" id="Pg164" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+a spirit in a piece of a tree which cries or laughs, sings
+or talks to his magic.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Moonspirit,”</span> retorted Birnier (thinking <span class="tei tei-q">“Gramophone,
+but I can go one better, my friend”</span>), <span class="tei tei-q">“hath
+also a spirit in a piece of tree who will speak words
+of wisdom unto thee in thine own tongue, who will
+repeat that which is said unto him in thy tongue or
+in my tongue, who will speak words of wisdom even
+unto thee.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakahenzie seemed outmatched in the boasting
+tournament. He tapped snuff woodenly. Marufa
+scratched his skinny ribs thoughtfully. Then Bakahenzie
+remarked:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He that hath not been cleansed may not look
+upon the Son-of-the-Snake.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He that hath not been anointed need have no
+fear of the evil eye.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Hath not one who was not cleansed entered
+and cast evil upon the tribe?”</span> demanded Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“If the fence is not strong the leopard will
+enter.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“If the leopard be not strong and swift indeed
+may he not be killed in the hut?”</span> inquired Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“If a leopard and a wild-cat break in, then wilt thou
+not kill the leopard first?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Even so,”</span> retorted Bakahenzie; <span class="tei tei-q">“then is
+water stronger than beer, even as the beer does
+reveal?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier nearly smiled in recognition of the hit.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nay, does not beer make the fool to talk foolishness?
+Dost thou then cast away the banana? Does not one
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page165">[pg 165]</span><a name="Pg165" id="Pg165" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+talk foolishness also who is sick and yet discardeth
+good medicine, because he feareth to poison his
+belly?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Even so,”</span> said Bakahenzie obstinately, <span class="tei tei-q">“does the
+sick man exorcise the good medicine lest an enemy hath
+made magic thereupon?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Then,”</span> said Birnier, whose only objection to the
+ceremony was the delay and the messiness, <span class="tei tei-q">“let the
+good medicine be purified.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakahenzie grunted and covertly took stock of the
+tent and equipment visible. Upon the pile of cases
+stacked just inside the tent his eyes rested some time,
+but he would not make any inquiry. Marufa, too,
+was occupied in the same manner. Bakahenzie was
+recalling the previous meeting with Birnier in the village
+of MFunya <span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E24" id="E24" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e24" class="tei tei-ref">MPopo</a></span>—of that day when Birnier had
+not made any attempt to impress the native mind
+with <span class="tei tei-q">“magic”</span> other than the ordinary <span class="tei tei-q">“miracles”</span> in
+the routine of a white man’s life.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“When the Son-of-the-Snake,”</span> inquired Birnier,
+who had learned as much of the hagiocracy as
+Mungongo knew, <span class="tei tei-q">“hath taken up the Burden,
+wilt thou then drive Eyes-in-the-hands from the
+country?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakahenzie slowly withdrew his eyes from the
+fascinating case as far as Birnier’s booted foot.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Hast thou, white man, the magic twig that makes
+fire?”</span> he demanded.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Even so.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier took a box of matches from his pocket and
+struck one. Bakahenzie and Marufa watched him
+solemnly. Then a lean bronze hand was outstretched.
+Birnier gave him the box. Slowly and gravely Bakahenzie,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page166">[pg 166]</span><a name="Pg166" id="Pg166" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+the chief witch-doctor, extracted a match,
+turned it over and over, smelt it, tasted it, regarded
+it, and struck it on the top of the box. It was a safety
+match, so nothing happened. Birnier, without a
+vestige of a smile, instructed him to strike it only upon
+the black piece at the side. That impressed Bakahenzie
+and Marufa. The former tried again as directed
+and succeeded. Holding the match too near the head
+he burned the quick of the nail, but not a muscle
+quivered. He would not even admit that the white
+man’s devil stick had bitten him. But he was still
+more impressed.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At a sign from Birnier, Mungongo brought from the
+tent a nickel-plated revolver and cartridges, which he
+placed at the feet of Bakahenzie without comment.
+Apparently Bakahenzie did not notice the action or the
+gift. He held out the matches to return to the white
+man. Birnier requested him to keep them. He
+wrapped up the box in his loin-cloth and fell to
+further contemplation of the cases. He was cogitating.
+The value of this white had suddenly increased.
+Evidently he could make small magic. Perhaps he
+could make as much big magic as Eyes-in-the-hands.
+Who knew? But then if that was so he could make
+greater magic than he, Bakahenzie, could. Bakahenzie
+saw that if Moonspirit were such a great magician he
+would be difficult or impossible to control. Naturally
+Bakahenzie could only understand his own
+motives in others. His problem now was to discover
+some means by which he could control Moonspirit,
+make of him a familiar to work to his own ends. Why
+was he so insistent upon seeing Zalu Zako? Bakahenzie
+became more and more suspicious. He saw
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page167">[pg 167]</span><a name="Pg167" id="Pg167" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+another reason why the white man must be kept away
+from Zalu Zako. To refuse to purify him would give
+a valid excuse that he may not look upon the Son-of-the-Snake.
+But he did not wish to displease him; also
+Marufa could perform the purification.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Again Birnier repeated the question regarding the
+overthrow of Eyes-in-the-hands. Bakahenzie took
+snuff, regarded the revolver lying at his feet idly, and
+deigned to reply.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“When that which must be hath come to pass, then
+shall the children of the Snake eat up their enemies as
+a lizard eats flies.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And what is that which must come to pass?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakahenzie sat silent awhile, slightly shocked at the
+directness of the question; then as if to humour the
+white man, he replied:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“When the Bridegroom hath taken the Bride.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The ceremony of purification could not take place
+until the following day, because such things may not
+be hurried; and moreover, various potent charms had
+to be sent for to the native village. Meanwhile
+Bakahenzie squatted by the fire, contemplating the
+nickel-plated revolver and affairs of policy, and opposite
+him sat the meditative Marufa.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From the hour of the monkey, Bakahenzie, unconscious
+of the small face and anxious eyes watching the
+camp from the tangle of green, was busy muttering
+spells over a calabash containing a magic concoction
+composed of the entrails of a white goat, certain herbs
+and the eyes of a black wild-cat. When the roof of
+the forest was a patterned ceiling against an incandescent
+glow, Birnier stripped to the waist, and
+submitted himself to the hands of the wizard who,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page168">[pg 168]</span><a name="Pg168" id="Pg168" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+after scattering the feathers of a scarlet parrot into the
+calabash, smeared the left breast, the forehead and the
+right arm of the white man, to the accompaniment of
+an incantation. These insignia and specifics he must
+not remove for three suns; nor could he be permitted
+to look upon the semi-divine Zalu Zako until
+whatever evil influence his foreign body might
+possess should have been exorcised by this powerful
+medicine.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To sit around half nude in such heat was no arduous
+undertaking, but to sleep without rubbing off the
+concoction was another matter; also the odour
+thereof was not pleasing to the nostrils of a white man.
+But Birnier accomplished the feat by smoking excessively
+and by marking with a pencil the various
+nostrums recommended by the amiable Burton, many
+of which were hardly less disagreeable than Doctor
+Bakahenzie’s prescription.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">That worthy’s slaves had erected a hut for him nigh
+to the tent in the door of which he squatted, usually
+with Marufa beside him, throughout the day, with
+ever a contemplative eye upon his victim, an eye which
+Birnier was sure was eagerly seeking some excuse to
+plead that he had inadvertently rendered the magic
+impotent, and must accordingly have the ceremony
+repeated.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Amused by the ridiculous sight he presented,
+plastered over with this filth, Birnier made Mungongo,
+whom he had taught to operate a camera, take a photograph
+of him, which would entertain Lucille, as well
+as be of scientific interest. Bakahenzie and Marufa
+watched this performance from the fire with amazement,
+for they imagined that the camera was some kind of
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page169">[pg 169]</span><a name="Pg169" id="Pg169" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+gun. When they heard the click, they grunted as if
+expecting the white man to fall dead. Birnier of
+course knew the universal native belief in the picture
+being the soul, or one of the souls. He summoned
+Bakahenzie and Marufa and showed them a photograph
+which, after some difficulty, they recognised as
+Mungongo.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh,”</span> grunted a warrior, <span class="tei tei-q">“indeed is Mungongo the
+slave of the white man, for hath he not imprisoned
+his soul?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mungongo laughed, yet he believed in the superstition
+as implicitly as any of his compatriots, for said
+he:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It is a wise man who hath that which is his always
+within his hand, even as Moonspirit hath the soul of
+his favourite wife with him always, so that she may
+not be unfaithful unto him.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh, he is wiser than the Banana Eater!”</span> grunted
+the warrior in admiration.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier’s training to control his features was strained
+in the effort not to express surprise. He could not
+imagine from what Mungongo had derived this
+astonishing statement, until he recollected that the
+boy had seen a photograph of Lucille among his
+papers.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After this successful demonstration of his sophistication,
+Mungongo was anxious that Moonspirit give an
+exhibition of his magic to dumbfound the chief witch-doctor,
+desiring most ardently to work the gramophone,
+to operate which he had also learned. But on reflection,
+Birnier decided that it was not his policy
+<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E25" id="E25" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e25" class="tei tei-ref">to make</a></span>
+his thunder too cheap.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Each evening as the last subtle violet quivered in the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page170">[pg 170]</span><a name="Pg170" id="Pg170" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+trees had Bakuma glided from the shelter of the undergrowth
+under the flap of Birnier’s tent, where she had
+lain until the first tint of dawn on the foliage of
+the forest. Birnier had wished her to leave for
+some village until Bakahenzie had left the camp,
+but Bakuma had frantically pleaded to remain,
+knowing that the craft was seeking her throughout the
+country since Bakahenzie’s latest interview with mighty
+Tarum.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But upon the third day as Birnier was seated reading
+philosophically at his tent door, the inevitable happened.
+A loud outcry arose and from the tangle of creepers
+started the lithe figure of Bakuma, who darted past
+him into the tent. For a moment there was silence.
+But Birnier guessed what the matter was. Bakahenzie
+emerged from the wall of green and cried out in a
+loud voice. Instantly the warriors around leaped to
+their feet, and broke out into great clamour.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mungongo, busy with the cooking pots, rushed
+to Birnier’s side, gesticulating wildly. Inside the tent
+crouched Bakuma. Towards Birnier advanced Bakahenzie
+and the warriors, whose dilated eyes and spears
+in their hands betokened that Bakahenzie had stirred
+their deepest feelings of terror and murder. Birnier
+smoked placidly, neither stirring nor permitting a sign
+of their presence to cross his features.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mungongo, startled out of his confidence in Moonspirit,
+excitedly bade Bakuma go forth as Bakahenzie,
+stopping in front of the white man, broke into a
+harangue, bidding him to give up Bakuma whose
+sacrilege in breaking the magic circle, as he had said,
+had brought the terrible Eyes-in-the-hands upon
+them; that the welfare of the tribe depended upon
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page171">[pg 171]</span><a name="Pg171" id="Pg171" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+her sacrifice to the angered Unmentionable One even
+as she had been doomed; and threatening that they
+would take the insolent white man, whose magic was
+as water, and sacrifice him as well, as was desired by
+the spirit of Tarum.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The longer he spoke the more excited he grew.
+Motivated by the sudden conviction that the sacrifice
+of Bakuma, whose action he had foretold so successfully,
+and the slaughter of the white would really restore to
+him his repute and remove at the same time the
+problem of controlling a superior magician who
+threatened to become his rival, Bakahenzie began to
+work himself up into the necessary state of prophetic
+hysteria. Cowering against the camp-bed Bakuma
+whimpered with terror; Mungongo incoherently
+begged Moonspirit to give up the girl.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Not a muscle moved upon Birnier’s face; nor even
+did his eyes turn in the direction of the menacing
+crowd who with uplifted spears joggled each other
+around Bakahenzie. Birnier knew that it was a supreme
+test of nerve; knew that any attempt to snatch a
+rifle or a movement of any sort, would precipitate action
+on their side. He had no intention of surrendering
+the girl to a hideous fate, and also he saw beyond the
+incident that if Bakahenzie were to triumph over him
+now, not only would his prestige with the natives be
+gone for ever, but that his fate would be surely sealed.
+Slowly, exaggeratedly, as if he were alone, he killed a
+mosquito upon his bare right breast and lighted his pipe
+anew.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakahenzie advanced a step followed by the warriors.
+His voice had reached the falsetto timbre. Mungongo
+lost his head entirely and seizing Bakuma, began to
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page172">[pg 172]</span><a name="Pg172" id="Pg172" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+drag her out of the tent. Birnier turned his head
+leisurely towards him. Said he very loudly:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It is not seemly to rape a woman in my presence,
+O Mungongo. Let her be, for I will buy thee
+one.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mungongo ceased to pull at Bakuma’s arms and stared
+as if paralysed. Birnier saw the eyes switch in a
+terrified glance at the warriors behind him and heard
+Bakahenzie’s yell to kill.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For one moment he thought that indeed the end had
+come. Before he could reach the rifle a dozen spears
+would be in his back. He sat motionless, the
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Anatomy
+of Melancholy</span></span> still in his hand, and watched the gauge of
+Mungongo’s eyes. Bakahenzie’s voice rose to a screech.
+Suddenly Birnier wheeled round in his chair, snatched
+up the pencil and staring hard at them, began to sketch
+faces on the open page of the book.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At the sight the warriors ceased their shuffling dance,
+were arrested with the spears in their hands in as many
+poses. Bakahenzie’s scream was stoppered as if by a
+hand upon his mouth. In the silence their heavy
+breathing rivalled the twitter and hum of the forest.
+Birnier sketched furiously, glaring portentously from
+the group to the paper. Bakahenzie took a step forward,
+a nervous step, and yelled, <span class="tei tei-q">“Kill!”</span> but
+his voice released those of the warriors. In one
+loud shout they cried:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He bewitches us! He bewitches us!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As Birnier bent his head to make another magic
+mark upon the magic book he heard the rush of
+feet.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“They have fled!”</span> squealed Mungongo, still
+clutching Bakuma.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page173">[pg 173]</span><a name="Pg173" id="Pg173" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier sighed and dropped his pencil as he glanced
+up. Bakahenzie and the warriors had disappeared,
+but by the fire squatted Marufa unconcernedly
+scratching his skinny ribs.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD16" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page174">[pg 174]</span><a name="Pg174" id="Pg174" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc32" id="toc32"></a>
+<a name="pdf33" id="pdf33"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 16</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Changed was the City of the Snake, the place
+of kings. Upon the site where had been the
+hive of huts wrapped in the green arms of the banana
+plantation, laboured under the incandescent sun
+gangs of prisoners under armed guards upon the
+building of larger huts laid out in streets, broad and
+geometrical, lined with correct ditches for drainage.
+Around the outskirts here and there remained charred
+posts.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Upon the hill of MKoffo was a palisade enclosing
+the barracks of two companies of the askaris and two
+guns. No brown cones peeped like candle-snuffers
+above the sea of green fronds upon the hills of the
+tombs of kings, but from the sacred hill of Kawa Kendi
+commanding the approach to the valley rose, black
+against the sky, the triangle of the roof frame of a
+large bungalow; around the crown of the hill was
+a stout palisade through which grinned in the sun
+the muzzles of a Nordenfeldt and a pom-pom; and
+outside upon a levee strutted rigidly four sentries
+night and day, a perpetual reminder to the passer-by
+below of efficient vigilance.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Within was a methodical formation of round huts
+dominated by a square one; at the far end, and in
+solitary grandeur beneath the Imperial flag upon a
+roughly-hewn flag-pole, was a green marquee tent,
+the temporary quarters of the Kommandant.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page175">[pg 175]</span><a name="Pg175" id="Pg175" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Under the tent verandah at the rear where were
+his private quarters sat zu Pfeiffer with a towel tucked
+around his neck upon which was scattered inch-lengths
+of hair. Sergeant Schultz sheared deftly
+with clippers like a reaper in a field of corn. When
+he had completed the final trimming behind the
+ears, he stood aside with the air of an artist viewing
+his work.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Is that pleasing to your Excellence?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer ran a hand around his skull.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ya, that is better and cooler, sergeant.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With a professional air Schultz whisked around the
+Kommandant’s neck with a light brush, untucked the
+towel and brushed him down. As zu Pfeiffer rose
+Bakunjala appeared with a broom of small branches
+and a pan and proceeded to sweep the earthen floor.
+Schultz neatly folded up the towel, placed it on the
+chair, and stood at attention.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Is that all, Excellence?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ya, sergeant. Take a cigar.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thank you, Excellence!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sergeant selected one, saluted and departed.
+Zu Pfeiffer lounged in a basket chair. The usual
+water bag and syphon were suspended at his elbow
+above sparklet and brandy bottles, and a box of cigars.
+Around him on the floor was a litter of papers, envelopes
+and documents. On his wrist sparkled the
+jewelled bracelet and between fingers, one of which
+bore the large diamond which had earned him his
+native name, was an official document bearing the
+Imperial Eagles.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As he read he smiled and patted his left moustache
+approvingly. Officially the authorities would not
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page176">[pg 176]</span><a name="Pg176" id="Pg176" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+comply with his request made before leaving Ingonya
+for two more companies of askaris with white non-commissioned
+officers and two more guns; but unofficially
+he was informed that they would be supplied
+later and that the authorities were pleased. He
+picked up a private letter and re-read it. Then he
+smiled again, a sneering twist remaining at the corner
+of the mouth. Always he was informed by sympathetic
+friends and an agency of the whereabouts and doings
+of Lucille. On the 1st of August she had been due
+at Wiesbaden.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He threw the letter on the table with an irritable
+gesture and scowled as he drank. The arrival of the
+mail always brought vivid regrets for the glories and
+comforts he was missing by being condemned to war
+with <span class="tei tei-q">“dirty swines of niggers.”</span> That was part of the
+penalty he had had to pay for being a gentleman in
+a land of dollar grubbers, yet a matter to be written
+up against the account of Lucille, the entzückend
+Lucille. He must have been verrückt, he reflected
+savagely. The delicate lips softened in ludicrous
+contrast to the brutal outline of a cropped skull.
+The blare of a trumpet disturbed his reveries, reveries
+which were apt to rankle until among his satellites
+went the word that the Eater-of-men was possessed
+by the demon once more.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After he had elegantly finished a small cup of café
+cognac and a cigarette, Sergeant Schultz strutted up,
+saluted, and at a nod from zu Pfeiffer handed a
+document to the Kommandant, a roster of the chiefs
+who had submitted with the approximate number of
+their followers. Officially there were five chiefs with
+some six thousand men who had nominally accepted
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page177">[pg 177]</span><a name="Pg177" id="Pg177" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+the new ruler, each one of whom had to leave as
+hostage for his fidelity a son, who lived under guard
+in the village beneath the guns.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer needed the extra companies and white
+men to establish stations at various points with the
+object of gradually extending the sphere of military
+occupation. Zu Pfeiffer left nothing, as far as he
+could foresee, to chance; his maxim was to conserve
+his force to the utmost, to attain his objective at
+the least possible cost in men and material. The
+policy of terrorisation was based on the reasoning that
+eventually schrecklichkeit saved both the conqueror
+and the conquered bloodshed and trouble; for if
+the enemy were not so impressed with the fact that
+all resistance was utterly useless, he would resort to
+the sporadic risings which would entail more slaughter
+on both sides. Zu Pfeiffer, acting on the teachings
+of the German masters, sought to make war psychologically
+as well as militarily, economically as well as
+geographically. Hence his dramatic step in the
+overthrow of the idol in person, and the care with
+which he planned to impress each chief and native
+with his omnipotence and magic. This system of
+the application of political science as well as of military
+science, of course, was sound, save for a temperamental
+error: the lack of sufficient imagination to realize
+the unknown quantity of chance, the inevitable mistake
+of military scientists who are loath to admit the artist
+to their counsels, exemplified by men of genius, such
+as Napoleon and Leonardo da Vinci, who were both
+mathematicians and artists.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In zu Pfeiffer’s case, as in others of his type, the
+motivating principle was not bourgeois greed of material
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page178">[pg 178]</span><a name="Pg178" id="Pg178" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+gain for himself; gain he could afford to despise in
+his wealth; such would have been contrary to the
+code of a gentleman. While he had not hesitated
+for a moment to destroy his rival, Birnier, he would
+not touch with one finger any of his goods; for that
+reason had he given permission to the corporal to
+take Birnier’s equipment, so that he would not even
+be contaminated by the possession of them, a temperamental
+error again which had led to Birnier’s
+escape.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The driving power in his caste and tribe was love
+of power to an excess masked with portentous solemnity
+under the cloak of benefiting this people and the
+peoples of the world; forcing them to have broad
+streets and sanitary arrangements, compelling them to
+laugh, to sing, and to be happy whether they would
+or no: an urge which is the curse of the world, the
+impulse to interfere in other folk’s affairs, to teach
+them, to make them to know the true God, the
+right way of living, the right way of doing everything
+from the rising of the first sun of consciousness
+to that happy crack of doom when our
+planet tries to enforce its orbit upon some other
+planet.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer pinched a cigar tip, lighted it meticulously
+and considered the roster.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sergeant, this man—what’s the animal’s name?
+Kalomato—has his son surrendered himself?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No, Excellence. The man says that he has fled
+the country.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Where does he come from?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The neighbourhood, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That means that his son is with the rebels?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page179">[pg 179]</span><a name="Pg179" id="Pg179" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Probably not, Excellence. He is very young,
+they say.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That does not matter. Sequester all the chief’s
+property. If he won’t give it up let the askaris deal
+with him. If that doesn’t work, have him shot.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For such obstinate cases zu Pfeiffer had fallen upon
+the custom of serving two purposes by handing over
+the victim to the mercies of his askaris which whetted
+their sadistic appetites and usually secured the desired
+revelation of the whereabouts of the hidden ivory or
+other goods under the torture of the burning feet,
+and divers other ingenious methods. Of late this
+practice had proved so satisfactory that the mere
+threat was usually sufficient.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“This man,”</span> continued zu Pfeiffer tapping the
+roster with his long nail, <span class="tei tei-q">“his son is here?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ja, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Has he paid the tithe due?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No, Excellence. He refuses.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Have the son shot.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Any report this morning?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ja, Excellence. A Wamungo spy brings news
+that a white man entered the country from the
+south.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Description?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“They say he is a trader, Excellence, coming from
+the Kivu direction, but the savage cannot give any
+satisfactory description. It is the first white he has
+seen, he says.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He won’t be the last!”</span> snapped zu Pfeiffer with
+a twitch of the left sentry moustache. <span class="tei tei-q">“Saunders,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page180">[pg 180]</span><a name="Pg180" id="Pg180" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+possibly. If so he should be here shortly to report.
+Well?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The King and the few men left with him are in
+hiding, Excellence, in dense forest. They are demoralized
+and quarrel among themselves. Many are
+coming to surrender, for they say that you, Excellence,
+have eaten their god.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ach!”</span> said zu Pfeiffer with satisfaction. <span class="tei tei-q">“What
+did I tell you, sergeant?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Your Excellence was correct in every respect.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Um! Pity I can’t spare a company. That would
+settle them before they have a chance to reorganize.
+Ach, but they haven’t the sense, the animals, to do
+that.… Parade, sergeant.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Schultz saluted.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ready, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer rose, took up his gold-mounted sjambok,
+and the two walked around the big marquee to the
+front where between the orderly lines of huts those
+askaris not on duty were drawn up for inspection.
+The sergeant barked. Bayonets flashed as they
+presented arms. Another bark and they ported
+arms. Zu Pfeiffer walked down the line inspecting
+buttons, bolts, and rifles as meticulously as he had
+lighted his cigar. The fifteenth barrel he thrust
+away petulantly and flicked the askari’s face with his
+sjambok. The muscles of the man’s face twitched as
+the blow came and the eyes bulged, but he did not
+flinch.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Twenty-five, sergeant!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer passed on. When the inspection was
+finished he stood rigidly smoking, coldly watching
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page181">[pg 181]</span><a name="Pg181" id="Pg181" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Schultz dismiss the men. Then he stalked down the
+hill with Schultz slightly in the rear, followed by a
+big black Munyamwezi sergeant-major, towards the
+opposite hill, of MKoffo. But at the bottom of where
+there were some half-constructed huts he paused.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The women, sergeant?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The large hut, Excellence. Two hundred as
+ordered.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No women of chiefs?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No, Excellence. Those attending on the hostages
+are housed apart.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer strode towards the hut indicated which
+stood near to the edge of a rased banana plantation.
+Two sentries without the fence presented
+arms stiffly and remained immobile. Within the
+compound were some sixty or more young girls,
+mostly having the black complexion of the slave type.
+The chattering and giggling ceased as the tall form
+of the dreaded Eyes-in-the-hands stood in the gate.
+A slight smile flirted his lips.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From the deep violet of the hut interior
+darted a young girl into the sunlight. At the sight
+of the white men she poised on her toes, one foot
+forward and hands extended as if about to whirl into
+a dance, staring with the curiosity of a fawn.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Tall for a native maid, the light bronze of her
+immature breasts revealed that she was of the Wongolo
+ruling caste. Around her slender neck was a circlet
+of bright blue beads. As zu Pfeiffer stiffened and
+stared she wheeled and fled into the hut.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Gott im Himmel!”</span> he muttered. <span class="tei tei-q">“The body
+of Lucille in Carmen!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Who is that woman?”</span> he demanded of Schultz.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page182">[pg 182]</span><a name="Pg182" id="Pg182" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I don’t know, Excellence,”</span> replied the sergeant
+and spoke to the black sergeant-major. <span class="tei tei-q">“She is the
+daughter of the chief Bamana, Excellence, visiting
+these other women. I will have her removed.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I will not have the sense of caste abused,”</span> said
+zu Pfeiffer, gazing into the hut. <span class="tei tei-q">“That is not policy.
+Have her sent to the fort, sergeant, and placed under
+guard.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer swung on his heels and strode out and
+up the hill of MKoffo. The inspection was more
+hurried than usual that day. Then he returned to
+the hill of Kawa Kendi to hold court in the big marquee
+tent. After a lunch and a long siesta in the heat of
+the noonday he strolled around the village superintending
+the rasing of huts and the staking out of
+the new village which was to rise upon the ashes of
+the old one, a concrete example of the wisdom and
+power of the new lord, Eyes-in-the-hands.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Under squads of askaris gangs of prisoners, criminal
+and political, bound by a light chain about each neck,
+laboured at clearing away charred stumps and debris,
+while other natives portered in saplings and loads of
+grass, each village which had submitted sending its
+allotted quota.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Trumpets blared. The keepers of the coughing
+monsters made magical dances with their fire sticks
+up on the hill of Kawa Kendi. The black, white
+and red totem of the conqueror fluttered to earth
+like a wounded bird. Night closed like a black
+lid placed upon the steaming cauldron of the
+sun.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After dinner zu Pfeiffer sat in his private tent at
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page183">[pg 183]</span><a name="Pg183" id="Pg183" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+the rear of the marquee drinking brandy. Upon a
+camp table covered by a violet cloth was the portrait
+in the ivory frame at which he gazed as he smoked.
+The blue eyes and the feminine lips softened as
+sentimentally as any sex-starved Puritan virgin;
+perhaps not in spite of, but because of, a mediæval
+code as senseless as the native system of tabu, for
+natural emotions suppressed find an outlet in some
+form.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From outside came the twitter and hum of the
+forest, the rhythm of frogs, the dim bleating of a goat
+and the distant wailing of the women’s death lament.
+Zu Pfeiffer drank and smoked and stared at the portrait
+in the ivory frame. Once he slapped irritably at a
+mosquito which had escaped the double net over the
+tent door. A wave of emotion seemed to well within
+him. He looked as if he were about to blubber as
+leaning over the table he peered intently at the pictured
+face and whispered:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 5.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Nur einmal noch möcht ich dich sehen,</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Und sinken vor dir aufs Knie</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Und sterbend zu dir sprechen:</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">‘Madam, ich liebe Sie!’ …</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Lucille! … Ach, Lucille!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He drew himself back with a jerk, drank his brandy
+at a gulp and called angrily:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bakunjala!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The flutter of sand preceded a gasped:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bwana!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer gave him an irritable command. Four
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page184">[pg 184]</span><a name="Pg184" id="Pg184" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+minutes elapsed during which he gazed steadily at
+the portrait. He turned at the slither of feet. Bright
+blue beads glittered in the lamplight as the daughter
+of Bamana sank upon her heels.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD17" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page185">[pg 185]</span><a name="Pg185" id="Pg185" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc34" id="toc34"></a>
+<a name="pdf35" id="pdf35"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 17</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In his favourite seat by the door of his hut sat
+Zalu Zako waiting as patiently as only a native can
+to see the white man, symbol of a subconscious hope.
+The fact that Bakuma had not been found by the
+emissaries of the bloodthirsty Bakahenzie evoked a
+sensation of pleasure which was expressed merely in
+a feeling of well-being. Of her in person he thought
+consciously little; his attitude was much as a white
+lover who might discover his loved one to be a sister,
+and hence, by consanguinity, barred from him for ever,
+a terrible fact of fate; but, lacking the sentimental
+inhibition, Zalu Zako did not disguise the death wish
+because she was denied him. Desires are simpler in
+the savage, yet the driving motives are the same as
+in the <span class="tei tei-q">“cultured”</span> ex-animal overlaid with generations
+of inhibitions—tabus—which form complex strata
+making the truth more and more difficult to recognise.
+From that very obfuscation of motives arises
+civilisation.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then from the blue depths of the humid green came
+a great outcry, answered by the ululation of the
+women in warning.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eyes-in-the-hands!”</span> grunted Zalu Zako, voicing
+the perpetual fear of the camp, as he leaped for his
+gun which Moonspirit had sent him.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Above the medley of sounds arose an articulate
+shout:</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page186">[pg 186]</span><a name="Pg186" id="Pg186" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He has bewitched our souls! He has bewitched
+our souls!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zalu Zako paused and listened; replaced the gun
+and squatted, resuming his pose of dignity before the
+first man made entrance. For a few moments the
+shrilling of the women and the wild jabber continued.
+Then entered a slave followed by a warrior who,
+excitedly falling upon his knees, gasped out:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He hath bewitched our souls! He hath bewitched
+our souls! Our spears were blunted by his magic!
+Our swords were turned by the wall of his soul! He
+is a mighty magician!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Of whom speakest thou, fool?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As Zalu Zako put the question the tall figure of
+Bakahenzie stalked slowly into the courtyard. The
+warrior rose and fled at a command from Zalu Zako.
+Bakahenzie greeted him gravely and very elaborately
+took snuff in order to show how casual the matter
+was. When he had meticulously restored the cork
+of twisted leaves, he announced slowly:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“As I have prophesied the breaking of the sacred
+circle has delivered us into the hands of the false
+magician, Eyes-in-the-hands. The daughter of Bakala
+is even now at the camp of the white man, whom they
+call Moonspirit.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span> commented Zalu Zako.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The brother of Eyes-in-the-hands hath taken her
+in concubinage,”</span> continued Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zalu Zako made no response. Grimly approached
+Marufa and squatted beside them.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Even as I have prophesied,”</span> commented Marufa,
+who never failed to seize an opportunity of suggestion.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I bade him render up the Bride of the Banana;
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page187">[pg 187]</span><a name="Pg187" id="Pg187" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+but she hath bitten his soul in his sleep. He held her
+in his arms. He breathed upon her so that she would
+not obey. The magic of this brother of Eyes-in-the-hands
+hath indeed rotted the livers of our people, for
+they fled like young jackals.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zalu Zako stared cautiously at the compound fence;
+Marufa regarded Bakahenzie’s left knee with interest.
+For fully five minutes no word was said. Then
+Bakahenzie portentously:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Tarum demands the brother of Eyes-in-the-hands,
+this Moonspirit, for if one be taken then will
+the other, Eyes-in-the-hands, wither away and the
+Unmentionable One will be revealed.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thou hast spoken!”</span> assented Marufa.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But Zalu Zako continued to stare blankly at the
+fence. His mind was aflame for Bakuma. Bakahenzie
+had no suspicion of his passion, yet the fear of his
+enmity acted like a douche of water in spite of the
+fact that the implicit faith in the doctors had been
+weakened. But disbelief was not positive enough to
+stimulate action. However, from the news of Bakuma’s
+proximity, he had gotten strength to doubt the
+efficacy of Bakuma’s sacrifice to restore the kingdom,
+a strength which prompted him to say:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Who is he that has said that Moonspirit be the
+twin of Eyes-in-the-hands? Enemies there are even
+among whites. If he be an enemy of Eyes-in-the-hands
+and he be a great magician, as they say, then
+through his magic may not Eyes-in-the-hands be
+slain?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He hath but young words,”</span> asserted Bakahenzie
+stonily.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page188">[pg 188]</span><a name="Pg188" id="Pg188" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But Mungongo, the son of Marula, saith that&mdash;&mdash;”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Dost thou ask an infant to teach thee to hunt?”</span>
+retorted Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Doth a warrior ask his women to mend his
+wounds?”</span> added Marufa, putting in a gentle reminder
+that Zalu Zako was merely a chief and not of the
+craft.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He hath been exorcised, let him be brought and
+put to the test before me,”</span> persisted Zalu Zako.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That may not be,”</span> objected Bakahenzie, <span class="tei tei-q">“for
+thou art not yet anointed.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But that which is necessary has not yet been
+done,”</span> objected Zalu Zako obstinately. <span class="tei tei-q">“If he have
+no magic and his heart be not white, then let him be
+doomed for the Feast of the Moon.”</span> And gaining
+courage, added the royal phrase: <span class="tei tei-q">“I have spoken.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The three sat motionless. The silence twittered
+and hummed. The shadows swelled. Bakahenzie
+rose slowly and stalked away through the compound.
+Zalu Zako watched his departure without remark
+or expression. After an interval, Marufa also went.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Another person upon whom the news of the
+discovery had had a similar reaction was MYalu.
+Her proximity released the primitive desire to go forth
+and seize her. But such action was arrested by fear
+of the consequences from his fellows to whom the
+tabu was still real, and of the white man, Moonspirit.
+MYalu could never overcome the fiat of the witch-doctors
+while he remained with them. Yonder—his
+decision to go with Yabolo and Sakamata was
+clinched, but—he would take Bakuma with him.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Straight to the hut of Bakahenzie, who seemed to
+be expecting him, stalked Marufa. Marufa squatted
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page189">[pg 189]</span><a name="Pg189" id="Pg189" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+solemnly near to him. These catastrophic events
+had caused a general unrest which had weakened the
+discipline of superstition.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There are two types of magicians: those who are
+partially conscious hypocrites, and those who are
+gulled by their own fakes; for he who makes magic
+must be ever ready with an explanation of failure and
+very ingenious in the making. The fool, believing
+in his own medicine, is as much astounded at failure
+as the victim is angry. Bakahenzie and Marufa
+belonged to the first class; yet being of their particular
+mental development they were possessed of beliefs
+just as deeply as the most credulous layman. That
+the wizard, personally, of his own individual power
+could slay an enemy by incantation they did not believe;
+but that the spirit of the Banana or of other inanimate
+objects could do so, they believed most profoundly.
+Their creed was a form of pure animism; the storms,
+the winds, the lightning, trees, rocks, rivers had
+separate and conscious souls; other inanimate objects
+not included in an arbitrary list, had unconscious
+souls, each and every one capable of doing mischief
+or of good; hence the essence of religion in the act
+of imploring the good offices of the most powerful
+spirits, or in moments of exasperation of threatening
+them with dire punishments. Their hypocrisy lay
+not in disbelief but in pretending to the people that
+their intercession with the gods was infallible; they
+knew only too well that the said gods would seldom
+incline an ear to the magician.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Of course nearly every doctor had a slightly different
+dogma, usually based upon an incorrect deduction
+from a false premise. One doctor would place all his
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page190">[pg 190]</span><a name="Pg190" id="Pg190" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+confidence in the spirit of the Banana—the most
+popular spirit; and another in the spirit of the river,
+because out of a dozen times that he had implored
+aid, five <span class="tei tei-q">“miracles”</span> at least had been vouchsafed,
+therefore, argued he, the spirit of the river is the true
+and most powerful god. The arguments of others
+were equally unsound as they were dominated by some
+hidden desire, much as reputable scientists, while
+rejecting phenomena accepted by the populace, cling
+fatuously to a belief in spooks in order to satisfy a
+subconscious desire for immortality, fear of death.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Hence the confusion in the heart of Bakahenzie.
+To him it appeared that the spirits had deserted him
+entirely; to him it seemed that perhaps these white
+men had indeed the true <span class="tei tei-q">“magic,”</span> the art of controlling
+the spirits to their will. This terror had urged
+him to the destruction of the white man, Moonspirit.
+Now Zalu Zako had mutinied, and being unaware
+of the powerful impulse from which Zalu Zako had
+gotten this sudden strength, Bakahenzie attributed it
+to the magic influence of Moonspirit. At any cost,
+he argued, must Zalu Zako and the white man be
+kept apart.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But other pressing points were how to accomplish
+the slaughter of the white man, and what he should
+do now after the attempt to kill him had failed. Either
+Moonspirit would flee, which would be most happy proof
+to Bakahenzie that he was an impostor and no magician,
+or he would seek revenge immediately. No other
+action was conceivable to Bakahenzie. Therefore in
+such a case the obvious act was to strike the quicker.
+He contemplated his colleague without looking at
+him. What was his attitude? Bakahenzie, on general
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page191">[pg 191]</span><a name="Pg191" id="Pg191" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+principles, was suspicious. If Marufa thought that by
+supporting the white man he might be able to attain
+Bakahenzie’s overthrow and gain the position of chief
+<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E26" id="E26" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e26" class="tei tei-ref">witch-doctor</a></span>,
+he would do it, even as he, Bakahenzie,
+would have done in his place. Therefore upon these
+matters did he talk very guardedly with Marufa, who
+was unusually reticent. However, after communing
+with himself in sphinx-like gravity, Marufa assented to
+the proposal that Zalu Zako be isolated in the godhood
+immediately.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So the slow rhythmic beat, which was the summons
+to the craft to assemble, throbbed in the clammy air.
+Before the humid shadows had lengthened a hand’s
+breadth, were some twenty wizards, greater and lesser,
+fully dressed in the green feathers of the order, collected
+within the compound of Bakahenzie. Silently and
+woodenly they squatted in a half circle before the
+chief witch-doctor, each and every one excited by the
+marvellous stories circulated by the warriors returned
+from the camp of Moonspirit, stories which amply
+corroborated the tales of Mungongo. Those who
+supported Bakahenzie’s party believed implicitly,
+because they wished so to do, the <span class="tei tei-q">“reason”</span> for the
+impotence of their united magic to be the breaking of
+the magic circle by Bakuma. But others who cherished
+personal ambitions for the head witch-doctorship
+were suspicious of each other and of Bakahenzie, each
+one according to his grade and consequent knowledge
+in the craft.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When the drum had ceased and they sat in impressive
+silence, Bakahenzie, squatting motionless on the
+threshold of his hut, began to mutter incantations and
+to rock from side to side. Now every one of the inner
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page192">[pg 192]</span><a name="Pg192" id="Pg192" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+cult knew well enough that this performance was
+merely a ceremony prescribed by tradition and
+expediency; yet for that very reason and particularly
+for the benefit of the lesser wizards, they solemnly
+accepted it, grunting in chorus as heartily as the others
+to the chant of Bakahenzie. As suddenly as dramatically,
+Bakahenzie stopped with eyes staring upon another
+world and fell upon his back, to scream and to writhe
+realistically as practice assured him. Then when the
+mouth was flecked with foam, the spirit of Tarum spake
+through the rigid body which lay as in catalepsy with
+eyes inverted:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Aie! Aie! I am the spirit of Kintu!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! I am he who first was!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! I am the banana from whom I was made!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! The time of the nuptial draweth nigh!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! But where is the bride of my bed?</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! Let her be found and prepared!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! For my lips are athirst for her blood!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! Let the son of the Snake be anointed!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! Let him be ready to assist at my feast!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! I have spoken, I, the father of Men!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! I, Tarum, the soul of your ancestors!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From the assembly came the low belly grunt of
+acceptance, for they were, by suggestion, infected
+with the induced hysteria almost as much as the superb
+actor himself; they believed; even the members of
+the inner cult were convinced for the moment that
+indeed the mighty spirit of their ancestors was speaking.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Slowly, with many prodigious grunts and twists, did
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page193">[pg 193]</span><a name="Pg193" id="Pg193" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Bakahenzie’s soul return to his body. He sat up and
+after a long pause said impressively:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What hath He said unto you?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And Marufa, as solemnly, related all that He had
+said.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh!”</span> said Bakahenzie tonelessly, <span class="tei tei-q">“it is even as
+I have prophesied. These indeed are the words of
+wisdom. Is it not so, O my brethren?”</span> Again
+came the low grunt of assent. <span class="tei tei-q">“Let us obey, that
+these foul spirits may pass and the Unmentionable
+One return unto his children!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then, according to custom, all save those of the
+inner cult arose and went forth silently. In the heart
+of Yabolo, as he squatted as expressionless as the
+others, was satisfaction, for he saw, or thought he saw,
+that Eyes-in-the-hands would be pleased with the
+destruction of a man who might possibly become his
+rival; and on that principle imagined himself introduced
+by his relative, Sakamata, to Eyes-in-the-hands
+as the slayer, or initiator of the slaying, of his rival,
+Moonspirit. That Zalu Zako should be anointed
+King-God suited him as well as the other wizards and
+for the same reason. Therefore Yabolo for once
+raised no objection to the behests of Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Already from the encampment rose the excited
+voices of the warriors who had been informed of the
+decision of the assembly of wizards. But the shadows
+were long. The forest was even more thickly peopled
+with spirits than their own park-like country. One
+of the inner cult of five suggested that the attack be
+made at dawn; but Bakahenzie, still baited by uncertainty
+regarding the reality of the magic of Moonspirit
+and the possible influence of Zalu Zako now that he
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page194">[pg 194]</span><a name="Pg194" id="Pg194" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+had apparently developed a will of his own before they
+could shut him up in the godhead, was for immediate
+action, and insisted that they call together the warriors
+and make special magic to protect them from the forest
+demons. Yabolo, as anxious as Bakahenzie, became his
+ally in urging that this be done. But Marufa was
+not at all of this way of thinking. While the fate of
+Zalu Zako was quite immaterial, his attitude to Moonspirit
+was much the same as the young man’s, but
+prompted by a different motive; a power possible to
+utilize for his benefit. But he said no word, listening
+indifferently apparently to the throbbing of the drums
+summoning the warriors. When the inner circle
+broke up he stalked solemnly to his own hut, but when
+he was within he took from a gourd a special amulet,
+slipped through a hole in the palisade behind the hut,
+and disappeared into the forest.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD18" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page195">[pg 195]</span><a name="Pg195" id="Pg195" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc36" id="toc36"></a>
+<a name="pdf37" id="pdf37"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 18</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Meanwhile the object of Bakahenzie’s political
+perplexities was also holding a council of war.
+Mungongo and Bakuma were divided in opinion. The
+former had recovered his complete confidence in
+Moonspirit. After the repulse of the greatest magician
+and his warriors he became filled with a martial ardour
+and strongly advocated advancing upon the village
+immediately. Birnier smiled and considered. As a
+matter of fact the plan was not so utterly insane as it
+appeared. Did he follow up swiftly upon the heels
+of the terror-stricken warriors the probability was that
+the whole camp would be infected by the spirit of panic
+and bolt. However, he could not see any object to
+be attained by stampeding the village. Mungongo,
+ever eager for a miracle, urged that Moonspirit should
+take upon him the spirit form and descend upon them
+at night. To his disgust Moonspirit refused, so
+Mungongo retired to the fire and consoled himself by
+another vivid description of the powers of his master—growing
+every day!—to Bakuma, who sat and
+listened dully with ever an anxious eye and ear upon
+the forest trail.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakuma was obsessed by terror inspired by the fact
+that Bakahenzie had discovered her presence; the
+inherent awe of the witch-doctor which had been
+temporarily allayed by the presence of the white, was
+revived, as well as the inevitability of her doom. Only
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page196">[pg 196]</span><a name="Pg196" id="Pg196" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+the strict injunctions of Moonspirit prevented her
+fleeing through the jungle to take refuge in some distant
+goatherd village. She was convinced the wizard
+would soon find out where she had gone; for she was
+persuaded that Bakahenzie had discovered her former
+hiding place by magic divination, maintaining as proof
+that although she had been as usual completely hidden
+in the undergrowth, Bakahenzie had walked directly
+to her.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier foresaw that the situation might become
+serious. Bakahenzie’s attitude was one of suspicion
+based, he guessed correctly, on professional jealousy.
+The finding of Bakuma had probably been more of an
+excuse to assail the possible rival and thus to satisfy
+this subconscious death wish. Now, reckoned Birnier,
+Bakahenzie would probably be more exasperated than
+ever at the triumph of the said rival’s magic. He
+would therefore, knowing the strength of the driving
+force of religious conviction, endeavour to play upon
+the emotions of the tribe by advocation of the efficacy
+of appeasing their fallen god by the sacrifice of the girl,
+and so work them up to an exalted state of fanaticism
+to attack in force; an additional stimulant to such
+action on their part would be the unconscious satisfaction
+in slaying the <span class="tei tei-q">“brother”</span> of the one who had
+invaded their country, Eyes-in-the-hands.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Another point was that the more a person is scared
+the less easy it is for him to forgive, hence the greater
+resistance to the overtures of amity. Beyond the
+partially formed idea to overset zu Pfeiffer’s petty
+sovereignty was the strictly professional one of studying
+from the most intimate view-point possible a system
+of primitive theology of a most complex and illuminating
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page197">[pg 197]</span><a name="Pg197" id="Pg197" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+kind. The main object to be attained therefore
+was resolved by the best method calculated to win the
+friendship and confidence of all concerned, particularly
+of Bakahenzie. To Birnier, who was not as yet
+conversant with the system, Bakahenzie seemed of less
+importance than Zalu Zako, the King-God, or
+potential King-God. Yet apparently he could not
+hope to approach Zalu Zako without overcoming
+the opposition offered by Bakahenzie. To give up
+little Bakuma to the sacrificial orgy was unthinkable;
+such an act would have appeared to him
+tantamount to sacrificing the girl to attain his own
+ends.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For precaution he placed two of his men as pickets
+in the jungle to give warning of any surprise, although
+he did not consider that they would be likely to renew
+the attack that day; then, as usual when in difficulties,
+he retired to his tent for a smoke. As he browsed
+upon his estimable friend Burton, his eyes caught a
+paragraph upon cures for love melancholy recommended
+by the amiable doctor.</p><br />
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Lemnius, imstit. cap 58. admires rue and commends
+it to have excellent virtues, to expel vain imaginations,
+devils and to … Other things are much magnified
+by writers, as an old cock, a ram’s head, a wolf’s heart
+borne or eaten, which Mercurialis approves: Prosper
+Altinus, the water of the Nile; Gomesius, all sea
+water, and at seasonable times to be sick … the
+bone in a stag’s heart, a monocerot’s horn …”</span></p><br />
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He glanced up to see Bakuma squatting disconsolately
+by the fire listening to the hundredth repetition
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page198">[pg 198]</span><a name="Pg198" id="Pg198" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+of his wonder working according to Mungongo. The
+outline of her rounded back and hunched shoulders,
+the bronze hands clasped beneath the chin and the
+misty brown eyes apprehensively regarding the trail
+was a sculpture of melancholy. He smiled as he
+reflected that the devils and witches of Chrysostom
+and Paracelsus were as real to them as the forest spirits
+and the magic of Bakahenzie to this girl. After all
+some of these concoctions sounded as if they should
+most certainly appeal to Bakahenzie and his brethren
+of the craft. He wandered off into a reverie, wondering
+why it was that superstition is so hard to eradicate from
+the human mind. In Birnier was a strain of humorous
+melancholy which appreciated the comedy of human
+marionettes made to dance to the legion of devils and
+bugaboos invented by themselves, and as a stimulant
+to the dominant scientific absorption was the knowledge
+that upon him and his fellows depended their
+only hope of release—which was the greater reason
+that Bakahenzie should slay him, he added whimsically,
+did he but know it!</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Moved by the ever-present curiosity to know what
+was going on inside other people’s minds, he called
+Bakuma and Mungongo to him, observing the sprightly
+action of the boy moved by his faith in him for his good
+in contrast to the dull movements of the girl in her
+lack of confidence to make for her good. And when
+they were come to him and were seated on the ground
+at his feet he said to Bakuma:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Wherefore hast thou the black bird within thy
+breast, O Bakuma?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">She gazed up at him with the pathetic pleading of a
+gazelle.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page199">[pg 199]</span><a name="Pg199" id="Pg199" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Do not birds seek the broken twigs for the building
+of nests, O Moonspirit?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Truly, but why are the branches of thy tree rotted
+and broken?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“When the axe of the peasant pecks at the roots of
+the tree dost thou think then that the sap runs the more
+swiftly, knowing?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“A devil hast told thee this thing, O Bakuma.
+When the sun was but a man’s height did not a jackal
+break out of the forest seeking to devour, and yet the
+chicken was neither hurt nor taken. Are these not
+white words?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Truly, O Moonspirit,”</span> acknowledged Bakuma
+reluctantly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Was not then the magic of Moonspirit more
+potent than that of thy wizards?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thy words are white,”</span> she admitted.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Wherefore then hast thou ashes in thy mouth?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakuma dismally contemplated Birnier’s booted
+leg.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh!”</span> grunted the sophisticated Mungongo, <span class="tei tei-q">“to
+those who live on the mountain the crocodile is
+not!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Open thy breasts unto me, O Bakuma,”</span> said
+Birnier.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Clk!”</span> she gasped, making a little gesture of
+hopelessness. <span class="tei tei-q">“When the sun shines are not the
+flowers open? But when the night hath come where
+are the flowers? The deer feed on sweet pastures, but
+when the shadow of the lion falleth upon the grass hath
+not a great cloud come over the world?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But thy lion hath fled, O Bakuma!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">She gazed at the white man with curious wonderment
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page200">[pg 200]</span><a name="Pg200" id="Pg200" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+at the stupidity of one failing to comprehend the
+simplest problem. She sighed and then as if with
+much patience for another’s shortcomings:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thou hast strong magic, O white man,”</span> said she,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“magic that makes the magic of Bakahenzie to fall as
+water. Yet was the daughter of Bakala not found by
+divination? Was the daughter of Bakala not revealed
+to be the bride of the Banana by divination? There
+shall be made magic that the voice of the one shall be
+obeyed. Eh! Aiee! Aie!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The brown eyes welled opals which splashed upon a
+bronze breast. As Birnier watched her, pity stimulated
+a desire to relieve this symbol of self-torture, and
+he thought of a favourite passage in the <span class="tei tei-q">“Anatomy”</span>:</p><br />
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ay, but we are more miserable than others, what
+shall we do? Beside private miseries, we live in
+perpetual fear and danger; for epithalamiums, for
+pleasant music, that fearful noise of ordnance, drums,
+and warlike trumpets still sounding in our ears; instead
+of nuptial torches, we have the firing of towns and
+cities; for triumph, lamentations; for joy, tears.”</span></p><br />
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, Bakuma,”</span> said he in English, smiling
+covertly, <span class="tei tei-q">“we’ll see if we can’t get you the nuptial
+torches!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakuma gazed at him perplexedly with big eyes.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Already Moonspirit begins the incantation of
+mighty magic,”</span> explained Mungongo solemnly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh!”</span> murmured Bakuma expectantly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier smoked and pondered. The walls of the
+forest were growing closer in the beginning of twilight.
+The soul of fear, reflected Birnier, dwells in the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page201">[pg 201]</span><a name="Pg201" id="Pg201" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+unknown. Reveal the god in the machine and the
+mystery dies. To Bakuma he said:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Listen, O Bakuma, I would speak heavy words to
+thee. When thou puttest the seed of the gourd into
+the ground then within half a moon there appears the
+plant of the gourd; is it not so?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Truly,”</span> answered Bakuma disinterestedly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Is that then magic?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh!”</span> commented Bakuma, as in astonishment.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Nay, how could that be? Does not the soul of the
+plant grow even as a child grows?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Good. Turn thine eyes to me.”</span> Bakuma
+watched the operation of striking and lighting a match
+with indifference. <span class="tei tei-q">“Then is this fire which I make
+done by magic?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Truly.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And thou, Mungongo, what thinkest thou?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Moonspirit tickles the souls of my feet!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“H’m.”</span> Birnier repressed a smile. <span class="tei tei-q">“Thou
+knowest that my words are white?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Truly.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Then I tell thee that this is not done by magic.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh! Ehh!”</span> chorused the twain.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“This thing on the end of this thing which you call
+a magic fire twig is made of—of—is made of several
+kinds of—of earth found in the—earth, and when<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E27" id="E27" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e27" class="tei tei-ref">—</a></span>and
+when&mdash;&mdash;”</span> He sought frantically for native
+words which were not, <span class="tei tei-q">“the two are brought together—as
+one strikes a spear&mdash;&mdash;”</span> Birnier hesitated,
+finding himself as perplexed as a psychologist endeavouring
+to explain the abstract working of consciousness
+in concrete words. <span class="tei tei-q">“When one strikes a spear
+upon a rock there is an eye of fire, is it not so?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page202">[pg 202]</span><a name="Pg202" id="Pg202" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mungongo’s eyes dimly reflected a growing horror.
+Bakuma stared.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The magic of Bakahenzie,”</span> murmured Mungongo.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Already is his soul bewitched,”</span> muttered Bakuma.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Is it not so?”</span> persisted Birnier.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aye,”</span> admitted Mungongo, moving uneasily and
+speaking as if humouring a dangerous lunatic. <span class="tei tei-q">“It is
+the eye of the angry spirit of the rock.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier saw his danger and made another effort.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Even so. Also thou knowest that thou canst make
+fire by the rubbing together of two sticks. Is that
+then magic also?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Truly,”</span> continued Mungongo in the same tone.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Can the spirits of the souls of the twigs be summoned
+without the incantations by the Keeper of Fires?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“O my God!”</span> groaned Birnier, sotto voce, and
+he abandoned the effort to explain combustion.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Thus is it then with these that ye call the magic
+fire twigs.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Even as we have said,”</span> asserted Mungongo
+triumphantly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier lapsed into silent defeat. Bakuma began to
+edge away. As Mungongo rose came a stifled scream
+from Bakuma who sprang to her feet and dashed
+towards the tent; then as if recollecting that her
+saviour had been bewitched by Bakahenzie, fled into
+the gloom beyond. Mungongo had seized a spear
+stuck in the earth near to him. As appeared the
+wizened figure of Marufa, who saluted as he squatted
+in the native manner, Birnier recollected that he had
+been with Bakahenzie and wondered what he wanted.
+Mungongo replaced his spear and came to the tent.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Greeting, O son of MTungo!”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page203">[pg 203]</span><a name="Pg203" id="Pg203" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Marufa mumbled the orthodox return.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thou hast need of Moonspirit?”</span> demanded
+Mungongo, some of his officious confidence in Birnier
+returning.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Doth the leopard go to the goat pen to seek nuts?”</span>
+grumbled the old man. He tapped out snuff slowly
+and grunted.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Presently said Marufa:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Moonspirit is the brother of Eyes-in-the-hands?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nay,”</span> answered Birnier, wondering at the persistency
+of this idea. <span class="tei tei-q">“Eyes-in-the-hands is of another
+tribe ten moons distant from Moonspirit.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Marufa grunted. Another long pause. Then:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The magic of Moonspirit hath blunted the spears
+of Bakahenzie?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Even so,”</span> said Birnier modestly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The son of Maliko maketh much magic that the
+bride of the Banana be taken from the white stranger.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The monkey makes many faces and much noise, but
+does he eat up the leopard?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The bite of the spear is more deadly than the
+bleat of a goat,”</span> retorted Marufa.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Doth the wise man eat the heart of a goat to gain
+courage?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The louder the lion roars the less teeth has he!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But only the fool opens his mouth to see how many
+he has!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The wise father examines the grain of the tusks
+before he sells his daughter.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But the wise man sees the daughter before he
+offers the tusks!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ugm!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Marufa took more snuff and contemplated the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page204">[pg 204]</span><a name="Pg204" id="Pg204" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+interior of the tent where a native was lighting a lamp.
+Birnier reflected. Evidently Marufa had come with
+an object and had inferred that he had something to
+bargain about. What was it? Also he wanted to be
+sure that he was setting his trap at the right pool.
+Birnier decided that he was probably acting on his own
+initiative and willing to conspire against Bakahenzie.
+An impulse to experiment upon him as he had upon
+Mungongo and Bakuma was repressed, for from the
+previous effort he had cemented the conclusion that
+it was impossible to explain rational phenomena to
+irrational minds; that as ever the adventurous
+champion of reason would be either regarded as
+insane or inspired; that which is not comprehended is
+divine or ridiculous. However, through Marufa might
+come a suggestion for the tactics of campaign to gain
+the good-will of Bakahenzie or Zalu Zako and the
+attainment of his scientific object—as well as to give
+Bakuma the torches he had promised her. Whether
+I will or no, he reflected smiling in the dark, must I
+be either a magician or a fool. Fools get nowhere;
+witch-doctors do here as elsewhere. He saw that
+in order to influence these peoples or any others, he had
+perforce to work in terms of their own understanding,
+as the early Christian missionaries practised in their
+conversion of the Teutons, the Scandinavians and the
+Britons. A nucleus of a plan had been given by
+Mungongo’s impetuous suggestion. He decided to
+develop it. But through Marufa, who first of all must
+be impressed with the fact that Moonspirit was the
+greatest magician the world had ever seen. So
+therefore he called to the native within: <span class="tei tei-q">“O Bakombi,
+put out the light.”</span> And to Marufa: <span class="tei tei-q">“O wise man,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page205">[pg 205]</span><a name="Pg205" id="Pg205" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+thunder has not always lightning. Behold! I am part
+of that which is and is not!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Clk!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A click of astonishment was squeezed from Marufa
+by the chance mystic phrase which was interpreted by
+him as referring to the Unmentionable One.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then taking out his metal box of vestas Birnier
+moistened one. As he rubbed around his eyes Marufa,
+who was expecting a miracle, observed the growing
+phosphorescence in stoical calm, while Mungongo,
+delighted at the long deferred proof of his boasts,
+grunted admiringly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But when a glowing skeleton hand, which Birnier
+had prepared behind his back, hovered over the old
+wizard’s head, he grunted and made a slight convulsive
+movement.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Have no fear, O my friend,”</span> came Birnier’s voice,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“the spirit loves my friends and destroys my enemies.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">That belly grunt had registered the degree of
+impression that Birnier sought. So he lighted the
+lamp, bade the excited Mungongo to bring out the
+phonograph, a machine adjusted with the recording
+cylinders as well as the reproduction, and after a
+successful demonstration of magic, discussed with
+Marufa a certain scheme to which the old wizard, quick
+to see the possibilities, afforded many invaluable
+suggestions.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD19" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page206">[pg 206]</span><a name="Pg206" id="Pg206" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc38" id="toc38"></a>
+<a name="pdf39" id="pdf39"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 19</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When Zalu Zako was notified of the verdict of
+the Council and the words of Tarum the sense
+of the inevitable returned, extinguishing the spark of
+rebellion that had been kindled by his passion for
+Bakuma. To Bakahenzie, or to the wizards separately,
+or collectively, he had had the strength to voice his own
+desires, but to the veritable voice of Tarum was no
+resistance dared. He was bidden to preside by right
+and precedent at the anointing of the warriors. He
+did not make any feint at refusal, for his will was
+crushed, as it had been weeks before by the doom of
+godhood and celibacy.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Beyond the fact that Bakuma would soon be forbidden
+to him for ever, he did not think; desire was
+strangled. Even the recollection that Bakahenzie had
+stated that Moonspirit had taken her gave him no
+reaction. To him as to his brethren, while in physical
+love is bound up the control of the universe, because
+it is vaguely apprehended as a creative force, it is of no
+importance to the individual lover unless he be guilty
+of breaking the sexual tabu: if the girl is not a consenting
+party to the illicit union then she is free; if
+she is, then it is death to both of them, for as every one
+knows, such criminal action endangers the balance of
+the burden of the world upon the shoulders of the
+King-God. Thus it was that the words of Bakahenzie
+had produced no reaction against Moonspirit in the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page207">[pg 207]</span><a name="Pg207" id="Pg207" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+mind of Zalu Zako; indeed, if the words were true
+and he could yet obtain Bakuma, she might have a son
+by the white which would obviously bring the marvellous
+power of white magic to his successor, the next
+King-God; and possibly, had mused Zalu Zako, dimly
+straining at such a radical thought against the influence
+of the priesthood, make the king more powerful a
+magician than the witch-doctors themselves.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But he obeyed the mandate and took his place as
+bidden. Bakahenzie had caused preparation to be
+begun immediately for the ceremony of making
+enchantment against the spirits of the night. In the
+circle of cleared ground, where sat the temporary
+Council of Elders, big fires were lighted as the dark
+wall of the forest drew in upon them. Bakahenzie
+squatted before a big calabash, specially reserved and
+enchanted for the making of magic, in which a mess of
+certain herbs whose spirits were violent haters of the
+demons of all trees, rocks and streams, were to be
+released from the vegetable bondage by stewing that
+they might be distributed among the warriors for the
+night assault. These warriors, some fifty chosen
+from the followers of Bakahenzie and Marufa, sat on
+their hams within the circle of fires, uneasily casting
+glances behind them at the deepening sepia, from
+whence arose the nocturnal chant of the spirits of the
+forest. In order to insure no interference from
+malign animals, Bakahenzie caused to be brought a pure
+white goat whose throat was cut and bled into the
+cauldron; for as any one knows, that soul which is
+white must necessarily fight well against anything that
+be black. Yet in spite of this potent magic the
+warriors grew unquiet; they felt, rather than thought,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page208">[pg 208]</span><a name="Pg208" id="Pg208" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+that if the magic of their witch-doctors had failed
+against one white why should it succeed against another
+like unto him? And their faith thus weakened,
+doubts regarding the efficacy of the same magic against
+spirits of the forest bred as mosquitoes after rain.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakahenzie remarked the uneasiness, but the stronger
+grew his need to restore the waning confidence in his
+powers by removing the white; the blood desire had
+now been transferred from Bakuma to Moonspirit as
+the most effective demonstration possible to him.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The fires smouldered and flickered yellow tongues
+upon the greens of the warriors’ bodies and the blues of
+the wizards’ head-dresses. Faint blue vapour swirled
+around the scarlet feather above Bakahenzie’s graven
+face as he muttered incantations and stirred the
+cauldron. Then as the drums throbbed and the
+warriors grunted rhythmically to Bakahenzie’s song of
+enchantment came a squawk as of a parrot. The chant
+ceased. Branches rustled. Every head quirked automatically
+towards the sound. Came a low belly grunt
+of terror as if an invisible hand had punched them in
+their solar <span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E28" id="E28" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e28" class="tei tei-ref">plexus</a></span>.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Just in the shadow line where the glow of the fires
+faintly tinted and greened the curves of his bronze body
+against the sepia of his feathers, appeared the figure of
+Marufa, his spear lifted on high as he cried out in a
+loud voice:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Greetings, O people of the Banana, I bring you
+tidings of him who is and is not, of him who was lost
+and yet is come. ‘Behold, I show you a sign!’”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Against the gloom his left arm and hand glowed with
+a strange light. An unanimous <span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span> rose from
+the assembled warriors and wizards alike.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page209">[pg 209]</span><a name="Pg209" id="Pg209" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Raise your ears!”</span> continued Marufa, <span class="tei tei-q">“that the
+Voice may speak unto you!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the silence came a subdued click and commenced
+a high-pitched voice in the dialect:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Aie! Aie! I am the spirit of Kintu!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! I am he who first was!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! I am the Banana from whom I was made!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Whites of eyes glimmered like butterflies in starlight.
+Nothing was visible. The voice appeared to
+rise from every direction. The new miracle petrified
+the limbs of all.</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Aie! Aie! My soul is defiled and my children enslaved!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! My face hath been scratched by an alien claw!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! I send you the revenge which is white!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! I send you the One who is bidden!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! Let that One arise who is I!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! The mighty One who will blot out the curse!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! I have spoken, I, the Father of Men!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aie! I, Tarum; the soul of your Ancestors!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A faint whirr as of wings was drowned in the automatic
+grunt of acceptance squeezed from all the
+warriors and the wizards by the sacred chant, except
+those of the inner circle. In dread sat the warriors of
+the terrible magic of their doctors which they had once
+doubted. But the minds of Bakahenzie, Yabolo, and
+the other two master craftsmen were stunned. The
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page210">[pg 210]</span><a name="Pg210" id="Pg210" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+phenomenon of the glowing hand had they never seen
+before, but they recollected the stones of Mungongo.
+Even was Sakamata, sophisticated to the wonders of
+Eyes-in-the-hands, impressed and bewildered. Dormant
+awe for the Unmentionable One was awakened
+in every one of them. Zalu Zako felt that his doom
+was upon him; that the Unmentionable One was about
+to call him to his duty, which invoked fear for the
+sacrilege he had committed in entertaining such
+radical thoughts in the immediate past. But in
+Bakahenzie was a streak of suspicion; how was it that
+Marufa was thus chosen as the divine messenger? Yet
+perhaps the veritable god was, or gods were, speaking!
+Doubt held him silent.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“O my brethren, would ye that we seek the voice
+of the Unmentionable One?”</span> cried Marufa.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ough! Ough!”</span> grunted the wizards.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Marufa stalked slowly to the nearest fire, muttering
+a spell. From his loin cloth he took the three digital
+bones of an enemy and proceeded to discover the
+whereabouts by geomancy. And behold! the fingers
+pointed in one direction which all could see. Oblivious
+to the tight indifference of Bakahenzie the old
+man rose and began to gyrate, mumbling incantations,
+towards a thicket of grass on the fringe of the
+undergrowth, holding aloft the magic bones in the
+glowing hand. Anxiously the assembly watched the
+skinny figure, half bent, glide out from the glow of the
+fires into the blue shadows. A small log collapsed,
+throwing a red gleam upon the form poised upright
+before the clump of grass as Marufa cried out:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Let him who-may-not-be-mentioned speak that
+his children may hear!”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page211">[pg 211]</span><a name="Pg211" id="Pg211" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Immediately commenced a high voice chanting:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Take up, O Marufa, the wise, the pod of my soul!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then in the sight of every man Marufa bent upon
+his knees, muttering, and arose unharmed. Save for
+the slow turn of each head the better to follow the
+progress of the magician no limb nor muscle moved as
+in silence Marufa bore the like of which had never
+before been seen; a thing like unto a stone, having
+an ear almost as large and as erect as an angry elephant,
+the colour of a lion yet hairless. <span class="tei tei-q">“The pod of the soul”</span>
+Marufa placed within the circle of the fires so that all
+should see. More incantations did Marufa make,
+sitting fearlessly; he caressed it as a young man caresses
+a maid and came forth again the voice of Tarum:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Rejoice, O my children, for he that is bidden shall come!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rejoice, O ye warriors, for he that shall lead you shall come!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rejoice, O ye wizards, for he that is greater than ye shall come!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rejoice, O ye women, for he that fertilizes shall come!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He shall eat up your enemies as a lion eateth buck.</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He shall make your dead to be seen and your phantoms to talk!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He shall give to your women to have sons of your breed!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He shall give you that which was slain on the hill!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He that walks in a flame in the night!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He that is whiter than the flesh of the baobab!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He shall come forth bearing that which ye seek!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He shall come forth bearing that which is yours!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hear me, my people, and give voice to my word!”</div>
+</div>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page212">[pg 212]</span><a name="Pg212" id="Pg212" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ough! Ough!”</span> came the chorus of assent.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Not a limb nor a hand moved among the concourse
+of warriors and wizards until a new voice, deep, as one
+who commands, cried out:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Let the son of Kawa Kendi, the son of MFunya
+MPopo, the son of MKoffo, move not; neither he nor
+Marufa, the son of MTungo! Unto ye others we say
+unto you, depart that we speak in peace with this
+our son and priest!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And simultaneously appeared in the gloom of the
+undergrowth three pairs of eyes as luminous as the glowworm,
+vaster than any human; and beside the souls
+of the dead King-Gods were terrible hands. Warriors
+and wizards, all save Bakahenzie and Zalu Zako,
+literally leaped for the forest and village in one convulsive
+bound and grunt. Zalu Zako had remained
+upon the ground, green with terror. Bakahenzie
+stood upright, his scarlet feather fluorescent in the fire-glow.
+The anthem of the forest was only broken by
+the rustle of branches and the breathing of Zalu Zako
+and Bakahenzie. A harsh voice cried:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Begone, Bakahenzie, son of a dog! Lest we take
+thy soul to be with us!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The eyes appeared to float nearer; hands pointed
+menacingly. Bakahenzie boggled; hesitated; then
+the dignity of his pose melted into the graceful bounds
+of a fleeing leopard. Even for the professional ghost
+manipulator, such a phenomenon of the spirits, with
+whom he was supposed to be on familiar terms, was
+demoralizing. But half-way through a thicket of
+undergrowth, where he could no longer see the horrific
+eyes, his courage began to return.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To his ears came a new voice chanting:</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page213">[pg 213]</span><a name="Pg213" id="Pg213" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Sweeter than warm honey is the scent of my man!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Fiercer than scorpions is the grip of his hand!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whiter than a spear flash is the gleam of his teeth!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Smoother than river stone is the feel of his chest!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 15.00em">Bakuma rejoices!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Peering through the interstices Bakahenzie could see
+the gleam of the fire upon the bangles of the Son-of-the-Snake
+and the blue flash upon his spear as he melted
+into the forest wall.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD20" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page214">[pg 214]</span><a name="Pg214" id="Pg214" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc40" id="toc40"></a>
+<a name="pdf41" id="pdf41"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 20</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The actual sight of spirits from ghostland, of
+which hitherto they had only heard, had been too
+much for the nerves of the tribe already overstrung
+by the overthrow of the idol and the magic and
+slaughter of zu Pfeiffer; the warriors had fled
+like scared poultry to the jungle, up trees, in
+the undergrowth and in their huts, where they
+cowered among their women and slaves, reading
+awful omens and portents in every sound of the
+forest.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The phenomenon had been just as startling and
+awe-inspiring to Bakahenzie as it had been to his most
+ignorant dupe. His belief in ghostland was implicit,
+but now he had seen what, professionally, he was
+supposed to see and converse with on familiar terms.
+As Zalu Zako disappeared he continued to listen
+intently. Above the slight rustle of the bushes as
+the Son-of-the-Snake moved through the undergrowth
+rose a feminine laugh. Bakahenzie’s liver was squeezed
+by that sardonic chuckle; for, as is well known, female
+demons are much more malignant than the male. For
+the space of a chant he remained crouching there,
+curiosity and the dread of revealing his terror to his
+fellows tugging at his feet and fear of the demons
+clutching him around the waist. Save the anthem
+of the forest no further sound of the ghosts was
+audible.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page215">[pg 215]</span><a name="Pg215" id="Pg215" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cautiously rose Bakahenzie, wriggled out of his
+nest and with as much dignity as maybe, strode back
+to the fire. From the village came a slight whimpering.
+With satisfaction Bakahenzie noted that no one else
+was in sight. For another space he sat with unquiet
+eyes and ears upon the forest. Then gathering
+courage as nothing happened, he pondered upon what
+attitude he should assume.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Yabolo stalked from round a hut and squatting
+calmly beside Bakahenzie, nonchalantly proceeded to
+tap out snuff and offered some to Bakahenzie, who
+grunted acceptance and sniffed with even greater
+indifference. Motionless they continued to sit and
+silently. Bakahenzie wondered whether Yabolo knew
+that he, too, had fled, and Yabolo, who did know,
+waited for the first move on Bakahenzie’s part to
+retort.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Yabolo, indeed, who had been as panic-stricken as
+Bakahenzie, was more suspicious in view of the
+accounts he had heard of the magic of Eyes-in-the-hands.
+Who knew but this vision might not be another
+manifestation of Eyes-in-the-hands? And more
+slowly a similar idea began to occur to Bakahenzie,
+save that he had in mind the incident of Moonspirit’s
+magic in the face of his bravest warriors. The calmer
+he became the more was he inclined to accept this
+explanation of the apparitions; such was infinitely more
+comforting to him than the conception that they had
+been in truth spirits from ghostland. As the
+doubt grew the wisdom of propitiating this powerful
+Moonspirit became apparent; yet was present the
+dread of loosing what remained of his autocratic
+power. The problem now was to enlist the white
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page216">[pg 216]</span><a name="Pg216" id="Pg216" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+and discover some means of controlling him and his
+magic.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But to both men the vital question was, what had
+become of Zalu Zako? There were two alternatives:
+if the visions had been genuine ghosts, then undoubtedly
+Zalu Zako was dead; but if they had been produced
+through the magic of a white man, then, Bakahenzie
+argued, Zalu Zako and Marufa must be in league with
+Moonspirit, and Yabolo opined that Zalu Zako had
+been captured by Eyes-in-the-hands. To the latter
+the effect was to strengthen the determination to go
+over to Eyes-in-the-hands. If the first possibility
+was correct the greater need had he of strong magic
+if real ghosts were taking to walking abroad visibly, and
+the other case merely proved beyond question the
+invincible magic of Eyes-in-the-hands. But to Bakahenzie
+the reaction was slightly different, for his
+elemental reason took him a little farther than
+Yabolo by pointing out that in all his wide experience
+never had spirits taken demons’ shape, so that the
+suspicion that they had been due to Moonspirit
+became more plausible, and was supported by the
+recollection of Marufa’s unexplained absence and
+sudden reappearance on familiar terms with the
+spirits.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The longer he pondered on the strange actions of
+Marufa the more he was persuaded that that wily
+colleague was acting upon sound information, and
+the tangle of his affairs made him so desperate that
+he decided to gamble upon that assumption: for
+magician Bakahenzie began to realize that Marufa
+had somehow scored a point and that now was
+approaching the crux which would determine whether
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page217">[pg 217]</span><a name="Pg217" id="Pg217" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+he won back or lost for ever that which was the
+essence of life to him.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Meanwhile the two puzzled plotters sat motionless
+and silent as if mutually agreeing that no question
+regarding each other’s late movements had better be
+asked.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Accordingly to the depth of his superstition returned
+each witch-doctor. When they were come, without
+one word of explanation, Bakahenzie lifted his voice
+in a high falsetto, bidding the lay warriors to return
+to hear the voice of the elders. Reassured by this
+command which carried far on the still air, they began
+to emerge from hut and undergrowth. The first to
+arrive was MYalu, angry to find the whole assembly
+of wizards apparently sitting as if they had never
+moved, engaged in mystic incantations. MYalu
+had not fled far and from his cranny had seen the
+flight of Bakahenzie and the departure of Zalu Zako,
+but he dared not betray the doctors. He squatted
+sullenly and waited while the remainder of the warriors,
+of whom many had also seen the general stampede,
+filed to their places.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When all were assembled Bakahenzie looked up
+from his spell and bade them to listen to what message
+the faculty—for obvious policy’s sake he included the
+whole of the ghosts—had received from ghostland by
+the three spirits, emphasising the vision of the magicians
+as proof positive of the terrible power of the craft.
+By reason of the sin committed by one who had broken
+the magic circle, as they all knew, said Bakahenzie,
+had this wrath of the Unmentionable One come upon
+them, permitting the incarnation of a demon, Eyes-in-the-hands,
+to work his will upon them and to
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page218">[pg 218]</span><a name="Pg218" id="Pg218" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+make them slaves, as were their dogs the Wamungo;
+and so in the depth of their tribulation he, Bakahenzie,
+whose magic had been rendered impotent
+by the betrayal of the Bride of the Banana, had
+invoked the spirits of the three, as they all had
+witnessed.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ough! Ough!”</span> grunted the warriors in assent,
+although many of them were sorely puzzled to know
+why the doctors themselves had fled. Yabolo began
+to grow restless in his mind. To allow Bakahenzie
+to steal all the thunder and condemn the possible
+source of political power to the level of an evil
+demon was contrary to his policy, but he gave no
+physical sign save to become engrossed in his snuff
+box.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then Bakahenzie continued with a long harangue
+maintaining the necessity of the consummation of
+the Marriage of the Banana and announced that Zalu
+Zako had been taken by the spirit of his forefathers
+in order to prepare magic for the eating up of the
+terrible Eyes-in-the-hands; that as the voice of
+Tarum had said, Zalu Zako would return with
+<span class="tei tei-q">“That which was slain on the hill—that which ye
+seek, that which is yours.”</span> Although Bakahenzie was
+not sure to what these words had referred, yet he
+was sagacious enough to know that if Marufa had
+engineered that scene, then there must be some
+plan at the back of it, and in any case knew, as any
+white medicine man, that words in mystic phrasing
+are always soul-satisfying to the credulous who interpret
+them in terms of their subconscious desires.
+Then with political prudence he avoided any reference
+to uncomfortable topics, by dismissing the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page219">[pg 219]</span><a name="Pg219" id="Pg219" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+assembly before any pertinent questions could be
+asked.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But when Bakahenzie had retired to his hut, presumably
+for the night, as Marufa had done before him,
+he girded himself with an amulet containing the gall
+of an enemy killed in battle and a short stabbing spear
+and sallied forth through a hole in the fence to brave
+the spirits of the forests in his need.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the village generally sleep was not entertained
+with enthusiasm by any save those women and slaves
+who knew not of the great happenings. In the hut
+of Yabolo were MYalu and Sakamata. From the
+old men MYalu received much consolation and advice,
+but no information as to why the wizards had bolted
+as fast as the laymen from ghosts invoked by their
+own magic. Sakamata confirmed authoritatively
+Yabolo’s suspicion that the phenomena had been
+produced through the magic of Eyes-in-the-hands,
+urging that they lose no time in going to him to make
+submission. Yabolo had already decided on that
+course, but MYalu refused to give a definite decision
+as to when he would go. He sat sullenly, saying no
+word, and eventually departed to his own hut
+where he dismissed his wives and continued to
+brood.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The fear and rage aroused by the anointing of the
+warriors for the capture of Bakuma had been dissipated
+by the general panic produced by the ghosts.
+Afterwards MYalu had unconsciously hoped, because
+he so desired it, that the pursuit of the Bride would
+be abandoned; hence Bakahenzie’s renewal of the
+chase had angered and frightened him anew. As all
+the rest of them, he wondered and pondered upon the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page220">[pg 220]</span><a name="Pg220" id="Pg220" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+fate of Zalu Zako and Marufa. Marufa, as he well
+knew, had a black heart and two tongues; therefore
+was he suspicious of any manifestation with which the
+son of MTungo could be connected. Zalu Zako was
+wealthy; perhaps he had bribed Marufa to make
+magic in order to enable him to escape the doom of
+the king-godship and to flee to another country with
+Bakuma under the protection of Moonspirit. A
+lover’s jealousy is as powerful a driving force as
+ambition. In this case it drove even MYalu to defy
+the spirits of the night, for at the hour of the monkey
+he too stole away into the gloom.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So it was that as the patterned roof of the forest
+was etched in the timid green of dawn peeped MYalu
+through the gate of the zareba of Moonspirit to
+discover the gaunt form of Bakahenzie squatted by
+the embers of a fire within a deserted compound.
+Bakahenzie’s quick eyes, on the alert for ghosts or
+any moving thing, saw him; so coldly MYalu advanced
+and sat beside him, grunting the formal
+greeting.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">MYalu noted the age of the spoor about the
+compound, the tent peg holes newly pulled. Now
+was he sure that Marufa and Zalu Zako were in
+league with Moonspirit. Wrath smouldered in his
+broad chest. At length spoke Bakahenzie casually:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The Bride of the Banana hath been taken away.”</span>
+Bakahenzie paused as if weighing his words, and added:
+<span class="tei tei-q">“But the feet of spirits are heavy on the land.”</span>
+MYalu grunted. Bakahenzie had an idea and to
+MYalu was born another about the same instant.
+Said Bakahenzie, who wished to know the whereabouts
+of Marufa, Moonspirit and company: <span class="tei tei-q">“If the Marriage
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page221">[pg 221]</span><a name="Pg221" id="Pg221" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+of the Bride be not consummated then will the power
+of Eyes-in-the-hands prevail.”</span> And after a long
+pause: <span class="tei tei-q">“Who will seek the Bride?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">MYalu remained silent, revolving his own notion in
+his mind. There remained with him still many traces
+of the awe and belief in the power and knowledge of
+Bakahenzie, and so his words threatening the triumph
+of Eyes-in-the-hands assured and strengthened his
+purpose; for he thought that if he could accomplish
+his plan then would Eyes-in-the-hands surely triumph
+as Bakahenzie predicted. Thus it was that he
+said:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“O master of Wisdom, give unto me a mighty
+charm against the evil eye of traitors and will I and
+those that follow me seek the Bride and bring her so
+that which is bidden may be, that the children of the
+Banana may triumph.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">MYalu rose. The two started on the return to
+the village. On the road Bakahenzie sought to flatter
+MYalu by pretending to take him into his confidence,
+adjuring him to secrecy and informing him that
+he would cause it to be known that MYalu, the
+son of MBusa, would bring back the Bride of the
+Banana. MYalu assented gravely. Just before reaching
+the village his keen eyes noticed a slight trail
+from the regular path. Broken, twisted and crushed
+leaves and strained branches indicated the recent
+passage of two or three people through the undergrowth.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With difficulty, for the Wongolo are not forest
+people, he followed the spoor in a semi-circle towards the
+village and a footprint in the slime revealed the track
+of Zalu Zako or Marufa coming from the fires. MYalu
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page222">[pg 222]</span><a name="Pg222" id="Pg222" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+grunted, but he said nothing to Bakahenzie or anybody
+else. That the vision had been caused by Moonspirit’s
+magic he had now no doubt, and his estimation
+of Moonspirit’s power increased to the point of terror;
+yet the smouldering jealousy and desire for Bakuma
+drove him dreadfully on.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Before the sun was two spans high MYalu left
+the village with some two hundred of his followers
+anointed against magic and spirits. The track from
+Moonspirit’s camp was like an elephant’s path.
+Through the steamy heat they followed all day until
+they came out upon a river near to a village upon the
+border of the forest. The headman of the village
+was away with his chief; but women, children and
+slaves remained. Zalu Zako, in the company of a
+white man called Moonspirit, Marufa, the wizard, and
+a girl had arrived, had taken three canoes and had
+left up-stream within a hand’s breadth of a shadow.
+MYalu took all the canoes available and started in
+pursuit, leaving the rest of his men to follow as
+soon as they had procured other canoes from the
+nearest village.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The river was small but deep and flowed swiftly
+between the vast curtains of the overhanging trees.
+When the dungeon of the forest was glooming to
+night they saw the gleam of a fire. Swiftly and
+silently they landed, surrounded the camp and uttering
+the war yell, rushed.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But Moonspirit, Zalu Zako or Marufa they
+found not—only Bakuma with some dozen Wamungo
+carriers. Even the dismal squawk of a Baroto bird
+could not damp the relief and joy of MYalu. Next
+morning he despatched a secret messenger to Yabolo,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page223">[pg 223]</span><a name="Pg223" id="Pg223" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+making a rendezvous at a certain village and with a
+weeping Bakuma in his train set out to seek the
+rest of his fortune at the camp of Eyes-in-the-hands.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD21" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page224">[pg 224]</span><a name="Pg224" id="Pg224" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc42" id="toc42"></a>
+<a name="pdf43" id="pdf43"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 21</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the village of Bakahenzie was discontent.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The desertion of Sakamata, Yabolo, and three
+chiefs, had corroborated his suspicions of the unfrocked
+priest. That Sakamata had been preaching open
+sedition he had known, yet Bakahenzie was in the situation
+of many a president or prime minister; he had
+feared to put his own position in jeopardy by having
+the offender removed expeditiously. This treachery,
+which synchronised with the time when MYalu should
+have either returned or sent a messenger, implied
+another grave error. All the information he could
+gather was that MYalu had returned through the village
+by the river with the girl Bakuma, some prisoners and
+some of the white man’s equipment, on his way to the
+north-east; but no one apparently had seen Zalu Zako,
+Marufa nor the white man.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakahenzie was at a loss to discover a plausible
+theory to account for MYalu having kidnapped
+Bakuma, who could not be of any political importance
+to him in going over to Eyes-in-the-hands, but would
+rather prejudice him seriously with the rest of the tribe
+for the sin of sacrilege in taking the Bride of the Banana.
+Shrewd judge of his compatriots though he was, the
+possibility of a love motive never occurred to Bakahenzie.
+A dominating passion in an individual for
+any particular female was rare in the native world;
+attractive wives or concubines were chosen and
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page225">[pg 225]</span><a name="Pg225" id="Pg225" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+bought as one buys a goat or an ox. Bakuma, in her
+capacity as a sacrificial victim, was to him merely a
+good-looking girl, well selected by Marufa for the orgy
+of the Harvest Festival.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakahenzie was distraught. He feared that he had
+not the authority to prevent further desertions; he
+did not know how far Sakamata’s propaganda had
+permeated; he could not guess what Zalu Zako, Marufa
+and the white man were going to do. As many a
+wise statesman before and after him he adopted a
+policy of <span class="tei tei-q">“wait and see.”</span> To provide an exciting
+distraction to keep his constituents amused and from
+thinking too much, he borrowed another political
+tactic of abusing some one vigorously. He called a
+meeting of the faculty and the warriors. There he
+solemnly denounced MYalu as a traitor and accused
+him of the crime of having abducted the Bride of the
+Banana, and consequently as the cause of the continuance
+of the misfortunes of the tribe.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The move was successful, inasmuch that it afforded
+discussion and absorbed wrath for two whole days.
+Various chiefs proposed as many plans. But none
+was taken. Everybody was discontented and
+quarrelsome, as fearful of Eyes-in-the-hands as he
+was of his tribal god; many were impressed by
+the propaganda of Sakamata and Yabolo and the
+impunity with which Yabolo and Sakamata and
+company had quietly gone over to the enemy. Meanwhile
+Bakahenzie squatted in oracular silence, murmuring
+incantations that were prayers to the Unmentionable
+One interlarded with promises of the things
+he would accomplish for the said Deity, with solemnity
+and sincerity, for he felt that the result of Marufa’s
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page226">[pg 226]</span><a name="Pg226" id="Pg226" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+intrigue with the magician Moonspirit would mature
+very shortly. What that would be he had no notion;
+only he strained every nerve to be alert when the
+crisis came to snatch from Marufa the advantage that
+wily old man had gained.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On the third day two more chiefs followed in the
+wake of Yabolo. Bakahenzie made no comment, but
+he realised that before long, unless the unknown
+happened, he would be unable to retain any of his
+followers; realised that his one chance lay in procrastination.
+In his despair he began to contemplate an
+alliance with Marufa, even if he had to take a subordinate
+rôle—which would at any rate give him his
+only ally, time, to help checkmate his colleague.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On the next day yet another chief and his men
+departed. Bakahenzie knew that they were like a herd
+of goats and that to stop the stampede he must adopt
+desperate measures. To quell the restlessness which
+murmured ominously throughout the camp he called
+another meeting as soon as the news had come of the
+last desertion. While the drum tapped out the summons
+Bakahenzie sat muttering his most impressive
+spells alone, endeavouring to discover a plausible excuse
+for some sort of excitement to distract the public
+mind.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Slowly and sulkily the remainder of the brethren of
+the craft and those lay chiefs that were left, assembled
+within the circle of fires. Squatted in the prescribed
+order they eyed the figure of Bakahenzie in his red
+and green feathers mumbling incantations with doubt
+and disfavour. Indeed Bakahenzie seemed to them
+the symbol of the fallen god and a past régime; impotent
+and as mistaken as they were. In each and every
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page227">[pg 227]</span><a name="Pg227" id="Pg227" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+one of them were suspicions and fears growing like
+weeds in tropic rain that he had made an error in not
+propitiating the new god in time, an impulse which
+required but a few hours’ growth to propel them out
+to the north-east after Sakamata and the others.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As they watched in silence Bakahenzie was aware of
+the state of their minds towards him and grew the
+more perplexed in his search for an entertainment
+sufficiently stimulating to postpone the effects of their
+discontent. Sapiently he decided that any more
+messages from Tarum would be unwise in the present
+atmosphere. An idea of a revelation by divination to
+appoint a substitute for Bakuma as the Bride of the
+Banana and thus thrust forward a reason for a feast,
+as there was now no Yabolo to object, was abandoned
+because such an orgy was exclusive to the craft and
+would serve to exasperate the lay chiefs.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">His resource suggested a method. Suddenly he
+uttered a piercing yell and fell sideways as in the manner
+of one about to receive a communication from Tarum;
+but instead of the habitual seizure and cries and
+groans he lay rigid and silent. The divergence from
+the usual distracted the doubts of the audience.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The fires flickered and danced to the insectile anthem
+as for twenty minutes or more he lay there as one dead.
+But at the first flutter of inattention among the doctors
+he sat up with closed eyes and called out in a loud
+voice:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That which is and must be, shall be!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Intuitively he had followed the precept of witch-doctors
+the world over of saying nothing at all in such
+a way that as many interpretations may be deduced
+as there are listeners. Each and every doctor and
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page228">[pg 228]</span><a name="Pg228" id="Pg228" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+chief accordingly saw in these mystic words, as Marufa
+had done in the chance phrase of Moonspirit, that
+which he was most urged to do. Bakahenzie had
+accomplished his temporary object. Once more he
+cried out:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Let the children of the Banana be as the wild-cat
+at the fishpool that that which I have prophesied may
+come to pass!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The charging of the air with the familiar suggestion
+of magical doings gripped the audience and forced
+from them the conventional grunt of assent.
+Bakahenzie began again to mutter incantations. He
+had, he knew, averted the immediate danger for at
+least another sun, or perhaps two. Now was there
+only to wait and see. But Bakahenzie, as all great
+men, had the distinct vein of luck that follows the
+bold. Even as they squatted there, thoroughly worked
+up for the reception of a miracle, came a rustle among
+the leaves. Every head turned as one to see once more
+the mystic gleam of eyes in the gloom as the voice of
+Marufa cried:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Let there be a new fire!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From the cavern of the undergrowth emerged a
+white man bearing upon his shoulders a burden which,
+as he staggered into the gleam of the fires, was seen to
+be in form and in shape that of the burned idol.
+Then did Bakahenzie leap to his feet and in one
+stroke recover his lead and fetter his most dangerous
+enemy by proclaiming in a loud voice:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Behold! The bearer of the Burden of the World
+even as Bakahenzie hath prophesied!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And as Birnier set down the idol, from warrior and
+wizard, with the chief witch-doctor’s declaration,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page229">[pg 229]</span><a name="Pg229" id="Pg229" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<span class="tei tei-q">“That which is and must be, shall be,”</span> echoing in
+their ears, came the deep grunt of acceptance of the
+new King-God of the lost Usakuma, the Incarnation
+of the Unmentionable One.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD22" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page230">[pg 230]</span><a name="Pg230" id="Pg230" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc44" id="toc44"></a>
+<a name="pdf45" id="pdf45"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 22</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the humid heat of the forenoon the small hills
+of Fort Eitel, as zu Pfeiffer had renamed the
+Place of Kings, in the centre of the rased banana
+plantations, resembled scabby pimples upon a shaven
+patch of a green head seething with a verminous activity.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Across the ford of the river came a puckered-faced
+Bakuma in the train of carriers and slaves of MYalu,
+who with Yabolo was coming to make obeisance to
+Eyes-in-the-hands, under the protection of Sakamata.
+To Bakuma there was no joy in the prospect of the
+sight of her old home; the bitter taste of the oleander
+was in her mouth as she trudged despondently with
+downcast head.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But the breast of MYalu was filled with the song
+of the cricket. The terrors that had haunted him
+throughout the journey, of being overtaken by the
+magic of Bakahenzie or his emissaries, for the sacrilege
+of stealing the Bride of the Banana, began to evaporate
+at the approach to his village where now dwelt a new
+god more powerful than any, from whom he was about
+to gain protection, honours, and incidentally the ivory,
+which his anxious eyes pictured still within his hut.
+But when they broke from the outer banana plantation
+a mighty grunt was punched from the chests of Yabolo
+and MYalu at the vision of the half-completed street
+of large huts in the midst of desolation.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh!”</span> quoth Sakamata, <span class="tei tei-q">“is not the way of the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page231">[pg 231]</span><a name="Pg231" id="Pg231" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+mighty one more wonderful than he who is gone?
+Behold, he maketh a city like unto that of his people,
+a city of gods!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But MYalu had no admiration to spare, for to him
+the alleged beauty thereof was fogged by the fact that
+his own huts were but blackened ruins. The next
+moment MYalu, in spite of his native dignity, started
+as one of those uniformed keepers of the coughing
+monsters barked at them magic words.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sakamata replied. Yabolo and MYalu stiffened as
+they observed the cringe of the shoulders as he fumbled
+hastily within his loin-cloth and presented a piece of
+hard substance, the colour of blue clay with magic
+marks upon it. The demon grunted at them to proceed
+as if talking to a slave. Followed in file the rest
+of the caravan. As Bakuma passed the uniformed
+demon standing with the sword and gun with seven
+voices upon his shoulder, leered, and grunting in a
+strange tongue, stepped forward and spun her round
+by the shoulders. Bakuma cried out in terror and
+the carriers gasped fearfully. MYalu and Yabolo
+wheeled. MYalu’s facial scar twitched with rage as
+he raised his spear. But Sakamata clung to his arm
+as the soldier, grinning, raised his rifle in their
+direction. Bakuma ran on. The man laughed and
+turned his back to them, calling out something that
+the Wongolo could not understand.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh!”</span> commented Sakamata indignantly, <span class="tei tei-q">“the
+dog hath eaten poison grass! We will tell his words
+to Eyes-in-the-hands and he will be beaten until
+he stales.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">MYalu, slightly mollified by this promise of revenge,
+strode on in silence, bewildered and resentful, wondering
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page232">[pg 232]</span><a name="Pg232" id="Pg232" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+at these strange things in the camp of the new god.
+In a large open space resembling a public square, was
+a big unfinished hut: the guest house, Sakamata
+informed them, for those who sought an audience with
+the Invincible One. As they squatted on the floor
+waiting patiently until the sun was two hand’s-breadth
+above the hill for the appointed time, food and beer
+were brought to them by a Wamungo slave. Zu
+Pfeiffer was careful to foster the class distinction.
+Sakamata duly held forth upon the generosity of
+Eyes-in-the-hands, the wonder of his works and presence;
+but his words were received in unsympathetic
+silence, for the incident on the road had wounded the
+dignity of both chief and witch-doctor; raised dim
+fears and forebodings.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At length a strange sound rang out on the still hot
+air. The signal, Sakamata explained, that Eyes-in-the-hands
+would receive his guests. Leaving Bakuma
+squatted in the lethargy which appeared to be habitual
+to her now, the three slowly mounted the sacred hill,
+marvelling greatly at the black triangle of the roof of
+the new temple, gazing with veiled suspicion at the
+gleaming brass fittings of the coughing monster in the
+great gate, and eyeing uneasily the double lines of
+uniformed devils, their bayonets flaming in the sun, who
+were drawn up outside the green palace of Eyes-in-the-hands.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On each side of the tent door stood the two tallest
+men in the companies, coal-black forms which towered
+above the slighter build of the Wongolo, as rigid and
+as silent as trees. Through this terrifying guard
+walked Sakamata leading his two compatriots, already
+startled and impressed. Immediately within Sakamata
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page233">[pg 233]</span><a name="Pg233" id="Pg233" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+fell upon his knees. Before them at the end of the
+tent sat zu Pfeiffer in the full dress of his regiment,
+plumed helmet, blazoned uniform and sword; and
+beside him, erect, the two sergeants Schultz and
+Ludwig in full parade uniform. Above them was a
+blaze of red, white and black and in the midst another
+splash of colour. But before this vision had penetrated
+their brains, had risen the voice of Sakamata
+bidding them to kneel likewise. Bewildered and awed
+they obeyed. Then came a voice saying:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Rise, approach, O chiefs!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Accordingly they arose and following Sakamata,
+advanced and squatted, their eyes dominated and held
+by those myriad gleams of magic <span class="tei tei-q">“eyes”</span> on hands and
+wrists. Then the interpreter, standing at attention,
+spoke this harangue tonelessly:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Greeting and welcome, children of the Banana!
+Eyes-in-the-hands who is known to the people where
+the sun rises as the Eater-of-Men, hath come from
+afar, the messenger of a greater than he, the Lord of
+the World, the Earthquake, the World Trembler, who
+eats up what he pleases, whose eyes see all things,
+whose sword slays all things, whose breath is the rain,
+whose voice is the thunder, whose teeth are the
+lightning, whose frown is the earthquake, whose smile
+is the sun, whose ear is the moon, whose eyes are the
+stars, whose body is the world! Look upon one soul
+of him which he hath sent that ye may worship and
+know him!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer raised the jewelled hand above his
+shoulder as the man ceased. From out the medley of
+colours to the unaccustomed native eyes grew slowly
+the form and face of a white man as strangely clothed as
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page234">[pg 234]</span><a name="Pg234" id="Pg234" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Eyes-in-the-hands, covered with amulets and charms
+upon his breast. For four minutes by his wrist-watch,
+zu Pfeiffer sat silent and as frozen as his sergeants; then
+secretly he pulled a string.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span> grunted Yabolo and MYalu involuntarily,
+for before them appeared even, as Sakamata had related,
+the two souls of every person present. Stunned
+at such a manifestation of magic, they slowly turned
+from one to the other. As silently as they had
+appeared did the visions vanish.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“O son of MYana, tell the tale of the possession
+of these thy friends and allies,”</span> commanded zu
+Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sakamata obeyed. But as he recited the approximate
+number of MYalu’s followers, the number of
+his oxen and goats, the number of fine tusks and small,
+the number of wives, concubines, and children, and
+slaves, the eyes of MYalu grew unquiet. Had he
+known that he would be required to render an account
+he would have computed at half the actual amount,
+whereas, in order to impress Sakamata with his importance,
+he had exaggerated to almost double what he
+had ever possessed. Then as Sakamata proceeded to
+perform the same service for Yabolo, relating, by
+arrangement with his relative, about one-third of his
+possession, MYalu observed in a corner a man making
+magic upon a table, a native clerk keeping tally; for
+zu Pfeiffer kept an exact record of every chief’s alleged
+possessions, as given by Sakamata and corroborated—by
+silent consent—by the said chief, so that when
+afterwards any discrepancy with the said list was discovered,
+the chief was proven a liar and subject to the
+punishment of further confiscation as such, and served
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page235">[pg 235]</span><a name="Pg235" id="Pg235" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+as well to enhance the reputation for omniscience of
+Eyes-in-the-hands.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At the end of the recitals of property, MYalu was
+told, not asked, to bow his head to the ground in token
+of allegiance. He obeyed in bewilderment which
+changed to rage when he was informed that the third
+of his property must be rendered to the august being
+before one sun’s delay; that he was to be ready at a
+summons to produce a given number of warriors;
+and that his small and only son was immediately to be
+placed in the <span class="tei tei-q">“village of sons of chiefs”</span> as guaranty of
+obedience and good behaviour.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In a mist of fright, anger and awe, he sat motionless.
+Sakamata proceeded to relate the doings of Zalu Zako
+and those who had remained faithful to him. Zu
+Pfeiffer had fairly precise information from spies of
+the movements of the Wongolo since the return of
+Sergeant Ludwig, who had burned the village of
+<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E32" id="E32" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e32" class="tei tei-ref">Yagonyana</a></span>,
+but shortage of men and the serious
+disadvantage of traversing and fighting in the forest
+had prevented him from sending another punitive
+expedition. Also had he heard of a white man who had
+passed through the country. Sakamata, native-like,
+eager to placate, asserted that he had actually seen the
+white man who was called Moonspirit, and from the
+same motive, ever wishing to flatter, announced positively
+that he had no magic at all, was dark and small
+and a trader, the only kind of white man other than
+the military at Ingonya of whom Sakamata had ever
+seen.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer stroked his left moustache and reflected.
+He had at first thought that the man might possibly
+be Saunders, a trader who was in his pay, but now
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page236">[pg 236]</span><a name="Pg236" id="Pg236" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+decided that he was probably some new trader or
+hunter from the Tanganyika district. He instructed
+Sakamata that he was to send a messenger to this white
+man and command him to come to him immediately.
+Then waving the imperious jewelled hand, he dismissed
+them. But noticing the sullen countenance of
+MYalu, he drew Sergeant Schultz’s attention, ordering
+him to mark the man and if the tax was not forthcoming
+quickly, to have him given fifty lashes. Silently
+Schultz saluted.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So it was that MYalu, sulky, smouldering with anger
+against Sakamata, for he felt that he had been betrayed
+into a trap, followed Yabolo out into the sun. Not
+only had he not gotten back his ivory left in the village,
+but he was ordered to pay much more than he actually
+possessed.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But when he had descended the hill to the guest
+house he came to the weeping and wailing of his
+people, who informed him that Bakuma had been taken
+away by three of the demon keepers of the coughing
+monsters.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD23" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page237">[pg 237]</span><a name="Pg237" id="Pg237" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc46" id="toc46"></a>
+<a name="pdf47" id="pdf47"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 23</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Upon the site of Birnier’s old camp in the forest
+was a high palisade built from tree to tree.
+Inside of the gate beside a small conical hut burned
+the sacred fires tended by Mungongo; before a green
+canvas tent stood the new idol, which differed from
+the original in having a better perspective and proportion
+of features and body, yet lacked the master
+touch of expression given by the subconscious fingers
+of the native artist.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Against the wall were stacked uniform cases to make
+a table, upon which were a hand-mirror and toilet
+articles; above a photograph of Lucille was pinned
+upon the canvas. Upon the camp bed, screened by a
+mosquito net, lay the new King-God, Moonspirit,
+the magic book in his hands.</p><br />
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Kings, princes, monarchs, and magistrates seem
+to be most happy, but look into their estate; you shall
+find them to be most cumbered with cares, in perpetual
+fear, agony, suspicion, jealousy: that as he (Valer. i. 7,
+c. 3) saith of a crown, if they but knew the discontents
+that accompany it, they would not stoop to pick it up.
+Quem mihi regem dabis (saith Chrysostom) non curis
+plenum?”</span></p><br />
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Incarnation of the Unmentionable One smiled,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page238">[pg 238]</span><a name="Pg238" id="Pg238" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+put down the book and glanced across at the photograph.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And yet they still talk of the advantages of a
+monarchy!”</span> he commented.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The original plan concocted with Marufa and Zalu
+Zako in the forest when making the new idol was that
+Birnier should become chief witch-doctor and Zalu
+Zako be anointed King-God, with Marufa as the power
+behind the throne. Although Zalu Zako desired to
+escape the yoke, his protest was enfeebled by the sense
+of fatality, and had been utterly squashed by the
+promise of Marufa, at Birnier’s suggestion, that the sex
+tabu would be lifted from the godhead. But the
+negligence of Marufa in allowing the white man to
+carry the idol, arranged with the idea of investing
+Moonspirit with greater prestige according to the
+prophecies already announced by Tarum, had permitted
+Bakahenzie to make his <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">coup
+d’état</span></span>—thrust the
+godhood upon the white and recover his own position.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier in truth had little option of refusal as well
+as little time for reflection upon a situation the
+possibility of which had not occurred to him; for
+Marufa was completely out-manœuvred by his rival,
+and the certainty of escape from his doom offered by
+Bakahenzie revived the image of Bakuma in Zalu Zako
+and bought his partisanship instantly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With Napoleonic swiftness to grasp the advantages
+gained Bakahenzie drove the lay chiefs from the
+sacred presence, which he surrounded by a bodyguard
+of the awed brethren; expelled the household from
+Zalu Zako’s compound and hustled the incarnation,
+bearing the new god, into holy isolation.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bewildered by the rapidity of the moves Marufa and
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page239">[pg 239]</span><a name="Pg239" id="Pg239" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Zalu Zako were separated from Moonspirit. In the
+general confusion, not knowing exactly what was
+happening, Birnier complied with what he believed to
+be the regulations regarding gods. But when he
+perceived that he was about to be left alone he clutched
+Mungongo and refused to part with him. Bakahenzie,
+compelled to avoid any delay before consolidating his
+position, instantly shut up Mungongo in the same web
+by declaring him the Keeper of the Sacred Fires and so
+disposed of any agent outside the tabu or craft. As
+soon as this was accomplished and a dance to celebrate
+the lighting of the new fires commanded, the wily
+chief witch-doctor approached Marufa who, realizing
+that he was hopelessly outwitted, was only too eager
+to make the best terms possible.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier had known that the King-God was never
+allowed to be seen by the populace except at the
+Harvest Festival, yet he accepted his isolation
+philosophically, lured by the expectation of the
+secrets he was about to learn, although his curiosity
+led sometimes to the vision of a god peeping through a
+fence.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">While the drums summoning the council of chiefs
+and wizards were muttering through the moist air, to
+Birnier, squatting on the floor of Zalu Zako’s hut with
+Mungongo beside him, came Bakahenzie to instruct
+him in his rôle. To whet his curiosity still more he
+learned that from the moment of appearance in the
+gate of the sacred enclosure for the ceremony of the
+lighting of the royal fires, every movement of body
+and speech was regulated as rigidly as the etiquette of
+the Court of Spain. At a signal from the chief
+witch-doctor was the King-God to leave the hut and
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page240">[pg 240]</span><a name="Pg240" id="Pg240" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+appear from behind the idol; with arms in a certain
+position was he to approach and squat at an exact spot.
+To Mungongo was given charge of the two fire sticks,
+newly consecrated.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As the chief witch-doctor retired the chanting
+began. Interested to know what was about to happen
+Birnier obeyed in the spirit of a game. So in the
+warm darkness they squatted, these two, listening to
+the chanting, cries and groans to the accompaniment
+of the drums and lyres and the perpetual twitter of the
+forest. At last came a violent howl from Bakahenzie
+which Mungongo declared was their cue.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Around the circle of the fence to avoid the eyes of
+the audience ran Mungongo to the temporary Place
+of Fires. Feeling as if he were once more playing in
+an amateur dramatic club, Birnier stalked with
+portentous dignity from the hut, past the idol, and
+took his seat upon the enchanted place. Without the
+palisade and within another squatted in correct order
+the lines of wizards and chiefs, Zalu Zako retaining,
+rather by prestige of his former holiness and indecision
+as to what his status really was, his position at their
+head.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Upon his haunches before a large calabash upon a fire
+Bakahenzie finished the mumbling of incantations over
+the sacred ingredients, and leaping to his feet began a
+wild dance to the throb of the drums and the diaphragmatic
+chorus of the assembled cult.… Swifter
+and swifter spun the chief witch-doctor. The glow of
+the fire tinted his whirling bronze body with flecks
+of green and red as he gyrated in and out of the shadows.
+Suddenly he threw a handful of herbs upon the fire
+which was immediately enveloped in a cloud of smoke,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page241">[pg 241]</span><a name="Pg241" id="Pg241" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+into which with a screech Bakahenzie disappeared.…
+The drums and grunting ceased. Then
+in the swirling column of blue appeared his figure
+holding something in his hands. To the wild outburst
+of drums and groans he sprang towards the
+King-God elect and anointed his breast and shoulders
+with a pungent compound, and leaped away into
+another dance, while Mungongo plied the two fire
+sticks. When the spark was blown upon the dry
+tinder and the first flame flickered Bakahenzie dropped
+flat before the gate as from the wizards went up the
+great shout:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The fire is lighted!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And from the mass of warriors and folk confined to
+their huts behind the outer palisade the phrase was
+echoed in a mighty wail, startling monkeys and parrots
+into as wild an acclamation of the new King-God.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakahenzie, rising to his haunches, began a chant in
+honour of the new King, a chant based upon the song
+composed by Marufa and repeated on the phonograph,
+but developing even stranger merits and attributes.
+Until the first glimmer of dawn through the forest
+roof squatted Birnier, as motionless as etiquette
+demanded, listening to the strange psalm of praise
+with avid interest and observation.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Suddenly, amid a furious clamour of the drums,
+Bakahenzie, Marufa, and one other of the inner cult
+of the five who had not deserted, led the body of the
+doctors in a rush into the sacred enclosure, seized upon
+the startled King and hustled him to the base of the
+idol where, yielding to the whispered instructions of
+Marufa, he took the idol once more upon his shoulders
+and guided by Bakahenzie, walked out of the gate and
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page242">[pg 242]</span><a name="Pg242" id="Pg242" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+through the village to the yelling and screaming of the
+wizards, some of whom, according to precedent, ran
+about screeching and rattling hut doors, pulling
+thatches and howling ferociously in search of any
+sacrilegious peeper.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As he tramped on with his load Marufa yelled in his
+ear that he must carry the Burden of the World no
+matter what happened to him, for if he let the idol
+fall then would he be killed upon the spot to save the
+sky from falling too. Wondering what this meant and
+where he was going, the cut of thongs upon his legs
+surprised him into a halt. Immediately a terrific cry
+went up:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The Bearer of the World stumbles! Aie!
+Aieeeeeeeee!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Despite the furious flogging the intellectual interest
+in this strange conception distracted his mind from
+the pain of the blows; also his bare back was protected
+by the idol and his leggings and trousers deadened the
+lashes. A moment more he hesitated. But he was
+unarmed and had voluntarily taken on the adventure,
+so he would see it through. As he broke into a
+shuffling run, for the idol fortunately was lighter than
+the previous one and he was a more powerful man
+than Kawa Kendi, another howl of joy and relief
+echoed throughout the village.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So along the old forest trail he travelled as fast as
+he could, assisted slightly by wizards’ hands as he
+crawled over clumps of undergrowth. The intensity
+of the whipping had decreased as soon as they were
+out of the village but throughout an occasional
+vicious whack testified to the presence of some devout
+doctor. Thus it was that the white King-God came
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page243">[pg 243]</span><a name="Pg243" id="Pg243" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+to his throne and sat in state upon his bed to smile
+at the reflections of a melancholic philosopher.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So far so good, reflected Birnier, although the
+enforced isolation and strict curtailment of his actions
+had already begun to be irksome; yet to attain so
+difficult a goal sacrifice must be borne, he argued
+philosophically.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The royal larder, he noticed with thankfulness, was
+kept well stocked. Every day appeared a slave who
+left just within the entrance chickens, bananas, milk
+and fresh water, and sometimes a young goat. All
+such provisions which he had happened to take into
+the forest with him and so had escaped MYalu’s
+marauding hands had been placed in his tent with
+other cases, as containing no man knew what mighty
+magic.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For three days he had been left utterly alone.
+Sounds of drums and chanting from the distant
+village had reached them on the still air, but what
+they were doing he could not discover. No layman
+was allowed to come near the sacred enclosure. While
+he strolled, taking a smoke and constitutional around
+and around his <span class="tei tei-q">“pen,”</span> as he put it, several of the lesser
+wizards appeared and stood at a distance from the
+gate to stare at him. When addressed they made no
+reply. On the second occasion he began to be irritated,
+but he kept his temper and went to cover in his tent,
+muttering: <span class="tei tei-q">“Why the devil don’t they bring me some
+buns?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On the fourth day patience began to fray. He had
+no notion of knowing how long this quarantine was
+going to last. He was on the point of going to find out,
+but Mungongo pleaded so earnestly that they would
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page244">[pg 244]</span><a name="Pg244" id="Pg244" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+instantly be killed if they did, that he desisted. So
+Birnier retired to the tent to seek consolation from a
+record of Lucille’s voice.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier attempted to cross-examine Mungongo to
+find out what was the object of this isolation, but
+beyond the fact that strangers were never permitted
+to behold the King-God, even lay natives, without
+special magic, which was only made once a year at the
+Harvest Festival, lest evil be made upon his person and
+so endanger the world, Mungongo did not know;
+merely, that so it was. What power over the head
+witch-doctor the King really had, Mungongo had no
+notion. The King-God was the most powerful
+magician known, asserted Mungongo. Did he not
+make rain and bear the world upon his shoulders?
+When Birnier unwisely denied this feat, Mungongo
+looked pained and began a remark, but balked before
+the name Moonspirit to ask the name of Birnier’s
+father.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At the mental image conjured up of a handsome
+white-haired planter and ex-owner of many slaves
+Birnier smiled, but he knew the tabu regarding the
+ban upon the names of the dead and that he, presumably,
+having ascended into the divine plane, was
+therefore classed with the departed. He recollected
+that the old man, who belonged to a cadet branch of a
+royalist family, had been called <span class="tei tei-q">“le Marquis,”</span> of which
+he was excessively proud. Birnier translated into the
+dialect the nearest possible rendition of the title:
+The Lord-of-many-Lands.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The son of the Lord-of-many-Lands,”</span> continued
+Mungongo satisfied, <span class="tei tei-q">“doth but tickle the feet of his
+slave.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page245">[pg 245]</span><a name="Pg245" id="Pg245" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On the fifth afternoon, while the god was engrossed
+in a cure for love madness which, he reflected, might
+be of service to zu Pfeiffer, came a voice without
+crying:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The son of Maliko would speak with the Lord, the
+Bearer of the World!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier glanced across at the photograph of Lucille.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Some job I’ve gotten!”</span> he remarked as he rose.
+In the gate sat Bakahenzie. Birnier was conscious of
+an idiotic impulse to rush forward to greet him as an
+old and long lost friend. But remembering the
+dignity of his godhood he remained in the tent
+doorway, bidding the chief witch-doctor to advance.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier retired backwards and sat beneath the net, for
+the mosquitoes were as thick as they are on the bayou
+Barataria. Mungongo, possibly to prove his erudition,
+sat upon one of the cases containing much magic, at
+which Bakahenzie from the floor in the doorway looked
+askance. Birnier was keenly anxious to know what was
+happening regarding the fortunes of the tribe, hoping
+that with the restoration of the Unmentionable One
+that they would return to their allegiance. According
+to etiquette he remained silent, waiting for Bakahenzie
+to open the conversation, until, realizing that he was a
+god and that the chief witch-doctor was doing the
+same thing, reflected swiftly and desiring to make an
+impression, repeated Bakahenzie’s mystic phrase which
+he had overheard whilst hiding in the jungle previous
+to the dénouement:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That which is and must be, shall be!”</span> Bakahenzie
+grunted his acknowledgment of the profundity of the
+statement. <span class="tei tei-q">“He who would trap the leopard must
+needs dig the pit!”</span> Another uncompromising silence
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page246">[pg 246]</span><a name="Pg246" id="Pg246" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+urged Birnier to force the pace a little: <span class="tei tei-q">“O son of
+Maliko, what say the omens and the signs of the evil
+one, Eyes-in-the-hands?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“When shall the Unmentionable One return unto
+the Place of Kings?”</span> demanded Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The Holy One returneth not unto the place
+appointed until that which defileth is removed,”</span>
+retorted Birnier.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakahenzie took snuff and appeared to consider.
+Then he glanced around the tent as if in search of
+something.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“When will the voice of Tarum speak through the
+pod of the soul?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mungongo looked expectant and stood up. But
+Birnier ignored him.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The fruit doth not fall until it be ripe. He would
+know what hath been done by his slaves for the baiting
+of the pit for the unclean one.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Would the magician that cometh from the sea
+make pretence that an elephant is a mouse?”</span> inquired
+Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For a moment Birnier was perplexed; then he
+realized that the chief witch-doctor inferred that he,
+as King-God, mocked his priest by pretending that he
+did not know all things.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Doth the chief witch-doctor make magic for the
+curing of the scratch of a girl of the hut thatch?”</span> he
+retorted. <span class="tei tei-q">“Lest thy heart wither like unto a fallen
+leaf, know then that the soul of Tarum hath made
+words for the return of the Unmentionable One to
+the Place of Kings, but that his children may not be
+as the dogs of the village who are driven, he wills that
+you prepare the pit for the trapping of the defiled
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page247">[pg 247]</span><a name="Pg247" id="Pg247" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+one.”</span> Bakahenzie’s eyes stolidly regarded the tent
+wall. <span class="tei tei-q">“O son of Maliko, hast thou sent forth the
+sound of the drum throughout the land that the
+children may know of the Coming?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“When will the voice of Tarum speak through the
+pod of the soul?”</span> demanded Bakahenzie insistently.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier sat motionless in the native manner.
+Irritated by this childish tenacity to apparently a fixed
+idea, he yielded to an impulse which was almost a
+weakness.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“O son of Maliko,”</span> said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“thou art a mighty
+magician!”</span> Bakahenzie grunted modest assent.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Even as I am.”</span> Another grunt. <span class="tei tei-q">“Give unto me
+thine ears and thine eyes that I may reveal unto thee
+that which is known to the mightiest of magicians.”</span>
+Commanding the delighted Mungongo to bring out
+the phonograph, he continued: <span class="tei tei-q">“Thou hast heard
+of the mighty doings of the unclean devourer of men,
+Eyes-in-the-hands. I have magic the like of which
+man hath never seen. Is it not so?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ough!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yet will the son of the Lord-of-many-Lands make
+thee to see that which is, is not!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That which is, is not,”</span> repeated Bakahenzie, whose
+professional mind was pleased with the phrase.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the desire to explain rationally the mystery
+of a phonograph and despairing of any attempt
+to describe the laws of vibration, Birnier sought
+for a likely simile. Encouraged by the almost imperceptible
+fact that he had awakened Bakahenzie’s
+visible interest, he plunged on: <span class="tei tei-q">“Within this piece of
+tree is there nought but many pieces of iron such as thy
+spears are made of. Thou knowest that there are
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page248">[pg 248]</span><a name="Pg248" id="Pg248" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+places by the river and in the rocks where a man may
+speak and that his words will be returned to him. Is
+it not so?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“They are white words, O son of the Lord-of-many-Lands!”</span>
+returned Bakahenzie. <span class="tei tei-q">“For the spirits
+of the river and the rocks mock the voices of those
+who have not eaten of the Sacred Banana”</span> (the uninitiated).</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But they mock thy voice as well,”</span> protested Birnier.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Are there not goats in ghostland who bleat at the
+wizard and the peasant?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“By the Lord!”</span> murmured Birnier, although the
+mask of his face did not change. <span class="tei tei-q">“Ghostland is full
+of goats if one were to credit some of the most modern
+witch-doctors! Still demonstration …</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thou seest, fellow magician,”</span> he continued, <span class="tei tei-q">“the
+pod of the soul of mighty Tarum, his ear like unto an
+elephant, his colour like unto a lion!”</span> Birnier got
+out of the mosquito net and knelt beside the phonograph
+in front of Bakahenzie. Taking off the trumpet
+and cylinder carrier he opened up the inside, revealing
+the clockwork motor, wound it up, stopped it and
+released it. <span class="tei tei-q">“Thine eyes see that my words are
+white. These things are but as pieces of metal of thy
+spears. Is it not so?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ough!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier closed the machine, adjusted the trumpet
+and put on the cylinder of Marufa’s record.</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Aie! Aiee! I am the spirit of Kintu!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aie! Aiee! I am he who first was!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">chanted the machine.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier, noticing that the desired astonishment was
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page249">[pg 249]</span><a name="Pg249" id="Pg249" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+registered by an almost impalpable start, stopped the
+machine and changed the record.</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“Rejoice, O my children, for he that is bidden shall come!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rejoice, O ye warriors, for he that shall lead you shall come!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rejoice, O ye wizards, for he that is greater than ye shall come!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rejoice, O ye women, for he that fertilizes shall come!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier allowed the machine to run through the
+chant until the end:</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">“He shall come forth bearing that which ye seek!</div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hear ye, my people, and give voice to my word!”</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The machine whirred and stopped. Birnier turned
+to Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thou hast seen, O my brother magician, that my
+words are white?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ough!”</span> assented Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thou hast seen, O my brother magician, that at
+the will of my finger upon that which is made but of
+spear-heads that the voice of Tarum hath spoken, the
+voice which is but the mocking voice of Marufa amid
+the trees of the forest?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ough!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Dost thou not know that he who knows the ways
+of rocks, who can make pieces of spear into that which
+will say and do that which he wills, is a greater magician
+than he who must needs go unto the rocks to be
+mocked?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thou art the greatest of magicians, O son of the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page250">[pg 250]</span><a name="Pg250" id="Pg250" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Lord-of-many-Lands,”</span> responded Bakahenzie in a
+burst of eloquence. <span class="tei tei-q">“For thou hast entrapped the
+spirits of rocks and spears to do thy bidding.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“O God!”</span> sighed the professor, <span class="tei tei-q">“what is the use
+of language?”</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD24" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page251">[pg 251]</span><a name="Pg251" id="Pg251" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc48" id="toc48"></a>
+<a name="pdf49" id="pdf49"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 24</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A favourite panacea for the results of a stupid
+action is the sentiment of martyrdom. When
+MYalu persisted in bitter reproaches to Yabolo and
+Sakamata the first retorted that the punishment was
+the result of having committed the sacrilege of
+kidnapping the sacred Bride of the Banana. Then
+MYalu considered that not only had he been trapped
+by one of his own people whom he had deserted, but
+to add insult to injury he felt he was not understood.
+Neither Yabolo nor Sakamata, as Bakahenzie, could
+comprehend a chief and a warrior making such a fuss
+over a girl. That the confiscation of MYalu’s property
+was an insult they both agreed, but biassed by both
+fear of Eyes-in-the-hands and their own interests, they
+were disposed to pretend that after all such a small
+matter as the abduction of a girl could be overlooked
+when committed by the follower of such a powerful
+god and magician, as expedience is so often the father
+of a dispensation. Yet nevertheless in Yabolo, if not
+in Sakamata, whose hatred of the tribal craft was deep
+in ratio to the degeneracy of his native code, the
+outrage upon Bakuma as the Bride of the Banana,
+while an act of dangerous sacrilege when performed
+by a Wongolo, violated the half suppressed traditions
+and kindled a spark of bitter resentment ready to flare
+up against Eyes-in-the-hands or Sakamata; but being
+a diplomatist, he concealed that anger, even from
+himself to a certain degree.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page252">[pg 252]</span><a name="Pg252" id="Pg252" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Upon MYalu’s arrival in the guest-house to find that
+Bakuma had been taken, his passion had nearly led to
+his instant destruction, for he had desired to run amok
+among the grinning askaris. Afterwards, when the
+efforts of his friends and the hungry points of bayonets
+had cooled his ardour, he had wanted to rush straight
+to Eyes-in-the-hands who, according to Sakamata
+employed as master of ceremony at the daily audiences,
+would instantly restore Bakuma to him and visit a
+terrible punishment upon the evil-doer. But the
+august presence could not be approached so casually:
+petition must be made in orthodox form and the royal
+pleasure awaited meekly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">According to the words of the Son-of-the-Earthquake,
+as zu Pfeiffer was officially designated by his
+men, who placed the actual name under the tabu in
+token of the acceptance of the magic purple, came a
+guard to take away MYalu’s first-born as hostage to
+the village of the sons of chiefs. Seething with red
+rage MYalu mutely followed Yabolo to the place
+appointed for their housing. Then on the following
+afternoon at the time of audience MYalu waited in the
+broiling heat for three hand’s-spans of the sun without
+being summoned to the green temple. And thus it
+was for three days.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But upon the fourth, when MYalu squatted in the
+general hut in company with Yabolo, Sakamata, and
+other renegade chiefs, smouldering with bitter resentment,
+came the pulse of a distant drum, the furious
+tattoo and long pause, tattoo and long pause, which
+accompanies the mighty shout at the coronation of a
+new King-God, <span class="tei tei-q">“The Fire is lighted!”</span> news that
+had throbbed from that point within the forest
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page253">[pg 253]</span><a name="Pg253" id="Pg253" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+from village to village to the slopes of the Gamballagalla
+and to the Wamungo country. The perceptible
+effect upon that circle of bronze figures was a scarcely
+audible grunt, yet nevertheless the message was like
+unto a live ember dropped in the dry grass of the cattle
+country.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">That morning one of the renegade chiefs had brought
+in two others to make their allegiance and received as
+reward for his fidelity a remittance of one-third of the
+tax levy upon his property, a policy adopted by zu
+Pfeiffer calculated to encourage the recruiting of his
+followers by establishing a reputation for lavish
+generosity to those who obeyed him, in contrast to
+his merciless severity to the recalcitrant ones.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">An hour later MYalu was summoned from the
+sweating throng squatted before the line of demon
+keepers through the giant ebon guards to audience with
+the Son-of-the-Earthquake. At the entrance as bidden
+he knelt, for he knew that he would be compelled did
+he refuse. A white flame was in his heart, but yet
+the magnificence of the son of the World Trembler and
+his satellites, the terrible ghosts of the distant white
+god, with amulets and charms upon his breast, had awed
+and subdued MYalu. Then came the voice of Sakamata
+relating that the chief MYalu, son of MBusa,
+made complaint to the Son-of-the-Earthquake that
+his slaves, the keepers of the coughing demons, had
+taken a girl named Bakuma, daughter of Bakala, and
+that he craved restitution of his property. While this
+was being translated by the corporal interpreter,
+MYalu watched the magic flame in the mouth of
+Eyes-in-the-hands, marvelling greatly at the smoke
+which emerged. Then said the interpreter:</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page254">[pg 254]</span><a name="Pg254" id="Pg254" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The son of the Lord-of-the-World, the Earthquake,
+the World Trembler who eats up whom he
+pleases, whose eyes see all things, whose sword slays
+all things, whose breath is the rain, whose voice is the
+thunder, whose teeth are the lightning, whose frown
+is the earthquake, whose smile is the sun, whose ear is
+the moon, whose eyes are the stars, whose body is the
+world, saith that when the son of MBusa (MYalu)
+bringeth three chiefs of the same rank to sit at the Feet
+then shall the daughter of Bakala return unto him,
+but in the meantime shall her girdle remain untied.
+He hath spoken!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As he finished zu Pfeiffer made the signal of dismissal
+with his jewelled hand, but MYalu with the throb of
+that distant drum in his ears, cried out in protest,
+saying:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The words of the Son-of-the-Earthquake are like
+unto spears made of grass!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The interpreter boggled at the translation of the
+sentence. Zu Pfeiffer saw a ripple of insubordination.
+He rapped out an order to have the man taken away
+and given fifty lashes. Instantly the guards surrounded
+MYalu, who submitted in sudden misgiving,
+and led him away to receive the punishment.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer gave orders that the girl Bakuma should
+be found and called the next case, Kalomato the
+elderly chief who had had all his property sequestered
+until he should deliver his eldest son as hostage. He
+was a slight withered old man with a white tuft of
+beard and at the hands of the askaris, after considerable
+endurance, had screamed his submission. Now he
+hobbled into zu Pfeiffer’s presence with the aid of a
+stick. Pompously the interpreter recited the list of
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page255">[pg 255]</span><a name="Pg255" id="Pg255" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+the titles of the august one, and then dwelt upon the
+wondrous benefits to be obtained at the magic jewelled
+hands, and demanded that the old chief <span class="tei tei-q">“eat the dust”</span>
+and obey the royal mandate.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But the sharp eyes gazed steadily from their wrinkled
+sockets with a curious gleam in them as he mumbled
+that <span class="tei tei-q">“his soul had wandered”</span> (he had dreamed) <span class="tei tei-q">“and
+had met the spirit of Tarum, who had forbidden him
+to obey the white god.<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E29" id="E29" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e29" class="tei tei-ref">”</a></span></span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The shenzie”</span> (savage—used contemptuously)
+<span class="tei tei-q">“longs for more fire for his paws, O Bwana,”</span> translated
+the interpreter into Kiswahili.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What does he say?”</span> demanded zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He says, Bwana, that he hath dreamed that his
+god hath told him that he must not obey you. Indio,
+Bwana.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Tell him that I slew his god, as every man knows.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The Son-of-the-Earthquake bids thee to know that
+he hath eaten up thy god as he eateth up thy warriors
+when his wrath is aroused. Eat dust that thy beard
+grow yet longer; stretch thy tongue and thou shalt
+be eaten entirely and all that is thine!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The Fire is lighted,”</span> mumbled the old man.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What does he say?”</span> demanded zu Pfeiffer sharply.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He attempts to make magic against thee, Bwana,”</span>
+replied the interpreter who knew not the meaning of
+the phrase.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Take away the animal,”</span> commanded zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The old man was accordingly led out to the further
+attentions of the soldiery. But during that afternoon
+zu Pfeiffer became conscious of a subtle air of defiance,
+a restlessness and exchanging of glances, so that the
+demon which Bakunjala had once seen so vividly came
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page256">[pg 256]</span><a name="Pg256" id="Pg256" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+back to roost somewhere beneath the immaculate
+uniform.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Neither he nor his sergeants nor their men could
+speak the Wongolo tongue fluently, so that for interpreter
+he was compelled to employ one of the corporals.
+To employ any newly subjected race or tribe as
+soldiers or in any responsible capacity is unwise, for
+ties of blood are liable to lead to treachery; to trust
+to the idiosyncrasies and personal values of any native
+interpreter is equally impolitic. Zu Pfeiffer and his
+party were as unaware of the meaning of the phrases
+exchanged as they were of the message in the throbbing
+of that distant drum. Between the conqueror and
+the subjected tribe was a wall denser than any steel;
+the same wall of tabu of the craft that Birnier was
+finding so difficult to penetrate.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Every attempt to persuade any of the witch-doctors
+to disclose the secrets of their craft through the
+interpreter was doomed to failure; even had zu
+Pfeiffer been able to speak the dialect as well as Birnier
+he would never have accomplished it. Yet he tried
+the impossible. The answer was invariably a mask of
+ox-like stupidity or the retort that he, being a mighty
+magician, must needs know that he did but <span class="tei tei-q">“tickle their
+feet”</span>! At length, irritated by this persistence, he
+had Sakamata put to the torture and had for his pains
+a story in which the idol as the first man was the father
+of the tribe whom the people believed to have been
+eaten up literally, so that the conqueror had become
+the father of the people, having the idol inside him,
+and the chance that the tale had a faint resemblance to
+an account by a Frenchman of the superstitions of a
+West African tribe, convinced him. Implicitly he
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page257">[pg 257]</span><a name="Pg257" id="Pg257" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+believed the ingenious yarn invented by a wily witch-doctor
+to save his hide and the perquisites of his job
+by placating the white man, the trap into which most
+white chroniclers have fallen. This conviction, which
+flattered his sagacity and lulled any suspicions,
+strengthened his arm in the delivering of punishment
+and reward.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD25" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page258">[pg 258]</span><a name="Pg258" id="Pg258" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc50" id="toc50"></a>
+<a name="pdf51" id="pdf51"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 25</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the camp of Bakahenzie was the low mutter of the
+drums by day and night. The village had straggled
+farther through the forest in each direction save that
+of the sacred enclosure. Already were some five
+hundred warriors there and more were pouring in
+every day. Busy were Bakahenzie and wizards, great
+and small, in the preparing of amulets of the hearts
+of lions, livers of leopards and galls of birds, and the
+brewing of potent decoctions to be smeared with parrot
+feathers upon the warriors old and young against the
+evil eye and the spirits of the night. And dispensed
+by Bakahenzie and Marufa, from whom had come the
+original idea, was a special and rather expensive charm
+against the coughing monsters, which was made by,
+and invested with, the magic of the King-God himself,
+a can key. That morning had there been a special
+meeting of the craft and the chiefs before the sacred
+enclosure, where they had looked upon the sacred form
+of the King-God and heard the magic elephant’s ear
+give them instructions and a prophecy. Around and
+about a hundred fires, flickering mystically in the moist
+cavern of the forest, shuffled and chanted the warriors
+invoking the aid of Tarum, the spirit of their ancestors.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On the threshold of his hut squatted a sullen Zalu
+Zako. He had discovered that he had escaped from
+the river bearing him to the pool of celibacy to find
+that the bird had been captured by another. Although
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page259">[pg 259]</span><a name="Pg259" id="Pg259" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+he had known that before attaining his desire he would
+have had to extricate Bakuma from the net of the tabu,
+yet, lover-like and human, that task unconsidered had
+seemed as easy as stalking a buck in a wood. But the
+joy of his own release had been dissipated as a cloud
+of dust by a shower by the news of MYalu’s abduction
+of the girl and his desertion. Zalu Zako was so
+obsessed by chagrin at this wholly unexpected appearance
+of a rival that he was inclined to regret that he
+had ever thought of the move by which he could
+escape his late doom and rescue Bakuma at the same
+time. The illusion of nearness to the desired object
+had served naturally to whet his appetite; the balked
+love motive dominated him almost to the exclusion
+of political affairs. What his official status was now
+that all precedent had been broken Bakahenzie did
+not know and had not decided, and Zalu Zako cared
+less.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Though his faith in most of the tribal theology was
+unshaken, he did not believe in the sanctity, or the
+necessity, of the marriage of the Bride of the Banana,
+because he had a defensive complex of desire for her
+that inhibited that belief. Towards MYalu, Zalu
+Zako’s natural reaction was revenge. The matter
+was how to accomplish that end. To reveal to Bakahenzie
+that he was the lover of Bakuma would be
+tantamount to admitting sacrilege in having a passion
+for the Bride of the Banana.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As Zalu Zako was unable to get at the person of
+his rival the most logical method to his mind was by
+witchcraft. To obtain some relics of the body of
+MYalu proved easy, as his wives and slaves being forced
+to flee, had been unable to burn the deserted hut, thus
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page260">[pg 260]</span><a name="Pg260" id="Pg260" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+leaving in the customary place in the thatch some of the
+hair and nail clippings. Also to find an excuse for the
+cursing of MYalu was still easier. So at a meeting
+of the chiefs he rivalled Bakahenzie in denunciation
+of the absconding chief, insisted that a mighty magic
+be made against him and produced the necessary
+corporeal parts upon which to work. So it was that
+Bakahenzie and Marufa, a quiet watchful Marufa,
+brewed the magic brew and condemned MYalu by
+the proxy of his nail clippings to die, a process
+that took root in a very firm conviction in the mind
+of Zalu Zako and the others that die MYalu would.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After this satisfaction of the first fierce instinct
+Zalu Zako was more at liberty to consider other matters,
+which resulted in an effort to quicken the collective
+will to recover the tribe’s country and possessions,
+symbolised in Zalu Zako’s mind by the delicate figure
+of Bakuma.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The ceremony of the lighting of the new fires he
+had attended perfunctorily. To have regret or pity
+for the white man, Moonspirit who had taken over his
+doom, never occurred to Zalu Zako, for to him as to
+Bakahenzie Moonspirit was a mighty magician who,
+if competent to effect the magic he had already
+displayed, was capable of looking after himself;
+moreover, as he had recalled the Unmentionable
+One, he stood as the incarnation of the tribe, the god,
+therefore beyond human consideration.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakahenzie’s chief regard was, of course, to unify
+the tribe once more and to rouse those who had
+submitted to Eyes-in-the-hands to rebellion, which
+was but a projection of his desire, as that of all
+patriots, to consolidate his own position and to regain
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page261">[pg 261]</span><a name="Pg261" id="Pg261" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+his lost prestige. He had had no need to command that
+the news be sent abroad. At the ceremony of the
+Lighting of the Fires the drum notes had been picked
+up by the nearest village and sent ricocheting across
+the length and breadth of the country, rippling through
+the Court of the Son-of-the-Earthquake.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakahenzie’s confidence had increased tenfold since,
+by his clever coup, he had locked up the white magician
+in the godhead. He believed that Moonspirit was
+the mightiest magician the world had ever seen, a
+demi-god; for had he, Bakahenzie, not seen these
+wondrous miracles with his own eyes? Had not he,
+Bakahenzie, captured and tamed this marvellous
+power to his own ends?</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So absolute was this confidence in the powers of
+the white that Bakahenzie was perfectly sincere, as
+Mungongo and Bakuma had been, in asserting that
+the <span class="tei tei-q">“son of the Lord-of-many-Lands”</span> was pleased to
+pretend that <span class="tei tei-q">“an elephant was a mouse,”</span> that he
+<span class="tei tei-q">“tickled their feet.”</span> The only doubt raised in his
+mind at that interview was whether he could persuade
+this powerful being to destroy the usurper <span class="tei tei-q">“out of
+hand,”</span> as it were, or even whether Moonspirit could
+do so; for it was quite reasonable to him to suppose
+that even a god, in fighting another god, might have
+to do battle for the victory.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Not in spite of, but because of, this firm faith
+Bakahenzie took more precautions than ever before
+to surround the captured god with the toughest
+fibres of the tabu to keep him in isolation. Obviously
+such a valuable prize demanded special precautions.
+He promulgated an ordinance, in the amplitude of
+his regained power, that no lay man nor any wizard
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page262">[pg 262]</span><a name="Pg262" id="Pg262" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+save the inner cult, whom he dared not forbid, were
+to approach within sight of the sacred enclosure.
+In the jungle of his mind lurked the fear that the new
+god might be seen to leave the sacred ground and thus
+render the penalty of death imperative according to
+the laws of the tabu upon a god who jeopardised the
+tribal welfare as MFunya MPopo had done by his
+failure to bring rain. The belief that he could control
+a force which he admitted was infinitely greater than
+he, and of punishing it if it did not behave, was not
+at all inconsistent to the native mind, nor more
+illogical than many theological ideas of whites.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At the last interview Bakahenzie had tried to
+persuade Birnier to permit him to speak into the mighty
+ear of the magic box; in effect an attempt to gain
+complete control. But Birnier, when he at length
+had realised that Bakahenzie’s mental development
+was little greater than Mungongo’s, and keenly aware
+of the isolation to which he was to be subjected, as
+well as the purpose in the witch-doctor’s mind, had
+resolutely refused. Bakahenzie had accepted the
+intimation that the god would not work miracles
+through any other mouth than that of his incarnation,
+and after a long cogitative silence had departed without
+further comment.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But of course he came back again next day, as
+Birnier had known that he would. Birnier hinted at
+the expected initiation into the <span class="tei tei-q">“mysteries”</span> of the
+craft, particularly of the Festival of the Banana and
+the other ceremonies connected with his rôle as
+King-God. But Bakahenzie’s gaze, fixed upon an
+object on the toilet table, did not quiver. Birnier
+repeated the inquiry more bluntly. Said Bakahenzie:</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page263">[pg 263]</span><a name="Pg263" id="Pg263" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The fingers of the son of Maliko are hungry to
+touch the magic knife of the son of the Lord-of-many-Lands.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Damn it,”</span> muttered Birnier. <span class="tei tei-q">“That’s my favourite!”</span>
+But he handed the razor to Bakahenzie,
+saying: <span class="tei tei-q">“Is not the porridge pot free to all brothers?”</span>
+Gravely Bakahenzie slipped the safety razor into
+his loin cloth, mumbled the orthodox adieu and
+departed.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Although devoted to Birnier as much as ever,
+Mungongo was bound just as much by the articles of
+the tabu as any other native; in fact, since his appointment
+to the high office of Keeper of the Fires, he was
+if possible more terrified by the bogies of their theology
+than before. Put one foot out of the sacred ground
+he would not, for he was convinced that immediately
+he did so, the ghosts of the dead kings would instantly
+strangle him. Birnier attempted to persuade him to
+get into communication with Marufa, but that wily
+gentleman, grieving over the failure of the coup he
+had aided Birnier to make, and for the moment
+completely under the domination of Bakahenzie,
+who, he knew, had him watched every moment of the
+day and night, would never approach the Place of the
+Unmentionable One. Nor dared Zalu Zako break
+the tabu placed by Bakahenzie. To Bakahenzie and
+not to Birnier he owed his escape from the dreaded
+godhood. One who had released him might quite
+reasonably have him back again if annoyed. The few
+wizards who came to gaze at the imprisoned god like
+children at the Zoo, as Birnier had commented, were
+deaf to any remark, instruction, or plea of the Holy
+One. So it was that Birnier began to realise that
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page264">[pg 264]</span><a name="Pg264" id="Pg264" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+the functions of a god were so very purely divine
+that he would never be allowed to interfere in human
+affairs at all except by grace of the high priest, and
+possibly he was not the first god who had found that
+out.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This jungle of secrecy and the denial of any active
+part in the organising of the tribe began to irritate
+Birnier. Yet he perceived clearly enough from his
+knowledge of the native mind that a premature
+effort to force either confidence or action would
+end in disaster. Patience and perseverance alone
+would bring success; and the moulding of the
+material through forces which already controlled it.
+He must play the witch-doctor to the full. Working
+upon this hypothesis he determined to control
+Bakahenzie through <span class="tei tei-q">“messages”</span> from the spirit of
+Tarum. The trouble was to find out whether
+Bakahenzie would obey him or not and to what
+extent.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So in the early hours of one morning Bakahenzie’s
+watchers in the forest shuddered as they heard more
+of the mysterious voices of the Unmentionable One
+making wondrous magic within the temple as Mungongo
+chanted, at Birnier’s prompting, the god’s
+instructions to his high priest and people. The form
+of the chant was not correct as Mungongo’s memory
+was very unreliable, but as Birnier remarked to the
+portrait of Lucille, <span class="tei tei-q">“I don’t suppose Maestro Bakahenzie
+is such a stylist as he would have the public
+suppose.”</span> Afterwards, to Mungongo’s delight, who
+was never tired of any manifestation of Moonspirit’s
+magic, he put out the light and lay upon his bed within
+the temple listening to the voice of Lucille pouring
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page265">[pg 265]</span><a name="Pg265" id="Pg265" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+out the passion of <span class="tei tei-q">“Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix,”</span> in
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Samson et Delilah</span></span>, to the sleepy ears of
+the monkeys above the figure of the idol limned against the moon-patterned
+roof of the forest.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But scarcely had the moist ultramarine shadows
+turned to mauve than the voice of Bakahenzie hailed
+the god most punctiliously from without. However
+Birnier happened to be sleepy, and the chance of the
+early hour presented such an opportunity to gain
+prestige that he sent the Keeper of the Fires to inform
+the High Priest that the god was not yet up and that
+he must needs wait. And wait did Bakahenzie, like
+unto a graven image at the gate until the sun was four
+hand’s-spans above the trees. When Birnier had
+breakfasted upon broiled kid, eggs, banana and
+weak tea, Bakahenzie was summoned to the august
+presence.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Wondering what new idea Bakahenzie had gotten
+into his head Birnier solemnly talked the usual preliminaries,
+intending to announce in the best manner that
+Tarum had a message for the son of Maliko; but to
+his astonishment Bakahenzie forestalled him by
+demanding to know when the god would speak
+again.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When Mungongo had gravely placed the machine
+at his feet Birnier set the record. The chant bade
+the son of Maliko to summon the wizards and the
+warriors of the tribe to the abode of the Unmentionable
+One; to send to those who had fallen into
+the power of Eyes-in-the-hands instructions that
+they were not to reveal by word or deed that the
+Unmentionable One had been pleased to return, but
+to wait like a wild cat at a fish pool until a signal was
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page266">[pg 266]</span><a name="Pg266" id="Pg266" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+given through the drums, when they were to smite
+swiftly at every keeper of the demons and to flee
+immediately to their brethren in the forest; that
+they were on no account to kill or wound Eyes-in-the-hands
+nor any white man that was his, lest their
+powerful ghosts exact a terrible penalty and refuse to
+be propitiated; that when these things had been
+done would the spirit of Tarum issue further instructions.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In composing this message Bernier had sought to gain
+the advantage of a surprise attack and to secure the
+massacre of as many of the askaris as possible; to save
+zu Pfeiffer and his white sergeants from the fate which
+would await them should they fall into the hands of
+the Wongolo; to minimise the loss of men which
+would occur were the tribe to attempt to face the
+guns; afterwards to lure zu Pfeiffer away from his
+fortifications and the open country, in order to compel
+him to fight in the forest where he could not ascertain
+what force was against him; and in the meantime to
+slip round and establish the idol in the Place of Kings,
+which act would consolidate the moral of the tribe
+as well as cut the line of zu Pfeiffer’s communications
+with Ingonya.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As Bakahenzie listened gravely and attentively,
+Birnier keenly watched his face. Although the mask
+did not quiver, a half suppressed grunt at the end
+persuaded him that Bakahenzie was duly impressed,
+but he made no comment. After regarding Mungongo
+solemnly putting away the machine Bakahenzie
+remarked casually:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“In the village is a messenger from Eyes-in-the-hands
+who sends thee greetings.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page267">[pg 267]</span><a name="Pg267" id="Pg267" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This was the first news that Birnier had received
+since his ascent to the godhood. He had expected
+that sooner or later zu Pfeiffer would hear of the
+presence of a white man, but he was rather startled
+at the inference that zu Pfeiffer knew who he was.
+He made no visible sign as he waited. Bakahenzie
+took snuff interestedly and continued:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eyes-in-the-hands bids thee to go unto the Place
+of Kings to eat the dust before him.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakahenzie regarded him with keen eyes. Birnier
+considered swiftly. From the latter part of the
+message he gathered that zu Pfeiffer was not aware
+of his identity. His opinion of zu Pfeiffer’s character
+suggested certain psychological possibilities. His policy
+was to lure him away from his fort; to destroy
+his military judgment. Therefore to cause him at
+this juncture to be violently disturbed by a personal
+emotion might tend to confuse his mind. Enmity—fear—might
+equally serve as the lure required. In
+spite of committing a breach of native etiquette
+Birnier could not resist smiling. He reached for the
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Anatomy”</span> and as he scribbled two words he said to
+Bakahenzie solemnly:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“O son of Maliko, say unto this man of many
+tongues as well as many eyes, ‘that the jackal follows
+the lion that he may feed upon his leavings; that
+the voice of the hyena is loudest when he eateth
+offal.’ And shall the slave take unto him that
+which is mighty magic, such magic that when Eyes-in-the-hands
+doth but touch it shall he trumpet like unto
+a wounded cow elephant. Bid him to mark that my
+words be white!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And when Bakahenzie had gone Birnier turned to
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page268">[pg 268]</span><a name="Pg268" id="Pg268" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+the portrait on the wall and remarked as he indulged
+in the luxury of a grin: <span class="tei tei-q">“Say, honey, but if that
+doesn’t make him mad, I’ll—I’ll
+eat my own manuscripts!”</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD26" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page269">[pg 269]</span><a name="Pg269" id="Pg269" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc52" id="toc52"></a>
+<a name="pdf53" id="pdf53"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 26</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In a corner of one of the half-completed huts in a
+half-completed street of the new village of the
+Place of Kings squatted Yabolo and other chiefs.
+As Sakamata was up in the fort serving Eyes-in-the-hands
+they could talk freely, yet in low tones and with
+wary eyes for the interstices of the unfinished wall.
+More than one chief had been thrashed but none as
+high in rank as MYalu; moreover, those that had
+been severely punished had been taken in fair fight or
+had attempted to escape, whereas MYalu had done
+nothing that they considered to merit punishment.
+The growing detestation and hatred smouldering within
+all of them against the new ruler had burst into flame
+at the first hint of the news vibrating upon the moist
+air. Later had come another drum message bidding
+them await new words of Tarum, and forty-eight
+hours afterwards the messenger sent by zu Pfeiffer to
+summon Moonspirit, who squatted in the group,
+whispered word for word Birnier’s message on the
+phonograph, adding further instructions from Bakahenzie
+that the signal should be another message upon
+the drums: <span class="tei tei-q">“The Fire is lighted.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Warm banana wrapped in leaves, which a slave
+had brought in, was placed before the chiefs while
+the messenger related the gossip of the village in the
+forest. Later, while lolling through the mid-day
+heat waiting for the time of audience, he produced
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page270">[pg 270]</span><a name="Pg270" id="Pg270" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+from his loin cloth the magic charm which the son
+of the Lord-of-many-Lands, the King-God, had sent
+to Eyes-in-the-hands and repeated the prophecy that
+he should trumpet like unto a wounded cow elephant,
+eliciting many grunts of admiration and awe. Then
+he inquired for Sakamata and MYalu, and upon hearing
+the account, reported that they were both traitors
+and had been condemned to die by the magic of
+Bakahenzie and Marufa.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Each and every chief felt that he had been betrayed
+by Sakamata. Even Yabolo, his relative, particularly
+because his visionary schemes had come to nought,
+was against Sakamata. Sakamata had heard the message
+of the drums, <span class="tei tei-q">“The Fire is lighted.”</span> But of the
+details of the return of the Unmentionable One
+and of the new King-God he knew nothing, although
+every other Wongolo man, woman, and child, knew
+it. The terror of the tabu, of the power of the
+Unmentionable One, was more overwhelming than
+his fear of Eyes-in-the-hands, wizard and ex-member
+of the inner cult though he be. The Unmentionable
+One had returned, a miracle! In a thousand signs
+of birds and beasts, twigs and shadows, Sakamata
+saw omens of evil. He knew that he was an outcast,
+that his fellows were plotting; that they knew something
+that he did not; yet he dared not tell Eyes-in-the-hands
+lest he be killed on the instant, not by
+Eyes-in-the-hands but by the mystic power of the
+Unmentionable One.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Farther down the line, in a small hut, lay MYalu
+motionless. His mind was a whirling red spot of
+rage and pain, obliterating the image of Bakuma, his
+ivory, and everything. From the base of the spine
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page271">[pg 271]</span><a name="Pg271" id="Pg271" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+to his neck he was criss-crossed with bloody weals
+administered with a kiboko (whip of hippopotamus
+hide) by one of the black giants who formed the door
+guard at the tent of Eyes-in-the-hands. More
+stimulating to his anger even than the excessive pain
+was the indignity, that he, MYalu, son of MBusa, a
+chief, had been flogged like a slave before all men!
+Could he have gotten free he would have leaped upon
+zu Pfeiffer, god or no, and torn him to pieces with
+hands and teeth. But he could scarcely move. Never
+had such an act been conceived by MYalu. The
+native dignity and reserve was shattered. He lay
+upon his belly and glared with the eyes of a maddened
+and tortured animal.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The yellow glare in the open doorway was darkened,
+but MYalu did not stir. The figure of Yabolo, a
+short throwing sword in hand, moved towards him
+and squatted down, muttering greetings. MYalu
+made no response. Yabolo repeated the message
+from the spirit of Tarum.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Let thy spear be made sharp, O son of MBusa,
+that we may make the jackal who would command the
+lion to eat offal!”</span> MYalu grunted. <span class="tei tei-q">“The son of
+Bayakala saith that it will be soon, so that thou mayest
+yet eat of thy defiler ere thou art gone to ghostland.”</span>
+MYalu turned his head. <span class="tei tei-q">“The son of MTungo and
+the son of Maliko,”</span> explained the old man, <span class="tei tei-q">“have
+made magic upon the parts which thou didst foolishly
+leave within thy hut.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Again MYalu merely grunted and turned away
+his head. But that dread news had quenched the
+white flame of anger. The spirits were wroth; even
+had they caused him to eat the dust before all men.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page272">[pg 272]</span><a name="Pg272" id="Pg272" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Conviction in the efficacy of the magic for which he
+would have bought Marufa to make against Zalu Zako
+was as absolute as his faith in the death magic made
+against him by the two powerful witch-doctors, and
+intensified by the miraculous return of the Unmentionable
+One against whom he had committed sacrilege.
+He recollected the cry of the Baroto bird on the night
+on which he had kidnapped the Bride of the Banana.
+The spirit of Tarum was wroth. The mighty new
+King-God of the Unmentionable One was about to
+eat up all the enemies of the land. MYalu was
+convinced that he was doomed; certain that Yabolo
+knew that he was doomed; that every man knew that
+he was doomed.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For ten minutes the figures, squatting and lying,
+remained as motionless as bronzes. Then MYalu
+rose to his knees and said calmly: <span class="tei tei-q">“Give me thy
+sword, O son of Zingala.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Silently Yabolo handed him the sword which
+MYalu placed beneath him and laid down again. So
+quietly he died.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From the sacred hill blared the harsh cry of the
+yellow bird, as the natives called the trumpet, announcing
+that the august presence was in audience. But
+instead of the usual crowd of immobile figures squatted
+almost under the shadow of the pom-pom within the
+gate of the fort, sat only the messenger. Sakamata,
+knowing that something portended and yet not
+exactly what, was so scared that his skinny limbs
+quivered as if with an ague. Although he desired to
+warn Eyes-in-the-hands in order to save himself, he
+dared not attempt to do so lest the august one visit
+his anger upon his person; vague ideas of redeeming
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page273">[pg 273]</span><a name="Pg273" id="Pg273" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+his treachery by delivering Eyes-in-the-hands over
+to his countrymen were stoppered by terror of the
+wrath of the Unmentionable One.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So it was that the pomp of the Son-of-the-Earthquake
+and the glory of the soul of the World-Trembler
+with many charms upon his breast was reserved for the
+humble messenger who entered escorted by Sakamata.
+After bowing in the prescribed manner the messenger
+squatted at zu Pfeiffer’s feet and addressed himself
+to the corporal interpreter.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The son of the Lord-of-many-lands, that is the
+King-God of the One-not-to-be-mentioned, sends
+greeting to the son of the World-Trembler, called
+Eyes-in-the-hands, and this message: ‘Say unto the
+man of many tongues as well as many eyes that the
+jackal follows the lion that he may feed on the leavings;
+the voice of the hyena is loudest when he eateth
+offal!’”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What does the animal say?”</span> demanded zu
+Pfeiffer, impatient of the native preamble.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He says, Bwana,”</span> said the interpreter, <span class="tei tei-q">“that the
+white man is sick and cannot move, but that he will
+come as soon as he is well.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From the folds of his loin cloth the messenger was
+dutifully extracting something wrapped up in a
+banana leaf, which he handed to the interpreter as
+he finished the message:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And by his slave he sendeth that which is mighty
+magic; such magic that he who toucheth it shall
+trumpet like unto a wounded cow elephant.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He says, Bwana,”</span> continued the interpreter
+glibly, <span class="tei tei-q">“that he sends to the mighty Eater-of-Men
+a small present,”</span> and with the words the corporal
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page274">[pg 274]</span><a name="Pg274" id="Pg274" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+guilelessly proffered the small package. Zu Pfeiffer
+took it and tore off the covering.…</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then was the magic of the new King-god of the
+Unmentionable One made manifest to all men, and
+particularly a group of chiefs hiding in a small thicket
+beneath the hill, for indeed did the Son-of-the-Earthquake
+trumpet like unto a wounded cow elephant
+at the sight of an ivory disc on which was written:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Amantes—Amentes!”</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD27" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page275">[pg 275]</span><a name="Pg275" id="Pg275" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc54" id="toc54"></a>
+<a name="pdf55" id="pdf55"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 27</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">All day at Fort Eitel had been stir and bustle,
+the blare of trumpets and the barking of sergeants,
+white and black. Long lines of women and slaves
+streamed in from the surrounding countryside bearing
+loads of corn and bananas. In the half-made parade
+ground at the foot of the hill of Kawa Kendi, half a
+company of Wongolo whom zu Pfeiffer had conscripted
+from the chiefs, stumbled and ran in awkward squads.
+In the hut of the Wongolo chiefs squatted Yabolo
+among the rest, silently observing the preparations
+for the punitive expedition which Sakamata had
+informed them was being prepared in response to
+the insolent challenge of the white man who had
+allied himself with the <span class="tei tei-q">“rebels.”</span> But over them,
+as well as every Wongolo in and about the place,
+was a sullen air not of defiance but of expectant
+listening.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the mess hut a nervous Bakunjala prepared the
+table for dinner, the whites of his eyes rolling at every
+sound of zu Pfeiffer’s voice from the marquee adjoining.
+Never in his experience, nor in that of other servants or
+soldiers, had the demon so utterly possessed the dread
+Eater-of-Men as since the receipt of some terrible
+magic sent to him by the white man. Opinion was
+divided as to whether this white man was the one
+who had been arrested and sent to the coast with
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page276">[pg 276]</span><a name="Pg276" id="Pg276" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Corporal Inyira or whether he was a brother; some
+said that the magic leaf which the messenger had
+brought was the soul of the white man, others
+maintained that it was the incarnation of Bakra,
+which explained why the Eater-of-Men was so
+entirely possessed. Had he not screamed? they
+demanded, which clearly proved, as everybody knew,
+the dreadful agony as the ghost entered into the
+body.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Even the white sergeants were frightened of their
+chief. They had been seen talking together secretly,
+doubtless discussing what medicine they could give
+him to exorcise the demon. Had he not been
+commanded by this demon to leave the safety of the
+fort where they had the guns on the hills, and to go
+into the forest where, as anybody knew, their eyes
+would be taken from them so that they could not see
+to kill the dogs of Wongolo? They were all conscious,
+native-like, that something was brewing among the
+Wongolo, but what it was exactly they did not know.
+Two men had had fifty lashes that morning because
+they had not saluted the totem—flag—correctly;
+and a Wongolo chief had been shot because he had
+not brought in the amount of ivory commanded.
+None dared to warn the Eater-of-Men. Some one
+had said that the <span class="tei tei-q">“leaf”</span> was the soul of the idol come
+to lead the Eater-of-Men to destruction. This idea
+took deep root among the Wunyamwezi soldiers, for
+although they had delighted in the slaughter and
+rapine under the leadership of the Eater-of-Men,
+yet always had there been an uneasy feeling of sacrilege
+in destroying an idol.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the half of the marquee reserved for the Kommandant’s
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page277">[pg 277]</span><a name="Pg277" id="Pg277" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+private quarters sat zu Pfeiffer in his camp
+chair with the inevitable stinger at his elbow. Erect
+by the door stood Sergeant Schultz taking details
+for the disposition of stores and troops during the
+absence of the punitive expedition. Never had he
+in four years’ service seen the lieutenant as he was
+now. Although Schultz could speak Kiswahili
+fluently he knew no word of Munyamwezi, else he
+might have been disposed to agree with Bakunjala
+and his friends. As it was he thought that the Herr
+Lieutenant had gotten a touch of the sun or was
+drinking too heavily or perhaps a bit of both; for
+to his mind the act of dividing up their scanty
+forces and leaving their fortified positions to enter
+the forest, with no chance of keeping open the
+line of communication, appeared to be military
+suicide.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He deemed it his duty to bring this point of
+view to his Kommandant’s notice, but he was
+uncomfortably aware of zu Pfeiffer’s headstrong
+character.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What time does the moon set, sergeant?”</span>
+demanded zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“About three, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Good. Then at five precisely the column will
+move. Warn Sergeant Schneider.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ya, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You will transfer the remainder of your
+men and the Nordenfeldt as soon as we have
+gone.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ya, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That is all, sergeant.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer dropped his head wearily on to his
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page278">[pg 278]</span><a name="Pg278" id="Pg278" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+hand. Schultz remained rigidly by the door. Zu
+Pfeiffer glanced up peevishly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I said that was all, sergeant,”</span> he exclaimed
+tetchily.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ya, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Herr Gott, what are you standing there for like a
+stuffed pig?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Schultz saluted.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence, it is my duty to remind your
+Excellence that according to regulation 47 of …”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“To hell with you and your regulations, damn
+you.… Will you leave me alone!”</span> The last
+was almost a plea.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Schultz saluted briskly and went. Again zu
+Pfeiffer’s head dropped on to the cupped hand and he
+gazed at the portrait in the ivory frame.… Against
+the blue twilight of the door appeared a tall figure in
+white.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What in the name of&mdash;&mdash;”</span> began zu
+Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Chakula tayari, Bwana,”</span> announced Bakunjala
+timidly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I don’t want any chakula,”</span> said zu Pfeiffer.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Wait. Bring some here.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bwana!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakunjala fled, to reappear almost instantly with
+a covered plate, which he placed on the table as
+bidden and vanished. Zu Pfeiffer regarded distastefully
+his favourite dish of curried eggs. Then he
+bawled irritably:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Lights, animal!”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page279">[pg 279]</span><a name="Pg279" id="Pg279" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bwana!”</span> gasped Bakunjala appearing in the
+doorway with the lamp.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But zu Pfeiffer pushed the plate away to stare at
+the photograph of Lucille. The stare turned to a
+glare, and then as if mutinying against his god, as
+Kawa Kendi had done when summoning rain, he
+suddenly snatched at the frame and flung it upon the
+floor with an oath, grabbed up a fountain pen and
+began to write.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Indeed zu Pfeiffer was half insane with anger which
+he was disposed to vent upon Lucille by proxy as
+the source of yet another trouble and possibly official
+disgrace. He had not had a notion that Birnier could
+have survived the gentle hands of the corporal until
+without warning came that ivory disc with <span class="tei tei-q">“Amantes—Amentes!”</span>
+scribbled upon it, which not only inferred
+that Birnier had escaped, but that he was near to
+him and intended to champion these native dogs
+against the Imperial Government in the person of
+himself.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The message had been made the more insulting by
+the note of exclamation at the end implying derisive
+laughter. It had, as Birnier had calculated that it
+would, struck zu Pfeiffer upon the most tender spot
+in his mental anatomy, evoking a homicidal mania
+which dominated his consciousness. To be cheated,
+to be swindled, to be sworn at, cursed, even to be
+beaten was sufferable to a degree, but to be laughed at—zu
+Pfeiffer’s haughty soul exploded like a bomb at
+an impact. For a time he had been absolutely
+incoherent with rage. His one impulse had been
+to rush out and tear Birnier limb from limb. Well
+might the listening natives believe in the mighty
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page280">[pg 280]</span><a name="Pg280" id="Pg280" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+magic of the new King-God, that it should make the
+Son-of-the-Earthquake to trumpet like a wounded
+cow elephant!</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then out of the dissolving acrid smoke of wounded
+pride begin to loom arbitrary points. First, that
+Birnier would have complained, as he once had threatened
+to do, to Washington, which would infuriate
+the authorities in Berlin; and secondly, that he would
+have written to Lucille revealing the attempt he
+had made upon the life of her husband as well as
+the things he had said. How Birnier had escaped
+was immaterial, but the particular fate that awaited
+Corporal Inyira was decided but futilely; for the
+bold son of Banyala and his merry men were footing
+it to the south of lake Tanganika, scared by day lest
+the long arm of the Eater-of-Men should overtake
+them and haunted by the terror of seeing another
+illuminated ghost by night.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As the jewelled hand glittered in the lamp-light
+came the mutter of a distant drum on the moist
+darkness; zu Pfeiffer, abnormally irritable, raised
+his head, scowled, and muttering that he would have
+to issue an order to have the drums stopped, bent
+again to the uncongenial task of finishing the report
+due for headquarters before he left. The drum ceased;
+began again and was answered by another drum seemingly
+nearer at hand.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Five or ten minutes elapsed. As zu Pfeiffer took
+up a fresh sheet of paper a shot rang out followed
+instantly by yells. Zu Pfeiffer with an oath
+sprang to his feet, snatched at the revolver hanging
+above his camp bed and rushed out as a fusillade of
+shots mingled with wilder cries. The gruff coughs
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page281">[pg 281]</span><a name="Pg281" id="Pg281" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+of the corporal in charge of the guard competed with
+the sharp barks of Sergeant Schultz. Zu Pfeiffer,
+bawling for a sergeant, ran to the great gate where the
+pom-pom was stationed. On the opposite hill red
+flashes of rifle fire darted downwards. Came another
+outburst of yelling. Forms of askaris scurrying to
+their places round the fence brushed by him on every
+side.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sergeant Schultz!”</span> shouted zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A figure in white appeared beside him in the
+darkness.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Put the gun on them! Quick!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At the bark of the sergeant the gun crew, already
+at their post, deftly manipulated the machine which
+coughed angry red bursts of flame into the darkness.
+The cries and howls ceased as suddenly as they
+had begun.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Cease fire!”</span> commanded zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the resulting stillness muttered shouts and cries
+from somewhere in the village below were punctuated
+by odd shots from the other hill.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sergeant Ludwig!”</span> yelled zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Report!”</span> snapped zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“An unknown body of natives attacked and killed
+the sentry on the eastern gate, Excellence,”</span> came
+Sergeant Ludwig’s voice from the gloom. <span class="tei tei-q">“They
+entered and were repulsed according to instructions.
+That is all, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Losses?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“None other, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What about the lower guards?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page282">[pg 282]</span><a name="Pg282" id="Pg282" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I do not know, Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Take a platoon and investigate. We will cover
+you with the gun.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The mutter of his orders was drowned in the
+excited jabber of the askaris.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Didimalla!”</span> came the dreaded voice of
+the Eater-of-Men. Instantly there was silence.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Report!”</span> commanded zu Pfeiffer to Sergeant
+Schultz.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“A body of natives attacked upon the western
+gate, Excellence. They were repulsed.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Losses?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Two men killed and three wounded.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ugm! Where’s the interpreter?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bwana!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cloth creaked as the man saluted in the dark.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Where is Sakamata?”</span> demanded zu Pfeiffer
+in Kiswahili.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Here, Excellence,”</span> replied Sergeant Schultz.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“He was running away. I had him arrested.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Good. Bring the animal to my quarters.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sergeant and the interpreter, with a trembling
+Sakamata between them, followed zu Pfeiffer to the
+tent. As he entered he picked up the portrait in
+the ivory frame and replaced it carefully on the table
+and sat down.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ask the shenzie why he has not informed us of
+this attack?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The interpreter put the question to the terrified
+old man who mumbled that he had not known anything
+about it.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page283">[pg 283]</span><a name="Pg283" id="Pg283" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ugm!”</span> grunted zu Pfeiffer. <span class="tei tei-q">“Send for a
+file of men, sergeant, and&mdash;&mdash; No!”</span> Zu Pfeiffer
+rose. <span class="tei tei-q">“I’ll get the truth out of him. Stand aside,
+corporal!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The corporal obeyed with alacrity as jerking his
+revolver downwards zu Pfeiffer pulled the trigger.
+The shot took off two of Sakamata’s smaller toes. The
+corporal grinned in appreciation. Zu Pfeiffer experienced
+a shadow of the pleasure he would have had in
+mutilating Birnier.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Pull him up!”</span> commanded zu Pfeiffer. <span class="tei tei-q">“Now
+ask him again!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For a moment or two Sakamata, scarcely conscious
+of any pain in his fright, could not comprehend
+what was said; at length he mumbled and
+muttered. The interpreter lowered his head to
+listen.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He says, Bwana, that he does not know anything;
+that they will not tell him, but that he has heard that
+the god has come back.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The god! What god?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The god which these shenzie (savages) had here
+before the Bwana came.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The idol!”</span> Zu Pfeiffer ripped out an oath.
+Then glaring questioningly at the shrunken figure on
+the floor considered.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Tell him he lies. How does he know that the
+idol has come back if they will not tell him anything?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Again the interpreter jabbered at Sakamata who
+mumbled back.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He says, Bwana, that his words are white. That
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page284">[pg 284]</span><a name="Pg284" id="Pg284" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+they have not told him, but that he has heard the
+message of the drums. ‘The Fire is lighted!’”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What is that?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I don’t know, Bwana.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ask him, you swine pig!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He says that whenever there is a new king
+that they call out those words, meaning that he is
+come.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ugm!”</span> Zu Pfeiffer took out a cigar and lighted
+it as he considered. I believe the animal is right,
+he reflected. That swinehund American has done
+this! He turned sharply to Sergeant Schultz:
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Post double guards; bring me Ludwig’s report
+and take this thing away and have it shot.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Excellence!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The party went out. Zu Pfeiffer sat smoking
+fiercely. A single shot rang out. Presently came
+Sergeant Ludwig in person.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I have to report, Excellence, that the investigation
+infers that the attack was only made with the
+purpose of freeing the sons of chiefs, for the picket
+has been slain but all the others are unhurt save three
+wounded.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer swore mightily, but he dismissed the
+sergeant with an admonition to have his troops ready
+for inspection at four-thirty. He drank a brandy
+neat and sat on, staring at the darkness. Then
+suddenly he exclaimed and wheeled to the abandoned
+report.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“This is an undeniable overt act,”</span> he muttered,
+seeing what he considered an opportunity to neutralise
+the suppositious complaint which Birnier had sent to
+Washington; and taking up his pen began a formal
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page285">[pg 285]</span><a name="Pg285" id="Pg285" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+accusation against Birnier, as an American subject,
+for having violated the international laws of the
+Geneva Convention by aiding and abetting rebels of
+his Imperial Majesty.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD28" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page286">[pg 286]</span><a name="Pg286" id="Pg286" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc56" id="toc56"></a>
+<a name="pdf57" id="pdf57"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 28</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sergeant Schultz’s gloomy foreboding of
+the inevitable result attending the refusal to follow
+the teachings of his national preceptors was justified.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer, crazed with wounded pride or magic,
+according to the white or black point of view, had
+held rigidly to his schedule; precisely at four-thirty
+he had inspected the expedition and marched at the
+first streak of dawn. Schultz removed to the other
+hill, leaving twenty-five men and a gun under a black
+sergeant. Afterwards he visited the village. The
+bodies of five of the picket were lying in the sun
+mutilated. Not a native of any sort was to be seen
+or heard. He sent out scouts. A village a couple
+of miles away was deserted too. He wished to burn
+the huts and plantation to clear the ground around the
+fort but he dared not do so without orders. Muttering
+to himself he returned and posted double
+sentries.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Throughout the day and the moonlight not a
+sound of a drum or the voice of a native disturbed the
+moist heat. He slept for a while and then took to
+pacing upon the levee outside the fort. He was
+aware of a restlessness among the men. About
+midnight a nervous sentry fired at a moving shadow
+in the village. Erratic shots followed; flickered and
+ceased at the sergeant’s angry order. The trees
+seemed to whisper mockingly. The sergeant decided
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page287">[pg 287]</span><a name="Pg287" id="Pg287" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+that it must have been a prowling jackal or hyena;
+but the incident made him irritable.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In ordinary circumstances he would have posted
+picket sentries as provided by the regulations, but he
+could not spare any of his fifty men, for in the case
+of an attack they would never regain the fort. The
+moon sank as if reluctantly, seeming to hesitate upon
+the fringe of banana fronds at something that she
+alone could see. But the night creaked slowly on.
+Schultz knew that the favourite hour for an attack
+was just at the first glimmer of dawn when the spirits
+are making for their homes and the light is deceptive.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He was standing in front of the Nordenfeldt when
+a sentry’s keener ears caught a peculiar whispering
+rustle. As Schultz turned his head to listen, the
+whisper grew in volume to the sound of a hail-storm—the
+patter of bare feet on sand. Faint light on spears
+rippled round the base of the hills. Schultz sprang
+inside the barrier barking at his men to open fire. He
+deflected the muzzle of his gun and began pumping
+nickel into the advancing mass of yelling figures.…</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The rush carried the fort; for the defenders
+were out-numbered by fifty to one. Schultz fell under
+a dozen spear thrusts. The askaris were massacred
+to a man before the sun rose inquiringly beyond the
+sacred hill of Kawa Kendi.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When all the bloody acts of war were done and the
+triumphant yelling quietened, there came from across
+the river a pulsing trickle of sound in the sizzling heat,
+which was answered by a thundering crash of spear
+against shield and the <span class="tei tei-q">“Ough! Ough!”</span> of three
+thousand warriors gathered upon the hill to do homage
+to the Unmentionable One.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page288">[pg 288]</span><a name="Pg288" id="Pg288" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Across the river, at the ford where Bakuma had sung
+her swan song, came the procession led by the craft
+in full panoply. In the van stalked Bakahenzie, grave
+and solemn as befitted the high priest. Around him
+capered with untiring energy a group of lesser wizards
+whose duties were as those of professional dancers,
+having dried bladders and magic beads fastened to
+their ankles and wrists. Then behind Marufa a
+litter was borne by sacred slaves doomed to perish
+after performing their holy office, in which, swathed
+entirely from the public gaze, was Usakuma, the
+Incarnation of the Unmentionable One. In another
+litter, as securely screened, was the son of the Lord-of-many-Lands,
+endeavouring to endure a perpetual
+bath of sweat in the sacred cause, peeking professorial
+eyes through the interstices, scribbling in a notebook.
+Behind again marched Mungongo bearing a
+smouldering brand of the Sacred Fire; then Yabolo,
+reinstated in office for a reason that any politician will
+understand. After him came more litters bearing the
+magic <span class="tei tei-q">“things”</span> of the Incarnation of an Incarnation,
+the King-God.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As they splashed across the river, like troops of bronze
+gazelle, women and girls dashed eager to gather of
+fertility from the water enchanted by the passage of
+the Bearer of the World.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So they came through the banana plantation and
+up the wide street which the Son-of-the-Earthquake
+had planned. The chant quavered like a dragonfly
+in the sun and the chorus of the warriors replied with
+the rhythm and the profundity of gargantuan frogs.
+Then as Bakahenzie stepped upon the incline of the
+hill, burst from the women the cricket song which is
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page289">[pg 289]</span><a name="Pg289" id="Pg289" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+made tremolo by the rapid beating of the fingers upon
+the lips, as from the drums went out the message over
+the land that the Unmentionable One had indeed
+returned to the Place of Kings, the City of the Snake.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ten minutes later a half-stewed god, as exhausted
+as any emperor after a state parade, was permitted
+to emerge from the litter and to recuperate within
+the cool of the unfinished house that was to have been
+the bungalow of the Kommandant. No one else
+save the Keeper of the Fires, Bakahenzie and Marufa,
+were within the stockade which ringed the fort.
+Outside rose the mutter and rumble of the warriors
+and the cries of the women. The huddled lines of
+huts which had been barracks were already in process
+of demolition at the hands of the slaves, and the square
+within the fort was cleared of the slain askaris by the
+simple process of heaving the bodies over the palisade.
+The idol remained within the litter until the consecrating
+of the defiled ground should be performed by
+Bakahenzie and the craft.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">No Wongolo nor any wizard, not even Bakahenzie,
+would touch the enchanted coughing monsters; but
+as the holy slaves were already doomed they were set
+to pull and to push the Nordenfeldt from the embrasure
+beside the entrance across the levee until it toppled
+over and rolled half-way down the hill, where it was
+allowed to stay, surrounded from morning to night
+by a crowd of women and children and idle warriors.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The thirst which afflicted Birnier rendered him
+oblivious of his godhood and of the sacred office of
+Mungongo who was dutifully busy upon his knees
+blowing up the sacred fires from the ember which he
+had carried; so that at a summons to bring water
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page290">[pg 290]</span><a name="Pg290" id="Pg290" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+he was both embarrassed and awed, for the presence
+of the High Priest intensified his natural terror of
+breaking any of the meshes of the tabu. At the
+second imperative demand Bakahenzie soothed the
+angry god by commanding a slave to run to fetch
+water from without. But even then Birnier had the
+parched felicity of waiting while the High Priest
+solemnly exorcised the gourd of water which, as all
+food, could not be permitted to pass the lips of the
+King-God without the prescribed incantations.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">However, within quite a reasonable time the sacred
+prisoner was accommodated with the possession of his
+goods, magic and culinary. The bungalow of the
+Kommandant, Birnier gathered, was to be converted
+into the temple after the ceremony of purification,
+and the idol was to stand in front in the place occupied
+by its predecessor at the coronation of the late Kawa
+Kendi.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">All that day were Bakahenzie and Marufa and the
+wizards working hard at the various ceremonies of
+purification of those who had slain, the consecration
+of the Holy Hill, and the exorcising of the evil spirits
+attached thereto by the residence of the Son-of-the-Earthquake.
+Meanwhile Birnier and Mungongo were
+left to themselves within the enclosure to listen to
+the chanting and thrumming of the drums. Birnier
+had much to do in compiling his notes and reflections;
+Mungongo nothing save to prepare their meals and
+attend the Sacred Fires.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Exactly what had happened Birnier did not know
+and could not extract from Bakahenzie, who adopted
+his usual effective method of ignoring every direct
+question. Before they had left the place in the forest
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page291">[pg 291]</span><a name="Pg291" id="Pg291" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+he had informed Birnier that the commands of the
+spirit of Tarum through the magic ear had been
+performed, but with what restrictions, modifications,
+or embroideries, Birnier had no means of ascertaining.
+His definite knowledge was that Zalu Zako, together
+with other chiefs and a vast crowd of warriors, were
+to remain in the forest where zu Pfeiffer was to be led
+into ambush by the power of the magic which he had
+sent, the American flag, an idea which certainly tickled
+Birnier’s sense of humour considerably, particularly
+as it appealed to him, if successful, as an ideal case of
+poetic justice.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">That zu Pfeiffer’s fort had fallen was obvious,
+although what the disposition of his forces had been
+and of how the assault had been carried, Birnier had no
+idea. But of one thing he was reasonably sure, and
+that was that his analysis of zu Pfeiffer’s reactions and
+the psychological effect upon the natives of having
+the idol reinstated in the Place of Kings, had been
+entirely correct. After all, as he admitted with a
+smile, zu Pfeiffer’s system of native psychology had
+been based on the same fundamental principles as
+his own except that he had not reckoned with the
+unknown quantity, the equal intelligence working
+against him and able to discount his moves, plus heavier
+artillery in the form of an emotional broadside, the
+possibility of which rather naturally had never occurred
+to him.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">An item which worried Birnier was that he had
+no means, and could hope for none apparently, of
+discovering whether and to what extent his orders
+through the phonograph had been carried out
+regarding the treatment of the white men. Their
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page292">[pg 292]</span><a name="Pg292" id="Pg292" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+fate at the hands of the Wongolo, particularly after
+the merciless massacres inflicted by zu Pfeiffer, would
+scarcely bear imagining. From the fact of the instant
+and apparently easy success of the assault on the
+forts, he did not doubt that zu Pfeiffer, who had been
+foolish enough to be lured into dividing his forces,
+was doomed to defeat. In this instance he would not
+have any of the advantages of his triumphal entry
+into the country; would not be able to accomplish
+a surprise attack, and the weakening of the native
+moral by massacre and the downfall of the idol;
+in fact he had these very forces against him: for the
+success of their first venture, their overwhelming
+numbers in the forest, the exaltation of fanaticism
+excited by the restoration of their tribal god, practically
+tacked a label of suicide upon his military actions.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">During that day Bakahenzie, evidently too busy
+with the duties of his office, did not come near to
+him. But that evening, in order to ensure as far as
+possible obedience to his orders through the mouth of
+the oracle, Birnier caused Mungongo to chant further
+instructions into the phonograph commanding that
+the Son-of-the-Earthquake was to be brought alive
+to receive judgment from the Unmentionable One
+through the Incarnation, the son of the Lord-of-many-Lands.
+Whether this would work or not
+Birnier of course could not know. Already had he
+discovered that nobody could control the complicated
+machinery of the native tabu any more than any
+one statesman could manage always any vast political
+machine; indeed he, as many others, might more
+than conceivably be ground up by the gargantuan
+engine with whose starting lever he had played. All
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page293">[pg 293]</span><a name="Pg293" id="Pg293" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+he could do had been done; nothing remained but
+to adopt Marufa’s favourite maxim: <span class="tei tei-q">“wait and
+see.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the evening Mungongo, who had at length been
+persuaded to project his eyes beyond the sacred ground
+even if he would not his feet, reported that much
+chanting and drumming indicated that the warriors,
+or a great number of them, had departed, evidently
+to reinforce the troops of Zalu Zako or with the
+object of taking zu Pfeiffer in the rear: a fact which
+made Birnier a little uneasy lest the news of the fall
+of the station might bring zu Pfeiffer to his senses and
+cause him to return, in which case the position might
+prove to be somewhat uncomfortable.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">However, the night passed to the soft thrumming
+of the drums. At dawn appeared Bakahenzie as
+solemnly as usual. He began by demanding that the
+<span class="tei tei-q">“pod of the soul”</span> of Tarum should be prepared to
+listen to him. Birnier observed a slight increase
+in the domineering manner and realized more keenly
+that unless he checked that tendency the worthy
+High Priest would become altogether unmanageable.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier commanded Mungongo to bring forth the
+instrument and reproduced for Bakahenzie’s benefit
+the oration of the previous night. Bakahenzie listened
+solemnly, grunted acquiescence, and again made
+his request. Birnier refused abruptly. Again Bakahenzie
+grunted acceptance which caused Birnier to
+speculate upon what move the wily doctor had in
+mind. However, after the usual starting of false
+trails, he announced that the consecration of the idol
+would take place that day and began to instruct the
+new god in his divine duties. That there was something
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page294">[pg 294]</span><a name="Pg294" id="Pg294" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+unusual in the form, either exaggerated or
+curtailed, Birnier gathered from Bakahenzie’s method
+of expounding the rites; and the solution came in
+the announcement, just before leaving, that as
+soon as the Son-of-the-Earthquake had been <span class="tei tei-q">“eaten
+up,”</span> that he, Bakahenzie, would summon the craft
+and the people to the Harvest Festival.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The form of the statement again drew Birnier’s
+attention to the fact that Bakahenzie was assuming
+the reins of power far too fast for his satisfaction;
+that unless he contrived to put on the curb he would
+never attain the goal of a beneficent agent nor be
+able to satisfy his professional curiosity.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">However, when he had gone, Birnier began anew
+to question Mungongo regarding the reputed ceremonies
+of the festival, but beyond the fact that it
+was an occasion allied to the Christian-Pagan festival
+of a kind of thanksgiving for the harvest and sacrifice
+to the god which involved the ceremony of the
+marriage of the Bride of the Banana, Mungongo knew
+nothing.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the afternoon Birnier was required to preside at
+the consecrating of the ground and the setting up
+of the idol. But all he had to do was to squat silently
+in front of the new temple and before Bakahenzie and
+the group of the cult, while the concourse of the other
+wizards and the few chiefs that were not away grunted
+a belly chorus upon the levee without. The ceremony
+was disappointing as ceremonies go, for beyond the
+stewing in the great calabash of a magic concoction
+with which to anoint the hole for the feet of the idol,
+the doorposts of the temple and the House of Fires,
+to the accompaniment of the usual chanting and
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page295">[pg 295]</span><a name="Pg295" id="Pg295" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+drumming, it was ended by a dance, with Bakahenzie
+as the premier danseur.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After his evening meal of boiled chicken, goat flesh
+and milk, Birnier squatted in the doorway of his new
+quarters smoking. He had no lights as his store of
+carbide was finished. Before leaving for the forest
+to carve the Incarnation of the new Unmentionable
+One, he had had the forethought to despatch a
+messenger to a certain village on the great lake to
+intercept his carriers with goods and the mail for
+which he had sent after escaping from the noble
+son of Banyala; he had already informed Bakahenzie
+of the coming of a fresh stock of magic and impressed
+upon him that great precaution must be taken to
+ensure that it came directly to him, lest contact with
+strangers should offend the spirits. Bakahenzie had
+assented in his usual non-committal manner, a
+manner that was beginning to get upon Birnier’s
+nerves.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As he smoked, staring up at the great moon over
+the sinister head of the idol framed in the green
+light, he observed that the day after the next would
+be the full moon, the Harvest Moon, the time of
+the yearly festival. Then, by a coincidence which
+sometimes seems to have a telepathic basis as explanation,
+he heard a curious soft sound from apparently
+behind the hut. Mungongo, squatting near his
+Sacred Fires in the immobile manner of the native,
+heard the sound too. Again a sibilant whisper,
+almost like the hiss of a snake, brought a <span class="tei tei-q">“Clk”</span> of
+astonishment to Mungongo’s lips. He rose swiftly
+and disappeared behind the hut. Another muffled
+exclamation of astonishment aroused Birnier’s curiosity.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page296">[pg 296]</span><a name="Pg296" id="Pg296" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+He followed, to find Mungongo leaning over the
+palisade as if speaking to some one.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh!”</span> murmured a familiar voice. <span class="tei tei-q">“’Tis
+Moonspirit!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With a grunt of horror Mungongo turned upon
+Birnier and began to push him away, gasping: <span class="tei tei-q">“She
+is accursed! If the evil of her eyes rest upon thee
+thou art sick unto death!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The devil take you!”</span> muttered Birnier, angry
+at the touch of force; then recollecting that the tabu
+forbade alien eyes to gaze on his sacred body upon
+which the world depended, he realized that Mungongo
+was trying to save him. He held him off by the arms,
+saying: <span class="tei tei-q">“Be quiet, thou fool! Hath not my magic
+shown thee that I am above all magic?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mungongo appeared to consider that there was
+some truth in the statement and at any rate it gave
+him something to think about. He stood passively
+but as if momentarily expecting Birnier, magic or no,
+to melt before his eyes. Bending over the fence
+Birnier saw the slender form of Bakuma crouched
+against the earth.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What dost thou here, O little one?”</span> he whispered,
+for of course he knew nothing of her fate after
+the abduction by MYalu.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So horror-struck at her own temerity in approaching
+the person of the King-God was she that she dared
+not raise her eyes as she stuttered:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“A demon hath driven the bird of my soul into
+the net of thy wrath.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Still the black wings in thy breast, O Bakuma,”</span>
+said Birnier, trying to soothe the child. <span class="tei tei-q">“Come
+thou within and show thy father thy bosom.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page297">[pg 297]</span><a name="Pg297" id="Pg297" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ehh! Ehh!”</span> gasped Bakuma, quivering in
+greater panic than ever.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Aware of the danger Birnier stooped, took her by
+the arms and lifted her over the palisade, remarking
+the violent trembling of the frail little body whose
+limbs seemed like candles.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Come thou,”</span> said Birnier, moving towards the
+hut.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But she cowered where he had dumped her, covering
+her eyes with her hands so that she gazed not upon the
+sacred body. Mungongo stood like a tree, the whites
+of terrified eyes glimmering in the moonlight. Birnier
+picked up the girl and carried her into the hut,
+followed by a quaking Keeper of the Sacred Fires.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Go, thou fool,”</span> commanded Birnier, <span class="tei tei-q">“and
+watch that none approaches!”</span> Mungongo gasped.
+But he obeyed. <span class="tei tei-q">“Now, little one,”</span> continued Birnier,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“bare thy bosom that I may know how to make
+the magic of healing.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Squatting on the threshold, her emaciated arms
+still covering her eyes, Bakuma strove to obey. At
+length she faltered out the story of her double abduction.
+The capture by the askaris had made but little
+difference to her, for, as she phrased it, the beak of
+her soul was like unto the mouth of the crocodile.
+Her captor had thrust her into a hut in the village
+together with some other female captives, but as the
+man had had to continue his military duties, night
+had fallen before he returned, by which time she had
+bribed some of the women, whose captivity was not
+as loathsome to them as the pride of their race should
+have made it, with a powerful charm which Birnier
+had given her, a nickel-plated razor-strop. She had
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page298">[pg 298]</span><a name="Pg298" id="Pg298" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+escaped. But more fearful of her doom as the Bride
+of the Banana than she was of MYalu or the askaris,
+she had hidden in the forest, living upon wild fruit and
+roots. Then had she heard the drums announcing the
+return of the Unmentionable One, and aware that
+Moonspirit had gone into the forest to seek Him, had
+guessed that he was triumphant. Away in the
+jungle she had heard the sound of the rejoicing at
+the homecoming of the King-God; had hesitated, and
+at last she had come to Moonspirit, in spite of his
+divinity, in the fluttering hope of aid, driven by a
+demon to break another tabu, the same demon which
+urges so many to break magic circles—the subconscious
+love motive.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Poor kid! commented Birnier to himself as he
+regarded the pitiful cowering form. We haven’t
+gotten the nuptial torches for you yet, but we will,
+by God!… Give me thine ear, O little one.… But
+as he talked to her, soothing the terror by promises
+of mightier magic, came Mungongo crying in a terrified
+whisper that Bakahenzie was claiming audience. At
+the back of the next room of the bungalow, built
+upon a plan of the one in Ingonya, was a bathroom,
+and into that was Bakuma hurried and bidden to lie
+as quiet as a crocodile.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD29" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page299">[pg 299]</span><a name="Pg299" id="Pg299" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc58" id="toc58"></a>
+<a name="pdf59" id="pdf59"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 29</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakahenzie had come to announce that the
+certain magic <span class="tei tei-q">“things,”</span> which a messenger had
+brought from the white man’s country, had arrived.
+Although he could not expect an answer to his letter
+to Lucille in Europe, there might be others; and such
+an event as the receipt of a mail once in six months is
+apt to be exciting. Birnier forgot his rôle for the
+moment, leaped to his feet preparatory to rushing out
+to meet the runner, but a grunt from Bakahenzie and
+an alarmed cry from Mungongo were just in time to
+prevent him from jeopardizing the stability of the
+world and all that he had won by violating the tabu by
+stepping beyond the sacred ground. Other gods and
+emperors have indeed wrecked empires through a
+lesser aberration. Even realization of the penalty was
+scarcely enough to hobble his impatient legs, for the
+very suggestion of what the mail represented melted
+the fetters of this native world as wax in the sun.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Indeed more effort of will was required to return to
+his god-like throne upon the camp-bed, and to amble
+through the etiquette which discussion of such an
+important matter demanded, than to carry the idol on
+his back through the forest and bear the sound thrashing
+to boot. Then as a further test, Bakahenzie slowly
+developed a dictum that the magic things could not be
+permitted to enter the sacred enclosure until they had
+been disinfected from the multitude of evil eyes
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page300">[pg 300]</span><a name="Pg300" id="Pg300" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+through which they must have passed. At that the
+god came near to swearing or weeping, he did not
+know which.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But as he fumed inwardly he recollected that at
+any moment Zalu Zako and his troops might return;
+or if the battle had gone the other way, then zu
+Pfeiffer; in the former case the excitement would
+still further delay the goods and mail, and the latter
+event might entail the complete loss. As well as the
+growing irritation caused by Bakahenzie’s interminable
+list of tabus was the necessity of proclaiming, or rather
+gaining, his authority before he could be of any
+assistance either to Bakuma, the white men or himself.
+Indeed he had been waiting the arrival of these goods
+to secure the subjection of Bakahenzie to his will.
+He determined that the trial should be now. Merely
+to demand would, he felt, arouse the obstinacy of the
+chief witch-doctor, who would never, unless compelled
+by force or cunning, give up the reins of power which
+to him was the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">raison
+d’être</span></span> of his life. Birnier must
+attack through the line of least resistance. With the
+carriers bearing the mail was a case of <span class="tei tei-q">“imprisoned
+stars”</span> (rockets) and a special cinema outfit, so that
+Birnier felt that he could afford to explode the last
+manifestation of magic which remained to him. After
+a judicious interval, he said to Bakahenzie:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“O son of Maliko, is not my tongue the tongue of
+the Unmentionable One?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He who knoweth all things knoweth that which is
+white,”</span> retorted Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Verily. Therefore do thou cause to be brought
+that which is come, that which the fingers of the
+Unmentionable One are hungry to touch. Thou
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page301">[pg 301]</span><a name="Pg301" id="Pg301" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+knowest his power of magic. Therefore are the evil
+eyes of the multitude but dry leaves in the wind of his
+breath.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Indeed thy words are white, O son of the Lord-of-many-Lands.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Depart then that the hunger of His fingers may
+be appeased.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The drums speak not yet of the eating up
+of Eyes-in-the-hands. Hath not the ear of the
+spirit of Tarum spoken upon these matters?”</span>
+inquired Bakahenzie in his favourite dialectical
+manner.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The spirit of Tarum hath naught to say
+to thee,”</span> replied Birnier, <span class="tei tei-q">“but the fingers of
+Tarum will to make thee to itch even as his
+fingers.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier called to Mungongo who brought and placed
+at his feet a fairly powerful electric battery. Bakahenzie
+eyed the box; curiosity was keenly awakened.
+He stared interestedly when Birnier raised the lid.
+Taking the handles he said:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“These, O son of Maliko, are the hands of Tarum
+made manifest. He wishes that thou shouldst feel
+the itch of his desire!”</span> and with the words he clapped
+one handle to the belly and the other at the base of
+the spine of the chief witch-doctor. Bakahenzie
+convulsed as he was compelled to do. Swiftly Birnier
+applied the shock to the shoulders, holding the handles
+there as he remarked to a violently trembling
+Bakahenzie: <span class="tei tei-q">“Behold! the itch of the fingers
+of Tarum!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But as he lowered his hands towards the spine again,
+Bakahenzie moved rapidly and with no dignity.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page302">[pg 302]</span><a name="Pg302" id="Pg302" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Solemnly Birnier replaced the handles and closed the
+lid, and said quietly:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thou hast felt, O brother magician, that the
+fingers of Tarum do itch indeed?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Truly!”</span> responded Bakahenzie with a celerity as
+unusual as the quaver in his voice. <span class="tei tei-q">“Indeed thy
+words are white, O mightiest of magicians. What
+are indeed the evil eyes of savages against the
+power of thy magic, O son of the Lord-of-many-Lands!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And contrary to all precedent Bakahenzie rose and
+left. Within a quarter of an hour his voice announced
+that slaves with the magic <span class="tei tei-q">“things”</span> were without the
+palisade, and called upon Mungongo to go to the gate
+to fetch them as strangers were forbidden even to
+look upon the King-God. Birnier, by the light of a
+torch, opened the mail, sent a wad of letters and
+a sheaf of telegraph slips on to the floor, and
+snatched a long green envelope scrawled in French
+characters:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Monsieur le Curateur du Jardin des Plantes.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For a moment he stared at it perplexedly, for there
+was no stamp or cancellation.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What in the name&mdash;&mdash;”</span> he muttered as he slit it
+open.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-right: 2.00em">
+  <span class="tei tei-name" style="text-align: right">Entebbe,     </span><br />
+  <span class="tei tei-date" style="text-align: right">Août 13, 19—</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mon petit loup, what have you been doing? Oû
+est tu? Comment et pourquoi? Oh, I am cross
+with you, with Monsieur le Professeur! Why do you
+write me so ridiculous a letter? I laugh, but always
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page303">[pg 303]</span><a name="Pg303" id="Pg303" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+I laugh, so what good is that to you? I will not reply
+to your letter, mon vieux—jamais. But I will tell
+you so that you may know why I am here. Yes,
+parmi les animaux!<br /></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier winced at the phrase which seemed to come
+back at him like a boomerang from the lips of zu
+Pfeiffer.<br /></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I am to go for vacation to Wiesbaden with some
+very terrible peoples. Oh, on me dégoûte! I have an
+engagement for the winter in Berlin as before. I have
+engagement for Paris—eh! but—pouf! Figure me on
+the charming <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Mauretania</span></span> and I am
+sitting on the deck
+where you once made yourself so ridiculous. Rappelle
+toi? I am sick—No, mon vieux, pas du mal de mer!
+I should not be for everybody to look at. Oh, no! I
+am sick, I tell you. Je rêve de mon petit coco parmi
+les sales animaux! Je me dis: Zut! il est fou! il est
+tapé! Mais en moi même je l’adore! Tout de suite
+I tell a creature who brings me my books, my fan, un
+espèce de tapette, je m’en vais là, moi! He ask
+me where? I tell him I go to look for mon amant in
+Afrique Centrale! Mais oui! He thinks I am mad!
+I tell him so and I laugh! How I laugh. But he is
+right, yes, je suis folle—de toi!</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Alors I come to Marseilles and I catch a boat to
+Mombassa. Ouf! Je vais mourir à cause de mon
+petit loup! La mer rouge! Quel cauchemar! Enfin
+I still arrive what of Lucille is left and I ask for you, for
+Monsieur le Professeur Americain, but no one knows
+you. On the boat I have attached to myself trois
+mousquetaires Anglais. Tous les trois sont drôles!
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page304">[pg 304]</span><a name="Pg304" id="Pg304" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+They bring me on the ever so funny little train to here.
+Entebbe. Les Anglais sont très polis, tu sais! Monsieur
+le Gouverneur stop drinking whisky politely to tell me
+that Monsieur has been and has gone! Quelle horreur!
+You have gone but three days! Pense tu! I ask
+myself what have I done that the bon Dieu should be
+so unkind. Then quel malheur! I remember to
+myself that I commence to come to you on
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Friday!</span></span>
+You laugh! Yes, I laugh too but—Quien sabe? I
+commence to come to you on a Friday and you are
+gone three little days!</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then my good friends, les trois mousquetaires, send
+for me a what they call a runner—the red
+peas—C’est
+drôle! but the little pea black he did not find
+you. He brings a message that you had gone to some
+place with a terrible name.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then come the two most ridiculous letters. I will
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">not</span></span> reply to any such
+ridiculous letters—jamais!<br /></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier scowled. Two letters? he muttered.
+What letters?<br /></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">You must come now. Immediately. I want you.
+I will wait here for you. You must leave your
+ridiculous animals as I have left mes affaires for you.
+Come to me. I wait for you.<br /></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lower down on the same page, but written with a
+thick pen, the letter continued:<br /></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Again I have read your absurd letter. Tu es fou!
+You make such a noise because this foolish young man
+is jealous of mon mari and make you to go round the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page305">[pg 305]</span><a name="Pg305" id="Pg305" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+detestable country, which you like so much, instead of
+straight through to the ridiculous place you say you
+want to go.<br /></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier smiled grimly.<br /></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Peuh! <span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E30" id="E30" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e30" class="tei tei-ref">Écoute</a></span>,
+mon cher, it is true I have met the
+young man in Washington. Mon Dieu, are there not
+plenty of young men in Washington, Paris, Berlin?
+He fell in love with me. Mon Dieu, they are as thick
+as the blackberries! Perhaps I tease him pour faire la
+blague! Pourquoi pas? I give him a photograph
+and I sign it, just as I sign plenty for amusing friends.
+But then he become too ridiculous. He has no sense
+of humour comme tous les Allemands. He wishes to
+fight all my friends, tes compatriotes si sombres et
+graves! Figure toi! Then he make a challenge and
+naturellement it is not the custom in thy country.
+Mon pauvre petit Dorsay refuse and this person
+become crazy wild, as you say, and he strike him with
+his cane in the street. Quelle horreur! Quel
+scandale! He run away of course. The Embassy
+help him. Qui sait? That is the last I hear until
+I receive this ridiculous letter, together with thy
+ridiculous letter. I send him to you. How drôle that
+you two should meet all among les animaux. It is so
+funny that he did not kill you, this monstre allemand!
+Tu es en cross encore avec moi? Zut! mon vieux
+it is not my fault that everybody goes mad after
+me except mon petit mari! Leave the ridiculous
+garçon where he is. But why do I talk so much about
+a cochon? Because you are ridiculous! Tant pis
+pour toi! Now sois gentil and come to me
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">immediately</span></span>—unless
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page306">[pg 306]</span><a name="Pg306" id="Pg306" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+you love your sales animaux plus que moi!
+If you do not come I will never never, jamais de ma
+vie, give you one single baiser again! No! Mille
+baisers! Mais comme je te deteste!<br /></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-right: 2.00em">
+  <span class="tei tei-name" style="text-align: right"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Lucille.</span></span></span><br />
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD30" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page307">[pg 307]</span><a name="Pg307" id="Pg307" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc60" id="toc60"></a>
+<a name="pdf61" id="pdf61"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 30</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Forty-eight hours later, the furious drumming,
+chanting and screaming heralded the return of the
+victorious troops of Zalu Zako. Birnier from his gaol
+on the hill watched the bronze flood pour like a stream
+of lava out of the plantation and flood the village,
+spears flashing silver points in the slanting rays of the
+sun. But what had happened to zu Pfeiffer and the
+white sergeants? No sign of them could he see.
+Waves of sound lapped continuously around the
+temple.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The long mauve shadow of the hill ate up the village.
+Fires began to flicker amid the huts and away in the
+recesses of the plantation. The lowing of cattle added
+to the general clamour. As the western sky was still
+ablaze with incandescent colour stole the cold green of
+the advancing moon in the east.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Mungongo, what are thy brethren about to do?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It is the Festival of the Harvest, as I have told thee,
+O son of the Lord-of-many-Lands.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But they have not the Bride?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nay.”</span> Mungongo glanced apprehensively towards
+the temple where in what was to have been a bathroom,
+was Bakuma hidden. <span class="tei tei-q">“He-who-may-not-be-mentioned
+demands but blood. The Bride is the food
+of the wizards. But to each warrior is every woman
+his bride this night.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why didst thou not tell me this thing before?”</span>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page308">[pg 308]</span><a name="Pg308" id="Pg308" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+demanded Birnier, who knew that such was one of the
+customs of primitive tribes in all parts of the world
+and in all ages.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thou didst not ask me,”</span> retorted Mungongo, to
+whom the affair was such a matter of course that it
+was not worth mentioning.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Do they make sacrifice?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The Bride is married to the Banana, but of the
+manner of her nuptial know I not. Am I a wizard?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The divine king grimly watched his subjects. In the
+growing light flitted gnomes around the huts in and
+out the sepia caverns of the plantation. As a banana
+front was etched in sepia against the great moon, the
+ocean of clamour was cleft by the high treble of the
+tribal troubadour. At the bottom of the wide street
+appeared dancing figures. As they approached,
+Birnier could distinguish Bakahenzie, Marufa and
+Yabolo in the van, dressed in full panoply, whirling and
+leaping with untiring energy. Behind them shuffled
+and pranced a vast mass of warriors, behind whom
+again several hundred women shrilled and wriggled in
+the mighty chorus. The rhythm of the drums
+increased to the maddening action impulse of the two
+short—long beat:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pm-pm—Pommmmm! Pm-pm—Pommmmm!
+Pm-pm—Pommmmm!</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The treble solo of the chant darted above that throb
+and grunt like a mad bird skimming the turbulent tops
+of a dark forest.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pm-pm—Pommmmm! Pm-pm—Pommmmm!
+Pm-pm—<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E31" id="E31" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e31" class="tei tei-ref">Pommmmm</a></span>!</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The rhythm seemed like a febrile pulse within
+Birnier’s brain, dominating him with hypnotic suggestion
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page309">[pg 309]</span><a name="Pg309" id="Pg309" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+to action. An urge to scream and to yell, to
+dance and to leap, plucked at his limbs. Resurgent
+desires from he knew not what subconscious catacombs,
+wriggled and struggled furiously within him.
+The great moon scattered blue stars upon the spears
+as if upon the green scales of some leviathan squirming
+in delirious torment.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Control the twitching of his muscles to that rhythm
+Birnier could not. He had to fight to resist the waves
+of hysteria permeating the air. He glanced at
+Mungongo. The whites of his eyes were rolling.
+Birnier cursed the insistency of the drums and the
+orgiastical grunts. Forcibly he kept up a running
+fire of psychological explanations: <span class="tei tei-q">“Annihilation of
+inhibitions … dissociation of personality …
+triumph of the subconscious animal,”</span> as a wizard
+muttering incantations against evil spirits. He felt
+dizzy. <span class="tei tei-q">“God, I’m drunk with rhythm!”</span> he exclaimed.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The priests were entering the large gate of the
+outer enclosure. In the village and on the opposite
+hill the people resembled a swarm of black locusts.
+The drums ceased. Bakahenzie and Marufa and
+Yabolo ran straight towards him screeching. This
+was the cue.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier walked back slowly. In awful silence they
+began to push the idol. The wood creaked protestingly.
+Slowly the mass slid on to Birnier’s back.
+He gripped it and began to walk to the entrance. As
+he passed Mungongo the Sacred Fires shot up yellow
+tongues. A sound like a moan rose dripping with
+screams and grew into a continuous thunder of noise.
+The drums rippled a furious tattoo. The three
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page310">[pg 310]</span><a name="Pg310" id="Pg310" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+wizards dashed before him, leaping high in the air.
+Birnier shuffled a dozen yards to the left and turned.
+He stopped.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Upon the ground, just within the outer gate in
+view of the multitude beyond, green ivory in the
+moonlight, was the naked figure of a white man.
+Above him pranced Bakahenzie in whose hand gleamed
+a knife.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The training of his life enabled Birnier to throw upon
+the screen of his mind the essential points more rapidly
+than conscious thought. Bakahenzie, as well as the
+others, was in an abnormal state of excitement. There
+was no time to employ <span class="tei tei-q">“magic”</span> rockets or anything
+else. He swung the idol upon one shoulder and ran
+forward. He saw the blue eyes move and the bracelet
+wink in the moonlight as he stepped over the bound
+form. He bent, balancing the image upon his shoulders,
+and seized zu Pfeiffer by the arm.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The throb of the drums and the roar of the people
+who knew not but that this act was in accordance with
+the rules, continued. The priests remained motionless:
+expectant. Bakahenzie stood rigid as if paralysed
+by the unexpected: the knife was a blue snake in his
+hand.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Half blinded with sweat, with his muscles cracking,
+Birnier staggered on with the heavy burden, dragging
+the nude body after him. Hours seemed to pass, each
+second of which might bring a spear in his back before
+he reached the place before the temple. He slid the
+idol into the hole and turned.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From the tumult of sound the screech of Bakahenzie
+shot up like a snipe from a rice field. The other
+wizards sprang with him. The moonlight kissed a
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page311">[pg 311]</span><a name="Pg311" id="Pg311" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+spearhead beside the stone figure of Mungongo by the
+Sacred Fires. Birnier leaped, plucked the spear,
+caught zu Pfeiffer in his arms and raised him
+shoulder high that all might see.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At the entrance of the enclosure Bakahenzie and the
+other two were arrested by astonishment. Lowering
+the body to the base of the idol which leaned sideways
+in a drunken leer, Birnier lifted the spear and brought
+it down accurately between zu Pfeiffer’s left arm and
+breast, and dropping swiftly upon his knees to cover
+his actions, slashed his own left forearm. Then he
+jumped to his feet and held the blooded spear aloft
+as he cried aloud:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The god hath taken his own!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bakahenzie was the first to see that the white breast
+of the victim was indeed deluged in blood; perhaps
+the veneration engendered by <span class="tei tei-q">“the fingers of Tarum”</span>
+moved beneath the blood lust.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The god hath taken his own!”</span> he repeated in a
+piercing scream. Marufa echoed the shout. As they
+turned the cry was ricocheted beyond the farthest hill.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The god hath taken his own!”</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="WD31" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page312">[pg 312]</span><a name="Pg312" id="Pg312" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc62" id="toc62"></a>
+<a name="pdf63" id="pdf63"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+  <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Chapter 31</span></span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The reflection of a shaft of moonlight through the
+half-completed thatch upon zu Pfeiffer’s <span class="tei tei-q">“magic”</span>
+mirror, which the natives had not dared to remove, set
+afire the sapphires upon his bracelet as he sat rigidly
+in a camp chair in a suit of pyjamas. Upon the bed
+lay Birnier, nursing his bandaged left arm. Now
+and again the thrumming, chanting and the shrilling
+of the saturnalia without rose into discordant yells
+like a gust of wind whipping tree-tops into fury.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zu Pfeiffer appeared taciturn and suspicious.
+Perhaps the slackening of his will, tautened to meet
+death as his caste demanded that he should, and the
+confrontation of the object of his violent hate, had
+completely unnerved him. When Birnier had dragged
+him within and cut his bonds, he had grunted curt,
+official thanks for the rescue. As sullenly he had
+hesitated at the offer of the pyjamas, but as if deciding
+that he could not retain any dignity in his own bloodied
+skin, had accepted them, as well as a sorely needed
+drink of water.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The reaction after the crisis, and possibly the influence
+of the general hysteria in the air, had distorted Birnier’s
+vision of things. He was very conscious of a neurotic
+desire to laugh unrestrainedly. Thus it was that for
+nearly half an hour the two men remained in the gloom
+in silence. Birnier had a psychological comprehension
+of the highly nervous tension of his guest. For he
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page313">[pg 313]</span><a name="Pg313" id="Pg313" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+had long ago realized that the only solution of zu
+Pfeiffer’s crazy statement that he was engaged to the
+wife of a man to whom he was speaking, indicated a
+form of insanity.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A psychological law is that natural emotions must
+have an outlet; if they are repressed they are apt to
+cause a state of mental disease which in an aggravated
+form may lead the patient to the asylum, but in the
+incipient stage are as common as jackals in Africa. Zu
+Pfeiffer was suffering from such a case of mild psychosis.
+Brought up under an iron code which did not permit
+his instincts to react, the repressed emotions bubbled
+out in the form of a deification of his Kaiser and the
+adoration of Lucille, both states being absolutely apart
+from all reason, indeed approached to a state of
+dissociation of consciousness. The desired unattainable
+is projected into the dream plane, the realm of
+myth. Such a case is the historical one of the man
+who, keenly intelligent upon every subject mentioned,
+startles the visitor by the demand for a piece of toast,
+gravely explaining that he is a poached egg and that
+he wishes to sit down; or as Pascal, who ever had
+beside him the great black dog. To attempt to
+rationalise with such an one was merely to excite the
+insane part of him. So it was that Birnier determined
+to ignore the subject entirely, perfectly aware that the
+sullenness of the man sitting in the camp chair opposite
+to him was caused by an exaggerated terror that he
+would insist upon speaking of the one subject which
+should be tabu.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The associative suggestion of Lucille diverted his
+mind until he became immersed in thoughts of her.
+A queer vision of a well-fed tiger playing with a kid
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page314">[pg 314]</span><a name="Pg314" id="Pg314" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+entered his mind. More conscious than ever of her
+attraction by reason of the intensified sense of her
+wrought by her letter, he glanced surreptitiously at
+the rigid form in the chair and a wave of pity mixed
+with a half conscious pride that she belonged to him,
+rose within him. Then Birnier started as he was
+brought back to a realization of the passing of time by
+a harsh voice that told of creaking nerves:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Herr Professor, what is your pleasure to do with
+me, if you please?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I beg your pardon!”</span> Birnier sat up. <span class="tei tei-q">“Er—naturally
+I shall endeavour to get you away as early as
+possible. It would be as well if you took advantage of
+the present—er—saturnalia to escape. I cannot do
+much. I can provide you with a gun and food. As
+you are not injured you should be able to get a reasonable
+distance from here by morning; for the rest I
+am afraid you must fend for yourself. I wish that I
+could do more, but I’m afraid that my power is not
+yet sufficient to ensure any help from the natives.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">An inarticulate sound emerged from zu Pfeiffer’s
+mouth. Birnier’s eyes caught the sheen of the
+photograph upon the wall. Escape! Lucille! Almost
+involuntarily he stretched out a hand and took Lucille’s
+letter from the table. Again came zu Pfeiffer’s
+voice:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I thank you, Herr Professor, but I cannot accept—for
+myself.”</span> Birnier stared at him. <span class="tei tei-q">“I wish you to
+understand that for myself that is impossible.”</span> The
+tall figure seemed to straighten in the chair. <span class="tei tei-q">“But as
+I have the honour to serve his Imperial Majesty I am
+bound to preserve to the best of my ability my body in
+order to answer for my culpable negligence which has
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page315">[pg 315]</span><a name="Pg315" id="Pg315" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+resulted in the loss of my two companies. Most
+distinctly, Herr Professor, I wish you to know that I
+accept your offer in order to place myself before the
+Court Martial that awaits me.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Birnier almost gasped. That this anomaly of a
+man, who was capable of cold-blooded murder at the
+prompting of an hallucination, and who now appeared
+equally capable of the utter annihilation of self at the
+service of his Imperial Master, meant what he said,
+Birnier did not doubt. Yet it was not anomalous.
+Logical in fact; the capability of supreme sacrifice
+for either of his idols.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I understand you, Lieutenant,”</span> said he courteously.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“I&mdash;&mdash;”</span> The two letters in his hand crackled.
+Before he could master the mean desire he had handed
+the second letter to zu Pfeiffer with the words:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Forgive me, I have here a letter which it is my
+duty to return to you.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sapphires winked as zu Pfeiffer held up the letter
+in the shaft of moonlight. There was a suppressed
+grunt as of pain. Zu Pfeiffer rose stiffly and walked
+to the door. His tall figure was silhouetted in profile
+against the green sky and as Birnier watched he saw a
+gleam as of crystal upon an eyelash. Birnier, ashamed
+of his sole vengeance, turned away.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But as if revenge were recoiling upon him came in
+the wake of that satisfied primitive instinct a surge of
+longing for Lucille. Lucille! Lucille! God! how
+he desired to see those eyes again! Feel those lips and
+hear the gurgle of her laughter! Sense the perfume
+of her hair as she murmured: <span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Mon
+petit loup!</span></span>”</span>
+Birnier sat holding the letter. He fought with an
+impulse to abandon everything to go to her—if he
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page316">[pg 316]</span><a name="Pg316" id="Pg316" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+could get out! How stale and monotonous the
+adventure and the scientific interest suddenly seemed!
+After all, what had he accomplished? What could he
+accomplish? Even yet he had learned but little of the
+secrets of the witch-doctor’s craft. Perhaps there was
+little or nothing to learn? And zu Pfeiffer? He
+stared across at the portrait of Lucille. And as he
+gazed a wave of pity rose within him for this boy made
+mad by the witchery of those eyes and the music of
+that voice. A sentence in Lucille’s letter appeared
+to stand out from the context: <span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Mon Dieu, they are
+as thick as the blackberries!</span></span>”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And yet—and yet&mdash;&mdash; Why the devil had she
+taken it into her head to come out to Uganda above
+all places? he asked himself. She was so damnably
+near to him. He smiled satirically as he recollected
+her phrase about those fools who made of love a
+nuisance, and yet now what was she doing? After
+all the suspicion in his mind that love is everything to
+a woman seemed proven true.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But how adorable she was! He fingered the letter
+as if it were part of her. Well, she was young; success
+and adulation from one capital to another had interested
+and amused her for a few years, but when
+Milady had suddenly discovered that the Career bored
+her she had thrown up everything and logically—to her
+mind—expected her mate to do likewise! With what
+insouciance had she treated the affair of zu Pfeiffer and
+the youngster whom he had struck. When Birnier had
+met her she had had a story of a young fool count in
+Paris who had shot himself, merely because she would
+not listen to his suit; and she had protested with one
+of those wonderful shrugs and a moue, saying that she
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page317">[pg 317]</span><a name="Pg317" id="Pg317" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+could not marry all the men in the world! That
+apparently bloodthirsty indifference had of course
+tended to make more men <span class="tei tei-q">“crazy wild,”</span> as she put it,
+about her. And that reputation had added to her
+numerous attractions even to Birnier.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He could escape if he wished—with zu Pfeiffer. He
+could take Mungongo with him. Yet would Mungongo
+dare the tabu at his bidding? Birnier doubted it.
+Would Mungongo even consent to let him, Birnier,
+who was now in his eyes the King-God, go and so
+imperil the foundations of the native world? Birnier
+was certain that he would not. They were all
+dominated by this confounded idol of wood, he reflected.
+Bakahenzie, or even Mungongo, would cheerfully
+sacrifice him if either imagined that the damned
+Unmentionable One desired it, at the suppositious
+bidding of something which was nothing.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Through the sweet scent of her in the air like a
+compelling aura about him, came suddenly zu Pfeiffer’s
+voice speaking in the accents of agony; yet all he
+said was:</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Herr Professor Birnier—I am compelled—to—to
+apologise for …”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The voice failed and the haughty blond head turned
+away, unable to complete to the uttermost the greatest
+sacrifice he had ever attempted.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Please don’t,”</span> said Birnier comprehendingly. <span class="tei tei-q">“I
+understand.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And Birnier did comprehend; realised the small hell
+in zu Pfeiffer as a higher developed tabu did a childish
+tabu unto death. Zu Pfeiffer, white man, had been
+just as guilty of an attempt to commit murder at the
+suppositious inversion of a thumb of an idol as Bakahenzie;
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page318">[pg 318]</span><a name="Pg318" id="Pg318" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+not an idol of wood but the projection of his
+subconscious desires. Zu Pfeiffer would sacrifice a
+million at the bidding of his Kaiser, whose divinity was
+the same myth, the projection of himself. Yet what
+had been Birnier’s object in undertaking all these pains
+and penalties but to study mankind in the making, the
+black microcosm of a white macrocosm; to aid them
+to a better understanding of themselves and each
+other? Was not Bakahenzie an embryonic zu
+Pfeiffer? How could one aid a zu Pfeiffer if one did
+not know a Bakahenzie?</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From the saturnalia in progress outside came another
+swirl of sound seeming to lap mockingly against the
+motionless figure of zu Pfeiffer silhouetted against a
+green sky; and above him towered the idol leaning
+sideways.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As if in drunken laughter of the follies of black
+and white humanity! mused Birnier. Yet what
+am I doing? At the crook of a dainty finger am I,
+too, to bow to an idol? Am I to pity zu Pfeiffer and
+these children?… Savages! Good God, what
+am I?</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-back" style="margin-bottom: 2.00em; margin-top: 6.00em">
+  <hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+    <a name="toc64" id="toc64"></a>
+    <a name="pdf65" id="pdf65"></a>
+    <h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+      <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Extra Pages</span></span>
+    </h1>
+
+    <hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em">
+      <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page1">[pg 1]</span><a name="Pg1" id="Pg1" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+      <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 1.00em">
+      <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 150%">Witch-Doctors</span></span></p>
+    </div>
+
+    <hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em">
+      <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page2">[pg 2]</span><a name="Pg2" id="Pg2" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+      <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 8.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">L’homme
+      est bien insensé! il</span></span><br />
+      <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">ne sçauroit forger un ciron,
+      et</span></span><br />
+      <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">forge des dieux à douzaine!</span></span></p>
+      <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 24.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 75%">MONTAIGNE</span></span></p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+    <a name="toc66" id="toc66"></a>
+    <a name="pdf67" id="pdf67"></a>
+    <h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+      <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 100%">Errata</span></span>
+    </h1>
+
+    <a name="e1" id="e1" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">CHARACTERS</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: Ludwig  <a href="#E1" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">do. do.</span></span></a></td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: Ludwig  <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">German sergeant</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e2" id="e2" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">CHARACTERS</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: Schneider  <a href="#E2" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">do. do.</span></span></a></td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: Schneider  <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">German sergeant</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e3" id="e3" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 1</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: “This Saka—Saka”—<a href="#E3" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Zu</span></span></a>
+        Pfeiffer glanced at</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: “This Saka—Saka”—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">zu</span></span>
+        Pfeiffer glanced at</td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e4" id="e4" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 1</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: retreat. At <a href="#E4" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">MFunga</span></span></a>
+        MPopo’s is the</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: retreat. At <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">MFunya</span></span>
+        MPopo’s is the</td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e5" id="e5" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 1</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: As <a href="#E5" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Zu</span></span></a>
+        Pfeiffer nodded languidly</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: As <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">zu</span></span>
+        Pfeiffer nodded languidly</td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e6" id="e6" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 1</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: seemed to escape <a href="#E6" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Zu</span></span></a>
+        Pfeiffer. He gave</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: seemed to escape <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">zu</span></span>
+        Pfeiffer. He gave</td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e7" id="e7" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 1</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: man’s arrival?” demanded <a href="#E7" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Zu</span></span></a>
+        Pfeiffer harshly.</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: man’s arrival?” demanded <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">zu</span></span>
+        Pfeiffer harshly.</td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e8" id="e8" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 1</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: Zu <a href="#E8" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Peiffer</span></span></a>
+        finished the report leisurely</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: Zu <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Pfeiffer</span></span>
+        finished the report leisurely</td></tr></tbody></table>
+ 
+    <a name="e33" id="e33" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 3</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: I thank you<a href="#E33" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">,</span></span></a>
+        And if&mdash;&mdash; Were</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: I thank you<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">.</span></span>
+        And if&mdash;&mdash; Were</td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e9" id="e9" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 6</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: as balanced as a dancer’s<a href="#E9" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"> </span></a></td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: as balanced as a dancer’s<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e10" id="e10" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 6</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: to matters of more importance.<a href="#E10" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">”</span></span></a></td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: to matters of more importance.<span class="tei tei-hi"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e11" id="e11" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 9</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: shall lave hungry ears of<a href="#E11" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"> </span></a></td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: shall lave hungry ears of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">&mdash;&mdash;!</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e12" id="e12" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 9</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: <a href="#E12" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h</span></span></a>!</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h</span></span>!</td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e13" id="e13" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 9</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: As we …<a href="#E13" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"> </span></a></td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: As we …<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">”</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e14" id="e14" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 9</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: The personality of <a href="#E14" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Bernier</span></span></a>
+        had been apparently</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: The personality of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Birnier</span></span>
+        had been apparently</td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e15" id="e15" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 9</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: and the two <a href="#E15" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Nordenfelts</span></span></a>
+        and two pom-poms</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: and the two <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Nordenfeldts</span></span>
+        and two pom-poms</td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e17" id="e17" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 11</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: “<a href="#E17" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</span></span></a>!”
+      </td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: “<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</span></span>!”
+      </td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e18" id="e18" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 11</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: <a href="#E18" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</span></span></a>!</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</span></span>!</td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e19" id="e19" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 13</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: in of fresh <a href="#E19" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">masssacres</span></span></a>
+        adding to the</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: in of fresh <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">massacres</span></span>
+        adding to the</td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e20" id="e20" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 14</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: Yabolo near to <a href="#E20" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Zaku</span></span></a>
+        Zako’s continued. Neither</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: Yabolo near to <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Zalu</span></span>
+        Zako’s continued. Neither</td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e21" id="e21" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 14</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: enemy, Bakahenzie, presented <a href="#E21" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Zaku</span></span></a>
+        Zako with a </td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: enemy, Bakahenzie, presented <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Zalu</span></span>
+        Zako with a </td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e22" id="e22" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 14</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: which walk ever <a href="#E22" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">the the</span></span></a>
+        red devils in</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: which walk ever <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">the</span></span>
+        red devils in</td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e23" id="e23" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 14</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: the minds of <a href="#E23" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Zako Zalu</span></span></a>
+        and Marufa the</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: the minds of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Zalu Zako</span></span>
+        and Marufa the</td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e24" id="e24" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 15</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: village of MFunya <a href="#E24" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">MPope</span></span></a>
+        —of that day</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: village of MFunya <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">MPopo</span></span>
+        —of that day</td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e25" id="e25" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 15</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: not his policy <a href="#E25" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">tomake</span></span></a>
+        his thunder too</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: not his policy <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">to make</span></span>
+        his thunder too</td></tr></tbody></table>
+  
+    <a name="e26" id="e26" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 17</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: position of chief <a href="#E26" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">witch doctor</span></span></a>,
+        he would do</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: position of chief <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">witch-doctor</span></span>,
+        he would do</td></tr></tbody></table>
+ 
+    <a name="e27" id="e27" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 18</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: earth, and when<a href="#E27" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">&mdash;&mdash;</span></span></a>
+        and when&mdash;&mdash;” He</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: earth, and when<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">—</span></span>
+        and when&mdash;&mdash;” He</td></tr></tbody></table>
+ 
+    <a name="e28" id="e28" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 19</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: in their solar <a href="#E28" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">plexes</span></span></a>.</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: in their solar <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">plexus</span></span>.</td></tr></tbody></table>
+ 
+    <a name="e32" id="e32" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 22</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: the village of <a href="#E32" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Yangonyama</span></span></a>,
+        but shortage of</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: the village of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Yagonyana</span></span>,
+        but shortage of</td></tr></tbody></table>
+
+    <a name="e29" id="e29" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 24</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: the white god.<a href="#E29" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"> </span></a></td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: the white god.<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">”</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
+ 
+    <a name="e30" id="e30" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 29</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: Peuh! <a href="#E30" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Ecoute</span></span></a>,
+        mon cher, it</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: Peuh! <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Écoute</span></span>,
+        mon cher, it</td></tr></tbody></table>
+ 
+    <a name="e31" id="e31" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter 30</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed: Pm-pm—<a href="#E31" class="tei tei-ref"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Pommmm</span></span></a>!</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">To: Pm-pm—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">Pommmmm</span></span>!</td></tr></tbody></table>
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+        <hi rend="font-size: 325%">Witch-Doctors</hi><lb/>
+        <lb/>
+      </titlePart>
+    </docTitle>
+    <byline>
+      <hi rend="font-style: italic; font-size: 175%">by</hi>
+      <docAuthor>
+        <hi rend="font-size: 175%">Charles Beadle</hi><lb/>
+        <hi rend="font-style: italic">Author of &ldquo;A Whiteman&rsquo;s
+          Burden&rdquo;</hi><lb/>
+        <lb/>
+      </docAuthor>
+    </byline>
+    <docImprint>
+      <hi rend="font-size: 125%">Boston and New York</hi><lb/>
+      <hi rend="font-size: 150%">Houghton Mifflin Company</hi><lb/>
+    </docImprint>
+    <docDate>
+      <hi rend="font-size: 75%">1922</hi><lb/>
+    </docDate>
+  </titlePage>
+
+  <div rend="page-break-before: always" type="verso">
+    <pb n="4"/><anchor id="Pg4"/>
+    <p rend="text-align: center"><hi rend="font-style: italic; font-size:
+    75%">Printed in Great Britain by Butler &amp; Tanner, Frome and
+    London</hi></p>
+  </div>
+
+  <div rend="page-break-before: always" type="characters">
+    <pb n="5"/><anchor id="Pg5"/>
+    <head rend="text-align: center">
+      <hi rend="font-size: 150%">CHARACTERS</hi>
+    </head>
+    <div rend="margin-left: 2" type="table">
+      <table rows="19" cols="2"
+             rend="latexcolumns: 'lr'; tblcolumns: 'lw(40) rw(30m)'">
+        <row>
+          <cell><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Lucille Charltrain</hi>
+          (Mrs. Gerald Birnier)</cell>
+          <cell>A Photograph</cell>
+        </row>
+        <row>
+          <cell><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Usakuma</hi> (The
+          Incarnation of the</cell>
+          <cell></cell>
+        </row>
+        <row>
+          <cell>&emsp;&emsp;Unmentionable One)</cell>
+          <cell>An Idol</cell>
+        </row>
+        <row>
+          <cell><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Gerald Birnier</hi></cell>
+          <cell>A Professor</cell>
+        </row>
+        <row>
+          <cell><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">zu Pfeiffer</hi>
+          (Hermann von Schnitzler und)</cell>
+          <cell>German Kommandant</cell>
+        </row>
+        <row>
+          <cell><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Zalu Zako</hi>
+          (son of Kawa Kendi)</cell>
+          <cell>Heir Apparent</cell>
+        </row>
+        <row>
+          <cell><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Bakuma</hi>
+          (daughter of Bakala)</cell>
+          <cell>in love with Zalu Zako</cell>
+        </row>
+        <row>
+          <cell><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">MYalu</hi>
+          (son of MBusa)</cell>
+          <cell>a chief in love with Bakuma</cell>
+        </row>
+        <row>
+          <cell><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Bakahenzie</hi>
+          (son of Maliko)</cell>
+          <cell>Chief Witch-Doctor</cell>
+        </row>
+        <row>
+          <cell><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Marufa</hi>
+          (son of MTungo)</cell>
+          <cell>another Witch-Doctor</cell>
+        </row>
+        <row>
+          <cell><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Kawa Kendi</hi>
+          (son of MFunya MPopo)</cell>
+          <cell>King-God and Rainmaker</cell>
+        </row>
+        <row>
+          <cell><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">MFunya MPopo</hi>
+          (son of MKoffo)</cell>
+          <cell>Predecessor of Kawa Kendi</cell>
+        </row>
+        <row>
+          <cell><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Kingata Mata</hi>
+          (son of Kabolo)</cell>
+          <cell>Keeper of the Sacred Fires</cell>
+        </row>
+        <row>
+          <cell><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Sakamata</hi></cell>
+          <cell>deposed Witch-Doctor and spy</cell>
+        </row>
+        <row>
+          <cell><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Yabolo</hi></cell>
+          <cell>another Witch-Doctor</cell>
+        </row>
+        <row>
+          <cell><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Mungongo</hi></cell>
+          <cell>Birnier&rsquo;s servant</cell>
+        </row>
+        <row>
+          <cell><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Schultz</hi></cell>
+          <cell>German sergeant</cell>
+        </row>
+        <row>
+          <cell><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Ludwig</hi></cell>
+          <cell>
+            <corr sic="do. do."><anchor id="E1"/><ref
+            target="e1">German sergeant</ref></corr>
+          </cell>
+        </row>
+        <row>
+          <cell><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Schneider</hi></cell>
+          <cell>
+            <corr sic="do. do."><anchor id="E2"/><ref
+            target="e2">German sergeant</ref></corr>
+          </cell>
+        </row>
+      </table>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <div rend="page-break-before: right">
+    <index index="pdf"/>
+    <head rend="text-align: center">Contents</head>
+    <divGen type="toc"/>
+  </div>
+</front>
+
+<body>
+
+<!-- <pb n="i"/><anchor id="Pgi"/>
+[Blank Page] -->
+
+<!-- <pb n="ii"/><anchor id="Pgii"/>
+[Blank Page] -->
+
+<!-- <pb n="1"/><anchor id="Pg1"/>
+[Extra Page]
+
+Witch-Doctors -->
+
+<!-- <pb n="2"/><anchor id="Pg2"/>
+[Extra Page]
+
+/*
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">L&rsquo;homme est bien insens&eacute;! il
+ne s&ccedil;auroit forger un ciron, et
+forge des dieux &agrave; douzaine!</hi>
+
+    MONTAIGNE
+*/ -->
+
+<!-- <pb n="3"/><anchor id="Pg3"/>
+[Title Page]
+
+Witch-Doctors
+
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">by</hi> Charles Beadle
+
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">Author of <q>A Whiteman&rsquo;s Burden</q></hi>
+
+Boston and New York
+
+Houghton Mifflin Company
+
+1922 -->
+
+<!-- <pb n="4"/><anchor id="Pg4"/>
+[Verso]
+
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">Printed in Great Britain by Butler &amp; Tanner, Frome and London</hi> -->
+
+<!-- <pb n="5"/><anchor id="Pg5"/>
+[Extra Page]
+
+CHARACTERS
+
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Lucille Charltrain</hi> (Mrs. Gerald Birnier) A Photograph
+
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Usakuma</hi> (The Incarnation of the Unmentionable One) An Idol
+
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Gerald Birnier</hi> A Professor
+
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">zu Pfeiffer</hi> (Hermann von Schnitzler und) German Kommandant
+
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Zalu Zako</hi> (son of Kawa Kendi) Heir Apparent
+
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Bakuma</hi> (daughter of Bakala) in love with Zalu Zako
+
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">MYalu</hi> (son of MBusa) a chief in love with Bakuma
+
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Bakahenzie</hi> (son of Maliko) Chief Witch-Doctor
+
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Marufa</hi> (son of MTungo) another Witch-Doctor
+
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Kawa Kendi</hi> (son of MFunya MPopo) King-God and Rainmaker
+
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">MFunya MPopo</hi> (son of MKoffo) Predecessor of Kawa Kendi
+
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Kingata Mata</hi> (son of Kabolo) Keeper of the Sacred Fires
+
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Sakamata</hi> deposed Witch-Doctor and spy
+
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Yabolo</hi> another Witch-Doctor
+
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Mungongo</hi> Birnier&rsquo;s servant
+
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Schultz</hi> German sergeant
+
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Ludwig</hi> do. do.
+
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Schneider</hi> do. do. -->
+
+<!-- <pb n="6"/><anchor id="Pg6"/>
+[Blank Page] -->
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD01" type="chapter">
+<pb n="7"/><anchor id="Pg7"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head type="sub" rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 150%">WITCH-DOCTORS</hi>
+</head>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 1</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>In a bayou in the south-eastern corner of the
+Victoria Nyanza was the station of Ingonya, a brown
+scab on the face of the green earth. The round mud
+huts of the askaris were like two columns of khaki troops
+marching rigidly on each side of the parade ground.
+To the north, upon a slight rise of ground, were the
+white men&rsquo;s quarters; the non-commissioned officers
+had four bungalows to the south of the orderly room
+and Court House; and beyond a green plot flanked
+by a store house and an ordnance building, was a
+bigger bungalow, florid in the amplitude and colour of
+the red pillared verandah, the residence of the Kommandant,
+Herr Ober-Lieutenant Hermann von Schnitzler
+und zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p>On the northern side, overlooking the swamp and
+the distant lake, was a flagpole, before which paced
+an ebon sentry in a uniform of white knickers, tunic
+and lancer cap, red faced. The glow of sunrise
+stained the green of the moon with crimson. A
+trumpet blared. From the rear of the Residence
+marched with stiff-legged precision a squad of askaris
+and the stocky figure of a non-commissioned officer in a
+white helmet. Simultaneously appeared on the verandah
+of the large bungalow the tall form of a white man
+<pb n="8"/><anchor id="Pg8"/>
+in pink silk pyjamas. The sergeant barked. The squad
+presented arms. A coloured ball slid up the flagpole.
+The first rays of the sun splintered the bloodied
+waters beyond into silver spikes and caressed a fluttering
+black, white and red flag.</p>
+
+<p>Then the squad ported arms, relieved the sentry,
+and retired, their black legs gleaming blue points as
+they rose and fell. The pink figure disappeared.
+Sergeant Schultz strutted back to his bungalow, in the
+verandah of which squatted a native girl clad in gay
+trade cloths. He emerged lighting a cigar, and
+sjambok in hand, returned to the orderly room.
+Another trumpet blared. From beyond the askaris&rsquo;
+camp came a line of natives, young and old, their
+scrawny necks linked together by a light iron chain
+which clanked musically. Filing on to the parade
+ground they were divided into gangs by Sergeant
+Schneider to labour under guard at the interminable
+work of the camp.</p>
+
+<p>The air above the swamp began to sizzle in the heat.
+The same slender figure clad in immaculate white
+reappeared upon the south verandah of the florid
+bungalow. Herr Ober-Lieutenant stood staring about
+the small square with a peevish glint in the fair eyes.
+A big negro in spotless white hurried around the house
+bearing a brass tray set with a cup, a liqueur glass and
+a decanter. Herr Lieutenant sprawled his legs on
+either arm of a Bombay chair. As he delicately
+mixed cognac with his coffee, his jewelled fingers
+sparkled in a shaft of sunlight which set afire the
+sapphires mounted in an ivory bracelet.</p>
+
+<p>At a yard from the table stood the servant as rigid
+as the flagpole. With a lazy insolence which marked
+<pb n="9"/><anchor id="Pg9"/>
+his movements, the lieutenant sipped the caf&eacute;-cognac
+and smoked a cheroot, as if he were seated on the terrace
+of the Caf&eacute; de la Paix. The brutality of the round
+skull, emphasized by the cropped blonde hair, seemed
+at variance with the boyish rotundity of the face and the
+small, but dominant, nose. Two separate moustaches
+bristled so fiercely that they suggested sentries on
+guard over the feminine softness of the lips. When
+he had finished zu Pfeiffer arose languidly, lighted a
+fresh cigar, adjusted his helmet with care, took a gold-mounted
+sjambok from his servant, and strode across
+the square. The lines of his torso were so perfect
+that they suggested artificial aid.</p>
+
+<p>The orderly room was square and whitewashed;
+grass matting was upon the floor, and high screened
+doors opened on to the north verandah. Zu Pfeiffer
+sprawled in a swing chair before the office desk placed
+at an oblique angle to the wall, encumbered with
+books and papers. After tapping reflectively on a book
+cover with a polished nail zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s hand sharply
+struck the bell. Instantly a corporal appeared at the
+farther door and stood as if petrified, black hand to
+black temple. Zu Pfeiffer snapped instructions in
+Kiswahili without removing his cigar. The man
+grunted, shot his hand away at right angles with as
+much energy as if he were trying to knock down an
+elephant, and vanished.</p>
+
+<p><q>Sergeant!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ja, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p>At the other door like another Jack-in-the-box
+appeared Sergeant Schultz in exactly the same attitude.
+At a nod the sergeant melted into the semblance of
+human movement: he drew aside a chair, selected a
+<pb n="10"/><anchor id="Pg10"/>
+certain document from a pile of them, and handed it to
+the lieutenant. Zu Pfeiffer pushed a box of cigars
+across the table, lolled back with one foot on the table,
+and began to peruse lazily. The sergeant retired
+respectfully with the cigar to the outer office. A fly
+buzzed hopefully at the mosquito wire. The tap of
+a typewriter sounded like some other insect. On the
+hot air came the faint barks of a drill-sergeant on the
+parade ground. From behind the building rose fitfully
+the murmur of voices from a herd of natives
+squatted in the sun awaiting the opening of the Court
+House. Leaves rustled largely under the Lieutenant&rsquo;s
+fingers.&hellip;</p>
+
+<p>At length he pitched the report on to the table, carefully
+placed the butt of his cigar in an ash-tray, lighted
+another, and disposed of the match with equal care.</p>
+
+<p><q>Sergeant.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ja, Excellence!</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer indicated a chair by a thrust of the chin.
+The sergeant sat. Tapping the report with the highly
+polished and very long finger-nail of the left hand, the
+lieutenant demanded:</p>
+
+<p><q>Who is the man who gave you this report?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ali Ben Hassan, an Arab trader, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Trustworthy?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ja, Excellence. He has done much work for us.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Where?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>On the Tanganika district, sub-division B 
+<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">II</hi>,
+Excellence. He brought papers of first-class recommendation
+from the Kommandant.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ben Hassan speaks of one Sakamata, nicht wahr?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ja, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Of what tribe is he?</q></p>
+<pb n="11"/><anchor id="Pg11"/>
+
+<p><q>Wongolo.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>A witch-doctor?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ja, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>He is here? Let him come in.</q></p>
+
+<p>The sergeant rose, saluted and departed. Gutturals
+sounded lazily. The sergeant reappeared and behind
+him shuffled a native. Clad only in a dirty loin-cloth,
+his brown skin was wrinkled in scaly folds upon
+his chest and belly; his face was like an ancient
+tortoise; the small lack-lustre eyes were bloodshot and
+furtive; the limbs were almost fleshless. He squatted
+upon the ground and with lowered lids appeared to
+be absorbed in the contemplation of a white man&rsquo;s table
+leg. Zu Pfeiffer regarded the man as one would a
+stray dog and nodded to the sergeant, who sat
+down.</p>
+
+<p><q>Does he speak Kiswahili?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Nein, Excellence. Only his monkey speech.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Why do you suppose that he is trustworthy?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Because, Excellence, his interests are with ours.
+There is no competition. The Schweinh&uuml;nde Engl&auml;nder
+have no interest there&mdash;yet. They are too busy
+with the Uganda railroad.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ja, ja. Again what is the tribal system there,
+King-God or&qdash;</q> The lieutenant permitted a
+slight smile&mdash;<q>or Dis-established Church?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>King-God, Excellence,</q> replied Sergeant Schultz
+gravely.</p>
+
+<p><q>This fellow then is an apostate priest, nicht wahr?</q></p>
+
+<p>The sergeant noticed the movement of one of the
+sentry moustaches. A twitch of the lips recognized
+his superior&rsquo;s pleasantry.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ja, Excellence.</q></p>
+<pb n="12"/><anchor id="Pg12"/>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer stuck the cigar into the corner of his
+mouth and regarded idly the dumb figure on the
+floor against the wall.</p>
+
+<p><q>We must have the Wongolo country, c&rsquo;est
+entendu. Now what&rsquo;s your opinion of the method,
+sergeant?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>With due deference, Excellence,</q> responded
+Sergeant Schultz, <q>I propose that we advance and
+bring them to subjection in the usual manner.</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer fingered a ring and stared out into the
+yellow glare.</p>
+
+<p><q>Nein,</q> he said at length, meditatively, removed
+the cigar from his lips and delicately knocked off the
+ash. <q>Circumstances alter cases. That method is
+too expensive. Son Altesse cannot afford the blood of
+the Fatherland in return for such ignoble carcasses.
+We&mdash;the price paid in the Herrero campaign was
+insupportable.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Pardon, Excellence, but Treitschke said&qdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I know, sergeant. But Treitschke did not live in
+Central Africa.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>True, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Die Schweinh&uuml;nde Engl&auml;nder have had more
+experience than we have. Even a fool learns wisdom
+by experience&mdash;sometimes.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>True, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p>Again fell a silence save for the buzz of the persistent
+fly.</p>
+
+<p><q>Also psychological research is more valuable than
+artillery&mdash;sometimes&mdash;in spite of Napoleon and
+Treitschke.</q> Zu Pfeiffer glanced at the sergeant who,
+beneath the mask of his features, appeared shocked.
+<q>Blasphemy, nicht wahr, sergeant?</q></p>
+<pb n="13"/><anchor id="Pg13"/>
+
+<p><q>If your Excellence thinks&qdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But remember if Napoleon invented the science of
+artillery, we invented psychology.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>True, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer smiled complacently and stroked his
+moustaches.</p>
+
+<p><q>Now for this animal here. Who and what was
+he?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>One of the principal witch-doctors, Excellence,
+wealthy and powerful. He attempted to overthrow
+the Chief Witch-doctor, one Bakahenzie, and was
+discredited.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>How discredited?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>He attempted some form of magic, Excellence,
+which failed. Details are not given.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Who gave the dossier?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ali ben Hassan, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>From whom did he get his information?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Name given as one Yabolo, another witch-doctor
+and relative.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>This Saka&mdash;Saka</q>&mdash;<corr
+sic="Zu"><anchor id="E3"/><ref target="e3">zu</ref></corr>
+Pfeiffer glanced at the
+document&mdash;<q>Sakamata. Is he in communication with
+this Yabolo?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ja, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer smoked reflectively.</p>
+
+<p><q>When did the last agent come in?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But yesterday, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And no report of any other white men in the
+country? No British missionaries or traders?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Nein, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Where is Saunders?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>On Lake Kivu.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No report?</q></p>
+<pb n="14"/><anchor id="Pg14"/>
+
+<p><q>Not since the last three months ago, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Umph!&mdash;Now, pay attention.</q> Schultz leaned
+forward dutifully. Zu Pfeiffer unrolled a map on the
+wall beside him. <q>Here&rsquo;s Ingonya. The Wongolo
+country is twenty days&rsquo; march from here, but across
+the lake it&rsquo;s twenty hours with the launch, and five
+days from there.</q> The delicate finger-nail indicated
+a spot on the opposite side of the lake. <q>From
+here&mdash;what&rsquo;s the place? Ach&mdash;Timballa. To hell
+with the British boundary! We must not give them
+time to get the news. Always rush the seat of government.
+Surprise them and they&rsquo;re done.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But, Excellence, Treitschke says regarding retreat&qdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>There will be no retreat. At
+<corr sic="MFunga"><anchor id="E4"/><ref
+target="e4">MFunya</ref></corr>
+MPopo&rsquo;s
+is the idol, the fetish. We destroy it and they&rsquo;re
+done!</q> He brought down his fist with a crash on
+the table. <q>Faith unites a people; in unity is
+strength. Break the faith and you&rsquo;ve broken the
+people.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But, Excellence!</q> exclaimed the Lutheran sergeant,
+aghast.</p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s blue eyes hardened.</p>
+
+<p><q>Understand, you fool, these are savages.
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">You</hi>
+have an abstract deity&mdash;which you cannot break in
+the concrete&mdash;obviously: they have a concrete god
+which we can and shall smash.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence, you are right,</q> said the sergeant
+humbly.</p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer flicked cigar ash from his sleeve and
+lolled back.</p>
+
+<p><q>Those are your orders. Commandeer the necessary
+canoes and notify Ludwig to have the men in
+<pb n="15"/><anchor id="Pg15"/>
+readiness for the full moon. Work out the details and
+give them to me to-morrow.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ja, Excellence.</q> Schultz stood to attention.
+<q>But, Excellence, this creature&qdash;</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer glanced casually at Sakamata.</p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, that? Take it away!</q></p>
+
+<p>Schultz saluted smartly and wheeled about.</p>
+
+<p><q>Njoo!</q> he commanded sharply.</p>
+
+<p>Sakamata rose up quietly and disappeared through
+the door without glancing to the right or the left.</p>
+
+<p><q>The Court awaits your Excellence,</q> reminded the
+sergeant.</p>
+
+<p>As
+<corr sic="Zu"><anchor id="E5"/><ref
+target="e5">zu</ref></corr>
+Pfeiffer nodded languidly, a booted foot
+clopped on the verandah.</p>
+
+<p><q>Wa da?</q> queried Sergeant Schultz, startled at
+the intrusion of a stranger.</p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, only I,</q> responded a soft voice in English.</p>
+
+<p>Through the screen door a tall figure in a Tirai
+hat was silhouetted in sepia against the yellow glare.
+A brown hand pushed open the door.</p>
+
+<p><q>Mon nom est Birnier, Gerald Birnier&mdash;er&mdash;Does
+any one speak English?</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer, in the act of rising, sank back into the
+chair, placing his left leg in a favourite position and
+selecting a cigar simultaneously.</p>
+
+<p><q>Yes,</q> said he, almost without accent. <q>What do
+you want?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I wish to see the&mdash;the Herr Kommandant.</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer struck a match without looking up.</p>
+
+<p><q>I am he.</q></p>
+
+<p>One hand upon the open door, Birnier stroked his
+shaven chin perplexedly with the other. He glanced
+from the sergeant, standing rigidly by the table, to
+<pb n="16"/><anchor id="Pg16"/>
+the lieutenant engaged in stoking his cigar to a
+nicety.</p>
+
+<p><q>Well, it&rsquo;s usual to invite a white man to sit down,
+isn&rsquo;t it?</q> suggested Birnier, with a note of irritation.</p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer looked across the table.</p>
+
+<p><q>Nein. This is the Orderly Room; not a general
+office.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, I see. I beg your pardon!</q> There was a
+note of laughter in the voice. <q>Will you kindly
+instruct me where I am to apply?</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer continued to regard the stranger from
+head to foot, smoking slowly.</p>
+
+<p><q>Please to come in,</q> he said at length, gesturing
+with his cigar, <q>and sit down.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Thanks so much!</q></p>
+
+<p>The trace of irony seemed to escape
+<corr sic="Zu"><anchor id="E6"/><ref
+target="e6">zu</ref></corr>
+Pfeiffer. He
+gave a guttural order to the sergeant, who saluted and
+disappeared. The stranger placed his Tirai hat on the
+table, revealing rumpled brown hair flecked with grey,
+a high white forehead, and long features; the slight
+stoop of the shoulders and general carriage rather
+suggested a professional type than a hunter or trader.
+He regarded the slim figure staring insolently at him
+with a hardening look of disapproval.</p>
+
+<p><q>What is it you wish?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well, principally I require an elephant licence
+and the usual permit to trade.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Where are you going?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>To the Kivu country.</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer regarded his cigar tip interestedly.</p>
+
+<p><q>You are going to the Wongolo country,</q> he stated.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier&rsquo;s mouth tightened.</p>
+
+<p><q>Quite possibly.</q></p>
+<pb n="17"/><anchor id="Pg17"/>
+
+<p><q>You have been to the Wongolo country already?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, I have been there, but what has that to do
+with it?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>We know all about you,</q> stated zu Pfeiffer coldly,
+twiddling his cigar between slender fingers. He
+glanced at a gold repeater. <q>Pardon, but I must
+request you to return later. The Court is already
+awaiting me.</q> Birnier frowned slightly. <q>If you
+will be so good as to return at, let us say, five o&rsquo;clock,
+I will be pleased to listen to your application.</q></p>
+
+<p>Birnier rose, taking his hat.</p>
+
+<p><q>Certainly,</q> he said curtly. <q>Good morning!</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer watched him depart; then he struck
+the bell sharply. Sergeant Schultz appeared, a line of
+nervous expectancy upon his sallow face.</p>
+
+<p><q>Why have you not reported that man&rsquo;s arrival?</q>
+demanded 
+<corr sic="Zu"><anchor id="E7"/><ref
+target="e7">zu</ref></corr>
+Pfeiffer harshly.</p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence,</q> returned Schultz, saluting, <q>he has
+but arrived within the hour in a launch, loaned to him
+by the Engl&auml;nder.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ach! An English spy!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I do not know, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>We ought to know. Why have you not a report of
+the man&rsquo;s movements? He admits that he has been
+in the Wongolo country.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence, it is already done.</q> Schultz hurriedly
+searched a card index cabinet and handed a document
+to the lieutenant. <q>There is Saunders&rsquo; report, Excellence;
+more than six months old.</q></p>
+
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer glanced at the page indicated and began
+to read while the sergeant stood stiffly at attention.</p>
+
+<p><q>You may go, sergeant,</q> announced zu Pfeiffer
+without looking up. Schultz saluted and departed.
+<pb n="18"/><anchor id="Pg18"/>
+Zu
+<corr sic="Peiffer"><anchor id="E8"/><ref
+target="e8">Pfeiffer</ref></corr>
+finished the report leisurely, put down the
+paper, and stared meditatively.</p>
+
+<p>No, he decided, as he rose, all the English are
+spies.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD02" type="chapter">
+<pb n="19"/><anchor id="Pg19"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 2</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>Like a topaz set in a jade ring was the city of the
+Snake, the place of Kings, a village of some eight
+hundred huts huddled upon a slight rise above a sea of
+banana fronds, some two hundred miles to the west of
+Ingonya.</p>
+
+<p>On the summit was a large conical hut like an enormous
+candle snuffer, the dwelling place of Usakuma,
+the spirit of the Snake, whose name was forbidden to
+all save the Priest-God and Rain Maker, King MFunya
+MPopo, who was so holy that after succeeding to the
+sacred office he was doomed to live within the compound,
+even as were the Kings of Eutopia, Sheba and
+China, a celibate for the remainder of his life: for, as
+the incarnation of the Idol, Usakuma, and therefore the
+controller of the Heavens and the Earth, his body
+must be kept from all danger of witchcraft lest the
+rains cease and the blue skies fall.</p>
+
+<p>From the compound, looking towards the north-west
+where the snow-capped Gamballagalla rose violet
+against the horizon, another brown cone peeped above
+the green fronds, the late residence, and now the tomb
+of King MKoffo, predecessor of MFunya MPopo.
+For where a King-God dies there is he buried, he and
+his wives after him; the site becomes holy ground, a
+place of pilgrimage and sanctuary.</p>
+
+<p>In each of the small huts to the rear of the temple of
+MFunya MPopo, but outside the sacred enclosure, lived
+<pb n="20"/><anchor id="Pg20"/>
+his wives who, although forbidden to their husband,
+were permitted a royal promiscuity. Just within the
+precincts was a small replica of the temple where dwelt
+a young chief, also bound to celibacy, whose duties
+were to keep the royal fire burning as long as the king
+should reign. No one was allowed to converse with
+the king, save on matters of state, except this man;
+through him was spoken the royal will&mdash;what there
+was left of it&mdash;to the council which sat in a long
+rectangular building opposite to the temple entrance
+and open to the village, a body of witch-doctors and
+chiefs.</p>
+
+<p>Solely the kingly office existed as a beneficent agent,
+a matter of self-preservation on the part of the tribe.
+The King-God&rsquo;s functions were divine; to make
+magic for the victory of his warriors and principally to
+make rain, on which, of course, the alimentary needs of
+his subjects depended&mdash;an incarnation of a god who
+was in reality the scapegoat of the god&rsquo;s omissions.</p>
+
+<p>The office was hereditary. Perhaps no one else
+would willingly accept such an onerous post. The
+making of magic was performed before the god with the
+assistance of the chief witch-doctor, an exceedingly
+lucrative post won upon merit, occupied by one
+Bakahenzie, a tall muscular man in the prime of life,
+whose bearing was that of the native autocrat, fierce
+and remorseless. The King&rsquo;s personal wishes could be
+safely granted as long as he did not endanger the
+existence of the people by a desire to break any of the
+meshes of the tabus designed to ensure the safety of his
+sacred body, and therefore that of the tribe, on the
+assumption that if the incarnation were injured the god
+would be injured, and so would his creations be
+<pb n="21"/><anchor id="Pg21"/>
+affected: any infringement of these laws entailed the
+penalty of death, a code which revealed the native
+logic in the confusion of cause and effect, the concrete
+and the abstract.</p>
+
+<p>In the door of a hut on the outskirts of the village
+squatted a wizened man with a tuft of grey beard upon
+his chin. He was clad in a loin-cloth fairly clean, and
+about his neck was suspended by a twisted fibre an
+amulet wrapped in banana leaves containing the gall
+and toenail of an enemy slain by a virgin warrior, a
+specific against black magic whose powerful properties
+were proven by the undisputed influence and wealth
+of the owner.</p>
+
+<p>A tall lithe savage, bearing upon his arms and ankles
+the ivory bracelets of the royal house and the elephant
+hair chaplet of the warrior, advanced leisurely towards
+him from the banana plantation. Marufa continued
+to gaze in rumination at the opposite hut. But as they
+had not met since the rising of the sun, he did not fail to
+make the orthodox greeting at the exact moment that
+the chief&rsquo;s shadow passed in front of him, which Zalu
+Zako returned punctiliously, thereby averting an evil
+omen. As soon as the young man had passed beyond
+the next hut appeared in the grove a girl, modelled like
+a bronze wood nymph. She wore the tiny girdle of the
+unmarried and walked furtively, carrying in her hand a
+parcel wrapped in banana leaves. In the shadow of a
+compound fence she halted, one slender brown arm set
+back in apprehension as her eyes followed the lithe
+figure of Zalu Zako.</p>
+
+<p>Motionless sat Marufa staring in mystic contemplation.
+Bakuma glanced swiftly about her. Apparently
+satisfied that no one was observing her save a lean dog
+<pb n="22"/><anchor id="Pg22"/>
+and two gollywog children, she continued on as if to
+pass the old man, her eyes still ranging like a fawn&rsquo;s.
+But when she was beside Marufa she subsided on her
+haunches beside him, clutching the bundle as she
+whispered:</p>
+
+<p><q>Greetings, O wise one!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Greeting, daughter,</q> returned Marufa without
+lessening the fixity of his gaze.</p>
+
+<p><q>I would talk with thee.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Aye.</q></p>
+
+<p>Again she glanced around furtively.</p>
+
+<p><q>I would talk in thine ear, O my father.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The knots of my hair are tied.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I thank thee. There&rsquo;s a fluttering bird in my
+breast.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And a snake around thy heart, O my daughter.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Aie-e!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The grandson of the snake hath tied thy girdle.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q></p>
+
+<p>The girl clasped her breast in surprised terror.</p>
+
+<p><q>How dost thou know?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>All things are known to the son of MTungo,</q>
+declared Marufa solemnly, still regarding the opposite
+wall. <q>Thou desirest a love charm.&hellip; What hast
+thou?</q></p>
+
+<p>Tremulously Bakuma put down the green package on
+the ground, darting terrified glances to right and left.
+Slowly the skinny hand of the wizard gently tore open
+the leaves; very impressively the eyes slanted down to
+appraise the stock of blue and white beads.</p>
+
+<p><q>The spirit of Tarum hath a big belly,</q> he
+announced tonelessly.</p>
+
+<p><q>O wise one, intercede for me,</q> pleaded Bakuma,
+<pb n="23"/><anchor id="Pg23"/>
+<q>for more have I none, I, Bakuma, daughter of Bakala,
+a girl of the hut thatch.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The true love charm, infallible and powerful, is
+difficult to obtain, O Bakuma. The young huntress
+aims at big game.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh! But I have no more, great one!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The hair of a rutting leopardess, the liver of a
+forest rat, the tongue of a Baroto bird&mdash;these must I
+have to mix with thy blood to be drunk by thy man
+when the moon is full.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh! Ehh!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Such is the magic that no young man can
+resist.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh-h!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But these things are difficult to obtain.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Aie! Aie!</q> wailed Bakuma, clasping her hands in
+despair.</p>
+
+<p><q>Difficult to obtain.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Aie-e!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>On the night of the half-moon will I take upon me
+the leopard form.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I will talk with the spirits.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh! Ehh!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But they must be propitiated with the blood of a
+fat goat.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Aie! Aie! But I have no fat goat.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>If there be no fat goat then will the spirits be
+wroth with me.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Aie-e-e!</q></p>
+
+<p>Bakuma sat staring in dismal perplexity.</p>
+
+<p><q>No fat goat have I, a girl of the hut thatch! Aie!
+Aie!</q></p>
+<pb n="24"/><anchor id="Pg24"/>
+
+<p>Marufa fumbled within the loin-cloth and thrust a
+tiny package along the ground.</p>
+
+<p><q>See and know the power of my magic.</q> Bakuma
+greedily snatched up the amulet. <q>Begone!</q> he
+whispered, jerking the parcel of beads behind him.
+<q>MYalu approaches.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q></p>
+
+<p>Bakuma rose and fled with the grace of a startled
+antelope as appeared a tall, strongly built man, having a
+low-browed face, across which was a deep scar. Behind
+MYalu came two young slaves bearing a small elephant
+tusk. Opposite to Marufa the slaves stopped. Their
+master, careful that his shadow fell well away from the
+figure of the magician&mdash;for the shadow is one of the
+souls, so woe unto him who shall leave his soul in the
+hands of an enemy!&mdash;squatted gravely.</p>
+
+<p><q>Greeting, son of MTungo!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Greeting, son of MBusa!</q> returned Marufa.</p>
+
+<p>Gravely they spat into each other&rsquo;s palm, the sign
+of amity as they who exchange bonds of good behaviour
+inasmuch, as is well known, magic can be worked upon
+that which has been a part of the body as upon the body
+itself. Then solemnly they rubbed the spittle upon
+their respective chests.</p>
+
+<p><q>The spirit of the snake nourisheth not the life of
+the banana.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Nay, for nigh unto two moons hath there been no
+blood of the snake,</q> returned the old man perfunctorily,
+as he lifted his eyes from a swift appraisement of the
+tusk to his favourite mud wall.</p>
+
+<p><q>Nay, the crops sprout not. Maybe the Dweller
+in the Place of the Snake hath been visited by one from
+the forest.</q></p>
+<pb n="25"/><anchor id="Pg25"/>
+
+<p><q>Aye, but old blood runs not as swiftly as young
+blood.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Nay,</q> replied MYalu, in answer to the reference
+to himself, <q>but the girdle is not yet tied by
+another.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>When the first twig of the nest is laid,</q> remarked
+Marufa, indolently eyeing the tusk, <q>it is difficult to
+entice the hen to another tree.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Here is a goodly twig with which to tempt spirits
+of the forest,</q> and significantly, <q>Maybe there are
+others.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>A mighty potion shall be prepared for thee, O son
+of MBusa,</q> declared Marufa, moving slightly to
+conceal the package of beads. <q>A mighty potion,
+infallible; made from the hair of a rutting leopardess,
+the liver of the forest rat and the tongue of the Baroto
+bird; these must she take that she shall speak thee
+softly, together with a portion of that which remains
+from the ceremony of the lobolo. Infallible is it;
+never known to fail.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q></p>
+
+<p>Marufa stared interestedly at a wandering hen.
+MYalu watched him covertly. Like bronzes sat the
+two young slaves. From the distance came a faint
+chanting and the beat of a drum.&hellip;</p>
+
+<p><q>The tusk is here, Marufa,</q> remarked MYalu
+casually.</p>
+
+<p><q>My eyes see it,</q> observed Marufa, without altering
+his observation of the hen.</p>
+
+<p><q>Where then is the potion?</q></p>
+
+<p>Marufa glanced at the tusk, appraised it again, and
+fumbling within his loin-cloth, thrust another tiny
+package along the ground. MYalu greedily picked up
+<pb n="26"/><anchor id="Pg26"/>
+the amulet and stared in awe, turning it over and
+about.</p>
+
+<p><q>The tusk,</q> murmured Marufa.</p>
+
+<p>MYalu gestured to his slaves. They rose and placed
+the tusk beside the old man, shuffled backwards and
+squatted again. After lifting one end to test the
+weight, Marufa examined the grain. Then sliding it
+behind him as if he wished to sit upon it, remarked:</p>
+
+<p><q>The potion must be eaten at the full moon.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q></p>
+
+<p>MYalu glanced up from an absorbed examination of
+the amulet.</p>
+
+<p><q>And within the quarter shall the fruit be ripe for
+the plucking.</q> The whites of MYalu&rsquo;s eyes gleamed.
+<q>Unless,</q> continued the old man uninterestedly,
+<q>there be stronger magic made against thee.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q></p>
+
+<p>The two hands holding the amulet came down.</p>
+
+<p><q>If,</q> explained Marufa, <q>another hath tied the
+grasses of her father&rsquo;s roof, will there be required a
+stronger spirit to overcome such magic.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But thou hast told me,</q> expostulated MYalu,
+regarding the tusk regretfully, <q>that this is a mighty
+magic, powerful and infallible, never known to fail.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Thus is it,</q> asserted the old man imperturbably,
+<q>for all save a stronger magic.</q></p>
+
+<p>MYalu&rsquo;s eyes wandered from the tusk to Marufa and
+back. He scowled.</p>
+
+<p><q>Why didst thou not tell me?</q> he demanded
+sourly, dropping the amulet on the ground.</p>
+
+<p><q>It is for thee to tell the wizard all that thou
+knowest. How else may he reckon with thine
+enemies?</q></p>
+<pb n="27"/><anchor id="Pg27"/>
+
+<p><q>Enemy!</q> exclaimed MYalu. He stared questioningly
+at Marufa. <q>Enemy! Dost thou know whom I
+seek?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Do not all the hens remark the strutting of the
+cock?</q> inquired Marufa unconcernedly, tapping his
+snuff box.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q></p>
+
+<p>MYalu observed the taking of snuff as if he had
+never seen the operation before.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q> he remarked again succinctly.</p>
+
+<p>Marufa replaced the cork of twisted leaves, let fall
+the snuff box made of rhinoceros horn suspended from
+his neck by a copper wire, and contemplated a skinny
+goat scratching itself violently. MYalu stirred as if to
+rise, but subsided, cogitated and said slowly:</p>
+
+<p><q>In the house of MYalu are four more tusks.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Four more tusks,</q> repeated Marufa dreamily.</p>
+
+<p><q>Bigger than this one,</q> said MYalu suggestively.</p>
+
+<p><q>Bigger than this one.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Knowest thou by whom the girdle is tied?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>By the grandson of the Snake.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q></p>
+
+<p>MYalu squatted motionless. The old man appeared
+to doze. Women bearing gourds of water upon their
+heads passed in single file, their loins swaying rhythmically.
+The shadows dwindled. From close at
+hand began the rapid beat of a drum. A stir began
+through the village as each man herded his women and
+slaves to his own hut.</p>
+
+<p><q>O Marufa,</q> said MYalu, speaking with a slight
+snarl, <q>hast thou such a powerful medicine that can
+surely trap the soul of Zalu Zako when perchance it
+wanders (in sleep)?</q></p>
+<pb n="28"/><anchor id="Pg28"/>
+
+<p><q>All things are possible to the son of MTungo,</q>
+mumbled the old man.</p>
+
+<p>Two chiefs appeared walking through the grove at a
+middle distance. MYalu glanced round apprehensively.</p>
+
+<p><q>Two tusks will I give thee,</q> he whispered, <q>if
+thou wilt do this thing.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Three tusks. No less, for the matter is dangerous.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Two, two.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Nay.</q></p>
+
+<p>The old man stirred to rise.</p>
+
+<p><q>Three be it,</q> gasped MYalu. <q>But I must see the
+magic done.</q></p>
+
+<p>They rose together.</p>
+
+<p><q>Bring me of his toe-nails one paring, of his hair
+one, and his spittle and a footprint. Then shalt thou
+come with me to the sacred grove where the magic
+shall be done.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But the three tusks must be given to Yanoka, my
+first wife.</q></p>
+
+<p>MYalu hesitated.</p>
+
+<p><q>Aye, thus shall it be done,</q> he assented reluctantly.</p>
+
+<p><q>It is agreed?</q> inquired Marufa.</p>
+
+<p><q>May my cord be lost!</q> swore MYalu, and gesturing
+to the slaves, hurried away.</p>
+
+<p>A slight grin flecked the old man&rsquo;s eyes as he turned
+into the hut.</p>
+
+<p><q>Already hath he drunken of her blood,</q> he
+mumbled. <q>Ya, Inkombana! take the tusk!</q></p>
+
+<p>When Marufa emerged, a head-dress of the tail
+feathers of the green parrot, professional uniform and
+potent specific against evil spirits, fluffed gently as he
+<pb n="29"/><anchor id="Pg29"/>
+slowly stalked towards the council house. From the
+other side of a hut walked MYalu as if he had come
+from a different direction. In the open gate of the
+royal enclosure sat a muscular young man upon his
+haunches, tending the royal fire, which fed hungrily
+upon small faggots. Beyond him across the yellow
+glare upon the cleared ground beneath a thatched
+awning, stood an idol of wood, whose lopsided mouth
+snarled beneath a bridgeless nose; narrow slits for
+eyes squinted; baby arms stuck down beside triangular
+breasts above a melon belly having a protuberant navel
+like a small cucumber&mdash;the incarnation of the Snake-god,
+Usakuma.</p>
+
+<p>Without the palisade of the sacred ground was a
+taller one, barring the doings of the council of witch-doctors
+and chiefs from the lay public, who were
+confined to their own huts under the penalty of a
+hideous death, or an enormous fine, as the witch-doctors
+should decide.</p>
+
+<p>To the rear of the idol, cross-legged against the wall
+of the entrance to the conical hut, were the musicians
+beating a monotonous rhythm upon big and small
+drums and twanging a primitive lyre of five strings.
+Just as Marufa and MYalu took their respective places
+without among the wizards and the chiefs, a young
+goat skipped into the open and stared inquisitively at
+the Keeper of the Fires. As the man waved the
+animal back from the sacred ground, the goat lowered
+its head and threatened to charge, suddenly recollected
+its mate lying in the shade a few feet away, and began
+to bleat absent-mindedly.</p>
+
+<p>Gravely and silently sat the assembly: continuously
+throbbed the drums. The sun beat diagonally. As a
+<pb n="30"/><anchor id="Pg30"/>
+lizard darted like a flash of a prism from the grass
+palisade, the band ceased. A man emerged from
+behind the idol. Although the grey woolly tufts upon
+his chin, the sacred snake skin around his waist above
+the cat skin loin-cloth, the jingle of the ivory bangles
+on arms and ankles, and his stature, imparted an air of
+barbaric royalty, King MFunya MPopo advanced with
+the manner of a pariah dog ordered to his master&rsquo;s side.</p>
+
+<p>As the King approached, the Keeper of the Fires
+hastily threw on a handful of faggots and bowed his
+head. In the centre of the opening of the enclosure
+the King squatted down with his back to the fire which
+streamed blue smoke. Not a limb or a muscle moved
+among the group of wizards and chiefs in the council
+house. Attracted by the movement, the goat stopped
+bleating and stared at the King; then, putting down
+its head, charged him.</p>
+
+<p>With a horrified click, the Keeper of the Fires
+sprang. But he was not swift enough to prevent the
+impact of the animal&rsquo;s horns with the royal arm thrust
+out in self-defence. Three young chiefs came running;
+one caught up the goat and carried it away bleating
+bellicosely; the others knelt, and while one carefully
+collected a gout of blood upon the King&rsquo;s forearm in a
+piece of banana leaf, his companion wiped the wound.
+When they were satisfied that the bleeding had ceased,
+the pieces were meticulously wrapped in another
+leaf and borne away by the Keeper of the Fires to be
+deposited in the temple: for as every man knows, the
+royal blood must not be spilt upon the ground lest the
+site be accursed for ever and like the tooth of the dragon
+of Colchis, arise from the spot ghostly warriors to
+annihilate the tribe.</p>
+<pb n="31"/><anchor id="Pg31"/>
+
+<p>Neither upon the face of any of the elders nor upon
+the features of MFunya MPopo, the King, had a
+muscle moved. Yet the incident was regarded as an
+evil omen.&hellip; Then suddenly did Bakahenzie, the
+chief witch-doctor, plumed with a tall scarlet feather in
+addition to the green ones and a necklace of finger bones
+upon his bronze chest, who sat in the centre with Kawa
+Kendi, the King&rsquo;s son upon his right, and Zalu Zako,
+the grandson, upon his left, begin to chant in a high
+wailing voice to the rapid rhythm of the drums:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Is there not a shadow come over the land?</l>
+  <l>The frown of the One-not-to-be-mentioned?</l>
+  <l>I, Bakahenzie, have seen it! have seen it!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>And from the group within the council house,
+immobile, came the bass chorus of assent:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 17" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Ough! Ough!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Is there not a dry curse come over the land?</l>
+  <l>Is it not the hot breath of the soul of the Snake?</l>
+  <l>I, Bakahenzie, have seen it! have seen it!&rdquo;</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">&ldquo;Ough! Ough!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Where is the false spirit that hath sinned in the act?</l>
+  <l>He that hath sinned in the shade of the name?</l>
+  <l>I, Bakahenzie, have seen him! have seen him!&rdquo;</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">&ldquo;Ough! Ough!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Does not the keen sting of him scorch up the land?</l>
+  <l>Hath not the young bread of our bellies been slain?</l>
+  <l>I, Bakahenzie, have seen it! have seen it!&rdquo;</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">&ldquo;Ough! Ough!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>The throb of the drums grew faster. Bakahenzie
+<pb n="32"/><anchor id="Pg32"/>
+leaped from the crowd. Immediately in front of the
+King he began to dance and to scream:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Is the Burden too great for the Guard of the Name?</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aie! Aie!</l>
+  <l>Hath the Bearer, too, fumbled the weight of the World?</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aie! Aie!</l>
+  <l>Is His spirit bewitched by the soul of a girl?</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aie! Aie!</l>
+  <l>Hath His magical power been slain by the sin?</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aie! Aie!</l>
+  <l>Hath a prophet made words in the act of a goat?</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aie! Aie!</l>
+  <l>Does a saviour in hairs thirst the blood of a King?</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aie! Aie!</l>
+  <l>Shall we hearken, O Chiefs, to the wish of the One?</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aie! Aie!</l>
+  <l>Or be shrivelled and die in the drought of His wrath?</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aie! Aie!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>Kawa Kendi, a man in early middle age, powerful
+and lithe-limbed, sat as motionless as the King, his
+father, staring, as did all, with the fixed stare of the
+anagogic.</p>
+
+<p>Abruptly the drums ceased. Again came a hot
+silence as Bakahenzie paused in front of MFunya
+MPopo. Then with a piercing yell, the witch-doctor
+spun on his toes. The drums broke into an hysterical
+rhythm. Bakahenzie leaped high in the air; whirled
+around and around screaming hoarsely; leaped and
+spun continually.</p>
+
+<p>The chiefs and doctors began to grunt; continued in
+<pb n="33"/><anchor id="Pg33"/>
+crescendo until the whole body throbbed and grunted
+to the rhythm of the drums. Yet immobile sat
+MFunya MPopo.</p>
+
+<p>Suddenly Bakahenzie changed the erratic course of
+his wild dance. He whirled and screamed in front of
+the King and fell headlong, as if in a fit, with eyes
+injected and foam upon the black tufts of beard.
+Bakahenzie clutched his belly and began to howl like a
+hyena at the moon. The drums stopped. Howl and
+writhe did Bakahenzie as if a thousand fiends were
+tearing out his entrails.</p>
+
+<p>He lay rigid. The air seemed to quiver. The lines
+of every man&rsquo;s limbs, except the King&rsquo;s, were drawn in
+tension. Then from the prostrate body of the witch-doctor,
+whose legs and arms were twisted as in agony,
+whose dribbling mouth was closed like a vise, came a
+ventriloquous falsetto:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Aie-e! Aie-e! I am the spirit of Kintu!</l>
+  <l>Aie-e! Aie-e! I am he who first was!</l>
+  <l>Aie-e! Aie-e! I am the banana from whom I was made!</l>
+  <l>Aie-e! Aie-e! The Keeper of the Name hath betrayed me!</l>
+  <l>Aie-e! Aie-e! The Bride of me is defiled!</l>
+  <l>Aie-e! Aie-e! Let him arise who is pure!</l>
+  <l>Aie-e! Aie-e! Let him arise who is bidden!</l>
+  <l>Aie-e! Aie-e! Let the fires be put out!</l>
+  <l>Aie-e! Aie-e! Let a new fire arise from the ashes!</l>
+  <l>Aie-e! Aie-e! I have spoken, I, the Father of men!</l>
+  <l>Aie-e! Aie-e! I, Tarum, the soul of your
+  ancestors!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+<pb n="34"/><anchor id="Pg34"/>
+
+<p>From the assembly came the belly grunt of acceptance.
+In silence rose Kawa Kendi, the heir-apparent.
+His face was as expressionless as his father&rsquo;s. He
+stepped around the body of Bakahenzie and across the
+open space followed by a young man, Kingata Mata.
+Ten feet away from the enclosure, Kingata Mata sank
+upon his haunches. Before MFunya MPopo squatted
+his son. They spat each in the other&rsquo;s hand and
+swallowed the spittle. Then the head of Kawa Kendi
+bent to the lips of MFunya MPopo to receive the
+sacred Name.</p>
+
+<p>In unison with Kawa Kendi rose Kingata Mata, who
+to him handed a cord of twisted bark. Bending behind
+the King, who remained motionless with the closed
+eyes of one already dead, Kingata Mata swiftly adjusted
+the cord and handed it back to the son, Kawa
+Kendi.&hellip;</p>
+
+<p>When the muscular young Keeper of the Fires had
+poured solemnly a gourd of water upon the royal fire
+of MFunya MPopo, he knelt submissively and was
+strangled beside his master.&hellip;</p>
+
+<p>From the assembly went up a great shout:</p>
+
+<p><q>The fire is put out!</q></p>
+
+<p>And from the village, listening in awe to the mighty
+doings, came like an echo:</p>
+
+<p><q>The fire is put out! Aie! Aie-e!</q></p>
+
+<p>Then shouted the elders and wizards:</p>
+
+<p><q>Let there be a new fire!</q></p>
+
+<p>Again came the wailing repetition from the
+village:</p>
+
+<p><q>Let there be a new fire!</q></p>
+
+<p>As in the Place of Fires was kindled a new fire by
+Kingata Mata with two sacred sticks, one of which is
+<pb n="35"/><anchor id="Pg35"/>
+male and the other female, the assembled chiefs and
+magicians groaned in allegiance to the new King-God
+of the unmentionable spirit of the Snake, Usakuma,
+the Idol.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD03" type="chapter">
+<pb n="36"/><anchor id="Pg36"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 3</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>At five-thirty zu Pfeiffer was stretched in the long
+Bombay chair in the coolest portion of the screened
+verandah. On the table beside him was a tall glass,
+a decanter of cognac and a box of cigars; and suspended
+from the roof swung a canvas bag of water with
+a syphon attachment. A gape fly, which somehow had
+gotten through the screen, hit the lieutenant&rsquo;s forehead,
+fell on to the book and whirred up against the
+wire.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ach, Gott verdammt!</q> exclaimed zu Pfeiffer
+irritably and shouted: <q>Ho, Bakunja&mdash;la.</q> Instantly
+appeared the tall negro in white. <q>You son of a god!
+Look at that!</q></p>
+
+<p>Bakunjala looked, leaped, and caught the fly in his
+hand.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ow!</q> he exclaimed as the hornet stung him.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ach, you woman of shame, catch it instantly!</q></p>
+
+<p>Without hesitation Bakunjala made another grab,
+and clutching the fly tightly, made to open the screen
+door.</p>
+
+<p><q>Halt!</q> commanded the lieutenant.</p>
+
+<p>Bakunjala obeyed.</p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer regarded the man standing with the wasp
+sting buried in his palm with a slight smile of amusement.</p>
+
+<p><q>It hurts?</q> he inquired amiably.</p>
+
+<p><q>Indio, Bwana!</q> asserted Bakunjala.</p>
+<pb n="37"/><anchor id="Pg37"/>
+
+<p><q>Good! Now stop there.</q></p>
+
+<p>Motionless remained the negro. Zu Pfeiffer leisurely
+selected a fresh cigar, lighted it, stoked it, and
+inhaling smoke stroked his left moustache.</p>
+
+<p><q>It still hurts?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Indio, Bwana!</q> said Bakunjala with a high note
+in his voice.</p>
+
+<p><q>Splendid!</q> assured the lieutenant: and after a
+full minute added: <q>Now you may go. And remember
+if you are frightened of a fly&rsquo;s pain again I will
+give you twenty lashes.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Indio, Bwana,</q> answered Bakunjala humbly and
+departed swiftly with the hornet in his clenched fist.
+Zu Pfeiffer smiled, again stared reflectively at the
+violet shadows creeping lazily across the square, sipped
+some brandy and picking up his book, began to read.&hellip;</p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence!</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer frowned and looked round. Outside the
+screen stood Sergeant Schultz at the salute. Zu
+Pfeiffer nodded.</p>
+
+<p><q>Well?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence,</q> said the sergeant at attention, <q>the
+Englishman is here.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ach, tell him to go&qdash;</q> The lieutenant drew
+out his gold chronometer. <q>It is my bath time. I
+cannot see him.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ja, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Wait.</q> Zu Pfeiffer withdrew his legs and rose.
+<q>Ach, tell the fool to come over here and wait till I
+have had my bath.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence!</q> agreed the sergeant and saluting,
+marched away. Zu Pfeiffer entered the bungalow.
+Across the square came Birnier with the sergeant who
+<pb n="38"/><anchor id="Pg38"/>
+ushered him into the screened portion of the verandah.</p>
+
+<p><q>His Excellence gom bresently,</q> said the sergeant
+and left him.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier put his Tirai hat on the table, and seeing no
+other, sat in the Bombay chair; looked about him;
+idly examined the brand on the box of cigars and
+smiled. <q>Makes himself mighty comfortable,</q> he
+remarked to himself. <q>Pity he appears such a boor.</q>
+He glanced at the book on the armchair.
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">Allgemeine
+Geschichte der Philosophie</hi> von Prof. Dr. Paul Deussen.
+<q>And a philosopher, eh!</q> Having little German he
+turned away and lighted his pipe. After a while he
+began to fidget, wondering how long he was to be kept
+waiting. <q>Damn the fellow!</q> he muttered and
+picked up one of the books on the table,
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">Les Ba-Rongas</hi>,
+par A. Junod, opened it at random and began to
+read.</p>
+
+<p>The shadows of one bungalow reached the verandah
+on the opposite side of the square. And still he read on,
+the dead pipe in his hand. Just as the twilight was
+snuffed out like a candle, a sharp step heralded the
+arrival of the lieutenant. Birnier rose, the book in his
+hand.</p>
+
+<p><q>Good evening, sir!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Good evening,</q> responded zu Pfeiffer, who was in
+an undress uniform of white. <q>What is it that you
+require?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well,</q> said Birnier, <q>first of all I must apologise
+for using your chair and reading your book. Most
+interesting, by the way.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>That is nothing,</q> said zu Pfeiffer as Bakunjala
+came in with a lamp and a chair. <q>Please to be
+seated.</q></p>
+<pb n="39"/><anchor id="Pg39"/>
+
+<p><q>Thank you.</q></p>
+
+<p>Birnier took the small chair and the lieutenant the
+Bombay.</p>
+
+<p><q>I&mdash;er I&mdash;am sorry that I disturbed you this
+morning,</q> began Birnier diffidently. <q>But I did not
+know&qdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>That is nothing. It was the fault of the sentry.
+He should not have allowed you to pass.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Regarding my application for the licence, Herr
+Lieutenant?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I regret,</q> said zu Pfeiffer coldly, using a cigar
+cutter, <q>that I am unable to grant you the licence
+you ask.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You cannot grant me a trading or shooting
+licence?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I regret, no.</q></p>
+
+<p>Birnier stared.</p>
+
+<p><q>May I inquire why I am refused?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You may. We do not wish undesirables in the
+country.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Undesirables!</q> Birnier&rsquo;s lips tightened. <q>I am
+afraid that I do not understand you.</q> The lieutenant
+was engaged in carefully stoking his cigar. <q>Will you
+kindly afford me a reason for&mdash;for such an insulting
+remark?</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer blew smoke luxuriously. Birnier stared
+for a moment, stuck his pipe in his mouth and bit the
+stem; removed it and snapped:</p>
+
+<p><q>You can have no adequate reason for such action.&hellip;
+If you intend to continue this ridiculous farce
+I shall be compelled to make a complaint through
+Washington.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Washington?</q> Zu Pfeiffer removed one leg
+<pb n="40"/><anchor id="Pg40"/>
+from the chair-rest and the cigar from his mouth.
+<q>You are an American?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I am.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>So? We understood that you were an English
+agent. You have papers?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Certainly. If you wish&qdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>We do not demand. No. My agent was wrong.
+He shall be punished.</q> Then in an amiable voice:
+<q>I, too, have been a long time in America. Please
+to have a cigar, Mr. Birnier.</q></p>
+
+<p>Birnier hesitated, puzzled.</p>
+
+<p><q>Thank you,</q> he said diffidently, selected one,
+bit off the end and spat it into the corner. Zu
+Pfeiffer shuddered delicately; but as Birnier lighted
+his cigar he studied his face in the glow of the
+match; noted the breadth of the jaw, the width
+between the eyes and the slightly hard line at the corner
+of the mouth.</p>
+
+<p><q>And forgive me!</q> Zu Pfeiffer shouted to Bakunjala.
+<q>I presume that you have been in Africa a long
+time,</q> he continued.</p>
+
+<p><q>Some ten years.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You do find the Wongolo country interesting?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, yes.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You were there long?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No, I had been two years in the Congo and passed
+through on my way to Uganda to refit.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ach. You permit me? You are mining?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No.</q> Birnier smiled thinly. <q>I have a professorial
+job in the American Museum of Natural History,
+Anthropological department.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Professor! Ach!</q> Zu Pfeiffer looked at him
+interestedly.</p>
+<pb n="41"/><anchor id="Pg41"/>
+
+<p><q>Yes. That is why I was so absorbed in
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">Les Ba-Rongas</hi>
+which I found here. You are interested in
+anthropology?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ach, yes, I love to study the animals. I have a
+library&mdash;a small one, here. You must see it.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Thank you.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You were studying the animals&rsquo; ways and how
+d&rsquo;you call it?&mdash;das Volksk&uuml;ndliches&mdash;in Wongolo?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes. I do nothing else.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>So?</q> Bakunjala arrived with fresh glasses and
+vermouth. <q>Which do you prefer, French or Italian,
+Herr Professor?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>French, please.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You will dine with me, please?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>That is very kind of you, Lieutenant.</q> Birnier
+gazed quizzically, rather amused at the complete
+change of manner. Quite charming when he likes,
+he reflected.</p>
+
+<p><q>From what part do you come, Herr Professor?</q>
+inquired zu Pfeiffer as he set down his glass.</p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, I&rsquo;m a Southerner. Louisiana. My name is
+French, you know.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ach so? Che les aimes, les Fran&ccedil;ais. Les femmes
+sont adorables!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oui, je les trouve comme &ccedil;a!</q> agreed Birnier,
+smiling. <q>Ma femme est fran&ccedil;aise.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>So? &hellip; I, too, Professor, I am in love with a
+Fran&ccedil;aise. She is wonderful! superbe! Ach, ent
+z&uuml;ckend!</q> The lieutenant gazed into the warm
+darkness. <q>Always I see her&mdash;in the darkness,
+the&mdash;chaleur&mdash;parmis
+les animaux.</q> In the glow of the
+lamp, the blue eyes were soft, the feminine lips curved
+in a tender smile as he murmured:</p>
+<pb n="42"/><anchor id="Pg42"/>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 5" type="song">
+  <l>&ldquo;Die Jahre kommen und gehen,</l>
+  <l>Geschlechter steigen ins Grab,</l>
+  <l>Doch nimmer vergeht die Liebe,</l>
+  <l>Die ich im Herzen hab!</l>
+  <l>Nur einmal noch m&ouml;cht ich dich sehen,</l>
+  <l>Und sinken vor dir aufs Knie</l>
+  <l>Und sterbend zu dir sprechen:</l>
+  <l>&lsquo;Madam, ich liebe Sie!&rsquo;&thinsp;&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p><q>Thank you,</q> said Birnier quietly. <q>I, too,
+would say that.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ach, sprechen Sie Deutsch?</q> demanded zu
+Pfeiffer quickly.</p>
+
+<p><q>No, unfortunately I don&rsquo;t speak it, but I understand
+a little; and particularly Heine.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ach, Gott!</q></p>
+
+<p>The note was of satisfaction. A gong sounded.
+Zu Pfeiffer turned sharply: <q>Come, Herr Professor,
+let us go to dinner. You would wish to
+wash?</q></p>
+
+<p>The bungalow, unusually lofty, was divided into
+three compartments. The ceiling, made of stout
+white calico, to shelter from snakes and the continual
+dust from the wood borers, was suspended from the
+rafters like the roof of a marquee tent. The centre
+room was furnished with cane lounge chairs like a
+smoking-room and decorated with skins, native musical
+instruments, spears and shields; drums served as small
+tables with elephant&rsquo;s toe-nails for ash trays.</p>
+
+<p>In the bedroom was a brass bedstead and mosquito
+net. Behind was a bathroom having a corrugated
+cistern upon the cross beams which gave force for a
+shower. The towels and appointments were specklessly
+<pb n="43"/><anchor id="Pg43"/>
+clean. When Birnier appeared he found zu
+Pfeiffer sprawled in the lounge. On a red lacquer
+tray upon a great war drum, covered with the striped
+skin of a zebra, was a crystal liqueur set and a large
+silver box of Egyptian cigarettes.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ach, Professor,</q> said he, <q>it is good to speak to a
+white man again</q> (by which he meant an equal).
+<q>Please be seated, I beg you. A little liqueur is good
+for the aperitif and a cigarette; for there is no time for
+another cigar.</q></p>
+
+<p>As Birnier sat he remarked the blonde head of the
+lieutenant in his meticulous uniform touched with gold
+and caught a glimpse of the jewelled bracelet of ivory
+and the Chinese finger-nail.</p>
+
+<p>Another summons of the gong brought zu Pfeiffer to
+his feet. As he led his guest out through the side
+verandah along a screened porch to the mess room,
+built away from the main building to keep away the
+plague of flies, a native girl whose close-wrapped white
+robes revealed a lithe figure, flitted through a doorway.
+The table was set in immaculate linen, aglitter with
+glass and decorated with a profusion of wild orchids.
+Behind the chairs stood two negroes in spotless white,
+immobile. On each plate were hors d&rsquo;&oelig;uvres of
+anchovy and cheese upon a patterned piece of toast.
+Salted almonds, sweets, and olives were in green china;
+wine glasses of three kinds. Broiled fish followed the
+soup.</p>
+
+<p><q>So, Professor,</q> remarked the lieutenant, <q>you
+will go back some day to Wongolo?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, I&mdash;unless I discover some tribe who have a
+more interesting system of&mdash;er&mdash;theology.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>They are a powerful tribe, nicht wahr?</q></p>
+<pb n="44"/><anchor id="Pg44"/>
+
+<p><q>Oh yes, very. Their system ensures unity which
+provides for concerted action. Here I believe it is
+different.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, yes; they are poor here. Each village was
+at war with the other&mdash;before we came. Their
+superstitions are not&mdash;how would you say it?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Systematised?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes. They have neither any supreme chief nor
+god. There you see,</q> he added, smiling, <q>that
+autocracy is the only form of government. Democracy&mdash;pah! &hellip;
+I apologise, Professor!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Please don&rsquo;t,</q> replied Birnier, <q>although of course
+I cannot agree with you.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But the Wongolo, they have a god and king?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, the King-Priest system. One of the most
+interesting I have ever encountered or read of.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You did see the King-God, MFunya MPopo?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh no. He is forbidden to be seen by a foreigner&mdash;a
+similar law to that of the Medes; only by the witch-doctors&mdash;and
+by the people once a year at a harvest
+festival. That is why I intend to go back. It is
+impossible to procure reliable statistics of their customs,
+practices and real beliefs without&mdash;without winning
+their confidence. That is my mission.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I do not longer wonder, Herr Professor, that you
+were most justly annoyed. Ach, yes. But please do
+not worry about your ridiculous licence. It is not
+necessary in my jurisdiction, I assure you. You may
+come and go as you please, shoot what you wish. I
+will always be so glad to help so distinguished a professor.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I thank you very much.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>It is nothing. And perhaps when you are there,
+<pb n="45"/><anchor id="Pg45"/>
+you will be so kind as to write to me? To tell me
+things that are not known&mdash;so that I may, too,
+continue to study the animals&mdash;again what is it?
+das Volksk&uuml;ndliches?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Folk-lore, isn&rsquo;t it?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes. Please to have some more wine, Herr
+Professor. Please, I insist. It is the real Mumm.
+That is a promise? I thank you<corr sic=","><anchor id="E33"/><ref
+target="e33">.</ref></corr> And if&qdash; Were
+there any others&mdash;whites&mdash;when you were there?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Only one.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Where was he, I wonder?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>On the southern boundary.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Near lake Kivu?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Saunders,</q> muttered zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p><q>I beg your pardon?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>It was nothing, but I do not like to have&mdash;aliens
+in my province. They are&mdash;missionaries and traders&mdash;spies.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Indeed.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, it is always so. Herr Professor, I ask you a
+favour. Will you be so kind as to write to me if some
+other white comes into the Wongolo country?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I shall be delighted,</q> said Birnier.&hellip; <q>Do
+you intend to come there some day, Herr Lieutenant?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ach, no, it is not&mdash;not our territory; although I
+should very much like to see it and to shoot. There
+is much elephant there?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh yes, quantities.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Please to try some of this curried egg, Herr Professor.
+It is excellent, I assure you. I thank you.&hellip;
+And rubber, is there much rubber there?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, I believe so.</q></p>
+<pb n="46"/><anchor id="Pg46"/>
+
+<p><q>Now I wonder if you noticed whether it was tree
+or vine?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I really couldn&rsquo;t say.</q> Birnier smiled thinly.
+<q>I am not interested in such things.</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer glanced at him keenly and changed the
+subject. When they had finished the best boned
+chicken that Birnier had ever tasted in Africa, zu
+Pfeiffer rose.</p>
+
+<p><q>Let us go to my study, Herr Professor, if you
+so permit, for some coffee and a little good port&mdash;and
+I will have the pleasure to show you my little
+library.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I should be delighted,</q> assented Birnier willingly.</p>
+
+<p>Around the white walls of the cool room which was
+zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s study, ran low bookshelves made of native
+wood, containing some hundreds of volumes which had
+been carried five hundred miles on the heads of porters.
+Grass mats and leopard skins were upon the floor. In
+the centre, upon a heavy table, was a green shaded
+lamp set in a silver-mounted elephant&rsquo;s foot. Upon
+the bookcases were various odd curios, and a coffee
+service in copper; and from opposite sides, marbles of
+Bismarck and Voltaire stared into each other&rsquo;s eyes.
+On the south wall was a large oil of Kaiser Wilhelm II;
+and in the centre of the other wall a photograph of a
+woman set in an ivory frame made from a section of a
+tusk.</p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer strove to be more agreeable than ever.
+They talked mythology and folklore. With the port,
+zu Pfeiffer rose, an erect martial figure above the glow
+of the lamp.</p>
+
+<p><q>Herr Professor!</q> he remarked. <q>I beg you.</q></p>
+
+<p>Slightly bewildered, Birnier rose, too, glass in hand.
+<pb n="47"/><anchor id="Pg47"/>
+Wheeling with military precision zu Pfeiffer raised his
+glass to the great portrait on the wall.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ihre Hochheit!</q></p>
+
+<p>Politely Birnier followed suit, his democratic ideas
+slightly astonished at the veneration of the kingly
+office; almost, he reflected, as curious as the native
+superstition of the King-God. Then zu Pfeiffer turned
+to the left and lifting his glass to the portrait in the
+ivory frame, drank silently.</p>
+
+<p><q>I was wondering, Professor,</q> remarked he, as he
+resumed his seat without explanation, <q>from what
+college&mdash;you call it?&mdash;you come?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Harvard,</q> said Birnier, rather amused and noticing
+that as a true connoisseur, zu Pfeiffer refrained from
+smoking while drinking his port.</p>
+
+<p><q>I have met many of the Harvard men&mdash;at Washington.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ah, you know Washington?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, I was there nearly two years.</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer drained his port, selected a cigar, lighted
+it and gazed abstractedly towards the ivory frame. The
+lips softened and he smiled gently.</p>
+
+<p><q>Do you know many people there?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, a few.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ach &hellip; I wonder.&hellip; You must know that
+I met her there, my divine Lucille!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Lucille! How strange! That is my wife&rsquo;s name
+too.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Really?</q> Zu Pfeiffer still peered dreamily at the
+corner. He gathered up his legs and rose like an eager
+boy. <q>Permit me, Herr Professor, she is so&mdash;so&qdash;</q>
+He bent over the portrait and struck a match. Politely
+Birnier stooped to look. He saw a portrait of a French
+<pb n="48"/><anchor id="Pg48"/>
+woman in an evening gown, a woman of charm with
+the vivacious eyes and tempting mouth of the coquette.</p>
+
+<p><q>My God!</q></p>
+
+<p>Birnier bent closer and stared intently. Across the
+corner of the photograph were written in ink in familiar
+characters the words: &lsquo;&agrave; toi, Lucille.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p><q>Lucille!</q> he gasped. <q>Lu&mdash;Good God!</q> He
+stood up abruptly. <q>I&mdash;What in God&rsquo;s name&mdash;who
+is this woman?</q></p>
+
+<p>The match fell to the floor. He was vaguely conscious
+of the tall white figure stiffening as a dog does.</p>
+
+<p><q>That lady is my fianc&eacute;e.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Fianc&eacute;e! She&mdash;Good God, you&rsquo;re mad! She
+is my wife!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Wife!&hellip; Gott verdampf, der Teufel solls
+holen! Das ist der Schweinh&uuml;nd!</q></p>
+
+<p>The gutturals exploded from zu Pfeiffer. The
+sleeve of his white jacket quivered, the arm came up to
+the gold braided chest and jerked out a silver whistle.
+He hesitated, glaring at the astonished figure of Birnier.
+Suddenly zu Pfeiffer sat down by the table. His blue
+eyes were as hard as malachite.</p>
+
+<p><q>Sit down!</q> he commanded harshly.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier did not appear to notice him. He struck a
+match and bent over the photograph again.</p>
+
+<p><q>Good God!</q> he muttered.
+<q>I&mdash;I&mdash;don&rsquo;t understand&mdash;O
+God!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Sit down!</q> shouted zu Pfeiffer. Birnier merely
+blinked at him.</p>
+
+<p><q>Would you mind explaining?</q> demanded Birnier.</p>
+
+<p><q>Explain!&hellip; Is your wife Mademoiselle Lucille
+Charltrain?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Why, of course. That is her professional name.
+<pb n="49"/><anchor id="Pg49"/>
+But how on earth has this mistake happened? I&mdash;I&mdash;that
+is her writing&mdash;but it can&rsquo;t be. I mean it&rsquo;s
+impossible.&hellip;</q>
+Birnier put his hand to his head. <q>I&mdash;God,
+it can&rsquo;t be! I or you must be mad! Which is&qdash;</q></p>
+
+<p>A prolonged whistle startled him. He saw the
+whistle at zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s lips, but the act conveyed no
+meaning. He turned away, struck another match and
+peered again at the photograph.</p>
+
+<p><q>Lucille! Lucille!</q> he whispered. <q>What on
+earth&qdash;</q></p>
+
+<p>A powerful clutch closed upon his arm. He was
+whirled backwards into a chair. For a moment he
+was too dazed to grasp what had happened. He
+saw zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s face. The sentries over his moustaches
+quivered like a row of fixed bayonets. The eyes seemed
+needle points. Then the fact of the assault penetrated
+beyond the unprecedented incident of finding his
+wife&rsquo;s photograph in another man&rsquo;s room. The ugly
+line about the mouth hardened. He rose slowly.</p>
+
+<p><q>Am I to understand that you have laid your hands
+upon your guest?</q> he began, stuttering over the
+choice of words. <q>I am&mdash;I am&qdash;</q></p>
+
+<p>The scuffle of many feet interrupted him. Into the
+room rushed Sergeant Schultz and several soldiers.
+Zu Pfeiffer stood up and pointed.</p>
+
+<p><q>Sergeant, arrest that man!</q> he barked.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ja, Excellence!</q></p>
+
+<p>The sergeant saluted and barked at the askaris.
+Birnier gazed stupidly at the uniforms around him as
+if unable to comprehend. He looked at zu Pfeiffer
+who stood erect, his face lost in shadow above the lamp,
+and back at the soldiers.</p>
+<pb n="50"/><anchor id="Pg50"/>
+
+<p><q>Is this a joke, Lieutenant&mdash;or are you mad?</q>
+he demanded angrily.</p>
+
+<p><q>Sergeant, put that man in the guard-room,</q> zu
+Pfeiffer commanded.</p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer sat down with his back to Birnier and
+facing the photograph. Birnier&rsquo;s face twitched; he
+raised his arm. The sergeant barked and the line of
+bayonets lowered menacingly.</p>
+
+<p><q>You gom with me, Herr American,</q> ordered the
+sergeant.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier controlled himself.</p>
+
+<p><q>One moment, sergeant, please! Herr Lieutenant,
+on what charge do you arrest me?</q> The perfect
+lines of the white-clad back did not quiver. <q>Very
+good! I give you warning, Herr Lieutenant, that
+you have committed an assault upon an American
+citizen.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Gom! Gom!</q> insisted the sergeant impatiently.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier raised his head and walked as indicated by
+the sergeant. As the footsteps plodded across the
+square zu Pfeiffer turned to the table, examining his
+left hand.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ach!</q> he growled gutturally, <q>the dirty pig has
+broken my nail!</q></p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD04" type="chapter">
+<pb n="51"/><anchor id="Pg51"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 4</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>Over the city of the Snake the sun sank red dry,
+leaving the Place of Kings hot in the electric air
+of magic and world happenings. The people were
+still confined to their huts, trembling in the knowledge
+that for three days love must be eschewed, no water
+drawn nor any food cooked with fire; nor might any
+man, woman or child leave the precincts of the
+compound.</p>
+
+<p>All the night Bakuma crouched in her hut listening
+in awe to the swish of the ghosts through the air, to
+the moans, groans and howls of the wizards doing
+battle with them. Tightly did she hold the amulet as
+she strove to conceal curiosity regarding the welfare
+of Zalu Zako; for did her mother suspect the presence
+of this evil spirit would she cause Bakuma to
+take a decoction of the castor-oil plant in order that
+the demon might be expelled; and the more to aid
+her conquer this unlawful impulse to peep without did
+she most persistently recite to herself the fate of the
+daughter of MTasa, the foolish Tangulbala whose
+body had been discovered impaled upon a tree by
+the angry spirits of the dead, because she had rashly
+ventured forth the third day after the death of the
+grandfather of Zalu Zako. Bakuma dared not mention
+the name of one who had died, for, as everybody
+knows, such an impious person runs the risk of summoning
+the ghosts to their presence.</p>
+<pb n="52"/><anchor id="Pg52"/>
+
+<p>The <q>putting out of the fire</q> had changed Bakuma&rsquo;s
+prospects, had made Zalu Zako heir-apparent, implying
+half a hundred responsibilities, the chief of which was
+that now he was compelled to choose his official first
+wife, she who would be the mother of the <q>divine</q>
+Son of the Snake: an alteration that excited Bakuma
+to frantic clutching at the amulet. Would the charm
+work or would it not? How to insure that it would be
+efficacious? Marufa&rsquo;s greedy demands worried her.
+She feared even if she obtained the goat that he might
+require something else as well. Anybody knows
+how greedy doctors are and how wealthy. He would
+be sure to increase the fee, knowing the value of the
+prize. Bakuma only possessed one really valuable
+article, and that was a charm against sterility; but
+this was the last thing that she wished to part with as
+the only possible occurrence that could ever divorce her
+from the position of chief wife, once she had won
+Zalu Zako, would be failure to provide the male heir.
+She was impatient, too, at the delay caused by the
+three days&rsquo; tabu. Time was important. Soon she
+would be under the ban of the unclean which entailed
+the curtailment of her liberty again, and she dreaded
+that possibly the charm might grow stale. The
+greatest need for speed was MYalu&rsquo;s suit. As her
+father was dead she belonged to his brother. Already
+MYalu had offered four tusks of ivory and three oxen
+for her. Her uncle was lazy, mean, and greedy.
+Fortunately he thought that by waiting he could
+get double that amount. Yet MYalu might decide
+to pay the price demanded. Once Zalu Zako had
+selected her as his bride, her uncle dared not accept
+any other man&rsquo;s offer, no matter how wealthy he might
+<pb n="53"/><anchor id="Pg53"/>
+be; besides, the old man would not wish to refuse a
+relationship with the heir to the king-godhood.</p>
+
+<p>Again her cousin was sick. The diagnosis of Yabolo,
+the wizard, was that her soul had wandered in sleep
+down to the river and had been swallowed by a fish.
+Yabolo had caught the fish and lured the soul into a
+tree, but now he demanded such a big price to restore
+the errant soul to the girl that her father, Bakuma&rsquo;s
+uncle, would not pay it, so she would surely die; then
+they would all have to be exorcised, which inferred
+a further loss of relative freedom for another four days.
+Indeed with all these actual and possible delays it seemed
+to Bakuma that some one had made much magic
+against her. Unless she knew who he or she was, how
+could she employ the same means to annul the terrible
+effects? And more, how could she obtain the wherewithal
+to pay the fees of the best doctors? Life was
+very complicated to the daughter of Bakala.</p>
+
+<p>Up on the hill of MFunya MPopo had the magicians
+been busy all the afternoon after the <q>putting out of
+the fire.</q> Zalu Zako and the chiefs also were barred
+from the sacred enclosure; for being mere laymen
+they could not hope to withstand the evil spirits of the
+dead. Even Bakahenzie and the inner circle of the
+cult were compelled to employ the most potent
+methods of protection to preserve them from being
+bewitched or slain outright.</p>
+
+<p>After Bakahenzie, Marufa, Yabolo and two other
+master magicians had released the souls of the dead
+King by making incisions in the body with a sacred
+spear to the thrumming of the drums, the mighty
+groaning of the other wizards, and the persistent wailing
+of the dead man&rsquo;s wives, the corpse was borne by
+<pb n="54"/><anchor id="Pg54"/>
+twelve doomed slaves to the temple and there interred
+with the gouts of blood shed by the prophetic goat,
+the nail parings and hair clippings of his lifetime, and
+his personal effects.</p>
+
+<p>Upon the hill of MFunya MPopo, soon to be a temple
+and sanctuary, sat Kawa Kendi beside the New Fire
+tended by Kingata Mata, facing Zalu Zako, MYalu
+and the lay chiefs, while upon his own hill slaves were
+tearing down his old hut, erecting a temporary palisade
+around the quarters of his wives who were forever
+forbidden to him, and beginning the building of the
+new temple.</p>
+
+<p>As the violet shadows were creeping from one hut
+to another did Bakahenzie and his satellites return
+from the ghoulish offices of the dead. Zalu Zako,
+the chiefs and magicians arose to the wild beating of
+the drums and the wailing chant of the hereditary
+troubadour with the five stringed lyre. With Kingata
+Mata carrying a brand of the newly lighted sacred
+fire, was Kawa Kendi led in procession through the
+deserted village to his sacred home.</p>
+
+<p>Under the hard stars set in a dry sapphire, the fire
+cast yellow flickers upon the carven features of Kawa
+Kendi. In the still heat the distant wailing of the
+women from the opposite hill drifted into the continuous
+throb of the drums, the plaintive wail of the
+singer, and the hysterical groaning of the magicians,
+yelling ferociously ever and again to intimidate the
+baulked spirits around the magic circle.</p>
+
+<p>Then was a white goat, previously selected from
+the flock of Kawa Kendi, slain by Zalu Zako, disembowelled
+by Bakahenzie, and the entrails rubbed upon
+the brow, the chest and the right arm of the slayer
+<pb n="55"/><anchor id="Pg55"/>
+of man, a ceremony of purification designed to protect
+the royal executioner by appeasing the justly angry
+spirits of the dead; to Marufa were given other parts
+of the slain beast to smear likewise upon Zalu Zako,
+the son; and Yabolo ran screaming with portions to
+the quarters of the women of Kawa Kendi: for must
+every blood relative be so enchanted lest the vengeful
+ghost seek substitute victims.</p>
+
+<p>As a pallid moon rose, as if fearfully, above the deep
+ultramarine of the banana fronds, was a magic potion
+brewed from certain herbs in enchanted water, with
+which the King, Zalu Zako, his son, and the King&rsquo;s
+wives were laved. Amid a tempest of screams and
+drums rose Kawa Kendi purified, to be driven by
+Bakahenzie and the wizards back to the hill of his
+father, leaving the assembled lay chiefs squatting
+humbly and in dread of the spirits abroad in the night.
+While the procession leaped and twirled, screamed and
+groaned to the frantic thrum of the drums through the
+blue darkness, the magicians ran and pranced through
+and around the village, seeking any blasphemer who
+dared to look upon sacred things; banging on hut
+doors and shaking thatches, the more to terrify the
+shrinking inhabitants.</p>
+
+<p>Without the gate of the old enclosure all remained,
+except Bakahenzie and the four wizards who encircled
+Kawa Kendi and Kingata Mata and hustled them
+across the clearing. With his back to the dim form
+of the idol stood Kawa Kendi as behind it grouped
+the master magicians. From the base Bakahenzie took
+two large gourds and gave them into the keeping of
+Kingata Mata.</p>
+
+<p>Came an abrupt cessation of the drums and cries.
+<pb n="56"/><anchor id="Pg56"/>
+The wailing of the women behind the temple died.
+The tense air pulsed with electricity. A cock crowed
+feebly in the village. Then at a rippling splash of
+the drums and the sudden screaming of the wizards,
+they began to push the idol. The base had already
+been loosened in the earth by the slaves. The idol
+began to totter. Louder screeched the magicians;
+faster fled the drums. Slowly the idol leaned and
+subsided on to the shoulders of Kawa Kendi. Grasping
+the mass firmly upon his bent back, he bore the burden
+out of the enclosure and down the hill.</p>
+
+<p>Behind his unsteady steps pranced and yelled
+the doctors with more prodigious a noise than ever
+before as they scourged the King&rsquo;s legs and arms with
+cords of fibre. Through the listening village panted
+the King. As he gasped slowly up the hill the thrashing
+was redoubled. But into the new enclosure the King
+staggered, let slide the heavy mass into a hole prepared
+for the sacred feet and, gleaming blue points of
+sweat in the faint moon, let out a hoarse yell, proving
+to the assembly of magicians and chiefs that he was
+powerful enough to bear the burden of the world and
+moreover that none could wrest his office from him.</p>
+
+<p>No time was given for the incarnation of a god to
+recoup from his labours. The motive principle of the
+accusation and for the death of the king was the
+drought. That only concerned the soul of the tribe
+in the person of Bakahenzie. For him and his brothers
+of the inner cult, while certain pretensions of power
+over the supernatural were for the <q>good of the people,</q>
+the truths of magic and divine functions were inviolable.
+The person of Kawa Kendi, heretofore merely
+one in whom was a potentiality, became after the
+<pb n="57"/><anchor id="Pg57"/>
+purification and <q>coronation</q> the very incarnation
+of the god. Kawa Kendi had crossed from the
+comparative safe haven of the potential into divine
+activity.</p>
+
+<p>Also there were, as ever, political reasons for the
+hastening of the offices of the god. Should the new
+King-God fail, as his father had done, to accomplish
+the duties of the rainmaker, then, as no precedent had
+ever been known for the failure of two kings in succession,
+an enemy might accuse Bakahenzie of having
+committed some sacrilege which had displeased the
+Unmentionable One. Politics and religion are often
+inseparable. Therefore, as soon as Zalu Zako had
+witnessed the ascent of his father into the dangerous
+zone of the gods, was he bidden as the victim apparent,
+to produce the sacred rain-making paraphernalia.
+From the Keeper of the Fire, Kingata Mata, Zalu Zako
+received one of the large gourds, which he deposited at
+the feet of his father squatting before the sacred fire,
+and retired to his allotted place among the other lay
+chiefs. Only Bakahenzie and the four of the inner
+cult were permitted within the enclosure.</p>
+
+<p>Fumbling within the pot Kawa Kendi produced a
+bundle of twigs tied with banana fibre, which he unbound
+and cast into the fire. The herbs smouldered
+and sent up a pungent smoke forming a heavy cloud like
+some strange blue tree sheltering the form of the idol
+against the green sky. Save for the faint wailing of the
+distant women there was silence, in which an owl
+screeched harshly, a good omen. Little flames flickered.
+The smoke grew denser, obliterating the figure
+of the King. The drums began to mutter, Bakahenzie
+cried out in a loud voice:</p>
+<pb n="58"/><anchor id="Pg58"/>
+
+<p><q>O great God, the Unmentionable One! let thy
+powers be made manifest!</q></p>
+
+<p>The Keeper of the Fires came forward upon his
+hands and thrust the other sacred gourd in front of
+the King, a deep one containing water, and a wand
+made from a sacred tree which had upon the end a
+crook. To the groaning of the magicians, the King
+took from the one gourd two stones of quartz and
+granite, the male and the female, and spat upon each
+one, thus placing part of his royal body upon them;
+then did he put them on the ground, and pouring
+water, chanted:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Go forth, male spirit, with my ghost in thy hands!</l>
+  <l>Go forth, female soul, with my ghost in thy breast!</l>
+  <l>Make love together in the shade of great Tarum,</l>
+  <l>Of him whom fear of me hath frozen the breath!&rdquo;</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">&ldquo;Ough! Ough!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>grunted the priests and magicians.</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Go forth, male spirit, with my ghost in thy hand!</l>
+  <l>Go forth, female soul, with my ghost in thy breast!</l>
+  <l>Love one another that the crops of our land</l>
+  <l>May marry as well and be as fruitful as thee!&rdquo;</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">&ldquo;Ough! Ough!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Go forth, male spirit, with my ghost in thy hand!</l>
+  <l>Go forth, female soul, with my ghost in thy breast!</l>
+  <l>Rise high up to heaven and mount on the black back</l>
+  <l>Of the bird of the wet wind: poke your hands in his eyes!&rdquo;</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">&ldquo;Ough! Ough!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+<pb n="59"/><anchor id="Pg59"/>
+
+<p>Save for the distant wailing, there was the silence
+of those waiting for a miracle. In the sky, at the back
+of the idol, was the paling of dawn. Suddenly, as if
+exasperated by the non-obedience of the elements,
+Kawa Kendi sprang to his feet, with the magic wand
+in his right hand, turned and stared apparently into the
+face of the idol. For a full two minutes he stood as
+if carven, while the doctors and the chiefs moaned
+dismally. Around him like a pall still hovered the
+smoke of the magic fire. From the village a cock&rsquo;s
+challenge was answered from point to point. Then
+shooting out his right hand, Kawa Kendi made
+gestures as if hooking something invisible and began
+to scream furiously:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Thus do I, the One-not-to-be-mentioned,</l>
+  <l>Drag forth from the belly of heaven</l>
+  <l>The disobedient One, the lazy One!</l>
+  <l>The insolent One who sinneth in sleep!</l>
+  <l>The black-snouted One whose udders are choked!</l>
+  <l>The womanly One whose nipples are dry!</l>
+  <l>The sluttish One who refuseth her milk!</l>
+  <l>The gorbellied One whose voice is a wind!</l>
+  <l>Come forth, lest I give thee sorrow and pain!</l>
+  <l>And make thee to weep the bitterest tears!</l>
+  <l>Come forth, lest I tear out thy black bosom!</l>
+  <l>Tear out thy guts for a feast unto Tarum!</l>
+  <l>Come forth, lest I throw off the yoke of the burden</l>
+  <l>Of the Earth and the Sky upon thy sweating black belly!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>In a slight puff of wind, the smoke, lace-edged with
+the dawn light, swayed, seeming to twine about the
+<pb n="60"/><anchor id="Pg60"/>
+figure of the King as he stood with the wand outheld,
+as if firmly hooked in the guts of the recalcitrant
+elements.</p>
+
+<p>Against the rose of the dawn appeared a dark line
+which increased as the magicians and chiefs moaned
+and groaned in sympathy with the furious efforts of
+the rainmaker, who threatened and pulled with the
+magic crook, so that everybody could see that he was
+indeed dragging the reluctant clouds from over the
+end of the earth. As the dark mass swelled the more
+he wrestled and screamed abuse at the dilatory spirit
+of the rain.</p>
+
+<p>And behold, within half an hour, great black spirits
+sailed across the scarlet sunrise and wept exceeding
+bitterly; while from the village went up a great shout
+of praise to the triumphant King still prancing and
+cursing to such good effect up on the hill.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD05" type="chapter">
+<pb n="61"/><anchor id="Pg61"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 5</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>The same vast balloons of sepia rolled over the
+lake, vomited a host of liquid ramrods and, after
+short intervals of brilliant glare, were succeeded by
+others. The gutters of the station were turned into
+burbling brooks and the grass plot into a morass.</p>
+
+<p>Behind the screen on the south verandah sat zu
+Pfeiffer in his pink silk pyjamas, a scowl upon his brow.
+He sipped his caf&eacute; cognac distastefully and inhaled a
+cigarette so fiercely that the heat burned his tongue.
+He had not slept. Yet the broken nail on the left
+little finger had been cut and polished. Half the night
+he had sat before the photograph in the ivory frame,
+pondering upon, and rehearsing, the past; muttering
+aloud to Lucille, sometimes words of love and sometimes
+savage curses; wondering what she was doing
+and where she was; gritting his teeth at visions which
+aroused insane jealousy; calculating what the consequences
+of his action would be were he to obey the
+impulse that had leaped into his mind in the first
+flush of passion. If he were to release the prisoner the
+fellow would probably expect an explanation and an
+apology which was, of course, out of the question. No,
+he must carry out the thing thoroughly without leaving
+any chance for the man to make trouble at the coast, or
+through the Embassy at Washington; at all costs not
+through Washington. For him, Birnier merely existed
+as a person whose feelings mattered nothing.</p>
+<pb n="62"/><anchor id="Pg62"/>
+
+<p>With the greening of the moon zu Pfeiffer had
+retired. As he had lain sleeplessly watching the pallor
+of the dawn he had savagely corroborated the decision.
+Now the roar of the deluge appeared to him in the
+form of an abettor to his plan. He watched the grey
+wall of rain with satisfaction, stroking the left sentry
+moustache as if to tame the fierce bristles of an outraged
+dignity. When he had emerged from the bath,
+the pink of his face appeared to have spread to the
+whites of his eyes, a fact which Bakunjala had noted
+with sullen dread.</p>
+
+<p>Between the storms the sun glared yellow upon the
+smoking earth. Across the square squelched zu
+Pfeiffer to the orderly room. He grunted at Sergeant
+Schultz&rsquo;s greeting and sprawled in the chair. When
+Schultz proffered him some official documents he
+waved them aside irritably.</p>
+
+<p><q>Bring the prisoner to the Court, sergeant. I will
+try him immediately.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence!</q> said the sergeant, saluting. <q>What
+charge am I to enter against him, Excellence?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Arms and liquor running,</q> responded zu Pfeiffer
+quickly. <q>I hold papers which prove the case
+completely; moreover you will see that Ali ben Hassan
+and others are prepared to testify. But&mdash;the charge
+will be margined as political: not criminal. Understand,
+sergeant?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Perfectly, Excellence. Ali ben Hassan and the
+others have to testify before your Excellence now?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>There will be no need.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Very good, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And, sergeant, what is the personnel of the launch
+and the prisoner&rsquo;s party?</q></p>
+<pb n="63"/><anchor id="Pg63"/>
+
+<p><q>The launch returned immediately to Jinja,
+Excellence, as soon as the prisoner had landed.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ach, good.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The prisoner has a considerable battery, equipment
+and provisions; a headman and personal servants. He
+intended to obtain porters here, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer meditated, tapping the desk with a gold
+pencil.</p>
+
+<p><q>What is the headman?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Bambeeba, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Good. And the servants?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>One is a Wongolo youth, the others are mixed
+Walegga and Kavirondo.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Arrest them all and see that none gets away.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence!</q></p>
+
+<p>Schultz saluted and departed. Zu Pfeiffer frowned
+at the glare which was suddenly extinguished by falling
+water. He lighted a cigar and waited. Presently the
+sergeant returned in a waterproof cape, dripping, and
+announced that the prisoner was ready. Zu Pfeiffer
+gathered up his long legs and marched stiffly into the
+Court House adjoining.</p>
+
+<p>Upon a slight dais was a large desk and a cane
+armchair beneath the Imperial Eagles and a portrait
+of the Kaiser Wilhelm II. Pale, stubble bearded, and
+tense eyed with anger, sat Birnier upon a form against
+the wall; beside him stood Sergeant Schneider, for it
+is not usual etiquette to put a white prisoner in charge
+of a black guard. The grizzled sergeant stood stuffy to
+attention, which zu Pfeiffer acknowledged. Although
+he did not meet Birnier&rsquo;s gaze, he scowled as if he had
+expected him to salute the majesty of the judge as
+well.</p>
+<pb n="64"/><anchor id="Pg64"/>
+
+<p>But as zu Pfeiffer mounted the step to the chair of
+justice he looked up at the portrait of the Kaiser,
+stopped, and hesitated; then he wheeled abruptly,
+and barked:</p>
+
+<p><q>Sergeant, bring the prisoner to the orderly room!</q></p>
+
+<p>In the orderly room Birnier was placed between
+Sergeant Schultz at his table and Sergeant Schneider
+by the door. Birnier watched zu Pfeiffer intently, but
+zu Pfeiffer regarded him icily as if he were a piece of
+furniture. Without a word Birnier reached out and
+lifted a chair. Sergeant Schneider started forward,
+evidently fearing that the prisoner was about to attack
+his officer. Birnier said acidly: <q>I merely wish to
+sit down.</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer scowled again, but he made no objection.
+He took up some papers at random and began to peruse
+them. Said Birnier sharply:</p>
+
+<p><q>When you have finished with this farce I shall be
+obliged if you will kindly explain your insane actions!</q></p>
+
+<p>The tap-tap of a typewriter sounded from another
+room. A fly buzzed. Zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s eyelids did not
+blink. The sergeants stared woodenly to the front.
+Birnier looked from one to the other, bit his lips, and
+then exclaimed in exasperation: <q>What in hell do you
+mean by this damned nonsense?</q></p>
+
+<p>The tap-tap continued; the fly buzzed irritatedly.
+Birnier clenched his fist. But he sat still. Another
+storm so darkened the room that zu Pfeiffer could
+scarcely have seen the print, but apparently he read on.
+The deluge roared, passed, and the glare came as
+suddenly. Zu Pfeiffer lifted his head and said in
+German:</p>
+
+<p><q>Sergeant, record the opening of the Court.</q></p>
+<pb n="65"/><anchor id="Pg65"/>
+
+<p><q>Excellence!</q> assented Sergeant Schultz and
+poised his pen ready to write.</p>
+
+<p><q>The prisoner, a Swiss subject&qdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I am American, as I have told you,</q> said Birnier in
+leashed anger.</p>
+
+<p><q>A pseudo trader and hunter, named Carl Bornstadt,</q>
+continued zu Pfeiffer imperturbably, <q>is
+charged under sub-section 79 of section 8 with supplying
+guns and liquor to the native subjects of his
+Imperial Majesty.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Good God!</q> began Birnier. But as he realised
+zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s purpose and his own position, he closed
+his lips tightly.</p>
+
+<p>Methodically the sergeant finished the entries and
+waited. Zu Pfeiffer stroked his favourite moustache
+and considered. He glanced at Birnier, but without a
+vestige of expression and continued:</p>
+
+<p><q>Make a special note, sergeant, that we have reason
+to suspect that the prisoner is in the political service of</q>&mdash;a
+slight smile flicked the lieutenant&rsquo;s face&mdash;<q>in the
+service of the Portuguese, and so under sub-section 109
+of section 8, I am referring the case to Dar-es-salaam
+for investigation; witnesses, documentary and personal,
+to accompany the prisoner. Owing to unusual
+pressure of service we are unable to afford the prisoner,
+although apparently of European descent, a white
+guard; therefore, Sergeant Ludwig will detail a
+corporal and six men for the duty.</q></p>
+
+<p>He paused. The sergeant&rsquo;s pen scratched on. Zu
+Pfeiffer lighted a cigar and added impersonally:</p>
+
+<p><q>The prisoner and escort will leave to-morrow
+morning. Sergeant Schneider, remove the prisoner!</q></p>
+
+<p>Birnier&rsquo;s face was a little paler, the eyes were slightly
+<pb n="66"/><anchor id="Pg66"/>
+more bloodshot; but he did not attempt to speak. Zu
+Pfeiffer rose. The sergeants stood to attention and
+saluted. As he left the room towards the Court
+House, he smiled with slight satisfaction as the gruff
+voice of Sergeant Schneider barked: <q>Prisoner,
+shun! Right turn! Quick marrch!</q></p>
+
+<p>But zu Pfeiffer did not remain long in the Court
+House. After fidgeting about with papers on the
+table and reprimanding Sergeant Schultz because he
+had not arranged the next native case to his satisfaction,
+he rose abruptly and marched swiftly across
+the square in the brilliant glare without his helmet and
+into his study. There he straddled a chair and leaned
+on the back sucking a dead cigar absent-mindedly. As
+he stared at the portrait in the ivory frame, the blue
+eyes grew soft and the delicate lips quivered like a child
+about to weep. He sighed heavily and then rapping
+out an oath, rose violently, overturning the chair,
+poured out a half-glass of neat cognac, and drank it
+at a gulp. As he neared the Court House the sentry,
+turning at the end of his short beat, was so startled at
+the proximity of the Kommandant, or incompletely
+disciplined, that he became flurried. Zu Pfeiffer
+clicked his heels together and haughtily watched the
+fumbled efforts to salute. The bolt caught in the
+man&rsquo;s tunic. Gold flashed in the sun as the sjambok
+descended. Zu Pfeiffer walked on unconcernedly,
+leaving a grey weal on the terrified native&rsquo;s face. To
+Sergeant Schultz, rigid in the doorway, he snapped an
+order to have fifty lashes given to the <q>clumsy dog.</q></p>
+
+<p>Sentences were harsher than usual that morning.
+All the native world about him knew that a demon had
+taken possession of the Eater-of-men; he was usually
+<pb n="67"/><anchor id="Pg67"/>
+inhabited by an evil spirit, but this time the demon of
+Bakra who, as everybody knows, tears the vitals with
+hot claws, making the victim to have fits, to foam at the
+mouth, to be quite mad, had entered the white man.
+Bakunjala, coming to the Court House with vermouth
+and biscuits at eleven o&rsquo;clock, distinctly saw the devil
+glaring through zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s eyes, and was so scared
+that he let fall the tray, which was the reason that he
+also was doomed to have twenty-five lashes that
+evening. Even the stolid Sergeant Schultz remarked
+that the Herr Lieutenant had gotten a touch of the
+sun; but the grizzled Schneider, who came from
+Luthuania, opined that the Herr Kommandant had
+left his table knife edge uppermost.</p>
+
+<p>When zu Pfeiffer went across to tiffin the hot sun
+had dried up the gutters and the plot of grass. He did
+not return to the Court House, much to the gratitude
+of many innocent and guilty. After drinking more
+wine than usual he lay down for the siesta and fell asleep.
+But at five he awoke with a mouth like a burnt cooking
+pot and the temper of the said devil. He yelled for
+Bakunjala, who came, so trembling with fright that he
+stuttered. Zu Pfeiffer threw a glass which missed him
+and broke a mirror.</p>
+
+<p><q>Another seven years&rsquo; ill luck!</q> shouted zu Pfeiffer,
+sitting on the bed in his shirt. He glared at Bakunjala
+standing in the door, too terror-stricken to flee,
+convinced that he would be blamed for breaking the
+glass. <q>You&mdash;you superstitious nigger!</q> yelled zu
+Pfeiffer, and added more calmly in Kiswahili: <q>Fetch
+me a brandy-soda! Upesi, you son of a baboon!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Bwana!</q> exclaimed Bakunjala and fled gladly.</p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer sat and scowled at the scattered pieces of
+<pb n="68"/><anchor id="Pg68"/>
+mirror until Bakunjala arrived with the drink. An
+hour later he emerged in his immaculate undress
+uniform and sat on the north verandah, drank vermouth
+and smoked cigars, staring out across the flat swamp
+where the pewter of the lake was flecked with silver
+and blood of the sinking sun. From beyond the fort
+came the yaps of the drill-sergeant busy in the cool of
+the afternoon. At the bark of the relieving guard,
+zu Pfeiffer rose and walked around the house to watch,
+with tetchy eyes, the saluting of the flag.</p>
+
+<p>As he stalked off to dinner in the messroom eyes
+glimmered in the darkness about him. Bakunjala,
+after receiving punishment, was indisposed, in fact
+incapable of attending to his duties in the spritely
+manner required. Another servant, who had taken his
+place, was nervous of the probable consequences, and
+had a keen eye for the appearance of the devil so
+realistically described by Bakunjala. But the demon
+apparently slept, for zu Pfeiffer took the dishes placed
+before him with an unaccustomed meekness, pushed
+them away absent-mindedly, and rising, retired to his
+study. Even when the deputy brought the wrong
+bottle he reprimanded him mildly without taking his
+eyes off the photograph in the ivory frame.</p>
+
+<p>Yet, with the port, he did not omit to rise, and heels
+together, raise his glass to the <q>Ihre Hochheit.</q>
+Then sprawling in the chair he began to drink and to
+smoke steadily.</p>
+
+<p>As the notes of the last post stuttered out in the
+clammy stillness he summoned the <q>boy</q> and bade him
+fetch Sergeant Schultz. At the sound of the sergeant&rsquo;s
+steps on the verandah zu Pfeiffer stiffened up
+and patted his lips as if desiring to erase the lines that
+<pb n="69"/><anchor id="Pg69"/>
+were graven thereon; and with one foot pushed the
+chair from the direct angle to the photograph.</p>
+
+<p><q>Take a cigar,</q> said zu Pfeiffer, when the man had
+entered. The words were rather an order than an
+invitation. Sergeant Schultz obeyed. Zu Pfeiffer
+smoked reflectively, still regarding the photograph out
+of the corner of his eyes as if unable to resist the
+fascination.</p>
+
+<p><q>How long have you been in this benighted country,
+sergeant?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Nine years, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You wish to retire on the pension at the year&rsquo;s
+term?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I have not seen my wife and children for three
+years, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You shall have special leave as soon as the Wongolo
+affair is over.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I thank you, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And I will recommend you for the special colonial
+service medal and pension.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I thank you, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Take a drink, sergeant.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I thank you, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p>The sergeant obeyed with some semblance of
+initiative and he remarked that the lieutenant drank
+half a tumbler of neat brandy at a gulp. As if to
+drag himself away from the contemplation of the
+photograph zu Pfeiffer stood up and sat on the
+arm of the chair with his face in shadow above the
+lamp-shade. Gazing keenly at the sergeant, he said
+sharply:</p>
+
+<p><q>You are quite aware of the regulations regarding
+official secrets, sergeant?</q></p>
+<pb n="70"/><anchor id="Pg70"/>
+
+<p><q>Ach, yes, Excellence!</q></p>
+
+<p>As the sergeant paused to answer with the glass in his
+hand there was just a suspicion of astonishment in the
+tone.</p>
+
+<p><q>Good. Don&rsquo;t forget it!</q> A note of menace was
+in zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s voice. He added more mildly,
+<q>Political reasons may cause stringent measures
+sometimes.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer smoked, coldly regarding the sergeant.</p>
+
+<p><q>Who is Sergeant Schneider detailing for the
+prisoner&rsquo;s escort to-morrow?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Corporal Inyira, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>A long service man?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ja, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Good. Go and fetch him here.</q></p>
+
+<p>Not a shadow of surprise showed on Sergeant
+Schultz&rsquo;s face as he departed. Zu Pfeiffer smoked hard
+and drank another brandy thirstily with a slight
+unsteadiness as he lifted the glass to his mouth. The
+sergeant returned and stood at attention just within
+the door.</p>
+
+<p><q>The man is here, Excellence.</q> Zu Pfeiffer
+nodded.</p>
+
+<p><q>Forward, quick marrch,</q> commanded the sergeant
+in a muffled bark. <q>Halttt!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Very good, sergeant, you may wait.</q></p>
+
+<p>Schultz saluted and retired without. The tall
+powerfully built native in uniform stood as if he had a
+bayonet beneath his chin. There was a slight nervousness
+about the blues of the eyes as he squinted in the
+attempt to look straight ahead and to watch the
+Kommandant at the same time. One nostril was slit,
+<pb n="71"/><anchor id="Pg71"/>
+in the lobes of the ears were three can keys, and the
+temples were tattooed with tribal scars.</p>
+
+<p><q>Corporal Inyira!</q> said zu Pfeiffer sharply. The
+black body twitched at the voice. <q>You are to leave
+to-morrow for Dar-es-salaam and you will take as a
+prisoner a white man who has been taking your tribe
+as slaves and selling them to the Abyssinians. The
+Bwana Mkubwa protects you from these evil white
+men and Arabs. You know that?</q> sharply.</p>
+
+<p><q>Bwana!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Very good. You know what would happen to you
+if you were sold as a slave? You have had many
+brothers who have been sold to the Abyssinians?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Bwana! Many, Bwana!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Very good. Now listen! This white man is very
+bad. He leaves with you to-morrow morning for
+Dar-es-salaam, but&mdash;he is never to arrive there. I give
+him to you. You may do what you like with him, but
+never let me see him again. You have my protection.
+Understand?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Bwana!</q></p>
+
+<p>The rubber lips pouted in the emphatic utterance.</p>
+
+<p><q>These are your secret orders. But you are not to
+tell them to any man, woman, or child here; you may
+tell your men when you are gone. If you disobey I
+will cut out your tongue and give you three hundred
+lashes. Understand?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Bwana!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>This man is the enemy of the Bwana Mkubwa.
+His enemies are your enemies. His goods are yours.
+Begone!</q></p>
+
+<p>The black hand came up jerkily to the black forehead,
+shot away out and down; the polished calves moved
+<pb n="72"/><anchor id="Pg72"/>
+like the eccentrics of an engine, and Corporal Inyira
+melted into the shadows.</p>
+
+<p><q>Sergeant Schultz!</q></p>
+
+<p>To smart heel taps on the verandah entered the
+sergeant.</p>
+
+<p><q>You will see that Corporal Inyira and the escort
+leave before daybreak; moreover, that he talks with
+no one before he leaves.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Take a drink, sergeant.</q></p>
+
+<p>With legs as stiff as his sjambok, Sergeant Schultz
+obeyed the order; lifted the glass and drank.</p>
+
+<p><q>You may go! Good night, sergeant.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence, good night!</q></p>
+
+<p>As zu Pfeiffer shifted from the chair-arm to the seat
+his movements were slightly erratic. He sat forward,
+staring at the photograph, as he drank more brandy.
+Outside, the p&aelig;an of the frogs pulsed steadily. From
+a distance came the throb of a native drum. A cricket
+shrilled intermittently.</p>
+
+<p><q>Bwana!</q></p>
+
+<p>The ghostly figure of Bakunjala whispered from the
+doorway. Zu Pfeiffer started nervously.</p>
+
+<p><q>Zingala,</q> began Bakunjala timorously.</p>
+
+<p><q>Gott verdamf&mdash;Emshi!</q> snapped zu Pfeiffer, his
+ring flashing in an irritable gesture.</p>
+
+<p>Bakunjala melted. Came a mutter of voices and a
+subdued giggle.</p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer sat and drank and stared. Above the
+insectile anthem of the night, rose a gurgling voice in a
+drinking song.&hellip; Later the crash of a breaking
+glass was accompanied by an oath. The glimmer of
+three pairs of eyes through the window screen vanished
+<pb n="73"/><anchor id="Pg73"/>
+and reappeared.&hellip; Once more rose the voice
+singing:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 5" type="song">
+  <l>&ldquo;Scheiden tut weh,</l>
+  <l>Scheiden, ja scheiden, scheiden tut weh!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>Just as the cricket began anew, after having politely
+ceased to hear the lieutenant&rsquo;s song, trickled out upon
+the clammy air the sound of weeping.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD06" type="chapter">
+<pb n="74"/><anchor id="Pg74"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 6</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>In the violet shadow of his square hut inside the
+compound, squatted Zalu Zako. The lips and nose
+were nearer to the Aryan delicacy than the negroid
+bluntness; for the Wongolo, like the Wahima, are a
+mixed Bantu-Somali race. In colour his skin had the
+red of bronze rather than the blue of the negro, and
+the planes of his moulded chest were as light as the
+worn ivory bracelets upon his polished limbs. Broad
+in the shoulders he had almost the slender hips of a
+young girl and his carriage was as balanced as a
+dancer&rsquo;s<corr sic=""><anchor id="E9"/><ref
+target="e9">.</ref></corr></p>
+
+<p>From a group of small round huts behind his square
+hut, where dwelt his two wives, concubines and slaves,
+came the clutter of voices. A distant drum throbbed
+gently on the hot air. Away in the cool green of the
+banana plantation rose the crooning chant of the
+unmarried girls and slaves bringing water from the
+river.</p>
+
+<p>Apparently Zalu Zako was absorbed in the movements
+of a diminutive chicken scratching in the soil.
+The omen of the goat was occupying his mind: that
+and the death of his grandfather, MFunya MPopo.
+There was no sense of grief, for he was not a woman.
+Now, at the beginning of his warrior&rsquo;s career, he had
+not any desire for divine honours and celibacy. No
+man had. Yet Zalu Zako no more dreamed of
+questioning the necessity than of spitting in the face of
+<pb n="75"/><anchor id="Pg75"/>
+an enemy. Always had the first born male of his
+family been doomed to the kingly office. There was
+never a second born male, for it was not meet that a
+god should have paternal brothers. The wives of his
+youth and his concubines could have as many children
+as they could bear; but according to the law, did he
+select the chief wife from whom should spring the one
+regal son only when he had become heir apparent; for
+then was he not already half divine, being so near the
+sacred enclosure up on the hill?</p>
+
+<p>The choice of that chief wife was free as there were
+no royal families in the sense of divine descent save the
+direct male line of the King-God. But the mind of
+Zalu Zako dwelt more upon his personal career. The
+life of a warrior was frequently short and that of a god
+even briefer. MFunya MPopo had reigned but twenty
+moons; MKoffo, so said the elders, had reigned for full
+two hundred moons; but then he had been a mighty
+magician.</p>
+
+<p>With a harsh squawk a brilliant scarlet and blue bird
+with an enormous yellow bill perched on the palisade
+of the compound. Immediately the young man
+forgot his musing and rose, calling for his spear. A
+stocky man, coal black, with a fuzzy tuft of a beard,
+came out of the hut. From the slave Zalu Zako took a
+broad-bladed spear with a short haft. Watching to
+see that the bird was still sitting on the fence as he
+passed out of the compound, he set off rapidly through
+the village and into the banana plantations in search of a
+wart hog which had been rooting up one of his fields of
+sweet potatoes. Just as he came within sight of them
+a black field rat sprang out of the grass in his path,
+glanced round at him, and disappeared. The young
+<pb n="76"/><anchor id="Pg76"/>
+man&rsquo;s steps slackened, for he knew that the black rat
+had spoiled the luck which the banana eater had
+portended. Scarcely troubling to glance around the
+field, he diverged across at an angle making for a break
+in the jungle where he knew was the trail of the boar.
+But he grunted contemptuously as he examined the
+last spoor, which was at least half a day old. Of
+course the hog would not be there.</p>
+
+<p>He bethought himself of another field where sometimes
+came buck. But there was no game. The
+black rat again! Yet if one waited long enough a
+good omen might appear. As he squatted beneath a
+banana plant to take snuff came a squawk and the
+banana eater&mdash;for it appeared to be the same one&mdash;alighted
+on a frond near to him. Zalu Zako waited.
+Leisurely and cautiously he arose. The bird peered
+at him. Zalu Zako passed and left the banana eater
+still sitting there. He felt the weight of his spear
+tentatively, for a double omen of luck must mean big
+game: possibly an eland or a leopard.</p>
+
+<p>He circled right round the outskirts of the plantation.
+But he saw no signs. As he began to make the big
+circle again the shadows were lengthening appreciably.
+Passing by the ford of the small river, which was swollen
+from the rains, he heard a group of young girls chattering
+on the river bank as they filled their gourds. He
+paused to test which way the wind was blowing in
+order to avoid going down wind where the sound of
+their voices would scare away any game.</p>
+
+<p>But as he turned to move on he caught a glimpse of a
+figure mounting the incline. The motion was as lithe
+as a young giraffe; the legs were as straight as spears
+and as supple as a kiboko; the moulded hips swayed
+<pb n="77"/><anchor id="Pg77"/>
+rhythmically like a banana frond in the breeze; the
+fluted arch of her back swelled proudly upwards to the
+resilient shoulders; and an arm as slender as a lizard&rsquo;s
+tail steadied the gourd upon a small black head set
+upon a neck like a sapling. The dappled shadows of a
+tree played hide and seek upon the tiny hills that were
+her firm young breasts, upon the smoothness of her
+torso of light bronze. As he gazed her face came into
+view in speaking to a comrade just beneath. An
+errant shaft of sunlight glinted the pearl of teeth,
+glowed the tiny nose and blued the whites of eyes
+which were as soft as any antelope.</p>
+
+<p>Zalu Zako clicked the syllable that means astonishment.</p>
+
+<p><q>Wait there, O Bayakala,</q> she called, <q>for I have
+to do the making of mighty magic with the spirits of
+the wood.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Eh, eh!</q> responded one of those left by the water
+edge, <q>a girl of the hut thatch hath nought to do with
+spirits of the wood for their bellies are as big as a
+pregnant woman!</q></p>
+
+<p>The young girl laughed and her notes seemed to
+Zalu Zako like the dripping of water upon a river
+rock.</p>
+
+<p><q>Thou knowest less than the Baroto bird who as
+everybody knows is the spirit of one!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>&rsquo;Tis more than thou wilt ever be!</q> retorted the
+rival beneath.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh! Ehh!</q> exclaimed the girl at the sneer,
+<q>thy girdle is rotted long since with juice!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And thine,</q> shouted the insulted one, who was old
+for a spinster, <q>wilt rot with the dryness!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Tscch! It is dry for the lord whom I will conquer
+<pb n="78"/><anchor id="Pg78"/>
+with magic such as thou hast never dreamed on, O
+Bayakala!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And who is he for whom thou makest magic, O
+daughter of the hut thatch?</q> demanded Zalu Zako,
+stepping from the shelter of the tree.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q> ejaculated Bakuma. <q>I&mdash;we do but tickle
+the fronds (jest), O Chief!</q></p>
+
+<p>The only sign of her nervousness was the slight
+swaying of the gourd of water upon her head as she
+turned up her eyes to the young chief who regarded
+her slowly. She edged away. He moved a pace in
+front of her. She clutched at the amulet around her
+neck as she turned her eyes and said:</p>
+
+<p><q>The cooking fires are low, O Chief, and need be
+tended.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Thy breasts are like unto small anthills,</q> he said,
+<q>and thy belly is as smooth as yonder river rock.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Thy tongue is sweeter than the honey of the
+kinglan tree.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Thy voice is softer than the muted lyre and thy
+nose is formed of two petals of an orchid.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Thy praise is more refreshing than the morning
+dew to a thirsty flower.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And by thy figure am I made more drunken than
+by the wine of the Soka palm.</q></p>
+
+<p>For a full minute they stood, a study in light bronze
+against the dappled green foliage. The shrill chatter
+of the other girls approaching startled Bakuma into
+action. She swayed to one side.</p>
+
+<p><q>The spirits of the cooking pot cry aloud for me, O
+Chief.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Who is thy father, little one?</q> he demanded.</p>
+
+<p><q>I am Bakuma, the daughter of Bakala, O Chief.</q></p>
+<pb n="79"/><anchor id="Pg79"/>
+
+<p><q>There has been a veil before my eyes that I have
+not seen thee before.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The mountains see not the tiny brooks amid the
+mighty forests,</q> murmured Bakuma and sped up the
+path.</p>
+
+<p>Zalu Zako stood motionless watching her form melt
+into the green, and as he turned towards the river he
+met Bayakala and the other women who shrank aside
+from the path to allow the Son of the Snake to pass in
+silence. Yet at the ford he paused. He had forgotten
+the omen of the banana eater and the purpose for
+which he had come.</p>
+
+<p>As Bakuma sped along in a gliding lope the amulet
+swayed rhythmically to the whispered praises of the
+power of Marufa, mixed with ardent prayers to the
+spirits to provide the fat goat with which to propitiate
+the spirit of the woods; for had not the love charm
+already manifested its wondrous power? As she
+hastened through the banana plantation she could not
+resist diverging a little in the direction of the magician&rsquo;s
+hut. As she passed, she saw him seated on the threshold
+of the compound gathering inspiration from his
+favourite wall. But Marufa observed her demeanour,
+and being something of a student of men, he deducted
+that the charm had already begun to work.</p>
+
+<p>Marufa, as all successful men, had a strain of luck.
+Before the shadows had crept a hand&rsquo;s breadth came
+MYalu, indignant and exasperated. The three tusks
+had been paid and the footprint obtained; but he had
+discovered that it was no easy matter to procure the
+other ingredients which he suspected the wizard had
+known well and intended as a means to extract more
+ivory. After the ceremonious greetings he protested
+<pb n="80"/><anchor id="Pg80"/>
+that the task given was almost impossible to execute.
+Marufa remained imperturbably interested in his wall.</p>
+
+<p><q>But as thou knowest,</q> insisted MYalu, <q>the hair
+and the toe-nail and the spittle of the Son of the Snake
+are more than difficult to obtain. Does a man so
+carelessly render himself unto his enemies, and he the
+Son of the Snake? None save one of his household
+could purloin a single hair. Even this morning was
+his hair shaved and the remnants, as thou knowest well,
+deposited in the temple with him who was his father.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The hair, the toe-nail, and the spittle,</q> mumbled
+the old man, <q>must I have for such mighty magic.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q> snorted MYalu, <q>with a man of the clay,
+but with one who is half divine, the Son of the Snake!
+Ehh!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The bow is useless without the arrows,</q> mumbled
+the old man.</p>
+
+<p><q>Tsch. &rsquo;Tis a mighty hunter that hath not the
+arrows for his bow,</q> sneered MYalu.</p>
+
+<p><q>Verily,</q> retorted Marufa disinterestedly, <q>and
+still more a mighty man who cannot do his own
+hunting!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No warrior hath been purified more frequently
+than I,</q> boasted MYalu, referring to the ceremony
+incumbent upon those who have taken life to appease
+the ghosts of the slain.</p>
+
+<p><q>The spirits obey not the crowing of a cockerel,</q>
+reminded Marufa.</p>
+
+<p><q>Tsch!</q> For a while both sat silent, MYalu
+gloomily watching a hen.</p>
+
+<p><q>Aie! Aie!</q> he lamented at last, <q>what is there
+that I may do, for indeed she hath caught my soul in a
+trap. Aie! Aie!</q></p>
+<pb n="81"/><anchor id="Pg81"/>
+
+<p><q>If the hunter cannot make arrows, he may buy
+them,</q> remarked Marufa, who had been patiently
+waiting for this state of mind.</p>
+
+<p><q>Eh! The bowstring hath been costly but the
+arrows! Aie! Aie! What would&rsquo;st thou?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The rich man payeth in his kind. Four tusks of
+fine grain.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Eh! Eh!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Maybe there are others whose hands are not
+withered.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Others than the Son of the Snake?</q> demanded
+MYalu quickly.</p>
+
+<p><q>Who knows? There are more fools than
+chickens,</q> muttered the old man.</p>
+
+<p>MYalu stared disconsolately at the distant bananas.
+Perhaps, he reflected, it would be cheaper to pay
+the price the girl&rsquo;s uncle demanded, yet&qdash; MYalu
+had bought other wives whose unimpassioned charms
+had quickly staled. His soul, as he put it, had indeed
+been tempted into a trap by Bakuma; for he wished
+only that she should desire him as he desired her. Yet
+was he angry. Love seemed to be a costly business.
+Marufa tapped out snuff and sniffed delicately with the
+air of a connoisseur devoting himself to the pleasure of
+the moment. Replacing the cork of twisted leaves he
+stirred as if to rise.</p>
+
+<p><q>Canst thou procure then the nail and the hairs
+that are asked by the spirits?</q> inquired MYalu
+sulkily.</p>
+
+<p><q>All things are possible to the son of MTungo,</q>
+asserted Marufa. <q>Four tusks, and these things are
+found; but of fine grain, for the others were old and
+coarse.</q></p>
+<pb n="82"/><anchor id="Pg82"/>
+
+<p><q>Ehh! How wilt thou procure these things?</q>
+demanded MYalu sceptically.</p>
+
+<p><q>The ways of the wise are not the ways of fools.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The tusks are thine,</q> said MYalu reluctantly, <q>if
+thou wilt tell me how thou wilt procure them.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Thy words are like unto the vomit of a dog,</q>
+muttered the old man.</p>
+
+<p><q>But how? My heart is not bound in clay.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Tch!</q> clicked Marufa contemptuously. <q>Every
+fool must needs see the spoor of the god which he
+cannot read. I have spoken.</q> MYalu regarded the
+old wizard incredulously. <q>Tch! Send the four
+tusks as we have agreed and so shall it be. Begone!</q></p>
+
+<p>Slowly MYalu rose, made his greeting, and departed
+more impressed than ever that the old man was a
+mighty magician.</p>
+
+<p>During the hour when the soul is small and dwells
+timidly around the feet Marufa dozed in the cool
+of his hut; but later when it spread boldly out was
+he squatted once more in his favourite seat at the
+entrance to the compound, taking snuff and contemplating.
+The shadows grew from violet to blue;
+the small hens pecked for worms with avidity and the
+goats scratched with vigour in the cool. Patiently
+Marufa sat. At length that for which he had waited
+with a sound though primitive knowledge of psychology,
+came to pass. Bakuma appeared, apprehensive,
+but with yet an abandon which sang her happiness.
+Beside Marufa she sat so as to avoid the shadow of
+one foot protruding beyond that of the fence.</p>
+
+<p><q>O great and mighty magician,</q> she began eagerly,
+after the formal greetings. <q>Indeed all that thou hast
+said hath come to pass. Thy charm is infallible.</q></p>
+<pb n="83"/><anchor id="Pg83"/>
+
+<p><q>Ugh!</q> grunted Marufa unconcernedly.</p>
+
+<p><q>All that my heart desireth hath already begun to
+be. I thank thee.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ugh!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>O mighty son of MTungo, what must I now do?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Thou knowest,</q> mumbled Marufa, fumbling for
+the snuff case.</p>
+
+<p><q>Aie! Aie! but I have no fat goat!</q> cried
+Bakuma, who had hoped fatuously that the wizard
+would have forgotten. <q>I, a girl of the hut thatch,
+how should I have a goat?</q> Marufa tapped snuff as
+if no romance were in the making. Bakuma&rsquo;s bright
+eyes, sharpened by the proximity of the promise of her
+love, watched the old man keenly. <q>Listen, O great
+and mighty son of MTungo, to whom all things are
+known, who canst accomplish all that thou desireth,
+Bayakala, my cousin, hath a goat, but it is old and
+skinny. Perhaps&qdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>In the nostrils of the spirits,</q> asserted Marufa
+instantly, <q>all odours are the same except that of the
+fat goat whom they love.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Aie! then am I undone, for no fat goat have
+I!</q> wailed Bakuma. <q>Know I not one who hath
+a goat who would smile on me, a girl of the hut
+thatch.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ugh!</q></p>
+
+<p>Bakuma regarded him imploringly, but Marufa&rsquo;s
+gaze was fixed upon the wall as if his mind were turned
+to matters of more importance.<corr sic="&rdquo;"><anchor
+id="E10"/><ref target="e10">&nbsp;</ref></corr></p>
+
+<p><q>O mighty wizard, what must I do?</q> implored
+Bakuma desperately.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ugh!</q></p>
+
+<p>After a prolonged contemplation, said Marufa:
+<pb n="84"/><anchor id="Pg84"/>
+<q>If thou canst get no goat, then is there another path
+by which thou mayest accomplish thy end.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Eh!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But it is very difficult.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>By my cord, will I do all that thou canst bid me to
+do!</q> swore Bakuma in anxious haste.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ugh! This path is more certain of success for
+the will of the spirits are oftentimes chary of their
+favours.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>O mighty one!</q> breathed Bakuma, as he paused
+tantalisingly.</p>
+
+<p><q>But the matter is exceedingly difficult&mdash;and
+dangerous.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>If the flower hath no sun hath it ever lived?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>As even thou shouldst know,</q> mumbled Marufa,
+more casually than ever, <q>he who possesses a part of
+the soul may do magic thereon.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Aye! Aye!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Bring me then of the nail parings one, of his hairs
+one, and of his spittle. Then may I do magic thereon
+which he cannot resist.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>O mighty magician!</q> gasped Bakuma, appalled at
+the difficulty and the danger of the task.</p>
+
+<p><q>That path is sure. There is no other.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Eh! &hellip; But if they of thy craft should know
+then am I doomed!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>There is no other.</q></p>
+
+<p>Torn between her love and the dread of the penalty
+incurred by the sacrilege of the theft of the parts of
+one who might any day be King-God, Bakuma stared
+distraught.</p>
+
+<p><q>Were not my words white? Hath not the love
+charm thou hast already had done even as I did say?</q></p>
+<pb n="85"/><anchor id="Pg85"/>
+
+<p><q>O mighty one!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But that is only as the goat to the leopard. The
+trap must be dug&mdash;or the scent of the bait will be
+blown.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q> gasped Bakuma, in desperation, <q>by my
+twin soul which dwells beneath the banana plant, will
+I do it!</q></p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD07" type="chapter">
+<pb n="86"/><anchor id="Pg86"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 7</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>Gerald Birnier had flattered himself that he
+was a philosopher with a sense of humour, fairly
+well developed by ten years&rsquo; wandering about Central
+Africa, but deep emotions submerge such cherished
+qualities.</p>
+
+<p>The presence of the photograph was explicable by
+several surmises: zu Pfeiffer might have met Lucille
+at Washington, Paris, or Berlin: she might have given
+him the photograph or he might have bought it, or
+even stolen it. But&mdash;the signature <q>&agrave; toi, Lucille</q>!
+There lay the sting which maddened Birnier and
+strangled reason, the fact at which his mind yawed
+futilely.</p>
+
+<p>So great had been the shock that the arrest had
+seemed but a secondary matter in accord with the
+insanity of zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s statement that he was engaged
+to Lucille. The affair had been so sudden that for
+some time he could progress no farther in an attempt
+to think than a gasp, pawing mentally at an intangible
+substance which eluded him like a child&rsquo;s small hand
+trying to grasp a toy balloon. Sense of reality appeared
+to have been dissolved. He had followed the sergeant
+across the square meekly without realising what was
+happening, and when he had been placed in a whitewashed
+room at the back of the native guard house
+which served as a jail, he sat down upon a chair, too
+bewildered to comprehend where he was. That <q>&agrave;
+<pb n="87"/><anchor id="Pg87"/>
+toi, Lucille</q> rang like the clanging in a belfry, drowning
+the sound of other thoughts.</p>
+
+<p>By the light of a hurricane lamp he regarded the
+soldiers bringing in an old camp bed with indifference.
+When they had gone he began to pace up and down
+the small room frantically trying to gain control. To
+the first prompting of a logical reason for the whole
+affair he did not dare to listen. The disrupting cause
+was the complete inability to explain the familiar
+signature. To his Anglo-Saxonised mind, bred in the
+strict code of the south, tutoyer was only permissible
+to dogs, inferiors, most intimate relations and lovers.
+He was far too unbalanced to see the humour as he
+solemnly announced that certainly zu Pfeiffer was not
+a dog, nor in the social code an inferior; he was not
+a relation; therefore.&hellip; His mind baulked and
+raced into incoherence.</p>
+
+<p>A point of view which added false premises, as well
+as his attitude to those two little words, was the
+consciousness that many would consider that he had
+not treated his wife as a husband should do. This
+possibility had never occurred to him before, so that it
+came with disproportionate emphasis.</p>
+
+<p>As a young man he had been too absorbed in his
+profession to be a lady&rsquo;s man; and of love he had
+reckoned little until he had met the Lucille Charltrain
+with whom half the world was in love. And she
+doubtless, like many a spoiled beauty, was a little
+piqued that the professor did not join the throng of
+her courtiers. In Birnier&rsquo;s mind there had ever been
+associated with love the fear that the woman would
+demand too much, that no woman could understand
+that a man&rsquo;s profession must of necessity come before
+<pb n="88"/><anchor id="Pg88"/>
+all things. Lucille was the first woman whom he had
+met who really seemed to understand this point of
+view, as she, too, was devoted to her art. This had
+grown to be the biggest bond and attraction between
+them. Most men wished to make of love a nuisance,
+as Lucille once put it. So the good-looking professor
+had won the beauty. They were married on the
+mutual understanding that each should pursue their
+respective professions. Shortly afterwards Birnier
+was offered a special mission to go to Africa for the
+purpose of studying the customs and superstitions
+of the natives. Lucille had consented, forbidden,
+relented, and laughed.</p>
+
+<p>So Lucille sang from musical height to height and
+her husband sped from depth to depth in the seas of
+human fatuity. Whenever he took a furlough he went,
+of course, straight to her, wheresoever she was, in
+Berlin, New York, or Paris. To Birnier the situation
+was ideal. He had never dreamed of any other woman.
+Indeed the tracts of his mind were so filled with
+statistics of anthropology and Lucille that there was
+little or no room for any one else. The delight and
+satisfaction in Birnier&rsquo;s mind were so sincere that he
+never had dreamed of questioning whether Lucille&rsquo;s
+point of view had remained the same. But
+now?</p>
+
+<p>That <q>&agrave; toi</q> stung and baited him into the unprecedented
+realisation that after all women had been
+known to change their opinions. Perhaps pride had
+prevented her from ever openly demanding other ways.
+Lucille was young and beautiful, courted and flattered
+on every hand. Perhaps he had been wrong to leave
+her for years at a stretch. Of her loyalty he had had
+<pb n="89"/><anchor id="Pg89"/>
+no doubt, but for the first time in his marital life the
+professor&rsquo;s profound knowledge of human nature was
+shot like a spot-light on to his own affairs. Yet his
+erudition did not in the least relieve him from the laws
+of emotional reaction.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps in an emotional moment.&hellip; That
+knowledge of the frailties of genus homo was too deep
+for comfort in such actuation.</p>
+
+<p><q>&Agrave; toi, Lucille! &Agrave; toi, Lucille!</q> rang and echoed
+as he paced that room, striving for control.&hellip; And&mdash;and&mdash;why
+else should zu Pfeiffer have gone crazy?&mdash;why
+had he exclaimed: <q>Das ist der Schweinh&uuml;nd</q>?
+The husband, of course, whom he wanted
+out of the way, and he had immediately seized the
+opportunity to secure that end, seemingly indifferent
+to consequences&mdash;symptomatic of the state of <q>being
+in love.</q></p>
+
+<p>Around and about, about and around a field of weeds
+which had sprung from that seed <q>&agrave; toi,</q> had paced
+the professor all night. When the green was creeping
+through the high barred window, Sergeant Schneider
+had brought to him some coffee and biscuits. Birnier
+had drunk the coffee thirstily, and as the sergeant had
+no English nor French, had tried in broken German to
+extract some information. But the sergeant had merely
+grunted and retired. At seven he had returned again
+and escorted Birnier to the Court House. He returned
+from the mock trial a little more in touch with reality,
+and more impressed with the malignity of zu Pfeiffer.
+Yet the gratuitous insults, the laboured farce of the
+registering of an alleged Swiss trader, Birnier saw
+through, and was relieved, for it argued that zu
+Pfeiffer&rsquo;s intention was to make Lucille a widow. No
+<pb n="90"/><anchor id="Pg90"/>
+other reason could account for the homicidal intentions
+displayed.</p>
+
+<p>At the glow of dawn next day he was aroused by the
+big corporal who ordered him out. The tone of the
+man&rsquo;s voice naturally stimulated a violent reaction.
+But Birnier realised that his sole chance lay in controlling
+himself to accept stoically whatever treatment
+was offered; for he saw instantly that any protest or
+indignation would be interpreted as insubordination
+and possibly be made an excuse to shoot him down.</p>
+
+<p>Outside in the grey light he saw under the guard of
+six native soldiers, the five others of his party. Mungongo,
+his personal <q>boy,</q> cried out at the sight of
+him, asking what was the meaning of these strange
+happenings. Before Birnier could reply, the big
+corporal struck the man savagely with a kiboko, bidding
+him to be silent. In spite of his resolution, the reaction
+made Birnier turn angrily upon the soldier, who
+deliberately repeated the order, and struck the white
+man across the face. As Birnier raised his fist the
+man lowered his bayonet and grinned, adding, apparently
+for the benefit of his men, that now the white
+would learn what it was to be a slave.</p>
+
+<p>Furiously Birnier looked around for Sergeant
+Schneider: but no white man was in sight.&hellip;
+He turned to Mungongo and said quickly: <q>Take no
+heed. Do as they bid thee for the moment.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Be silent!</q> shouted the corporal, but as he raised
+his kiboko, Birnier looked him quietly straight in the
+eyes. The black hand was lowered; the man turned
+away, ordering the party in general to march.</p>
+
+<p>Dishevelled and without any camp equipment,
+Birnier began to march as the blood of the sky paled
+<pb n="91"/><anchor id="Pg91"/>
+to orange. At the bottom of the great parade ground
+he turned in time to see the relieving guard falling in
+behind the Court House. For one moment he
+hesitated whether to put all to the test by refusing to
+go; but a significant gesture with the ever ready
+rifle of the corporal signified that he would not be
+given a chance. Humiliated, he obeyed. But just
+beyond the last hut, waiting by the path, was a group
+of women loaded with the soldiers&rsquo; gear; and beside
+them were some carriers bearing his green tent and
+apparently all his equipment. The sight cheered him
+a little. He attempted to find immediate consolation
+in the idea that the savagery of the corporal might
+possibly abate when they were away from the neighbourhood
+of the inciting agent, whom he was sure was
+zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p>Leading the caravan was a soldier; next to him came
+Birnier and behind him was another soldier, after whom
+walked Mungongo and the four other prisoners, with
+a soldier between each; and then the corporal, strutting
+portentously important within easy shooting
+distance of the white man. The carriers and women
+brought up the rear.</p>
+
+<p>The path led for some miles through the dreary
+swamp following the course of the small bayou,
+crossing and recrossing small streams swollen with the
+rains, through which the white man was forced to
+wade to his hips. For the first mile Birnier was so
+angry and humiliated that he dared not catch the
+troubled eyes of Mungongo. But by force of will he
+attained a reasonable plane of philosophic resignation,
+temporary at least, and smiled at the boy, who grinned
+back like a tickled child. At any rate, soliloquised
+<pb n="92"/><anchor id="Pg92"/>
+Birnier, he had at least one man upon whom he
+could rely.</p>
+
+<p>At the head of the bayou they reached higher ground
+and the path zigzagged through dense jungle thick with
+fan palms. The longer Birnier pondered upon the
+situation the nearer he came towards the conclusion
+that he had better make his escape as soon as possible,
+or he would never have the chance. Rather by the
+uneasy glances of Mungongo, who dared not speak,
+did he guess that they had left the regular trail to the
+coast. What their destination was he could not
+imagine. Probably, he thought grimly, to make an
+end of the whole party and return to the camp. Yet
+why trouble to travel so far? And another good reason
+to hasten an escape was that, although for the moment
+he was in good health, a few days of exposure would
+subject him to fever and consequent weakness.</p>
+
+<p>Now and again the theme <q>&agrave; toi</q> would return like
+the refrain of a song to which he found himself keeping
+step; but the words sometimes became meaningless;
+for in the merciful way that nature has, the impulse
+of self-preservation so occupied his mind that he had
+scarcely leisure to worry over marital troubles.</p>
+
+<p>At the end of about two hours, when the heat of the
+sun was beginning to be felt severely, the corporal
+called a halt in the shade of a great baobab. Birnier
+sat down with his back against the bole. Alongside
+him squatted the corporal deliberately and called to
+the women for a gourd of juwala. There is a certain
+acid odour which native beer has that is particularly
+irritating to a dry palate. The corporal drank deep,
+sighed with satisfaction and set the gourd beside him
+almost touching the feet of the white. Involuntarily
+<pb n="93"/><anchor id="Pg93"/>
+Birnier swallowed. The corporal saw and grinned.
+Birnier understood and turned his back to the man.
+Immediately the corporal arose and lowering his
+bayonet until it pricked the sleeve of Birnier&rsquo;s coat,
+ordered him to get up. In the knowledge that he
+would be instantly shot by the others if he attempted
+to resist, he had perforce to obey.</p>
+
+<p>Outside the shade of the great tree, in the full glare
+of the sun, was the white man compelled to sit while
+the black corporal, with the rifle ready across his knee,
+drank deep and handed the gourd to his fellows.
+Again Birnier turned his back to him. But he began
+to realise faintly what treatment he would receive
+before the end came and an intimate knowledge of
+native ingenuity made him feel physically sick.</p>
+
+<p>Half an hour later they were on the march again.
+The path became rugged and difficult, passing through
+thorny ground, following burbling watercourses of
+rough stones. To make the going more trying Birnier
+wore light moccasins intended for camp use instead
+of his high field boots. Once when a long
+thorn penetrated the flank of his shoe he stopped to
+extract it. The corporal shouted at him; the soldier
+behind called him unmentionable names in the dialect
+and pushed him with his foot. The insult and the
+heat of the sun maddened him. He leaped to his
+feet. The corporal raised his gun promptly and jeered.
+For a moment Birnier stood trembling with passion;
+then he closed his eyes as if to shut out sight and
+sound and limped forward, fighting with himself.</p>
+
+<p>With natives had Birnier always been able to
+negotiate, to live, and to quarrel when necessary, on
+terms of amity; but this black <q>swine,</q> as he termed
+<pb n="94"/><anchor id="Pg94"/>
+him in his wrath, prinked out in a masquerade of a
+white man&rsquo;s clothes.&hellip; He jammed his heel down
+savagely upon the thorn to divert the southern passion.
+After all it was not the man&rsquo;s fault but zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s.
+Put a white man in a uniform and he becomes a beast;
+put a nigger in a uniform and he becomes a devil,
+Birnier forced himself to reflect.</p>
+
+<p>The sun grew incandescent. The heat and the
+flies quickened his thirst. He plodded on, stumbling
+over the stones, sagging heavily in sandy patches. They
+had left the comparative shelter of the jungle and were
+crossing a flat plain approaching, he judged, to a river
+bed. The carriers, he noted, had lagged behind.
+Soon they must halt. Even the fiend of a corporal
+would not fatigue himself too much for the sake of
+tormenting a white man.</p>
+
+<p>Then a new idea was added to the plagues. He had
+tasted nothing save the coffee, canned beef, and native
+bread which had been given him for dinner on the
+previous evening. The corporal had manifested his
+conception of humour by refusing him beer and water
+on the march; was he going to torment him by
+starvation as well as by thirst? And if torture were
+reserved for him by that grinning black brute, then
+he knew what would be the end that awaited him.</p>
+
+<p>Within an hour they came to a river about forty
+yards broad, a swollen rushing torrent. There was
+no village as he had expected. The corporal halted.
+Birnier slid down the bank and thrust his muzzle into
+the flood. There was torture in the restraint not to
+drink too much. He clambered up the slope to find
+the corporal grinning at him. He turned his back
+and lay down. There was no shade; only short
+<pb n="95"/><anchor id="Pg95"/>
+scrub and grass. Small sand flies buzzed and stung.
+He heard the gurgle of the corporal&rsquo;s military water-bottle.
+But this time the sting was extracted; his
+belly was moist.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier stretched out, shielding from the glare the
+little that he could with his hands. Faint echoes of
+<q>&agrave; toi</q> strolled across his field of consciousness.
+He observed the apparently stoical indifference of
+Mungongo squatted a few feet from him, a soldier
+sprawling between them; but he cursed because
+investigations had taught him that that <q>stoical</q>
+should usually be read as <q>bovinity,</q> as he had termed
+it; and he smiled dismally at the ancient story that
+so well illustrated the point, of the peasant who expressed
+his occupation through the long winter hours
+as <q>sometimes we sits and thinks but mostly we just
+sits.</q></p>
+
+<p>Mungongo <q>just sits,</q> he repeated, and envied him.
+Yet in that heat and hunger, waiting for his savage
+captor to wreak some new fancy upon him, so saturated
+with philosophic interest in life was Birnier, that he
+wandered off into a meditation upon the mechanical
+fatuity of human conduct; illustrating his reflections
+by his own actions when stirred by emotion. <q>The
+loaded gun may be as wise as Solomon was reputed
+to be,</q> he remarked beneath his hands, <q>but all the
+same when some one pulls the trigger the damn thing
+goes off,</q> and sat up to confront the muzzle of the
+corporal&rsquo;s rifle, who was ordering him to get up.
+Birnier rose. But to the savage&rsquo;s amazement, he
+smiled.</p>
+
+<p>The corporal backed away.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ah, my friend,</q> remarked Birnier blandly in
+<pb n="96"/><anchor id="Pg96"/>
+English. <q>You&rsquo;ve lost, for I have found that which
+was lost!</q></p>
+
+<p>The corporal scowled and bade him to follow.
+Birnier obeyed but he felt that he was obliging the
+man. The carriers had arrived and the green tent
+was pitched, invitingly cool against the grey flood of
+the river. He followed the corporal gladly, but at
+ten feet from his tent, beside a thorn bush four feet
+tall which spread in a fan shape, he was bidden to sit.
+For the moment, newly arrived from his philosophic
+dreams, he did not comprehend.</p>
+
+<p><q>But that is my tent!</q> he said in Kiswahili.</p>
+
+<p><q>Sit down!</q> commanded the corporal, grinning.
+<q>The white seller of slaves sits in the place of the
+slave, but his owner dwells in the place of the blessed.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>O God!</q> remarked Birnier as he bumped his head
+against black reality.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD08" type="chapter">
+<pb n="97"/><anchor id="Pg97"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 8</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>Bakuma sat in the shade of the reed fence
+preparing the evening meal of boiled bananas.
+From her slender neck swung the precious amulet
+at which, as if to reassure herself of its safety, she
+clutched occasionally. Her half-sister, who had not
+yet passed through the initiation at maturity, sprawled
+upon her belly in the dwindling rays of the sun, scratching
+her woolly head. Beyond her were two slaves
+tending a fire beneath two large calabashes, preparatory
+to the brewing of banana beer, which had of course
+to be done by the chief widow, Bakuma&rsquo;s half-sister&rsquo;s
+mother.</p>
+
+<p>The mind of Bakuma was occupied by percepts of
+the charms of Zalu Zako; particularly as memorised
+on that afternoon by the river when the effect of the
+love charm had begun to work. These memories, as
+sweet as they would have been to any maid, were shot
+with gay colours by the words of the wizard; for he
+had assured her that with the toe-nail and hair to work
+magic upon, Zalu Zako would be bewitched by her
+charms for all time. And she had obtained them!
+She could have gotten the goat, not a skinny goat as
+described under the inhibiting influence of a wild
+hope that the wizard would relent. Her cousin,
+smarting under the reproaches of her husband, had
+such a goat, fat as goats in Wongolo go, and she was
+eager to exchange it or anything for an infallible
+<pb n="98"/><anchor id="Pg98"/>
+charm against sterility. Bakuma feared to part with
+the charm, yet the matter was pressing; immediately
+she was the wife of Zalu Zako she would be in a
+position to purchase all the charms in the village.</p>
+
+<p>But difficult to obtain as they were, for as everybody
+knows no man leaves portions of himself around
+that may fall into the hands of an enemy to work magic
+upon, least of all a rich man, <q>half divine,</q> she had
+obtained some nail parings and one hair. With that
+charm against sterility, the only thing of value Bakuma
+possessed, had she bribed a concubine of Zalu Zako&rsquo;s
+household to steal the ingredients required from the
+hut thatch where they had been hidden after the
+official shaving and paring following the ceremony of
+his father, pending their removal to the sacred precincts
+of the temple.</p>
+
+<p>Above her passion for Zalu Zako was her natural
+feminine appreciation of a good match. The Son of
+the Snake was far better from a woman&rsquo;s point of view
+than union with a successful wizard. In the event
+of the death of the King-God, Kawa Kendi, the
+wives of his son and successor, although denied to him,
+were accorded special privileges; and upon his demise
+these royal wives retained their home upon the hill
+which had become his tomb. Moreover, as Bakuma
+knew well, now that Zalu Zako was heir-apparent, he
+must choose the principal wife who would for her life
+remain paramount in the household, avoiding the dread
+of every ageing woman that her husband would take
+unto him another wife younger and more supple.</p>
+
+<p>The one mosquito in paradise was the fear that as
+soon as her uncle, her father&rsquo;s brother to whom she
+belonged by inheritance, learned the august personage
+<pb n="99"/><anchor id="Pg99"/>
+who desired her, he would raise the price to a prohibitive
+figure; for he was mean as well as stupid and
+lazy, wherefore he had few goods, and although Zalu
+Zako was a rich man she knew that any man save a
+fool loves to drive a good bargain if only to prove his
+astuteness. Therefore was another imperative necessity
+to procure every means of magic and charm to
+fan the flame of her lover&rsquo;s desires.</p>
+
+<p>Yet always flashed a bright-hued lizard in the sun
+of her joy when she imagined herself installed as the
+chief wife in the household of Zalu Zako, an unassailable
+position as long as she had one male child; the practical
+mistress of his first two wives as well as the retinue of
+slaves.</p>
+
+<p>Bazila, the younger wife, Bakuma knew well;
+the favourite and haughty, covered with the most
+expensive amulets against every ill and black magic,
+she was overfond of sneering at young girls of the
+hut thatch whose charms had not yet netted a victim.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q> gasped Bakuma and flashed her teeth as
+she rolled the warm leaves around the sticky mess,
+<q>then will the scent of my body be more bitter than
+the flower of the fish-faced cactus!</q></p>
+
+<p>And so through the night did Bakuma nibble at
+anticipatory joys as she lay upon her reed mat on the
+slightly raised dais of the floor which was her bed,
+watching the smoke of the fire in the middle of the
+hut lose itself in the shadows of the roof, and listening
+in the hope of hearing some voice of the spirits whom
+Marufa was to invoke on her behalf. Save for the
+occasional bleating of a goat and once the harsh
+scream of the Baroto bird, which made her heart
+contract, for it is a bad omen, the night was still.
+<pb n="100"/><anchor id="Pg100"/>
+However, at the hour of the monkey Bakuma arose
+to replenish the fire. As the western star was melting
+in the warm green she left the compound. On the
+outskirts of the village the tall figure of MYalu
+appeared from the shadows of the plantation.</p>
+
+<p><q>Greeting, daughter of Bakala,</q> said he, his eyes
+greedily devouring her.</p>
+
+<p><q>Greeting, O Chief!</q> returned Bakuma, as she
+politely stepped to one side to avoid standing on the
+vague shadow of the chief.</p>
+
+<p><q>The fawn seeks the pastures early,</q> remarked
+MYalu.</p>
+
+<p><q>Before the breath of the sun the grass is sweeter,</q>
+retorted Bakuma, edging away.</p>
+
+<p><q>Aye,</q> remarked MYalu, with a hungry glint in
+his eyes, <q>thou art eager to slake thy thirst? But
+in the valley will no buck walk this day!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q> gasped Bakuma, recollecting instantly
+the omen of the Baroto bird heard that night. <q>What
+meanest thou?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Maybe the soul of him hath wandered and been
+caught in a trap or maybe&qdash;</q> He paused to watch
+her closely&mdash;<q>maybe an enemy hath made magic
+upon the parts of him.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q> Bakuma started nervously.</p>
+
+<p>MYalu smiled and touched her upon the shoulder.</p>
+
+<p><q>Thy flesh is cooler than the dew.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Nay, nay, O Chief, thou hast not tied my girdle,</q>
+she protested, as she backed away from him, her eyes
+wide like a terrified deer&rsquo;s.</p>
+
+<p><q>Nay, but will I untie it soon,</q> he retorted.</p>
+
+<p>But as he stepped towards her she turned and fled.
+As MYalu watched her running as swiftly as a pookoo
+<pb n="101"/><anchor id="Pg101"/>
+into the plantation he grinned and called out: <q>Even
+now is the cooling draught steaming in the breath of
+the Unmentionable One! But the goblet shall hold
+a sweeter draught for me!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Aie! Aie-e!</q> wailed Bakuma, her heart beating
+furiously, <q>what devil hath bewitched me! O, that
+father of many goats hath betrayed me! Aie!
+Aie-e! O, the cry of the Baroto bird! Aie! Aie-e!</q></p>
+
+<p>And when Bakuma, distraught with terror by the
+menace that she had only procured the nail paring
+and hair to give her lover into the hands of the false
+magician who, of course, had been bought by MYalu,
+arrived at the <q>pastures</q> by the river, as MYalu had
+foretold, no buck walked there.</p>
+
+<p>The sun spilled blue shadows on the village from the
+sacred hill where another scene was being enacted,
+and it was not as imagined by the amorous MYalu.</p>
+
+<p>In the council house, which was within the outer
+fence and before the sacred enclosure, was in progress
+a meeting of the doctors. In the door of the enclosure
+squatted Kawa Kendi, with Kingata Mata in attendance
+tending the royal fires. Before him, in front
+of their fellows, were seated Bakahenzie and Marufa
+in full dress of green feathers and the scarlet plume.
+The left side of the idol, which was so set that the
+shadow never fell upon the entrance to the compound,
+was gilded by the sun; the mouth grinned in one
+corner, one eye was closed in shadow, seemingly like
+a prodigious wink.</p>
+
+<p>To the thrumming of the sacred band Bakahenzie
+was rocking himself to and fro mumbling incantations.
+Kawa Kendi squatted immobile, but the others swayed
+and grunted softly in rhythm. Then on a sudden did
+<pb n="102"/><anchor id="Pg102"/>
+Bakahenzie lift up his head and cry in a great voice.
+The drums ceased and the body of witch-doctors
+remained motionless, expectant. Bakahenzie dropped
+his head and began to chant:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Behold! I have heard the voice of the trees</l>
+  <l>Crying softly by night!</l>
+  <l>Lo! the soul of the plant is in labour!</l>
+  <l>As a woman with child!</l>
+  <l>Behold! is she not to break forth?</l>
+  <l>For she crieth for aid.</l>
+  <l>Unless she be heard the infant will slip!</l>
+  <l>The fruit will not be!</l>
+  <l>The plants will not break!</l>
+  <l>The milk will be sour!</l>
+  <l>The beer will be green!</l>
+  <l>Women will not bear!</l>
+  <l>Our spears will be blunt!</l>
+  <l>Our magic will wane!</l>
+  <l>And He will be wroth!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p><q>Eh! Ah! &hellip; Eh! Ah! &hellip; Eh! Ah! &hellip;
+Eh! Ah! &hellip; Eh! Ah! &hellip;</q>
+<lb/>grunted the chorus of the doctors. Then chanted Marufa:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Lo! I have slept and been that which I must!</l>
+  <l>Preying swiftly by night!</l>
+  <l>Behold! I have bloodied my fangs in the throat</l>
+  <l>Of a mighty bull eland!</l>
+  <l>Blood succoured the earth and upsprang a plant!</l>
+  <l>Which panted for blood!</l>
+  <l>The sap of the plant is the soul of the tree!</l>
+  <pb n="103"/><anchor id="Pg103"/>
+  <l>Take heed to the thirst</l>
+  <l>Of Him who first was!</l>
+  <l>Who lusts for a maid!</l>
+  <l>Full breasted, soft thighed!</l>
+  <l>Supple, bow arched!</l>
+  <l>Clean blooded and strong!</l>
+  <l>Whose name is forbid!</l>
+  <l>Whose name is a sin!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p><q>Who hath stolen the name?</q> screamed Bakahenzie,
+leaping to his feet. <q>Who is she that hath
+stolen the name?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Eh! Ahh! &hellip; Eh! Ahh! &hellip; Eh! Ahh! &hellip; Eh!
+Ahh! &hellip; Eh! Ahh! &hellip;</q></p>
+
+<p>As the drums throbbed swifter Bakahenzie began to
+shuffle in a stooping posture as if he were snuffing a
+trail. To the continuous grunting he continued this
+dance for fully a quarter of an hour. Then stopping
+abruptly in front of the king he screamed:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Let her be bidden</l>
+  <l>To come to the feast!</l>
+  <l>Let her be oiled!</l>
+  <l>Let her be shaved!</l>
+  <l>Let her come dancing!</l>
+  <l>Let her be joyful!</l>
+  <l>Let her be decked!</l>
+  <l>Let her be glad!</l>
+  <l>Lips of the groom</l>
+  <l>Thirst for her mouth!</l>
+  <l>Let her be drunken</l>
+  <l>To bear his sweet weight!</l>
+  <pb n="104"/><anchor id="Pg104"/>
+  <l>That the crops will be full!</l>
+  <l>That the cattle grow fat</l>
+  <l>Wives will throw men!</l>
+  <l>Spears will slice foes!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>He sank suddenly upon his haunches. The drums
+ceased. A slave appeared bearing a pure white kid.
+Kingata Mata took the animal and held it before
+Kawa Kendi, who muttered a long incantation over
+it and cut the throat with a spear head. Then to
+Marufa was the bleeding carcass carried and while
+still alive he slit open the belly, smeared the liquid
+over his chest and right arm, and tore out the guts.
+The corpse was removed. Marufa, working only
+with the enchanted arm, turned the entrails over and
+about, peering closely.</p>
+
+<p>There was silence. The shadows grew in depth.
+From the village came an occasional bleat and the
+voice of a distant girl chanting.</p>
+
+<p>After a prolonged and studious search, Marufa
+caught up and wrapt round his neck an intestine. As
+he rose, the group of witch-doctors broke out into a
+mighty groaning. Marufa speeded across the small
+clearing and kneeled before Kawa Kendi. Through
+the bloody necklet he whispered two syllables: <q>kuma.</q></p>
+
+<p>The groaning ceased as suddenly as it had commenced.
+Kawa Kendi cried out in a loud voice:</p>
+
+<p><q>The bride is found!</q></p>
+
+<p>Instantly the drums began a furious beat. A mighty
+shout rose from all assembled and they fell to the chest
+and belly grunting: <q>Eh! Ahh! &hellip; Eh! Ahh! &hellip;</q> as
+Bakahenzie and Marufa began to dance the
+dance of thanksgiving.</p>
+<pb n="105"/><anchor id="Pg105"/>
+
+<p>Ba<hi rend="font-style: italic">kuma</hi> had been doomed to be the
+victim for the Feast of the Harvest Festival, to be sacrificed in the
+orgy as the Bride of the Spirit of the Banana, because
+Marufa had discovered by divination that two syllables
+of her name were those of the secret name which only
+the King-God knew, of the Unmentionable One, the
+Usa<hi rend="font-style: italic">kuma</hi>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD09" type="chapter">
+<pb n="106"/><anchor id="Pg106"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 9</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>Before the green tent strutted a sentry as
+pompously as if he were on duty before the
+Kommandant&rsquo;s bungalow. Inside, sprawling in a
+camp chair, was the corporal, in blue striped pyjamas,
+smoking a cigarette. Upon the floor crouched one
+of his women with a safety razor stuck in her woolly
+thatch, opening a can of beef. On the camp table
+were a bottle of brandy which had had its neck knocked
+off, a shaving mirror and an open tin of cigarettes.
+Squatting on the bed was another woman in field
+boots, cleaning up a can of salmon with one finger.
+The rest of the tent was a litter of broken cases, bottles,
+cans and papers.</p>
+
+<p>Ten yards away under the thorn shrub, lay Birnier,
+and near to him were Mungongo and the others.
+Mungongo&rsquo;s regard shuttled between this scene in
+the tent and the white man with a mingled expression
+of terror and amazement: terror at the temerity
+of the corporal in treating a white in such a manner
+and incredulous bewilderment that the white did not
+immediately strike them all dead. But the others,
+more sophisticated to the white man&rsquo;s ways, were
+solely occupied in envying the corporal&rsquo;s debauch.</p>
+
+<p>The mauve shadows turned to blue as they lengthened.
+The clouds of small flies thinned and their
+ranks began to be refilled by the mosquitoes. Birnier
+lay with his back to the tent with a fly switch of grass,
+<pb n="107"/><anchor id="Pg107"/>
+but he watched the doings of the corporal covertly.
+The corporal and his women had been drinking a good
+deal of the brandy and now he was supplying generous
+quantities to his men. Once he had come out to
+jeer. Birnier had taken no notice, nor even of the
+kick implanted by one of his own field boots on the
+foot of the woman. Already there was a bloodshot
+glint in the corporal&rsquo;s yellow eyes and a pronounced
+uncertainty in his movements. Whether the man
+had had any particular instructions regarding the
+manner of his death Birnier did not know until he
+became loquacious and took to shouting insults at
+his white prisoner. The great white chief had given
+the white man to him as a slave, he yelled, and now
+he was going to take him home with him. This idea
+seemed to tickle him vastly and also his women, who
+giggled and applauded as the corporal began to describe
+what obscene acts they would make their white dog
+perform every day, what they would give him to eat,
+how he should be made to dance.</p>
+
+<p>They grew noisier and the women began to sing
+lewd songs. The soldiers too revealed signs of their
+frequent potations. Soon the whole crowd would
+go mad, Birnier knew, and sooner or later collapse,
+which would give him a chance to escape, unless they
+chained him, or, what was far more probable, they
+decided to bait him to death during an orgy. What
+they would probably do to him was unthinkable.
+Somehow he must find a way out by self-destruction.
+Even should he escape, he would be unarmed and
+without food, and there was every possibility that
+they would trail and overtake him in the morning. He
+was lame and footsore; also he was weak from want
+<pb n="108"/><anchor id="Pg108"/>
+of food. Once, when despoiling his chop boxes, the
+corporal had contemptuously thrown him a half
+eaten tin of sardines and a cigarette. He let the
+cigarette lie. Nourishment he must have; and so
+after an inward struggle he had eaten it, having to
+claw out the fish like a monkey, while the big black
+and his women sprawled and laughed.</p>
+
+<p>The soldiers, except the one on sentry who still
+paced a trifle erratically, were grouped on their
+haunches around the fire in front of the tent on the
+threshold of which the corporal presided with as much
+pomposity as if he were the great Mogul, all drinking
+and smoking and eating. Now and again the women
+would screech insults over their heads at the white;
+and once the corporal threw an empty bottle at him,
+evoking a gale of applause. The women began the
+belly dance, crooning while the men accompanied
+with the rhythmic grunt, which ever leads to hysterical
+exaltation.</p>
+
+<p>The sun was dipping. They might come for him
+at any moment. He watched the sentry and contemplated
+making a rush, taking a venture on the man&rsquo;s
+bad aim and unsteady hand. They would not follow
+him far in the dark for dread of the spirits that walk
+by night. The only alternative to suicide was the
+river, in flood and full of crocodiles, a slender chance.
+He determined to try it. He considered making the
+attempt then. But the darker the better; they
+would more easily miss. At any risk he must never
+let them get their hands upon him. He drew himself
+together, flexing his limbs for a leap and a rush,
+anxiously observing the chanting crowd around the
+fire in the sunset glow.</p>
+<pb n="109"/><anchor id="Pg109"/>
+
+<p>The leashes of discipline were fraying. The sentry
+still plodded up and down, but with a rolling eye for
+his companions. The working of his mind was
+revealed when he walked round tying knots in the long
+grass which, as every Munyamwezi knows, is a sure
+method to prevent a prisoner&rsquo;s escape; then he halted
+in front of Birnier, grinned, and pointed to the fire;
+evidently he knew or had heard that an orgy was
+coming. The man stood and watched him. Fearful
+that the fellow was about to drag him over or suggest
+that the victim be seized, if only in order to release
+him from his irksome duty, Birnier snatched up the
+cigarette lying in the grass and asked for a light to
+distract the man&rsquo;s attention. The sentry shook his
+head and pointed to the fire. Hastily Birnier
+searched his pockets for a match; recollected that he
+had used the last, and took out a small tin box of wax
+vestas wrapped in oiled silk which he kept as a reserve
+in a special pouch of his belt. In the very act of
+striking the match Birnier ejaculated: <q>God!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Nini?</q> demanded the sentry.</p>
+
+<p><q>I burned myself,</q> returned Birnier.</p>
+
+<p><q>Nothing to what you will soon!</q> retorted the
+nigger, grinning, made an obscene suggestion and
+swaggered across to the fire.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier cursed his own stupidity as he thought
+swiftly. If Mungongo and the others ran at the same
+time the numbers would confuse the soldiers the
+more. He spoke across to Mungongo in the Wongolo
+dialect, hoping that the Munyamwezi would not
+understand.</p>
+
+<p><q>Let thy heart be like unto the bullet of my big
+gun, and obey me! When I throw up in the air this
+<pb n="110"/><anchor id="Pg110"/>
+cigarette, thou shalt run and plunge into the river,
+but not into the depth; lie hidden in the reeds of the
+bank until thou shalt hear a frog croak thrice and then
+once. Come out and go to the frog, and be not afraid,
+for thou shalt see me in the spirit form. Dost understand?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Truly, my master!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Tell the washenzie that they also obey or shall
+my spirit eat them up as it shall these children of
+dung!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Truly, master!</q></p>
+
+<p>Birnier glanced at the horizon. The shadows had
+melted into the violet twilight, which in equatorial
+Africa is almost as short as the snuffing of a candle.
+The stars were popping out. Dusky forms were
+circling round the yellow of the fire which threw
+pale flickers on the figure of Corporal Inyira, revealing
+the beginning of the hysterical gleam in the yellows
+of his eyes as, reverting to habit, he squatted on his
+haunches in the chair. They might make a rush for
+the victims at any moment. The sentry, excitement
+overcoming discipline, was, rifle still in hand, dancing
+round the outskirts of the throng.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier threw the cigarette towards Mungongo.
+As he dived round the thorn bush he heard the rustle
+of movement and the <q>boy&rsquo;s</q> gasped exclamation to
+the others. The bank of the river was not fifteen
+yards away. On the brink Birnier crouched and
+listened. He heard a splash a little to the right, which
+was Mungongo or one of the others literally obeying
+his instructions.</p>
+
+<p>The mosquitoes buzzed and stung in clouds. A
+cricket shrilled persistently above the chorus of the
+<pb n="111"/><anchor id="Pg111"/>
+frogs and the throb of the hand-drum and the chanting.
+The sentry had not yet discovered the flight; he was
+probably drunker than Birnier had guessed. By
+raising himself on his hands he could see the gleam
+of the fire and the inverted V of the tent through the
+scrub. He hesitated whether to begin operations
+immediately or wait until after they had discovered
+the flight and were further intoxicated. Yet the
+excitement of the loss of the prisoner might sober
+them a little, Birnier reflected. No, it did not matter
+even if they were completely sober. The spirits of
+the night would be perhaps more real to them then
+than when they were drugged by alcohol. Yet he
+would wait. They might come as far as the river
+with lanterns and should he be compelled to take to
+the water he would have to take the risk of crocodiles
+seizing him. Almost had he begun to curse the
+askaris for being so slow, when a rifle cracked and a
+bullet hummed over his head.</p>
+
+<p>He scrambled hastily down the bank, thinking for
+a moment that he had been spotted. But it must
+have been a random shot. The chanting ceased. A
+hoarse shout from the sentry was echoed by uproar
+from the others.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier crawled up the bank cautiously and peered.
+He could not see well, for one eye was nearly closed
+by mosquito bites, but he could make out vague
+forms passing and repassing across the glow of the
+fire. Lights glimmered. Amid shouts and yells,
+figures began to advance towards the river. Whether
+the water was deep or shallow he could not know;
+only could he make out in the sheen of the stars a
+dark patch of reed or bushes for some yards. He slid
+<pb n="112"/><anchor id="Pg112"/>
+down the slope as noiselessly as possible, although the
+pursuers were making noise enough to scare all the
+spirits in Africa. He sank to his chest, standing on
+stones. He waded out a little, buried his head and
+shoulders behind a half-submerged bush, and remained
+still.</p>
+
+<p>For some time he could only hear the shouts and
+yells. He kept the water up to his chin and continuously
+splashed his face in the endeavour to slacken the
+efforts of the mosquitoes. The cries approached.
+He saw men outlined against the stars and then some
+gleams of lanterns. Something stirred ponderously
+near to him. It might be a crocodile, but he dared
+not move. The figures seemed to stay on the top of
+the bank for hours. He remained rigid, expecting a
+swirl of water and teeth.</p>
+
+<p>Suddenly a spurt of flame shot out above him and
+was followed by a fusillade of shots in the direction
+of up river. Had they spotted Mungongo or were
+they merely letting drive at a bush or the spirits in
+general? The latter was most probable. The water
+swirled near to him. All his will power was required not
+to leap frantically for the bank. Yet a crocodile would
+be far more merciful than those black devils. Again
+a swirl and something passed close to him at high speed.
+Probably an otter scared by the firing; at any rate it
+was not a crocodile. The lights and figures on the
+bank disappeared.</p>
+
+<p>Shots rang out again, and were followed by a wild
+outburst of yelling. Birnier began to wade for the
+bank, continually splashing water at the mosquitoes
+which were so thick that they reminded him of the
+bayou Lafourche in far-off Louisiana. Crouching,
+<pb n="113"/><anchor id="Pg113"/>
+he waited on the edge of the bank to listen. The
+corporal might have had enough sense to post men in
+the grass. Yet he might be too fuddled to think of
+that, and no native would willingly stay there in the
+dark, unless under white discipline. Voices still
+muttered, but they sounded as if from the camp.
+Had they given him up for the night, relying on the
+chance that if he had not been taken by a crocodile
+they could trail him in the morning? Probably.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier squatted in the water, ready to plunge back,
+until he was sure they were in camp. Then as cautiously
+he crawled up the bank. Through the scrub
+with his uninjured eye he could make out the figures
+around the yellow of the fire which had gone down
+considerably. Now what would they do? He could
+hear the mumble of the corporal&rsquo;s voice. Would they
+be sufficiently sobered to be ready for the chase in
+the morning? Birnier did not think so with that
+case of brandy there; the corporal would not, at all
+events. There was a scream of pain and the chatter
+of women&rsquo;s voices.</p>
+
+<p>Was the corporal punishing the sentry for having
+let the prisoners escape, or were they beginning to
+fight among themselves? The latter was improbable,
+as non-commissioned officers are usually chosen from
+petty chiefs and the men under them, as far as possible,
+from their own village. Had they captured Mungongo
+or one of the others? Birnier listened again. Another
+scream was stoppered to a groan.</p>
+
+<p><q>Devils!</q> muttered Birnier. Lying flat to watch
+the grass and shrub tops against the stars, he gave the
+frog croaks arranged, at intervals of ten seconds.
+About five minutes later he saw some grass tops quiver
+<pb n="114"/><anchor id="Pg114"/>
+unnaturally. He croaked again. Came a whisper:</p>
+
+<p><q>Is it thee, Infunyana?</q> (a name given in reference
+to Birnier&rsquo;s gold fillings).</p>
+
+<p><q>Aye.</q> A dark form glided towards him. <q>Where
+are the other men?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I know not. I told them as thou hadst told me to
+do. When thou didst give the sign, I fled and plunged
+into the river.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Thou wast not frightened of the crocodiles?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Nay; for I have a mighty charm against all river
+beasts, enchanted by Bakahenzie, the greatest of
+magicians.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q> commented Birnier, contorting his swollen
+lips in the dark, <q>would that I had such an
+one! Thinkest thou that the men did as they were
+bidden?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Who knows what is in the heart of a goat?</q>
+returned Mungongo contemptuously, for they were of
+another tribe.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ah, listen!</q></p>
+
+<p>The mutter of the hand-drum grew swifter as
+a high tenor chanted to the accompaniment of the
+abdominal grunting and the laryngeal shrilling:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 1" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;We have come from afar from the Place of the waters!</l>
+  <l>From the place where dwells the mighty Eater-of-Men!</l>
+  <l>Hard was the road as the hills of Kilimanjaro!</l>
+  <l>Hot was the sun as the wrath of Inyira the bold!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">The son of Banyala!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Ough! &hellip; Ough!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!</l>
+<pb n="115"/><anchor id="Pg115"/>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 1" type="chant">
+  <l>But strong are we still as the trunk of an elephant!</l>
+  <l>For have we not walked in the shade of a great chief!</l>
+  <l>Blacker and fiercer than the male rhinoceros!</l>
+  <l>Swifter and more terrible than the mother of whelps?</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">The son of Banyala!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Ough! &hellip; Ough!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 1" type="chant">
+  <l>What hath he given us to tickle our spears?</l>
+  <l>A dainty white dog whose meat is so tender!</l>
+  <l>Fattened and groomed by the Eater-of-Men!</l>
+  <l>A gift from the great Chief to his ally and friend.</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">The son of Banyala!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Ough! &hellip; Ough!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 1" type="chant">
+  <l>We will tickle his white flesh with the tongue of our spears!</l>
+  <l>Our women shall pluck out his hair and his manhood!</l>
+  <l>He shall dance to our liking in the midst of the fire!</l>
+  <l>His girl screams for mercy shall lave hungry ears of <corr
+     sic=""><anchor id="E11"/><ref target="e11">&qdash;!</ref></corr></l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">The son of Banyala!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Ough! &hellip; Ough!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15"> <corr sic="E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h"><anchor
+     id="E12"/><ref target="e12">E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h</ref></corr>!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 1" type="chant">
+  <l>Great was the gift of the great Eater-of-Men!</l>
+  <l>A white slave so sleek to dance the dance of the ants!</l>
+  <l>Eh! We&rsquo;ll slit up his nostrils and pull out his hairs!</l>
+  <l>A white slave and four black ones to wait on one great chief!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">The son of Banyala!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Ough! &hellip; Ough!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!</l>
+</lg>
+<pb n="116"/><anchor id="Pg116"/>
+
+<p><q>Those children of folly have not obeyed,</q>
+whispered Birnier. <q>The time is come.&hellip; Wait
+here for me, O Mungongo. I go to take my spirit
+form. When I return be not afraid!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Truly,</q> answered Mungongo, as Birnier crawled
+away and down the bank. By the water&rsquo;s edge he
+swiftly stripped himself to his moccasins and taking out
+the wax vestas, damped each precious one and carefully
+rubbed lines over his face and body, endeavouring to
+get the most distinctive phosphorescent effect around
+the eyes. Leaving his clothes he crawled back to
+Mungongo.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q> exclaimed Mungongo in a muffled scream
+when he saw the glowing apparition. Birnier heard
+the rustle of grass. As the boy stood up to run he
+leaped and pulled him down savagely.</p>
+
+<p><q>Be quiet, thou fool!</q> he whispered. <q>It is I.
+Be silent!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Eh! Eh!</q> gasped Mungongo, who was trembling
+violently.</p>
+
+<p><q>If thou dost not be quiet will I tie up thy heart,</q>
+threatened Birnier.</p>
+
+<p>Mungongo continued to quiver, but he remained
+passive.</p>
+
+<p><q>Eh! Eh!</q> he gasped, <q>truly thou art a more
+mighty magician than Bakahenzie.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Be quiet!</q></p>
+
+<p>The drums and the song were still going and the
+chant had become more obscene.</p>
+
+<p><q>Follow me!</q> whispered Birnier, when Mungongo
+was more reassured.</p>
+
+<p>They made a detour. As they drew near they could
+hear muffled screams and groans beneath the howl of
+<pb n="117"/><anchor id="Pg117"/>
+the chorus and song. The mighty son of Banyala and
+his merry men were so engrossed in the orgy that
+Birnier could have walked right up to the fire before
+anyone would have seen him. But he would not take
+any unnecessary risk. Leaving Mungongo outside he
+crawled under the back flap of the tent. Crouched
+there he paused. The tent was empty; for all were
+engaged in the dance. His two shot-guns and two
+light rifles were stacked in the corner and the big
+express which the corporal had appropriated, leaned
+against the tent door behind the chair. He glanced
+hurriedly around for ammunition, but he could not see
+any open, and he had left his belt of cartridges with his
+clothes. Outside the men and women were circling
+in contrary directions, each with a spear, a knife or a
+firebrand in hand, around the fire beside which, trussed
+like bundles of faggots, were the four servants, their
+feet singeing on the outside hot ashes.</p>
+
+<p>For a second Birnier hesitated. He could not know
+whether any of the guns was loaded. The fire was of
+glowing embers which did not throw much light into
+the tent. Swiftly Birnier rose and glided into his own
+chair in the deep shadow of the tent flap. Then
+summoning all his nerve he uttered a yell and began to
+shout the first song which he could recollect:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="song">
+  <l>&ldquo;Hurrah! Hurrahhhhhhh! It is the Jubileeeee!</l>
+  <l>Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that set you free!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>The native minstrel stopped in the middle of his
+chant; the whole shuffling, grunting crowd was
+petrified in as many different poses. Birnier leaped
+to his feet waving his arms wildly, yelling:</p>
+<pb n="118"/><anchor id="Pg118"/>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="song">
+  <l>&ldquo;Thus we sang the chor-uss from Atlanta to the Sea-aa!</l>
+  <l>As we &hellip;<corr sic=""><anchor id="E13"/><ref
+    target="e13">&rdquo;</ref></corr></l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>But before he had gotten to <q>Georgia,</q> only the
+prostrate forms around the fire had not fled.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD10" type="chapter">
+<pb n="119"/><anchor id="Pg119"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 10</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>On the morning of Birnier&rsquo;s departure there was
+much movement in Ingonya station. Every sign
+of preparation for the expedition had been carefully
+concealed while a stranger was in the vicinity. Trumpets
+blared importantly. On the great parade ground
+companies were formed, long lines of rigid, ebon
+figures, down which strolled zu Pfeiffer inspecting
+personally kits and rifles. Afterwards they were
+drawn up before the flag-pole. In an address zu
+Pfeiffer informed them that they served under a
+greater Bwana than he, the greatest Bwana in the
+countries of the white or the black, who was the son of
+Ngai (an uncertain term meaning <q>son of God</q> or
+the <q>son of nobody</q>); that the flag they bore, the
+brother of the big one upon the pole, was so powerful
+in magic that none could withstand it, the Totem of
+the Bwana Mkubwa Kuba. No wives were allowed for
+black or white, and he himself set them the example;
+for they were embarking on a war expedition to take a
+country which they knew was full of ivory, cattle and
+women.</p>
+
+<p>The row upon row of eyes in black faces bulged, as
+from the mass came the long grunt of assent and
+allegiance. The three white sergeants barked at their
+various companies, which wheeled into column formation
+and marched past zu Pfeiffer beneath the flag in
+review order, their alignment and precision a credit to
+<pb n="120"/><anchor id="Pg120"/>
+their drill masters. Down below the fort on the
+mouth of the bayou Sergeant Ludwig superintended
+the overhauling of the steam-launch, and a native
+sergeant and a file of men overseered lines of carriers
+bearing white men&rsquo;s provisions, the bulk of which was
+zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s personal supplies. Around the launch
+was a flotilla of native canoes in charge of a small
+crowd of nude Kavirondo paddlers, jabbering at the
+prospect of a war expedition.</p>
+
+<p>Most of the day zu Pfeiffer spent in the orderly room
+going over documents and giving detailed instructions
+to the grizzled Sergeant Schneider, who was to take
+over the station with fifty of the least competent men,
+pending the arrival of an officer, which again would
+depend upon the success of the expedition. In zu
+Pfeiffer&rsquo;s manner was evident the controlled excitement
+of a boy on the eve of a house match, and indeed for
+him it was the game for which he was bred and lived,
+<q>das Kriegspiel.</q> Perpetually his long fingers caressed
+the sentry moustaches; an unusual glitter was in his
+blue eyes.</p>
+
+<p>The personality of
+<corr sic="Bernier"><anchor id="E14"/><ref
+target="e14">Birnier</ref></corr>
+had been apparently
+wiped from his mind as a spoor in the sand by rain;
+indeed in addition to the competing excitement of the
+expedition, the previous night&rsquo;s alcoholic and sentimental
+debauch had served to exhaust the emotions
+stimulated by jealousy. To him had appeared an
+obstruction in his emotional life in the shape of the
+husband of the woman whom he adored; therefore,
+according to his nature and training, he had endeavoured
+to remove that obstacle as swiftly and as
+efficiently as possible. Superlative confidence in himself,
+reflected in his pride of family and nationality,
+<pb n="121"/><anchor id="Pg121"/>
+the apotheosis of which was the Kaiser, enabled him to
+devote all his energies to the business in hand, never
+doubting that his interpretation of native psychology
+would ensure the extinction of his adversary.</p>
+
+<p>Beyond the mere joy of the game of war was present
+the fundamental impulse to win the approval of the All
+Highest by gaining another place in the sun as well as
+the half-suppressed conviction that such a distinction
+would naturally further his suit in love. In the orbit
+of these two poles revolved the life actions of zu
+Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p>That evening zu Pfeiffer dined as leisurely and as
+sumptuously as usual; drank his port and smoked his
+cigar while his servants packed the last of his kitchen
+battery. Then at the first green of the moon he gave
+the order to march.</p>
+
+<p>The three companies of askaris fell in, marched down
+to the bayou and embarked without fuss or confusion,
+each group under a non-commissioned officer to the
+appointed canoe.</p>
+
+<p>The launch laboured busily out of the bayou past
+misty reed-girt islands into the indolent waters of the
+great lake, dragging after her the fleet of forty odd
+canoes. A cigar under the awning of the tiny poop
+suggested a great firefly in the blue shadows, where
+lounged zu Pfeiffer with his favourite brandy and
+seltzer at his elbow.</p>
+
+<p>Resembling an enormous water-fowl leading a strange
+black brood, the launch towed the flotilla through the
+night. A war chant pulsed like a fevered heart as the
+moon upon her back lazily chased the stars into the dawn
+upon her way to her home in the Mountains of the
+Moon, to be in turn extinguished by a furious sun.
+<pb n="122"/><anchor id="Pg122"/>
+And all that day, while incandescent heat tried to boil
+illimitable waters, the strange fowl waddled on with her
+noxious brood. Huddled in the cramped canoes the
+soldiers slept and snuffed and sang, to which zu
+Pfeiffer contentedly listened beneath the awning.
+Three times grey walls of falling water enveloped
+them, sending frantic black hands to bailing. Once
+more the moon made the skies to laugh. When the sun
+had played his part of a flaming Nemesis, a fringe grew
+upon the horizon like the stubble upon a white man&rsquo;s
+chin.</p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer had calculated to arrive at the village of
+Timballa just within the river at sundown. The
+headman came down to the strand to meet them.
+Immediately he was seized, and the soldiers, as joyous
+and as mischievous as children released from school,
+surrounded the village.</p>
+
+<p>Sitting in full uniform upon the poop of the launch,
+together with the two sergeants, zu Pfeiffer held a
+shauri and demanded sufficient paddlers to man his
+forty canoes. The headman, to whom all white men
+were alike, thought they were British and hastened to
+proffer his services, promising that the Bwana should
+have the men within two days. Zu Pfeiffer curtly
+ordered him to procure them before the sun was
+overhead on the next day; and to insure that he was
+obeyed, detained him as hostage and forbade any man
+to pass his line of pickets around the village. The old
+man protested that they had not sufficient men in the
+village, but zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s spies had afforded him
+practically correct information. He gave the headman
+the right to send a number of messengers, each
+accompanied by a soldier, to the neighbouring villages
+<pb n="123"/><anchor id="Pg123"/>
+and promised him fifty lashes and to rase his village, if
+the paddlers were not forthcoming.</p>
+
+<p>Solely because he wished to give his men time to
+recover from their stiffness did he not insist upon
+starting that night upon the river trip. As a good
+commander he considered his men from every point
+of view of efficiency. They loved him. He was a
+warrior chief as they understood such to be; carefully
+he fostered their warrior pride; never were they
+ordered to work at menial offices, to fetch or to carry;
+only to drill and to fight; his punishments were
+ferocious, but he gave them liberty in pillage and rape.
+Eh! but the Eater-of-Men was a mighty chief! and
+of his name they boasted to every man.</p>
+
+<p>With foresight he had demanded twice as many men
+as he needed, knowing that the panic-stricken chief
+would round up the halt, the blind, and the sick. By
+an hour after the stipulated time they were assembled
+in the village, a motley crew. Those of the most
+powerful physique he selected to man the soldiers&rsquo;
+canoes, and the next in competency he allotted to the
+baggage canoes.</p>
+
+<p>They started immediately. They made about two
+and a half miles an hour, for although the river was
+swollen it was sluggish and slow streamed, tortuous.
+Each canoe load of soldiers was made responsible for
+the paddlers and the speed was set by zu Pfeiffer in a
+large canoe with Sakamata as guide. Never had those
+paddlers driven canoes so speedily and persistently.
+At sundown they halted in a convenient bend where
+there was no village near; pickets were set on the bank
+and no other man allowed to land, no lights and no
+talking. They were ordered to rest.</p>
+<pb n="124"/><anchor id="Pg124"/>
+
+<p>At the first glint of the moon they started again.
+The canoes were hauled by the aid of the soldiers over
+the slight rapids which divided the river into pools in
+the dry season. Throughout the night the misty
+forest and swamp slipped by to the perpetual rhythm
+of the paddles. About the hour of the monkey a
+hippopotamus charged the flotilla and upset two boats.
+Zu Pfeiffer forbade any shooting, nor would he permit
+the expedition a moment&rsquo;s delay to pick up the
+occupants. Just as they heard the distant crowing of
+cocks from the village for which they were bound, four
+paddlers collapsed. The soldiers, acting on their own
+initiative, threw them overboard to swim if they could,
+and took the paddles themselves. Afterwards they
+were thrashed for disobedience to orders in having
+given a possible chance for one of the men to escape
+to warn the Wongolo. At an hour after sunrise they
+arrived at the village. The majority of the paddlers
+were so exhausted that they dropped in the canoes and
+had to be thrown ashore, where they lay inert, their
+backs, bloody with the urgent bayonet pricks, caking in
+the sun.</p>
+
+<p>Beyond this point the river was not navigable, but the
+village was upon the Wongolo border and within two
+days or fifteen hours&rsquo; continuous march of MFunya
+MPopo&rsquo;s (as zu Pfeiffer knew it). Zu Pfeiffer adopted
+the same tactics to procure porters. But to the chief,
+in case he should require his services again, he gave an
+extravagant present and left bales of cloth for the
+carriers upon their return. Zu Pfeiffer and Sergeant
+Ludwig travelled in machilas (hammocks) each with a
+crew of six; the soldiers carried nothing save their
+rifles, double cartridge belts, a day&rsquo;s rations; the pick
+<pb n="125"/><anchor id="Pg125"/>
+of the carriers bore ammunition and the two
+<corr sic="Nordenfelts"><anchor id="E15"/><ref
+target="e15">Nordenfeldts</ref></corr>
+and two pom-poms slung upon poles, and the chop
+boxes; the men&rsquo;s blankets and the heavy stuff were to
+follow more slowly under Sergeant Schultz and fifty
+men. The country between this village and MFunya
+MPopo&rsquo;s was mostly forest and very sparsely inhabited,
+which afforded some shade and concealment, and
+lessened the risk of a warning being given.</p>
+
+<p>The expedition started at noon. The carriers were
+kept on the native shuffling lope by the aid of attentions
+from the askaris. Two unfortunate small villages
+which lay on the line of march were surrounded and
+the inhabitants massacred. Twenty porters collapsed;
+they were bayoneted to prevent any chance of a
+successful ruse in escaping to give the alarm, and their
+loads given to relay men brought for that purpose. The
+column halted at sundown. The men ate their rations,
+but the carriers were too exhausted to eat; they
+drank water and lay prostrate. According to Sakamata
+they were within two hands&rsquo; breadth of the moon of
+Kawa Kendi&rsquo;s.</p>
+
+<p>In full uniform of white, girded with sword and
+revolver, zu Pfeiffer ate, drank, and smoked cigars until
+the forest roof was patterned against the cold pallor
+of the moon. Then, after giving final instructions to
+Sergeant Ludwig and the various native non-commissioned
+officers, he ordered the jabbering men to
+march, with the carriers staggering on at the point of
+the bayonet.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD11" type="chapter">
+<pb n="126"/><anchor id="Pg126"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 11</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>The doom pronounced by the Council of Witch-Doctors
+was to Bakuma and all concerned as a
+Bull of Excommunication in medi&aelig;val Europe. MYalu
+was the one who exhibited the most emotion. Had he
+not paid seven tusks of good ivory to have the object
+of his passion placed under the most terrible tabu?
+Against Marufa, who had seemingly betrayed him, was
+his anger directed. But the rage of MYalu was
+tempered with fear. A man had not merely to kill an
+enemy: he had also to appease his justly wrathful
+ghost; and who knew what the disembodied spirit
+of the most powerful magician in the land, save
+Bakahenzie, could do! Moreover, no other wizard
+would give him absolution in the form of the magic
+of purification. A chief though he be; he dared not
+slay a magician. He sought Marufa and found him
+as usual squatting on his threshold contemplating
+infinity in a mud wall. He saluted Marufa politely,
+choking back words of bitter recrimination, for if he
+even offended him, the wizard might cast a spell upon
+him instantly. Marufa returned the greeting as
+courteously as ever. When at length MYalu reproachfully
+reminded him of the seven tusks which he had
+paid apparently to secure his love&rsquo;s terrible fate,
+Marufa replied uninterestedly:</p>
+
+<p><q>I have done that for which thou hast paid.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>What man buyeth a bride for another?</q> retorted
+MYalu.</p>
+<pb n="127"/><anchor id="Pg127"/>
+
+<p><q>When I did make magic upon &lsquo;the things&rsquo; did I
+place in the power of the spirits the owner. Behold,
+hath not the owner of &lsquo;the things&rsquo; been accursed?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q> gasped MYalu. <q>But how may that
+be? Didst thou not thyself take the paring and the
+hair?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I bade the One who is tabu to bring them that he
+might be bewitched to her girdle. She thought to
+deceive me by bringing that which was of herself.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>E&mdash;eh!</q> muttered MYalu, impressed at the awful
+effect of deceiving a wizard. Marufa continued to
+stare. MYalu meditated ruefully.</p>
+
+<p><q>But the tusks,</q> murmured MYalu at length
+dismally.</p>
+
+<p><q>It is not I who have two tongues,</q> responded
+Marufa indifferently.</p>
+
+<p>And with that MYalu had to rest content. Marufa
+indeed had no interest at all in the passions of Zalu
+Zako, MYalu and Bakuma. Merely the time had come
+for the witch-doctors to choose the victim for the
+Harvest Festival: Bakuma was young and good
+looking, a dainty morsel that should please the taste
+of the officiating doctors, and her owner and uncle
+was a man of no importance: so accordingly he had
+made known the sin of her name through the divination.</p>
+
+<p>In the solitude of his own hut upon the hill Zalu
+Zako sat and pondered sulkily. His young and fierce
+temper was stimulated and the seed of rebellion
+against the domination of the priesthood was quickened
+by the fate of his new love; although the masonic
+secrets of the craft were denied to him, he, as son of
+the royal house, was suspicious of the powers of the
+<pb n="128"/><anchor id="Pg128"/>
+Unmentionable One and the priesthood, as many an
+one had been before him; yet in spite of that the
+verdict was absolute, for he was too crushed by terror
+of the consequences to permit of any hope of annulling
+it.</p>
+
+<p>The fiat not only doomed Bakuma to a terrible death
+at the third blooming of the moon, but from that very
+instant the tabu came into force; for being thus
+accursed by the possession of two sounds of the sacred
+name, she was deemed unholy. Her half-sisters and
+their mother, with whom Bakuma shared the hut, fled
+to another and were exorcised by the wizard, which, as
+everybody knows, is an expensive ceremony; gourds
+and pots, spoons and utensils of all sorts, were left to
+the sole use of the unclean one and would be burned
+upon her demise. A magic line was drawn around the
+hut out of which the soul of the girl as she slept could
+not escape to bewitch anybody. Neither her name nor
+anything that had been hers would be ever mentioned
+again; any word of a household article or any thing or
+beast which had one syllable of the name <q>Bakuma</q>
+was changed, lest the user be accursed and bewitched.</p>
+
+<p>For the whole day, in this isolation, sat the girl
+Bakuma, Marufa&rsquo;s useless love charm clutched in her
+hand, as bewildered as if the earth had suddenly turned
+inside out under this fact so stupendous and stupefying.
+She did not weep. She squatted in the door, her eyes
+staring with the glazed inquiring expression of a dying
+gazelle, a bronze question to Fate. At the feeding
+time her mother threw her bananas into the circle.
+Bakuma looked at them as they flopped near to her as
+if she did not realize what they were. She made no
+stir to cook or prepare them. The cool twilight came
+<pb n="129"/><anchor id="Pg129"/>
+and passed like a blue breath. Above the insectile
+chorus of the night beneath the crystal stars came the
+faint thrumming of a drum from MKoffo&rsquo;s hill. The
+sound of music and dancing reminded Bakuma of her
+ambitious dreams. She could neither weep nor wail;
+she merely emitted a faint gasping sound. But her
+mind began to work jerkily, yet more fluently. Visions
+of the form of Zalu Zako were weaved and spun in the
+darkness: the lithe walk of him, the haughty carriage
+of the head. Slowly greened the sky until the banana
+fronds were etched in sepia against the swollen moon.
+The dismal croak of the Baroto bird shattered the black
+cocoon of Bakuma&rsquo;s mind.</p>
+
+<p><q>Aie-eee! the foul bird of my despair!</q> she
+wailed, and at last wept. Then she rose and flitted like
+some green ghost into the plantation and across to the
+place of water where her lover had first spoken her
+sweet, recking naught in her mist of despair of spirits
+of the night nor of the breaking of the magic circle.
+The moon spattered the squatted form with blue
+spangles and turned the falling tears to quivering opals.
+Bakuma broke into wild lament.</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;The black Goat hath cried three times in my hut!</l>
+  <l>My soul hath wandered and been caught in a trap!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aieeeeeeeeeee!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>A wizard hath stolen a hair from my head!</l>
+  <l>The beak of Baroto pecketh my gall!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aieeeeeeeeeee!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>A rival hath lain in wait for my love!</l>
+  <l>She hath slain my bird in the nest of his breast!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aieeeeeeeeeee!</l>
+</lg>
+<pb n="130"/><anchor id="Pg130"/>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>A porcupine dwells in the place of my heart!</l>
+  <l>The bird of my soul is fluttering faint!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aieeeeeeeeeee!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>An ember of fire hath entered my mouth!</l>
+  <l>The milk of my breasts is curdled to-night!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aieeeeeeeeeee!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>The strings of my bosom are tied with fine knots!</l>
+  <l>My belly is void! My nipples are dead!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aieeeeeeeeeee!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>A monkey hath bitten the back of my tongue!</l>
+  <l>Hath stolen my breath to make magic by night!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aieeeeeeeeeee!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>The blood in my veins hath turned to sour porridge!</l>
+  <l>My throat is choked up by the sudd of the Lake!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aieeeeeeeeeee!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>A grey forest rat hath swallowed my heart!</l>
+  <l>My thighs have been scratched by a poisonous thorn!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aieeeeeeeeeee!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>As the last quiver of the wail blended with the
+anthem of the forest came from a figure squatted above
+the ford of the river, his spear a blue flame in the
+moonlight, an answer:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;My love hath been taken by a greater than I!</l>
+  <l>Her flesh will be tasted by a hungrier mouth!</l>
+  <l>Her flesh which is sweeter than honey and wine!</l>
+  <l>Her flesh which is softer than a newly born kid!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Ough! My spear is bent!</l>
+</lg>
+<pb n="131"/><anchor id="Pg131"/>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>My love hath been taken by a greater than I!</l>
+  <l>Her breasts will be pillowed by a much broader chest!</l>
+  <l>Her breasts which do swell like a tender young gourd!</l>
+  <l>Her breasts which are as firm as the meat of the plum!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Ough! My spear is bent!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>And answered Bakuma&rsquo;s wail:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 17" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;<corr sic="Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"><anchor id="E17"/><ref
+  target="e17">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</ref></corr>!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;My love hath been taken by a greater than I!</l>
+  <l>Her chines will be gripped by a far fiercer hand!</l>
+  <l>Her chines which are smoother than elephants&rsquo; tusks!</l>
+  <l>Her chines which are as plump as the breast of a fowl!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Ough! My spear is bent!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15"><corr sic="Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"><anchor
+  id="E18"/><ref target="e18">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</ref></corr>!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>My love hath been taken by a greater than I!</l>
+  <l>Her eyes will be touched by longer fingers than mine!</l>
+  <l>Her eyes which are like unto moons veiled by rain!</l>
+  <l>Her eyes which are like the starlit river at dawn!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Ough! My spear is bent!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>My love hath been taken by a greater than I!</l>
+  <l>Her scent will be drunk by nostrils broader than mine!</l>
+  <l>Her scent which is pungent and sweet like the smoke!</l>
+  <l>Her scent which slakes thirst more than driest of beer!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Ough! My spear is bent!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>My love hath been taken by a greater than I!</l>
+  <l>Her breath will be sipped by a thirstier throat!</l>
+  <pb n="132"/><anchor id="Pg132"/>
+  <l>Her breath which is hotter than the flame of a fire!</l>
+  <l>Her breath which makes more drunken than enemies&rsquo; blood!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Ough! My spear is bent!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>My love hath been taken by a greater than I!</l>
+  <l>Her voice will be heard by ears mightier than mine!</l>
+  <l>Her voice which is like unto burbling beer!</l>
+  <l>Her voice which is gentler than the rustle of fronds!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Ough! My spear is bent!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>A slight breeze stirred gently the trees. The
+crickets shrilled their perpetual chorus. A crocodile
+flopped in the river. Dogs yapped from a village down
+the river. Again Bakuma lifted up her voice:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Mightier than elephants was the tread of my man!</l>
+  <l>Keener than a leopard was the flash of his eye!</l>
+  <l>Stronger than an oak tree was the strength of his arm!</l>
+  <l>Swifter than lightning was the stroke of his spear!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Enemies died!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>Taller than the wine palm was the height of my man!</l>
+  <l>Broader than the temple was the span of his chest!</l>
+  <l>More graceful than antelope was the carriage of him!</l>
+  <l>More slender than saplings was the build of his legs!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Women lamented!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>Sweeter than warm honey was the scent of my man!</l>
+  <l>Whiter than a spear flash was the gleam of his teeth!</l>
+  <l>Fiercer than scorpions was the grip of his hand!</l>
+  <l>Smooth and like stone was&qdash;&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+<pb n="133"/><anchor id="Pg133"/>
+
+<p>A gale of yells and shots destroyed the song of Bakuma
+like a foot crushing a flower.</p>
+
+<p>Zalu Zako leaped to his feet and stood for a moment
+listening intently. Across the river some strange
+beast spat spears of red flames. A little farther
+down another beast coughed violently like a hippopotamus.
+The sky seemed falling. Such volumes of
+sound he had never heard before.</p>
+
+<p>As he raced with the speed of a koodoo through the
+plantation he saw the glow of fire ahead and heard the
+moan of some terrible monster near him. He leaped
+five feet in the air as the world appeared to crack in half
+beside him. He felt a sting like a brand of fire in his
+shoulder, but he ran on towards the village from whence
+fled dim figures on all sides amid shouts and screams
+and wailing.</p>
+
+<p>Several huts were already blazing. The leviathan
+coughed and moaned again and once more the earth
+seemed to crash to pieces near him. Appalled and
+bewildered, choking with rage, he reached the outer
+enclosure where his fellow warriors were shouting and
+yelling that the white gods were attacking. Bakahenzie,
+gun in hand, was bidding them charge they knew not
+what. Then out of the clutter of the village broke
+line upon line of yelling figures clothed in uniform.
+Screaming the battle-cry, the warriors charged, led by
+Zalu Zako, Bakahenzie, and Kawa Kendi, who in the
+excitement had dashed from the enclosure. Howls and
+yells were drowned in the spiteful crackle and cough.
+Warriors were mown like weeds under a sickle.
+Scarce a hundred scrambled inside the enclosure at
+the rallying call from Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p>Again came a short rush of those uniformed figures;
+<pb n="134"/><anchor id="Pg134"/>
+again scarlet spears pierced the green moonlight like a
+hailstorm; small red flames rippled in a line resembling
+a forest fire as the soldiers charged through and over the
+palisade. Hand to hand was the fighting, spear and
+sword against bayonet and rifle around the idol, the
+askaris outyelling the warriors. The temple was on
+fire. In the light of the flames they saw a tall figure in
+white with a glow of fire in his mouth and magic eyes
+upon his hands, eyes which flashed rays of scarlet and
+blue as he cut and hacked at the base of the idol.&hellip;</p>
+
+<p><q>Tarum hath come!</q> screamed some one, and as
+the cry was taken up, the Unmentionable One tottered
+and crashed to the ground.</p>
+
+<p>They fled, Zalu Zako, Bakahenzie and those that
+were left.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD12" type="chapter">
+<pb n="135"/><anchor id="Pg135"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 12</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>The village of Yagonyana, the son of Zahilazaan,
+was situated some five days&rsquo; march to the north-west
+of Kawa Kendi&rsquo;s, in open cattle country near
+the fringe of the forest. Here were gathered nearly
+every witch-doctor and warrior of the tribe. Most
+of the women, children, and slaves had been sent
+still farther to the west, driving the cattle before
+them.</p>
+
+<p>Bakahenzie, Zalu Zako, Marufa, and all those
+warriors who had escaped from the massacre by zu
+Pfeiffer were distinguished from their brethren by
+circles of yellow earth around each left eye, and each
+right breast and arm was smeared with red, which
+is part of the ceremony of magic purification for
+those who have slain, lest, as is well known, the
+ghost of the dead wreak their wrath upon their
+slayers.</p>
+
+<p>The affairs of the tribe were in a parlous state. The
+netting of the tabu had been tangled by the death of
+the King-God, Kawa Kendi, and the unprecedented
+act of the overthrow of the idol. Kawa Kendi&rsquo;s
+body, which had not been recovered so that the doctors
+could release his unhappy soul, might be used to make
+more magic against the tribe.</p>
+
+<p>For three weeks there had been much discussion
+among the doctors, the chiefs, and the people.
+Opinions were at variance; no two men could agree.
+<pb n="136"/><anchor id="Pg136"/>
+Lesser wizards, who before had been content with the
+perquisites of the smaller offices, were now made
+drunken by the insecurity of Bakahenzie&rsquo;s position.
+Each of the doctors, seeing a chance to prove his superior
+merit and win Bakahenzie&rsquo;s post as chief doctor, had
+busily made magic to destroy the usurper, and each
+and every one provided a different reason for the failure
+thereof. Every day came news of the doings of the
+white god with eyes upon his hands, of shootings and
+floggings, of the burning of the village including the
+idol, the temple, and the sacred tombs of MFunya
+MPopo, of MKoffo, of MZrakombinyana, and other
+kings before them.</p>
+
+<p>The council of the craft could not even decide
+whether Zalu Zako was to be King-God or not.
+Bakahenzie, whose interest lay in supporting the
+dynasty of the present royal family, maintained that
+he should be anointed forthwith. But with the
+downfall of the idol and his own impotence to make
+successful magic, Bakahenzie&rsquo;s prestige had been badly
+shaken; no longer dared he issue dicta autocratically.
+As ever, political ambition tore patriotism to
+shreds.</p>
+
+<p>Marufa, former close ally of Bakahenzie, but lacking
+his active principle, continued to mutter incantations
+most impressively by himself, waiting cautiously to
+see which side of the river the arrow fell. Bakahenzie
+became seriously alarmed at the growth of Yabolo&rsquo;s
+faction and the indifference of Marufa. He knew well
+that submission would entail the loss of his post as
+well as his worldly goods; and he was aware that all
+men knew that his most potent and strenuous magic
+had failed as utterly as that of the youngest novice
+<pb n="137"/><anchor id="Pg137"/>
+in the craft. His only chance to retrieve a portion of
+his lost reputation was to invent a more plausible excuse
+for failure than any other doctor had done. He
+did.</p>
+
+<p>Although he did not know that Bakuma had broken
+the magic circle of her own volition, he had the shrewd
+imagination to suggest that she had either fled with
+the other women during the attack or that, even if she
+had stayed, the askaris would have taken her from the
+hut. Therefore did he demand an assembly of the craft
+and chiefs. One of the reasons, if not the reason, of
+Bakahenzie&rsquo;s success, as of other witch-doctors before,
+such as Savonarola, had been a faculty, inspired by, or
+derived from, hysterical epilepsy, of working himself up
+at will into a state of convulsion without actual loss of
+consciousness and the spectacular exhibition of foam,
+which no other sorcerer had been able to simulate so
+successfully. Therefore Bakahenzie invoked the great
+Tarum (apotheosis of ancestors&rsquo; spirits) who, through
+the convulsed body, did proclaim that the disaster had
+been caused by the breaking of the magic circle by one
+whose name was accursed; and that only could the
+magic of Bakahenzie be made potent, and the consequent
+overthrow of the Eyes-in-the-hands be assured,
+by the sacrifice of the victim to her destiny as the Bride
+of the Banana.</p>
+
+<p>Marufa, appreciating the shrewdness of this move,
+immediately abandoned his incantations to reassume
+his allegiance to the cause of Bakahenzie. The prophecy
+was hailed by nearly every one as a most timely
+excuse for the failure of magic in general. The
+miraculous recall of the Unmentionable One now
+seemed so easy of accomplishment through the
+<pb n="138"/><anchor id="Pg138"/>
+person of Bakuma that many of those who had
+sided with Yabolo deserted him, foreseeing the renewed
+ascendancy of Bakahenzie and fearing his
+wrath.</p>
+
+<p>Yabolo, however, made an attempt to recover the
+lost adherents by protesting that the Moon of the
+Harvest Festival had not yet come, and that therefore
+victory could not be obtained until two more moons
+had waned. But MYalu saw that by submitting to
+the new god he might be able to have removed the
+tabu upon Bakuma&mdash;all things were possible to one
+who had overthrown the Unmentionable One&mdash;and
+thus obtain her by the price of submission; also he
+might possibly recover his wealth of ivory abandoned
+after the massacre. Therefore did he with his people
+go over to the Yabolo faction.</p>
+
+<p>Uproar and confusion ensued. Bakahenzie recovered
+from his trance with unprecedented rapidity
+and even did not require to be told what the spirit of
+Tarum had said through his lips. The tribe was split
+into fiercer factions than ever. They argued and
+screamed and cursed. Bakahenzie had lost the hold
+over them; for as the god, of which he was the
+sponsor, was dead, his credit had gone too. He dared
+no longer to remove a troublesome brother or chief
+by magic. His only hope was to restore the god:
+so to that end he declared that Zalu Zako must be
+anointed King-God. Uproar arose once more. But
+Bakahenzie&rsquo;s purpose had been served; he had
+diverted their attention from the subject of submission.</p>
+
+<p>From time to time came terrified runners with
+horrific stories of the burning of villages, of massacre
+<pb n="139"/><anchor id="Pg139"/>
+and rapine. Bakahenzie, determined not to yield,
+secretly dispatched a slave to Eyes-in-the-hands with
+an arrow which is a sign of war; Yabolo, whose mind
+ran in the same tracts, sent a banana which is a sign of
+peace. In the meantime factions grew and multiplied.
+One chief counselled his followers to take their cattle
+and women and seek to conquer another tribe to the
+south-west; another wished to go west. But each
+and every follower began to bargain with his chief for
+disproportionate rewards for service. Two chiefs and
+five hundred men started to the south-west, but they
+returned because they had met in their path the
+skeleton of a slain elephant, which is, as everybody
+knows, a sure sign of disaster.</p>
+
+<p>Bakahenzie sent runners far and wide to discover
+Bakuma. As she could not be found he concluded
+that she had been killed or taken as a slave and urged
+the warriors to fight. Zalu Zako immediately desired
+the anointing to be delayed in order that he should
+not be debarred from fighting. Bakahenzie, none
+too sure of his authority, was compelled to acquiesce.
+Marufa, observing that the arrow was still in the air,
+took to his non-committal incantations again. Bakahenzie
+strove to keep the warriors and chiefs occupied
+by dissension until the result of his challenge to battle
+should mature. Yabolo, equally perturbed for his
+influence, did exactly the same with the banana in
+view.</p>
+
+<p>Yabolo and MYalu contemplated going in to make
+submission, but the former wished to negotiate through
+Sakamata for the best terms, although he tried to
+persuade MYalu to go; but MYalu was suspicious and
+would not do so without Yabolo. But at the hour of
+<pb n="140"/><anchor id="Pg140"/>
+the monkey one morning came a terrified goatherd
+crying news that cut the tangled threads of their
+intrigues as a sword cuts a goat&rsquo;s throat. The white
+god, Eyes-in-the-hands, was within an arrow&rsquo;s flight
+of the village of Yagonyana.</p>
+
+<p>Consternation ensued. The village and the temporary
+camp of grass huts buzzed and hummed. Zalu
+Zako dashed out, sword and spear in hand, and in the
+glow of the awakened fires harangued the warriors,
+urged that they should make a swift detour through
+the forest and attack the white man as he entered the
+village. Bakahenzie supported this plan of campaign.
+MYalu, stung by the recollection of the loss of many
+tusks to the invader, incontinently abandoned Yabolo
+and pressed for a frontal attack. Yabolo contended
+that they send an envoy to make terms, but not very
+insistently. In spite of the assurance of Sakamata, he
+was suspicious of the new god&rsquo;s gentle ways. Marufa,
+the wise, collected those of his household who had
+remained with him, and quietly made his way to the
+forest.</p>
+
+<p>But Zalu Zako&rsquo;s martial spirit was overcome by the
+clamour of those who would flee before worse befell,
+crying that the white god, Eyes-in-the-hands, would
+eat them all up with the terrible monsters who coughed
+flames and death; others screeched that the uniformed
+devils were spirits of the night and therefore invincible;
+for always they came in the dark. So they hesitated,
+shouted and argued. Then came a scout screaming
+that the enemy was upon them, corroborated by a
+vicious cough.</p>
+
+<p>A pom-pom shell landed in the midst of the crowded
+village. Zalu Zako, Bakahenzie and their small
+<pb n="141"/><anchor id="Pg141"/>
+following were nearly swept away in the rush of five
+thousand odd warriors in flight. From the forest they
+watched with awestruck eyes the burning of the
+village.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD13" type="chapter">
+<pb n="142"/><anchor id="Pg142"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 13</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>On the morning on which zu Pfeiffer burned the
+village of Yagonyana, Birnier was encamped upon
+the southern boundary of Wongolo. By his <q>coup de
+superstition</q> had he recovered all his equipment
+except several bottles of brandy, some canned goods
+and two and a half pairs of pyjamas; also the field
+boots. The noble Inyira, son of Banyala, and his
+merry men never attempted to recapture their
+prisoners; no one save the Eater-of-Men in person
+could have persuaded them to return to that camp
+even had they had their rifles.</p>
+
+<p>After Birnier had dressed his own foot and the
+charred feet of his men, had had a good drink and a
+better meal, he had sought to address the balance of his
+mind through a medium designed for the cure of
+melancholy, but efficacious for many other ills,
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">The
+Anatomy of Melancholy</hi>. He opened the one big
+volume which had been his companion throughout
+his travels at a page marked at haphazard by an ivory
+paper knife with the American flag upon the flat hilt,
+an early gift from Lucille, and began to read the remarks
+of Robert Burton of quaintly glorious memory upon
+the source of his late adventure.</p>
+
+<p><q>Those which are jealous, most part, if they be
+not otherwise relieved, proceed from suspicion to
+hatred, from hatred to frenzy, madness, injury, murder
+<pb n="143"/><anchor id="Pg143"/>
+and despair &hellip; Amestris, Xerxes&rsquo;s wife, because
+she found her husband&rsquo;s cloak in Masista&rsquo;s house,
+cut off Masista&rsquo;s wife&rsquo;s paps and gave them to the
+dogs, flayed her besides and cut off her ears, lips,
+tongue, and slit the nose of Artaynta, her daughter.</q></p><lb/>
+
+<p><q>Cheerful lady! She ought to have been zu
+Pfeiffer&rsquo;s wife,</q> commented Birnier and went to sleep.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier arose feeling rational enough to reconsider his
+position. The recollection of the signature on the
+photograph now failed to stimulate the emotional
+reaction as once it had done. The experience through
+which he had passed had had a beneficial effect in
+breaking or disconnecting the train of suggestive
+images. At first in the recess of his mind had lurked
+the desire to abandon everything, to rush straight to
+Lucille to demand an explanation. Now the rising
+sun of reason cast quite different shadows upon the
+incident. The high light was the fact that should he
+do so he would be sacrificing his mission for what
+might prove to be ridiculous. As his mind contemplated
+the subject the echo of <q>&agrave; toi, Lucille</q> tended
+to carry a high note, but this he vented by writing a
+long letter to Lucille recounting the facts and frankly
+admitting that he had been sufficiently insane with
+jealousy to <q>go up in the air.</q> Once or twice he
+ceased to write and gazed anxiously into the glare as
+his imagination suggested the long period of waiting
+for an answer, wondering whether the echo of that
+cursed <q>&agrave; toi</q> might not become unbearably shrill.
+He became a little more sentimental towards the end
+of the letter, remarking that perhaps he had been
+wrong in deserting her for so long and emphasising
+<pb n="144"/><anchor id="Pg144"/>
+the rather ridiculous point that he was aware that he
+was not a young man. However, he let it remain, and
+at the first opportunity sent off the letter by runner to
+the nearest station in Uganda, together with an order
+for certain goods to be sent to a village on the Wongolo
+border.</p>
+
+<p>Although still inclined to be emotional over the
+photograph, Birnier did not waste any energy over
+vindictive thoughts upon zu Pfeiffer, whom he
+philosophically regarded as irresponsible for his actions,
+inasmuch as he had been made that way just as any
+savage. He had gotten out of the toils set for him,
+so why should he spend time and trouble in seeking
+revenge which would merely consist in reporting the
+incident through a British station to Washington, who
+would open up interminable polite correspondence
+with the German Embassy, who would again write
+prodigious letters to the Colonial Minister in Berlin,
+who would&hellip; Ludicrous! No; he would not
+permit zu Pfeiffer to interfere with his plans. He
+would continue straight to Wongolo instead of
+investigating the Kivu country, where zu Pfeiffer
+might perhaps have another opportunity to cause
+more trouble. Accordingly he negotiated with the
+nearest village for carriers and set out, striking due
+west, thus approaching the Wongolo territory towards
+the southern boundary.</p>
+
+<p>The people to the south of the Wongolo country
+was an inferior race, whom the Wongolo periodically
+raided to replenish their slaves. These Wamongo
+were split up into several petty chiefdoms, usually at
+war with one another. They had no defined theology.
+For they had not progressed beyond the stage of magic
+<pb n="145"/><anchor id="Pg145"/>
+as far as any concept of religion, that is of praying for
+intercession to any power greater than themselves;
+whereas the mental state of the Wongolo was half-way
+between magic and religion, mixing and confusing
+the two as exemplified in the Rain-making ceremony
+of employing magic and alternately invoking the god
+and threatening him with dire penalties if he did not
+behave. There seemed to be no royal family or clan
+of the Wamongo; chiefs changed constantly as one
+more powerful for the moment arose; the wizards
+did not appear to have any political power, acting as
+general physicians and confining their efforts apparently
+to simple magic for the growing of corn, the curing of
+the evil eye and wounds. They were terrified of the
+Wongolo, much to Mungongo&rsquo;s pride, who never let
+slip an opportunity of swaggering and bruiting abroad
+the fame of his master as the greatest of magicians the
+world had ever seen. Never was he tired of relating
+to a grunting audience the terrible sight and effect of
+his master&rsquo;s transposition into a spirit. The yarn
+lost nothing in the telling.</p>
+
+<p>Progress was slow. Every afternoon, as regular as
+the sun set, clouds of sepia sailed up from the west to
+clothe the world in a grey deluge of falling water.
+Fortunately they were travelling up a watershed so
+that there were no large rivers to cross. As they
+approached the Wongolo border rumours began of a
+white god with eyes upon his hands and live fire in his
+mouth who, so said the delighted Wamongo, had
+entirely eaten up the hated Wongolo. They seemed
+prepared to accept Birnier, when suggesting that he
+should make magic for them to conquer the Wongolo,
+as another terrible white god, and were accordingly
+<pb n="146"/><anchor id="Pg146"/>
+polite. But Mungongo, vastly indignant, denied the
+story; according to him, no power on earth could
+have subdued his race, except perhaps the mighty
+Moonspirit (the name he had bestowed upon
+Birnier).</p>
+
+<p>But when Birnier arrived at the first village of the
+Wongolo the absence of warriors corroborated the wild
+tales they had heard. The inhabitants of old men,
+boys and women surrounded the camp to gaze in awestruck
+curiosity at the white whom they believed to be
+the brother of the Eyes-in-the-hands. This calumny
+Mungongo strenuously gainsaid, and anew recounted
+the marvellous feats of magic of Moonspirit who could,
+he assured his compatriots, eat up Eyes-in-the-hands
+as easily as a crocodile would swallow a goat. Yet in
+spite of their terror they insisted that Birnier must go
+through the ceremony of purification incumbent upon
+all strangers in order to exorcise the evil influence of
+their eyes and souls; also the customary present must
+be sent to the king and his august permission to enter
+awaited, although no man knew where he was since
+the capital had been burned. Mungongo waxed
+furious. He informed them that Moonspirit was a
+friend of the Son-of-the-Snake, and moreover had before
+been in the country; that if they vexed Moonspirit
+he would enchant the whole village so that no man
+could move hand or foot. No matter, said they, that
+was the rule and must be done. They were impressed
+but obstinate.</p>
+
+<p>From the description of this destroying god, who was
+the colour of a stripped banana and tall as a palm tree,
+had fire in his mouth and eyes upon his hands&mdash;it was
+some time before he could recognise the <q>eyes</q>&mdash;and
+<pb n="147"/><anchor id="Pg147"/>
+whose companions were devils strangely clothed,
+dragging horrific monsters who spat earthquakes,
+Birnier had no difficulty in recognising zu Pfeiffer, and
+recollected the significant pumping at dinner regarding
+the Wongolo country. However he had renounced
+any idea of revenge, but the discovery of friend zu
+Pfeiffer as the terrifying god amused him: quickened
+a desire to overset the gentleman&rsquo;s plans. He smiled
+with a slight hardening of the line about his mouth
+as he began to consider what might be done.</p>
+
+<p>As far as he could estimate by recalling the size of
+the native barracks at Fort Ingonya, he reckoned that
+zu Pfeiffer could not possibly have more than three
+hundred men, unless he had been reinforced from the
+east. Roughly he calculated that the Wongolo ought
+to be able to put about ten thousand warriors in the
+field. That number under any sort of leadership, even
+though they were only armed with spears and swords,
+should wipe out the three hundred, in spite of the discipline
+and two or three machine-guns, by sheer weight
+of numbers. But, from what he had already heard,
+zu Pfeiffer had evidently caught them unprepared,
+wiped out a mass and secured a supernatural effect
+by destroying the idol. He remembered his talk on
+das Volkliches and his comment that zu Pfeiffer was
+unusually well informed upon the psychology of the
+native mind.</p>
+
+<p>During two days disputing in the native manner
+news came in of fresh
+<corr sic="masssacres"><anchor id="E19"/><ref
+target="e19">massacres</ref></corr>,
+adding to the general
+terror. He sent for the headman and with him held a
+long shauri. The result was that the old fellow conceived
+the wonderful idea, already suggested by his
+lesser brethren, of enlisting the services of this white
+<pb n="148"/><anchor id="Pg148"/>
+man, reputed to be a most marvellous magician, in
+their protection.</p>
+
+<p>Then having had his wits sharpened by his own
+originality and a sheath knife, the headman promptly
+discovered that the ceremony of exorcism could not
+be performed because the local wizard had departed
+with every ounce of magic for the front. Still there
+were obstinate and fearful persons who wished that
+Birnier should send a message to the king and wait
+until he had the permission. Another two days were
+lost until this objection was overcome by certain
+presents of <q>bafta,</q> destined for the king, being handed
+over to the village.</p>
+
+<p>On the week&rsquo;s march across Wongolo, Mungongo
+triumphantly held spellbound audiences at every
+village through which they passed. As they neared
+the site of the City of the Snake, where they heard zu
+Pfeiffer was encamped, they encountered deserted
+villages. When they came upon the smouldering
+embers of one Birnier consented to turn aside from the
+regular trail in order to pass to the west of Kawa
+Kendi&rsquo;s where, so the natives said, were Zalu Zako and
+Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p>Beyond a belt of forest was open rolling country.
+They came to a village of five huts where dwelt some
+herdsmen, although most of the cattle had been
+driven westwards. Mungongo, seeking at Birnier&rsquo;s
+suggestion for some one who had actually been present
+at the village when zu Pfeiffer attacked, discovered
+a young girl who had escaped. He brought the
+daughter of Bakala into the presence of Moonspirit
+still pathetically clutching the amulet which Marufa
+had sold her. But from Bakuma, who had fled to the
+<pb n="149"/><anchor id="Pg149"/>
+forest at the first assault and afterwards to this herdsmen&rsquo;s
+village where the fact of the tabu would not yet
+have penetrated, Birnier could interpret little of
+value. Of the whereabouts of Zalu Zako she knew
+no more than the peasants. She remembered Infunyana,
+as he had been called on his previous visit to
+the City of the Snake, and to her it seemed that a
+god had descended from the blue sky personally to
+aid her. So utterly incomprehensible and terrifying
+had the attack appeared that unconsciously the inevitability
+of her doom was shaken; if such things could
+happen, she felt rather than thought, then who could
+say what else was possible? She asked permission to
+travel with Moonspirit. Birnier, who knew from her
+dress, or lack of it, that she was unmarried, smiled as
+he wondered whether she was seeking her lover.</p>
+
+<p>Throughout their journey they had not met a
+single warrior; but as they neared the place of the
+king they began to meet groups of them. At the
+sight of the first headdress Bakuma bolted into the
+grass, nor did she reappear until after they had gone.
+Later she came to Birnier and asked permission to hide
+within his tent when the warriors appeared, and to
+his question began to explain the fate to which she had
+been doomed. Naturally this account of the Marriage
+of the Bride of the Banana at the Harvest Festival was
+of value as well as of interest to Birnier, from whom
+it had been concealed when in the country before.
+He cross-questioned her and made notes; but Bakuma
+could give him practically no details of what actually
+happened, a secret well guarded by the craft.</p>
+
+<p>They looked downcast, these warriors, and were
+doubtful what to do on meeting another white.
+<pb n="150"/><anchor id="Pg150"/>
+Many had never before seen a white man and were
+inclined to bestow upon Moonspirit all the attributes
+which they had given to Eyes-in-the-hands. Eh!
+said they, Eyes-in-the-hands is a more powerful
+god than the Unmentionable One, for has he not
+eaten him up? Eyes-in-the-hands has imprisoned
+the thunder and the lightning in a bag which he looses
+at will. Who could withstand him? Had they
+better not submit before his wrath had eaten them all
+up? E-eh! man cannot fight with a god, as any
+fool knows.</p>
+
+<p>They were returning to their homes to make pilgrimage
+to the new god, to propitiate him with oxen
+and with ivory lest worse befall. However they knew
+where Zalu Zako was hidden, also the wizards
+whose magic was as a drop of water in a fire. Mungongo
+did not fail to relate the marvels of Moonspirit
+which he had seen with his own eyes, he and those
+with him. The warriors listened without being in the
+least impressed. That, said they, was merely woman&rsquo;s
+magic to what Eyes-in-the-hands could do! Aie-e!
+had not they fallen dead in masses at the cough of one
+of his monster spirits! Aie-e! had not the look of
+him burned up the Unmentionable One as a straw in
+a fire! Therefore was he not greater than the god?
+Aie-e! was he not burning their villages at will!
+Aie-e, brothers, they must hasten to appease the wrath
+of so terrible a god!</p>
+
+<p>Birnier saw that it was useless to attempt to argue
+with them. Zu Pfeiffer, with his shrewd stroke at the
+kernel of their faith in the symbol of the idol, had
+established a kind of godhead; and by his ferocious
+massacres had thoroughly cowed them. However
+<pb n="151"/><anchor id="Pg151"/>
+Birnier secured one man to guide him to where Zalu
+Zako, the witch-doctors and those who remained with
+him, were in hiding.</p>
+
+<p>On the fringe of the dense forest they camped. The
+warrior guide went to acquaint Zalu Zako of their
+approach, else otherwise the sight of a white might
+provoke an attempt at massacre or flight. On the third
+day the man returned bearing greetings from Zalu
+Zako personally who remembered well Infunyana,
+the only white man whom he had ever met.</p>
+
+<p>For two days, on a faint trail, in a steamy heat
+pulsing with chromatic birds and lizards, they journeyed
+through the forest, the skirts of the vast Ituri whose
+deepest recess is the home of the pygmy. One early
+forenoon they were halted by the warrior in apparently
+trackless jungle and bidden to camp. Mungongo was
+indignant, but protest was useless as the man refused
+to conduct them any farther, saying that Zalu Zako
+would come to them. So the carriers cut a circle and
+built a zareba and the messenger was swallowed by
+the green wall bearing presents of two rifles.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD14" type="chapter">
+<pb n="152"/><anchor id="Pg152"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 14</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>About a mile from Birnier&rsquo;s camp, through
+forest so dense that even the progress of a native
+clambering from trunk to trunk and over undergrowth
+ten feet deep was slow and tortuous, was the temporary
+village of Zalu Zako; some six or seven hundred
+huts of branches and creepers straggling over
+a wide area of ground which had been roughly
+cleared from undergrowth by a few slaves and
+women.</p>
+
+<p>The hut of Zalu Zako, as those of most of the bigger
+chiefs and wizards, was furnished with reeds upon the
+floor to avoid squatting actually in the green slime, and
+boasted a palisade run from tree to tree enclosing the
+huts of his two wives, women and slaves. Every
+morning the leader of a long line of slaves bringing
+supplies from the villages in the open, chanting softly
+the song of the march, entered the village through a
+mass of creepers which hung like a curtain of humid
+green. Many hundreds of warriors with their chiefs
+had deserted their king after the flight from Yagonyana&rsquo;s
+village.</p>
+
+<p>In the mind of Zalu Zako was doubt and perplexity
+as in those of his people. All the accepted <q>laws</q>
+and <q>facts</q> of his world had been set at naught;
+it was as if buck lived in the rivers and fish ran roaring
+through the forests. Fear, curiosity, and resentment
+filled him. Sometimes it appeared that Eyes-in-the-hands
+<pb n="153"/><anchor id="Pg153"/>
+had indeed proved to be a more powerful god
+than the Unmentionable One, of whom he was, or
+should have been, high priest and king; that he had
+eaten him up as they said; so perhaps the better course
+was to submit to this being invincible. Yet this very
+anarchy of his beliefs had released once more the
+passion for Bakuma whom he had renounced, the desire
+for whom had been inhibited by the sense of the
+inevitability of the mandate of the witch-doctors.
+Hereditary custom, which made him feel that it was
+incumbent upon him&mdash;a primitive sense of duty&mdash;to be
+king-god warred with this longing for Bakuma. The
+fact that he was not yet bound to celibacy quickened
+the seed of rebellion against the domination of the
+wizards. If he could escape the godhood then Bakuma
+was alive again. For to his mind a ban upon the personal
+ego was far stronger than any ban upon a second
+person.</p>
+
+<p>Chewing the cud of this sweet grass of hope squatted
+Zalu Zako one morning in the dignified solitude of his
+compound on the threshold of his hut. Opposite him
+sat the brother conspirator of Bakahenzie, Marufa, a
+brown shadow in comparison to the gleaming of the
+royal insignia of the ivory bangles. They sat silent,
+motionless, save for the occasional sparse movement of
+snuff taking. In the steamy heat a continual mutter
+and rustle persisted, punctuated by the harsh scream
+of a green parrot or the squawks of a troop of monkeys.
+In the faintly spattered sunlight percolating through
+the bowered roof vivid lizards rivalled in colour the
+rare finger of an orchid clinging to the great tree
+beside the hut. Through the humid air came the
+faint chant of carriers at the end of a journey; swelled
+<pb n="154"/><anchor id="Pg154"/>
+louder and ceased. At the mutter of greeting near
+by Marufa grunted.</p>
+
+<p><q>The beaten dog returns to nose in the garbage,</q>
+he mumbled.</p>
+
+<p><q>Maybe he hath news of the doings,</q> commented
+Zalu Zako after a pause.</p>
+
+<p><q>The young dog starts a buck in every tree stump,</q>
+returned Marufa.</p>
+
+<p>The mumble of voices in the hut of Yabolo near to
+<corr sic="Zaku"><anchor id="E20"/><ref
+target="e20">Zalu</ref></corr>
+Zako&rsquo;s continued. Neither Zalu Zako nor
+Marufa knew other than that, after his downfall,
+Sakamata had retired to his native village on the southern
+boundary where the people, being laymen, had
+believed the excuse for his absence given by Sakamata
+that he had retired to the forest for one moon
+in the guise of his totem, the wart hog, which animal
+became accordingly tabu to their killing for that
+period. At length came a young slave from Yabolo
+who, after saluting, delivered a message from
+Yabolo requesting that Zalu Zako receive him and
+his relative, Sakamata, who had weighty news for
+him.</p>
+
+<p>Presently entered the recusant bearing signs of prosperity
+in the flowered print about his loins, the ancient
+cartridge pouch slung around his waist and a huge
+revolver of the pin-fire model dangling from a neck
+which appeared more tortoise-like than ever. Before
+Zalu Zako he squatted and after they had exchanged
+the usual hostages to hostility, Sakamata inquired
+most politely after the health of the Son-of-the-Snake,
+of his cattle and of his fortune, and last of all of his
+women. Sakamata, aware of the loss of prestige
+suffered by his old enemy, Bakahenzie, presented
+<pb n="155"/><anchor id="Pg155"/>
+<corr sic="Zaku"><anchor id="E21"/><ref
+target="e21">Zalu</ref></corr>
+Zako with a duplicate of the pin-fire revolver.
+Followed an equally extensive greeting to Marufa.
+Only when these ceremonies had been punctiliously
+performed did they begin to discuss the
+news.</p>
+
+<p>At first Sakamata proceeded to repeat the popular
+saying regarding the doings of Eyes-in-the-hands.
+Various chiefs had visited the fort of the white man
+bringing presents in their hands, terrified of what
+might happen, yet, according to Sakamata, their fears
+had been dispelled immediately; for the wise new
+god had received them as brothers and had made
+offerings to them as was the custom for strangers
+to do. It was true, he admitted in cross-examination,
+that whole villages had been put to the sword
+and burned; but, he demanded, was not that the
+way of a mighty warrior to those who resisted
+him?</p>
+
+<p>Moreover, continued Sakamata, to fight him was
+death. His magic was such that no man could
+prevail against him. Had any doctor yet succeeded
+in making successful magic against the Invincible
+One? His magic was terrible to behold.
+Spirits which were imprisoned in houses of
+trees (boxes) spoke and sang according to their
+tribe.</p>
+
+<p><q>Clk!</q> commented Zalu Zako incredulously.</p>
+
+<p><q>These words are as the wind in the trees at
+night speaking to girls,</q> commented Marufa slowly.
+<q>What man hath beheld those things with his own
+eyes?</q></p>
+
+<p>Deliberately Sakamata tapped snuff, inhaled it
+with relish, meticulously, that not one grain was
+<pb n="156"/><anchor id="Pg156"/>
+lost upon his white caterpillar moustache, and said
+indifferently:</p>
+
+<p><q>Even he who sits before you.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Eh!</q></p>
+
+<p>Another point was scored. But both Zalu Zako
+and Marufa regarded him as one who, having had
+dealings with the devil and yet had emerged safely,
+was to be suspected of some ghastly pact. After a
+calculated pause Sakamata continued nonchalantly:</p>
+
+<p><q>There is no magic like unto Eyes-in-the-hands, the
+Mighty One. A great fort hath he made upon the hill
+of thy grandfather (MFunya MPopo), O Zalu Zako,
+girded with a great palisade, around which walk ever
+<corr sic="the"><anchor id="E22"/><ref
+target="e22">the</ref></corr>
+red devils in uniform, each one of whom hath a gun
+with seven voices. And peering through that palisade,
+like a terrible black leopard from his lair, are the monster
+coughing devils. Eh! who are they who can
+withstand them?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Eh!</q> echoed his audience with lively memories
+of the <q>coughing devils.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And he hath a mighty hut made from the white
+man&rsquo;s cloth of colour like to the forest full of things to
+make magic. Seated upon his chair like unto a man
+plucking bananas, the eyes upon his hands and in his
+head gleam so fiercely that water is made within a
+man. He who dares to look sees not only Eyes-in-the-hands,
+but his two souls, even as thou seest thine own
+two souls staring at thee with the frightened eyes that
+are thine!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q></p>
+
+<p>This time a genuine belly grunt was elicited, and
+even Marufa moved uneasily.</p>
+
+<p><q>Thou hast been bewitched,</q> he added to mask his
+<pb n="157"/><anchor id="Pg157"/>
+astonishment. <q>For a man may see his own soul in
+any pool, but never two souls!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Even is it as I have told thee, O son of MTungo,</q>
+asserted Sakamata.</p>
+
+<p>Sakamata discovered the use of snuff again to be
+necessary. He watched covertly the repressed excitement
+in the eyes of Zalu Zako.</p>
+
+<p><q>And what said the great magician unto thee?</q>
+Marufa demanded to cover his discomfort.</p>
+
+<p><q>He spoke white words as a warrior should,</q> said
+Sakamata. <q>He gave words which told me that he was
+but a small wizard. He made my eyes to see the soul
+of a greater god than he, who was there and yet was
+not there; for at the touch of his magic hand with
+many eyes, behold! there were two more souls of the
+god which returned even as I looked.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh! A greater god than he?</q> demanded
+Zalu Zako, with a flicker of the white of his
+eyes.</p>
+
+<p><q>Even as I have said, a greater god who is king of
+all the white man&rsquo;s countries in the sea, who eats up
+those whom he pleases. Yet, even though he may
+bewitch with one of his eyes, did he speak softly to
+Yagombi, the son of Bagazaan, and Zalayan, the son
+of Kilmanyana, who were with me, bidding us to
+tell our brethren that if they would not acknowledge
+the true king that then he would eat us up, even as
+he ate up the Unmentionable One. But to those who
+would submit and make due tribute, would he protect
+in peace from the white men who, fleeing from the
+wrath of the great god, would soon come to eat up
+our country like the locusts.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Eh! ehh! white men as the locusts!</q></p>
+<pb n="158"/><anchor id="Pg158"/>
+
+<p><q>Thus he spoke and bade us to go forth and tell
+our brethren.</q></p>
+
+<p>This was a wholly new notion and proportionally
+serious if true. But Marufa, recovering from the
+first shock, wrapped himself in his professional cloak
+of omniscient indifference as he recollected that
+Sakamata was an unfrocked priest of the craft. The
+group took snuff sternly until Sakamata, having accomplished
+his mission, deemed it wise to retire to allow
+the suggestive ideas to germinate. So gravely he arose
+and departed from the hut of Zalu Zako and went
+under the patronage of Yabolo to another compound
+where, to a group of the most disaffected chiefs, including
+MYalu, he repeated nearly word for word
+the same harangue.</p>
+
+<p>In the minds of 
+<corr sic="Zako Zalu"><anchor id="E23"/><ref
+target="e23">Zalu Zako</ref></corr>
+and Marufa the report
+of Sakamata had been exceedingly disquieting. Marufa
+began to wonder whether he had not better make terms
+with the new god before worse came to the worst in the
+form of white men like locusts, a menace fraught with
+dire possibilities which were based upon the rumours
+which every native had heard of the ways of white men
+in bulk: to the Wongolo merely vague stories from the
+north of the conquest of the Sudan by the British.
+Marufa&rsquo;s ambitions in the craft were almost submerged
+in the dread that, wizard though he was, he would
+have small chance of distinction and power among a
+race of wizards. To Zalu Zako, although the prospect
+of unlimited white men swooping upon them was
+terrifying, his semi-conscious mind was rather occupied
+with Bakuma than with affairs of state which seemed
+merely to exist to torment lovers. However he, too,
+was sufficiently impressed to consider seriously the
+<pb n="159"/><anchor id="Pg159"/>
+advisability of submitting before it was too late; the
+motivating principle of the scheme was an idea which
+suggested that, in some indefinable way, such action
+might lead to the avoidance of the ban of godhood
+and thus to the reinstatement of Bakuma in the realm
+of possibilities.</p>
+
+<p>To Bakahenzie the report was more alarming than
+to the others, inasmuch as it appeared to portend the
+irretrievable loss of his power. He saw the effect
+upon their minds, the inclination to yield to the new
+conqueror, which, of course, would mean the last
+of his followers being swept away in the crowd like
+dry leaves in the wind. But more than the others he
+suspected the motives of Sakamata, the man whom he
+had unfrocked. Arguing in terms of his own mental
+processes he saw correctly enough that Sakamata was
+surely playing for himself, and guessed equally truly
+that Sakamata would get, or imagined that he would
+get, many rewards, political as well as in kind, for his
+services as jackal to the white man. But he listened
+and said no word for, or against, him. He was astute
+enough never to make a move until he had, or thought
+that he had, all the moves of the game worked out.
+Marufa was just as wily; he related the news given
+by Sakamata in a voice which gave no hint by tone or
+word what any of his opinions might be. Then, as
+they sat like graven images, supremely indifferent to
+the doings of Sakamata or aught else, entered the
+warrior bearing greetings from Birnier to Zalu
+Zako.</p>
+
+<p>Immediately Zalu Zako, to whose less skilled mind
+in intrigue this succession of world-shaking events
+was bewildering, feared that already the plague of
+<pb n="160"/><anchor id="Pg160"/>
+white men like locusts had commenced. But when he
+learned that the white man was alone and was Infunyana,
+the only white man whom he had ever met,
+he perceived vaguely some remote prospect of achieving
+his desires. Almost eagerly, for a native, he commanded
+the messenger to summon the white man to
+his presence.</p>
+
+<p>To Bakahenzie the unexpected arrival of another
+white was an unforeseen potentiality of force which
+might be utilized to his own benefit; so thought
+Marufa, which was in effect exactly the same reaction
+as Zalu Zako&rsquo;s. Therefore Bakahenzie immediately
+protested upon the ground that no stranger could
+be allowed to approach the Son-of-the-Snake, or
+even the village, who had not been purified according
+to custom. When Zalu Zako demurred he
+retorted:</p>
+
+<p><q>Hath not one white man who was permitted to
+enter our country without the demon being exorcised
+wreaked disaster upon us? Wouldst thou then
+destroy us utterly?</q></p>
+
+<p>Zalu Zako was silent. Much as he would have
+desired to browbeat Bakahenzie, much as his confidence
+in the powers of the chief witch-doctor had waned in
+his estimation, yet there remained sufficient to overawe
+him when the matter was put to a crucial test.
+Bakahenzie would, so he stated, go himself to see the
+new white man, thus unselfishly taking upon his person
+the whole risk of the lasting magic of a stranger
+unpurified. But Marufa had no intention of allowing
+Bakahenzie to obtain a monopoly of this possible new
+ally. Unlike Zalu Zako he was not burdened with
+awe and had confidence in his own magic to overcome
+<pb n="161"/><anchor id="Pg161"/>
+any evil that Bakahenzie might seek to work against
+him. So when he announced that he would accompany
+Bakahenzie, that distressed wizard was too conscious
+of his dwindling prestige to object.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD15" type="chapter">
+<pb n="162"/><anchor id="Pg162"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 15</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>Just after sun-up next morning as Birnier was
+seated at the door of his tent reading his
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">Melancholy</hi>
+and drinking his coffee, a startled <q>clk</q> caused
+him to glance round. He saw Bakuma rise suddenly
+from the fire and disappear. The next moment
+materialized out of the miasma of the morning the
+figures of Bakahenzie and Marufa, followed by a file
+of warriors.</p>
+
+<p>Portentously Bakahenzie stalked to the fire and
+squatted down without even a murmur to Mungongo
+busy with the breakfast. Bakahenzie remembered
+Infunyana very well, but nevertheless designedly
+Birnier ignored him in return. So they sat, the two
+wizards taking snuff with grave concern almost at the
+feet of the white who continued to smoke and to
+read.</p>
+
+<p>The sign boded ill, for the insistence upon the
+punctilious etiquette inferred that Bakahenzie was
+disposed to be suspicious, if not directly hostile. And
+indeed the warriors&rsquo; description of the magic of
+Moonspirit, vide Mungongo, had made Bakahenzie
+uneasy.</p>
+
+<p>After a full half-hour Bakahenzie, as if beaten in this
+solemn game, turned gravely and saluted the white.
+Birnier looked down from his chair with the affectation
+of just having noticed that some one was there. After
+a pause he returned the greeting, a little point which
+<pb n="163"/><anchor id="Pg163"/>
+Bakahenzie thoroughly appreciated. Birnier had
+learned that according to Mungongo and the warrior,
+Zalu Zako had not yet been anointed king-god; therefore
+that Bakahenzie evidently intended to keep the
+young man in the background.</p>
+
+<p>After preliminaries, Birnier inquired after Zalu Zako
+and informed Bakahenzie that he had journeyed expressly
+to see him. Bakahenzie ignored the question
+and began to talk about Eyes-in-the-hands, demanding
+to know whether Birnier was his brother.</p>
+
+<p><q>Nay,</q> said Birnier, <q>Eyes-in-the-hands is not of
+the same tribe as Moonspirit,</q> for he sedulously followed
+up the title which Mungongo had given him.
+<q>Eyes-in-the-hands comes from a country twelve
+moons distant from my country.</q></p>
+
+<p>Marufa squatting beside him grunted; Bakahenzie
+took snuff nonchalantly as if he did not believe a
+word.</p>
+
+<p><q>Eyes-in-the-hands is a mighty magician in his
+own country,</q> said Bakahenzie in the form of an
+assertion.</p>
+
+<p><q>The magic of Eyes-in-the-hands to the magic of
+Moonspirit,</q> stated Birnier, <q>is as water to the beer of
+the banana.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Eyes-in-the-hands,</q> remarked Bakahenzie indifferently,
+<q>hath magic to make the souls of man to be
+seen by all.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Those are but the souls of the belly and body, but
+Moonspirit can enchant so that the spirit of the head
+of man be seen at night,</q> boasted Birnier, wondering
+what trick of zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s had produced the
+effect.</p>
+
+<p><q>Eyes-in-the-hands,</q> insisted Bakahenzie, <q>hath
+<pb n="164"/><anchor id="Pg164"/>
+a spirit in a piece of a tree which cries or laughs, sings
+or talks to his magic.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Moonspirit,</q> retorted Birnier (thinking <q>Gramophone,
+but I can go one better, my friend</q>), <q>hath
+also a spirit in a piece of tree who will speak words
+of wisdom unto thee in thine own tongue, who will
+repeat that which is said unto him in thy tongue or
+in my tongue, who will speak words of wisdom even
+unto thee.</q></p>
+
+<p>Bakahenzie seemed outmatched in the boasting
+tournament. He tapped snuff woodenly. Marufa
+scratched his skinny ribs thoughtfully. Then Bakahenzie
+remarked:</p>
+
+<p><q>He that hath not been cleansed may not look
+upon the Son-of-the-Snake.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>He that hath not been anointed need have no
+fear of the evil eye.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Hath not one who was not cleansed entered
+and cast evil upon the tribe?</q> demanded Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p><q>If the fence is not strong the leopard will
+enter.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>If the leopard be not strong and swift indeed
+may he not be killed in the hut?</q> inquired Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p><q>If a leopard and a wild-cat break in, then wilt thou
+not kill the leopard first?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Even so,</q> retorted Bakahenzie; <q>then is
+water stronger than beer, even as the beer does
+reveal?</q></p>
+
+<p>Birnier nearly smiled in recognition of the hit.</p>
+
+<p><q>Nay, does not beer make the fool to talk foolishness?
+Dost thou then cast away the banana? Does not one
+<pb n="165"/><anchor id="Pg165"/>
+talk foolishness also who is sick and yet discardeth
+good medicine, because he feareth to poison his
+belly?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Even so,</q> said Bakahenzie obstinately, <q>does the
+sick man exorcise the good medicine lest an enemy hath
+made magic thereupon?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Then,</q> said Birnier, whose only objection to the
+ceremony was the delay and the messiness, <q>let the
+good medicine be purified.</q></p>
+
+<p>Bakahenzie grunted and covertly took stock of the
+tent and equipment visible. Upon the pile of cases
+stacked just inside the tent his eyes rested some time,
+but he would not make any inquiry. Marufa, too,
+was occupied in the same manner. Bakahenzie was
+recalling the previous meeting with Birnier in the village
+of MFunya <corr sic="MPope"><anchor id="E24"/><ref
+target="e24">MPopo</ref></corr>&mdash;of that day when Birnier had
+not made any attempt to impress the native mind
+with <q>magic</q> other than the ordinary <q>miracles</q> in
+the routine of a white man&rsquo;s life.</p>
+
+<p><q>When the Son-of-the-Snake,</q> inquired Birnier,
+who had learned as much of the hagiocracy as
+Mungongo knew, <q>hath taken up the Burden,
+wilt thou then drive Eyes-in-the-hands from the
+country?</q></p>
+
+<p>Bakahenzie slowly withdrew his eyes from the
+fascinating case as far as Birnier&rsquo;s booted foot.</p>
+
+<p><q>Hast thou, white man, the magic twig that makes
+fire?</q> he demanded.</p>
+
+<p><q>Even so.</q></p>
+
+<p>Birnier took a box of matches from his pocket and
+struck one. Bakahenzie and Marufa watched him
+solemnly. Then a lean bronze hand was outstretched.
+Birnier gave him the box. Slowly and gravely Bakahenzie,
+<pb n="166"/><anchor id="Pg166"/>
+the chief witch-doctor, extracted a match,
+turned it over and over, smelt it, tasted it, regarded
+it, and struck it on the top of the box. It was a safety
+match, so nothing happened. Birnier, without a
+vestige of a smile, instructed him to strike it only upon
+the black piece at the side. That impressed Bakahenzie
+and Marufa. The former tried again as directed
+and succeeded. Holding the match too near the head
+he burned the quick of the nail, but not a muscle
+quivered. He would not even admit that the white
+man&rsquo;s devil stick had bitten him. But he was still
+more impressed.</p>
+
+<p>At a sign from Birnier, Mungongo brought from the
+tent a nickel-plated revolver and cartridges, which he
+placed at the feet of Bakahenzie without comment.
+Apparently Bakahenzie did not notice the action or the
+gift. He held out the matches to return to the white
+man. Birnier requested him to keep them. He
+wrapped up the box in his loin-cloth and fell to
+further contemplation of the cases. He was cogitating.
+The value of this white had suddenly increased.
+Evidently he could make small magic. Perhaps he
+could make as much big magic as Eyes-in-the-hands.
+Who knew? But then if that was so he could make
+greater magic than he, Bakahenzie, could. Bakahenzie
+saw that if Moonspirit were such a great magician he
+would be difficult or impossible to control. Naturally
+Bakahenzie could only understand his own
+motives in others. His problem now was to discover
+some means by which he could control Moonspirit,
+make of him a familiar to work to his own ends. Why
+was he so insistent upon seeing Zalu Zako? Bakahenzie
+became more and more suspicious. He saw
+<pb n="167"/><anchor id="Pg167"/>
+another reason why the white man must be kept away
+from Zalu Zako. To refuse to purify him would give
+a valid excuse that he may not look upon the Son-of-the-Snake.
+But he did not wish to displease him; also
+Marufa could perform the purification.</p>
+
+<p>Again Birnier repeated the question regarding the
+overthrow of Eyes-in-the-hands. Bakahenzie took
+snuff, regarded the revolver lying at his feet idly, and
+deigned to reply.</p>
+
+<p><q>When that which must be hath come to pass, then
+shall the children of the Snake eat up their enemies as
+a lizard eats flies.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And what is that which must come to pass?</q></p>
+
+<p>Bakahenzie sat silent awhile, slightly shocked at the
+directness of the question; then as if to humour the
+white man, he replied:</p>
+
+<p><q>When the Bridegroom hath taken the Bride.</q></p>
+
+<p>The ceremony of purification could not take place
+until the following day, because such things may not
+be hurried; and moreover, various potent charms had
+to be sent for to the native village. Meanwhile
+Bakahenzie squatted by the fire, contemplating the
+nickel-plated revolver and affairs of policy, and opposite
+him sat the meditative Marufa.</p>
+
+<p>From the hour of the monkey, Bakahenzie, unconscious
+of the small face and anxious eyes watching the
+camp from the tangle of green, was busy muttering
+spells over a calabash containing a magic concoction
+composed of the entrails of a white goat, certain herbs
+and the eyes of a black wild-cat. When the roof of
+the forest was a patterned ceiling against an incandescent
+glow, Birnier stripped to the waist, and
+submitted himself to the hands of the wizard who,
+<pb n="168"/><anchor id="Pg168"/>
+after scattering the feathers of a scarlet parrot into the
+calabash, smeared the left breast, the forehead and the
+right arm of the white man, to the accompaniment of
+an incantation. These insignia and specifics he must
+not remove for three suns; nor could he be permitted
+to look upon the semi-divine Zalu Zako until
+whatever evil influence his foreign body might
+possess should have been exorcised by this powerful
+medicine.</p>
+
+<p>To sit around half nude in such heat was no arduous
+undertaking, but to sleep without rubbing off the
+concoction was another matter; also the odour
+thereof was not pleasing to the nostrils of a white man.
+But Birnier accomplished the feat by smoking excessively
+and by marking with a pencil the various
+nostrums recommended by the amiable Burton, many
+of which were hardly less disagreeable than Doctor
+Bakahenzie&rsquo;s prescription.</p>
+
+<p>That worthy&rsquo;s slaves had erected a hut for him nigh
+to the tent in the door of which he squatted, usually
+with Marufa beside him, throughout the day, with
+ever a contemplative eye upon his victim, an eye which
+Birnier was sure was eagerly seeking some excuse to
+plead that he had inadvertently rendered the magic
+impotent, and must accordingly have the ceremony
+repeated.</p>
+
+<p>Amused by the ridiculous sight he presented,
+plastered over with this filth, Birnier made Mungongo,
+whom he had taught to operate a camera, take a photograph
+of him, which would entertain Lucille, as well
+as be of scientific interest. Bakahenzie and Marufa
+watched this performance from the fire with amazement,
+for they imagined that the camera was some kind of
+<pb n="169"/><anchor id="Pg169"/>
+gun. When they heard the click, they grunted as if
+expecting the white man to fall dead. Birnier of
+course knew the universal native belief in the picture
+being the soul, or one of the souls. He summoned
+Bakahenzie and Marufa and showed them a photograph
+which, after some difficulty, they recognised as
+Mungongo.</p>
+
+<p><q>Eh,</q> grunted a warrior, <q>indeed is Mungongo the
+slave of the white man, for hath he not imprisoned
+his soul?</q></p>
+
+<p>Mungongo laughed, yet he believed in the superstition
+as implicitly as any of his compatriots, for said
+he:</p>
+
+<p><q>It is a wise man who hath that which is his always
+within his hand, even as Moonspirit hath the soul of
+his favourite wife with him always, so that she may
+not be unfaithful unto him.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Eh, he is wiser than the Banana Eater!</q> grunted
+the warrior in admiration.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier&rsquo;s training to control his features was strained
+in the effort not to express surprise. He could not
+imagine from what Mungongo had derived this
+astonishing statement, until he recollected that the
+boy had seen a photograph of Lucille among his
+papers.</p>
+
+<p>After this successful demonstration of his sophistication,
+Mungongo was anxious that Moonspirit give an
+exhibition of his magic to dumbfound the chief witch-doctor,
+desiring most ardently to work the gramophone,
+to operate which he had also learned. But on reflection,
+Birnier decided that it was not his policy
+<corr sic="tomake"><anchor id="E25"/><ref
+target="e25">to make</ref></corr>
+his thunder too cheap.</p>
+
+<p>Each evening as the last subtle violet quivered in the
+<pb n="170"/><anchor id="Pg170"/>
+trees had Bakuma glided from the shelter of the undergrowth
+under the flap of Birnier&rsquo;s tent, where she had
+lain until the first tint of dawn on the foliage of
+the forest. Birnier had wished her to leave for
+some village until Bakahenzie had left the camp,
+but Bakuma had frantically pleaded to remain,
+knowing that the craft was seeking her throughout the
+country since Bakahenzie&rsquo;s latest interview with mighty
+Tarum.</p>
+
+<p>But upon the third day as Birnier was seated reading
+philosophically at his tent door, the inevitable happened.
+A loud outcry arose and from the tangle of creepers
+started the lithe figure of Bakuma, who darted past
+him into the tent. For a moment there was silence.
+But Birnier guessed what the matter was. Bakahenzie
+emerged from the wall of green and cried out in a
+loud voice. Instantly the warriors around leaped to
+their feet, and broke out into great clamour.</p>
+
+<p>Mungongo, busy with the cooking pots, rushed
+to Birnier&rsquo;s side, gesticulating wildly. Inside the tent
+crouched Bakuma. Towards Birnier advanced Bakahenzie
+and the warriors, whose dilated eyes and spears
+in their hands betokened that Bakahenzie had stirred
+their deepest feelings of terror and murder. Birnier
+smoked placidly, neither stirring nor permitting a sign
+of their presence to cross his features.</p>
+
+<p>Mungongo, startled out of his confidence in Moonspirit,
+excitedly bade Bakuma go forth as Bakahenzie,
+stopping in front of the white man, broke into a
+harangue, bidding him to give up Bakuma whose
+sacrilege in breaking the magic circle, as he had said,
+had brought the terrible Eyes-in-the-hands upon
+them; that the welfare of the tribe depended upon
+<pb n="171"/><anchor id="Pg171"/>
+her sacrifice to the angered Unmentionable One even
+as she had been doomed; and threatening that they
+would take the insolent white man, whose magic was
+as water, and sacrifice him as well, as was desired by
+the spirit of Tarum.</p>
+
+<p>The longer he spoke the more excited he grew.
+Motivated by the sudden conviction that the sacrifice
+of Bakuma, whose action he had foretold so successfully,
+and the slaughter of the white would really restore to
+him his repute and remove at the same time the
+problem of controlling a superior magician who
+threatened to become his rival, Bakahenzie began to
+work himself up into the necessary state of prophetic
+hysteria. Cowering against the camp-bed Bakuma
+whimpered with terror; Mungongo incoherently
+begged Moonspirit to give up the girl.</p>
+
+<p>Not a muscle moved upon Birnier&rsquo;s face; nor even
+did his eyes turn in the direction of the menacing
+crowd who with uplifted spears joggled each other
+around Bakahenzie. Birnier knew that it was a supreme
+test of nerve; knew that any attempt to snatch a
+rifle or a movement of any sort, would precipitate action
+on their side. He had no intention of surrendering
+the girl to a hideous fate, and also he saw beyond the
+incident that if Bakahenzie were to triumph over him
+now, not only would his prestige with the natives be
+gone for ever, but that his fate would be surely sealed.
+Slowly, exaggeratedly, as if he were alone, he killed a
+mosquito upon his bare right breast and lighted his pipe
+anew.</p>
+
+<p>Bakahenzie advanced a step followed by the warriors.
+His voice had reached the falsetto timbre. Mungongo
+lost his head entirely and seizing Bakuma, began to
+<pb n="172"/><anchor id="Pg172"/>
+drag her out of the tent. Birnier turned his head
+leisurely towards him. Said he very loudly:</p>
+
+<p><q>It is not seemly to rape a woman in my presence,
+O Mungongo. Let her be, for I will buy thee
+one.</q></p>
+
+<p>Mungongo ceased to pull at Bakuma&rsquo;s arms and stared
+as if paralysed. Birnier saw the eyes switch in a
+terrified glance at the warriors behind him and heard
+Bakahenzie&rsquo;s yell to kill.</p>
+
+<p>For one moment he thought that indeed the end had
+come. Before he could reach the rifle a dozen spears
+would be in his back. He sat motionless, the
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">Anatomy
+of Melancholy</hi> still in his hand, and watched the gauge of
+Mungongo&rsquo;s eyes. Bakahenzie&rsquo;s voice rose to a screech.
+Suddenly Birnier wheeled round in his chair, snatched
+up the pencil and staring hard at them, began to sketch
+faces on the open page of the book.</p>
+
+<p>At the sight the warriors ceased their shuffling dance,
+were arrested with the spears in their hands in as many
+poses. Bakahenzie&rsquo;s scream was stoppered as if by a
+hand upon his mouth. In the silence their heavy
+breathing rivalled the twitter and hum of the forest.
+Birnier sketched furiously, glaring portentously from
+the group to the paper. Bakahenzie took a step forward,
+a nervous step, and yelled, <q>Kill!</q> but
+his voice released those of the warriors. In one
+loud shout they cried:</p>
+
+<p><q>He bewitches us! He bewitches us!</q></p>
+
+<p>As Birnier bent his head to make another magic
+mark upon the magic book he heard the rush of
+feet.</p>
+
+<p><q>They have fled!</q> squealed Mungongo, still
+clutching Bakuma.</p>
+<pb n="173"/><anchor id="Pg173"/>
+
+<p>Birnier sighed and dropped his pencil as he glanced
+up. Bakahenzie and the warriors had disappeared,
+but by the fire squatted Marufa unconcernedly
+scratching his skinny ribs.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD16" type="chapter">
+<pb n="174"/><anchor id="Pg174"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 16</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>Changed was the City of the Snake, the place
+of kings. Upon the site where had been the
+hive of huts wrapped in the green arms of the banana
+plantation, laboured under the incandescent sun
+gangs of prisoners under armed guards upon the
+building of larger huts laid out in streets, broad and
+geometrical, lined with correct ditches for drainage.
+Around the outskirts here and there remained charred
+posts.</p>
+
+<p>Upon the hill of MKoffo was a palisade enclosing
+the barracks of two companies of the askaris and two
+guns. No brown cones peeped like candle-snuffers
+above the sea of green fronds upon the hills of the
+tombs of kings, but from the sacred hill of Kawa Kendi
+commanding the approach to the valley rose, black
+against the sky, the triangle of the roof frame of a
+large bungalow; around the crown of the hill was
+a stout palisade through which grinned in the sun
+the muzzles of a Nordenfeldt and a pom-pom; and
+outside upon a levee strutted rigidly four sentries
+night and day, a perpetual reminder to the passer-by
+below of efficient vigilance.</p>
+
+<p>Within was a methodical formation of round huts
+dominated by a square one; at the far end, and in
+solitary grandeur beneath the Imperial flag upon a
+roughly-hewn flag-pole, was a green marquee tent,
+the temporary quarters of the Kommandant.</p>
+<pb n="175"/><anchor id="Pg175"/>
+
+<p>Under the tent verandah at the rear where were
+his private quarters sat zu Pfeiffer with a towel tucked
+around his neck upon which was scattered inch-lengths
+of hair. Sergeant Schultz sheared deftly
+with clippers like a reaper in a field of corn. When
+he had completed the final trimming behind the
+ears, he stood aside with the air of an artist viewing
+his work.</p>
+
+<p><q>Is that pleasing to your Excellence?</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer ran a hand around his skull.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ya, that is better and cooler, sergeant.</q></p>
+
+<p>With a professional air Schultz whisked around the
+Kommandant&rsquo;s neck with a light brush, untucked the
+towel and brushed him down. As zu Pfeiffer rose
+Bakunjala appeared with a broom of small branches
+and a pan and proceeded to sweep the earthen floor.
+Schultz neatly folded up the towel, placed it on the
+chair, and stood at attention.</p>
+
+<p><q>Is that all, Excellence?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ya, sergeant. Take a cigar.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Thank you, Excellence!</q></p>
+
+<p>The sergeant selected one, saluted and departed.
+Zu Pfeiffer lounged in a basket chair. The usual
+water bag and syphon were suspended at his elbow
+above sparklet and brandy bottles, and a box of cigars.
+Around him on the floor was a litter of papers, envelopes
+and documents. On his wrist sparkled the
+jewelled bracelet and between fingers, one of which
+bore the large diamond which had earned him his
+native name, was an official document bearing the
+Imperial Eagles.</p>
+
+<p>As he read he smiled and patted his left moustache
+approvingly. Officially the authorities would not
+<pb n="176"/><anchor id="Pg176"/>
+comply with his request made before leaving Ingonya
+for two more companies of askaris with white non-commissioned
+officers and two more guns; but unofficially
+he was informed that they would be supplied
+later and that the authorities were pleased. He
+picked up a private letter and re-read it. Then he
+smiled again, a sneering twist remaining at the corner
+of the mouth. Always he was informed by sympathetic
+friends and an agency of the whereabouts and doings
+of Lucille. On the 1st of August she had been due
+at Wiesbaden.</p>
+
+<p>He threw the letter on the table with an irritable
+gesture and scowled as he drank. The arrival of the
+mail always brought vivid regrets for the glories and
+comforts he was missing by being condemned to war
+with <q>dirty swines of niggers.</q> That was part of the
+penalty he had had to pay for being a gentleman in
+a land of dollar grubbers, yet a matter to be written
+up against the account of Lucille, the entz&uuml;ckend
+Lucille. He must have been verr&uuml;ckt, he reflected
+savagely. The delicate lips softened in ludicrous
+contrast to the brutal outline of a cropped skull.
+The blare of a trumpet disturbed his reveries, reveries
+which were apt to rankle until among his satellites
+went the word that the Eater-of-men was possessed
+by the demon once more.</p>
+
+<p>After he had elegantly finished a small cup of caf&eacute;
+cognac and a cigarette, Sergeant Schultz strutted up,
+saluted, and at a nod from zu Pfeiffer handed a
+document to the Kommandant, a roster of the chiefs
+who had submitted with the approximate number of
+their followers. Officially there were five chiefs with
+some six thousand men who had nominally accepted
+<pb n="177"/><anchor id="Pg177"/>
+the new ruler, each one of whom had to leave as
+hostage for his fidelity a son, who lived under guard
+in the village beneath the guns.</p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer needed the extra companies and white
+men to establish stations at various points with the
+object of gradually extending the sphere of military
+occupation. Zu Pfeiffer left nothing, as far as he
+could foresee, to chance; his maxim was to conserve
+his force to the utmost, to attain his objective at
+the least possible cost in men and material. The
+policy of terrorisation was based on the reasoning that
+eventually schrecklichkeit saved both the conqueror
+and the conquered bloodshed and trouble; for if
+the enemy were not so impressed with the fact that
+all resistance was utterly useless, he would resort to
+the sporadic risings which would entail more slaughter
+on both sides. Zu Pfeiffer, acting on the teachings
+of the German masters, sought to make war psychologically
+as well as militarily, economically as well as
+geographically. Hence his dramatic step in the
+overthrow of the idol in person, and the care with
+which he planned to impress each chief and native
+with his omnipotence and magic. This system of
+the application of political science as well as of military
+science, of course, was sound, save for a temperamental
+error: the lack of sufficient imagination to realize
+the unknown quantity of chance, the inevitable mistake
+of military scientists who are loath to admit the artist
+to their counsels, exemplified by men of genius, such
+as Napoleon and Leonardo da Vinci, who were both
+mathematicians and artists.</p>
+
+<p>In zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s case, as in others of his type, the
+motivating principle was not bourgeois greed of material
+<pb n="178"/><anchor id="Pg178"/>
+gain for himself; gain he could afford to despise in
+his wealth; such would have been contrary to the
+code of a gentleman. While he had not hesitated
+for a moment to destroy his rival, Birnier, he would
+not touch with one finger any of his goods; for that
+reason had he given permission to the corporal to
+take Birnier&rsquo;s equipment, so that he would not even
+be contaminated by the possession of them, a temperamental
+error again which had led to Birnier&rsquo;s
+escape.</p>
+
+<p>The driving power in his caste and tribe was love
+of power to an excess masked with portentous solemnity
+under the cloak of benefiting this people and the
+peoples of the world; forcing them to have broad
+streets and sanitary arrangements, compelling them to
+laugh, to sing, and to be happy whether they would
+or no: an urge which is the curse of the world, the
+impulse to interfere in other folk&rsquo;s affairs, to teach
+them, to make them to know the true God, the
+right way of living, the right way of doing everything
+from the rising of the first sun of consciousness
+to that happy crack of doom when our
+planet tries to enforce its orbit upon some other
+planet.</p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer pinched a cigar tip, lighted it meticulously
+and considered the roster.</p>
+
+<p><q>Sergeant, this man&mdash;what&rsquo;s the animal&rsquo;s name?
+Kalomato&mdash;has his son surrendered himself?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No, Excellence. The man says that he has fled
+the country.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Where does he come from?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The neighbourhood, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>That means that his son is with the rebels?</q></p>
+<pb n="179"/><anchor id="Pg179"/>
+
+<p><q>Probably not, Excellence. He is very young,
+they say.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>That does not matter. Sequester all the chief&rsquo;s
+property. If he won&rsquo;t give it up let the askaris deal
+with him. If that doesn&rsquo;t work, have him shot.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence!</q></p>
+
+<p>For such obstinate cases zu Pfeiffer had fallen upon
+the custom of serving two purposes by handing over
+the victim to the mercies of his askaris which whetted
+their sadistic appetites and usually secured the desired
+revelation of the whereabouts of the hidden ivory or
+other goods under the torture of the burning feet,
+and divers other ingenious methods. Of late this
+practice had proved so satisfactory that the mere
+threat was usually sufficient.</p>
+
+<p><q>This man,</q> continued zu Pfeiffer tapping the
+roster with his long nail, <q>his son is here?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ja, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Has he paid the tithe due?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No, Excellence. He refuses.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Have the son shot.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Any report this morning?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ja, Excellence. A Wamungo spy brings news
+that a white man entered the country from the
+south.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Description?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>They say he is a trader, Excellence, coming from
+the Kivu direction, but the savage cannot give any
+satisfactory description. It is the first white he has
+seen, he says.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>He won&rsquo;t be the last!</q> snapped zu Pfeiffer with
+a twitch of the left sentry moustache. <q>Saunders,
+<pb n="180"/><anchor id="Pg180"/>
+possibly. If so he should be here shortly to report.
+Well?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The King and the few men left with him are in
+hiding, Excellence, in dense forest. They are demoralized
+and quarrel among themselves. Many are
+coming to surrender, for they say that you, Excellence,
+have eaten their god.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ach!</q> said zu Pfeiffer with satisfaction. <q>What
+did I tell you, sergeant?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Your Excellence was correct in every respect.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Um! Pity I can&rsquo;t spare a company. That would
+settle them before they have a chance to reorganize.
+Ach, but they haven&rsquo;t the sense, the animals, to do
+that.&hellip; Parade, sergeant.</q></p>
+
+<p>Schultz saluted.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ready, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer rose, took up his gold-mounted sjambok,
+and the two walked around the big marquee to the
+front where between the orderly lines of huts those
+askaris not on duty were drawn up for inspection.
+The sergeant barked. Bayonets flashed as they
+presented arms. Another bark and they ported
+arms. Zu Pfeiffer walked down the line inspecting
+buttons, bolts, and rifles as meticulously as he had
+lighted his cigar. The fifteenth barrel he thrust
+away petulantly and flicked the askari&rsquo;s face with his
+sjambok. The muscles of the man&rsquo;s face twitched as
+the blow came and the eyes bulged, but he did not
+flinch.</p>
+
+<p><q>Twenty-five, sergeant!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence!</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer passed on. When the inspection was
+finished he stood rigidly smoking, coldly watching
+<pb n="181"/><anchor id="Pg181"/>
+Schultz dismiss the men. Then he stalked down the
+hill with Schultz slightly in the rear, followed by a
+big black Munyamwezi sergeant-major, towards the
+opposite hill, of MKoffo. But at the bottom of where
+there were some half-constructed huts he paused.</p>
+
+<p><q>The women, sergeant?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The large hut, Excellence. Two hundred as
+ordered.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No women of chiefs?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No, Excellence. Those attending on the hostages
+are housed apart.</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer strode towards the hut indicated which
+stood near to the edge of a rased banana plantation.
+Two sentries without the fence presented
+arms stiffly and remained immobile. Within the
+compound were some sixty or more young girls,
+mostly having the black complexion of the slave type.
+The chattering and giggling ceased as the tall form
+of the dreaded Eyes-in-the-hands stood in the gate.
+A slight smile flirted his lips.</p>
+
+<p>From the deep violet of the hut interior
+darted a young girl into the sunlight. At the sight
+of the white men she poised on her toes, one foot
+forward and hands extended as if about to whirl into
+a dance, staring with the curiosity of a fawn.</p>
+
+<p>Tall for a native maid, the light bronze of her
+immature breasts revealed that she was of the Wongolo
+ruling caste. Around her slender neck was a circlet
+of bright blue beads. As zu Pfeiffer stiffened and
+stared she wheeled and fled into the hut.</p>
+
+<p><q>Gott im Himmel!</q> he muttered. <q>The body
+of Lucille in Carmen!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Who is that woman?</q> he demanded of Schultz.</p>
+<pb n="182"/><anchor id="Pg182"/>
+
+<p><q>I don&rsquo;t know, Excellence,</q> replied the sergeant
+and spoke to the black sergeant-major. <q>She is the
+daughter of the chief Bamana, Excellence, visiting
+these other women. I will have her removed.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I will not have the sense of caste abused,</q> said
+zu Pfeiffer, gazing into the hut. <q>That is not policy.
+Have her sent to the fort, sergeant, and placed under
+guard.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence!</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer swung on his heels and strode out and
+up the hill of MKoffo. The inspection was more
+hurried than usual that day. Then he returned to
+the hill of Kawa Kendi to hold court in the big marquee
+tent. After a lunch and a long siesta in the heat of
+the noonday he strolled around the village superintending
+the rasing of huts and the staking out of
+the new village which was to rise upon the ashes of
+the old one, a concrete example of the wisdom and
+power of the new lord, Eyes-in-the-hands.</p>
+
+<p>Under squads of askaris gangs of prisoners, criminal
+and political, bound by a light chain about each neck,
+laboured at clearing away charred stumps and debris,
+while other natives portered in saplings and loads of
+grass, each village which had submitted sending its
+allotted quota.</p>
+
+<p>Trumpets blared. The keepers of the coughing
+monsters made magical dances with their fire sticks
+up on the hill of Kawa Kendi. The black, white
+and red totem of the conqueror fluttered to earth
+like a wounded bird. Night closed like a black
+lid placed upon the steaming cauldron of the
+sun.</p>
+
+<p>After dinner zu Pfeiffer sat in his private tent at
+<pb n="183"/><anchor id="Pg183"/>
+the rear of the marquee drinking brandy. Upon a
+camp table covered by a violet cloth was the portrait
+in the ivory frame at which he gazed as he smoked.
+The blue eyes and the feminine lips softened as
+sentimentally as any sex-starved Puritan virgin;
+perhaps not in spite of, but because of, a medi&aelig;val
+code as senseless as the native system of tabu, for
+natural emotions suppressed find an outlet in some
+form.</p>
+
+<p>From outside came the twitter and hum of the
+forest, the rhythm of frogs, the dim bleating of a goat
+and the distant wailing of the women&rsquo;s death lament.
+Zu Pfeiffer drank and smoked and stared at the portrait
+in the ivory frame. Once he slapped irritably at a
+mosquito which had escaped the double net over the
+tent door. A wave of emotion seemed to well within
+him. He looked as if he were about to blubber as
+leaning over the table he peered intently at the pictured
+face and whispered:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 5" type="song">
+  <l>&ldquo;Nur einmal noch m&ouml;cht ich dich sehen,</l>
+  <l>Und sinken vor dir aufs Knie</l>
+  <l>Und sterbend zu dir sprechen:</l>
+  <l>&lsquo;Madam, ich liebe Sie!&rsquo; &hellip;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p><q>Lucille! &hellip; Ach, Lucille!</q></p>
+
+<p>He drew himself back with a jerk, drank his brandy
+at a gulp and called angrily:</p>
+
+<p><q>Bakunjala!</q></p>
+
+<p>The flutter of sand preceded a gasped:</p>
+
+<p><q>Bwana!</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer gave him an irritable command. Four
+<pb n="184"/><anchor id="Pg184"/>
+minutes elapsed during which he gazed steadily at
+the portrait. He turned at the slither of feet. Bright
+blue beads glittered in the lamplight as the daughter
+of Bamana sank upon her heels.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD17" type="chapter">
+<pb n="185"/><anchor id="Pg185"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 17</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>In his favourite seat by the door of his hut sat
+Zalu Zako waiting as patiently as only a native can
+to see the white man, symbol of a subconscious hope.
+The fact that Bakuma had not been found by the
+emissaries of the bloodthirsty Bakahenzie evoked a
+sensation of pleasure which was expressed merely in
+a feeling of well-being. Of her in person he thought
+consciously little; his attitude was much as a white
+lover who might discover his loved one to be a sister,
+and hence, by consanguinity, barred from him for ever,
+a terrible fact of fate; but, lacking the sentimental
+inhibition, Zalu Zako did not disguise the death wish
+because she was denied him. Desires are simpler in
+the savage, yet the driving motives are the same as
+in the <q>cultured</q> ex-animal overlaid with generations
+of inhibitions&mdash;tabus&mdash;which form complex strata
+making the truth more and more difficult to recognise.
+From that very obfuscation of motives arises
+civilisation.</p>
+
+<p>Then from the blue depths of the humid green came
+a great outcry, answered by the ululation of the
+women in warning.</p>
+
+<p><q>Eyes-in-the-hands!</q> grunted Zalu Zako, voicing
+the perpetual fear of the camp, as he leaped for his
+gun which Moonspirit had sent him.</p>
+
+<p>Above the medley of sounds arose an articulate
+shout:</p>
+<pb n="186"/><anchor id="Pg186"/>
+
+<p><q>He has bewitched our souls! He has bewitched
+our souls!</q></p>
+
+<p>Zalu Zako paused and listened; replaced the gun
+and squatted, resuming his pose of dignity before the
+first man made entrance. For a few moments the
+shrilling of the women and the wild jabber continued.
+Then entered a slave followed by a warrior who,
+excitedly falling upon his knees, gasped out:</p>
+
+<p><q>He hath bewitched our souls! He hath bewitched
+our souls! Our spears were blunted by his magic!
+Our swords were turned by the wall of his soul! He
+is a mighty magician!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Of whom speakest thou, fool?</q></p>
+
+<p>As Zalu Zako put the question the tall figure of
+Bakahenzie stalked slowly into the courtyard. The
+warrior rose and fled at a command from Zalu Zako.
+Bakahenzie greeted him gravely and very elaborately
+took snuff in order to show how casual the matter
+was. When he had meticulously restored the cork
+of twisted leaves, he announced slowly:</p>
+
+<p><q>As I have prophesied the breaking of the sacred
+circle has delivered us into the hands of the false
+magician, Eyes-in-the-hands. The daughter of Bakala
+is even now at the camp of the white man, whom they
+call Moonspirit.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q> commented Zalu Zako.</p>
+
+<p><q>The brother of Eyes-in-the-hands hath taken her
+in concubinage,</q> continued Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p>Zalu Zako made no response. Grimly approached
+Marufa and squatted beside them.</p>
+
+<p><q>Even as I have prophesied,</q> commented Marufa,
+who never failed to seize an opportunity of suggestion.</p>
+
+<p><q>I bade him render up the Bride of the Banana;
+<pb n="187"/><anchor id="Pg187"/>
+but she hath bitten his soul in his sleep. He held her
+in his arms. He breathed upon her so that she would
+not obey. The magic of this brother of Eyes-in-the-hands
+hath indeed rotted the livers of our people, for
+they fled like young jackals.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Eh!</q></p>
+
+<p>Zalu Zako stared cautiously at the compound fence;
+Marufa regarded Bakahenzie&rsquo;s left knee with interest.
+For fully five minutes no word was said. Then
+Bakahenzie portentously:</p>
+
+<p><q>Tarum demands the brother of Eyes-in-the-hands,
+this Moonspirit, for if one be taken then will
+the other, Eyes-in-the-hands, wither away and the
+Unmentionable One will be revealed.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Thou hast spoken!</q> assented Marufa.</p>
+
+<p>But Zalu Zako continued to stare blankly at the
+fence. His mind was aflame for Bakuma. Bakahenzie
+had no suspicion of his passion, yet the fear of his
+enmity acted like a douche of water in spite of the
+fact that the implicit faith in the doctors had been
+weakened. But disbelief was not positive enough to
+stimulate action. However, from the news of Bakuma&rsquo;s
+proximity, he had gotten strength to doubt the
+efficacy of Bakuma&rsquo;s sacrifice to restore the kingdom,
+a strength which prompted him to say:</p>
+
+<p><q>Who is he that has said that Moonspirit be the
+twin of Eyes-in-the-hands? Enemies there are even
+among whites. If he be an enemy of Eyes-in-the-hands
+and he be a great magician, as they say, then
+through his magic may not Eyes-in-the-hands be
+slain?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>He hath but young words,</q> asserted Bakahenzie
+stonily.</p>
+<pb n="188"/><anchor id="Pg188"/>
+
+<p><q>But Mungongo, the son of Marula, saith that&qdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Dost thou ask an infant to teach thee to hunt?</q>
+retorted Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p><q>Doth a warrior ask his women to mend his
+wounds?</q> added Marufa, putting in a gentle reminder
+that Zalu Zako was merely a chief and not of the
+craft.</p>
+
+<p><q>He hath been exorcised, let him be brought and
+put to the test before me,</q> persisted Zalu Zako.</p>
+
+<p><q>That may not be,</q> objected Bakahenzie, <q>for
+thou art not yet anointed.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But that which is necessary has not yet been
+done,</q> objected Zalu Zako obstinately. <q>If he have
+no magic and his heart be not white, then let him be
+doomed for the Feast of the Moon.</q> And gaining
+courage, added the royal phrase: <q>I have spoken.</q></p>
+
+<p>The three sat motionless. The silence twittered
+and hummed. The shadows swelled. Bakahenzie
+rose slowly and stalked away through the compound.
+Zalu Zako watched his departure without remark
+or expression. After an interval, Marufa also went.</p>
+
+<p>Another person upon whom the news of the
+discovery had had a similar reaction was MYalu.
+Her proximity released the primitive desire to go forth
+and seize her. But such action was arrested by fear
+of the consequences from his fellows to whom the
+tabu was still real, and of the white man, Moonspirit.
+MYalu could never overcome the fiat of the witch-doctors
+while he remained with them. Yonder&mdash;his
+decision to go with Yabolo and Sakamata was
+clinched, but&mdash;he would take Bakuma with him.</p>
+
+<p>Straight to the hut of Bakahenzie, who seemed to
+be expecting him, stalked Marufa. Marufa squatted
+<pb n="189"/><anchor id="Pg189"/>
+solemnly near to him. These catastrophic events
+had caused a general unrest which had weakened the
+discipline of superstition.</p>
+
+<p>There are two types of magicians: those who are
+partially conscious hypocrites, and those who are
+gulled by their own fakes; for he who makes magic
+must be ever ready with an explanation of failure and
+very ingenious in the making. The fool, believing
+in his own medicine, is as much astounded at failure
+as the victim is angry. Bakahenzie and Marufa
+belonged to the first class; yet being of their particular
+mental development they were possessed of beliefs
+just as deeply as the most credulous layman. That
+the wizard, personally, of his own individual power
+could slay an enemy by incantation they did not believe;
+but that the spirit of the Banana or of other inanimate
+objects could do so, they believed most profoundly.
+Their creed was a form of pure animism; the storms,
+the winds, the lightning, trees, rocks, rivers had
+separate and conscious souls; other inanimate objects
+not included in an arbitrary list, had unconscious
+souls, each and every one capable of doing mischief
+or of good; hence the essence of religion in the act
+of imploring the good offices of the most powerful
+spirits, or in moments of exasperation of threatening
+them with dire punishments. Their hypocrisy lay
+not in disbelief but in pretending to the people that
+their intercession with the gods was infallible; they
+knew only too well that the said gods would seldom
+incline an ear to the magician.</p>
+
+<p>Of course nearly every doctor had a slightly different
+dogma, usually based upon an incorrect deduction
+from a false premise. One doctor would place all his
+<pb n="190"/><anchor id="Pg190"/>
+confidence in the spirit of the Banana&mdash;the most
+popular spirit; and another in the spirit of the river,
+because out of a dozen times that he had implored
+aid, five <q>miracles</q> at least had been vouchsafed,
+therefore, argued he, the spirit of the river is the true
+and most powerful god. The arguments of others
+were equally unsound as they were dominated by some
+hidden desire, much as reputable scientists, while
+rejecting phenomena accepted by the populace, cling
+fatuously to a belief in spooks in order to satisfy a
+subconscious desire for immortality, fear of death.</p>
+
+<p>Hence the confusion in the heart of Bakahenzie.
+To him it appeared that the spirits had deserted him
+entirely; to him it seemed that perhaps these white
+men had indeed the true <q>magic,</q> the art of controlling
+the spirits to their will. This terror had urged
+him to the destruction of the white man, Moonspirit.
+Now Zalu Zako had mutinied, and being unaware
+of the powerful impulse from which Zalu Zako had
+gotten this sudden strength, Bakahenzie attributed it
+to the magic influence of Moonspirit. At any cost,
+he argued, must Zalu Zako and the white man be
+kept apart.</p>
+
+<p>But other pressing points were how to accomplish
+the slaughter of the white man, and what he should
+do now after the attempt to kill him had failed. Either
+Moonspirit would flee, which would be most happy proof
+to Bakahenzie that he was an impostor and no magician,
+or he would seek revenge immediately. No other
+action was conceivable to Bakahenzie. Therefore in
+such a case the obvious act was to strike the quicker.
+He contemplated his colleague without looking at
+him. What was his attitude? Bakahenzie, on general
+<pb n="191"/><anchor id="Pg191"/>
+principles, was suspicious. If Marufa thought that by
+supporting the white man he might be able to attain
+Bakahenzie&rsquo;s overthrow and gain the position of chief
+<corr sic="witch doctor"><anchor id="E26"/><ref
+target="e26">witch-doctor</ref></corr>,
+he would do it, even as he, Bakahenzie,
+would have done in his place. Therefore upon these
+matters did he talk very guardedly with Marufa, who
+was unusually reticent. However, after communing
+with himself in sphinx-like gravity, Marufa assented to
+the proposal that Zalu Zako be isolated in the godhood
+immediately.</p>
+
+<p>So the slow rhythmic beat, which was the summons
+to the craft to assemble, throbbed in the clammy air.
+Before the humid shadows had lengthened a hand&rsquo;s
+breadth, were some twenty wizards, greater and lesser,
+fully dressed in the green feathers of the order, collected
+within the compound of Bakahenzie. Silently and
+woodenly they squatted in a half circle before the
+chief witch-doctor, each and every one excited by the
+marvellous stories circulated by the warriors returned
+from the camp of Moonspirit, stories which amply
+corroborated the tales of Mungongo. Those who
+supported Bakahenzie&rsquo;s party believed implicitly,
+because they wished so to do, the <q>reason</q> for the
+impotence of their united magic to be the breaking of
+the magic circle by Bakuma. But others who cherished
+personal ambitions for the head witch-doctorship
+were suspicious of each other and of Bakahenzie, each
+one according to his grade and consequent knowledge
+in the craft.</p>
+
+<p>When the drum had ceased and they sat in impressive
+silence, Bakahenzie, squatting motionless on the
+threshold of his hut, began to mutter incantations and
+to rock from side to side. Now every one of the inner
+<pb n="192"/><anchor id="Pg192"/>
+cult knew well enough that this performance was
+merely a ceremony prescribed by tradition and
+expediency; yet for that very reason and particularly
+for the benefit of the lesser wizards, they solemnly
+accepted it, grunting in chorus as heartily as the others
+to the chant of Bakahenzie. As suddenly as dramatically,
+Bakahenzie stopped with eyes staring upon another
+world and fell upon his back, to scream and to writhe
+realistically as practice assured him. Then when the
+mouth was flecked with foam, the spirit of Tarum spake
+through the rigid body which lay as in catalepsy with
+eyes inverted:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Aie! Aie! I am the spirit of Kintu!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! I am he who first was!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! I am the banana from whom I was made!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! The time of the nuptial draweth nigh!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! But where is the bride of my bed?</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! Let her be found and prepared!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! For my lips are athirst for her blood!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! Let the son of the Snake be anointed!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! Let him be ready to assist at my feast!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! I have spoken, I, the father of Men!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! I, Tarum, the soul of your ancestors!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>From the assembly came the low belly grunt of
+acceptance, for they were, by suggestion, infected
+with the induced hysteria almost as much as the superb
+actor himself; they believed; even the members of
+the inner cult were convinced for the moment that
+indeed the mighty spirit of their ancestors was speaking.</p>
+
+<p>Slowly, with many prodigious grunts and twists, did
+<pb n="193"/><anchor id="Pg193"/>
+Bakahenzie&rsquo;s soul return to his body. He sat up and
+after a long pause said impressively:</p>
+
+<p><q>What hath He said unto you?</q></p>
+
+<p>And Marufa, as solemnly, related all that He had
+said.</p>
+
+<p><q>Eh!</q> said Bakahenzie tonelessly, <q>it is even as
+I have prophesied. These indeed are the words of
+wisdom. Is it not so, O my brethren?</q> Again
+came the low grunt of assent. <q>Let us obey, that
+these foul spirits may pass and the Unmentionable
+One return unto his children!</q></p>
+
+<p>Then, according to custom, all save those of the
+inner cult arose and went forth silently. In the heart
+of Yabolo, as he squatted as expressionless as the
+others, was satisfaction, for he saw, or thought he saw,
+that Eyes-in-the-hands would be pleased with the
+destruction of a man who might possibly become his
+rival; and on that principle imagined himself introduced
+by his relative, Sakamata, to Eyes-in-the-hands
+as the slayer, or initiator of the slaying, of his rival,
+Moonspirit. That Zalu Zako should be anointed
+King-God suited him as well as the other wizards and
+for the same reason. Therefore Yabolo for once
+raised no objection to the behests of Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p>Already from the encampment rose the excited
+voices of the warriors who had been informed of the
+decision of the assembly of wizards. But the shadows
+were long. The forest was even more thickly peopled
+with spirits than their own park-like country. One
+of the inner cult of five suggested that the attack be
+made at dawn; but Bakahenzie, still baited by uncertainty
+regarding the reality of the magic of Moonspirit
+and the possible influence of Zalu Zako now that he
+<pb n="194"/><anchor id="Pg194"/>
+had apparently developed a will of his own before they
+could shut him up in the godhead, was for immediate
+action, and insisted that they call together the warriors
+and make special magic to protect them from the forest
+demons. Yabolo, as anxious as Bakahenzie, became his
+ally in urging that this be done. But Marufa was
+not at all of this way of thinking. While the fate of
+Zalu Zako was quite immaterial, his attitude to Moonspirit
+was much the same as the young man&rsquo;s, but
+prompted by a different motive; a power possible to
+utilize for his benefit. But he said no word, listening
+indifferently apparently to the throbbing of the drums
+summoning the warriors. When the inner circle
+broke up he stalked solemnly to his own hut, but when
+he was within he took from a gourd a special amulet,
+slipped through a hole in the palisade behind the hut,
+and disappeared into the forest.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD18" type="chapter">
+<pb n="195"/><anchor id="Pg195"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 18</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>Meanwhile the object of Bakahenzie&rsquo;s political
+perplexities was also holding a council of war.
+Mungongo and Bakuma were divided in opinion. The
+former had recovered his complete confidence in
+Moonspirit. After the repulse of the greatest magician
+and his warriors he became filled with a martial ardour
+and strongly advocated advancing upon the village
+immediately. Birnier smiled and considered. As a
+matter of fact the plan was not so utterly insane as it
+appeared. Did he follow up swiftly upon the heels
+of the terror-stricken warriors the probability was that
+the whole camp would be infected by the spirit of panic
+and bolt. However, he could not see any object to
+be attained by stampeding the village. Mungongo,
+ever eager for a miracle, urged that Moonspirit should
+take upon him the spirit form and descend upon them
+at night. To his disgust Moonspirit refused, so
+Mungongo retired to the fire and consoled himself by
+another vivid description of the powers of his master&mdash;growing
+every day!&mdash;to Bakuma, who sat and
+listened dully with ever an anxious eye and ear upon
+the forest trail.</p>
+
+<p>Bakuma was obsessed by terror inspired by the fact
+that Bakahenzie had discovered her presence; the
+inherent awe of the witch-doctor which had been
+temporarily allayed by the presence of the white, was
+revived, as well as the inevitability of her doom. Only
+<pb n="196"/><anchor id="Pg196"/>
+the strict injunctions of Moonspirit prevented her
+fleeing through the jungle to take refuge in some distant
+goatherd village. She was convinced the wizard
+would soon find out where she had gone; for she was
+persuaded that Bakahenzie had discovered her former
+hiding place by magic divination, maintaining as proof
+that although she had been as usual completely hidden
+in the undergrowth, Bakahenzie had walked directly
+to her.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier foresaw that the situation might become
+serious. Bakahenzie&rsquo;s attitude was one of suspicion
+based, he guessed correctly, on professional jealousy.
+The finding of Bakuma had probably been more of an
+excuse to assail the possible rival and thus to satisfy
+this subconscious death wish. Now, reckoned Birnier,
+Bakahenzie would probably be more exasperated than
+ever at the triumph of the said rival&rsquo;s magic. He
+would therefore, knowing the strength of the driving
+force of religious conviction, endeavour to play upon
+the emotions of the tribe by advocation of the efficacy
+of appeasing their fallen god by the sacrifice of the girl,
+and so work them up to an exalted state of fanaticism
+to attack in force; an additional stimulant to such
+action on their part would be the unconscious satisfaction
+in slaying the <q>brother</q> of the one who had
+invaded their country, Eyes-in-the-hands.</p>
+
+<p>Another point was that the more a person is scared
+the less easy it is for him to forgive, hence the greater
+resistance to the overtures of amity. Beyond the
+partially formed idea to overset zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s petty
+sovereignty was the strictly professional one of studying
+from the most intimate view-point possible a system
+of primitive theology of a most complex and illuminating
+<pb n="197"/><anchor id="Pg197"/>
+kind. The main object to be attained therefore
+was resolved by the best method calculated to win the
+friendship and confidence of all concerned, particularly
+of Bakahenzie. To Birnier, who was not as yet
+conversant with the system, Bakahenzie seemed of less
+importance than Zalu Zako, the King-God, or
+potential King-God. Yet apparently he could not
+hope to approach Zalu Zako without overcoming
+the opposition offered by Bakahenzie. To give up
+little Bakuma to the sacrificial orgy was unthinkable;
+such an act would have appeared to him
+tantamount to sacrificing the girl to attain his own
+ends.</p>
+
+<p>For precaution he placed two of his men as pickets
+in the jungle to give warning of any surprise, although
+he did not consider that they would be likely to renew
+the attack that day; then, as usual when in difficulties,
+he retired to his tent for a smoke. As he browsed
+upon his estimable friend Burton, his eyes caught a
+paragraph upon cures for love melancholy recommended
+by the amiable doctor.</p><lb/>
+
+<p><q>Lemnius, imstit. cap 58. admires rue and commends
+it to have excellent virtues, to expel vain imaginations,
+devils and to &hellip; Other things are much magnified
+by writers, as an old cock, a ram&rsquo;s head, a wolf&rsquo;s heart
+borne or eaten, which Mercurialis approves: Prosper
+Altinus, the water of the Nile; Gomesius, all sea
+water, and at seasonable times to be sick &hellip; the
+bone in a stag&rsquo;s heart, a monocerot&rsquo;s horn &hellip;</q></p><lb/>
+
+<p>He glanced up to see Bakuma squatting disconsolately
+by the fire listening to the hundredth repetition
+<pb n="198"/><anchor id="Pg198"/>
+of his wonder working according to Mungongo. The
+outline of her rounded back and hunched shoulders,
+the bronze hands clasped beneath the chin and the
+misty brown eyes apprehensively regarding the trail
+was a sculpture of melancholy. He smiled as he
+reflected that the devils and witches of Chrysostom
+and Paracelsus were as real to them as the forest spirits
+and the magic of Bakahenzie to this girl. After all
+some of these concoctions sounded as if they should
+most certainly appeal to Bakahenzie and his brethren
+of the craft. He wandered off into a reverie, wondering
+why it was that superstition is so hard to eradicate from
+the human mind. In Birnier was a strain of humorous
+melancholy which appreciated the comedy of human
+marionettes made to dance to the legion of devils and
+bugaboos invented by themselves, and as a stimulant
+to the dominant scientific absorption was the knowledge
+that upon him and his fellows depended their
+only hope of release&mdash;which was the greater reason
+that Bakahenzie should slay him, he added whimsically,
+did he but know it!</p>
+
+<p>Moved by the ever-present curiosity to know what
+was going on inside other people&rsquo;s minds, he called
+Bakuma and Mungongo to him, observing the sprightly
+action of the boy moved by his faith in him for his good
+in contrast to the dull movements of the girl in her
+lack of confidence to make for her good. And when
+they were come to him and were seated on the ground
+at his feet he said to Bakuma:</p>
+
+<p><q>Wherefore hast thou the black bird within thy
+breast, O Bakuma?</q></p>
+
+<p>She gazed up at him with the pathetic pleading of a
+gazelle.</p>
+<pb n="199"/><anchor id="Pg199"/>
+
+<p><q>Do not birds seek the broken twigs for the building
+of nests, O Moonspirit?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Truly, but why are the branches of thy tree rotted
+and broken?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>When the axe of the peasant pecks at the roots of
+the tree dost thou think then that the sap runs the more
+swiftly, knowing?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>A devil hast told thee this thing, O Bakuma.
+When the sun was but a man&rsquo;s height did not a jackal
+break out of the forest seeking to devour, and yet the
+chicken was neither hurt nor taken. Are these not
+white words?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Truly, O Moonspirit,</q> acknowledged Bakuma
+reluctantly.</p>
+
+<p><q>Was not then the magic of Moonspirit more
+potent than that of thy wizards?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Thy words are white,</q> she admitted.</p>
+
+<p><q>Wherefore then hast thou ashes in thy mouth?</q></p>
+
+<p>Bakuma dismally contemplated Birnier&rsquo;s booted
+leg.</p>
+
+<p><q>Eh!</q> grunted the sophisticated Mungongo, <q>to
+those who live on the mountain the crocodile is
+not!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Open thy breasts unto me, O Bakuma,</q> said
+Birnier.</p>
+
+<p><q>Clk!</q> she gasped, making a little gesture of
+hopelessness. <q>When the sun shines are not the
+flowers open? But when the night hath come where
+are the flowers? The deer feed on sweet pastures, but
+when the shadow of the lion falleth upon the grass hath
+not a great cloud come over the world?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But thy lion hath fled, O Bakuma!</q></p>
+
+<p>She gazed at the white man with curious wonderment
+<pb n="200"/><anchor id="Pg200"/>
+at the stupidity of one failing to comprehend the
+simplest problem. She sighed and then as if with
+much patience for another&rsquo;s shortcomings:</p>
+
+<p><q>Thou hast strong magic, O white man,</q> said she,
+<q>magic that makes the magic of Bakahenzie to fall as
+water. Yet was the daughter of Bakala not found by
+divination? Was the daughter of Bakala not revealed
+to be the bride of the Banana by divination? There
+shall be made magic that the voice of the one shall be
+obeyed. Eh! Aiee! Aie!</q></p>
+
+<p>The brown eyes welled opals which splashed upon a
+bronze breast. As Birnier watched her, pity stimulated
+a desire to relieve this symbol of self-torture, and
+he thought of a favourite passage in the <q>Anatomy</q>:</p><lb/>
+
+<p><q>Ay, but we are more miserable than others, what
+shall we do? Beside private miseries, we live in
+perpetual fear and danger; for epithalamiums, for
+pleasant music, that fearful noise of ordnance, drums,
+and warlike trumpets still sounding in our ears; instead
+of nuptial torches, we have the firing of towns and
+cities; for triumph, lamentations; for joy, tears.</q></p><lb/>
+
+<p><q>Well, Bakuma,</q> said he in English, smiling
+covertly, <q>we&rsquo;ll see if we can&rsquo;t get you the nuptial
+torches!</q></p>
+
+<p>Bakuma gazed at him perplexedly with big eyes.</p>
+
+<p><q>Already Moonspirit begins the incantation of
+mighty magic,</q> explained Mungongo solemnly.</p>
+
+<p><q>Eh!</q> murmured Bakuma expectantly.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier smoked and pondered. The walls of the
+forest were growing closer in the beginning of twilight.
+The soul of fear, reflected Birnier, dwells in the
+<pb n="201"/><anchor id="Pg201"/>
+unknown. Reveal the god in the machine and the
+mystery dies. To Bakuma he said:</p>
+
+<p><q>Listen, O Bakuma, I would speak heavy words to
+thee. When thou puttest the seed of the gourd into
+the ground then within half a moon there appears the
+plant of the gourd; is it not so?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Truly,</q> answered Bakuma disinterestedly.</p>
+
+<p><q>Is that then magic?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Eh!</q> commented Bakuma, as in astonishment.
+<q>Nay, how could that be? Does not the soul of the
+plant grow even as a child grows?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Good. Turn thine eyes to me.</q> Bakuma
+watched the operation of striking and lighting a match
+with indifference. <q>Then is this fire which I make
+done by magic?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Truly.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And thou, Mungongo, what thinkest thou?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Moonspirit tickles the souls of my feet!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>H&rsquo;m.</q> Birnier repressed a smile. <q>Thou
+knowest that my words are white?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Truly.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Then I tell thee that this is not done by magic.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh! Ehh!</q> chorused the twain.</p>
+
+<p><q>This thing on the end of this thing which you call
+a magic fire twig is made of&mdash;of&mdash;is made of several
+kinds of&mdash;of earth found in the&mdash;earth, and when<corr
+sic="&qdash;"><anchor id="E27"/><ref
+target="e27">&mdash;</ref></corr>and
+when&qdash;</q> He sought frantically for native
+words which were not, <q>the two are brought together&mdash;as
+one strikes a spear&qdash;</q> Birnier hesitated,
+finding himself as perplexed as a psychologist endeavouring
+to explain the abstract working of consciousness
+in concrete words. <q>When one strikes a spear
+upon a rock there is an eye of fire, is it not so?</q></p>
+<pb n="202"/><anchor id="Pg202"/>
+
+<p>Mungongo&rsquo;s eyes dimly reflected a growing horror.
+Bakuma stared.</p>
+
+<p><q>The magic of Bakahenzie,</q> murmured Mungongo.</p>
+
+<p><q>Already is his soul bewitched,</q> muttered Bakuma.</p>
+
+<p><q>Is it not so?</q> persisted Birnier.</p>
+
+<p><q>Aye,</q> admitted Mungongo, moving uneasily and
+speaking as if humouring a dangerous lunatic. <q>It is
+the eye of the angry spirit of the rock.</q></p>
+
+<p>Birnier saw his danger and made another effort.</p>
+
+<p><q>Even so. Also thou knowest that thou canst make
+fire by the rubbing together of two sticks. Is that
+then magic also?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Truly,</q> continued Mungongo in the same tone.
+<q>Can the spirits of the souls of the twigs be summoned
+without the incantations by the Keeper of Fires?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>O my God!</q> groaned Birnier, sotto voce, and
+he abandoned the effort to explain combustion.
+<q>Thus is it then with these that ye call the magic
+fire twigs.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Even as we have said,</q> asserted Mungongo
+triumphantly.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier lapsed into silent defeat. Bakuma began to
+edge away. As Mungongo rose came a stifled scream
+from Bakuma who sprang to her feet and dashed
+towards the tent; then as if recollecting that her
+saviour had been bewitched by Bakahenzie, fled into
+the gloom beyond. Mungongo had seized a spear
+stuck in the earth near to him. As appeared the
+wizened figure of Marufa, who saluted as he squatted
+in the native manner, Birnier recollected that he had
+been with Bakahenzie and wondered what he wanted.
+Mungongo replaced his spear and came to the tent.</p>
+
+<p><q>Greeting, O son of MTungo!</q></p>
+<pb n="203"/><anchor id="Pg203"/>
+
+<p>Marufa mumbled the orthodox return.</p>
+
+<p><q>Thou hast need of Moonspirit?</q> demanded
+Mungongo, some of his officious confidence in Birnier
+returning.</p>
+
+<p><q>Doth the leopard go to the goat pen to seek nuts?</q>
+grumbled the old man. He tapped out snuff slowly
+and grunted.</p>
+
+<p>Presently said Marufa:</p>
+
+<p><q>Moonspirit is the brother of Eyes-in-the-hands?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Nay,</q> answered Birnier, wondering at the persistency
+of this idea. <q>Eyes-in-the-hands is of another
+tribe ten moons distant from Moonspirit.</q></p>
+
+<p>Marufa grunted. Another long pause. Then:</p>
+
+<p><q>The magic of Moonspirit hath blunted the spears
+of Bakahenzie?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Even so,</q> said Birnier modestly.</p>
+
+<p><q>The son of Maliko maketh much magic that the
+bride of the Banana be taken from the white stranger.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The monkey makes many faces and much noise, but
+does he eat up the leopard?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The bite of the spear is more deadly than the
+bleat of a goat,</q> retorted Marufa.</p>
+
+<p><q>Doth the wise man eat the heart of a goat to gain
+courage?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The louder the lion roars the less teeth has he!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But only the fool opens his mouth to see how many
+he has!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The wise father examines the grain of the tusks
+before he sells his daughter.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But the wise man sees the daughter before he
+offers the tusks!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ugm!</q></p>
+
+<p>Marufa took more snuff and contemplated the
+<pb n="204"/><anchor id="Pg204"/>
+interior of the tent where a native was lighting a lamp.
+Birnier reflected. Evidently Marufa had come with
+an object and had inferred that he had something to
+bargain about. What was it? Also he wanted to be
+sure that he was setting his trap at the right pool.
+Birnier decided that he was probably acting on his own
+initiative and willing to conspire against Bakahenzie.
+An impulse to experiment upon him as he had upon
+Mungongo and Bakuma was repressed, for from the
+previous effort he had cemented the conclusion that
+it was impossible to explain rational phenomena to
+irrational minds; that as ever the adventurous
+champion of reason would be either regarded as
+insane or inspired; that which is not comprehended is
+divine or ridiculous. However, through Marufa might
+come a suggestion for the tactics of campaign to gain
+the good-will of Bakahenzie or Zalu Zako and the
+attainment of his scientific object&mdash;as well as to give
+Bakuma the torches he had promised her. Whether
+I will or no, he reflected smiling in the dark, must I
+be either a magician or a fool. Fools get nowhere;
+witch-doctors do here as elsewhere. He saw that
+in order to influence these peoples or any others, he had
+perforce to work in terms of their own understanding,
+as the early Christian missionaries practised in their
+conversion of the Teutons, the Scandinavians and the
+Britons. A nucleus of a plan had been given by
+Mungongo&rsquo;s impetuous suggestion. He decided to
+develop it. But through Marufa, who first of all must
+be impressed with the fact that Moonspirit was the
+greatest magician the world had ever seen. So
+therefore he called to the native within: <q>O Bakombi,
+put out the light.</q> And to Marufa: <q>O wise man,
+<pb n="205"/><anchor id="Pg205"/>
+thunder has not always lightning. Behold! I am part
+of that which is and is not!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Clk!</q></p>
+
+<p>A click of astonishment was squeezed from Marufa
+by the chance mystic phrase which was interpreted by
+him as referring to the Unmentionable One.</p>
+
+<p>Then taking out his metal box of vestas Birnier
+moistened one. As he rubbed around his eyes Marufa,
+who was expecting a miracle, observed the growing
+phosphorescence in stoical calm, while Mungongo,
+delighted at the long deferred proof of his boasts,
+grunted admiringly.</p>
+
+<p>But when a glowing skeleton hand, which Birnier
+had prepared behind his back, hovered over the old
+wizard&rsquo;s head, he grunted and made a slight convulsive
+movement.</p>
+
+<p><q>Have no fear, O my friend,</q> came Birnier&rsquo;s voice,
+<q>the spirit loves my friends and destroys my enemies.</q></p>
+
+<p>That belly grunt had registered the degree of
+impression that Birnier sought. So he lighted the
+lamp, bade the excited Mungongo to bring out the
+phonograph, a machine adjusted with the recording
+cylinders as well as the reproduction, and after a
+successful demonstration of magic, discussed with
+Marufa a certain scheme to which the old wizard, quick
+to see the possibilities, afforded many invaluable
+suggestions.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD19" type="chapter">
+<pb n="206"/><anchor id="Pg206"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 19</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>When Zalu Zako was notified of the verdict of
+the Council and the words of Tarum the sense
+of the inevitable returned, extinguishing the spark of
+rebellion that had been kindled by his passion for
+Bakuma. To Bakahenzie, or to the wizards separately,
+or collectively, he had had the strength to voice his own
+desires, but to the veritable voice of Tarum was no
+resistance dared. He was bidden to preside by right
+and precedent at the anointing of the warriors. He
+did not make any feint at refusal, for his will was
+crushed, as it had been weeks before by the doom of
+godhood and celibacy.</p>
+
+<p>Beyond the fact that Bakuma would soon be forbidden
+to him for ever, he did not think; desire was
+strangled. Even the recollection that Bakahenzie had
+stated that Moonspirit had taken her gave him no
+reaction. To him as to his brethren, while in physical
+love is bound up the control of the universe, because
+it is vaguely apprehended as a creative force, it is of no
+importance to the individual lover unless he be guilty
+of breaking the sexual tabu: if the girl is not a consenting
+party to the illicit union then she is free; if
+she is, then it is death to both of them, for as every one
+knows, such criminal action endangers the balance of
+the burden of the world upon the shoulders of the
+King-God. Thus it was that the words of Bakahenzie
+had produced no reaction against Moonspirit in the
+<pb n="207"/><anchor id="Pg207"/>
+mind of Zalu Zako; indeed, if the words were true
+and he could yet obtain Bakuma, she might have a son
+by the white which would obviously bring the marvellous
+power of white magic to his successor, the next
+King-God; and possibly, had mused Zalu Zako, dimly
+straining at such a radical thought against the influence
+of the priesthood, make the king more powerful a
+magician than the witch-doctors themselves.</p>
+
+<p>But he obeyed the mandate and took his place as
+bidden. Bakahenzie had caused preparation to be
+begun immediately for the ceremony of making
+enchantment against the spirits of the night. In the
+circle of cleared ground, where sat the temporary
+Council of Elders, big fires were lighted as the dark
+wall of the forest drew in upon them. Bakahenzie
+squatted before a big calabash, specially reserved and
+enchanted for the making of magic, in which a mess of
+certain herbs whose spirits were violent haters of the
+demons of all trees, rocks and streams, were to be
+released from the vegetable bondage by stewing that
+they might be distributed among the warriors for the
+night assault. These warriors, some fifty chosen
+from the followers of Bakahenzie and Marufa, sat on
+their hams within the circle of fires, uneasily casting
+glances behind them at the deepening sepia, from
+whence arose the nocturnal chant of the spirits of the
+forest. In order to insure no interference from
+malign animals, Bakahenzie caused to be brought a pure
+white goat whose throat was cut and bled into the
+cauldron; for as any one knows, that soul which is
+white must necessarily fight well against anything that
+be black. Yet in spite of this potent magic the
+warriors grew unquiet; they felt, rather than thought,
+<pb n="208"/><anchor id="Pg208"/>
+that if the magic of their witch-doctors had failed
+against one white why should it succeed against another
+like unto him? And their faith thus weakened,
+doubts regarding the efficacy of the same magic against
+spirits of the forest bred as mosquitoes after rain.</p>
+
+<p>Bakahenzie remarked the uneasiness, but the stronger
+grew his need to restore the waning confidence in his
+powers by removing the white; the blood desire had
+now been transferred from Bakuma to Moonspirit as
+the most effective demonstration possible to him.</p>
+
+<p>The fires smouldered and flickered yellow tongues
+upon the greens of the warriors&rsquo; bodies and the blues of
+the wizards&rsquo; head-dresses. Faint blue vapour swirled
+around the scarlet feather above Bakahenzie&rsquo;s graven
+face as he muttered incantations and stirred the
+cauldron. Then as the drums throbbed and the
+warriors grunted rhythmically to Bakahenzie&rsquo;s song of
+enchantment came a squawk as of a parrot. The chant
+ceased. Branches rustled. Every head quirked automatically
+towards the sound. Came a low belly grunt
+of terror as if an invisible hand had punched them in
+their solar <corr sic="plexes"><anchor id="E28"/><ref
+target="e28">plexus</ref></corr>.</p>
+
+<p>Just in the shadow line where the glow of the fires
+faintly tinted and greened the curves of his bronze body
+against the sepia of his feathers, appeared the figure of
+Marufa, his spear lifted on high as he cried out in a
+loud voice:</p>
+
+<p><q>Greetings, O people of the Banana, I bring you
+tidings of him who is and is not, of him who was lost
+and yet is come. &lsquo;Behold, I show you a sign!&rsquo;</q></p>
+
+<p>Against the gloom his left arm and hand glowed with
+a strange light. An unanimous <q>Ehh!</q> rose from
+the assembled warriors and wizards alike.</p>
+<pb n="209"/><anchor id="Pg209"/>
+
+<p><q>Raise your ears!</q> continued Marufa, <q>that the
+Voice may speak unto you!</q></p>
+
+<p>In the silence came a subdued click and commenced
+a high-pitched voice in the dialect:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Aie! Aie! I am the spirit of Kintu!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! I am he who first was!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! I am the Banana from whom I was made!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>Whites of eyes glimmered like butterflies in starlight.
+Nothing was visible. The voice appeared to
+rise from every direction. The new miracle petrified
+the limbs of all.</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Aie! Aie! My soul is defiled and my children enslaved!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! My face hath been scratched by an alien claw!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! I send you the revenge which is white!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! I send you the One who is bidden!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! Let that One arise who is I!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! The mighty One who will blot out the curse!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! I have spoken, I, the Father of Men!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aie! I, Tarum; the soul of your Ancestors!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>A faint whirr as of wings was drowned in the automatic
+grunt of acceptance squeezed from all the
+warriors and the wizards by the sacred chant, except
+those of the inner circle. In dread sat the warriors of
+the terrible magic of their doctors which they had once
+doubted. But the minds of Bakahenzie, Yabolo, and
+the other two master craftsmen were stunned. The
+<pb n="210"/><anchor id="Pg210"/>
+phenomenon of the glowing hand had they never seen
+before, but they recollected the stones of Mungongo.
+Even was Sakamata, sophisticated to the wonders of
+Eyes-in-the-hands, impressed and bewildered. Dormant
+awe for the Unmentionable One was awakened
+in every one of them. Zalu Zako felt that his doom
+was upon him; that the Unmentionable One was about
+to call him to his duty, which invoked fear for the
+sacrilege he had committed in entertaining such
+radical thoughts in the immediate past. But in
+Bakahenzie was a streak of suspicion; how was it that
+Marufa was thus chosen as the divine messenger? Yet
+perhaps the veritable god was, or gods were, speaking!
+Doubt held him silent.</p>
+
+<p><q>O my brethren, would ye that we seek the voice
+of the Unmentionable One?</q> cried Marufa.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ough! Ough!</q> grunted the wizards.</p>
+
+<p>Marufa stalked slowly to the nearest fire, muttering
+a spell. From his loin cloth he took the three digital
+bones of an enemy and proceeded to discover the
+whereabouts by geomancy. And behold! the fingers
+pointed in one direction which all could see. Oblivious
+to the tight indifference of Bakahenzie the old
+man rose and began to gyrate, mumbling incantations,
+towards a thicket of grass on the fringe of the
+undergrowth, holding aloft the magic bones in the
+glowing hand. Anxiously the assembly watched the
+skinny figure, half bent, glide out from the glow of the
+fires into the blue shadows. A small log collapsed,
+throwing a red gleam upon the form poised upright
+before the clump of grass as Marufa cried out:</p>
+
+<p><q>Let him who-may-not-be-mentioned speak that
+his children may hear!</q></p>
+<pb n="211"/><anchor id="Pg211"/>
+
+<p>Immediately commenced a high voice chanting:</p>
+
+<p><q>Take up, O Marufa, the wise, the pod of my soul!</q></p>
+
+<p>Then in the sight of every man Marufa bent upon
+his knees, muttering, and arose unharmed. Save for
+the slow turn of each head the better to follow the
+progress of the magician no limb nor muscle moved as
+in silence Marufa bore the like of which had never
+before been seen; a thing like unto a stone, having
+an ear almost as large and as erect as an angry elephant,
+the colour of a lion yet hairless. <q>The pod of the soul</q>
+Marufa placed within the circle of the fires so that all
+should see. More incantations did Marufa make,
+sitting fearlessly; he caressed it as a young man caresses
+a maid and came forth again the voice of Tarum:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Rejoice, O my children, for he that is bidden shall come!</l>
+  <l>Rejoice, O ye warriors, for he that shall lead you shall come!</l>
+  <l>Rejoice, O ye wizards, for he that is greater than ye shall come!</l>
+  <l>Rejoice, O ye women, for he that fertilizes shall come!</l>
+  <l>He shall eat up your enemies as a lion eateth buck.</l>
+  <l>He shall make your dead to be seen and your phantoms to talk!</l>
+  <l>He shall give to your women to have sons of your breed!</l>
+  <l>He shall give you that which was slain on the hill!</l>
+  <l>He that walks in a flame in the night!</l>
+  <l>He that is whiter than the flesh of the baobab!</l>
+  <l>He shall come forth bearing that which ye seek!</l>
+  <l>He shall come forth bearing that which is yours!</l>
+  <l>Hear me, my people, and give voice to my word!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+<pb n="212"/><anchor id="Pg212"/>
+
+<p><q>Ough! Ough!</q> came the chorus of assent.</p>
+
+<p>Not a limb nor a hand moved among the concourse
+of warriors and wizards until a new voice, deep, as one
+who commands, cried out:</p>
+
+<p><q>Let the son of Kawa Kendi, the son of MFunya
+MPopo, the son of MKoffo, move not; neither he nor
+Marufa, the son of MTungo! Unto ye others we say
+unto you, depart that we speak in peace with this
+our son and priest!</q></p>
+
+<p>And simultaneously appeared in the gloom of the
+undergrowth three pairs of eyes as luminous as the glowworm,
+vaster than any human; and beside the souls
+of the dead King-Gods were terrible hands. Warriors
+and wizards, all save Bakahenzie and Zalu Zako,
+literally leaped for the forest and village in one convulsive
+bound and grunt. Zalu Zako had remained
+upon the ground, green with terror. Bakahenzie
+stood upright, his scarlet feather fluorescent in the fire-glow.
+The anthem of the forest was only broken by
+the rustle of branches and the breathing of Zalu Zako
+and Bakahenzie. A harsh voice cried:</p>
+
+<p><q>Begone, Bakahenzie, son of a dog! Lest we take
+thy soul to be with us!</q></p>
+
+<p>The eyes appeared to float nearer; hands pointed
+menacingly. Bakahenzie boggled; hesitated; then
+the dignity of his pose melted into the graceful bounds
+of a fleeing leopard. Even for the professional ghost
+manipulator, such a phenomenon of the spirits, with
+whom he was supposed to be on familiar terms, was
+demoralizing. But half-way through a thicket of
+undergrowth, where he could no longer see the horrific
+eyes, his courage began to return.</p>
+
+<p>To his ears came a new voice chanting:</p>
+<pb n="213"/><anchor id="Pg213"/>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Sweeter than warm honey is the scent of my man!</l>
+  <l>Fiercer than scorpions is the grip of his hand!</l>
+  <l>Whiter than a spear flash is the gleam of his teeth!</l>
+  <l>Smoother than river stone is the feel of his chest!</l>
+  <l rend="margin-left: 15">Bakuma rejoices!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>Peering through the interstices Bakahenzie could see
+the gleam of the fire upon the bangles of the Son-of-the-Snake
+and the blue flash upon his spear as he melted
+into the forest wall.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD20" type="chapter">
+<pb n="214"/><anchor id="Pg214"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 20</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>The actual sight of spirits from ghostland, of
+which hitherto they had only heard, had been too
+much for the nerves of the tribe already overstrung
+by the overthrow of the idol and the magic and
+slaughter of zu Pfeiffer; the warriors had fled
+like scared poultry to the jungle, up trees, in
+the undergrowth and in their huts, where they
+cowered among their women and slaves, reading
+awful omens and portents in every sound of the
+forest.</p>
+
+<p>The phenomenon had been just as startling and
+awe-inspiring to Bakahenzie as it had been to his most
+ignorant dupe. His belief in ghostland was implicit,
+but now he had seen what, professionally, he was
+supposed to see and converse with on familiar terms.
+As Zalu Zako disappeared he continued to listen
+intently. Above the slight rustle of the bushes as
+the Son-of-the-Snake moved through the undergrowth
+rose a feminine laugh. Bakahenzie&rsquo;s liver was squeezed
+by that sardonic chuckle; for, as is well known, female
+demons are much more malignant than the male. For
+the space of a chant he remained crouching there,
+curiosity and the dread of revealing his terror to his
+fellows tugging at his feet and fear of the demons
+clutching him around the waist. Save the anthem
+of the forest no further sound of the ghosts was
+audible.</p>
+<pb n="215"/><anchor id="Pg215"/>
+
+<p>Cautiously rose Bakahenzie, wriggled out of his
+nest and with as much dignity as maybe, strode back
+to the fire. From the village came a slight whimpering.
+With satisfaction Bakahenzie noted that no one else
+was in sight. For another space he sat with unquiet
+eyes and ears upon the forest. Then gathering
+courage as nothing happened, he pondered upon what
+attitude he should assume.</p>
+
+<p>Yabolo stalked from round a hut and squatting
+calmly beside Bakahenzie, nonchalantly proceeded to
+tap out snuff and offered some to Bakahenzie, who
+grunted acceptance and sniffed with even greater
+indifference. Motionless they continued to sit and
+silently. Bakahenzie wondered whether Yabolo knew
+that he, too, had fled, and Yabolo, who did know,
+waited for the first move on Bakahenzie&rsquo;s part to
+retort.</p>
+
+<p>Yabolo, indeed, who had been as panic-stricken as
+Bakahenzie, was more suspicious in view of the
+accounts he had heard of the magic of Eyes-in-the-hands.
+Who knew but this vision might not be another
+manifestation of Eyes-in-the-hands? And more
+slowly a similar idea began to occur to Bakahenzie,
+save that he had in mind the incident of Moonspirit&rsquo;s
+magic in the face of his bravest warriors. The calmer
+he became the more was he inclined to accept this
+explanation of the apparitions; such was infinitely more
+comforting to him than the conception that they had
+been in truth spirits from ghostland. As the
+doubt grew the wisdom of propitiating this powerful
+Moonspirit became apparent; yet was present the
+dread of loosing what remained of his autocratic
+power. The problem now was to enlist the white
+<pb n="216"/><anchor id="Pg216"/>
+and discover some means of controlling him and his
+magic.</p>
+
+<p>But to both men the vital question was, what had
+become of Zalu Zako? There were two alternatives:
+if the visions had been genuine ghosts, then undoubtedly
+Zalu Zako was dead; but if they had been produced
+through the magic of a white man, then, Bakahenzie
+argued, Zalu Zako and Marufa must be in league with
+Moonspirit, and Yabolo opined that Zalu Zako had
+been captured by Eyes-in-the-hands. To the latter
+the effect was to strengthen the determination to go
+over to Eyes-in-the-hands. If the first possibility
+was correct the greater need had he of strong magic
+if real ghosts were taking to walking abroad visibly, and
+the other case merely proved beyond question the
+invincible magic of Eyes-in-the-hands. But to Bakahenzie
+the reaction was slightly different, for his
+elemental reason took him a little farther than
+Yabolo by pointing out that in all his wide experience
+never had spirits taken demons&rsquo; shape, so that the
+suspicion that they had been due to Moonspirit
+became more plausible, and was supported by the
+recollection of Marufa&rsquo;s unexplained absence and
+sudden reappearance on familiar terms with the
+spirits.</p>
+
+<p>The longer he pondered on the strange actions of
+Marufa the more he was persuaded that that wily
+colleague was acting upon sound information, and
+the tangle of his affairs made him so desperate that
+he decided to gamble upon that assumption: for
+magician Bakahenzie began to realize that Marufa
+had somehow scored a point and that now was
+approaching the crux which would determine whether
+<pb n="217"/><anchor id="Pg217"/>
+he won back or lost for ever that which was the
+essence of life to him.</p>
+
+<p>Meanwhile the two puzzled plotters sat motionless
+and silent as if mutually agreeing that no question
+regarding each other&rsquo;s late movements had better be
+asked.</p>
+
+<p>Accordingly to the depth of his superstition returned
+each witch-doctor. When they were come, without
+one word of explanation, Bakahenzie lifted his voice
+in a high falsetto, bidding the lay warriors to return
+to hear the voice of the elders. Reassured by this
+command which carried far on the still air, they began
+to emerge from hut and undergrowth. The first to
+arrive was MYalu, angry to find the whole assembly
+of wizards apparently sitting as if they had never
+moved, engaged in mystic incantations. MYalu
+had not fled far and from his cranny had seen the
+flight of Bakahenzie and the departure of Zalu Zako,
+but he dared not betray the doctors. He squatted
+sullenly and waited while the remainder of the warriors,
+of whom many had also seen the general stampede,
+filed to their places.</p>
+
+<p>When all were assembled Bakahenzie looked up
+from his spell and bade them to listen to what message
+the faculty&mdash;for obvious policy&rsquo;s sake he included the
+whole of the ghosts&mdash;had received from ghostland by
+the three spirits, emphasising the vision of the magicians
+as proof positive of the terrible power of the craft.
+By reason of the sin committed by one who had broken
+the magic circle, as they all knew, said Bakahenzie,
+had this wrath of the Unmentionable One come upon
+them, permitting the incarnation of a demon, Eyes-in-the-hands,
+to work his will upon them and to
+<pb n="218"/><anchor id="Pg218"/>
+make them slaves, as were their dogs the Wamungo;
+and so in the depth of their tribulation he, Bakahenzie,
+whose magic had been rendered impotent
+by the betrayal of the Bride of the Banana, had
+invoked the spirits of the three, as they all had
+witnessed.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ough! Ough!</q> grunted the warriors in assent,
+although many of them were sorely puzzled to know
+why the doctors themselves had fled. Yabolo began
+to grow restless in his mind. To allow Bakahenzie
+to steal all the thunder and condemn the possible
+source of political power to the level of an evil
+demon was contrary to his policy, but he gave no
+physical sign save to become engrossed in his snuff
+box.</p>
+
+<p>Then Bakahenzie continued with a long harangue
+maintaining the necessity of the consummation of
+the Marriage of the Banana and announced that Zalu
+Zako had been taken by the spirit of his forefathers
+in order to prepare magic for the eating up of the
+terrible Eyes-in-the-hands; that as the voice of
+Tarum had said, Zalu Zako would return with
+<q>That which was slain on the hill&mdash;that which ye
+seek, that which is yours.</q> Although Bakahenzie was
+not sure to what these words had referred, yet he
+was sagacious enough to know that if Marufa had
+engineered that scene, then there must be some
+plan at the back of it, and in any case knew, as any
+white medicine man, that words in mystic phrasing
+are always soul-satisfying to the credulous who interpret
+them in terms of their subconscious desires.
+Then with political prudence he avoided any reference
+to uncomfortable topics, by dismissing the
+<pb n="219"/><anchor id="Pg219"/>
+assembly before any pertinent questions could be
+asked.</p>
+
+<p>But when Bakahenzie had retired to his hut, presumably
+for the night, as Marufa had done before him,
+he girded himself with an amulet containing the gall
+of an enemy killed in battle and a short stabbing spear
+and sallied forth through a hole in the fence to brave
+the spirits of the forests in his need.</p>
+
+<p>In the village generally sleep was not entertained
+with enthusiasm by any save those women and slaves
+who knew not of the great happenings. In the hut
+of Yabolo were MYalu and Sakamata. From the
+old men MYalu received much consolation and advice,
+but no information as to why the wizards had bolted
+as fast as the laymen from ghosts invoked by their
+own magic. Sakamata confirmed authoritatively
+Yabolo&rsquo;s suspicion that the phenomena had been
+produced through the magic of Eyes-in-the-hands,
+urging that they lose no time in going to him to make
+submission. Yabolo had already decided on that
+course, but MYalu refused to give a definite decision
+as to when he would go. He sat sullenly, saying no
+word, and eventually departed to his own hut
+where he dismissed his wives and continued to
+brood.</p>
+
+<p>The fear and rage aroused by the anointing of the
+warriors for the capture of Bakuma had been dissipated
+by the general panic produced by the ghosts.
+Afterwards MYalu had unconsciously hoped, because
+he so desired it, that the pursuit of the Bride would
+be abandoned; hence Bakahenzie&rsquo;s renewal of the
+chase had angered and frightened him anew. As all
+the rest of them, he wondered and pondered upon the
+<pb n="220"/><anchor id="Pg220"/>
+fate of Zalu Zako and Marufa. Marufa, as he well
+knew, had a black heart and two tongues; therefore
+was he suspicious of any manifestation with which the
+son of MTungo could be connected. Zalu Zako was
+wealthy; perhaps he had bribed Marufa to make
+magic in order to enable him to escape the doom of
+the king-godship and to flee to another country with
+Bakuma under the protection of Moonspirit. A
+lover&rsquo;s jealousy is as powerful a driving force as
+ambition. In this case it drove even MYalu to defy
+the spirits of the night, for at the hour of the monkey
+he too stole away into the gloom.</p>
+
+<p>So it was that as the patterned roof of the forest
+was etched in the timid green of dawn peeped MYalu
+through the gate of the zareba of Moonspirit to
+discover the gaunt form of Bakahenzie squatted by
+the embers of a fire within a deserted compound.
+Bakahenzie&rsquo;s quick eyes, on the alert for ghosts or
+any moving thing, saw him; so coldly MYalu advanced
+and sat beside him, grunting the formal
+greeting.</p>
+
+<p>MYalu noted the age of the spoor about the
+compound, the tent peg holes newly pulled. Now
+was he sure that Marufa and Zalu Zako were in
+league with Moonspirit. Wrath smouldered in his
+broad chest. At length spoke Bakahenzie casually:</p>
+
+<p><q>The Bride of the Banana hath been taken away.</q>
+Bakahenzie paused as if weighing his words, and added:
+<q>But the feet of spirits are heavy on the land.</q>
+MYalu grunted. Bakahenzie had an idea and to
+MYalu was born another about the same instant.
+Said Bakahenzie, who wished to know the whereabouts
+of Marufa, Moonspirit and company: <q>If the Marriage
+<pb n="221"/><anchor id="Pg221"/>
+of the Bride be not consummated then will the power
+of Eyes-in-the-hands prevail.</q> And after a long
+pause: <q>Who will seek the Bride?</q></p>
+
+<p>MYalu remained silent, revolving his own notion in
+his mind. There remained with him still many traces
+of the awe and belief in the power and knowledge of
+Bakahenzie, and so his words threatening the triumph
+of Eyes-in-the-hands assured and strengthened his
+purpose; for he thought that if he could accomplish
+his plan then would Eyes-in-the-hands surely triumph
+as Bakahenzie predicted. Thus it was that he
+said:</p>
+
+<p><q>O master of Wisdom, give unto me a mighty
+charm against the evil eye of traitors and will I and
+those that follow me seek the Bride and bring her so
+that which is bidden may be, that the children of the
+Banana may triumph.</q></p>
+
+<p>MYalu rose. The two started on the return to
+the village. On the road Bakahenzie sought to flatter
+MYalu by pretending to take him into his confidence,
+adjuring him to secrecy and informing him that
+he would cause it to be known that MYalu, the
+son of MBusa, would bring back the Bride of the
+Banana. MYalu assented gravely. Just before reaching
+the village his keen eyes noticed a slight trail
+from the regular path. Broken, twisted and crushed
+leaves and strained branches indicated the recent
+passage of two or three people through the undergrowth.</p>
+
+<p>With difficulty, for the Wongolo are not forest
+people, he followed the spoor in a semi-circle towards the
+village and a footprint in the slime revealed the track
+of Zalu Zako or Marufa coming from the fires. MYalu
+<pb n="222"/><anchor id="Pg222"/>
+grunted, but he said nothing to Bakahenzie or anybody
+else. That the vision had been caused by Moonspirit&rsquo;s
+magic he had now no doubt, and his estimation
+of Moonspirit&rsquo;s power increased to the point of terror;
+yet the smouldering jealousy and desire for Bakuma
+drove him dreadfully on.</p>
+
+<p>Before the sun was two spans high MYalu left
+the village with some two hundred of his followers
+anointed against magic and spirits. The track from
+Moonspirit&rsquo;s camp was like an elephant&rsquo;s path.
+Through the steamy heat they followed all day until
+they came out upon a river near to a village upon the
+border of the forest. The headman of the village
+was away with his chief; but women, children and
+slaves remained. Zalu Zako, in the company of a
+white man called Moonspirit, Marufa, the wizard, and
+a girl had arrived, had taken three canoes and had
+left up-stream within a hand&rsquo;s breadth of a shadow.
+MYalu took all the canoes available and started in
+pursuit, leaving the rest of his men to follow as
+soon as they had procured other canoes from the
+nearest village.</p>
+
+<p>The river was small but deep and flowed swiftly
+between the vast curtains of the overhanging trees.
+When the dungeon of the forest was glooming to
+night they saw the gleam of a fire. Swiftly and
+silently they landed, surrounded the camp and uttering
+the war yell, rushed.</p>
+
+<p>But Moonspirit, Zalu Zako or Marufa they
+found not&mdash;only Bakuma with some dozen Wamungo
+carriers. Even the dismal squawk of a Baroto bird
+could not damp the relief and joy of MYalu. Next
+morning he despatched a secret messenger to Yabolo,
+<pb n="223"/><anchor id="Pg223"/>
+making a rendezvous at a certain village and with a
+weeping Bakuma in his train set out to seek the
+rest of his fortune at the camp of Eyes-in-the-hands.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD21" type="chapter">
+<pb n="224"/><anchor id="Pg224"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 21</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>In the village of Bakahenzie was discontent.</p>
+
+<p>The desertion of Sakamata, Yabolo, and three
+chiefs, had corroborated his suspicions of the unfrocked
+priest. That Sakamata had been preaching open
+sedition he had known, yet Bakahenzie was in the situation
+of many a president or prime minister; he had
+feared to put his own position in jeopardy by having
+the offender removed expeditiously. This treachery,
+which synchronised with the time when MYalu should
+have either returned or sent a messenger, implied
+another grave error. All the information he could
+gather was that MYalu had returned through the village
+by the river with the girl Bakuma, some prisoners and
+some of the white man&rsquo;s equipment, on his way to the
+north-east; but no one apparently had seen Zalu Zako,
+Marufa nor the white man.</p>
+
+<p>Bakahenzie was at a loss to discover a plausible
+theory to account for MYalu having kidnapped
+Bakuma, who could not be of any political importance
+to him in going over to Eyes-in-the-hands, but would
+rather prejudice him seriously with the rest of the tribe
+for the sin of sacrilege in taking the Bride of the Banana.
+Shrewd judge of his compatriots though he was, the
+possibility of a love motive never occurred to Bakahenzie.
+A dominating passion in an individual for
+any particular female was rare in the native world;
+attractive wives or concubines were chosen and
+<pb n="225"/><anchor id="Pg225"/>
+bought as one buys a goat or an ox. Bakuma, in her
+capacity as a sacrificial victim, was to him merely a
+good-looking girl, well selected by Marufa for the orgy
+of the Harvest Festival.</p>
+
+<p>Bakahenzie was distraught. He feared that he had
+not the authority to prevent further desertions; he
+did not know how far Sakamata&rsquo;s propaganda had
+permeated; he could not guess what Zalu Zako, Marufa
+and the white man were going to do. As many a
+wise statesman before and after him he adopted a
+policy of <q>wait and see.</q> To provide an exciting
+distraction to keep his constituents amused and from
+thinking too much, he borrowed another political
+tactic of abusing some one vigorously. He called a
+meeting of the faculty and the warriors. There he
+solemnly denounced MYalu as a traitor and accused
+him of the crime of having abducted the Bride of the
+Banana, and consequently as the cause of the continuance
+of the misfortunes of the tribe.</p>
+
+<p>The move was successful, inasmuch that it afforded
+discussion and absorbed wrath for two whole days.
+Various chiefs proposed as many plans. But none
+was taken. Everybody was discontented and
+quarrelsome, as fearful of Eyes-in-the-hands as he
+was of his tribal god; many were impressed by
+the propaganda of Sakamata and Yabolo and the
+impunity with which Yabolo and Sakamata and
+company had quietly gone over to the enemy. Meanwhile
+Bakahenzie squatted in oracular silence, murmuring
+incantations that were prayers to the Unmentionable
+One interlarded with promises of the things
+he would accomplish for the said Deity, with solemnity
+and sincerity, for he felt that the result of Marufa&rsquo;s
+<pb n="226"/><anchor id="Pg226"/>
+intrigue with the magician Moonspirit would mature
+very shortly. What that would be he had no notion;
+only he strained every nerve to be alert when the
+crisis came to snatch from Marufa the advantage that
+wily old man had gained.</p>
+
+<p>On the third day two more chiefs followed in the
+wake of Yabolo. Bakahenzie made no comment, but
+he realised that before long, unless the unknown
+happened, he would be unable to retain any of his
+followers; realised that his one chance lay in procrastination.
+In his despair he began to contemplate an
+alliance with Marufa, even if he had to take a subordinate
+r&ocirc;le&mdash;which would at any rate give him his
+only ally, time, to help checkmate his colleague.</p>
+
+<p>On the next day yet another chief and his men
+departed. Bakahenzie knew that they were like a herd
+of goats and that to stop the stampede he must adopt
+desperate measures. To quell the restlessness which
+murmured ominously throughout the camp he called
+another meeting as soon as the news had come of the
+last desertion. While the drum tapped out the summons
+Bakahenzie sat muttering his most impressive
+spells alone, endeavouring to discover a plausible excuse
+for some sort of excitement to distract the public
+mind.</p>
+
+<p>Slowly and sulkily the remainder of the brethren of
+the craft and those lay chiefs that were left, assembled
+within the circle of fires. Squatted in the prescribed
+order they eyed the figure of Bakahenzie in his red
+and green feathers mumbling incantations with doubt
+and disfavour. Indeed Bakahenzie seemed to them
+the symbol of the fallen god and a past r&eacute;gime; impotent
+and as mistaken as they were. In each and every
+<pb n="227"/><anchor id="Pg227"/>
+one of them were suspicions and fears growing like
+weeds in tropic rain that he had made an error in not
+propitiating the new god in time, an impulse which
+required but a few hours&rsquo; growth to propel them out
+to the north-east after Sakamata and the others.</p>
+
+<p>As they watched in silence Bakahenzie was aware of
+the state of their minds towards him and grew the
+more perplexed in his search for an entertainment
+sufficiently stimulating to postpone the effects of their
+discontent. Sapiently he decided that any more
+messages from Tarum would be unwise in the present
+atmosphere. An idea of a revelation by divination to
+appoint a substitute for Bakuma as the Bride of the
+Banana and thus thrust forward a reason for a feast,
+as there was now no Yabolo to object, was abandoned
+because such an orgy was exclusive to the craft and
+would serve to exasperate the lay chiefs.</p>
+
+<p>His resource suggested a method. Suddenly he
+uttered a piercing yell and fell sideways as in the manner
+of one about to receive a communication from Tarum;
+but instead of the habitual seizure and cries and
+groans he lay rigid and silent. The divergence from
+the usual distracted the doubts of the audience.</p>
+
+<p>The fires flickered and danced to the insectile anthem
+as for twenty minutes or more he lay there as one dead.
+But at the first flutter of inattention among the doctors
+he sat up with closed eyes and called out in a loud
+voice:</p>
+
+<p><q>That which is and must be, shall be!</q></p>
+
+<p>Intuitively he had followed the precept of witch-doctors
+the world over of saying nothing at all in such
+a way that as many interpretations may be deduced
+as there are listeners. Each and every doctor and
+<pb n="228"/><anchor id="Pg228"/>
+chief accordingly saw in these mystic words, as Marufa
+had done in the chance phrase of Moonspirit, that
+which he was most urged to do. Bakahenzie had
+accomplished his temporary object. Once more he
+cried out:</p>
+
+<p><q>Let the children of the Banana be as the wild-cat
+at the fishpool that that which I have prophesied may
+come to pass!</q></p>
+
+<p>The charging of the air with the familiar suggestion
+of magical doings gripped the audience and forced
+from them the conventional grunt of assent.
+Bakahenzie began again to mutter incantations. He
+had, he knew, averted the immediate danger for at
+least another sun, or perhaps two. Now was there
+only to wait and see. But Bakahenzie, as all great
+men, had the distinct vein of luck that follows the
+bold. Even as they squatted there, thoroughly worked
+up for the reception of a miracle, came a rustle among
+the leaves. Every head turned as one to see once more
+the mystic gleam of eyes in the gloom as the voice of
+Marufa cried:</p>
+
+<p><q>Let there be a new fire!</q></p>
+
+<p>From the cavern of the undergrowth emerged a
+white man bearing upon his shoulders a burden which,
+as he staggered into the gleam of the fires, was seen to
+be in form and in shape that of the burned idol.
+Then did Bakahenzie leap to his feet and in one
+stroke recover his lead and fetter his most dangerous
+enemy by proclaiming in a loud voice:</p>
+
+<p><q>Behold! The bearer of the Burden of the World
+even as Bakahenzie hath prophesied!</q></p>
+
+<p>And as Birnier set down the idol, from warrior and
+wizard, with the chief witch-doctor&rsquo;s declaration,
+<pb n="229"/><anchor id="Pg229"/>
+<q>That which is and must be, shall be,</q> echoing in
+their ears, came the deep grunt of acceptance of the
+new King-God of the lost Usakuma, the Incarnation
+of the Unmentionable One.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD22" type="chapter">
+<pb n="230"/><anchor id="Pg230"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 22</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>In the humid heat of the forenoon the small hills
+of Fort Eitel, as zu Pfeiffer had renamed the
+Place of Kings, in the centre of the rased banana
+plantations, resembled scabby pimples upon a shaven
+patch of a green head seething with a verminous activity.</p>
+
+<p>Across the ford of the river came a puckered-faced
+Bakuma in the train of carriers and slaves of MYalu,
+who with Yabolo was coming to make obeisance to
+Eyes-in-the-hands, under the protection of Sakamata.
+To Bakuma there was no joy in the prospect of the
+sight of her old home; the bitter taste of the oleander
+was in her mouth as she trudged despondently with
+downcast head.</p>
+
+<p>But the breast of MYalu was filled with the song
+of the cricket. The terrors that had haunted him
+throughout the journey, of being overtaken by the
+magic of Bakahenzie or his emissaries, for the sacrilege
+of stealing the Bride of the Banana, began to evaporate
+at the approach to his village where now dwelt a new
+god more powerful than any, from whom he was about
+to gain protection, honours, and incidentally the ivory,
+which his anxious eyes pictured still within his hut.
+But when they broke from the outer banana plantation
+a mighty grunt was punched from the chests of Yabolo
+and MYalu at the vision of the half-completed street
+of large huts in the midst of desolation.</p>
+
+<p><q>Eh!</q> quoth Sakamata, <q>is not the way of the
+<pb n="231"/><anchor id="Pg231"/>
+mighty one more wonderful than he who is gone?
+Behold, he maketh a city like unto that of his people,
+a city of gods!</q></p>
+
+<p>But MYalu had no admiration to spare, for to him
+the alleged beauty thereof was fogged by the fact that
+his own huts were but blackened ruins. The next
+moment MYalu, in spite of his native dignity, started
+as one of those uniformed keepers of the coughing
+monsters barked at them magic words.</p>
+
+<p>Sakamata replied. Yabolo and MYalu stiffened as
+they observed the cringe of the shoulders as he fumbled
+hastily within his loin-cloth and presented a piece of
+hard substance, the colour of blue clay with magic
+marks upon it. The demon grunted at them to proceed
+as if talking to a slave. Followed in file the rest
+of the caravan. As Bakuma passed the uniformed
+demon standing with the sword and gun with seven
+voices upon his shoulder, leered, and grunting in a
+strange tongue, stepped forward and spun her round
+by the shoulders. Bakuma cried out in terror and
+the carriers gasped fearfully. MYalu and Yabolo
+wheeled. MYalu&rsquo;s facial scar twitched with rage as
+he raised his spear. But Sakamata clung to his arm
+as the soldier, grinning, raised his rifle in their
+direction. Bakuma ran on. The man laughed and
+turned his back to them, calling out something that
+the Wongolo could not understand.</p>
+
+<p><q>Eh!</q> commented Sakamata indignantly, <q>the
+dog hath eaten poison grass! We will tell his words
+to Eyes-in-the-hands and he will be beaten until
+he stales.</q></p>
+
+<p>MYalu, slightly mollified by this promise of revenge,
+strode on in silence, bewildered and resentful, wondering
+<pb n="232"/><anchor id="Pg232"/>
+at these strange things in the camp of the new god.
+In a large open space resembling a public square, was
+a big unfinished hut: the guest house, Sakamata
+informed them, for those who sought an audience with
+the Invincible One. As they squatted on the floor
+waiting patiently until the sun was two hand&rsquo;s-breadth
+above the hill for the appointed time, food and beer
+were brought to them by a Wamungo slave. Zu
+Pfeiffer was careful to foster the class distinction.
+Sakamata duly held forth upon the generosity of
+Eyes-in-the-hands, the wonder of his works and presence;
+but his words were received in unsympathetic
+silence, for the incident on the road had wounded the
+dignity of both chief and witch-doctor; raised dim
+fears and forebodings.</p>
+
+<p>At length a strange sound rang out on the still hot
+air. The signal, Sakamata explained, that Eyes-in-the-hands
+would receive his guests. Leaving Bakuma
+squatted in the lethargy which appeared to be habitual
+to her now, the three slowly mounted the sacred hill,
+marvelling greatly at the black triangle of the roof of
+the new temple, gazing with veiled suspicion at the
+gleaming brass fittings of the coughing monster in the
+great gate, and eyeing uneasily the double lines of
+uniformed devils, their bayonets flaming in the sun, who
+were drawn up outside the green palace of Eyes-in-the-hands.</p>
+
+<p>On each side of the tent door stood the two tallest
+men in the companies, coal-black forms which towered
+above the slighter build of the Wongolo, as rigid and
+as silent as trees. Through this terrifying guard
+walked Sakamata leading his two compatriots, already
+startled and impressed. Immediately within Sakamata
+<pb n="233"/><anchor id="Pg233"/>
+fell upon his knees. Before them at the end of the
+tent sat zu Pfeiffer in the full dress of his regiment,
+plumed helmet, blazoned uniform and sword; and
+beside him, erect, the two sergeants Schultz and
+Ludwig in full parade uniform. Above them was a
+blaze of red, white and black and in the midst another
+splash of colour. But before this vision had penetrated
+their brains, had risen the voice of Sakamata
+bidding them to kneel likewise. Bewildered and awed
+they obeyed. Then came a voice saying:</p>
+
+<p><q>Rise, approach, O chiefs!</q></p>
+
+<p>Accordingly they arose and following Sakamata,
+advanced and squatted, their eyes dominated and held
+by those myriad gleams of magic <q>eyes</q> on hands and
+wrists. Then the interpreter, standing at attention,
+spoke this harangue tonelessly:</p>
+
+<p><q>Greeting and welcome, children of the Banana!
+Eyes-in-the-hands who is known to the people where
+the sun rises as the Eater-of-Men, hath come from
+afar, the messenger of a greater than he, the Lord of
+the World, the Earthquake, the World Trembler, who
+eats up what he pleases, whose eyes see all things,
+whose sword slays all things, whose breath is the rain,
+whose voice is the thunder, whose teeth are the
+lightning, whose frown is the earthquake, whose smile
+is the sun, whose ear is the moon, whose eyes are the
+stars, whose body is the world! Look upon one soul
+of him which he hath sent that ye may worship and
+know him!</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer raised the jewelled hand above his
+shoulder as the man ceased. From out the medley of
+colours to the unaccustomed native eyes grew slowly
+the form and face of a white man as strangely clothed as
+<pb n="234"/><anchor id="Pg234"/>
+Eyes-in-the-hands, covered with amulets and charms
+upon his breast. For four minutes by his wrist-watch,
+zu Pfeiffer sat silent and as frozen as his sergeants; then
+secretly he pulled a string.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q> grunted Yabolo and MYalu involuntarily,
+for before them appeared even, as Sakamata had related,
+the two souls of every person present. Stunned
+at such a manifestation of magic, they slowly turned
+from one to the other. As silently as they had
+appeared did the visions vanish.</p>
+
+<p><q>O son of MYana, tell the tale of the possession
+of these thy friends and allies,</q> commanded zu
+Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p>Sakamata obeyed. But as he recited the approximate
+number of MYalu&rsquo;s followers, the number of
+his oxen and goats, the number of fine tusks and small,
+the number of wives, concubines, and children, and
+slaves, the eyes of MYalu grew unquiet. Had he
+known that he would be required to render an account
+he would have computed at half the actual amount,
+whereas, in order to impress Sakamata with his importance,
+he had exaggerated to almost double what he
+had ever possessed. Then as Sakamata proceeded to
+perform the same service for Yabolo, relating, by
+arrangement with his relative, about one-third of his
+possession, MYalu observed in a corner a man making
+magic upon a table, a native clerk keeping tally; for
+zu Pfeiffer kept an exact record of every chief&rsquo;s alleged
+possessions, as given by Sakamata and corroborated&mdash;by
+silent consent&mdash;by the said chief, so that when
+afterwards any discrepancy with the said list was discovered,
+the chief was proven a liar and subject to the
+punishment of further confiscation as such, and served
+<pb n="235"/><anchor id="Pg235"/>
+as well to enhance the reputation for omniscience of
+Eyes-in-the-hands.</p>
+
+<p>At the end of the recitals of property, MYalu was
+told, not asked, to bow his head to the ground in token
+of allegiance. He obeyed in bewilderment which
+changed to rage when he was informed that the third
+of his property must be rendered to the august being
+before one sun&rsquo;s delay; that he was to be ready at a
+summons to produce a given number of warriors;
+and that his small and only son was immediately to be
+placed in the <q>village of sons of chiefs</q> as guaranty of
+obedience and good behaviour.</p>
+
+<p>In a mist of fright, anger and awe, he sat motionless.
+Sakamata proceeded to relate the doings of Zalu Zako
+and those who had remained faithful to him. Zu
+Pfeiffer had fairly precise information from spies of
+the movements of the Wongolo since the return of
+Sergeant Ludwig, who had burned the village of
+<corr sic="Yangonyama"><anchor id="E32"/><ref
+target="e32">Yagonyana</ref></corr>,
+but shortage of men and the serious
+disadvantage of traversing and fighting in the forest
+had prevented him from sending another punitive
+expedition. Also had he heard of a white man who had
+passed through the country. Sakamata, native-like,
+eager to placate, asserted that he had actually seen the
+white man who was called Moonspirit, and from the
+same motive, ever wishing to flatter, announced positively
+that he had no magic at all, was dark and small
+and a trader, the only kind of white man other than
+the military at Ingonya of whom Sakamata had ever
+seen.</p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer stroked his left moustache and reflected.
+He had at first thought that the man might possibly
+be Saunders, a trader who was in his pay, but now
+<pb n="236"/><anchor id="Pg236"/>
+decided that he was probably some new trader or
+hunter from the Tanganyika district. He instructed
+Sakamata that he was to send a messenger to this white
+man and command him to come to him immediately.
+Then waving the imperious jewelled hand, he dismissed
+them. But noticing the sullen countenance of
+MYalu, he drew Sergeant Schultz&rsquo;s attention, ordering
+him to mark the man and if the tax was not forthcoming
+quickly, to have him given fifty lashes. Silently
+Schultz saluted.</p>
+
+<p>So it was that MYalu, sulky, smouldering with anger
+against Sakamata, for he felt that he had been betrayed
+into a trap, followed Yabolo out into the sun. Not
+only had he not gotten back his ivory left in the village,
+but he was ordered to pay much more than he actually
+possessed.</p>
+
+<p>But when he had descended the hill to the guest
+house he came to the weeping and wailing of his
+people, who informed him that Bakuma had been taken
+away by three of the demon keepers of the coughing
+monsters.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD23" type="chapter">
+<pb n="237"/><anchor id="Pg237"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 23</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>Upon the site of Birnier&rsquo;s old camp in the forest
+was a high palisade built from tree to tree.
+Inside of the gate beside a small conical hut burned
+the sacred fires tended by Mungongo; before a green
+canvas tent stood the new idol, which differed from
+the original in having a better perspective and proportion
+of features and body, yet lacked the master
+touch of expression given by the subconscious fingers
+of the native artist.</p>
+
+<p>Against the wall were stacked uniform cases to make
+a table, upon which were a hand-mirror and toilet
+articles; above a photograph of Lucille was pinned
+upon the canvas. Upon the camp bed, screened by a
+mosquito net, lay the new King-God, Moonspirit,
+the magic book in his hands.</p><lb/>
+
+<p><q>Kings, princes, monarchs, and magistrates seem
+to be most happy, but look into their estate; you shall
+find them to be most cumbered with cares, in perpetual
+fear, agony, suspicion, jealousy: that as he (Valer. i. 7,
+c. 3) saith of a crown, if they but knew the discontents
+that accompany it, they would not stoop to pick it up.
+Quem mihi regem dabis (saith Chrysostom) non curis
+plenum?</q></p><lb/>
+
+<p>The Incarnation of the Unmentionable One smiled,
+<pb n="238"/><anchor id="Pg238"/>
+put down the book and glanced across at the photograph.</p>
+
+<p><q>And yet they still talk of the advantages of a
+monarchy!</q> he commented.</p>
+
+<p>The original plan concocted with Marufa and Zalu
+Zako in the forest when making the new idol was that
+Birnier should become chief witch-doctor and Zalu
+Zako be anointed King-God, with Marufa as the power
+behind the throne. Although Zalu Zako desired to
+escape the yoke, his protest was enfeebled by the sense
+of fatality, and had been utterly squashed by the
+promise of Marufa, at Birnier&rsquo;s suggestion, that the sex
+tabu would be lifted from the godhead. But the
+negligence of Marufa in allowing the white man to
+carry the idol, arranged with the idea of investing
+Moonspirit with greater prestige according to the
+prophecies already announced by Tarum, had permitted
+Bakahenzie to make his <hi rend="font-style: italic">coup
+d&rsquo;&eacute;tat</hi>&mdash;thrust the
+godhood upon the white and recover his own position.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier in truth had little option of refusal as well
+as little time for reflection upon a situation the
+possibility of which had not occurred to him; for
+Marufa was completely out-man&oelig;uvred by his rival,
+and the certainty of escape from his doom offered by
+Bakahenzie revived the image of Bakuma in Zalu Zako
+and bought his partisanship instantly.</p>
+
+<p>With Napoleonic swiftness to grasp the advantages
+gained Bakahenzie drove the lay chiefs from the
+sacred presence, which he surrounded by a bodyguard
+of the awed brethren; expelled the household from
+Zalu Zako&rsquo;s compound and hustled the incarnation,
+bearing the new god, into holy isolation.</p>
+
+<p>Bewildered by the rapidity of the moves Marufa and
+<pb n="239"/><anchor id="Pg239"/>
+Zalu Zako were separated from Moonspirit. In the
+general confusion, not knowing exactly what was
+happening, Birnier complied with what he believed to
+be the regulations regarding gods. But when he
+perceived that he was about to be left alone he clutched
+Mungongo and refused to part with him. Bakahenzie,
+compelled to avoid any delay before consolidating his
+position, instantly shut up Mungongo in the same web
+by declaring him the Keeper of the Sacred Fires and so
+disposed of any agent outside the tabu or craft. As
+soon as this was accomplished and a dance to celebrate
+the lighting of the new fires commanded, the wily
+chief witch-doctor approached Marufa who, realizing
+that he was hopelessly outwitted, was only too eager
+to make the best terms possible.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier had known that the King-God was never
+allowed to be seen by the populace except at the
+Harvest Festival, yet he accepted his isolation
+philosophically, lured by the expectation of the
+secrets he was about to learn, although his curiosity
+led sometimes to the vision of a god peeping through a
+fence.</p>
+
+<p>While the drums summoning the council of chiefs
+and wizards were muttering through the moist air, to
+Birnier, squatting on the floor of Zalu Zako&rsquo;s hut with
+Mungongo beside him, came Bakahenzie to instruct
+him in his r&ocirc;le. To whet his curiosity still more he
+learned that from the moment of appearance in the
+gate of the sacred enclosure for the ceremony of the
+lighting of the royal fires, every movement of body
+and speech was regulated as rigidly as the etiquette of
+the Court of Spain. At a signal from the chief
+witch-doctor was the King-God to leave the hut and
+<pb n="240"/><anchor id="Pg240"/>
+appear from behind the idol; with arms in a certain
+position was he to approach and squat at an exact spot.
+To Mungongo was given charge of the two fire sticks,
+newly consecrated.</p>
+
+<p>As the chief witch-doctor retired the chanting
+began. Interested to know what was about to happen
+Birnier obeyed in the spirit of a game. So in the
+warm darkness they squatted, these two, listening to
+the chanting, cries and groans to the accompaniment
+of the drums and lyres and the perpetual twitter of the
+forest. At last came a violent howl from Bakahenzie
+which Mungongo declared was their cue.</p>
+
+<p>Around the circle of the fence to avoid the eyes of
+the audience ran Mungongo to the temporary Place
+of Fires. Feeling as if he were once more playing in
+an amateur dramatic club, Birnier stalked with
+portentous dignity from the hut, past the idol, and
+took his seat upon the enchanted place. Without the
+palisade and within another squatted in correct order
+the lines of wizards and chiefs, Zalu Zako retaining,
+rather by prestige of his former holiness and indecision
+as to what his status really was, his position at their
+head.</p>
+
+<p>Upon his haunches before a large calabash upon a fire
+Bakahenzie finished the mumbling of incantations over
+the sacred ingredients, and leaping to his feet began a
+wild dance to the throb of the drums and the diaphragmatic
+chorus of the assembled cult.&hellip; Swifter
+and swifter spun the chief witch-doctor. The glow of
+the fire tinted his whirling bronze body with flecks
+of green and red as he gyrated in and out of the shadows.
+Suddenly he threw a handful of herbs upon the fire
+which was immediately enveloped in a cloud of smoke,
+<pb n="241"/><anchor id="Pg241"/>
+into which with a screech Bakahenzie disappeared.&hellip;
+The drums and grunting ceased. Then
+in the swirling column of blue appeared his figure
+holding something in his hands. To the wild outburst
+of drums and groans he sprang towards the
+King-God elect and anointed his breast and shoulders
+with a pungent compound, and leaped away into
+another dance, while Mungongo plied the two fire
+sticks. When the spark was blown upon the dry
+tinder and the first flame flickered Bakahenzie dropped
+flat before the gate as from the wizards went up the
+great shout:</p>
+
+<p><q>The fire is lighted!</q></p>
+
+<p>And from the mass of warriors and folk confined to
+their huts behind the outer palisade the phrase was
+echoed in a mighty wail, startling monkeys and parrots
+into as wild an acclamation of the new King-God.</p>
+
+<p>Bakahenzie, rising to his haunches, began a chant in
+honour of the new King, a chant based upon the song
+composed by Marufa and repeated on the phonograph,
+but developing even stranger merits and attributes.
+Until the first glimmer of dawn through the forest
+roof squatted Birnier, as motionless as etiquette
+demanded, listening to the strange psalm of praise
+with avid interest and observation.</p>
+
+<p>Suddenly, amid a furious clamour of the drums,
+Bakahenzie, Marufa, and one other of the inner cult
+of the five who had not deserted, led the body of the
+doctors in a rush into the sacred enclosure, seized upon
+the startled King and hustled him to the base of the
+idol where, yielding to the whispered instructions of
+Marufa, he took the idol once more upon his shoulders
+and guided by Bakahenzie, walked out of the gate and
+<pb n="242"/><anchor id="Pg242"/>
+through the village to the yelling and screaming of the
+wizards, some of whom, according to precedent, ran
+about screeching and rattling hut doors, pulling
+thatches and howling ferociously in search of any
+sacrilegious peeper.</p>
+
+<p>As he tramped on with his load Marufa yelled in his
+ear that he must carry the Burden of the World no
+matter what happened to him, for if he let the idol
+fall then would he be killed upon the spot to save the
+sky from falling too. Wondering what this meant and
+where he was going, the cut of thongs upon his legs
+surprised him into a halt. Immediately a terrific cry
+went up:</p>
+
+<p><q>The Bearer of the World stumbles! Aie!
+Aieeeeeeeee!</q></p>
+
+<p>Despite the furious flogging the intellectual interest
+in this strange conception distracted his mind from
+the pain of the blows; also his bare back was protected
+by the idol and his leggings and trousers deadened the
+lashes. A moment more he hesitated. But he was
+unarmed and had voluntarily taken on the adventure,
+so he would see it through. As he broke into a
+shuffling run, for the idol fortunately was lighter than
+the previous one and he was a more powerful man
+than Kawa Kendi, another howl of joy and relief
+echoed throughout the village.</p>
+
+<p>So along the old forest trail he travelled as fast as
+he could, assisted slightly by wizards&rsquo; hands as he
+crawled over clumps of undergrowth. The intensity
+of the whipping had decreased as soon as they were
+out of the village but throughout an occasional
+vicious whack testified to the presence of some devout
+doctor. Thus it was that the white King-God came
+<pb n="243"/><anchor id="Pg243"/>
+to his throne and sat in state upon his bed to smile
+at the reflections of a melancholic philosopher.</p>
+
+<p>So far so good, reflected Birnier, although the
+enforced isolation and strict curtailment of his actions
+had already begun to be irksome; yet to attain so
+difficult a goal sacrifice must be borne, he argued
+philosophically.</p>
+
+<p>The royal larder, he noticed with thankfulness, was
+kept well stocked. Every day appeared a slave who
+left just within the entrance chickens, bananas, milk
+and fresh water, and sometimes a young goat. All
+such provisions which he had happened to take into
+the forest with him and so had escaped MYalu&rsquo;s
+marauding hands had been placed in his tent with
+other cases, as containing no man knew what mighty
+magic.</p>
+
+<p>For three days he had been left utterly alone.
+Sounds of drums and chanting from the distant
+village had reached them on the still air, but what
+they were doing he could not discover. No layman
+was allowed to come near the sacred enclosure. While
+he strolled, taking a smoke and constitutional around
+and around his <q>pen,</q> as he put it, several of the lesser
+wizards appeared and stood at a distance from the
+gate to stare at him. When addressed they made no
+reply. On the second occasion he began to be irritated,
+but he kept his temper and went to cover in his tent,
+muttering: <q>Why the devil don&rsquo;t they bring me some
+buns?</q></p>
+
+<p>On the fourth day patience began to fray. He had
+no notion of knowing how long this quarantine was
+going to last. He was on the point of going to find out,
+but Mungongo pleaded so earnestly that they would
+<pb n="244"/><anchor id="Pg244"/>
+instantly be killed if they did, that he desisted. So
+Birnier retired to the tent to seek consolation from a
+record of Lucille&rsquo;s voice.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier attempted to cross-examine Mungongo to
+find out what was the object of this isolation, but
+beyond the fact that strangers were never permitted
+to behold the King-God, even lay natives, without
+special magic, which was only made once a year at the
+Harvest Festival, lest evil be made upon his person and
+so endanger the world, Mungongo did not know;
+merely, that so it was. What power over the head
+witch-doctor the King really had, Mungongo had no
+notion. The King-God was the most powerful
+magician known, asserted Mungongo. Did he not
+make rain and bear the world upon his shoulders?
+When Birnier unwisely denied this feat, Mungongo
+looked pained and began a remark, but balked before
+the name Moonspirit to ask the name of Birnier&rsquo;s
+father.</p>
+
+<p>At the mental image conjured up of a handsome
+white-haired planter and ex-owner of many slaves
+Birnier smiled, but he knew the tabu regarding the
+ban upon the names of the dead and that he, presumably,
+having ascended into the divine plane, was
+therefore classed with the departed. He recollected
+that the old man, who belonged to a cadet branch of a
+royalist family, had been called <q>le Marquis,</q> of which
+he was excessively proud. Birnier translated into the
+dialect the nearest possible rendition of the title:
+The Lord-of-many-Lands.</p>
+
+<p><q>The son of the Lord-of-many-Lands,</q> continued
+Mungongo satisfied, <q>doth but tickle the feet of his
+slave.</q></p>
+<pb n="245"/><anchor id="Pg245"/>
+
+<p>On the fifth afternoon, while the god was engrossed
+in a cure for love madness which, he reflected, might
+be of service to zu Pfeiffer, came a voice without
+crying:</p>
+
+<p><q>The son of Maliko would speak with the Lord, the
+Bearer of the World!</q></p>
+
+<p>Birnier glanced across at the photograph of Lucille.</p>
+
+<p><q>Some job I&rsquo;ve gotten!</q> he remarked as he rose.
+In the gate sat Bakahenzie. Birnier was conscious of
+an idiotic impulse to rush forward to greet him as an
+old and long lost friend. But remembering the
+dignity of his godhood he remained in the tent
+doorway, bidding the chief witch-doctor to advance.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier retired backwards and sat beneath the net, for
+the mosquitoes were as thick as they are on the bayou
+Barataria. Mungongo, possibly to prove his erudition,
+sat upon one of the cases containing much magic, at
+which Bakahenzie from the floor in the doorway looked
+askance. Birnier was keenly anxious to know what was
+happening regarding the fortunes of the tribe, hoping
+that with the restoration of the Unmentionable One
+that they would return to their allegiance. According
+to etiquette he remained silent, waiting for Bakahenzie
+to open the conversation, until, realizing that he was a
+god and that the chief witch-doctor was doing the
+same thing, reflected swiftly and desiring to make an
+impression, repeated Bakahenzie&rsquo;s mystic phrase which
+he had overheard whilst hiding in the jungle previous
+to the d&eacute;nouement:</p>
+
+<p><q>That which is and must be, shall be!</q> Bakahenzie
+grunted his acknowledgment of the profundity of the
+statement. <q>He who would trap the leopard must
+needs dig the pit!</q> Another uncompromising silence
+<pb n="246"/><anchor id="Pg246"/>
+urged Birnier to force the pace a little: <q>O son of
+Maliko, what say the omens and the signs of the evil
+one, Eyes-in-the-hands?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>When shall the Unmentionable One return unto
+the Place of Kings?</q> demanded Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p><q>The Holy One returneth not unto the place
+appointed until that which defileth is removed,</q>
+retorted Birnier.</p>
+
+<p>Bakahenzie took snuff and appeared to consider.
+Then he glanced around the tent as if in search of
+something.</p>
+
+<p><q>When will the voice of Tarum speak through the
+pod of the soul?</q></p>
+
+<p>Mungongo looked expectant and stood up. But
+Birnier ignored him.</p>
+
+<p><q>The fruit doth not fall until it be ripe. He would
+know what hath been done by his slaves for the baiting
+of the pit for the unclean one.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Would the magician that cometh from the sea
+make pretence that an elephant is a mouse?</q> inquired
+Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p>For a moment Birnier was perplexed; then he
+realized that the chief witch-doctor inferred that he,
+as King-God, mocked his priest by pretending that he
+did not know all things.</p>
+
+<p><q>Doth the chief witch-doctor make magic for the
+curing of the scratch of a girl of the hut thatch?</q> he
+retorted. <q>Lest thy heart wither like unto a fallen
+leaf, know then that the soul of Tarum hath made
+words for the return of the Unmentionable One to
+the Place of Kings, but that his children may not be
+as the dogs of the village who are driven, he wills that
+you prepare the pit for the trapping of the defiled
+<pb n="247"/><anchor id="Pg247"/>
+one.</q> Bakahenzie&rsquo;s eyes stolidly regarded the tent
+wall. <q>O son of Maliko, hast thou sent forth the
+sound of the drum throughout the land that the
+children may know of the Coming?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>When will the voice of Tarum speak through the
+pod of the soul?</q> demanded Bakahenzie insistently.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier sat motionless in the native manner.
+Irritated by this childish tenacity to apparently a fixed
+idea, he yielded to an impulse which was almost a
+weakness.</p>
+
+<p><q>O son of Maliko,</q> said he, <q>thou art a mighty
+magician!</q> Bakahenzie grunted modest assent.
+<q>Even as I am.</q> Another grunt. <q>Give unto me
+thine ears and thine eyes that I may reveal unto thee
+that which is known to the mightiest of magicians.</q>
+Commanding the delighted Mungongo to bring out
+the phonograph, he continued: <q>Thou hast heard
+of the mighty doings of the unclean devourer of men,
+Eyes-in-the-hands. I have magic the like of which
+man hath never seen. Is it not so?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ough!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yet will the son of the Lord-of-many-Lands make
+thee to see that which is, is not!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>That which is, is not,</q> repeated Bakahenzie, whose
+professional mind was pleased with the phrase.</p>
+
+<p>In the desire to explain rationally the mystery
+of a phonograph and despairing of any attempt
+to describe the laws of vibration, Birnier sought
+for a likely simile. Encouraged by the almost imperceptible
+fact that he had awakened Bakahenzie&rsquo;s
+visible interest, he plunged on: <q>Within this piece of
+tree is there nought but many pieces of iron such as thy
+spears are made of. Thou knowest that there are
+<pb n="248"/><anchor id="Pg248"/>
+places by the river and in the rocks where a man may
+speak and that his words will be returned to him. Is
+it not so?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>They are white words, O son of the Lord-of-many-Lands!</q>
+returned Bakahenzie. <q>For the spirits
+of the river and the rocks mock the voices of those
+who have not eaten of the Sacred Banana</q> (the uninitiated).</p>
+
+<p><q>But they mock thy voice as well,</q> protested Birnier.</p>
+
+<p><q>Are there not goats in ghostland who bleat at the
+wizard and the peasant?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>By the Lord!</q> murmured Birnier, although the
+mask of his face did not change. <q rend="post: none">Ghostland is full
+of goats if one were to credit some of the most modern
+witch-doctors! Still demonstration &hellip;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Thou seest, fellow magician,</q> he continued, <q>the
+pod of the soul of mighty Tarum, his ear like unto an
+elephant, his colour like unto a lion!</q> Birnier got
+out of the mosquito net and knelt beside the phonograph
+in front of Bakahenzie. Taking off the trumpet
+and cylinder carrier he opened up the inside, revealing
+the clockwork motor, wound it up, stopped it and
+released it. <q>Thine eyes see that my words are
+white. These things are but as pieces of metal of thy
+spears. Is it not so?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ough!</q></p>
+
+<p>Birnier closed the machine, adjusted the trumpet
+and put on the cylinder of Marufa&rsquo;s record.</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Aie! Aiee! I am the spirit of Kintu!</l>
+  <l>Aie! Aiee! I am he who first was!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>chanted the machine.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier, noticing that the desired astonishment was
+<pb n="249"/><anchor id="Pg249"/>
+registered by an almost impalpable start, stopped the
+machine and changed the record.</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;Rejoice, O my children, for he that is bidden shall come!</l>
+  <l>Rejoice, O ye warriors, for he that shall lead you shall come!</l>
+  <l>Rejoice, O ye wizards, for he that is greater than ye shall come!</l>
+  <l>Rejoice, O ye women, for he that fertilizes shall come!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>Birnier allowed the machine to run through the
+chant until the end:</p>
+
+<lg rend="margin-left: 2" type="chant">
+  <l>&ldquo;He shall come forth bearing that which ye seek!</l>
+  <l>Hear ye, my people, and give voice to my word!&rdquo;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>The machine whirred and stopped. Birnier turned
+to Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p><q>Thou hast seen, O my brother magician, that my
+words are white?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ough!</q> assented Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p><q>Thou hast seen, O my brother magician, that at
+the will of my finger upon that which is made but of
+spear-heads that the voice of Tarum hath spoken, the
+voice which is but the mocking voice of Marufa amid
+the trees of the forest?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ough!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Dost thou not know that he who knows the ways
+of rocks, who can make pieces of spear into that which
+will say and do that which he wills, is a greater magician
+than he who must needs go unto the rocks to be
+mocked?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Thou art the greatest of magicians, O son of the
+<pb n="250"/><anchor id="Pg250"/>
+Lord-of-many-Lands,</q> responded Bakahenzie in a
+burst of eloquence. <q>For thou hast entrapped the
+spirits of rocks and spears to do thy bidding.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>O God!</q> sighed the professor, <q>what is the use
+of language?</q></p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD24" type="chapter">
+<pb n="251"/><anchor id="Pg251"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 24</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>A favourite panacea for the results of a stupid
+action is the sentiment of martyrdom. When
+MYalu persisted in bitter reproaches to Yabolo and
+Sakamata the first retorted that the punishment was
+the result of having committed the sacrilege of
+kidnapping the sacred Bride of the Banana. Then
+MYalu considered that not only had he been trapped
+by one of his own people whom he had deserted, but
+to add insult to injury he felt he was not understood.
+Neither Yabolo nor Sakamata, as Bakahenzie, could
+comprehend a chief and a warrior making such a fuss
+over a girl. That the confiscation of MYalu&rsquo;s property
+was an insult they both agreed, but biassed by both
+fear of Eyes-in-the-hands and their own interests, they
+were disposed to pretend that after all such a small
+matter as the abduction of a girl could be overlooked
+when committed by the follower of such a powerful
+god and magician, as expedience is so often the father
+of a dispensation. Yet nevertheless in Yabolo, if not
+in Sakamata, whose hatred of the tribal craft was deep
+in ratio to the degeneracy of his native code, the
+outrage upon Bakuma as the Bride of the Banana,
+while an act of dangerous sacrilege when performed
+by a Wongolo, violated the half suppressed traditions
+and kindled a spark of bitter resentment ready to flare
+up against Eyes-in-the-hands or Sakamata; but being
+a diplomatist, he concealed that anger, even from
+himself to a certain degree.</p>
+<pb n="252"/><anchor id="Pg252"/>
+
+<p>Upon MYalu&rsquo;s arrival in the guest-house to find that
+Bakuma had been taken, his passion had nearly led to
+his instant destruction, for he had desired to run amok
+among the grinning askaris. Afterwards, when the
+efforts of his friends and the hungry points of bayonets
+had cooled his ardour, he had wanted to rush straight
+to Eyes-in-the-hands who, according to Sakamata
+employed as master of ceremony at the daily audiences,
+would instantly restore Bakuma to him and visit a
+terrible punishment upon the evil-doer. But the
+august presence could not be approached so casually:
+petition must be made in orthodox form and the royal
+pleasure awaited meekly.</p>
+
+<p>According to the words of the Son-of-the-Earthquake,
+as zu Pfeiffer was officially designated by his
+men, who placed the actual name under the tabu in
+token of the acceptance of the magic purple, came a
+guard to take away MYalu&rsquo;s first-born as hostage to
+the village of the sons of chiefs. Seething with red
+rage MYalu mutely followed Yabolo to the place
+appointed for their housing. Then on the following
+afternoon at the time of audience MYalu waited in the
+broiling heat for three hand&rsquo;s-spans of the sun without
+being summoned to the green temple. And thus it
+was for three days.</p>
+
+<p>But upon the fourth, when MYalu squatted in the
+general hut in company with Yabolo, Sakamata, and
+other renegade chiefs, smouldering with bitter resentment,
+came the pulse of a distant drum, the furious
+tattoo and long pause, tattoo and long pause, which
+accompanies the mighty shout at the coronation of a
+new King-God, <q>The Fire is lighted!</q> news that
+had throbbed from that point within the forest
+<pb n="253"/><anchor id="Pg253"/>
+from village to village to the slopes of the Gamballagalla
+and to the Wamungo country. The perceptible
+effect upon that circle of bronze figures was a scarcely
+audible grunt, yet nevertheless the message was like
+unto a live ember dropped in the dry grass of the cattle
+country.</p>
+
+<p>That morning one of the renegade chiefs had brought
+in two others to make their allegiance and received as
+reward for his fidelity a remittance of one-third of the
+tax levy upon his property, a policy adopted by zu
+Pfeiffer calculated to encourage the recruiting of his
+followers by establishing a reputation for lavish
+generosity to those who obeyed him, in contrast to
+his merciless severity to the recalcitrant ones.</p>
+
+<p>An hour later MYalu was summoned from the
+sweating throng squatted before the line of demon
+keepers through the giant ebon guards to audience with
+the Son-of-the-Earthquake. At the entrance as bidden
+he knelt, for he knew that he would be compelled did
+he refuse. A white flame was in his heart, but yet
+the magnificence of the son of the World Trembler and
+his satellites, the terrible ghosts of the distant white
+god, with amulets and charms upon his breast, had awed
+and subdued MYalu. Then came the voice of Sakamata
+relating that the chief MYalu, son of MBusa,
+made complaint to the Son-of-the-Earthquake that
+his slaves, the keepers of the coughing demons, had
+taken a girl named Bakuma, daughter of Bakala, and
+that he craved restitution of his property. While this
+was being translated by the corporal interpreter,
+MYalu watched the magic flame in the mouth of
+Eyes-in-the-hands, marvelling greatly at the smoke
+which emerged. Then said the interpreter:</p>
+<pb n="254"/><anchor id="Pg254"/>
+
+<p><q>The son of the Lord-of-the-World, the Earthquake,
+the World Trembler who eats up whom he
+pleases, whose eyes see all things, whose sword slays
+all things, whose breath is the rain, whose voice is the
+thunder, whose teeth are the lightning, whose frown
+is the earthquake, whose smile is the sun, whose ear is
+the moon, whose eyes are the stars, whose body is the
+world, saith that when the son of MBusa (MYalu)
+bringeth three chiefs of the same rank to sit at the Feet
+then shall the daughter of Bakala return unto him,
+but in the meantime shall her girdle remain untied.
+He hath spoken!</q></p>
+
+<p>As he finished zu Pfeiffer made the signal of dismissal
+with his jewelled hand, but MYalu with the throb of
+that distant drum in his ears, cried out in protest,
+saying:</p>
+
+<p><q>The words of the Son-of-the-Earthquake are like
+unto spears made of grass!</q></p>
+
+<p>The interpreter boggled at the translation of the
+sentence. Zu Pfeiffer saw a ripple of insubordination.
+He rapped out an order to have the man taken away
+and given fifty lashes. Instantly the guards surrounded
+MYalu, who submitted in sudden misgiving,
+and led him away to receive the punishment.</p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer gave orders that the girl Bakuma should
+be found and called the next case, Kalomato the
+elderly chief who had had all his property sequestered
+until he should deliver his eldest son as hostage. He
+was a slight withered old man with a white tuft of
+beard and at the hands of the askaris, after considerable
+endurance, had screamed his submission. Now he
+hobbled into zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s presence with the aid of a
+stick. Pompously the interpreter recited the list of
+<pb n="255"/><anchor id="Pg255"/>
+the titles of the august one, and then dwelt upon the
+wondrous benefits to be obtained at the magic jewelled
+hands, and demanded that the old chief <q>eat the dust</q>
+and obey the royal mandate.</p>
+
+<p>But the sharp eyes gazed steadily from their wrinkled
+sockets with a curious gleam in them as he mumbled
+that <q>his soul had wandered</q> (he had dreamed) <q rend="post: none">and
+had met the spirit of Tarum, who had forbidden him
+to obey the white god.<corr sic="&nbsp;"><anchor id="E29"/><ref
+target="e29">&rdquo;</ref></corr></q></p>
+
+<p><q>The shenzie</q> (savage&mdash;used contemptuously)
+<q>longs for more fire for his paws, O Bwana,</q> translated
+the interpreter into Kiswahili.</p>
+
+<p><q>What does he say?</q> demanded zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p><q>He says, Bwana, that he hath dreamed that his
+god hath told him that he must not obey you. Indio,
+Bwana.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Tell him that I slew his god, as every man knows.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The Son-of-the-Earthquake bids thee to know that
+he hath eaten up thy god as he eateth up thy warriors
+when his wrath is aroused. Eat dust that thy beard
+grow yet longer; stretch thy tongue and thou shalt
+be eaten entirely and all that is thine!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The Fire is lighted,</q> mumbled the old man.</p>
+
+<p><q>What does he say?</q> demanded zu Pfeiffer sharply.</p>
+
+<p><q>He attempts to make magic against thee, Bwana,</q>
+replied the interpreter who knew not the meaning of
+the phrase.</p>
+
+<p><q>Take away the animal,</q> commanded zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p>The old man was accordingly led out to the further
+attentions of the soldiery. But during that afternoon
+zu Pfeiffer became conscious of a subtle air of defiance,
+a restlessness and exchanging of glances, so that the
+demon which Bakunjala had once seen so vividly came
+<pb n="256"/><anchor id="Pg256"/>
+back to roost somewhere beneath the immaculate
+uniform.</p>
+
+<p>Neither he nor his sergeants nor their men could
+speak the Wongolo tongue fluently, so that for interpreter
+he was compelled to employ one of the corporals.
+To employ any newly subjected race or tribe as
+soldiers or in any responsible capacity is unwise, for
+ties of blood are liable to lead to treachery; to trust
+to the idiosyncrasies and personal values of any native
+interpreter is equally impolitic. Zu Pfeiffer and his
+party were as unaware of the meaning of the phrases
+exchanged as they were of the message in the throbbing
+of that distant drum. Between the conqueror and
+the subjected tribe was a wall denser than any steel;
+the same wall of tabu of the craft that Birnier was
+finding so difficult to penetrate.</p>
+
+<p>Every attempt to persuade any of the witch-doctors
+to disclose the secrets of their craft through the
+interpreter was doomed to failure; even had zu
+Pfeiffer been able to speak the dialect as well as Birnier
+he would never have accomplished it. Yet he tried
+the impossible. The answer was invariably a mask of
+ox-like stupidity or the retort that he, being a mighty
+magician, must needs know that he did but <q>tickle their
+feet</q>! At length, irritated by this persistence, he
+had Sakamata put to the torture and had for his pains
+a story in which the idol as the first man was the father
+of the tribe whom the people believed to have been
+eaten up literally, so that the conqueror had become
+the father of the people, having the idol inside him,
+and the chance that the tale had a faint resemblance to
+an account by a Frenchman of the superstitions of a
+West African tribe, convinced him. Implicitly he
+<pb n="257"/><anchor id="Pg257"/>
+believed the ingenious yarn invented by a wily witch-doctor
+to save his hide and the perquisites of his job
+by placating the white man, the trap into which most
+white chroniclers have fallen. This conviction, which
+flattered his sagacity and lulled any suspicions,
+strengthened his arm in the delivering of punishment
+and reward.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD25" type="chapter">
+<pb n="258"/><anchor id="Pg258"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 25</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>In the camp of Bakahenzie was the low mutter of the
+drums by day and night. The village had straggled
+farther through the forest in each direction save that
+of the sacred enclosure. Already were some five
+hundred warriors there and more were pouring in
+every day. Busy were Bakahenzie and wizards, great
+and small, in the preparing of amulets of the hearts
+of lions, livers of leopards and galls of birds, and the
+brewing of potent decoctions to be smeared with parrot
+feathers upon the warriors old and young against the
+evil eye and the spirits of the night. And dispensed
+by Bakahenzie and Marufa, from whom had come the
+original idea, was a special and rather expensive charm
+against the coughing monsters, which was made by,
+and invested with, the magic of the King-God himself,
+a can key. That morning had there been a special
+meeting of the craft and the chiefs before the sacred
+enclosure, where they had looked upon the sacred form
+of the King-God and heard the magic elephant&rsquo;s ear
+give them instructions and a prophecy. Around and
+about a hundred fires, flickering mystically in the moist
+cavern of the forest, shuffled and chanted the warriors
+invoking the aid of Tarum, the spirit of their ancestors.</p>
+
+<p>On the threshold of his hut squatted a sullen Zalu
+Zako. He had discovered that he had escaped from
+the river bearing him to the pool of celibacy to find
+that the bird had been captured by another. Although
+<pb n="259"/><anchor id="Pg259"/>
+he had known that before attaining his desire he would
+have had to extricate Bakuma from the net of the tabu,
+yet, lover-like and human, that task unconsidered had
+seemed as easy as stalking a buck in a wood. But the
+joy of his own release had been dissipated as a cloud
+of dust by a shower by the news of MYalu&rsquo;s abduction
+of the girl and his desertion. Zalu Zako was so
+obsessed by chagrin at this wholly unexpected appearance
+of a rival that he was inclined to regret that he
+had ever thought of the move by which he could
+escape his late doom and rescue Bakuma at the same
+time. The illusion of nearness to the desired object
+had served naturally to whet his appetite; the balked
+love motive dominated him almost to the exclusion
+of political affairs. What his official status was now
+that all precedent had been broken Bakahenzie did
+not know and had not decided, and Zalu Zako cared
+less.</p>
+
+<p>Though his faith in most of the tribal theology was
+unshaken, he did not believe in the sanctity, or the
+necessity, of the marriage of the Bride of the Banana,
+because he had a defensive complex of desire for her
+that inhibited that belief. Towards MYalu, Zalu
+Zako&rsquo;s natural reaction was revenge. The matter
+was how to accomplish that end. To reveal to Bakahenzie
+that he was the lover of Bakuma would be
+tantamount to admitting sacrilege in having a passion
+for the Bride of the Banana.</p>
+
+<p>As Zalu Zako was unable to get at the person of
+his rival the most logical method to his mind was by
+witchcraft. To obtain some relics of the body of
+MYalu proved easy, as his wives and slaves being forced
+to flee, had been unable to burn the deserted hut, thus
+<pb n="260"/><anchor id="Pg260"/>
+leaving in the customary place in the thatch some of the
+hair and nail clippings. Also to find an excuse for the
+cursing of MYalu was still easier. So at a meeting
+of the chiefs he rivalled Bakahenzie in denunciation
+of the absconding chief, insisted that a mighty magic
+be made against him and produced the necessary
+corporeal parts upon which to work. So it was that
+Bakahenzie and Marufa, a quiet watchful Marufa,
+brewed the magic brew and condemned MYalu by
+the proxy of his nail clippings to die, a process
+that took root in a very firm conviction in the mind
+of Zalu Zako and the others that die MYalu would.</p>
+
+<p>After this satisfaction of the first fierce instinct
+Zalu Zako was more at liberty to consider other matters,
+which resulted in an effort to quicken the collective
+will to recover the tribe&rsquo;s country and possessions,
+symbolised in Zalu Zako&rsquo;s mind by the delicate figure
+of Bakuma.</p>
+
+<p>The ceremony of the lighting of the new fires he
+had attended perfunctorily. To have regret or pity
+for the white man, Moonspirit who had taken over his
+doom, never occurred to Zalu Zako, for to him as to
+Bakahenzie Moonspirit was a mighty magician who,
+if competent to effect the magic he had already
+displayed, was capable of looking after himself;
+moreover, as he had recalled the Unmentionable
+One, he stood as the incarnation of the tribe, the god,
+therefore beyond human consideration.</p>
+
+<p>Bakahenzie&rsquo;s chief regard was, of course, to unify
+the tribe once more and to rouse those who had
+submitted to Eyes-in-the-hands to rebellion, which
+was but a projection of his desire, as that of all
+patriots, to consolidate his own position and to regain
+<pb n="261"/><anchor id="Pg261"/>
+his lost prestige. He had had no need to command that
+the news be sent abroad. At the ceremony of the
+Lighting of the Fires the drum notes had been picked
+up by the nearest village and sent ricocheting across
+the length and breadth of the country, rippling through
+the Court of the Son-of-the-Earthquake.</p>
+
+<p>Bakahenzie&rsquo;s confidence had increased tenfold since,
+by his clever coup, he had locked up the white magician
+in the godhead. He believed that Moonspirit was
+the mightiest magician the world had ever seen, a
+demi-god; for had he, Bakahenzie, not seen these
+wondrous miracles with his own eyes? Had not he,
+Bakahenzie, captured and tamed this marvellous
+power to his own ends?</p>
+
+<p>So absolute was this confidence in the powers of
+the white that Bakahenzie was perfectly sincere, as
+Mungongo and Bakuma had been, in asserting that
+the <q>son of the Lord-of-many-Lands</q> was pleased to
+pretend that <q>an elephant was a mouse,</q> that he
+<q>tickled their feet.</q> The only doubt raised in his
+mind at that interview was whether he could persuade
+this powerful being to destroy the usurper <q>out of
+hand,</q> as it were, or even whether Moonspirit could
+do so; for it was quite reasonable to him to suppose
+that even a god, in fighting another god, might have
+to do battle for the victory.</p>
+
+<p>Not in spite of, but because of, this firm faith
+Bakahenzie took more precautions than ever before
+to surround the captured god with the toughest
+fibres of the tabu to keep him in isolation. Obviously
+such a valuable prize demanded special precautions.
+He promulgated an ordinance, in the amplitude of
+his regained power, that no lay man nor any wizard
+<pb n="262"/><anchor id="Pg262"/>
+save the inner cult, whom he dared not forbid, were
+to approach within sight of the sacred enclosure.
+In the jungle of his mind lurked the fear that the new
+god might be seen to leave the sacred ground and thus
+render the penalty of death imperative according to
+the laws of the tabu upon a god who jeopardised the
+tribal welfare as MFunya MPopo had done by his
+failure to bring rain. The belief that he could control
+a force which he admitted was infinitely greater than
+he, and of punishing it if it did not behave, was not
+at all inconsistent to the native mind, nor more
+illogical than many theological ideas of whites.</p>
+
+<p>At the last interview Bakahenzie had tried to
+persuade Birnier to permit him to speak into the mighty
+ear of the magic box; in effect an attempt to gain
+complete control. But Birnier, when he at length
+had realised that Bakahenzie&rsquo;s mental development
+was little greater than Mungongo&rsquo;s, and keenly aware
+of the isolation to which he was to be subjected, as
+well as the purpose in the witch-doctor&rsquo;s mind, had
+resolutely refused. Bakahenzie had accepted the
+intimation that the god would not work miracles
+through any other mouth than that of his incarnation,
+and after a long cogitative silence had departed without
+further comment.</p>
+
+<p>But of course he came back again next day, as
+Birnier had known that he would. Birnier hinted at
+the expected initiation into the <q>mysteries</q> of the
+craft, particularly of the Festival of the Banana and
+the other ceremonies connected with his r&ocirc;le as
+King-God. But Bakahenzie&rsquo;s gaze, fixed upon an
+object on the toilet table, did not quiver. Birnier
+repeated the inquiry more bluntly. Said Bakahenzie:</p>
+<pb n="263"/><anchor id="Pg263"/>
+
+<p><q>The fingers of the son of Maliko are hungry to
+touch the magic knife of the son of the Lord-of-many-Lands.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Damn it,</q> muttered Birnier. <q>That&rsquo;s my favourite!</q>
+But he handed the razor to Bakahenzie,
+saying: <q>Is not the porridge pot free to all brothers?</q>
+Gravely Bakahenzie slipped the safety razor into
+his loin cloth, mumbled the orthodox adieu and
+departed.</p>
+
+<p>Although devoted to Birnier as much as ever,
+Mungongo was bound just as much by the articles of
+the tabu as any other native; in fact, since his appointment
+to the high office of Keeper of the Fires, he was
+if possible more terrified by the bogies of their theology
+than before. Put one foot out of the sacred ground
+he would not, for he was convinced that immediately
+he did so, the ghosts of the dead kings would instantly
+strangle him. Birnier attempted to persuade him to
+get into communication with Marufa, but that wily
+gentleman, grieving over the failure of the coup he
+had aided Birnier to make, and for the moment
+completely under the domination of Bakahenzie,
+who, he knew, had him watched every moment of the
+day and night, would never approach the Place of the
+Unmentionable One. Nor dared Zalu Zako break
+the tabu placed by Bakahenzie. To Bakahenzie and
+not to Birnier he owed his escape from the dreaded
+godhood. One who had released him might quite
+reasonably have him back again if annoyed. The few
+wizards who came to gaze at the imprisoned god like
+children at the Zoo, as Birnier had commented, were
+deaf to any remark, instruction, or plea of the Holy
+One. So it was that Birnier began to realise that
+<pb n="264"/><anchor id="Pg264"/>
+the functions of a god were so very purely divine
+that he would never be allowed to interfere in human
+affairs at all except by grace of the high priest, and
+possibly he was not the first god who had found that
+out.</p>
+
+<p>This jungle of secrecy and the denial of any active
+part in the organising of the tribe began to irritate
+Birnier. Yet he perceived clearly enough from his
+knowledge of the native mind that a premature
+effort to force either confidence or action would
+end in disaster. Patience and perseverance alone
+would bring success; and the moulding of the
+material through forces which already controlled it.
+He must play the witch-doctor to the full. Working
+upon this hypothesis he determined to control
+Bakahenzie through <q>messages</q> from the spirit of
+Tarum. The trouble was to find out whether
+Bakahenzie would obey him or not and to what
+extent.</p>
+
+<p>So in the early hours of one morning Bakahenzie&rsquo;s
+watchers in the forest shuddered as they heard more
+of the mysterious voices of the Unmentionable One
+making wondrous magic within the temple as Mungongo
+chanted, at Birnier&rsquo;s prompting, the god&rsquo;s
+instructions to his high priest and people. The form
+of the chant was not correct as Mungongo&rsquo;s memory
+was very unreliable, but as Birnier remarked to the
+portrait of Lucille, <q>I don&rsquo;t suppose Maestro Bakahenzie
+is such a stylist as he would have the public
+suppose.</q> Afterwards, to Mungongo&rsquo;s delight, who
+was never tired of any manifestation of Moonspirit&rsquo;s
+magic, he put out the light and lay upon his bed within
+the temple listening to the voice of Lucille pouring
+<pb n="265"/><anchor id="Pg265"/>
+out the passion of <q>Mon c&oelig;ur s&rsquo;ouvre &agrave; ta voix,</q> in
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">Samson et Delilah</hi>, to the sleepy ears of
+the monkeys above the figure of the idol limned against the moon-patterned
+roof of the forest.</p>
+
+<p>But scarcely had the moist ultramarine shadows
+turned to mauve than the voice of Bakahenzie hailed
+the god most punctiliously from without. However
+Birnier happened to be sleepy, and the chance of the
+early hour presented such an opportunity to gain
+prestige that he sent the Keeper of the Fires to inform
+the High Priest that the god was not yet up and that
+he must needs wait. And wait did Bakahenzie, like
+unto a graven image at the gate until the sun was four
+hand&rsquo;s-spans above the trees. When Birnier had
+breakfasted upon broiled kid, eggs, banana and
+weak tea, Bakahenzie was summoned to the august
+presence.</p>
+
+<p>Wondering what new idea Bakahenzie had gotten
+into his head Birnier solemnly talked the usual preliminaries,
+intending to announce in the best manner that
+Tarum had a message for the son of Maliko; but to
+his astonishment Bakahenzie forestalled him by
+demanding to know when the god would speak
+again.</p>
+
+<p>When Mungongo had gravely placed the machine
+at his feet Birnier set the record. The chant bade
+the son of Maliko to summon the wizards and the
+warriors of the tribe to the abode of the Unmentionable
+One; to send to those who had fallen into
+the power of Eyes-in-the-hands instructions that
+they were not to reveal by word or deed that the
+Unmentionable One had been pleased to return, but
+to wait like a wild cat at a fish pool until a signal was
+<pb n="266"/><anchor id="Pg266"/>
+given through the drums, when they were to smite
+swiftly at every keeper of the demons and to flee
+immediately to their brethren in the forest; that
+they were on no account to kill or wound Eyes-in-the-hands
+nor any white man that was his, lest their
+powerful ghosts exact a terrible penalty and refuse to
+be propitiated; that when these things had been
+done would the spirit of Tarum issue further instructions.</p>
+
+<p>In composing this message Bernier had sought to gain
+the advantage of a surprise attack and to secure the
+massacre of as many of the askaris as possible; to save
+zu Pfeiffer and his white sergeants from the fate which
+would await them should they fall into the hands of
+the Wongolo; to minimise the loss of men which
+would occur were the tribe to attempt to face the
+guns; afterwards to lure zu Pfeiffer away from his
+fortifications and the open country, in order to compel
+him to fight in the forest where he could not ascertain
+what force was against him; and in the meantime to
+slip round and establish the idol in the Place of Kings,
+which act would consolidate the moral of the tribe
+as well as cut the line of zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s communications
+with Ingonya.</p>
+
+<p>As Bakahenzie listened gravely and attentively,
+Birnier keenly watched his face. Although the mask
+did not quiver, a half suppressed grunt at the end
+persuaded him that Bakahenzie was duly impressed,
+but he made no comment. After regarding Mungongo
+solemnly putting away the machine Bakahenzie
+remarked casually:</p>
+
+<p><q>In the village is a messenger from Eyes-in-the-hands
+who sends thee greetings.</q></p>
+<pb n="267"/><anchor id="Pg267"/>
+
+<p>This was the first news that Birnier had received
+since his ascent to the godhood. He had expected
+that sooner or later zu Pfeiffer would hear of the
+presence of a white man, but he was rather startled
+at the inference that zu Pfeiffer knew who he was.
+He made no visible sign as he waited. Bakahenzie
+took snuff interestedly and continued:</p>
+
+<p><q>Eyes-in-the-hands bids thee to go unto the Place
+of Kings to eat the dust before him.</q></p>
+
+<p>Bakahenzie regarded him with keen eyes. Birnier
+considered swiftly. From the latter part of the
+message he gathered that zu Pfeiffer was not aware
+of his identity. His opinion of zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s character
+suggested certain psychological possibilities. His policy
+was to lure him away from his fort; to destroy
+his military judgment. Therefore to cause him at
+this juncture to be violently disturbed by a personal
+emotion might tend to confuse his mind. Enmity&mdash;fear&mdash;might
+equally serve as the lure required. In
+spite of committing a breach of native etiquette
+Birnier could not resist smiling. He reached for the
+<q>Anatomy</q> and as he scribbled two words he said to
+Bakahenzie solemnly:</p>
+
+<p><q>O son of Maliko, say unto this man of many
+tongues as well as many eyes, &lsquo;that the jackal follows
+the lion that he may feed upon his leavings; that
+the voice of the hyena is loudest when he eateth
+offal.&rsquo; And shall the slave take unto him that
+which is mighty magic, such magic that when Eyes-in-the-hands
+doth but touch it shall he trumpet like unto
+a wounded cow elephant. Bid him to mark that my
+words be white!</q></p>
+
+<p>And when Bakahenzie had gone Birnier turned to
+<pb n="268"/><anchor id="Pg268"/>
+the portrait on the wall and remarked as he indulged
+in the luxury of a grin: <q>Say, honey, but if that
+doesn&rsquo;t make him mad, I&rsquo;ll&mdash;I&rsquo;ll
+eat my own manuscripts!</q></p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD26" type="chapter">
+<pb n="269"/><anchor id="Pg269"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 26</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>In a corner of one of the half-completed huts in a
+half-completed street of the new village of the
+Place of Kings squatted Yabolo and other chiefs.
+As Sakamata was up in the fort serving Eyes-in-the-hands
+they could talk freely, yet in low tones and with
+wary eyes for the interstices of the unfinished wall.
+More than one chief had been thrashed but none as
+high in rank as MYalu; moreover, those that had
+been severely punished had been taken in fair fight or
+had attempted to escape, whereas MYalu had done
+nothing that they considered to merit punishment.
+The growing detestation and hatred smouldering within
+all of them against the new ruler had burst into flame
+at the first hint of the news vibrating upon the moist
+air. Later had come another drum message bidding
+them await new words of Tarum, and forty-eight
+hours afterwards the messenger sent by zu Pfeiffer to
+summon Moonspirit, who squatted in the group,
+whispered word for word Birnier&rsquo;s message on the
+phonograph, adding further instructions from Bakahenzie
+that the signal should be another message upon
+the drums: <q>The Fire is lighted.</q></p>
+
+<p>Warm banana wrapped in leaves, which a slave
+had brought in, was placed before the chiefs while
+the messenger related the gossip of the village in the
+forest. Later, while lolling through the mid-day
+heat waiting for the time of audience, he produced
+<pb n="270"/><anchor id="Pg270"/>
+from his loin cloth the magic charm which the son
+of the Lord-of-many-Lands, the King-God, had sent
+to Eyes-in-the-hands and repeated the prophecy that
+he should trumpet like unto a wounded cow elephant,
+eliciting many grunts of admiration and awe. Then
+he inquired for Sakamata and MYalu, and upon hearing
+the account, reported that they were both traitors
+and had been condemned to die by the magic of
+Bakahenzie and Marufa.</p>
+
+<p>Each and every chief felt that he had been betrayed
+by Sakamata. Even Yabolo, his relative, particularly
+because his visionary schemes had come to nought,
+was against Sakamata. Sakamata had heard the message
+of the drums, <q>The Fire is lighted.</q> But of the
+details of the return of the Unmentionable One
+and of the new King-God he knew nothing, although
+every other Wongolo man, woman, and child, knew
+it. The terror of the tabu, of the power of the
+Unmentionable One, was more overwhelming than
+his fear of Eyes-in-the-hands, wizard and ex-member
+of the inner cult though he be. The Unmentionable
+One had returned, a miracle! In a thousand signs
+of birds and beasts, twigs and shadows, Sakamata
+saw omens of evil. He knew that he was an outcast,
+that his fellows were plotting; that they knew something
+that he did not; yet he dared not tell Eyes-in-the-hands
+lest he be killed on the instant, not by
+Eyes-in-the-hands but by the mystic power of the
+Unmentionable One.</p>
+
+<p>Farther down the line, in a small hut, lay MYalu
+motionless. His mind was a whirling red spot of
+rage and pain, obliterating the image of Bakuma, his
+ivory, and everything. From the base of the spine
+<pb n="271"/><anchor id="Pg271"/>
+to his neck he was criss-crossed with bloody weals
+administered with a kiboko (whip of hippopotamus
+hide) by one of the black giants who formed the door
+guard at the tent of Eyes-in-the-hands. More
+stimulating to his anger even than the excessive pain
+was the indignity, that he, MYalu, son of MBusa, a
+chief, had been flogged like a slave before all men!
+Could he have gotten free he would have leaped upon
+zu Pfeiffer, god or no, and torn him to pieces with
+hands and teeth. But he could scarcely move. Never
+had such an act been conceived by MYalu. The
+native dignity and reserve was shattered. He lay
+upon his belly and glared with the eyes of a maddened
+and tortured animal.</p>
+
+<p>The yellow glare in the open doorway was darkened,
+but MYalu did not stir. The figure of Yabolo, a
+short throwing sword in hand, moved towards him
+and squatted down, muttering greetings. MYalu
+made no response. Yabolo repeated the message
+from the spirit of Tarum.</p>
+
+<p><q>Let thy spear be made sharp, O son of MBusa,
+that we may make the jackal who would command the
+lion to eat offal!</q> MYalu grunted. <q>The son of
+Bayakala saith that it will be soon, so that thou mayest
+yet eat of thy defiler ere thou art gone to ghostland.</q>
+MYalu turned his head. <q>The son of MTungo and
+the son of Maliko,</q> explained the old man, <q>have
+made magic upon the parts which thou didst foolishly
+leave within thy hut.</q></p>
+
+<p>Again MYalu merely grunted and turned away
+his head. But that dread news had quenched the
+white flame of anger. The spirits were wroth; even
+had they caused him to eat the dust before all men.
+<pb n="272"/><anchor id="Pg272"/>
+Conviction in the efficacy of the magic for which he
+would have bought Marufa to make against Zalu Zako
+was as absolute as his faith in the death magic made
+against him by the two powerful witch-doctors, and
+intensified by the miraculous return of the Unmentionable
+One against whom he had committed sacrilege.
+He recollected the cry of the Baroto bird on the night
+on which he had kidnapped the Bride of the Banana.
+The spirit of Tarum was wroth. The mighty new
+King-God of the Unmentionable One was about to
+eat up all the enemies of the land. MYalu was
+convinced that he was doomed; certain that Yabolo
+knew that he was doomed; that every man knew that
+he was doomed.</p>
+
+<p>For ten minutes the figures, squatting and lying,
+remained as motionless as bronzes. Then MYalu
+rose to his knees and said calmly: <q>Give me thy
+sword, O son of Zingala.</q></p>
+
+<p>Silently Yabolo handed him the sword which
+MYalu placed beneath him and laid down again. So
+quietly he died.</p>
+
+<p>From the sacred hill blared the harsh cry of the
+yellow bird, as the natives called the trumpet, announcing
+that the august presence was in audience. But
+instead of the usual crowd of immobile figures squatted
+almost under the shadow of the pom-pom within the
+gate of the fort, sat only the messenger. Sakamata,
+knowing that something portended and yet not
+exactly what, was so scared that his skinny limbs
+quivered as if with an ague. Although he desired to
+warn Eyes-in-the-hands in order to save himself, he
+dared not attempt to do so lest the august one visit
+his anger upon his person; vague ideas of redeeming
+<pb n="273"/><anchor id="Pg273"/>
+his treachery by delivering Eyes-in-the-hands over
+to his countrymen were stoppered by terror of the
+wrath of the Unmentionable One.</p>
+
+<p>So it was that the pomp of the Son-of-the-Earthquake
+and the glory of the soul of the World-Trembler
+with many charms upon his breast was reserved for the
+humble messenger who entered escorted by Sakamata.
+After bowing in the prescribed manner the messenger
+squatted at zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s feet and addressed himself
+to the corporal interpreter.</p>
+
+<p><q>The son of the Lord-of-many-lands, that is the
+King-God of the One-not-to-be-mentioned, sends
+greeting to the son of the World-Trembler, called
+Eyes-in-the-hands, and this message: &lsquo;Say unto the
+man of many tongues as well as many eyes that the
+jackal follows the lion that he may feed on the leavings;
+the voice of the hyena is loudest when he eateth
+offal!&rsquo;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>What does the animal say?</q> demanded zu
+Pfeiffer, impatient of the native preamble.</p>
+
+<p><q>He says, Bwana,</q> said the interpreter, <q>that the
+white man is sick and cannot move, but that he will
+come as soon as he is well.</q></p>
+
+<p>From the folds of his loin cloth the messenger was
+dutifully extracting something wrapped up in a
+banana leaf, which he handed to the interpreter as
+he finished the message:</p>
+
+<p><q>And by his slave he sendeth that which is mighty
+magic; such magic that he who toucheth it shall
+trumpet like unto a wounded cow elephant.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>He says, Bwana,</q> continued the interpreter
+glibly, <q>that he sends to the mighty Eater-of-Men
+a small present,</q> and with the words the corporal
+<pb n="274"/><anchor id="Pg274"/>
+guilelessly proffered the small package. Zu Pfeiffer
+took it and tore off the covering.&hellip;</p>
+
+<p>Then was the magic of the new King-god of the
+Unmentionable One made manifest to all men, and
+particularly a group of chiefs hiding in a small thicket
+beneath the hill, for indeed did the Son-of-the-Earthquake
+trumpet like unto a wounded cow elephant
+at the sight of an ivory disc on which was written:</p>
+
+<p><q>Amantes&mdash;Amentes!</q></p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD27" type="chapter">
+<pb n="275"/><anchor id="Pg275"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 27</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>All day at Fort Eitel had been stir and bustle,
+the blare of trumpets and the barking of sergeants,
+white and black. Long lines of women and slaves
+streamed in from the surrounding countryside bearing
+loads of corn and bananas. In the half-made parade
+ground at the foot of the hill of Kawa Kendi, half a
+company of Wongolo whom zu Pfeiffer had conscripted
+from the chiefs, stumbled and ran in awkward squads.
+In the hut of the Wongolo chiefs squatted Yabolo
+among the rest, silently observing the preparations
+for the punitive expedition which Sakamata had
+informed them was being prepared in response to
+the insolent challenge of the white man who had
+allied himself with the <q>rebels.</q> But over them,
+as well as every Wongolo in and about the place,
+was a sullen air not of defiance but of expectant
+listening.</p>
+
+<p>In the mess hut a nervous Bakunjala prepared the
+table for dinner, the whites of his eyes rolling at every
+sound of zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s voice from the marquee adjoining.
+Never in his experience, nor in that of other servants or
+soldiers, had the demon so utterly possessed the dread
+Eater-of-Men as since the receipt of some terrible
+magic sent to him by the white man. Opinion was
+divided as to whether this white man was the one
+who had been arrested and sent to the coast with
+<pb n="276"/><anchor id="Pg276"/>
+Corporal Inyira or whether he was a brother; some
+said that the magic leaf which the messenger had
+brought was the soul of the white man, others
+maintained that it was the incarnation of Bakra,
+which explained why the Eater-of-Men was so
+entirely possessed. Had he not screamed? they
+demanded, which clearly proved, as everybody knew,
+the dreadful agony as the ghost entered into the
+body.</p>
+
+<p>Even the white sergeants were frightened of their
+chief. They had been seen talking together secretly,
+doubtless discussing what medicine they could give
+him to exorcise the demon. Had he not been
+commanded by this demon to leave the safety of the
+fort where they had the guns on the hills, and to go
+into the forest where, as anybody knew, their eyes
+would be taken from them so that they could not see
+to kill the dogs of Wongolo? They were all conscious,
+native-like, that something was brewing among the
+Wongolo, but what it was exactly they did not know.
+Two men had had fifty lashes that morning because
+they had not saluted the totem&mdash;flag&mdash;correctly;
+and a Wongolo chief had been shot because he had
+not brought in the amount of ivory commanded.
+None dared to warn the Eater-of-Men. Some one
+had said that the <q>leaf</q> was the soul of the idol come
+to lead the Eater-of-Men to destruction. This idea
+took deep root among the Wunyamwezi soldiers, for
+although they had delighted in the slaughter and
+rapine under the leadership of the Eater-of-Men,
+yet always had there been an uneasy feeling of sacrilege
+in destroying an idol.</p>
+
+<p>In the half of the marquee reserved for the Kommandant&rsquo;s
+<pb n="277"/><anchor id="Pg277"/>
+private quarters sat zu Pfeiffer in his camp
+chair with the inevitable stinger at his elbow. Erect
+by the door stood Sergeant Schultz taking details
+for the disposition of stores and troops during the
+absence of the punitive expedition. Never had he
+in four years&rsquo; service seen the lieutenant as he was
+now. Although Schultz could speak Kiswahili
+fluently he knew no word of Munyamwezi, else he
+might have been disposed to agree with Bakunjala
+and his friends. As it was he thought that the Herr
+Lieutenant had gotten a touch of the sun or was
+drinking too heavily or perhaps a bit of both; for
+to his mind the act of dividing up their scanty
+forces and leaving their fortified positions to enter
+the forest, with no chance of keeping open the
+line of communication, appeared to be military
+suicide.</p>
+
+<p>He deemed it his duty to bring this point of
+view to his Kommandant&rsquo;s notice, but he was
+uncomfortably aware of zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s headstrong
+character.</p>
+
+<p><q>What time does the moon set, sergeant?</q>
+demanded zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p><q>About three, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Good. Then at five precisely the column will
+move. Warn Sergeant Schneider.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ya, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You will transfer the remainder of your
+men and the Nordenfeldt as soon as we have
+gone.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ya, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>That is all, sergeant.</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer dropped his head wearily on to his
+<pb n="278"/><anchor id="Pg278"/>
+hand. Schultz remained rigidly by the door. Zu
+Pfeiffer glanced up peevishly.</p>
+
+<p><q>I said that was all, sergeant,</q> he exclaimed
+tetchily.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ya, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Herr Gott, what are you standing there for like a
+stuffed pig?</q></p>
+
+<p>Schultz saluted.</p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence, it is my duty to remind your
+Excellence that according to regulation 47 of &hellip;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>To hell with you and your regulations, damn
+you.&hellip; Will you leave me alone!</q> The last
+was almost a plea.</p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence!</q></p>
+
+<p>Schultz saluted briskly and went. Again zu
+Pfeiffer&rsquo;s head dropped on to the cupped hand and he
+gazed at the portrait in the ivory frame.&hellip; Against
+the blue twilight of the door appeared a tall figure in
+white.</p>
+
+<p><q>What in the name of&qdash;</q> began zu
+Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p><q>Chakula tayari, Bwana,</q> announced Bakunjala
+timidly.</p>
+
+<p><q>I don&rsquo;t want any chakula,</q> said zu Pfeiffer.
+<q>Wait. Bring some here.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Bwana!</q></p>
+
+<p>Bakunjala fled, to reappear almost instantly with
+a covered plate, which he placed on the table as
+bidden and vanished. Zu Pfeiffer regarded distastefully
+his favourite dish of curried eggs. Then he
+bawled irritably:</p>
+
+<p><q>Lights, animal!</q></p>
+<pb n="279"/><anchor id="Pg279"/>
+
+<p><q>Bwana!</q> gasped Bakunjala appearing in the
+doorway with the lamp.</p>
+
+<p>But zu Pfeiffer pushed the plate away to stare at
+the photograph of Lucille. The stare turned to a
+glare, and then as if mutinying against his god, as
+Kawa Kendi had done when summoning rain, he
+suddenly snatched at the frame and flung it upon the
+floor with an oath, grabbed up a fountain pen and
+began to write.</p>
+
+<p>Indeed zu Pfeiffer was half insane with anger which
+he was disposed to vent upon Lucille by proxy as
+the source of yet another trouble and possibly official
+disgrace. He had not had a notion that Birnier could
+have survived the gentle hands of the corporal until
+without warning came that ivory disc with <q>Amantes&mdash;Amentes!</q>
+scribbled upon it, which not only inferred
+that Birnier had escaped, but that he was near to
+him and intended to champion these native dogs
+against the Imperial Government in the person of
+himself.</p>
+
+<p>The message had been made the more insulting by
+the note of exclamation at the end implying derisive
+laughter. It had, as Birnier had calculated that it
+would, struck zu Pfeiffer upon the most tender spot
+in his mental anatomy, evoking a homicidal mania
+which dominated his consciousness. To be cheated,
+to be swindled, to be sworn at, cursed, even to be
+beaten was sufferable to a degree, but to be laughed at&mdash;zu
+Pfeiffer&rsquo;s haughty soul exploded like a bomb at
+an impact. For a time he had been absolutely
+incoherent with rage. His one impulse had been
+to rush out and tear Birnier limb from limb. Well
+might the listening natives believe in the mighty
+<pb n="280"/><anchor id="Pg280"/>
+magic of the new King-God, that it should make the
+Son-of-the-Earthquake to trumpet like a wounded
+cow elephant!</p>
+
+<p>Then out of the dissolving acrid smoke of wounded
+pride begin to loom arbitrary points. First, that
+Birnier would have complained, as he once had threatened
+to do, to Washington, which would infuriate
+the authorities in Berlin; and secondly, that he would
+have written to Lucille revealing the attempt he
+had made upon the life of her husband as well as
+the things he had said. How Birnier had escaped
+was immaterial, but the particular fate that awaited
+Corporal Inyira was decided but futilely; for the
+bold son of Banyala and his merry men were footing
+it to the south of lake Tanganika, scared by day lest
+the long arm of the Eater-of-Men should overtake
+them and haunted by the terror of seeing another
+illuminated ghost by night.</p>
+
+<p>As the jewelled hand glittered in the lamp-light
+came the mutter of a distant drum on the moist
+darkness; zu Pfeiffer, abnormally irritable, raised
+his head, scowled, and muttering that he would have
+to issue an order to have the drums stopped, bent
+again to the uncongenial task of finishing the report
+due for headquarters before he left. The drum ceased;
+began again and was answered by another drum seemingly
+nearer at hand.</p>
+
+<p>Five or ten minutes elapsed. As zu Pfeiffer took
+up a fresh sheet of paper a shot rang out followed
+instantly by yells. Zu Pfeiffer with an oath
+sprang to his feet, snatched at the revolver hanging
+above his camp bed and rushed out as a fusillade of
+shots mingled with wilder cries. The gruff coughs
+<pb n="281"/><anchor id="Pg281"/>
+of the corporal in charge of the guard competed with
+the sharp barks of Sergeant Schultz. Zu Pfeiffer,
+bawling for a sergeant, ran to the great gate where the
+pom-pom was stationed. On the opposite hill red
+flashes of rifle fire darted downwards. Came another
+outburst of yelling. Forms of askaris scurrying to
+their places round the fence brushed by him on every
+side.</p>
+
+<p><q>Sergeant Schultz!</q> shouted zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p>A figure in white appeared beside him in the
+darkness.</p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Put the gun on them! Quick!</q></p>
+
+<p>At the bark of the sergeant the gun crew, already
+at their post, deftly manipulated the machine which
+coughed angry red bursts of flame into the darkness.
+The cries and howls ceased as suddenly as they
+had begun.</p>
+
+<p><q>Cease fire!</q> commanded zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p>In the resulting stillness muttered shouts and cries
+from somewhere in the village below were punctuated
+by odd shots from the other hill.</p>
+
+<p><q>Sergeant Ludwig!</q> yelled zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Report!</q> snapped zu Pfeiffer.</p>
+
+<p><q>An unknown body of natives attacked and killed
+the sentry on the eastern gate, Excellence,</q> came
+Sergeant Ludwig&rsquo;s voice from the gloom. <q>They
+entered and were repulsed according to instructions.
+That is all, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Losses?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>None other, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>What about the lower guards?</q></p>
+<pb n="282"/><anchor id="Pg282"/>
+
+<p><q>I do not know, Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Take a platoon and investigate. We will cover
+you with the gun.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p>The mutter of his orders was drowned in the
+excited jabber of the askaris.</p>
+
+<p><q>Didimalla!</q> came the dreaded voice of
+the Eater-of-Men. Instantly there was silence.
+<q>Report!</q> commanded zu Pfeiffer to Sergeant
+Schultz.</p>
+
+<p><q>A body of natives attacked upon the western
+gate, Excellence. They were repulsed.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Losses?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Two men killed and three wounded.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ugm! Where&rsquo;s the interpreter?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Bwana!</q></p>
+
+<p>Cloth creaked as the man saluted in the dark.</p>
+
+<p><q>Where is Sakamata?</q> demanded zu Pfeiffer
+in Kiswahili.</p>
+
+<p><q>Here, Excellence,</q> replied Sergeant Schultz.
+<q>He was running away. I had him arrested.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Good. Bring the animal to my quarters.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence.</q></p>
+
+<p>The sergeant and the interpreter, with a trembling
+Sakamata between them, followed zu Pfeiffer to the
+tent. As he entered he picked up the portrait in
+the ivory frame and replaced it carefully on the table
+and sat down.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ask the shenzie why he has not informed us of
+this attack?</q></p>
+
+<p>The interpreter put the question to the terrified
+old man who mumbled that he had not known anything
+about it.</p>
+<pb n="283"/><anchor id="Pg283"/>
+
+<p><q>Ugm!</q> grunted zu Pfeiffer. <q>Send for a
+file of men, sergeant, and&qdash; No!</q> Zu Pfeiffer
+rose. <q>I&rsquo;ll get the truth out of him. Stand aside,
+corporal!</q></p>
+
+<p>The corporal obeyed with alacrity as jerking his
+revolver downwards zu Pfeiffer pulled the trigger.
+The shot took off two of Sakamata&rsquo;s smaller toes. The
+corporal grinned in appreciation. Zu Pfeiffer experienced
+a shadow of the pleasure he would have had in
+mutilating Birnier.</p>
+
+<p><q>Pull him up!</q> commanded zu Pfeiffer. <q>Now
+ask him again!</q></p>
+
+<p>For a moment or two Sakamata, scarcely conscious
+of any pain in his fright, could not comprehend
+what was said; at length he mumbled and
+muttered. The interpreter lowered his head to
+listen.</p>
+
+<p><q>Well?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>He says, Bwana, that he does not know anything;
+that they will not tell him, but that he has heard that
+the god has come back.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The god! What god?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The god which these shenzie (savages) had here
+before the Bwana came.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The idol!</q> Zu Pfeiffer ripped out an oath.
+Then glaring questioningly at the shrunken figure on
+the floor considered.</p>
+
+<p><q>Tell him he lies. How does he know that the
+idol has come back if they will not tell him anything?</q></p>
+
+<p>Again the interpreter jabbered at Sakamata who
+mumbled back.</p>
+
+<p><q>He says, Bwana, that his words are white. That
+<pb n="284"/><anchor id="Pg284"/>
+they have not told him, but that he has heard the
+message of the drums. &lsquo;The Fire is lighted!&rsquo;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>What is that?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I don&rsquo;t know, Bwana.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ask him, you swine pig!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>He says that whenever there is a new king
+that they call out those words, meaning that he is
+come.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Ugm!</q> Zu Pfeiffer took out a cigar and lighted
+it as he considered. I believe the animal is right,
+he reflected. That swinehund American has done
+this! He turned sharply to Sergeant Schultz:
+<q>Post double guards; bring me Ludwig&rsquo;s report
+and take this thing away and have it shot.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Excellence!</q></p>
+
+<p>The party went out. Zu Pfeiffer sat smoking
+fiercely. A single shot rang out. Presently came
+Sergeant Ludwig in person.</p>
+
+<p><q>I have to report, Excellence, that the investigation
+infers that the attack was only made with the
+purpose of freeing the sons of chiefs, for the picket
+has been slain but all the others are unhurt save three
+wounded.</q></p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer swore mightily, but he dismissed the
+sergeant with an admonition to have his troops ready
+for inspection at four-thirty. He drank a brandy
+neat and sat on, staring at the darkness. Then
+suddenly he exclaimed and wheeled to the abandoned
+report.</p>
+
+<p><q>This is an undeniable overt act,</q> he muttered,
+seeing what he considered an opportunity to neutralise
+the suppositious complaint which Birnier had sent to
+Washington; and taking up his pen began a formal
+<pb n="285"/><anchor id="Pg285"/>
+accusation against Birnier, as an American subject,
+for having violated the international laws of the
+Geneva Convention by aiding and abetting rebels of
+his Imperial Majesty.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD28" type="chapter">
+<pb n="286"/><anchor id="Pg286"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 28</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>Sergeant Schultz&rsquo;s gloomy foreboding of
+the inevitable result attending the refusal to follow
+the teachings of his national preceptors was justified.</p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer, crazed with wounded pride or magic,
+according to the white or black point of view, had
+held rigidly to his schedule; precisely at four-thirty
+he had inspected the expedition and marched at the
+first streak of dawn. Schultz removed to the other
+hill, leaving twenty-five men and a gun under a black
+sergeant. Afterwards he visited the village. The
+bodies of five of the picket were lying in the sun
+mutilated. Not a native of any sort was to be seen
+or heard. He sent out scouts. A village a couple
+of miles away was deserted too. He wished to burn
+the huts and plantation to clear the ground around the
+fort but he dared not do so without orders. Muttering
+to himself he returned and posted double
+sentries.</p>
+
+<p>Throughout the day and the moonlight not a
+sound of a drum or the voice of a native disturbed the
+moist heat. He slept for a while and then took to
+pacing upon the levee outside the fort. He was
+aware of a restlessness among the men. About
+midnight a nervous sentry fired at a moving shadow
+in the village. Erratic shots followed; flickered and
+ceased at the sergeant&rsquo;s angry order. The trees
+seemed to whisper mockingly. The sergeant decided
+<pb n="287"/><anchor id="Pg287"/>
+that it must have been a prowling jackal or hyena;
+but the incident made him irritable.</p>
+
+<p>In ordinary circumstances he would have posted
+picket sentries as provided by the regulations, but he
+could not spare any of his fifty men, for in the case
+of an attack they would never regain the fort. The
+moon sank as if reluctantly, seeming to hesitate upon
+the fringe of banana fronds at something that she
+alone could see. But the night creaked slowly on.
+Schultz knew that the favourite hour for an attack
+was just at the first glimmer of dawn when the spirits
+are making for their homes and the light is deceptive.</p>
+
+<p>He was standing in front of the Nordenfeldt when
+a sentry&rsquo;s keener ears caught a peculiar whispering
+rustle. As Schultz turned his head to listen, the
+whisper grew in volume to the sound of a hail-storm&mdash;the
+patter of bare feet on sand. Faint light on spears
+rippled round the base of the hills. Schultz sprang
+inside the barrier barking at his men to open fire. He
+deflected the muzzle of his gun and began pumping
+nickel into the advancing mass of yelling figures.&hellip;</p>
+
+<p>The rush carried the fort; for the defenders
+were out-numbered by fifty to one. Schultz fell under
+a dozen spear thrusts. The askaris were massacred
+to a man before the sun rose inquiringly beyond the
+sacred hill of Kawa Kendi.</p>
+
+<p>When all the bloody acts of war were done and the
+triumphant yelling quietened, there came from across
+the river a pulsing trickle of sound in the sizzling heat,
+which was answered by a thundering crash of spear
+against shield and the <q>Ough! Ough!</q> of three
+thousand warriors gathered upon the hill to do homage
+to the Unmentionable One.</p>
+<pb n="288"/><anchor id="Pg288"/>
+
+<p>Across the river, at the ford where Bakuma had sung
+her swan song, came the procession led by the craft
+in full panoply. In the van stalked Bakahenzie, grave
+and solemn as befitted the high priest. Around him
+capered with untiring energy a group of lesser wizards
+whose duties were as those of professional dancers,
+having dried bladders and magic beads fastened to
+their ankles and wrists. Then behind Marufa a
+litter was borne by sacred slaves doomed to perish
+after performing their holy office, in which, swathed
+entirely from the public gaze, was Usakuma, the
+Incarnation of the Unmentionable One. In another
+litter, as securely screened, was the son of the Lord-of-many-Lands,
+endeavouring to endure a perpetual
+bath of sweat in the sacred cause, peeking professorial
+eyes through the interstices, scribbling in a notebook.
+Behind again marched Mungongo bearing a
+smouldering brand of the Sacred Fire; then Yabolo,
+reinstated in office for a reason that any politician will
+understand. After him came more litters bearing the
+magic <q>things</q> of the Incarnation of an Incarnation,
+the King-God.</p>
+
+<p>As they splashed across the river, like troops of bronze
+gazelle, women and girls dashed eager to gather of
+fertility from the water enchanted by the passage of
+the Bearer of the World.</p>
+
+<p>So they came through the banana plantation and
+up the wide street which the Son-of-the-Earthquake
+had planned. The chant quavered like a dragonfly
+in the sun and the chorus of the warriors replied with
+the rhythm and the profundity of gargantuan frogs.
+Then as Bakahenzie stepped upon the incline of the
+hill, burst from the women the cricket song which is
+<pb n="289"/><anchor id="Pg289"/>
+made tremolo by the rapid beating of the fingers upon
+the lips, as from the drums went out the message over
+the land that the Unmentionable One had indeed
+returned to the Place of Kings, the City of the Snake.</p>
+
+<p>Ten minutes later a half-stewed god, as exhausted
+as any emperor after a state parade, was permitted
+to emerge from the litter and to recuperate within
+the cool of the unfinished house that was to have been
+the bungalow of the Kommandant. No one else
+save the Keeper of the Fires, Bakahenzie and Marufa,
+were within the stockade which ringed the fort.
+Outside rose the mutter and rumble of the warriors
+and the cries of the women. The huddled lines of
+huts which had been barracks were already in process
+of demolition at the hands of the slaves, and the square
+within the fort was cleared of the slain askaris by the
+simple process of heaving the bodies over the palisade.
+The idol remained within the litter until the consecrating
+of the defiled ground should be performed by
+Bakahenzie and the craft.</p>
+
+<p>No Wongolo nor any wizard, not even Bakahenzie,
+would touch the enchanted coughing monsters; but
+as the holy slaves were already doomed they were set
+to pull and to push the Nordenfeldt from the embrasure
+beside the entrance across the levee until it toppled
+over and rolled half-way down the hill, where it was
+allowed to stay, surrounded from morning to night
+by a crowd of women and children and idle warriors.</p>
+
+<p>The thirst which afflicted Birnier rendered him
+oblivious of his godhood and of the sacred office of
+Mungongo who was dutifully busy upon his knees
+blowing up the sacred fires from the ember which he
+had carried; so that at a summons to bring water
+<pb n="290"/><anchor id="Pg290"/>
+he was both embarrassed and awed, for the presence
+of the High Priest intensified his natural terror of
+breaking any of the meshes of the tabu. At the
+second imperative demand Bakahenzie soothed the
+angry god by commanding a slave to run to fetch
+water from without. But even then Birnier had the
+parched felicity of waiting while the High Priest
+solemnly exorcised the gourd of water which, as all
+food, could not be permitted to pass the lips of the
+King-God without the prescribed incantations.</p>
+
+<p>However, within quite a reasonable time the sacred
+prisoner was accommodated with the possession of his
+goods, magic and culinary. The bungalow of the
+Kommandant, Birnier gathered, was to be converted
+into the temple after the ceremony of purification,
+and the idol was to stand in front in the place occupied
+by its predecessor at the coronation of the late Kawa
+Kendi.</p>
+
+<p>All that day were Bakahenzie and Marufa and the
+wizards working hard at the various ceremonies of
+purification of those who had slain, the consecration
+of the Holy Hill, and the exorcising of the evil spirits
+attached thereto by the residence of the Son-of-the-Earthquake.
+Meanwhile Birnier and Mungongo were
+left to themselves within the enclosure to listen to
+the chanting and thrumming of the drums. Birnier
+had much to do in compiling his notes and reflections;
+Mungongo nothing save to prepare their meals and
+attend the Sacred Fires.</p>
+
+<p>Exactly what had happened Birnier did not know
+and could not extract from Bakahenzie, who adopted
+his usual effective method of ignoring every direct
+question. Before they had left the place in the forest
+<pb n="291"/><anchor id="Pg291"/>
+he had informed Birnier that the commands of the
+spirit of Tarum through the magic ear had been
+performed, but with what restrictions, modifications,
+or embroideries, Birnier had no means of ascertaining.
+His definite knowledge was that Zalu Zako, together
+with other chiefs and a vast crowd of warriors, were
+to remain in the forest where zu Pfeiffer was to be led
+into ambush by the power of the magic which he had
+sent, the American flag, an idea which certainly tickled
+Birnier&rsquo;s sense of humour considerably, particularly
+as it appealed to him, if successful, as an ideal case of
+poetic justice.</p>
+
+<p>That zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s fort had fallen was obvious,
+although what the disposition of his forces had been
+and of how the assault had been carried, Birnier had no
+idea. But of one thing he was reasonably sure, and
+that was that his analysis of zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s reactions and
+the psychological effect upon the natives of having
+the idol reinstated in the Place of Kings, had been
+entirely correct. After all, as he admitted with a
+smile, zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s system of native psychology had
+been based on the same fundamental principles as
+his own except that he had not reckoned with the
+unknown quantity, the equal intelligence working
+against him and able to discount his moves, plus heavier
+artillery in the form of an emotional broadside, the
+possibility of which rather naturally had never occurred
+to him.</p>
+
+<p>An item which worried Birnier was that he had
+no means, and could hope for none apparently, of
+discovering whether and to what extent his orders
+through the phonograph had been carried out
+regarding the treatment of the white men. Their
+<pb n="292"/><anchor id="Pg292"/>
+fate at the hands of the Wongolo, particularly after
+the merciless massacres inflicted by zu Pfeiffer, would
+scarcely bear imagining. From the fact of the instant
+and apparently easy success of the assault on the
+forts, he did not doubt that zu Pfeiffer, who had been
+foolish enough to be lured into dividing his forces,
+was doomed to defeat. In this instance he would not
+have any of the advantages of his triumphal entry
+into the country; would not be able to accomplish
+a surprise attack, and the weakening of the native
+moral by massacre and the downfall of the idol;
+in fact he had these very forces against him: for the
+success of their first venture, their overwhelming
+numbers in the forest, the exaltation of fanaticism
+excited by the restoration of their tribal god, practically
+tacked a label of suicide upon his military actions.</p>
+
+<p>During that day Bakahenzie, evidently too busy
+with the duties of his office, did not come near to
+him. But that evening, in order to ensure as far as
+possible obedience to his orders through the mouth of
+the oracle, Birnier caused Mungongo to chant further
+instructions into the phonograph commanding that
+the Son-of-the-Earthquake was to be brought alive
+to receive judgment from the Unmentionable One
+through the Incarnation, the son of the Lord-of-many-Lands.
+Whether this would work or not
+Birnier of course could not know. Already had he
+discovered that nobody could control the complicated
+machinery of the native tabu any more than any
+one statesman could manage always any vast political
+machine; indeed he, as many others, might more
+than conceivably be ground up by the gargantuan
+engine with whose starting lever he had played. All
+<pb n="293"/><anchor id="Pg293"/>
+he could do had been done; nothing remained but
+to adopt Marufa&rsquo;s favourite maxim: <q>wait and
+see.</q></p>
+
+<p>In the evening Mungongo, who had at length been
+persuaded to project his eyes beyond the sacred ground
+even if he would not his feet, reported that much
+chanting and drumming indicated that the warriors,
+or a great number of them, had departed, evidently
+to reinforce the troops of Zalu Zako or with the
+object of taking zu Pfeiffer in the rear: a fact which
+made Birnier a little uneasy lest the news of the fall
+of the station might bring zu Pfeiffer to his senses and
+cause him to return, in which case the position might
+prove to be somewhat uncomfortable.</p>
+
+<p>However, the night passed to the soft thrumming
+of the drums. At dawn appeared Bakahenzie as
+solemnly as usual. He began by demanding that the
+<q>pod of the soul</q> of Tarum should be prepared to
+listen to him. Birnier observed a slight increase
+in the domineering manner and realized more keenly
+that unless he checked that tendency the worthy
+High Priest would become altogether unmanageable.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier commanded Mungongo to bring forth the
+instrument and reproduced for Bakahenzie&rsquo;s benefit
+the oration of the previous night. Bakahenzie listened
+solemnly, grunted acquiescence, and again made
+his request. Birnier refused abruptly. Again Bakahenzie
+grunted acceptance which caused Birnier to
+speculate upon what move the wily doctor had in
+mind. However, after the usual starting of false
+trails, he announced that the consecration of the idol
+would take place that day and began to instruct the
+new god in his divine duties. That there was something
+<pb n="294"/><anchor id="Pg294"/>
+unusual in the form, either exaggerated or
+curtailed, Birnier gathered from Bakahenzie&rsquo;s method
+of expounding the rites; and the solution came in
+the announcement, just before leaving, that as
+soon as the Son-of-the-Earthquake had been <q>eaten
+up,</q> that he, Bakahenzie, would summon the craft
+and the people to the Harvest Festival.</p>
+
+<p>The form of the statement again drew Birnier&rsquo;s
+attention to the fact that Bakahenzie was assuming
+the reins of power far too fast for his satisfaction;
+that unless he contrived to put on the curb he would
+never attain the goal of a beneficent agent nor be
+able to satisfy his professional curiosity.</p>
+
+<p>However, when he had gone, Birnier began anew
+to question Mungongo regarding the reputed ceremonies
+of the festival, but beyond the fact that it
+was an occasion allied to the Christian-Pagan festival
+of a kind of thanksgiving for the harvest and sacrifice
+to the god which involved the ceremony of the
+marriage of the Bride of the Banana, Mungongo knew
+nothing.</p>
+
+<p>In the afternoon Birnier was required to preside at
+the consecrating of the ground and the setting up
+of the idol. But all he had to do was to squat silently
+in front of the new temple and before Bakahenzie and
+the group of the cult, while the concourse of the other
+wizards and the few chiefs that were not away grunted
+a belly chorus upon the levee without. The ceremony
+was disappointing as ceremonies go, for beyond the
+stewing in the great calabash of a magic concoction
+with which to anoint the hole for the feet of the idol,
+the doorposts of the temple and the House of Fires,
+to the accompaniment of the usual chanting and
+<pb n="295"/><anchor id="Pg295"/>
+drumming, it was ended by a dance, with Bakahenzie
+as the premier danseur.</p>
+
+<p>After his evening meal of boiled chicken, goat flesh
+and milk, Birnier squatted in the doorway of his new
+quarters smoking. He had no lights as his store of
+carbide was finished. Before leaving for the forest
+to carve the Incarnation of the new Unmentionable
+One, he had had the forethought to despatch a
+messenger to a certain village on the great lake to
+intercept his carriers with goods and the mail for
+which he had sent after escaping from the noble
+son of Banyala; he had already informed Bakahenzie
+of the coming of a fresh stock of magic and impressed
+upon him that great precaution must be taken to
+ensure that it came directly to him, lest contact with
+strangers should offend the spirits. Bakahenzie had
+assented in his usual non-committal manner, a
+manner that was beginning to get upon Birnier&rsquo;s
+nerves.</p>
+
+<p>As he smoked, staring up at the great moon over
+the sinister head of the idol framed in the green
+light, he observed that the day after the next would
+be the full moon, the Harvest Moon, the time of
+the yearly festival. Then, by a coincidence which
+sometimes seems to have a telepathic basis as explanation,
+he heard a curious soft sound from apparently
+behind the hut. Mungongo, squatting near his
+Sacred Fires in the immobile manner of the native,
+heard the sound too. Again a sibilant whisper,
+almost like the hiss of a snake, brought a <q>Clk</q> of
+astonishment to Mungongo&rsquo;s lips. He rose swiftly
+and disappeared behind the hut. Another muffled
+exclamation of astonishment aroused Birnier&rsquo;s curiosity.
+<pb n="296"/><anchor id="Pg296"/>
+He followed, to find Mungongo leaning over the
+palisade as if speaking to some one.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ehh!</q> murmured a familiar voice. <q>&rsquo;Tis
+Moonspirit!</q></p>
+
+<p>With a grunt of horror Mungongo turned upon
+Birnier and began to push him away, gasping: <q>She
+is accursed! If the evil of her eyes rest upon thee
+thou art sick unto death!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The devil take you!</q> muttered Birnier, angry
+at the touch of force; then recollecting that the tabu
+forbade alien eyes to gaze on his sacred body upon
+which the world depended, he realized that Mungongo
+was trying to save him. He held him off by the arms,
+saying: <q>Be quiet, thou fool! Hath not my magic
+shown thee that I am above all magic?</q></p>
+
+<p>Mungongo appeared to consider that there was
+some truth in the statement and at any rate it gave
+him something to think about. He stood passively
+but as if momentarily expecting Birnier, magic or no,
+to melt before his eyes. Bending over the fence
+Birnier saw the slender form of Bakuma crouched
+against the earth.</p>
+
+<p><q>What dost thou here, O little one?</q> he whispered,
+for of course he knew nothing of her fate after
+the abduction by MYalu.</p>
+
+<p>So horror-struck at her own temerity in approaching
+the person of the King-God was she that she dared
+not raise her eyes as she stuttered:</p>
+
+<p><q>A demon hath driven the bird of my soul into
+the net of thy wrath.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Still the black wings in thy breast, O Bakuma,</q>
+said Birnier, trying to soothe the child. <q>Come
+thou within and show thy father thy bosom.</q></p>
+<pb n="297"/><anchor id="Pg297"/>
+
+<p><q>Ehh! Ehh!</q> gasped Bakuma, quivering in
+greater panic than ever.</p>
+
+<p>Aware of the danger Birnier stooped, took her by
+the arms and lifted her over the palisade, remarking
+the violent trembling of the frail little body whose
+limbs seemed like candles.</p>
+
+<p><q>Come thou,</q> said Birnier, moving towards the
+hut.</p>
+
+<p>But she cowered where he had dumped her, covering
+her eyes with her hands so that she gazed not upon the
+sacred body. Mungongo stood like a tree, the whites
+of terrified eyes glimmering in the moonlight. Birnier
+picked up the girl and carried her into the hut,
+followed by a quaking Keeper of the Sacred Fires.</p>
+
+<p><q>Go, thou fool,</q> commanded Birnier, <q>and
+watch that none approaches!</q> Mungongo gasped.
+But he obeyed. <q>Now, little one,</q> continued Birnier,
+<q>bare thy bosom that I may know how to make
+the magic of healing.</q></p>
+
+<p>Squatting on the threshold, her emaciated arms
+still covering her eyes, Bakuma strove to obey. At
+length she faltered out the story of her double abduction.
+The capture by the askaris had made but little
+difference to her, for, as she phrased it, the beak of
+her soul was like unto the mouth of the crocodile.
+Her captor had thrust her into a hut in the village
+together with some other female captives, but as the
+man had had to continue his military duties, night
+had fallen before he returned, by which time she had
+bribed some of the women, whose captivity was not
+as loathsome to them as the pride of their race should
+have made it, with a powerful charm which Birnier
+had given her, a nickel-plated razor-strop. She had
+<pb n="298"/><anchor id="Pg298"/>
+escaped. But more fearful of her doom as the Bride
+of the Banana than she was of MYalu or the askaris,
+she had hidden in the forest, living upon wild fruit and
+roots. Then had she heard the drums announcing the
+return of the Unmentionable One, and aware that
+Moonspirit had gone into the forest to seek Him, had
+guessed that he was triumphant. Away in the
+jungle she had heard the sound of the rejoicing at
+the homecoming of the King-God; had hesitated, and
+at last she had come to Moonspirit, in spite of his
+divinity, in the fluttering hope of aid, driven by a
+demon to break another tabu, the same demon which
+urges so many to break magic circles&mdash;the subconscious
+love motive.</p>
+
+<p>Poor kid! commented Birnier to himself as he
+regarded the pitiful cowering form. We haven&rsquo;t
+gotten the nuptial torches for you yet, but we will,
+by God!&hellip; Give me thine ear, O little one.&hellip; But
+as he talked to her, soothing the terror by promises
+of mightier magic, came Mungongo crying in a terrified
+whisper that Bakahenzie was claiming audience. At
+the back of the next room of the bungalow, built
+upon a plan of the one in Ingonya, was a bathroom,
+and into that was Bakuma hurried and bidden to lie
+as quiet as a crocodile.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD29" type="chapter">
+<pb n="299"/><anchor id="Pg299"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 29</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>Bakahenzie had come to announce that the
+certain magic <q>things,</q> which a messenger had
+brought from the white man&rsquo;s country, had arrived.
+Although he could not expect an answer to his letter
+to Lucille in Europe, there might be others; and such
+an event as the receipt of a mail once in six months is
+apt to be exciting. Birnier forgot his r&ocirc;le for the
+moment, leaped to his feet preparatory to rushing out
+to meet the runner, but a grunt from Bakahenzie and
+an alarmed cry from Mungongo were just in time to
+prevent him from jeopardizing the stability of the
+world and all that he had won by violating the tabu by
+stepping beyond the sacred ground. Other gods and
+emperors have indeed wrecked empires through a
+lesser aberration. Even realization of the penalty was
+scarcely enough to hobble his impatient legs, for the
+very suggestion of what the mail represented melted
+the fetters of this native world as wax in the sun.</p>
+
+<p>Indeed more effort of will was required to return to
+his god-like throne upon the camp-bed, and to amble
+through the etiquette which discussion of such an
+important matter demanded, than to carry the idol on
+his back through the forest and bear the sound thrashing
+to boot. Then as a further test, Bakahenzie slowly
+developed a dictum that the magic things could not be
+permitted to enter the sacred enclosure until they had
+been disinfected from the multitude of evil eyes
+<pb n="300"/><anchor id="Pg300"/>
+through which they must have passed. At that the
+god came near to swearing or weeping, he did not
+know which.</p>
+
+<p>But as he fumed inwardly he recollected that at
+any moment Zalu Zako and his troops might return;
+or if the battle had gone the other way, then zu
+Pfeiffer; in the former case the excitement would
+still further delay the goods and mail, and the latter
+event might entail the complete loss. As well as the
+growing irritation caused by Bakahenzie&rsquo;s interminable
+list of tabus was the necessity of proclaiming, or rather
+gaining, his authority before he could be of any
+assistance either to Bakuma, the white men or himself.
+Indeed he had been waiting the arrival of these goods
+to secure the subjection of Bakahenzie to his will.
+He determined that the trial should be now. Merely
+to demand would, he felt, arouse the obstinacy of the
+chief witch-doctor, who would never, unless compelled
+by force or cunning, give up the reins of power which
+to him was the <hi rend="font-style: italic">raison
+d&rsquo;&ecirc;tre</hi> of his life. Birnier must
+attack through the line of least resistance. With the
+carriers bearing the mail was a case of <q>imprisoned
+stars</q> (rockets) and a special cinema outfit, so that
+Birnier felt that he could afford to explode the last
+manifestation of magic which remained to him. After
+a judicious interval, he said to Bakahenzie:</p>
+
+<p><q>O son of Maliko, is not my tongue the tongue of
+the Unmentionable One?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>He who knoweth all things knoweth that which is
+white,</q> retorted Bakahenzie.</p>
+
+<p><q>Verily. Therefore do thou cause to be brought
+that which is come, that which the fingers of the
+Unmentionable One are hungry to touch. Thou
+<pb n="301"/><anchor id="Pg301"/>
+knowest his power of magic. Therefore are the evil
+eyes of the multitude but dry leaves in the wind of his
+breath.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Indeed thy words are white, O son of the Lord-of-many-Lands.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Depart then that the hunger of His fingers may
+be appeased.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The drums speak not yet of the eating up
+of Eyes-in-the-hands. Hath not the ear of the
+spirit of Tarum spoken upon these matters?</q>
+inquired Bakahenzie in his favourite dialectical
+manner.</p>
+
+<p><q>The spirit of Tarum hath naught to say
+to thee,</q> replied Birnier, <q>but the fingers of
+Tarum will to make thee to itch even as his
+fingers.</q></p>
+
+<p>Birnier called to Mungongo who brought and placed
+at his feet a fairly powerful electric battery. Bakahenzie
+eyed the box; curiosity was keenly awakened.
+He stared interestedly when Birnier raised the lid.
+Taking the handles he said:</p>
+
+<p><q>These, O son of Maliko, are the hands of Tarum
+made manifest. He wishes that thou shouldst feel
+the itch of his desire!</q> and with the words he clapped
+one handle to the belly and the other at the base of
+the spine of the chief witch-doctor. Bakahenzie
+convulsed as he was compelled to do. Swiftly Birnier
+applied the shock to the shoulders, holding the handles
+there as he remarked to a violently trembling
+Bakahenzie: <q>Behold! the itch of the fingers
+of Tarum!</q></p>
+
+<p>But as he lowered his hands towards the spine again,
+Bakahenzie moved rapidly and with no dignity.</p>
+<pb n="302"/><anchor id="Pg302"/>
+
+<p>Solemnly Birnier replaced the handles and closed the
+lid, and said quietly:</p>
+
+<p><q>Thou hast felt, O brother magician, that the
+fingers of Tarum do itch indeed?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Truly!</q> responded Bakahenzie with a celerity as
+unusual as the quaver in his voice. <q>Indeed thy
+words are white, O mightiest of magicians. What
+are indeed the evil eyes of savages against the
+power of thy magic, O son of the Lord-of-many-Lands!</q></p>
+
+<p>And contrary to all precedent Bakahenzie rose and
+left. Within a quarter of an hour his voice announced
+that slaves with the magic <q>things</q> were without the
+palisade, and called upon Mungongo to go to the gate
+to fetch them as strangers were forbidden even to
+look upon the King-God. Birnier, by the light of a
+torch, opened the mail, sent a wad of letters and
+a sheaf of telegraph slips on to the floor, and
+snatched a long green envelope scrawled in French
+characters:</p>
+
+<p>Monsieur le Curateur du Jardin des Plantes.</p>
+
+<p>For a moment he stared at it perplexedly, for there
+was no stamp or cancellation.</p>
+
+<p><q>What in the name&qdash;</q> he muttered as he slit it
+open.</p>
+
+<p rend="text-align: right; margin-right: 2">
+  <name type="place">Entebbe,&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;</name><lb/>
+  <date>Ao&ucirc;t 13, 19&mdash;</date><lb/>
+</p>
+
+<p>Mon petit loup, what have you been doing? O&ucirc;
+est tu? Comment et pourquoi? Oh, I am cross
+with you, with Monsieur le Professeur! Why do you
+write me so ridiculous a letter? I laugh, but always
+<pb n="303"/><anchor id="Pg303"/>
+I laugh, so what good is that to you? I will not reply
+to your letter, mon vieux&mdash;jamais. But I will tell
+you so that you may know why I am here. Yes,
+parmi les animaux!<lb/></p>
+
+<p>Birnier winced at the phrase which seemed to come
+back at him like a boomerang from the lips of zu
+Pfeiffer.<lb/></p>
+
+<p>I am to go for vacation to Wiesbaden with some
+very terrible peoples. Oh, on me d&eacute;go&ucirc;te! I have an
+engagement for the winter in Berlin as before. I have
+engagement for Paris&mdash;eh! but&mdash;pouf! Figure me on
+the charming <hi rend="font-style: italic">Mauretania</hi> and I am
+sitting on the deck
+where you once made yourself so ridiculous. Rappelle
+toi? I am sick&mdash;No, mon vieux, pas du mal de mer!
+I should not be for everybody to look at. Oh, no! I
+am sick, I tell you. Je r&ecirc;ve de mon petit coco parmi
+les sales animaux! Je me dis: Zut! il est fou! il est
+tap&eacute;! Mais en moi m&ecirc;me je l&rsquo;adore! Tout de suite
+I tell a creature who brings me my books, my fan, un
+esp&egrave;ce de tapette, je m&rsquo;en vais l&agrave;, moi! He ask
+me where? I tell him I go to look for mon amant in
+Afrique Centrale! Mais oui! He thinks I am mad!
+I tell him so and I laugh! How I laugh. But he is
+right, yes, je suis folle&mdash;de toi!</p>
+
+<p>Alors I come to Marseilles and I catch a boat to
+Mombassa. Ouf! Je vais mourir &agrave; cause de mon
+petit loup! La mer rouge! Quel cauchemar! Enfin
+I still arrive what of Lucille is left and I ask for you, for
+Monsieur le Professeur Americain, but no one knows
+you. On the boat I have attached to myself trois
+mousquetaires Anglais. Tous les trois sont dr&ocirc;les!
+<pb n="304"/><anchor id="Pg304"/>
+They bring me on the ever so funny little train to here.
+Entebbe. Les Anglais sont tr&egrave;s polis, tu sais! Monsieur
+le Gouverneur stop drinking whisky politely to tell me
+that Monsieur has been and has gone! Quelle horreur!
+You have gone but three days! Pense tu! I ask
+myself what have I done that the bon Dieu should be
+so unkind. Then quel malheur! I remember to
+myself that I commence to come to you on
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">Friday!</hi>
+You laugh! Yes, I laugh too but&mdash;Quien sabe? I
+commence to come to you on a Friday and you are
+gone three little days!</p>
+
+<p>Then my good friends, les trois mousquetaires, send
+for me a what they call a runner&mdash;the red
+peas&mdash;C&rsquo;est
+dr&ocirc;le! but the little pea black he did not find
+you. He brings a message that you had gone to some
+place with a terrible name.</p>
+
+<p>Then come the two most ridiculous letters. I will
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">not</hi> reply to any such
+ridiculous letters&mdash;jamais!<lb/></p>
+
+<p>Birnier scowled. Two letters? he muttered.
+What letters?<lb/></p>
+
+<p>You must come now. Immediately. I want you.
+I will wait here for you. You must leave your
+ridiculous animals as I have left mes affaires for you.
+Come to me. I wait for you.<lb/></p>
+
+<p>Lower down on the same page, but written with a
+thick pen, the letter continued:<lb/></p>
+
+<p>Again I have read your absurd letter. Tu es fou!
+You make such a noise because this foolish young man
+is jealous of mon mari and make you to go round the
+<pb n="305"/><anchor id="Pg305"/>
+detestable country, which you like so much, instead of
+straight through to the ridiculous place you say you
+want to go.<lb/></p>
+
+<p>Birnier smiled grimly.<lb/></p>
+
+<p>Peuh! <corr sic="Ecoute"><anchor id="E30"/><ref
+target="e30">&Eacute;coute</ref></corr>,
+mon cher, it is true I have met the
+young man in Washington. Mon Dieu, are there not
+plenty of young men in Washington, Paris, Berlin?
+He fell in love with me. Mon Dieu, they are as thick
+as the blackberries! Perhaps I tease him pour faire la
+blague! Pourquoi pas? I give him a photograph
+and I sign it, just as I sign plenty for amusing friends.
+But then he become too ridiculous. He has no sense
+of humour comme tous les Allemands. He wishes to
+fight all my friends, tes compatriotes si sombres et
+graves! Figure toi! Then he make a challenge and
+naturellement it is not the custom in thy country.
+Mon pauvre petit Dorsay refuse and this person
+become crazy wild, as you say, and he strike him with
+his cane in the street. Quelle horreur! Quel
+scandale! He run away of course. The Embassy
+help him. Qui sait? That is the last I hear until
+I receive this ridiculous letter, together with thy
+ridiculous letter. I send him to you. How dr&ocirc;le that
+you two should meet all among les animaux. It is so
+funny that he did not kill you, this monstre allemand!
+Tu es en cross encore avec moi? Zut! mon vieux
+it is not my fault that everybody goes mad after
+me except mon petit mari! Leave the ridiculous
+gar&ccedil;on where he is. But why do I talk so much about
+a cochon? Because you are ridiculous! Tant pis
+pour toi! Now sois gentil and come to me
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">immediately</hi>&mdash;unless
+<pb n="306"/><anchor id="Pg306"/>
+you love your sales animaux plus que moi!
+If you do not come I will never never, jamais de ma
+vie, give you one single baiser again! No! Mille
+baisers! Mais comme je te deteste!<lb/></p>
+
+<p rend="text-align: right; margin-right: 2">
+  <name><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Lucille.</hi></name><lb/>
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD30" type="chapter">
+<pb n="307"/><anchor id="Pg307"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 30</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>Forty-eight hours later, the furious drumming,
+chanting and screaming heralded the return of the
+victorious troops of Zalu Zako. Birnier from his gaol
+on the hill watched the bronze flood pour like a stream
+of lava out of the plantation and flood the village,
+spears flashing silver points in the slanting rays of the
+sun. But what had happened to zu Pfeiffer and the
+white sergeants? No sign of them could he see.
+Waves of sound lapped continuously around the
+temple.</p>
+
+<p>The long mauve shadow of the hill ate up the village.
+Fires began to flicker amid the huts and away in the
+recesses of the plantation. The lowing of cattle added
+to the general clamour. As the western sky was still
+ablaze with incandescent colour stole the cold green of
+the advancing moon in the east.</p>
+
+<p><q>Mungongo, what are thy brethren about to do?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>It is the Festival of the Harvest, as I have told thee,
+O son of the Lord-of-many-Lands.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But they have not the Bride?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Nay.</q> Mungongo glanced apprehensively towards
+the temple where in what was to have been a bathroom,
+was Bakuma hidden. <q>He-who-may-not-be-mentioned
+demands but blood. The Bride is the food
+of the wizards. But to each warrior is every woman
+his bride this night.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Why didst thou not tell me this thing before?</q>
+<pb n="308"/><anchor id="Pg308"/>
+demanded Birnier, who knew that such was one of the
+customs of primitive tribes in all parts of the world
+and in all ages.</p>
+
+<p><q>Thou didst not ask me,</q> retorted Mungongo, to
+whom the affair was such a matter of course that it
+was not worth mentioning.</p>
+
+<p><q>Do they make sacrifice?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The Bride is married to the Banana, but of the
+manner of her nuptial know I not. Am I a wizard?</q></p>
+
+<p>The divine king grimly watched his subjects. In the
+growing light flitted gnomes around the huts in and
+out the sepia caverns of the plantation. As a banana
+front was etched in sepia against the great moon, the
+ocean of clamour was cleft by the high treble of the
+tribal troubadour. At the bottom of the wide street
+appeared dancing figures. As they approached,
+Birnier could distinguish Bakahenzie, Marufa and
+Yabolo in the van, dressed in full panoply, whirling and
+leaping with untiring energy. Behind them shuffled
+and pranced a vast mass of warriors, behind whom
+again several hundred women shrilled and wriggled in
+the mighty chorus. The rhythm of the drums
+increased to the maddening action impulse of the two
+short&mdash;long beat:</p>
+
+<p>Pm-pm&mdash;Pommmmm! Pm-pm&mdash;Pommmmm!
+Pm-pm&mdash;Pommmmm!</p>
+
+<p>The treble solo of the chant darted above that throb
+and grunt like a mad bird skimming the turbulent tops
+of a dark forest.</p>
+
+<p>Pm-pm&mdash;Pommmmm! Pm-pm&mdash;Pommmmm!
+Pm-pm&mdash;<corr sic="Pommmm"><anchor id="E31"/><ref
+target="e31">Pommmmm</ref></corr>!</p>
+
+<p>The rhythm seemed like a febrile pulse within
+Birnier&rsquo;s brain, dominating him with hypnotic suggestion
+<pb n="309"/><anchor id="Pg309"/>
+to action. An urge to scream and to yell, to
+dance and to leap, plucked at his limbs. Resurgent
+desires from he knew not what subconscious catacombs,
+wriggled and struggled furiously within him.
+The great moon scattered blue stars upon the spears
+as if upon the green scales of some leviathan squirming
+in delirious torment.</p>
+
+<p>Control the twitching of his muscles to that rhythm
+Birnier could not. He had to fight to resist the waves
+of hysteria permeating the air. He glanced at
+Mungongo. The whites of his eyes were rolling.
+Birnier cursed the insistency of the drums and the
+orgiastical grunts. Forcibly he kept up a running
+fire of psychological explanations: <q>Annihilation of
+inhibitions &hellip; dissociation of personality &hellip;
+triumph of the subconscious animal,</q> as a wizard
+muttering incantations against evil spirits. He felt
+dizzy. <q>God, I&rsquo;m drunk with rhythm!</q> he exclaimed.</p>
+
+<p>The priests were entering the large gate of the
+outer enclosure. In the village and on the opposite
+hill the people resembled a swarm of black locusts.
+The drums ceased. Bakahenzie and Marufa and
+Yabolo ran straight towards him screeching. This
+was the cue.</p>
+
+<p>Birnier walked back slowly. In awful silence they
+began to push the idol. The wood creaked protestingly.
+Slowly the mass slid on to Birnier&rsquo;s back.
+He gripped it and began to walk to the entrance. As
+he passed Mungongo the Sacred Fires shot up yellow
+tongues. A sound like a moan rose dripping with
+screams and grew into a continuous thunder of noise.
+The drums rippled a furious tattoo. The three
+<pb n="310"/><anchor id="Pg310"/>
+wizards dashed before him, leaping high in the air.
+Birnier shuffled a dozen yards to the left and turned.
+He stopped.</p>
+
+<p>Upon the ground, just within the outer gate in
+view of the multitude beyond, green ivory in the
+moonlight, was the naked figure of a white man.
+Above him pranced Bakahenzie in whose hand gleamed
+a knife.</p>
+
+<p>The training of his life enabled Birnier to throw upon
+the screen of his mind the essential points more rapidly
+than conscious thought. Bakahenzie, as well as the
+others, was in an abnormal state of excitement. There
+was no time to employ <q>magic</q> rockets or anything
+else. He swung the idol upon one shoulder and ran
+forward. He saw the blue eyes move and the bracelet
+wink in the moonlight as he stepped over the bound
+form. He bent, balancing the image upon his shoulders,
+and seized zu Pfeiffer by the arm.</p>
+
+<p>The throb of the drums and the roar of the people
+who knew not but that this act was in accordance with
+the rules, continued. The priests remained motionless:
+expectant. Bakahenzie stood rigid as if paralysed
+by the unexpected: the knife was a blue snake in his
+hand.</p>
+
+<p>Half blinded with sweat, with his muscles cracking,
+Birnier staggered on with the heavy burden, dragging
+the nude body after him. Hours seemed to pass, each
+second of which might bring a spear in his back before
+he reached the place before the temple. He slid the
+idol into the hole and turned.</p>
+
+<p>From the tumult of sound the screech of Bakahenzie
+shot up like a snipe from a rice field. The other
+wizards sprang with him. The moonlight kissed a
+<pb n="311"/><anchor id="Pg311"/>
+spearhead beside the stone figure of Mungongo by the
+Sacred Fires. Birnier leaped, plucked the spear,
+caught zu Pfeiffer in his arms and raised him
+shoulder high that all might see.</p>
+
+<p>At the entrance of the enclosure Bakahenzie and the
+other two were arrested by astonishment. Lowering
+the body to the base of the idol which leaned sideways
+in a drunken leer, Birnier lifted the spear and brought
+it down accurately between zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s left arm and
+breast, and dropping swiftly upon his knees to cover
+his actions, slashed his own left forearm. Then he
+jumped to his feet and held the blooded spear aloft
+as he cried aloud:</p>
+
+<p><q>The god hath taken his own!</q></p>
+
+<p>Bakahenzie was the first to see that the white breast
+of the victim was indeed deluged in blood; perhaps
+the veneration engendered by <q>the fingers of Tarum</q>
+moved beneath the blood lust.</p>
+
+<p><q>The god hath taken his own!</q> he repeated in a
+piercing scream. Marufa echoed the shout. As they
+turned the cry was ricocheted beyond the farthest hill.</p>
+
+<p><q>The god hath taken his own!</q></p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="WD31" type="chapter">
+<pb n="312"/><anchor id="Pg312"/>
+<index index="toc"/>
+<index index="pdf"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">
+  <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Chapter 31</hi>
+</head>
+
+<p>The reflection of a shaft of moonlight through the
+half-completed thatch upon zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s <q>magic</q>
+mirror, which the natives had not dared to remove, set
+afire the sapphires upon his bracelet as he sat rigidly
+in a camp chair in a suit of pyjamas. Upon the bed
+lay Birnier, nursing his bandaged left arm. Now
+and again the thrumming, chanting and the shrilling
+of the saturnalia without rose into discordant yells
+like a gust of wind whipping tree-tops into fury.</p>
+
+<p>Zu Pfeiffer appeared taciturn and suspicious.
+Perhaps the slackening of his will, tautened to meet
+death as his caste demanded that he should, and the
+confrontation of the object of his violent hate, had
+completely unnerved him. When Birnier had dragged
+him within and cut his bonds, he had grunted curt,
+official thanks for the rescue. As sullenly he had
+hesitated at the offer of the pyjamas, but as if deciding
+that he could not retain any dignity in his own bloodied
+skin, had accepted them, as well as a sorely needed
+drink of water.</p>
+
+<p>The reaction after the crisis, and possibly the influence
+of the general hysteria in the air, had distorted Birnier&rsquo;s
+vision of things. He was very conscious of a neurotic
+desire to laugh unrestrainedly. Thus it was that for
+nearly half an hour the two men remained in the gloom
+in silence. Birnier had a psychological comprehension
+of the highly nervous tension of his guest. For he
+<pb n="313"/><anchor id="Pg313"/>
+had long ago realized that the only solution of zu
+Pfeiffer&rsquo;s crazy statement that he was engaged to the
+wife of a man to whom he was speaking, indicated a
+form of insanity.</p>
+
+<p>A psychological law is that natural emotions must
+have an outlet; if they are repressed they are apt to
+cause a state of mental disease which in an aggravated
+form may lead the patient to the asylum, but in the
+incipient stage are as common as jackals in Africa. Zu
+Pfeiffer was suffering from such a case of mild psychosis.
+Brought up under an iron code which did not permit
+his instincts to react, the repressed emotions bubbled
+out in the form of a deification of his Kaiser and the
+adoration of Lucille, both states being absolutely apart
+from all reason, indeed approached to a state of
+dissociation of consciousness. The desired unattainable
+is projected into the dream plane, the realm of
+myth. Such a case is the historical one of the man
+who, keenly intelligent upon every subject mentioned,
+startles the visitor by the demand for a piece of toast,
+gravely explaining that he is a poached egg and that
+he wishes to sit down; or as Pascal, who ever had
+beside him the great black dog. To attempt to
+rationalise with such an one was merely to excite the
+insane part of him. So it was that Birnier determined
+to ignore the subject entirely, perfectly aware that the
+sullenness of the man sitting in the camp chair opposite
+to him was caused by an exaggerated terror that he
+would insist upon speaking of the one subject which
+should be tabu.</p>
+
+<p>The associative suggestion of Lucille diverted his
+mind until he became immersed in thoughts of her.
+A queer vision of a well-fed tiger playing with a kid
+<pb n="314"/><anchor id="Pg314"/>
+entered his mind. More conscious than ever of her
+attraction by reason of the intensified sense of her
+wrought by her letter, he glanced surreptitiously at
+the rigid form in the chair and a wave of pity mixed
+with a half conscious pride that she belonged to him,
+rose within him. Then Birnier started as he was
+brought back to a realization of the passing of time by
+a harsh voice that told of creaking nerves:</p>
+
+<p><q>Herr Professor, what is your pleasure to do with
+me, if you please?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I beg your pardon!</q> Birnier sat up. <q>Er&mdash;naturally
+I shall endeavour to get you away as early as
+possible. It would be as well if you took advantage of
+the present&mdash;er&mdash;saturnalia to escape. I cannot do
+much. I can provide you with a gun and food. As
+you are not injured you should be able to get a reasonable
+distance from here by morning; for the rest I
+am afraid you must fend for yourself. I wish that I
+could do more, but I&rsquo;m afraid that my power is not
+yet sufficient to ensure any help from the natives.</q></p>
+
+<p>An inarticulate sound emerged from zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s
+mouth. Birnier&rsquo;s eyes caught the sheen of the
+photograph upon the wall. Escape! Lucille! Almost
+involuntarily he stretched out a hand and took Lucille&rsquo;s
+letter from the table. Again came zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s
+voice:</p>
+
+<p><q>I thank you, Herr Professor, but I cannot accept&mdash;for
+myself.</q> Birnier stared at him. <q>I wish you to
+understand that for myself that is impossible.</q> The
+tall figure seemed to straighten in the chair. <q>But as
+I have the honour to serve his Imperial Majesty I am
+bound to preserve to the best of my ability my body in
+order to answer for my culpable negligence which has
+<pb n="315"/><anchor id="Pg315"/>
+resulted in the loss of my two companies. Most
+distinctly, Herr Professor, I wish you to know that I
+accept your offer in order to place myself before the
+Court Martial that awaits me.</q></p>
+
+<p>Birnier almost gasped. That this anomaly of a
+man, who was capable of cold-blooded murder at the
+prompting of an hallucination, and who now appeared
+equally capable of the utter annihilation of self at the
+service of his Imperial Master, meant what he said,
+Birnier did not doubt. Yet it was not anomalous.
+Logical in fact; the capability of supreme sacrifice
+for either of his idols.</p>
+
+<p><q>I understand you, Lieutenant,</q> said he courteously.
+<q>I&qdash;</q> The two letters in his hand crackled.
+Before he could master the mean desire he had handed
+the second letter to zu Pfeiffer with the words:</p>
+
+<p><q>Forgive me, I have here a letter which it is my
+duty to return to you.</q></p>
+
+<p>The sapphires winked as zu Pfeiffer held up the letter
+in the shaft of moonlight. There was a suppressed
+grunt as of pain. Zu Pfeiffer rose stiffly and walked
+to the door. His tall figure was silhouetted in profile
+against the green sky and as Birnier watched he saw a
+gleam as of crystal upon an eyelash. Birnier, ashamed
+of his sole vengeance, turned away.</p>
+
+<p>But as if revenge were recoiling upon him came in
+the wake of that satisfied primitive instinct a surge of
+longing for Lucille. Lucille! Lucille! God! how
+he desired to see those eyes again! Feel those lips and
+hear the gurgle of her laughter! Sense the perfume
+of her hair as she murmured: <q><hi rend="font-style: italic">Mon
+petit loup!</hi></q>
+Birnier sat holding the letter. He fought with an
+impulse to abandon everything to go to her&mdash;if he
+<pb n="316"/><anchor id="Pg316"/>
+could get out! How stale and monotonous the
+adventure and the scientific interest suddenly seemed!
+After all, what had he accomplished? What could he
+accomplish? Even yet he had learned but little of the
+secrets of the witch-doctor&rsquo;s craft. Perhaps there was
+little or nothing to learn? And zu Pfeiffer? He
+stared across at the portrait of Lucille. And as he
+gazed a wave of pity rose within him for this boy made
+mad by the witchery of those eyes and the music of
+that voice. A sentence in Lucille&rsquo;s letter appeared
+to stand out from the context: <q><hi
+rend="font-style: italic">Mon Dieu, they are
+as thick as the blackberries!</hi></q></p>
+
+<p>And yet&mdash;and yet&qdash; Why the devil had she
+taken it into her head to come out to Uganda above
+all places? he asked himself. She was so damnably
+near to him. He smiled satirically as he recollected
+her phrase about those fools who made of love a
+nuisance, and yet now what was she doing? After
+all the suspicion in his mind that love is everything to
+a woman seemed proven true.</p>
+
+<p>But how adorable she was! He fingered the letter
+as if it were part of her. Well, she was young; success
+and adulation from one capital to another had interested
+and amused her for a few years, but when
+Milady had suddenly discovered that the Career bored
+her she had thrown up everything and logically&mdash;to her
+mind&mdash;expected her mate to do likewise! With what
+insouciance had she treated the affair of zu Pfeiffer and
+the youngster whom he had struck. When Birnier had
+met her she had had a story of a young fool count in
+Paris who had shot himself, merely because she would
+not listen to his suit; and she had protested with one
+of those wonderful shrugs and a moue, saying that she
+<pb n="317"/><anchor id="Pg317"/>
+could not marry all the men in the world! That
+apparently bloodthirsty indifference had of course
+tended to make more men <q>crazy wild,</q> as she put it,
+about her. And that reputation had added to her
+numerous attractions even to Birnier.</p>
+
+<p>He could escape if he wished&mdash;with zu Pfeiffer. He
+could take Mungongo with him. Yet would Mungongo
+dare the tabu at his bidding? Birnier doubted it.
+Would Mungongo even consent to let him, Birnier,
+who was now in his eyes the King-God, go and so
+imperil the foundations of the native world? Birnier
+was certain that he would not. They were all
+dominated by this confounded idol of wood, he reflected.
+Bakahenzie, or even Mungongo, would cheerfully
+sacrifice him if either imagined that the damned
+Unmentionable One desired it, at the suppositious
+bidding of something which was nothing.</p>
+
+<p>Through the sweet scent of her in the air like a
+compelling aura about him, came suddenly zu Pfeiffer&rsquo;s
+voice speaking in the accents of agony; yet all he
+said was:</p>
+
+<p><q>Herr Professor Birnier&mdash;I am compelled&mdash;to&mdash;to
+apologise for &hellip;</q></p>
+
+<p>The voice failed and the haughty blond head turned
+away, unable to complete to the uttermost the greatest
+sacrifice he had ever attempted.</p>
+
+<p><q>Please don&rsquo;t,</q> said Birnier comprehendingly. <q>I
+understand.</q></p>
+
+<p>And Birnier did comprehend; realised the small hell
+in zu Pfeiffer as a higher developed tabu did a childish
+tabu unto death. Zu Pfeiffer, white man, had been
+just as guilty of an attempt to commit murder at the
+suppositious inversion of a thumb of an idol as Bakahenzie;
+<pb n="318"/><anchor id="Pg318"/>
+not an idol of wood but the projection of his
+subconscious desires. Zu Pfeiffer would sacrifice a
+million at the bidding of his Kaiser, whose divinity was
+the same myth, the projection of himself. Yet what
+had been Birnier&rsquo;s object in undertaking all these pains
+and penalties but to study mankind in the making, the
+black microcosm of a white macrocosm; to aid them
+to a better understanding of themselves and each
+other? Was not Bakahenzie an embryonic zu
+Pfeiffer? How could one aid a zu Pfeiffer if one did
+not know a Bakahenzie?</p>
+
+<p>From the saturnalia in progress outside came another
+swirl of sound seeming to lap mockingly against the
+motionless figure of zu Pfeiffer silhouetted against a
+green sky; and above him towered the idol leaning
+sideways.</p>
+
+<p>As if in drunken laughter of the follies of black
+and white humanity! mused Birnier. Yet what
+am I doing? At the crook of a dainty finger am I,
+too, to bow to an idol? Am I to pity zu Pfeiffer and
+these children?&hellip; Savages! Good God, what
+am I?</p>
+<!-- <pb n="319"/><anchor id="Pg319"/>
+[Blank Page] -->
+
+<!-- <pb n="320"/><anchor id="Pg320"/>
+[Blank Page] -->
+
+<!-- <pb n="321"/><anchor id="Pg321"/>
+[Blank Page] -->
+
+<!-- <pb n="322"/><anchor id="Pg322"/>
+[Blank Page] -->
+
+</div>
+
+</body>
+
+<back>
+  <div rend="page-break-before: right" type="extra pages">
+    <index index="toc"/>
+    <index index="pdf"/>
+    <head rend="text-align: center">
+      <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Extra Pages</hi>
+    </head>
+
+    <div rend="page-break-before: right" type="extra pages">
+      <pb n="1"/><anchor id="Pg1"/>
+      <p rend="text-align: right">
+      <hi rend="font-size: 150%">Witch-Doctors</hi></p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div rend="page-break-before: always" type="extra pages">
+      <pb n="2"/><anchor id="Pg2"/>
+      <p rend="margin-left: 8"><hi rend="font-style: italic">L&rsquo;homme
+      est bien insens&eacute;! il</hi><lb/>
+      <hi rend="font-style: italic">ne s&ccedil;auroit forger un ciron,
+      et</hi><lb/>
+      <hi rend="font-style: italic">forge des dieux &agrave; douzaine!</hi></p>
+      <p rend="margin-left: 24"><hi rend="font-size: 75%">MONTAIGNE</hi></p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <div rend="page-break-before: right" type="errata">
+    <index index="toc"/>
+    <index index="pdf"/>
+    <head rend="text-align: center">
+      <hi rend="font-size: 100%">Errata</hi>
+    </head>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e1'/>
+      <item>CHARACTERS</item>
+      <item>Changed: Ludwig&emsp;&emsp;<ref target="E1"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">do. do.</hi></ref></item>
+      <item>To: Ludwig&emsp;&emsp;<hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">German sergeant</hi></item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e2'/>
+      <item>CHARACTERS</item>
+      <item>Changed: Schneider&emsp;&emsp;<ref target="E2"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">do. do.</hi></ref></item>
+      <item>To: Schneider&emsp;&emsp;<hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">German sergeant</hi></item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e3'/>
+      <item>Chapter 1</item>
+      <item>Changed: &ldquo;This Saka&mdash;Saka&rdquo;&mdash;<ref
+        target="E3"><hi rend="font-weight: bold">Zu</hi></ref>
+        Pfeiffer glanced at</item>
+      <item>To: &ldquo;This Saka&mdash;Saka&rdquo;&mdash;<hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">zu</hi>
+        Pfeiffer glanced at</item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e4'/>
+      <item>Chapter 1</item>
+      <item>Changed: retreat. At <ref target="E4"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">MFunga</hi></ref>
+        MPopo&rsquo;s is the</item>
+      <item>To: retreat. At <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">MFunya</hi>
+        MPopo&rsquo;s is the</item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e5'/>
+      <item>Chapter 1</item>
+      <item>Changed: As <ref target="E5"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Zu</hi></ref>
+        Pfeiffer nodded languidly</item>
+      <item>To: As <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">zu</hi>
+        Pfeiffer nodded languidly</item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e6'/>
+      <item>Chapter 1</item>
+      <item>Changed: seemed to escape <ref target="E6"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Zu</hi></ref>
+        Pfeiffer. He gave</item>
+      <item>To: seemed to escape <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">zu</hi>
+        Pfeiffer. He gave</item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e7'/>
+      <item>Chapter 1</item>
+      <item>Changed: man&rsquo;s arrival?&rdquo; demanded <ref
+        target="E7"><hi rend="font-weight: bold">Zu</hi></ref>
+        Pfeiffer harshly.</item>
+      <item>To: man&rsquo;s arrival?&rdquo; demanded <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">zu</hi>
+        Pfeiffer harshly.</item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e8'/>
+      <item>Chapter 1</item>
+      <item>Changed: Zu <ref target="E8"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Peiffer</hi></ref>
+        finished the report leisurely</item>
+      <item>To: Zu <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Pfeiffer</hi>
+        finished the report leisurely</item>
+    </list>
+ 
+    <list><anchor id='e33'/>
+      <item>Chapter 3</item>
+      <item>Changed: I thank you<ref target="E33"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">,</hi></ref>
+        And if&qdash; Were</item>
+      <item>To: I thank you<hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">.</hi>
+        And if&qdash; Were</item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e9'/>
+      <item>Chapter 6</item>
+      <item>Changed: as balanced as a dancer&rsquo;s<ref target="E9"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">&nbsp;</hi></ref></item>
+      <item>To: as balanced as a dancer&rsquo;s<hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">.</hi></item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e10'/>
+      <item>Chapter 6</item>
+      <item>Changed: to matters of more importance.<ref target="E10"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">&rdquo;</hi></ref></item>
+      <item>To: to matters of more importance.<hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">&nbsp;</hi></item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e11'/>
+      <item>Chapter 9</item>
+      <item>Changed: shall lave hungry ears of<ref target="E11"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">&nbsp;</hi></ref></item>
+      <item>To: shall lave hungry ears of <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">&qdash;!</hi></item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e12'/>
+      <item>Chapter 9</item>
+      <item>Changed: <ref target="E12"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h</hi></ref>!</item>
+      <item>To: <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h</hi>!</item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e13'/>
+      <item>Chapter 9</item>
+      <item>Changed: As we &hellip;<ref target="E13"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">&nbsp;</hi></ref></item>
+      <item>To: As we &hellip;<hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">&rdquo;</hi></item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e14'/>
+      <item>Chapter 9</item>
+      <item>Changed: The personality of <ref target="E14"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Bernier</hi></ref>
+        had been apparently</item>
+      <item>To: The personality of <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Birnier</hi>
+        had been apparently</item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e15'/>
+      <item>Chapter 9</item>
+      <item>Changed: and the two <ref target="E15"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Nordenfelts</hi></ref>
+        and two pom-poms</item>
+      <item>To: and the two <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Nordenfeldts</hi>
+        and two pom-poms</item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e17'/>
+      <item>Chapter 11</item>
+      <item>Changed: &ldquo;<ref target="E17"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</hi></ref>!&rdquo;
+      </item>
+      <item>To: &ldquo;<hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</hi>!&rdquo;
+      </item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e18'/>
+      <item>Chapter 11</item>
+      <item>Changed: <ref target="E18"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</hi></ref>!</item>
+      <item>To: <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</hi>!</item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e19'/>
+      <item>Chapter 13</item>
+      <item>Changed: in of fresh <ref target="E19"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">masssacres</hi></ref>
+        adding to the</item>
+      <item>To: in of fresh <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">massacres</hi>
+        adding to the</item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e20'/>
+      <item>Chapter 14</item>
+      <item>Changed: Yabolo near to <ref target="E20"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Zaku</hi></ref>
+        Zako&rsquo;s continued. Neither</item>
+      <item>To: Yabolo near to <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Zalu</hi>
+        Zako&rsquo;s continued. Neither</item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e21'/>
+      <item>Chapter 14</item>
+      <item>Changed: enemy, Bakahenzie, presented <ref target="E21"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Zaku</hi></ref>
+        Zako with a </item>
+      <item>To: enemy, Bakahenzie, presented <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Zalu</hi>
+        Zako with a </item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e22'/>
+      <item>Chapter 14</item>
+      <item>Changed: which walk ever <ref target="E22"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">the the</hi></ref>
+        red devils in</item>
+      <item>To: which walk ever <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">the</hi>
+        red devils in</item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e23'/>
+      <item>Chapter 14</item>
+      <item>Changed: the minds of <ref target="E23"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Zako Zalu</hi></ref>
+        and Marufa the</item>
+      <item>To: the minds of <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Zalu Zako</hi>
+        and Marufa the</item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e24'/>
+      <item>Chapter 15</item>
+      <item>Changed: village of MFunya <ref target="E24"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">MPope</hi></ref>
+        &mdash;of that day</item>
+      <item>To: village of MFunya <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">MPopo</hi>
+        &mdash;of that day</item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e25'/>
+      <item>Chapter 15</item>
+      <item>Changed: not his policy <ref target="E25"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">tomake</hi></ref>
+        his thunder too</item>
+      <item>To: not his policy <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">to make</hi>
+        his thunder too</item>
+    </list>
+  
+    <list><anchor id='e26'/>
+      <item>Chapter 17</item>
+      <item>Changed: position of chief <ref target="E26"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">witch doctor</hi></ref>,
+        he would do</item>
+      <item>To: position of chief <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">witch-doctor</hi>,
+        he would do</item>
+    </list>
+ 
+    <list><anchor id='e27'/>
+      <item>Chapter 18</item>
+      <item>Changed: earth, and when<ref target="E27"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">&qdash;</hi></ref>
+        and when&qdash;&rdquo; He</item>
+      <item>To: earth, and when<hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">&mdash;</hi>
+        and when&qdash;&rdquo; He</item>
+    </list>
+ 
+    <list><anchor id='e28'/>
+      <item>Chapter 19</item>
+      <item>Changed: in their solar <ref target="E28"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">plexes</hi></ref>.</item>
+      <item>To: in their solar <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">plexus</hi>.</item>
+    </list>
+ 
+    <list><anchor id='e32'/>
+      <item>Chapter 22</item>
+      <item>Changed: the village of <ref target="E32"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Yangonyama</hi></ref>,
+        but shortage of</item>
+      <item>To: the village of <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Yagonyana</hi>,
+        but shortage of</item>
+    </list>
+
+    <list><anchor id='e29'/>
+      <item>Chapter 24</item>
+      <item>Changed: the white god.<ref target="E29"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">&nbsp;</hi></ref></item>
+      <item>To: the white god.<hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">&rdquo;</hi></item>
+    </list>
+ 
+    <list><anchor id='e30'/>
+      <item>Chapter 29</item>
+      <item>Changed: Peuh! <ref target="E30"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Ecoute</hi></ref>,
+        mon cher, it</item>
+      <item>To: Peuh! <hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">&Eacute;coute</hi>,
+        mon cher, it</item>
+    </list>
+ 
+    <list><anchor id='e31'/>
+      <item>Chapter 30</item>
+      <item>Changed: Pm-pm&mdash;<ref target="E31"><hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Pommmm</hi></ref>!</item>
+      <item>To: Pm-pm&mdash;<hi
+        rend="font-weight: bold">Pommmmm</hi>!</item>
+    </list>
+  </div>
+  <div rend="page-break-before: right">
+    <divGen type="pgfooter"/>
+  </div>  
+</back>
+
+</text>
+
+</TEI.2>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Witch-Doctors by Charles Beadle
+
+
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no
+restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under
+the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or
+online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license
+
+
+
+Title: Witch-Doctors
+
+Author: Charles Beadle
+
+Release Date: July 18, 2007 [Ebook #22099]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: US-ASCII
+
+
+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WITCH-DOCTORS***
+
+
+
+
+
+                              Witch-Doctors
+
+                           _by_ Charles Beadle
+                    _Author of "A Whiteman's Burden"_
+
+Boston and New York
+Houghton Mifflin Company
+1922
+
+
+
+
+
+     _Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Frome and London_
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHARACTERS
+
+
+
+
+  LUCILLE CHARLTRAIN (Mrs. Gerald Birnier)                     A Photograph
+  USAKUMA (The Incarnation of the
+      Unmentionable One)                                            An Idol
+  GERALD BIRNIER                                                A Professor
+  ZU PFEIFFER (Hermann von Schnitzler und)                German Kommandant
+  ZALU ZAKO (son of Kawa Kendi)                               Heir Apparent
+  BAKUMA (daughter of Bakala)                        in love with Zalu Zako
+  MYALU (son of MBusa)                          a chief in love with Bakuma
+  BAKAHENZIE (son of Maliko)                             Chief Witch-Doctor
+  MARUFA (son of MTungo)                               another Witch-Doctor
+  KAWA KENDI (son of MFunya MPopo)                   King-God and Rainmaker
+  MFUNYA MPOPO (son of MKoffo)                    Predecessor of Kawa Kendi
+  KINGATA MATA (son of Kabolo)                   Keeper of the Sacred Fires
+  SAKAMATA                                     deposed Witch-Doctor and spy
+  YABOLO                                               another Witch-Doctor
+  MUNGONGO                                                Birnier's servant
+  SCHULTZ                                                   German sergeant
+  LUDWIG                                                    German sergeant
+  SCHNEIDER                                                 German sergeant
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 CONTENTS
+
+
+Chapter 1
+Chapter 2
+Chapter 3
+Chapter 4
+Chapter 5
+Chapter 6
+Chapter 7
+Chapter 8
+Chapter 9
+Chapter 10
+Chapter 11
+Chapter 12
+Chapter 13
+Chapter 14
+Chapter 15
+Chapter 16
+Chapter 17
+Chapter 18
+Chapter 19
+Chapter 20
+Chapter 21
+Chapter 22
+Chapter 23
+Chapter 24
+Chapter 25
+Chapter 26
+Chapter 27
+Chapter 28
+Chapter 29
+Chapter 30
+Chapter 31
+Extra Pages
+Errata
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                              WITCH-DOCTORS
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 1
+
+
+In a bayou in the south-eastern corner of the Victoria Nyanza was the
+station of Ingonya, a brown scab on the face of the green earth. The round
+mud huts of the askaris were like two columns of khaki troops marching
+rigidly on each side of the parade ground. To the north, upon a slight
+rise of ground, were the white men's quarters; the non-commissioned
+officers had four bungalows to the south of the orderly room and Court
+House; and beyond a green plot flanked by a store house and an ordnance
+building, was a bigger bungalow, florid in the amplitude and colour of the
+red pillared verandah, the residence of the Kommandant, Herr
+Ober-Lieutenant Hermann von Schnitzler und zu Pfeiffer.
+
+On the northern side, overlooking the swamp and the distant lake, was a
+flagpole, before which paced an ebon sentry in a uniform of white
+knickers, tunic and lancer cap, red faced. The glow of sunrise stained the
+green of the moon with crimson. A trumpet blared. From the rear of the
+Residence marched with stiff-legged precision a squad of askaris and the
+stocky figure of a non-commissioned officer in a white helmet.
+Simultaneously appeared on the verandah of the large bungalow the tall
+form of a white man in pink silk pyjamas. The sergeant barked. The squad
+presented arms. A coloured ball slid up the flagpole. The first rays of
+the sun splintered the bloodied waters beyond into silver spikes and
+caressed a fluttering black, white and red flag.
+
+Then the squad ported arms, relieved the sentry, and retired, their black
+legs gleaming blue points as they rose and fell. The pink figure
+disappeared. Sergeant Schultz strutted back to his bungalow, in the
+verandah of which squatted a native girl clad in gay trade cloths. He
+emerged lighting a cigar, and sjambok in hand, returned to the orderly
+room. Another trumpet blared. From beyond the askaris' camp came a line of
+natives, young and old, their scrawny necks linked together by a light
+iron chain which clanked musically. Filing on to the parade ground they
+were divided into gangs by Sergeant Schneider to labour under guard at the
+interminable work of the camp.
+
+The air above the swamp began to sizzle in the heat. The same slender
+figure clad in immaculate white reappeared upon the south verandah of the
+florid bungalow. Herr Ober-Lieutenant stood staring about the small square
+with a peevish glint in the fair eyes. A big negro in spotless white
+hurried around the house bearing a brass tray set with a cup, a liqueur
+glass and a decanter. Herr Lieutenant sprawled his legs on either arm of a
+Bombay chair. As he delicately mixed cognac with his coffee, his jewelled
+fingers sparkled in a shaft of sunlight which set afire the sapphires
+mounted in an ivory bracelet.
+
+At a yard from the table stood the servant as rigid as the flagpole. With
+a lazy insolence which marked his movements, the lieutenant sipped the
+cafe-cognac and smoked a cheroot, as if he were seated on the terrace of
+the Cafe de la Paix. The brutality of the round skull, emphasized by the
+cropped blonde hair, seemed at variance with the boyish rotundity of the
+face and the small, but dominant, nose. Two separate moustaches bristled
+so fiercely that they suggested sentries on guard over the feminine
+softness of the lips. When he had finished zu Pfeiffer arose languidly,
+lighted a fresh cigar, adjusted his helmet with care, took a gold-mounted
+sjambok from his servant, and strode across the square. The lines of his
+torso were so perfect that they suggested artificial aid.
+
+The orderly room was square and whitewashed; grass matting was upon the
+floor, and high screened doors opened on to the north verandah. Zu
+Pfeiffer sprawled in a swing chair before the office desk placed at an
+oblique angle to the wall, encumbered with books and papers. After tapping
+reflectively on a book cover with a polished nail zu Pfeiffer's hand
+sharply struck the bell. Instantly a corporal appeared at the farther door
+and stood as if petrified, black hand to black temple. Zu Pfeiffer snapped
+instructions in Kiswahili without removing his cigar. The man grunted,
+shot his hand away at right angles with as much energy as if he were
+trying to knock down an elephant, and vanished.
+
+"Sergeant!"
+
+"Ja, Excellence."
+
+At the other door like another Jack-in-the-box appeared Sergeant Schultz
+in exactly the same attitude. At a nod the sergeant melted into the
+semblance of human movement: he drew aside a chair, selected a certain
+document from a pile of them, and handed it to the lieutenant. Zu Pfeiffer
+pushed a box of cigars across the table, lolled back with one foot on the
+table, and began to peruse lazily. The sergeant retired respectfully with
+the cigar to the outer office. A fly buzzed hopefully at the mosquito
+wire. The tap of a typewriter sounded like some other insect. On the hot
+air came the faint barks of a drill-sergeant on the parade ground. From
+behind the building rose fitfully the murmur of voices from a herd of
+natives squatted in the sun awaiting the opening of the Court House.
+Leaves rustled largely under the Lieutenant's fingers.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+At length he pitched the report on to the table, carefully placed the butt
+of his cigar in an ash-tray, lighted another, and disposed of the match
+with equal care.
+
+"Sergeant."
+
+"Ja, Excellence!"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer indicated a chair by a thrust of the chin. The sergeant sat.
+Tapping the report with the highly polished and very long finger-nail of
+the left hand, the lieutenant demanded:
+
+"Who is the man who gave you this report?"
+
+"Ali Ben Hassan, an Arab trader, Excellence."
+
+"Trustworthy?"
+
+"Ja, Excellence. He has done much work for us."
+
+"Where?"
+
+"On the Tanganika district, sub-division B II, Excellence. He brought
+papers of first-class recommendation from the Kommandant."
+
+"Ben Hassan speaks of one Sakamata, nicht wahr?"
+
+"Ja, Excellence."
+
+"Of what tribe is he?"
+
+"Wongolo."
+
+"A witch-doctor?"
+
+"Ja, Excellence."
+
+"He is here? Let him come in."
+
+The sergeant rose, saluted and departed. Gutturals sounded lazily. The
+sergeant reappeared and behind him shuffled a native. Clad only in a dirty
+loin-cloth, his brown skin was wrinkled in scaly folds upon his chest and
+belly; his face was like an ancient tortoise; the small lack-lustre eyes
+were bloodshot and furtive; the limbs were almost fleshless. He squatted
+upon the ground and with lowered lids appeared to be absorbed in the
+contemplation of a white man's table leg. Zu Pfeiffer regarded the man as
+one would a stray dog and nodded to the sergeant, who sat down.
+
+"Does he speak Kiswahili?"
+
+"Nein, Excellence. Only his monkey speech."
+
+"Why do you suppose that he is trustworthy?"
+
+"Because, Excellence, his interests are with ours. There is no
+competition. The Schweinhuende Englaender have no interest there--yet. They
+are too busy with the Uganda railroad."
+
+"Ja, ja. Again what is the tribal system there, King-God or----" The
+lieutenant permitted a slight smile--"or Dis-established Church?"
+
+"King-God, Excellence," replied Sergeant Schultz gravely.
+
+"This fellow then is an apostate priest, nicht wahr?"
+
+The sergeant noticed the movement of one of the sentry moustaches. A
+twitch of the lips recognized his superior's pleasantry.
+
+"Ja, Excellence."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer stuck the cigar into the corner of his mouth and regarded idly
+the dumb figure on the floor against the wall.
+
+"We must have the Wongolo country, c'est entendu. Now what's your opinion
+of the method, sergeant?"
+
+"With due deference, Excellence," responded Sergeant Schultz, "I propose
+that we advance and bring them to subjection in the usual manner."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer fingered a ring and stared out into the yellow glare.
+
+"Nein," he said at length, meditatively, removed the cigar from his lips
+and delicately knocked off the ash. "Circumstances alter cases. That
+method is too expensive. Son Altesse cannot afford the blood of the
+Fatherland in return for such ignoble carcasses. We--the price paid in the
+Herrero campaign was insupportable."
+
+"Pardon, Excellence, but Treitschke said----"
+
+"I know, sergeant. But Treitschke did not live in Central Africa."
+
+"True, Excellence."
+
+"Die Schweinhuende Englaender have had more experience than we have. Even a
+fool learns wisdom by experience--sometimes."
+
+"True, Excellence."
+
+Again fell a silence save for the buzz of the persistent fly.
+
+"Also psychological research is more valuable than artillery--sometimes--in
+spite of Napoleon and Treitschke." Zu Pfeiffer glanced at the sergeant
+who, beneath the mask of his features, appeared shocked. "Blasphemy, nicht
+wahr, sergeant?"
+
+"If your Excellence thinks----"
+
+"But remember if Napoleon invented the science of artillery, we invented
+psychology."
+
+"True, Excellence."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer smiled complacently and stroked his moustaches.
+
+"Now for this animal here. Who and what was he?"
+
+"One of the principal witch-doctors, Excellence, wealthy and powerful. He
+attempted to overthrow the Chief Witch-doctor, one Bakahenzie, and was
+discredited."
+
+"How discredited?"
+
+"He attempted some form of magic, Excellence, which failed. Details are
+not given."
+
+"Who gave the dossier?"
+
+"Ali ben Hassan, Excellence."
+
+"From whom did he get his information?"
+
+"Name given as one Yabolo, another witch-doctor and relative."
+
+"This Saka--Saka"--zu Pfeiffer glanced at the document--"Sakamata. Is he in
+communication with this Yabolo?"
+
+"Ja, Excellence."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer smoked reflectively.
+
+"When did the last agent come in?"
+
+"But yesterday, Excellence."
+
+"And no report of any other white men in the country? No British
+missionaries or traders?"
+
+"Nein, Excellence."
+
+"Where is Saunders?"
+
+"On Lake Kivu."
+
+"No report?"
+
+"Not since the last three months ago, Excellence."
+
+"Umph!--Now, pay attention." Schultz leaned forward dutifully. Zu Pfeiffer
+unrolled a map on the wall beside him. "Here's Ingonya. The Wongolo
+country is twenty days' march from here, but across the lake it's twenty
+hours with the launch, and five days from there." The delicate finger-nail
+indicated a spot on the opposite side of the lake. "From here--what's the
+place? Ach--Timballa. To hell with the British boundary! We must not give
+them time to get the news. Always rush the seat of government. Surprise
+them and they're done."
+
+"But, Excellence, Treitschke says regarding retreat----"
+
+"There will be no retreat. At MFunya MPopo's is the idol, the fetish. We
+destroy it and they're done!" He brought down his fist with a crash on the
+table. "Faith unites a people; in unity is strength. Break the faith and
+you've broken the people."
+
+"But, Excellence!" exclaimed the Lutheran sergeant, aghast.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer's blue eyes hardened.
+
+"Understand, you fool, these are savages. _You_ have an abstract
+deity--which you cannot break in the concrete--obviously: they have a
+concrete god which we can and shall smash."
+
+"Excellence, you are right," said the sergeant humbly.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer flicked cigar ash from his sleeve and lolled back.
+
+"Those are your orders. Commandeer the necessary canoes and notify Ludwig
+to have the men in readiness for the full moon. Work out the details and
+give them to me to-morrow."
+
+"Ja, Excellence." Schultz stood to attention. "But, Excellence, this
+creature----"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer glanced casually at Sakamata.
+
+"Oh, that? Take it away!"
+
+Schultz saluted smartly and wheeled about.
+
+"Njoo!" he commanded sharply.
+
+Sakamata rose up quietly and disappeared through the door without glancing
+to the right or the left.
+
+"The Court awaits your Excellence," reminded the sergeant.
+
+As zu Pfeiffer nodded languidly, a booted foot clopped on the verandah.
+
+"Wa da?" queried Sergeant Schultz, startled at the intrusion of a
+stranger.
+
+"Oh, only I," responded a soft voice in English.
+
+Through the screen door a tall figure in a Tirai hat was silhouetted in
+sepia against the yellow glare. A brown hand pushed open the door.
+
+"Mon nom est Birnier, Gerald Birnier--er--Does any one speak English?"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer, in the act of rising, sank back into the chair, placing his
+left leg in a favourite position and selecting a cigar simultaneously.
+
+"Yes," said he, almost without accent. "What do you want?"
+
+"I wish to see the--the Herr Kommandant."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer struck a match without looking up.
+
+"I am he."
+
+One hand upon the open door, Birnier stroked his shaven chin perplexedly
+with the other. He glanced from the sergeant, standing rigidly by the
+table, to the lieutenant engaged in stoking his cigar to a nicety.
+
+"Well, it's usual to invite a white man to sit down, isn't it?" suggested
+Birnier, with a note of irritation.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer looked across the table.
+
+"Nein. This is the Orderly Room; not a general office."
+
+"Oh, I see. I beg your pardon!" There was a note of laughter in the voice.
+"Will you kindly instruct me where I am to apply?"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer continued to regard the stranger from head to foot, smoking
+slowly.
+
+"Please to come in," he said at length, gesturing with his cigar, "and sit
+down."
+
+"Thanks so much!"
+
+The trace of irony seemed to escape zu Pfeiffer. He gave a guttural order
+to the sergeant, who saluted and disappeared. The stranger placed his
+Tirai hat on the table, revealing rumpled brown hair flecked with grey, a
+high white forehead, and long features; the slight stoop of the shoulders
+and general carriage rather suggested a professional type than a hunter or
+trader. He regarded the slim figure staring insolently at him with a
+hardening look of disapproval.
+
+"What is it you wish?"
+
+"Well, principally I require an elephant licence and the usual permit to
+trade."
+
+"Where are you going?"
+
+"To the Kivu country."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer regarded his cigar tip interestedly.
+
+"You are going to the Wongolo country," he stated.
+
+Birnier's mouth tightened.
+
+"Quite possibly."
+
+"You have been to the Wongolo country already?"
+
+"Yes, I have been there, but what has that to do with it?"
+
+"We know all about you," stated zu Pfeiffer coldly, twiddling his cigar
+between slender fingers. He glanced at a gold repeater. "Pardon, but I
+must request you to return later. The Court is already awaiting me."
+Birnier frowned slightly. "If you will be so good as to return at, let us
+say, five o'clock, I will be pleased to listen to your application."
+
+Birnier rose, taking his hat.
+
+"Certainly," he said curtly. "Good morning!"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer watched him depart; then he struck the bell sharply. Sergeant
+Schultz appeared, a line of nervous expectancy upon his sallow face.
+
+"Why have you not reported that man's arrival?" demanded zu Pfeiffer
+harshly.
+
+"Excellence," returned Schultz, saluting, "he has but arrived within the
+hour in a launch, loaned to him by the Englaender."
+
+"Ach! An English spy!"
+
+"I do not know, Excellence."
+
+"We ought to know. Why have you not a report of the man's movements? He
+admits that he has been in the Wongolo country."
+
+"Excellence, it is already done." Schultz hurriedly searched a card index
+cabinet and handed a document to the lieutenant. "There is Saunders'
+report, Excellence; more than six months old."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer glanced at the page indicated and began to read while the
+sergeant stood stiffly at attention.
+
+"You may go, sergeant," announced zu Pfeiffer without looking up. Schultz
+saluted and departed. Zu Pfeiffer finished the report leisurely, put down
+the paper, and stared meditatively.
+
+No, he decided, as he rose, all the English are spies.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 2
+
+
+Like a topaz set in a jade ring was the city of the Snake, the place of
+Kings, a village of some eight hundred huts huddled upon a slight rise
+above a sea of banana fronds, some two hundred miles to the west of
+Ingonya.
+
+On the summit was a large conical hut like an enormous candle snuffer, the
+dwelling place of Usakuma, the spirit of the Snake, whose name was
+forbidden to all save the Priest-God and Rain Maker, King MFunya MPopo,
+who was so holy that after succeeding to the sacred office he was doomed
+to live within the compound, even as were the Kings of Eutopia, Sheba and
+China, a celibate for the remainder of his life: for, as the incarnation
+of the Idol, Usakuma, and therefore the controller of the Heavens and the
+Earth, his body must be kept from all danger of witchcraft lest the rains
+cease and the blue skies fall.
+
+From the compound, looking towards the north-west where the snow-capped
+Gamballagalla rose violet against the horizon, another brown cone peeped
+above the green fronds, the late residence, and now the tomb of King
+MKoffo, predecessor of MFunya MPopo. For where a King-God dies there is he
+buried, he and his wives after him; the site becomes holy ground, a place
+of pilgrimage and sanctuary.
+
+In each of the small huts to the rear of the temple of MFunya MPopo, but
+outside the sacred enclosure, lived his wives who, although forbidden to
+their husband, were permitted a royal promiscuity. Just within the
+precincts was a small replica of the temple where dwelt a young chief,
+also bound to celibacy, whose duties were to keep the royal fire burning
+as long as the king should reign. No one was allowed to converse with the
+king, save on matters of state, except this man; through him was spoken
+the royal will--what there was left of it--to the council which sat in a
+long rectangular building opposite to the temple entrance and open to the
+village, a body of witch-doctors and chiefs.
+
+Solely the kingly office existed as a beneficent agent, a matter of
+self-preservation on the part of the tribe. The King-God's functions were
+divine; to make magic for the victory of his warriors and principally to
+make rain, on which, of course, the alimentary needs of his subjects
+depended--an incarnation of a god who was in reality the scapegoat of the
+god's omissions.
+
+The office was hereditary. Perhaps no one else would willingly accept such
+an onerous post. The making of magic was performed before the god with the
+assistance of the chief witch-doctor, an exceedingly lucrative post won
+upon merit, occupied by one Bakahenzie, a tall muscular man in the prime
+of life, whose bearing was that of the native autocrat, fierce and
+remorseless. The King's personal wishes could be safely granted as long as
+he did not endanger the existence of the people by a desire to break any
+of the meshes of the tabus designed to ensure the safety of his sacred
+body, and therefore that of the tribe, on the assumption that if the
+incarnation were injured the god would be injured, and so would his
+creations be affected: any infringement of these laws entailed the penalty
+of death, a code which revealed the native logic in the confusion of cause
+and effect, the concrete and the abstract.
+
+In the door of a hut on the outskirts of the village squatted a wizened
+man with a tuft of grey beard upon his chin. He was clad in a loin-cloth
+fairly clean, and about his neck was suspended by a twisted fibre an
+amulet wrapped in banana leaves containing the gall and toenail of an
+enemy slain by a virgin warrior, a specific against black magic whose
+powerful properties were proven by the undisputed influence and wealth of
+the owner.
+
+A tall lithe savage, bearing upon his arms and ankles the ivory bracelets
+of the royal house and the elephant hair chaplet of the warrior, advanced
+leisurely towards him from the banana plantation. Marufa continued to gaze
+in rumination at the opposite hut. But as they had not met since the
+rising of the sun, he did not fail to make the orthodox greeting at the
+exact moment that the chief's shadow passed in front of him, which Zalu
+Zako returned punctiliously, thereby averting an evil omen. As soon as the
+young man had passed beyond the next hut appeared in the grove a girl,
+modelled like a bronze wood nymph. She wore the tiny girdle of the
+unmarried and walked furtively, carrying in her hand a parcel wrapped in
+banana leaves. In the shadow of a compound fence she halted, one slender
+brown arm set back in apprehension as her eyes followed the lithe figure
+of Zalu Zako.
+
+Motionless sat Marufa staring in mystic contemplation. Bakuma glanced
+swiftly about her. Apparently satisfied that no one was observing her save
+a lean dog and two gollywog children, she continued on as if to pass the
+old man, her eyes still ranging like a fawn's. But when she was beside
+Marufa she subsided on her haunches beside him, clutching the bundle as
+she whispered:
+
+"Greetings, O wise one!"
+
+"Greeting, daughter," returned Marufa without lessening the fixity of his
+gaze.
+
+"I would talk with thee."
+
+"Aye."
+
+Again she glanced around furtively.
+
+"I would talk in thine ear, O my father."
+
+"The knots of my hair are tied."
+
+"I thank thee. There's a fluttering bird in my breast."
+
+"And a snake around thy heart, O my daughter."
+
+"Aie-e!"
+
+"The grandson of the snake hath tied thy girdle."
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+The girl clasped her breast in surprised terror.
+
+"How dost thou know?"
+
+"All things are known to the son of MTungo," declared Marufa solemnly,
+still regarding the opposite wall. "Thou desirest a love charm.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} What hast
+thou?"
+
+Tremulously Bakuma put down the green package on the ground, darting
+terrified glances to right and left. Slowly the skinny hand of the wizard
+gently tore open the leaves; very impressively the eyes slanted down to
+appraise the stock of blue and white beads.
+
+"The spirit of Tarum hath a big belly," he announced tonelessly.
+
+"O wise one, intercede for me," pleaded Bakuma, "for more have I none, I,
+Bakuma, daughter of Bakala, a girl of the hut thatch."
+
+"The true love charm, infallible and powerful, is difficult to obtain, O
+Bakuma. The young huntress aims at big game."
+
+"Ehh! But I have no more, great one!"
+
+"The hair of a rutting leopardess, the liver of a forest rat, the tongue
+of a Baroto bird--these must I have to mix with thy blood to be drunk by
+thy man when the moon is full."
+
+"Ehh! Ehh!"
+
+"Such is the magic that no young man can resist."
+
+"Ehh-h!"
+
+"But these things are difficult to obtain."
+
+"Aie! Aie!" wailed Bakuma, clasping her hands in despair.
+
+"Difficult to obtain."
+
+"Aie-e!"
+
+"On the night of the half-moon will I take upon me the leopard form."
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+"I will talk with the spirits."
+
+"Ehh! Ehh!"
+
+"But they must be propitiated with the blood of a fat goat."
+
+"Aie! Aie! But I have no fat goat."
+
+"If there be no fat goat then will the spirits be wroth with me."
+
+"Aie-e-e!"
+
+Bakuma sat staring in dismal perplexity.
+
+"No fat goat have I, a girl of the hut thatch! Aie! Aie!"
+
+Marufa fumbled within the loin-cloth and thrust a tiny package along the
+ground.
+
+"See and know the power of my magic." Bakuma greedily snatched up the
+amulet. "Begone!" he whispered, jerking the parcel of beads behind him.
+"MYalu approaches."
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+Bakuma rose and fled with the grace of a startled antelope as appeared a
+tall, strongly built man, having a low-browed face, across which was a
+deep scar. Behind MYalu came two young slaves bearing a small elephant
+tusk. Opposite to Marufa the slaves stopped. Their master, careful that
+his shadow fell well away from the figure of the magician--for the shadow
+is one of the souls, so woe unto him who shall leave his soul in the hands
+of an enemy!--squatted gravely.
+
+"Greeting, son of MTungo!"
+
+"Greeting, son of MBusa!" returned Marufa.
+
+Gravely they spat into each other's palm, the sign of amity as they who
+exchange bonds of good behaviour inasmuch, as is well known, magic can be
+worked upon that which has been a part of the body as upon the body
+itself. Then solemnly they rubbed the spittle upon their respective
+chests.
+
+"The spirit of the snake nourisheth not the life of the banana."
+
+"Nay, for nigh unto two moons hath there been no blood of the snake,"
+returned the old man perfunctorily, as he lifted his eyes from a swift
+appraisement of the tusk to his favourite mud wall.
+
+"Nay, the crops sprout not. Maybe the Dweller in the Place of the Snake
+hath been visited by one from the forest."
+
+"Aye, but old blood runs not as swiftly as young blood."
+
+"Nay," replied MYalu, in answer to the reference to himself, "but the
+girdle is not yet tied by another."
+
+"When the first twig of the nest is laid," remarked Marufa, indolently
+eyeing the tusk, "it is difficult to entice the hen to another tree."
+
+"Here is a goodly twig with which to tempt spirits of the forest," and
+significantly, "Maybe there are others."
+
+"A mighty potion shall be prepared for thee, O son of MBusa," declared
+Marufa, moving slightly to conceal the package of beads. "A mighty potion,
+infallible; made from the hair of a rutting leopardess, the liver of the
+forest rat and the tongue of the Baroto bird; these must she take that she
+shall speak thee softly, together with a portion of that which remains
+from the ceremony of the lobolo. Infallible is it; never known to fail."
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+Marufa stared interestedly at a wandering hen. MYalu watched him covertly.
+Like bronzes sat the two young slaves. From the distance came a faint
+chanting and the beat of a drum.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+"The tusk is here, Marufa," remarked MYalu casually.
+
+"My eyes see it," observed Marufa, without altering his observation of the
+hen.
+
+"Where then is the potion?"
+
+Marufa glanced at the tusk, appraised it again, and fumbling within his
+loin-cloth, thrust another tiny package along the ground. MYalu greedily
+picked up the amulet and stared in awe, turning it over and about.
+
+"The tusk," murmured Marufa.
+
+MYalu gestured to his slaves. They rose and placed the tusk beside the old
+man, shuffled backwards and squatted again. After lifting one end to test
+the weight, Marufa examined the grain. Then sliding it behind him as if he
+wished to sit upon it, remarked:
+
+"The potion must be eaten at the full moon."
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+MYalu glanced up from an absorbed examination of the amulet.
+
+"And within the quarter shall the fruit be ripe for the plucking." The
+whites of MYalu's eyes gleamed. "Unless," continued the old man
+uninterestedly, "there be stronger magic made against thee."
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+The two hands holding the amulet came down.
+
+"If," explained Marufa, "another hath tied the grasses of her father's
+roof, will there be required a stronger spirit to overcome such magic."
+
+"But thou hast told me," expostulated MYalu, regarding the tusk
+regretfully, "that this is a mighty magic, powerful and infallible, never
+known to fail."
+
+"Thus is it," asserted the old man imperturbably, "for all save a stronger
+magic."
+
+MYalu's eyes wandered from the tusk to Marufa and back. He scowled.
+
+"Why didst thou not tell me?" he demanded sourly, dropping the amulet on
+the ground.
+
+"It is for thee to tell the wizard all that thou knowest. How else may he
+reckon with thine enemies?"
+
+"Enemy!" exclaimed MYalu. He stared questioningly at Marufa. "Enemy! Dost
+thou know whom I seek?"
+
+"Do not all the hens remark the strutting of the cock?" inquired Marufa
+unconcernedly, tapping his snuff box.
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+MYalu observed the taking of snuff as if he had never seen the operation
+before.
+
+"Ehh!" he remarked again succinctly.
+
+Marufa replaced the cork of twisted leaves, let fall the snuff box made of
+rhinoceros horn suspended from his neck by a copper wire, and contemplated
+a skinny goat scratching itself violently. MYalu stirred as if to rise,
+but subsided, cogitated and said slowly:
+
+"In the house of MYalu are four more tusks."
+
+"Four more tusks," repeated Marufa dreamily.
+
+"Bigger than this one," said MYalu suggestively.
+
+"Bigger than this one."
+
+"Knowest thou by whom the girdle is tied?"
+
+"By the grandson of the Snake."
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+MYalu squatted motionless. The old man appeared to doze. Women bearing
+gourds of water upon their heads passed in single file, their loins
+swaying rhythmically. The shadows dwindled. From close at hand began the
+rapid beat of a drum. A stir began through the village as each man herded
+his women and slaves to his own hut.
+
+"O Marufa," said MYalu, speaking with a slight snarl, "hast thou such a
+powerful medicine that can surely trap the soul of Zalu Zako when
+perchance it wanders (in sleep)?"
+
+"All things are possible to the son of MTungo," mumbled the old man.
+
+Two chiefs appeared walking through the grove at a middle distance. MYalu
+glanced round apprehensively.
+
+"Two tusks will I give thee," he whispered, "if thou wilt do this thing."
+
+"Three tusks. No less, for the matter is dangerous."
+
+"Two, two."
+
+"Nay."
+
+The old man stirred to rise.
+
+"Three be it," gasped MYalu. "But I must see the magic done."
+
+They rose together.
+
+"Bring me of his toe-nails one paring, of his hair one, and his spittle
+and a footprint. Then shalt thou come with me to the sacred grove where
+the magic shall be done."
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+"But the three tusks must be given to Yanoka, my first wife."
+
+MYalu hesitated.
+
+"Aye, thus shall it be done," he assented reluctantly.
+
+"It is agreed?" inquired Marufa.
+
+"May my cord be lost!" swore MYalu, and gesturing to the slaves, hurried
+away.
+
+A slight grin flecked the old man's eyes as he turned into the hut.
+
+"Already hath he drunken of her blood," he mumbled. "Ya, Inkombana! take
+the tusk!"
+
+When Marufa emerged, a head-dress of the tail feathers of the green
+parrot, professional uniform and potent specific against evil spirits,
+fluffed gently as he slowly stalked towards the council house. From the
+other side of a hut walked MYalu as if he had come from a different
+direction. In the open gate of the royal enclosure sat a muscular young
+man upon his haunches, tending the royal fire, which fed hungrily upon
+small faggots. Beyond him across the yellow glare upon the cleared ground
+beneath a thatched awning, stood an idol of wood, whose lopsided mouth
+snarled beneath a bridgeless nose; narrow slits for eyes squinted; baby
+arms stuck down beside triangular breasts above a melon belly having a
+protuberant navel like a small cucumber--the incarnation of the Snake-god,
+Usakuma.
+
+Without the palisade of the sacred ground was a taller one, barring the
+doings of the council of witch-doctors and chiefs from the lay public, who
+were confined to their own huts under the penalty of a hideous death, or
+an enormous fine, as the witch-doctors should decide.
+
+To the rear of the idol, cross-legged against the wall of the entrance to
+the conical hut, were the musicians beating a monotonous rhythm upon big
+and small drums and twanging a primitive lyre of five strings. Just as
+Marufa and MYalu took their respective places without among the wizards
+and the chiefs, a young goat skipped into the open and stared
+inquisitively at the Keeper of the Fires. As the man waved the animal back
+from the sacred ground, the goat lowered its head and threatened to
+charge, suddenly recollected its mate lying in the shade a few feet away,
+and began to bleat absent-mindedly.
+
+Gravely and silently sat the assembly: continuously throbbed the drums.
+The sun beat diagonally. As a lizard darted like a flash of a prism from
+the grass palisade, the band ceased. A man emerged from behind the idol.
+Although the grey woolly tufts upon his chin, the sacred snake skin around
+his waist above the cat skin loin-cloth, the jingle of the ivory bangles
+on arms and ankles, and his stature, imparted an air of barbaric royalty,
+King MFunya MPopo advanced with the manner of a pariah dog ordered to his
+master's side.
+
+As the King approached, the Keeper of the Fires hastily threw on a handful
+of faggots and bowed his head. In the centre of the opening of the
+enclosure the King squatted down with his back to the fire which streamed
+blue smoke. Not a limb or a muscle moved among the group of wizards and
+chiefs in the council house. Attracted by the movement, the goat stopped
+bleating and stared at the King; then, putting down its head, charged him.
+
+With a horrified click, the Keeper of the Fires sprang. But he was not
+swift enough to prevent the impact of the animal's horns with the royal
+arm thrust out in self-defence. Three young chiefs came running; one
+caught up the goat and carried it away bleating bellicosely; the others
+knelt, and while one carefully collected a gout of blood upon the King's
+forearm in a piece of banana leaf, his companion wiped the wound. When
+they were satisfied that the bleeding had ceased, the pieces were
+meticulously wrapped in another leaf and borne away by the Keeper of the
+Fires to be deposited in the temple: for as every man knows, the royal
+blood must not be spilt upon the ground lest the site be accursed for ever
+and like the tooth of the dragon of Colchis, arise from the spot ghostly
+warriors to annihilate the tribe.
+
+Neither upon the face of any of the elders nor upon the features of MFunya
+MPopo, the King, had a muscle moved. Yet the incident was regarded as an
+evil omen.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Then suddenly did Bakahenzie, the chief witch-doctor, plumed
+with a tall scarlet feather in addition to the green ones and a necklace
+of finger bones upon his bronze chest, who sat in the centre with Kawa
+Kendi, the King's son upon his right, and Zalu Zako, the grandson, upon
+his left, begin to chant in a high wailing voice to the rapid rhythm of
+the drums:
+
+  "Is there not a shadow come over the land?
+  The frown of the One-not-to-be-mentioned?
+  I, Bakahenzie, have seen it! have seen it!"
+
+And from the group within the council house, immobile, came the bass
+chorus of assent:
+
+                 "Ough! Ough!"
+
+  "Is there not a dry curse come over the land?
+  Is it not the hot breath of the soul of the Snake?
+  I, Bakahenzie, have seen it! have seen it!"
+                 "Ough! Ough!"
+
+  "Where is the false spirit that hath sinned in the act?
+  He that hath sinned in the shade of the name?
+  I, Bakahenzie, have seen him! have seen him!"
+                 "Ough! Ough!"
+
+  "Does not the keen sting of him scorch up the land?
+  Hath not the young bread of our bellies been slain?
+  I, Bakahenzie, have seen it! have seen it!"
+                 "Ough! Ough!"
+
+The throb of the drums grew faster. Bakahenzie leaped from the crowd.
+Immediately in front of the King he began to dance and to scream:
+
+  "Is the Burden too great for the Guard of the Name?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Hath the Bearer, too, fumbled the weight of the World?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Is His spirit bewitched by the soul of a girl?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Hath His magical power been slain by the sin?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Hath a prophet made words in the act of a goat?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Does a saviour in hairs thirst the blood of a King?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Shall we hearken, O Chiefs, to the wish of the One?
+                 Aie! Aie!
+  Or be shrivelled and die in the drought of His wrath?
+                 Aie! Aie!"
+
+Kawa Kendi, a man in early middle age, powerful and lithe-limbed, sat as
+motionless as the King, his father, staring, as did all, with the fixed
+stare of the anagogic.
+
+Abruptly the drums ceased. Again came a hot silence as Bakahenzie paused
+in front of MFunya MPopo. Then with a piercing yell, the witch-doctor spun
+on his toes. The drums broke into an hysterical rhythm. Bakahenzie leaped
+high in the air; whirled around and around screaming hoarsely; leaped and
+spun continually.
+
+The chiefs and doctors began to grunt; continued in crescendo until the
+whole body throbbed and grunted to the rhythm of the drums. Yet immobile
+sat MFunya MPopo.
+
+Suddenly Bakahenzie changed the erratic course of his wild dance. He
+whirled and screamed in front of the King and fell headlong, as if in a
+fit, with eyes injected and foam upon the black tufts of beard. Bakahenzie
+clutched his belly and began to howl like a hyena at the moon. The drums
+stopped. Howl and writhe did Bakahenzie as if a thousand fiends were
+tearing out his entrails.
+
+He lay rigid. The air seemed to quiver. The lines of every man's limbs,
+except the King's, were drawn in tension. Then from the prostrate body of
+the witch-doctor, whose legs and arms were twisted as in agony, whose
+dribbling mouth was closed like a vise, came a ventriloquous falsetto:
+
+  "Aie-e! Aie-e! I am the spirit of Kintu!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! I am he who first was!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! I am the banana from whom I was made!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! The Keeper of the Name hath betrayed me!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! The Bride of me is defiled!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! Let him arise who is pure!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! Let him arise who is bidden!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! Let the fires be put out!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! Let a new fire arise from the ashes!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! I have spoken, I, the Father of men!
+  Aie-e! Aie-e! I, Tarum, the soul of your ancestors!"
+
+From the assembly came the belly grunt of acceptance. In silence rose Kawa
+Kendi, the heir-apparent. His face was as expressionless as his father's.
+He stepped around the body of Bakahenzie and across the open space
+followed by a young man, Kingata Mata. Ten feet away from the enclosure,
+Kingata Mata sank upon his haunches. Before MFunya MPopo squatted his son.
+They spat each in the other's hand and swallowed the spittle. Then the
+head of Kawa Kendi bent to the lips of MFunya MPopo to receive the sacred
+Name.
+
+In unison with Kawa Kendi rose Kingata Mata, who to him handed a cord of
+twisted bark. Bending behind the King, who remained motionless with the
+closed eyes of one already dead, Kingata Mata swiftly adjusted the cord
+and handed it back to the son, Kawa Kendi.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+When the muscular young Keeper of the Fires had poured solemnly a gourd of
+water upon the royal fire of MFunya MPopo, he knelt submissively and was
+strangled beside his master.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+From the assembly went up a great shout:
+
+"The fire is put out!"
+
+And from the village, listening in awe to the mighty doings, came like an
+echo:
+
+"The fire is put out! Aie! Aie-e!"
+
+Then shouted the elders and wizards:
+
+"Let there be a new fire!"
+
+Again came the wailing repetition from the village:
+
+"Let there be a new fire!"
+
+As in the Place of Fires was kindled a new fire by Kingata Mata with two
+sacred sticks, one of which is male and the other female, the assembled
+chiefs and magicians groaned in allegiance to the new King-God of the
+unmentionable spirit of the Snake, Usakuma, the Idol.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 3
+
+
+At five-thirty zu Pfeiffer was stretched in the long Bombay chair in the
+coolest portion of the screened verandah. On the table beside him was a
+tall glass, a decanter of cognac and a box of cigars; and suspended from
+the roof swung a canvas bag of water with a syphon attachment. A gape fly,
+which somehow had gotten through the screen, hit the lieutenant's
+forehead, fell on to the book and whirred up against the wire.
+
+"Ach, Gott verdammt!" exclaimed zu Pfeiffer irritably and shouted: "Ho,
+Bakunja--la." Instantly appeared the tall negro in white. "You son of a
+god! Look at that!"
+
+Bakunjala looked, leaped, and caught the fly in his hand.
+
+"Ow!" he exclaimed as the hornet stung him.
+
+"Ach, you woman of shame, catch it instantly!"
+
+Without hesitation Bakunjala made another grab, and clutching the fly
+tightly, made to open the screen door.
+
+"Halt!" commanded the lieutenant.
+
+Bakunjala obeyed.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer regarded the man standing with the wasp sting buried in his
+palm with a slight smile of amusement.
+
+"It hurts?" he inquired amiably.
+
+"Indio, Bwana!" asserted Bakunjala.
+
+"Good! Now stop there."
+
+Motionless remained the negro. Zu Pfeiffer leisurely selected a fresh
+cigar, lighted it, stoked it, and inhaling smoke stroked his left
+moustache.
+
+"It still hurts?"
+
+"Indio, Bwana!" said Bakunjala with a high note in his voice.
+
+"Splendid!" assured the lieutenant: and after a full minute added: "Now
+you may go. And remember if you are frightened of a fly's pain again I
+will give you twenty lashes."
+
+"Indio, Bwana," answered Bakunjala humbly and departed swiftly with the
+hornet in his clenched fist. Zu Pfeiffer smiled, again stared reflectively
+at the violet shadows creeping lazily across the square, sipped some
+brandy and picking up his book, began to read.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer frowned and looked round. Outside the screen stood Sergeant
+Schultz at the salute. Zu Pfeiffer nodded.
+
+"Well?"
+
+"Excellence," said the sergeant at attention, "the Englishman is here."
+
+"Ach, tell him to go----" The lieutenant drew out his gold chronometer. "It
+is my bath time. I cannot see him."
+
+"Ja, Excellence."
+
+"Wait." Zu Pfeiffer withdrew his legs and rose. "Ach, tell the fool to
+come over here and wait till I have had my bath."
+
+"Excellence!" agreed the sergeant and saluting, marched away. Zu Pfeiffer
+entered the bungalow. Across the square came Birnier with the sergeant who
+ushered him into the screened portion of the verandah.
+
+"His Excellence gom bresently," said the sergeant and left him.
+
+Birnier put his Tirai hat on the table, and seeing no other, sat in the
+Bombay chair; looked about him; idly examined the brand on the box of
+cigars and smiled. "Makes himself mighty comfortable," he remarked to
+himself. "Pity he appears such a boor." He glanced at the book on the
+armchair. _Allgemeine Geschichte der Philosophie_ von Prof. Dr. Paul
+Deussen. "And a philosopher, eh!" Having little German he turned away and
+lighted his pipe. After a while he began to fidget, wondering how long he
+was to be kept waiting. "Damn the fellow!" he muttered and picked up one
+of the books on the table, _Les Ba-Rongas_, par A. Junod, opened it at
+random and began to read.
+
+The shadows of one bungalow reached the verandah on the opposite side of
+the square. And still he read on, the dead pipe in his hand. Just as the
+twilight was snuffed out like a candle, a sharp step heralded the arrival
+of the lieutenant. Birnier rose, the book in his hand.
+
+"Good evening, sir!"
+
+"Good evening," responded zu Pfeiffer, who was in an undress uniform of
+white. "What is it that you require?"
+
+"Well," said Birnier, "first of all I must apologise for using your chair
+and reading your book. Most interesting, by the way."
+
+"That is nothing," said zu Pfeiffer as Bakunjala came in with a lamp and a
+chair. "Please to be seated."
+
+"Thank you."
+
+Birnier took the small chair and the lieutenant the Bombay.
+
+"I--er I--am sorry that I disturbed you this morning," began Birnier
+diffidently. "But I did not know----"
+
+"That is nothing. It was the fault of the sentry. He should not have
+allowed you to pass."
+
+"Regarding my application for the licence, Herr Lieutenant?"
+
+"I regret," said zu Pfeiffer coldly, using a cigar cutter, "that I am
+unable to grant you the licence you ask."
+
+"You cannot grant me a trading or shooting licence?"
+
+"I regret, no."
+
+Birnier stared.
+
+"May I inquire why I am refused?"
+
+"You may. We do not wish undesirables in the country."
+
+"Undesirables!" Birnier's lips tightened. "I am afraid that I do not
+understand you." The lieutenant was engaged in carefully stoking his
+cigar. "Will you kindly afford me a reason for--for such an insulting
+remark?"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer blew smoke luxuriously. Birnier stared for a moment, stuck his
+pipe in his mouth and bit the stem; removed it and snapped:
+
+"You can have no adequate reason for such action.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} If you intend to
+continue this ridiculous farce I shall be compelled to make a complaint
+through Washington."
+
+"Washington?" Zu Pfeiffer removed one leg from the chair-rest and the
+cigar from his mouth. "You are an American?"
+
+"I am."
+
+"So? We understood that you were an English agent. You have papers?"
+
+"Certainly. If you wish----"
+
+"We do not demand. No. My agent was wrong. He shall be punished." Then in
+an amiable voice: "I, too, have been a long time in America. Please to
+have a cigar, Mr. Birnier."
+
+Birnier hesitated, puzzled.
+
+"Thank you," he said diffidently, selected one, bit off the end and spat
+it into the corner. Zu Pfeiffer shuddered delicately; but as Birnier
+lighted his cigar he studied his face in the glow of the match; noted the
+breadth of the jaw, the width between the eyes and the slightly hard line
+at the corner of the mouth.
+
+"And forgive me!" Zu Pfeiffer shouted to Bakunjala. "I presume that you
+have been in Africa a long time," he continued.
+
+"Some ten years."
+
+"You do find the Wongolo country interesting?"
+
+"Oh, yes."
+
+"You were there long?"
+
+"No, I had been two years in the Congo and passed through on my way to
+Uganda to refit."
+
+"Ach. You permit me? You are mining?"
+
+"No." Birnier smiled thinly. "I have a professorial job in the American
+Museum of Natural History, Anthropological department."
+
+"Professor! Ach!" Zu Pfeiffer looked at him interestedly.
+
+"Yes. That is why I was so absorbed in _Les Ba-Rongas_ which I found here.
+You are interested in anthropology?"
+
+"Ach, yes, I love to study the animals. I have a library--a small one,
+here. You must see it."
+
+"Thank you."
+
+"You were studying the animals' ways and how d'you call it?--das
+Volkskuendliches--in Wongolo?"
+
+"Yes. I do nothing else."
+
+"So?" Bakunjala arrived with fresh glasses and vermouth. "Which do you
+prefer, French or Italian, Herr Professor?"
+
+"French, please."
+
+"You will dine with me, please?"
+
+"That is very kind of you, Lieutenant." Birnier gazed quizzically, rather
+amused at the complete change of manner. Quite charming when he likes, he
+reflected.
+
+"From what part do you come, Herr Professor?" inquired zu Pfeiffer as he
+set down his glass.
+
+"Oh, I'm a Southerner. Louisiana. My name is French, you know."
+
+"Ach so? Che les aimes, les Francais. Les femmes sont adorables!"
+
+"Oui, je les trouve comme ca!" agreed Birnier, smiling. "Ma femme est
+francaise."
+
+"So? {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} I, too, Professor, I am in love with a Francaise. She is wonderful!
+superbe! Ach, ent zueckend!" The lieutenant gazed into the warm darkness.
+"Always I see her--in the darkness, the--chaleur--parmis les animaux." In the
+glow of the lamp, the blue eyes were soft, the feminine lips curved in a
+tender smile as he murmured:
+
+     "Die Jahre kommen und gehen,
+     Geschlechter steigen ins Grab,
+     Doch nimmer vergeht die Liebe,
+     Die ich im Herzen hab!
+     Nur einmal noch moecht ich dich sehen,
+     Und sinken vor dir aufs Knie
+     Und sterbend zu dir sprechen:
+     'Madam, ich liebe Sie!' "
+
+"Thank you," said Birnier quietly. "I, too, would say that."
+
+"Ach, sprechen Sie Deutsch?" demanded zu Pfeiffer quickly.
+
+"No, unfortunately I don't speak it, but I understand a little; and
+particularly Heine."
+
+"Ach, Gott!"
+
+The note was of satisfaction. A gong sounded. Zu Pfeiffer turned sharply:
+"Come, Herr Professor, let us go to dinner. You would wish to wash?"
+
+The bungalow, unusually lofty, was divided into three compartments. The
+ceiling, made of stout white calico, to shelter from snakes and the
+continual dust from the wood borers, was suspended from the rafters like
+the roof of a marquee tent. The centre room was furnished with cane lounge
+chairs like a smoking-room and decorated with skins, native musical
+instruments, spears and shields; drums served as small tables with
+elephant's toe-nails for ash trays.
+
+In the bedroom was a brass bedstead and mosquito net. Behind was a
+bathroom having a corrugated cistern upon the cross beams which gave force
+for a shower. The towels and appointments were specklessly clean. When
+Birnier appeared he found zu Pfeiffer sprawled in the lounge. On a red
+lacquer tray upon a great war drum, covered with the striped skin of a
+zebra, was a crystal liqueur set and a large silver box of Egyptian
+cigarettes.
+
+"Ach, Professor," said he, "it is good to speak to a white man again" (by
+which he meant an equal). "Please be seated, I beg you. A little liqueur
+is good for the aperitif and a cigarette; for there is no time for another
+cigar."
+
+As Birnier sat he remarked the blonde head of the lieutenant in his
+meticulous uniform touched with gold and caught a glimpse of the jewelled
+bracelet of ivory and the Chinese finger-nail.
+
+Another summons of the gong brought zu Pfeiffer to his feet. As he led his
+guest out through the side verandah along a screened porch to the mess
+room, built away from the main building to keep away the plague of flies,
+a native girl whose close-wrapped white robes revealed a lithe figure,
+flitted through a doorway. The table was set in immaculate linen, aglitter
+with glass and decorated with a profusion of wild orchids. Behind the
+chairs stood two negroes in spotless white, immobile. On each plate were
+hors d'oeuvres of anchovy and cheese upon a patterned piece of toast.
+Salted almonds, sweets, and olives were in green china; wine glasses of
+three kinds. Broiled fish followed the soup.
+
+"So, Professor," remarked the lieutenant, "you will go back some day to
+Wongolo?"
+
+"Yes, I--unless I discover some tribe who have a more interesting system
+of--er--theology."
+
+"They are a powerful tribe, nicht wahr?"
+
+"Oh yes, very. Their system ensures unity which provides for concerted
+action. Here I believe it is different."
+
+"Yes, yes; they are poor here. Each village was at war with the
+other--before we came. Their superstitions are not--how would you say it?"
+
+"Systematised?"
+
+"Yes. They have neither any supreme chief nor god. There you see," he
+added, smiling, "that autocracy is the only form of government.
+Democracy--pah! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} I apologise, Professor!"
+
+"Please don't," replied Birnier, "although of course I cannot agree with
+you."
+
+"But the Wongolo, they have a god and king?"
+
+"Yes, the King-Priest system. One of the most interesting I have ever
+encountered or read of."
+
+"You did see the King-God, MFunya MPopo?"
+
+"Oh no. He is forbidden to be seen by a foreigner--a similar law to that of
+the Medes; only by the witch-doctors--and by the people once a year at a
+harvest festival. That is why I intend to go back. It is impossible to
+procure reliable statistics of their customs, practices and real beliefs
+without--without winning their confidence. That is my mission."
+
+"I do not longer wonder, Herr Professor, that you were most justly
+annoyed. Ach, yes. But please do not worry about your ridiculous licence.
+It is not necessary in my jurisdiction, I assure you. You may come and go
+as you please, shoot what you wish. I will always be so glad to help so
+distinguished a professor."
+
+"I thank you very much."
+
+"It is nothing. And perhaps when you are there, you will be so kind as to
+write to me? To tell me things that are not known--so that I may, too,
+continue to study the animals--again what is it? das Volkskuendliches?"
+
+"Folk-lore, isn't it?"
+
+"Yes. Please to have some more wine, Herr Professor. Please, I insist. It
+is the real Mumm. That is a promise? I thank you. And if---- Were there any
+others--whites--when you were there?"
+
+"Only one."
+
+"Where was he, I wonder?"
+
+"On the southern boundary."
+
+"Near lake Kivu?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"Saunders," muttered zu Pfeiffer.
+
+"I beg your pardon?"
+
+"It was nothing, but I do not like to have--aliens in my province. They
+are--missionaries and traders--spies."
+
+"Indeed."
+
+"Yes, it is always so. Herr Professor, I ask you a favour. Will you be so
+kind as to write to me if some other white comes into the Wongolo
+country?"
+
+"I shall be delighted," said Birnier.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} "Do you intend to come there some
+day, Herr Lieutenant?"
+
+"Ach, no, it is not--not our territory; although I should very much like to
+see it and to shoot. There is much elephant there?"
+
+"Oh yes, quantities."
+
+"Please to try some of this curried egg, Herr Professor. It is excellent,
+I assure you. I thank you.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} And rubber, is there much rubber there?"
+
+"Yes, I believe so."
+
+"Now I wonder if you noticed whether it was tree or vine?"
+
+"I really couldn't say." Birnier smiled thinly. "I am not interested in
+such things."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer glanced at him keenly and changed the subject. When they had
+finished the best boned chicken that Birnier had ever tasted in Africa, zu
+Pfeiffer rose.
+
+"Let us go to my study, Herr Professor, if you so permit, for some coffee
+and a little good port--and I will have the pleasure to show you my little
+library."
+
+"I should be delighted," assented Birnier willingly.
+
+Around the white walls of the cool room which was zu Pfeiffer's study, ran
+low bookshelves made of native wood, containing some hundreds of volumes
+which had been carried five hundred miles on the heads of porters. Grass
+mats and leopard skins were upon the floor. In the centre, upon a heavy
+table, was a green shaded lamp set in a silver-mounted elephant's foot.
+Upon the bookcases were various odd curios, and a coffee service in
+copper; and from opposite sides, marbles of Bismarck and Voltaire stared
+into each other's eyes. On the south wall was a large oil of Kaiser
+Wilhelm II; and in the centre of the other wall a photograph of a woman
+set in an ivory frame made from a section of a tusk.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer strove to be more agreeable than ever. They talked mythology
+and folklore. With the port, zu Pfeiffer rose, an erect martial figure
+above the glow of the lamp.
+
+"Herr Professor!" he remarked. "I beg you."
+
+Slightly bewildered, Birnier rose, too, glass in hand. Wheeling with
+military precision zu Pfeiffer raised his glass to the great portrait on
+the wall.
+
+"Ihre Hochheit!"
+
+Politely Birnier followed suit, his democratic ideas slightly astonished
+at the veneration of the kingly office; almost, he reflected, as curious
+as the native superstition of the King-God. Then zu Pfeiffer turned to the
+left and lifting his glass to the portrait in the ivory frame, drank
+silently.
+
+"I was wondering, Professor," remarked he, as he resumed his seat without
+explanation, "from what college--you call it?--you come?"
+
+"Harvard," said Birnier, rather amused and noticing that as a true
+connoisseur, zu Pfeiffer refrained from smoking while drinking his port.
+
+"I have met many of the Harvard men--at Washington."
+
+"Ah, you know Washington?"
+
+"Yes, I was there nearly two years."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer drained his port, selected a cigar, lighted it and gazed
+abstractedly towards the ivory frame. The lips softened and he smiled
+gently.
+
+"Do you know many people there?"
+
+"Oh, a few."
+
+"Ach {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} I wonder.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} You must know that I met her there, my divine Lucille!"
+
+"Lucille! How strange! That is my wife's name too."
+
+"Really?" Zu Pfeiffer still peered dreamily at the corner. He gathered up
+his legs and rose like an eager boy. "Permit me, Herr Professor, she is
+so--so----" He bent over the portrait and struck a match. Politely Birnier
+stooped to look. He saw a portrait of a French woman in an evening gown, a
+woman of charm with the vivacious eyes and tempting mouth of the coquette.
+
+"My God!"
+
+Birnier bent closer and stared intently. Across the corner of the
+photograph were written in ink in familiar characters the words: 'a toi,
+Lucille.'
+
+"Lucille!" he gasped. "Lu--Good God!" He stood up abruptly. "I--What in
+God's name--who is this woman?"
+
+The match fell to the floor. He was vaguely conscious of the tall white
+figure stiffening as a dog does.
+
+"That lady is my fiancee."
+
+"Fiancee! She--Good God, you're mad! She is my wife!"
+
+"Wife!{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Gott verdampf, der Teufel solls holen! Das ist der Schweinhuend!"
+
+The gutturals exploded from zu Pfeiffer. The sleeve of his white jacket
+quivered, the arm came up to the gold braided chest and jerked out a
+silver whistle. He hesitated, glaring at the astonished figure of Birnier.
+Suddenly zu Pfeiffer sat down by the table. His blue eyes were as hard as
+malachite.
+
+"Sit down!" he commanded harshly.
+
+Birnier did not appear to notice him. He struck a match and bent over the
+photograph again.
+
+"Good God!" he muttered. "I--I--don't understand--O God!"
+
+"Sit down!" shouted zu Pfeiffer. Birnier merely blinked at him.
+
+"Would you mind explaining?" demanded Birnier.
+
+"Explain!{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Is your wife Mademoiselle Lucille Charltrain?"
+
+"Why, of course. That is her professional name. But how on earth has this
+mistake happened? I--I--that is her writing--but it can't be. I mean it's
+impossible.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}" Birnier put his hand to his head. "I--God, it can't be! I or
+you must be mad! Which is----"
+
+A prolonged whistle startled him. He saw the whistle at zu Pfeiffer's
+lips, but the act conveyed no meaning. He turned away, struck another
+match and peered again at the photograph.
+
+"Lucille! Lucille!" he whispered. "What on earth----"
+
+A powerful clutch closed upon his arm. He was whirled backwards into a
+chair. For a moment he was too dazed to grasp what had happened. He saw zu
+Pfeiffer's face. The sentries over his moustaches quivered like a row of
+fixed bayonets. The eyes seemed needle points. Then the fact of the
+assault penetrated beyond the unprecedented incident of finding his wife's
+photograph in another man's room. The ugly line about the mouth hardened.
+He rose slowly.
+
+"Am I to understand that you have laid your hands upon your guest?" he
+began, stuttering over the choice of words. "I am--I am----"
+
+The scuffle of many feet interrupted him. Into the room rushed Sergeant
+Schultz and several soldiers. Zu Pfeiffer stood up and pointed.
+
+"Sergeant, arrest that man!" he barked.
+
+"Ja, Excellence!"
+
+The sergeant saluted and barked at the askaris. Birnier gazed stupidly at
+the uniforms around him as if unable to comprehend. He looked at zu
+Pfeiffer who stood erect, his face lost in shadow above the lamp, and back
+at the soldiers.
+
+"Is this a joke, Lieutenant--or are you mad?" he demanded angrily.
+
+"Sergeant, put that man in the guard-room," zu Pfeiffer commanded.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer sat down with his back to Birnier and facing the photograph.
+Birnier's face twitched; he raised his arm. The sergeant barked and the
+line of bayonets lowered menacingly.
+
+"You gom with me, Herr American," ordered the sergeant.
+
+Birnier controlled himself.
+
+"One moment, sergeant, please! Herr Lieutenant, on what charge do you
+arrest me?" The perfect lines of the white-clad back did not quiver. "Very
+good! I give you warning, Herr Lieutenant, that you have committed an
+assault upon an American citizen."
+
+"Gom! Gom!" insisted the sergeant impatiently.
+
+Birnier raised his head and walked as indicated by the sergeant. As the
+footsteps plodded across the square zu Pfeiffer turned to the table,
+examining his left hand.
+
+"Ach!" he growled gutturally, "the dirty pig has broken my nail!"
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 4
+
+
+Over the city of the Snake the sun sank red dry, leaving the Place of
+Kings hot in the electric air of magic and world happenings. The people
+were still confined to their huts, trembling in the knowledge that for
+three days love must be eschewed, no water drawn nor any food cooked with
+fire; nor might any man, woman or child leave the precincts of the
+compound.
+
+All the night Bakuma crouched in her hut listening in awe to the swish of
+the ghosts through the air, to the moans, groans and howls of the wizards
+doing battle with them. Tightly did she hold the amulet as she strove to
+conceal curiosity regarding the welfare of Zalu Zako; for did her mother
+suspect the presence of this evil spirit would she cause Bakuma to take a
+decoction of the castor-oil plant in order that the demon might be
+expelled; and the more to aid her conquer this unlawful impulse to peep
+without did she most persistently recite to herself the fate of the
+daughter of MTasa, the foolish Tangulbala whose body had been discovered
+impaled upon a tree by the angry spirits of the dead, because she had
+rashly ventured forth the third day after the death of the grandfather of
+Zalu Zako. Bakuma dared not mention the name of one who had died, for, as
+everybody knows, such an impious person runs the risk of summoning the
+ghosts to their presence.
+
+The "putting out of the fire" had changed Bakuma's prospects, had made
+Zalu Zako heir-apparent, implying half a hundred responsibilities, the
+chief of which was that now he was compelled to choose his official first
+wife, she who would be the mother of the "divine" Son of the Snake: an
+alteration that excited Bakuma to frantic clutching at the amulet. Would
+the charm work or would it not? How to insure that it would be
+efficacious? Marufa's greedy demands worried her. She feared even if she
+obtained the goat that he might require something else as well. Anybody
+knows how greedy doctors are and how wealthy. He would be sure to increase
+the fee, knowing the value of the prize. Bakuma only possessed one really
+valuable article, and that was a charm against sterility; but this was the
+last thing that she wished to part with as the only possible occurrence
+that could ever divorce her from the position of chief wife, once she had
+won Zalu Zako, would be failure to provide the male heir. She was
+impatient, too, at the delay caused by the three days' tabu. Time was
+important. Soon she would be under the ban of the unclean which entailed
+the curtailment of her liberty again, and she dreaded that possibly the
+charm might grow stale. The greatest need for speed was MYalu's suit. As
+her father was dead she belonged to his brother. Already MYalu had offered
+four tusks of ivory and three oxen for her. Her uncle was lazy, mean, and
+greedy. Fortunately he thought that by waiting he could get double that
+amount. Yet MYalu might decide to pay the price demanded. Once Zalu Zako
+had selected her as his bride, her uncle dared not accept any other man's
+offer, no matter how wealthy he might be; besides, the old man would not
+wish to refuse a relationship with the heir to the king-godhood.
+
+Again her cousin was sick. The diagnosis of Yabolo, the wizard, was that
+her soul had wandered in sleep down to the river and had been swallowed by
+a fish. Yabolo had caught the fish and lured the soul into a tree, but now
+he demanded such a big price to restore the errant soul to the girl that
+her father, Bakuma's uncle, would not pay it, so she would surely die;
+then they would all have to be exorcised, which inferred a further loss of
+relative freedom for another four days. Indeed with all these actual and
+possible delays it seemed to Bakuma that some one had made much magic
+against her. Unless she knew who he or she was, how could she employ the
+same means to annul the terrible effects? And more, how could she obtain
+the wherewithal to pay the fees of the best doctors? Life was very
+complicated to the daughter of Bakala.
+
+Up on the hill of MFunya MPopo had the magicians been busy all the
+afternoon after the "putting out of the fire." Zalu Zako and the chiefs
+also were barred from the sacred enclosure; for being mere laymen they
+could not hope to withstand the evil spirits of the dead. Even Bakahenzie
+and the inner circle of the cult were compelled to employ the most potent
+methods of protection to preserve them from being bewitched or slain
+outright.
+
+After Bakahenzie, Marufa, Yabolo and two other master magicians had
+released the souls of the dead King by making incisions in the body with a
+sacred spear to the thrumming of the drums, the mighty groaning of the
+other wizards, and the persistent wailing of the dead man's wives, the
+corpse was borne by twelve doomed slaves to the temple and there interred
+with the gouts of blood shed by the prophetic goat, the nail parings and
+hair clippings of his lifetime, and his personal effects.
+
+Upon the hill of MFunya MPopo, soon to be a temple and sanctuary, sat Kawa
+Kendi beside the New Fire tended by Kingata Mata, facing Zalu Zako, MYalu
+and the lay chiefs, while upon his own hill slaves were tearing down his
+old hut, erecting a temporary palisade around the quarters of his wives
+who were forever forbidden to him, and beginning the building of the new
+temple.
+
+As the violet shadows were creeping from one hut to another did Bakahenzie
+and his satellites return from the ghoulish offices of the dead. Zalu
+Zako, the chiefs and magicians arose to the wild beating of the drums and
+the wailing chant of the hereditary troubadour with the five stringed
+lyre. With Kingata Mata carrying a brand of the newly lighted sacred fire,
+was Kawa Kendi led in procession through the deserted village to his
+sacred home.
+
+Under the hard stars set in a dry sapphire, the fire cast yellow flickers
+upon the carven features of Kawa Kendi. In the still heat the distant
+wailing of the women from the opposite hill drifted into the continuous
+throb of the drums, the plaintive wail of the singer, and the hysterical
+groaning of the magicians, yelling ferociously ever and again to
+intimidate the baulked spirits around the magic circle.
+
+Then was a white goat, previously selected from the flock of Kawa Kendi,
+slain by Zalu Zako, disembowelled by Bakahenzie, and the entrails rubbed
+upon the brow, the chest and the right arm of the slayer of man, a
+ceremony of purification designed to protect the royal executioner by
+appeasing the justly angry spirits of the dead; to Marufa were given other
+parts of the slain beast to smear likewise upon Zalu Zako, the son; and
+Yabolo ran screaming with portions to the quarters of the women of Kawa
+Kendi: for must every blood relative be so enchanted lest the vengeful
+ghost seek substitute victims.
+
+As a pallid moon rose, as if fearfully, above the deep ultramarine of the
+banana fronds, was a magic potion brewed from certain herbs in enchanted
+water, with which the King, Zalu Zako, his son, and the King's wives were
+laved. Amid a tempest of screams and drums rose Kawa Kendi purified, to be
+driven by Bakahenzie and the wizards back to the hill of his father,
+leaving the assembled lay chiefs squatting humbly and in dread of the
+spirits abroad in the night. While the procession leaped and twirled,
+screamed and groaned to the frantic thrum of the drums through the blue
+darkness, the magicians ran and pranced through and around the village,
+seeking any blasphemer who dared to look upon sacred things; banging on
+hut doors and shaking thatches, the more to terrify the shrinking
+inhabitants.
+
+Without the gate of the old enclosure all remained, except Bakahenzie and
+the four wizards who encircled Kawa Kendi and Kingata Mata and hustled
+them across the clearing. With his back to the dim form of the idol stood
+Kawa Kendi as behind it grouped the master magicians. From the base
+Bakahenzie took two large gourds and gave them into the keeping of Kingata
+Mata.
+
+Came an abrupt cessation of the drums and cries. The wailing of the women
+behind the temple died. The tense air pulsed with electricity. A cock
+crowed feebly in the village. Then at a rippling splash of the drums and
+the sudden screaming of the wizards, they began to push the idol. The base
+had already been loosened in the earth by the slaves. The idol began to
+totter. Louder screeched the magicians; faster fled the drums. Slowly the
+idol leaned and subsided on to the shoulders of Kawa Kendi. Grasping the
+mass firmly upon his bent back, he bore the burden out of the enclosure
+and down the hill.
+
+Behind his unsteady steps pranced and yelled the doctors with more
+prodigious a noise than ever before as they scourged the King's legs and
+arms with cords of fibre. Through the listening village panted the King.
+As he gasped slowly up the hill the thrashing was redoubled. But into the
+new enclosure the King staggered, let slide the heavy mass into a hole
+prepared for the sacred feet and, gleaming blue points of sweat in the
+faint moon, let out a hoarse yell, proving to the assembly of magicians
+and chiefs that he was powerful enough to bear the burden of the world and
+moreover that none could wrest his office from him.
+
+No time was given for the incarnation of a god to recoup from his labours.
+The motive principle of the accusation and for the death of the king was
+the drought. That only concerned the soul of the tribe in the person of
+Bakahenzie. For him and his brothers of the inner cult, while certain
+pretensions of power over the supernatural were for the "good of the
+people," the truths of magic and divine functions were inviolable. The
+person of Kawa Kendi, heretofore merely one in whom was a potentiality,
+became after the purification and "coronation" the very incarnation of the
+god. Kawa Kendi had crossed from the comparative safe haven of the
+potential into divine activity.
+
+Also there were, as ever, political reasons for the hastening of the
+offices of the god. Should the new King-God fail, as his father had done,
+to accomplish the duties of the rainmaker, then, as no precedent had ever
+been known for the failure of two kings in succession, an enemy might
+accuse Bakahenzie of having committed some sacrilege which had displeased
+the Unmentionable One. Politics and religion are often inseparable.
+Therefore, as soon as Zalu Zako had witnessed the ascent of his father
+into the dangerous zone of the gods, was he bidden as the victim apparent,
+to produce the sacred rain-making paraphernalia. From the Keeper of the
+Fire, Kingata Mata, Zalu Zako received one of the large gourds, which he
+deposited at the feet of his father squatting before the sacred fire, and
+retired to his allotted place among the other lay chiefs. Only Bakahenzie
+and the four of the inner cult were permitted within the enclosure.
+
+Fumbling within the pot Kawa Kendi produced a bundle of twigs tied with
+banana fibre, which he unbound and cast into the fire. The herbs
+smouldered and sent up a pungent smoke forming a heavy cloud like some
+strange blue tree sheltering the form of the idol against the green sky.
+Save for the faint wailing of the distant women there was silence, in
+which an owl screeched harshly, a good omen. Little flames flickered. The
+smoke grew denser, obliterating the figure of the King. The drums began to
+mutter, Bakahenzie cried out in a loud voice:
+
+"O great God, the Unmentionable One! let thy powers be made manifest!"
+
+The Keeper of the Fires came forward upon his hands and thrust the other
+sacred gourd in front of the King, a deep one containing water, and a wand
+made from a sacred tree which had upon the end a crook. To the groaning of
+the magicians, the King took from the one gourd two stones of quartz and
+granite, the male and the female, and spat upon each one, thus placing
+part of his royal body upon them; then did he put them on the ground, and
+pouring water, chanted:
+
+  "Go forth, male spirit, with my ghost in thy hands!
+  Go forth, female soul, with my ghost in thy breast!
+  Make love together in the shade of great Tarum,
+  Of him whom fear of me hath frozen the breath!"
+                 "Ough! Ough!"
+
+grunted the priests and magicians.
+
+  "Go forth, male spirit, with my ghost in thy hand!
+  Go forth, female soul, with my ghost in thy breast!
+  Love one another that the crops of our land
+  May marry as well and be as fruitful as thee!"
+                 "Ough! Ough!"
+
+  "Go forth, male spirit, with my ghost in thy hand!
+  Go forth, female soul, with my ghost in thy breast!
+  Rise high up to heaven and mount on the black back
+  Of the bird of the wet wind: poke your hands in his eyes!"
+                 "Ough! Ough!"
+
+Save for the distant wailing, there was the silence of those waiting for a
+miracle. In the sky, at the back of the idol, was the paling of dawn.
+Suddenly, as if exasperated by the non-obedience of the elements, Kawa
+Kendi sprang to his feet, with the magic wand in his right hand, turned
+and stared apparently into the face of the idol. For a full two minutes he
+stood as if carven, while the doctors and the chiefs moaned dismally.
+Around him like a pall still hovered the smoke of the magic fire. From the
+village a cock's challenge was answered from point to point. Then shooting
+out his right hand, Kawa Kendi made gestures as if hooking something
+invisible and began to scream furiously:
+
+  "Thus do I, the One-not-to-be-mentioned,
+  Drag forth from the belly of heaven
+  The disobedient One, the lazy One!
+  The insolent One who sinneth in sleep!
+  The black-snouted One whose udders are choked!
+  The womanly One whose nipples are dry!
+  The sluttish One who refuseth her milk!
+  The gorbellied One whose voice is a wind!
+  Come forth, lest I give thee sorrow and pain!
+  And make thee to weep the bitterest tears!
+  Come forth, lest I tear out thy black bosom!
+  Tear out thy guts for a feast unto Tarum!
+  Come forth, lest I throw off the yoke of the burden
+  Of the Earth and the Sky upon thy sweating black belly!"
+
+In a slight puff of wind, the smoke, lace-edged with the dawn light,
+swayed, seeming to twine about the figure of the King as he stood with the
+wand outheld, as if firmly hooked in the guts of the recalcitrant
+elements.
+
+Against the rose of the dawn appeared a dark line which increased as the
+magicians and chiefs moaned and groaned in sympathy with the furious
+efforts of the rainmaker, who threatened and pulled with the magic crook,
+so that everybody could see that he was indeed dragging the reluctant
+clouds from over the end of the earth. As the dark mass swelled the more
+he wrestled and screamed abuse at the dilatory spirit of the rain.
+
+And behold, within half an hour, great black spirits sailed across the
+scarlet sunrise and wept exceeding bitterly; while from the village went
+up a great shout of praise to the triumphant King still prancing and
+cursing to such good effect up on the hill.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 5
+
+
+The same vast balloons of sepia rolled over the lake, vomited a host of
+liquid ramrods and, after short intervals of brilliant glare, were
+succeeded by others. The gutters of the station were turned into burbling
+brooks and the grass plot into a morass.
+
+Behind the screen on the south verandah sat zu Pfeiffer in his pink silk
+pyjamas, a scowl upon his brow. He sipped his cafe cognac distastefully
+and inhaled a cigarette so fiercely that the heat burned his tongue. He
+had not slept. Yet the broken nail on the left little finger had been cut
+and polished. Half the night he had sat before the photograph in the ivory
+frame, pondering upon, and rehearsing, the past; muttering aloud to
+Lucille, sometimes words of love and sometimes savage curses; wondering
+what she was doing and where she was; gritting his teeth at visions which
+aroused insane jealousy; calculating what the consequences of his action
+would be were he to obey the impulse that had leaped into his mind in the
+first flush of passion. If he were to release the prisoner the fellow
+would probably expect an explanation and an apology which was, of course,
+out of the question. No, he must carry out the thing thoroughly without
+leaving any chance for the man to make trouble at the coast, or through
+the Embassy at Washington; at all costs not through Washington. For him,
+Birnier merely existed as a person whose feelings mattered nothing.
+
+With the greening of the moon zu Pfeiffer had retired. As he had lain
+sleeplessly watching the pallor of the dawn he had savagely corroborated
+the decision. Now the roar of the deluge appeared to him in the form of an
+abettor to his plan. He watched the grey wall of rain with satisfaction,
+stroking the left sentry moustache as if to tame the fierce bristles of an
+outraged dignity. When he had emerged from the bath, the pink of his face
+appeared to have spread to the whites of his eyes, a fact which Bakunjala
+had noted with sullen dread.
+
+Between the storms the sun glared yellow upon the smoking earth. Across
+the square squelched zu Pfeiffer to the orderly room. He grunted at
+Sergeant Schultz's greeting and sprawled in the chair. When Schultz
+proffered him some official documents he waved them aside irritably.
+
+"Bring the prisoner to the Court, sergeant. I will try him immediately."
+
+"Excellence!" said the sergeant, saluting. "What charge am I to enter
+against him, Excellence?"
+
+"Arms and liquor running," responded zu Pfeiffer quickly. "I hold papers
+which prove the case completely; moreover you will see that Ali ben Hassan
+and others are prepared to testify. But--the charge will be margined as
+political: not criminal. Understand, sergeant?"
+
+"Perfectly, Excellence. Ali ben Hassan and the others have to testify
+before your Excellence now?"
+
+"There will be no need."
+
+"Very good, Excellence."
+
+"And, sergeant, what is the personnel of the launch and the prisoner's
+party?"
+
+"The launch returned immediately to Jinja, Excellence, as soon as the
+prisoner had landed."
+
+"Ach, good."
+
+"The prisoner has a considerable battery, equipment and provisions; a
+headman and personal servants. He intended to obtain porters here,
+Excellence."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer meditated, tapping the desk with a gold pencil.
+
+"What is the headman?"
+
+"Bambeeba, Excellence."
+
+"Good. And the servants?"
+
+"One is a Wongolo youth, the others are mixed Walegga and Kavirondo."
+
+"Arrest them all and see that none gets away."
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+Schultz saluted and departed. Zu Pfeiffer frowned at the glare which was
+suddenly extinguished by falling water. He lighted a cigar and waited.
+Presently the sergeant returned in a waterproof cape, dripping, and
+announced that the prisoner was ready. Zu Pfeiffer gathered up his long
+legs and marched stiffly into the Court House adjoining.
+
+Upon a slight dais was a large desk and a cane armchair beneath the
+Imperial Eagles and a portrait of the Kaiser Wilhelm II. Pale, stubble
+bearded, and tense eyed with anger, sat Birnier upon a form against the
+wall; beside him stood Sergeant Schneider, for it is not usual etiquette
+to put a white prisoner in charge of a black guard. The grizzled sergeant
+stood stuffy to attention, which zu Pfeiffer acknowledged. Although he did
+not meet Birnier's gaze, he scowled as if he had expected him to salute
+the majesty of the judge as well.
+
+But as zu Pfeiffer mounted the step to the chair of justice he looked up
+at the portrait of the Kaiser, stopped, and hesitated; then he wheeled
+abruptly, and barked:
+
+"Sergeant, bring the prisoner to the orderly room!"
+
+In the orderly room Birnier was placed between Sergeant Schultz at his
+table and Sergeant Schneider by the door. Birnier watched zu Pfeiffer
+intently, but zu Pfeiffer regarded him icily as if he were a piece of
+furniture. Without a word Birnier reached out and lifted a chair. Sergeant
+Schneider started forward, evidently fearing that the prisoner was about
+to attack his officer. Birnier said acidly: "I merely wish to sit down."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer scowled again, but he made no objection. He took up some
+papers at random and began to peruse them. Said Birnier sharply:
+
+"When you have finished with this farce I shall be obliged if you will
+kindly explain your insane actions!"
+
+The tap-tap of a typewriter sounded from another room. A fly buzzed. Zu
+Pfeiffer's eyelids did not blink. The sergeants stared woodenly to the
+front. Birnier looked from one to the other, bit his lips, and then
+exclaimed in exasperation: "What in hell do you mean by this damned
+nonsense?"
+
+The tap-tap continued; the fly buzzed irritatedly. Birnier clenched his
+fist. But he sat still. Another storm so darkened the room that zu
+Pfeiffer could scarcely have seen the print, but apparently he read on.
+The deluge roared, passed, and the glare came as suddenly. Zu Pfeiffer
+lifted his head and said in German:
+
+"Sergeant, record the opening of the Court."
+
+"Excellence!" assented Sergeant Schultz and poised his pen ready to write.
+
+"The prisoner, a Swiss subject----"
+
+"I am American, as I have told you," said Birnier in leashed anger.
+
+"A pseudo trader and hunter, named Carl Bornstadt," continued zu Pfeiffer
+imperturbably, "is charged under sub-section 79 of section 8 with
+supplying guns and liquor to the native subjects of his Imperial Majesty."
+
+"Good God!" began Birnier. But as he realised zu Pfeiffer's purpose and
+his own position, he closed his lips tightly.
+
+Methodically the sergeant finished the entries and waited. Zu Pfeiffer
+stroked his favourite moustache and considered. He glanced at Birnier, but
+without a vestige of expression and continued:
+
+"Make a special note, sergeant, that we have reason to suspect that the
+prisoner is in the political service of"--a slight smile flicked the
+lieutenant's face--"in the service of the Portuguese, and so under
+sub-section 109 of section 8, I am referring the case to Dar-es-salaam for
+investigation; witnesses, documentary and personal, to accompany the
+prisoner. Owing to unusual pressure of service we are unable to afford the
+prisoner, although apparently of European descent, a white guard;
+therefore, Sergeant Ludwig will detail a corporal and six men for the
+duty."
+
+He paused. The sergeant's pen scratched on. Zu Pfeiffer lighted a cigar
+and added impersonally:
+
+"The prisoner and escort will leave to-morrow morning. Sergeant Schneider,
+remove the prisoner!"
+
+Birnier's face was a little paler, the eyes were slightly more bloodshot;
+but he did not attempt to speak. Zu Pfeiffer rose. The sergeants stood to
+attention and saluted. As he left the room towards the Court House, he
+smiled with slight satisfaction as the gruff voice of Sergeant Schneider
+barked: "Prisoner, shun! Right turn! Quick marrch!"
+
+But zu Pfeiffer did not remain long in the Court House. After fidgeting
+about with papers on the table and reprimanding Sergeant Schultz because
+he had not arranged the next native case to his satisfaction, he rose
+abruptly and marched swiftly across the square in the brilliant glare
+without his helmet and into his study. There he straddled a chair and
+leaned on the back sucking a dead cigar absent-mindedly. As he stared at
+the portrait in the ivory frame, the blue eyes grew soft and the delicate
+lips quivered like a child about to weep. He sighed heavily and then
+rapping out an oath, rose violently, overturning the chair, poured out a
+half-glass of neat cognac, and drank it at a gulp. As he neared the Court
+House the sentry, turning at the end of his short beat, was so startled at
+the proximity of the Kommandant, or incompletely disciplined, that he
+became flurried. Zu Pfeiffer clicked his heels together and haughtily
+watched the fumbled efforts to salute. The bolt caught in the man's tunic.
+Gold flashed in the sun as the sjambok descended. Zu Pfeiffer walked on
+unconcernedly, leaving a grey weal on the terrified native's face. To
+Sergeant Schultz, rigid in the doorway, he snapped an order to have fifty
+lashes given to the "clumsy dog."
+
+Sentences were harsher than usual that morning. All the native world about
+him knew that a demon had taken possession of the Eater-of-men; he was
+usually inhabited by an evil spirit, but this time the demon of Bakra who,
+as everybody knows, tears the vitals with hot claws, making the victim to
+have fits, to foam at the mouth, to be quite mad, had entered the white
+man. Bakunjala, coming to the Court House with vermouth and biscuits at
+eleven o'clock, distinctly saw the devil glaring through zu Pfeiffer's
+eyes, and was so scared that he let fall the tray, which was the reason
+that he also was doomed to have twenty-five lashes that evening. Even the
+stolid Sergeant Schultz remarked that the Herr Lieutenant had gotten a
+touch of the sun; but the grizzled Schneider, who came from Luthuania,
+opined that the Herr Kommandant had left his table knife edge uppermost.
+
+When zu Pfeiffer went across to tiffin the hot sun had dried up the
+gutters and the plot of grass. He did not return to the Court House, much
+to the gratitude of many innocent and guilty. After drinking more wine
+than usual he lay down for the siesta and fell asleep. But at five he
+awoke with a mouth like a burnt cooking pot and the temper of the said
+devil. He yelled for Bakunjala, who came, so trembling with fright that he
+stuttered. Zu Pfeiffer threw a glass which missed him and broke a mirror.
+
+"Another seven years' ill luck!" shouted zu Pfeiffer, sitting on the bed
+in his shirt. He glared at Bakunjala standing in the door, too
+terror-stricken to flee, convinced that he would be blamed for breaking
+the glass. "You--you superstitious nigger!" yelled zu Pfeiffer, and added
+more calmly in Kiswahili: "Fetch me a brandy-soda! Upesi, you son of a
+baboon!"
+
+"Bwana!" exclaimed Bakunjala and fled gladly.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer sat and scowled at the scattered pieces of mirror until
+Bakunjala arrived with the drink. An hour later he emerged in his
+immaculate undress uniform and sat on the north verandah, drank vermouth
+and smoked cigars, staring out across the flat swamp where the pewter of
+the lake was flecked with silver and blood of the sinking sun. From beyond
+the fort came the yaps of the drill-sergeant busy in the cool of the
+afternoon. At the bark of the relieving guard, zu Pfeiffer rose and walked
+around the house to watch, with tetchy eyes, the saluting of the flag.
+
+As he stalked off to dinner in the messroom eyes glimmered in the darkness
+about him. Bakunjala, after receiving punishment, was indisposed, in fact
+incapable of attending to his duties in the spritely manner required.
+Another servant, who had taken his place, was nervous of the probable
+consequences, and had a keen eye for the appearance of the devil so
+realistically described by Bakunjala. But the demon apparently slept, for
+zu Pfeiffer took the dishes placed before him with an unaccustomed
+meekness, pushed them away absent-mindedly, and rising, retired to his
+study. Even when the deputy brought the wrong bottle he reprimanded him
+mildly without taking his eyes off the photograph in the ivory frame.
+
+Yet, with the port, he did not omit to rise, and heels together, raise his
+glass to the "Ihre Hochheit." Then sprawling in the chair he began to
+drink and to smoke steadily.
+
+As the notes of the last post stuttered out in the clammy stillness he
+summoned the "boy" and bade him fetch Sergeant Schultz. At the sound of
+the sergeant's steps on the verandah zu Pfeiffer stiffened up and patted
+his lips as if desiring to erase the lines that were graven thereon; and
+with one foot pushed the chair from the direct angle to the photograph.
+
+"Take a cigar," said zu Pfeiffer, when the man had entered. The words were
+rather an order than an invitation. Sergeant Schultz obeyed. Zu Pfeiffer
+smoked reflectively, still regarding the photograph out of the corner of
+his eyes as if unable to resist the fascination.
+
+"How long have you been in this benighted country, sergeant?"
+
+"Nine years, Excellence."
+
+"You wish to retire on the pension at the year's term?"
+
+"I have not seen my wife and children for three years, Excellence."
+
+"You shall have special leave as soon as the Wongolo affair is over."
+
+"I thank you, Excellence."
+
+"And I will recommend you for the special colonial service medal and
+pension."
+
+"I thank you, Excellence."
+
+"Take a drink, sergeant."
+
+"I thank you, Excellence."
+
+The sergeant obeyed with some semblance of initiative and he remarked that
+the lieutenant drank half a tumbler of neat brandy at a gulp. As if to
+drag himself away from the contemplation of the photograph zu Pfeiffer
+stood up and sat on the arm of the chair with his face in shadow above the
+lamp-shade. Gazing keenly at the sergeant, he said sharply:
+
+"You are quite aware of the regulations regarding official secrets,
+sergeant?"
+
+"Ach, yes, Excellence!"
+
+As the sergeant paused to answer with the glass in his hand there was just
+a suspicion of astonishment in the tone.
+
+"Good. Don't forget it!" A note of menace was in zu Pfeiffer's voice. He
+added more mildly, "Political reasons may cause stringent measures
+sometimes."
+
+"Yes, Excellence."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer smoked, coldly regarding the sergeant.
+
+"Who is Sergeant Schneider detailing for the prisoner's escort to-morrow?"
+
+"Corporal Inyira, Excellence."
+
+"A long service man?"
+
+"Ja, Excellence."
+
+"Good. Go and fetch him here."
+
+Not a shadow of surprise showed on Sergeant Schultz's face as he departed.
+Zu Pfeiffer smoked hard and drank another brandy thirstily with a slight
+unsteadiness as he lifted the glass to his mouth. The sergeant returned
+and stood at attention just within the door.
+
+"The man is here, Excellence." Zu Pfeiffer nodded.
+
+"Forward, quick marrch," commanded the sergeant in a muffled bark.
+"Halttt!"
+
+"Very good, sergeant, you may wait."
+
+Schultz saluted and retired without. The tall powerfully built native in
+uniform stood as if he had a bayonet beneath his chin. There was a slight
+nervousness about the blues of the eyes as he squinted in the attempt to
+look straight ahead and to watch the Kommandant at the same time. One
+nostril was slit, in the lobes of the ears were three can keys, and the
+temples were tattooed with tribal scars.
+
+"Corporal Inyira!" said zu Pfeiffer sharply. The black body twitched at
+the voice. "You are to leave to-morrow for Dar-es-salaam and you will take
+as a prisoner a white man who has been taking your tribe as slaves and
+selling them to the Abyssinians. The Bwana Mkubwa protects you from these
+evil white men and Arabs. You know that?" sharply.
+
+"Bwana!"
+
+"Very good. You know what would happen to you if you were sold as a slave?
+You have had many brothers who have been sold to the Abyssinians?"
+
+"Bwana! Many, Bwana!"
+
+"Very good. Now listen! This white man is very bad. He leaves with you
+to-morrow morning for Dar-es-salaam, but--he is never to arrive there. I
+give him to you. You may do what you like with him, but never let me see
+him again. You have my protection. Understand?"
+
+"Bwana!"
+
+The rubber lips pouted in the emphatic utterance.
+
+"These are your secret orders. But you are not to tell them to any man,
+woman, or child here; you may tell your men when you are gone. If you
+disobey I will cut out your tongue and give you three hundred lashes.
+Understand?"
+
+"Bwana!"
+
+"This man is the enemy of the Bwana Mkubwa. His enemies are your enemies.
+His goods are yours. Begone!"
+
+The black hand came up jerkily to the black forehead, shot away out and
+down; the polished calves moved like the eccentrics of an engine, and
+Corporal Inyira melted into the shadows.
+
+"Sergeant Schultz!"
+
+To smart heel taps on the verandah entered the sergeant.
+
+"You will see that Corporal Inyira and the escort leave before daybreak;
+moreover, that he talks with no one before he leaves."
+
+"Excellence."
+
+"Take a drink, sergeant."
+
+With legs as stiff as his sjambok, Sergeant Schultz obeyed the order;
+lifted the glass and drank.
+
+"You may go! Good night, sergeant."
+
+"Excellence, good night!"
+
+As zu Pfeiffer shifted from the chair-arm to the seat his movements were
+slightly erratic. He sat forward, staring at the photograph, as he drank
+more brandy. Outside, the paean of the frogs pulsed steadily. From a
+distance came the throb of a native drum. A cricket shrilled
+intermittently.
+
+"Bwana!"
+
+The ghostly figure of Bakunjala whispered from the doorway. Zu Pfeiffer
+started nervously.
+
+"Zingala," began Bakunjala timorously.
+
+"Gott verdamf--Emshi!" snapped zu Pfeiffer, his ring flashing in an
+irritable gesture.
+
+Bakunjala melted. Came a mutter of voices and a subdued giggle.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer sat and drank and stared. Above the insectile anthem of the
+night, rose a gurgling voice in a drinking song.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Later the crash of a
+breaking glass was accompanied by an oath. The glimmer of three pairs of
+eyes through the window screen vanished and reappeared.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Once more rose
+the voice singing:
+
+     "Scheiden tut weh,
+     Scheiden, ja scheiden, scheiden tut weh!"
+
+Just as the cricket began anew, after having politely ceased to hear the
+lieutenant's song, trickled out upon the clammy air the sound of weeping.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 6
+
+
+In the violet shadow of his square hut inside the compound, squatted Zalu
+Zako. The lips and nose were nearer to the Aryan delicacy than the negroid
+bluntness; for the Wongolo, like the Wahima, are a mixed Bantu-Somali
+race. In colour his skin had the red of bronze rather than the blue of the
+negro, and the planes of his moulded chest were as light as the worn ivory
+bracelets upon his polished limbs. Broad in the shoulders he had almost
+the slender hips of a young girl and his carriage was as balanced as a
+dancer's.
+
+From a group of small round huts behind his square hut, where dwelt his
+two wives, concubines and slaves, came the clutter of voices. A distant
+drum throbbed gently on the hot air. Away in the cool green of the banana
+plantation rose the crooning chant of the unmarried girls and slaves
+bringing water from the river.
+
+Apparently Zalu Zako was absorbed in the movements of a diminutive chicken
+scratching in the soil. The omen of the goat was occupying his mind: that
+and the death of his grandfather, MFunya MPopo. There was no sense of
+grief, for he was not a woman. Now, at the beginning of his warrior's
+career, he had not any desire for divine honours and celibacy. No man had.
+Yet Zalu Zako no more dreamed of questioning the necessity than of
+spitting in the face of an enemy. Always had the first born male of his
+family been doomed to the kingly office. There was never a second born
+male, for it was not meet that a god should have paternal brothers. The
+wives of his youth and his concubines could have as many children as they
+could bear; but according to the law, did he select the chief wife from
+whom should spring the one regal son only when he had become heir
+apparent; for then was he not already half divine, being so near the
+sacred enclosure up on the hill?
+
+The choice of that chief wife was free as there were no royal families in
+the sense of divine descent save the direct male line of the King-God. But
+the mind of Zalu Zako dwelt more upon his personal career. The life of a
+warrior was frequently short and that of a god even briefer. MFunya MPopo
+had reigned but twenty moons; MKoffo, so said the elders, had reigned for
+full two hundred moons; but then he had been a mighty magician.
+
+With a harsh squawk a brilliant scarlet and blue bird with an enormous
+yellow bill perched on the palisade of the compound. Immediately the young
+man forgot his musing and rose, calling for his spear. A stocky man, coal
+black, with a fuzzy tuft of a beard, came out of the hut. From the slave
+Zalu Zako took a broad-bladed spear with a short haft. Watching to see
+that the bird was still sitting on the fence as he passed out of the
+compound, he set off rapidly through the village and into the banana
+plantations in search of a wart hog which had been rooting up one of his
+fields of sweet potatoes. Just as he came within sight of them a black
+field rat sprang out of the grass in his path, glanced round at him, and
+disappeared. The young man's steps slackened, for he knew that the black
+rat had spoiled the luck which the banana eater had portended. Scarcely
+troubling to glance around the field, he diverged across at an angle
+making for a break in the jungle where he knew was the trail of the boar.
+But he grunted contemptuously as he examined the last spoor, which was at
+least half a day old. Of course the hog would not be there.
+
+He bethought himself of another field where sometimes came buck. But there
+was no game. The black rat again! Yet if one waited long enough a good
+omen might appear. As he squatted beneath a banana plant to take snuff
+came a squawk and the banana eater--for it appeared to be the same
+one--alighted on a frond near to him. Zalu Zako waited. Leisurely and
+cautiously he arose. The bird peered at him. Zalu Zako passed and left the
+banana eater still sitting there. He felt the weight of his spear
+tentatively, for a double omen of luck must mean big game: possibly an
+eland or a leopard.
+
+He circled right round the outskirts of the plantation. But he saw no
+signs. As he began to make the big circle again the shadows were
+lengthening appreciably. Passing by the ford of the small river, which was
+swollen from the rains, he heard a group of young girls chattering on the
+river bank as they filled their gourds. He paused to test which way the
+wind was blowing in order to avoid going down wind where the sound of
+their voices would scare away any game.
+
+But as he turned to move on he caught a glimpse of a figure mounting the
+incline. The motion was as lithe as a young giraffe; the legs were as
+straight as spears and as supple as a kiboko; the moulded hips swayed
+rhythmically like a banana frond in the breeze; the fluted arch of her
+back swelled proudly upwards to the resilient shoulders; and an arm as
+slender as a lizard's tail steadied the gourd upon a small black head set
+upon a neck like a sapling. The dappled shadows of a tree played hide and
+seek upon the tiny hills that were her firm young breasts, upon the
+smoothness of her torso of light bronze. As he gazed her face came into
+view in speaking to a comrade just beneath. An errant shaft of sunlight
+glinted the pearl of teeth, glowed the tiny nose and blued the whites of
+eyes which were as soft as any antelope.
+
+Zalu Zako clicked the syllable that means astonishment.
+
+"Wait there, O Bayakala," she called, "for I have to do the making of
+mighty magic with the spirits of the wood."
+
+"Eh, eh!" responded one of those left by the water edge, "a girl of the
+hut thatch hath nought to do with spirits of the wood for their bellies
+are as big as a pregnant woman!"
+
+The young girl laughed and her notes seemed to Zalu Zako like the dripping
+of water upon a river rock.
+
+"Thou knowest less than the Baroto bird who as everybody knows is the
+spirit of one!"
+
+"'Tis more than thou wilt ever be!" retorted the rival beneath.
+
+"Ehh! Ehh!" exclaimed the girl at the sneer, "thy girdle is rotted long
+since with juice!"
+
+"And thine," shouted the insulted one, who was old for a spinster, "wilt
+rot with the dryness!"
+
+"Tscch! It is dry for the lord whom I will conquer with magic such as thou
+hast never dreamed on, O Bayakala!"
+
+"And who is he for whom thou makest magic, O daughter of the hut thatch?"
+demanded Zalu Zako, stepping from the shelter of the tree.
+
+"Ehh!" ejaculated Bakuma. "I--we do but tickle the fronds (jest), O Chief!"
+
+The only sign of her nervousness was the slight swaying of the gourd of
+water upon her head as she turned up her eyes to the young chief who
+regarded her slowly. She edged away. He moved a pace in front of her. She
+clutched at the amulet around her neck as she turned her eyes and said:
+
+"The cooking fires are low, O Chief, and need be tended."
+
+"Thy breasts are like unto small anthills," he said, "and thy belly is as
+smooth as yonder river rock."
+
+"Thy tongue is sweeter than the honey of the kinglan tree."
+
+"Thy voice is softer than the muted lyre and thy nose is formed of two
+petals of an orchid."
+
+"Thy praise is more refreshing than the morning dew to a thirsty flower."
+
+"And by thy figure am I made more drunken than by the wine of the Soka
+palm."
+
+For a full minute they stood, a study in light bronze against the dappled
+green foliage. The shrill chatter of the other girls approaching startled
+Bakuma into action. She swayed to one side.
+
+"The spirits of the cooking pot cry aloud for me, O Chief."
+
+"Who is thy father, little one?" he demanded.
+
+"I am Bakuma, the daughter of Bakala, O Chief."
+
+"There has been a veil before my eyes that I have not seen thee before."
+
+"The mountains see not the tiny brooks amid the mighty forests," murmured
+Bakuma and sped up the path.
+
+Zalu Zako stood motionless watching her form melt into the green, and as
+he turned towards the river he met Bayakala and the other women who shrank
+aside from the path to allow the Son of the Snake to pass in silence. Yet
+at the ford he paused. He had forgotten the omen of the banana eater and
+the purpose for which he had come.
+
+As Bakuma sped along in a gliding lope the amulet swayed rhythmically to
+the whispered praises of the power of Marufa, mixed with ardent prayers to
+the spirits to provide the fat goat with which to propitiate the spirit of
+the woods; for had not the love charm already manifested its wondrous
+power? As she hastened through the banana plantation she could not resist
+diverging a little in the direction of the magician's hut. As she passed,
+she saw him seated on the threshold of the compound gathering inspiration
+from his favourite wall. But Marufa observed her demeanour, and being
+something of a student of men, he deducted that the charm had already
+begun to work.
+
+Marufa, as all successful men, had a strain of luck. Before the shadows
+had crept a hand's breadth came MYalu, indignant and exasperated. The
+three tusks had been paid and the footprint obtained; but he had
+discovered that it was no easy matter to procure the other ingredients
+which he suspected the wizard had known well and intended as a means to
+extract more ivory. After the ceremonious greetings he protested that the
+task given was almost impossible to execute. Marufa remained imperturbably
+interested in his wall.
+
+"But as thou knowest," insisted MYalu, "the hair and the toe-nail and the
+spittle of the Son of the Snake are more than difficult to obtain. Does a
+man so carelessly render himself unto his enemies, and he the Son of the
+Snake? None save one of his household could purloin a single hair. Even
+this morning was his hair shaved and the remnants, as thou knowest well,
+deposited in the temple with him who was his father."
+
+"The hair, the toe-nail, and the spittle," mumbled the old man, "must I
+have for such mighty magic."
+
+"Ehh!" snorted MYalu, "with a man of the clay, but with one who is half
+divine, the Son of the Snake! Ehh!"
+
+"The bow is useless without the arrows," mumbled the old man.
+
+"Tsch. 'Tis a mighty hunter that hath not the arrows for his bow," sneered
+MYalu.
+
+"Verily," retorted Marufa disinterestedly, "and still more a mighty man
+who cannot do his own hunting!"
+
+"No warrior hath been purified more frequently than I," boasted MYalu,
+referring to the ceremony incumbent upon those who have taken life to
+appease the ghosts of the slain.
+
+"The spirits obey not the crowing of a cockerel," reminded Marufa.
+
+"Tsch!" For a while both sat silent, MYalu gloomily watching a hen.
+
+"Aie! Aie!" he lamented at last, "what is there that I may do, for indeed
+she hath caught my soul in a trap. Aie! Aie!"
+
+"If the hunter cannot make arrows, he may buy them," remarked Marufa, who
+had been patiently waiting for this state of mind.
+
+"Eh! The bowstring hath been costly but the arrows! Aie! Aie! What
+would'st thou?"
+
+"The rich man payeth in his kind. Four tusks of fine grain."
+
+"Eh! Eh!"
+
+"Maybe there are others whose hands are not withered."
+
+"Others than the Son of the Snake?" demanded MYalu quickly.
+
+"Who knows? There are more fools than chickens," muttered the old man.
+
+MYalu stared disconsolately at the distant bananas. Perhaps, he reflected,
+it would be cheaper to pay the price the girl's uncle demanded, yet----
+MYalu had bought other wives whose unimpassioned charms had quickly
+staled. His soul, as he put it, had indeed been tempted into a trap by
+Bakuma; for he wished only that she should desire him as he desired her.
+Yet was he angry. Love seemed to be a costly business. Marufa tapped out
+snuff and sniffed delicately with the air of a connoisseur devoting
+himself to the pleasure of the moment. Replacing the cork of twisted
+leaves he stirred as if to rise.
+
+"Canst thou procure then the nail and the hairs that are asked by the
+spirits?" inquired MYalu sulkily.
+
+"All things are possible to the son of MTungo," asserted Marufa. "Four
+tusks, and these things are found; but of fine grain, for the others were
+old and coarse."
+
+"Ehh! How wilt thou procure these things?" demanded MYalu sceptically.
+
+"The ways of the wise are not the ways of fools."
+
+"The tusks are thine," said MYalu reluctantly, "if thou wilt tell me how
+thou wilt procure them."
+
+"Thy words are like unto the vomit of a dog," muttered the old man.
+
+"But how? My heart is not bound in clay."
+
+"Tch!" clicked Marufa contemptuously. "Every fool must needs see the spoor
+of the god which he cannot read. I have spoken." MYalu regarded the old
+wizard incredulously. "Tch! Send the four tusks as we have agreed and so
+shall it be. Begone!"
+
+Slowly MYalu rose, made his greeting, and departed more impressed than
+ever that the old man was a mighty magician.
+
+During the hour when the soul is small and dwells timidly around the feet
+Marufa dozed in the cool of his hut; but later when it spread boldly out
+was he squatted once more in his favourite seat at the entrance to the
+compound, taking snuff and contemplating. The shadows grew from violet to
+blue; the small hens pecked for worms with avidity and the goats scratched
+with vigour in the cool. Patiently Marufa sat. At length that for which he
+had waited with a sound though primitive knowledge of psychology, came to
+pass. Bakuma appeared, apprehensive, but with yet an abandon which sang
+her happiness. Beside Marufa she sat so as to avoid the shadow of one foot
+protruding beyond that of the fence.
+
+"O great and mighty magician," she began eagerly, after the formal
+greetings. "Indeed all that thou hast said hath come to pass. Thy charm is
+infallible."
+
+"Ugh!" grunted Marufa unconcernedly.
+
+"All that my heart desireth hath already begun to be. I thank thee."
+
+"Ugh!"
+
+"O mighty son of MTungo, what must I now do?"
+
+"Thou knowest," mumbled Marufa, fumbling for the snuff case.
+
+"Aie! Aie! but I have no fat goat!" cried Bakuma, who had hoped fatuously
+that the wizard would have forgotten. "I, a girl of the hut thatch, how
+should I have a goat?" Marufa tapped snuff as if no romance were in the
+making. Bakuma's bright eyes, sharpened by the proximity of the promise of
+her love, watched the old man keenly. "Listen, O great and mighty son of
+MTungo, to whom all things are known, who canst accomplish all that thou
+desireth, Bayakala, my cousin, hath a goat, but it is old and skinny.
+Perhaps----"
+
+"In the nostrils of the spirits," asserted Marufa instantly, "all odours
+are the same except that of the fat goat whom they love."
+
+"Aie! then am I undone, for no fat goat have I!" wailed Bakuma. "Know I
+not one who hath a goat who would smile on me, a girl of the hut thatch."
+
+"Ugh!"
+
+Bakuma regarded him imploringly, but Marufa's gaze was fixed upon the wall
+as if his mind were turned to matters of more importance.
+
+"O mighty wizard, what must I do?" implored Bakuma desperately.
+
+"Ugh!"
+
+After a prolonged contemplation, said Marufa: "If thou canst get no goat,
+then is there another path by which thou mayest accomplish thy end."
+
+"Eh!"
+
+"But it is very difficult."
+
+"By my cord, will I do all that thou canst bid me to do!" swore Bakuma in
+anxious haste.
+
+"Ugh! This path is more certain of success for the will of the spirits are
+oftentimes chary of their favours."
+
+"O mighty one!" breathed Bakuma, as he paused tantalisingly.
+
+"But the matter is exceedingly difficult--and dangerous."
+
+"If the flower hath no sun hath it ever lived?"
+
+"As even thou shouldst know," mumbled Marufa, more casually than ever, "he
+who possesses a part of the soul may do magic thereon."
+
+"Aye! Aye!"
+
+"Bring me then of the nail parings one, of his hairs one, and of his
+spittle. Then may I do magic thereon which he cannot resist."
+
+"O mighty magician!" gasped Bakuma, appalled at the difficulty and the
+danger of the task.
+
+"That path is sure. There is no other."
+
+"Eh! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} But if they of thy craft should know then am I doomed!"
+
+"There is no other."
+
+Torn between her love and the dread of the penalty incurred by the
+sacrilege of the theft of the parts of one who might any day be King-God,
+Bakuma stared distraught.
+
+"Were not my words white? Hath not the love charm thou hast already had
+done even as I did say?"
+
+"O mighty one!"
+
+"But that is only as the goat to the leopard. The trap must be dug--or the
+scent of the bait will be blown."
+
+"Ehh!" gasped Bakuma, in desperation, "by my twin soul which dwells
+beneath the banana plant, will I do it!"
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 7
+
+
+Gerald Birnier had flattered himself that he was a philosopher with a
+sense of humour, fairly well developed by ten years' wandering about
+Central Africa, but deep emotions submerge such cherished qualities.
+
+The presence of the photograph was explicable by several surmises: zu
+Pfeiffer might have met Lucille at Washington, Paris, or Berlin: she might
+have given him the photograph or he might have bought it, or even stolen
+it. But--the signature "a toi, Lucille"! There lay the sting which maddened
+Birnier and strangled reason, the fact at which his mind yawed futilely.
+
+So great had been the shock that the arrest had seemed but a secondary
+matter in accord with the insanity of zu Pfeiffer's statement that he was
+engaged to Lucille. The affair had been so sudden that for some time he
+could progress no farther in an attempt to think than a gasp, pawing
+mentally at an intangible substance which eluded him like a child's small
+hand trying to grasp a toy balloon. Sense of reality appeared to have been
+dissolved. He had followed the sergeant across the square meekly without
+realising what was happening, and when he had been placed in a whitewashed
+room at the back of the native guard house which served as a jail, he sat
+down upon a chair, too bewildered to comprehend where he was. That "a toi,
+Lucille" rang like the clanging in a belfry, drowning the sound of other
+thoughts.
+
+By the light of a hurricane lamp he regarded the soldiers bringing in an
+old camp bed with indifference. When they had gone he began to pace up and
+down the small room frantically trying to gain control. To the first
+prompting of a logical reason for the whole affair he did not dare to
+listen. The disrupting cause was the complete inability to explain the
+familiar signature. To his Anglo-Saxonised mind, bred in the strict code
+of the south, tutoyer was only permissible to dogs, inferiors, most
+intimate relations and lovers. He was far too unbalanced to see the humour
+as he solemnly announced that certainly zu Pfeiffer was not a dog, nor in
+the social code an inferior; he was not a relation; therefore.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} His mind
+baulked and raced into incoherence.
+
+A point of view which added false premises, as well as his attitude to
+those two little words, was the consciousness that many would consider
+that he had not treated his wife as a husband should do. This possibility
+had never occurred to him before, so that it came with disproportionate
+emphasis.
+
+As a young man he had been too absorbed in his profession to be a lady's
+man; and of love he had reckoned little until he had met the Lucille
+Charltrain with whom half the world was in love. And she doubtless, like
+many a spoiled beauty, was a little piqued that the professor did not join
+the throng of her courtiers. In Birnier's mind there had ever been
+associated with love the fear that the woman would demand too much, that
+no woman could understand that a man's profession must of necessity come
+before all things. Lucille was the first woman whom he had met who really
+seemed to understand this point of view, as she, too, was devoted to her
+art. This had grown to be the biggest bond and attraction between them.
+Most men wished to make of love a nuisance, as Lucille once put it. So the
+good-looking professor had won the beauty. They were married on the mutual
+understanding that each should pursue their respective professions.
+Shortly afterwards Birnier was offered a special mission to go to Africa
+for the purpose of studying the customs and superstitions of the natives.
+Lucille had consented, forbidden, relented, and laughed.
+
+So Lucille sang from musical height to height and her husband sped from
+depth to depth in the seas of human fatuity. Whenever he took a furlough
+he went, of course, straight to her, wheresoever she was, in Berlin, New
+York, or Paris. To Birnier the situation was ideal. He had never dreamed
+of any other woman. Indeed the tracts of his mind were so filled with
+statistics of anthropology and Lucille that there was little or no room
+for any one else. The delight and satisfaction in Birnier's mind were so
+sincere that he never had dreamed of questioning whether Lucille's point
+of view had remained the same. But now?
+
+That "a toi" stung and baited him into the unprecedented realisation that
+after all women had been known to change their opinions. Perhaps pride had
+prevented her from ever openly demanding other ways. Lucille was young and
+beautiful, courted and flattered on every hand. Perhaps he had been wrong
+to leave her for years at a stretch. Of her loyalty he had had no doubt,
+but for the first time in his marital life the professor's profound
+knowledge of human nature was shot like a spot-light on to his own
+affairs. Yet his erudition did not in the least relieve him from the laws
+of emotional reaction.
+
+Perhaps in an emotional moment.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} That knowledge of the frailties of genus
+homo was too deep for comfort in such actuation.
+
+"A toi, Lucille! A toi, Lucille!" rang and echoed as he paced that room,
+striving for control.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} And--and--why else should zu Pfeiffer have gone
+crazy?--why had he exclaimed: "Das ist der Schweinhuend"? The husband, of
+course, whom he wanted out of the way, and he had immediately seized the
+opportunity to secure that end, seemingly indifferent to
+consequences--symptomatic of the state of "being in love."
+
+Around and about, about and around a field of weeds which had sprung from
+that seed "a toi," had paced the professor all night. When the green was
+creeping through the high barred window, Sergeant Schneider had brought to
+him some coffee and biscuits. Birnier had drunk the coffee thirstily, and
+as the sergeant had no English nor French, had tried in broken German to
+extract some information. But the sergeant had merely grunted and retired.
+At seven he had returned again and escorted Birnier to the Court House. He
+returned from the mock trial a little more in touch with reality, and more
+impressed with the malignity of zu Pfeiffer. Yet the gratuitous insults,
+the laboured farce of the registering of an alleged Swiss trader, Birnier
+saw through, and was relieved, for it argued that zu Pfeiffer's intention
+was to make Lucille a widow. No other reason could account for the
+homicidal intentions displayed.
+
+At the glow of dawn next day he was aroused by the big corporal who
+ordered him out. The tone of the man's voice naturally stimulated a
+violent reaction. But Birnier realised that his sole chance lay in
+controlling himself to accept stoically whatever treatment was offered;
+for he saw instantly that any protest or indignation would be interpreted
+as insubordination and possibly be made an excuse to shoot him down.
+
+Outside in the grey light he saw under the guard of six native soldiers,
+the five others of his party. Mungongo, his personal "boy," cried out at
+the sight of him, asking what was the meaning of these strange happenings.
+Before Birnier could reply, the big corporal struck the man savagely with
+a kiboko, bidding him to be silent. In spite of his resolution, the
+reaction made Birnier turn angrily upon the soldier, who deliberately
+repeated the order, and struck the white man across the face. As Birnier
+raised his fist the man lowered his bayonet and grinned, adding,
+apparently for the benefit of his men, that now the white would learn what
+it was to be a slave.
+
+Furiously Birnier looked around for Sergeant Schneider: but no white man
+was in sight.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} He turned to Mungongo and said quickly: "Take no heed. Do
+as they bid thee for the moment."
+
+"Be silent!" shouted the corporal, but as he raised his kiboko, Birnier
+looked him quietly straight in the eyes. The black hand was lowered; the
+man turned away, ordering the party in general to march.
+
+Dishevelled and without any camp equipment, Birnier began to march as the
+blood of the sky paled to orange. At the bottom of the great parade ground
+he turned in time to see the relieving guard falling in behind the Court
+House. For one moment he hesitated whether to put all to the test by
+refusing to go; but a significant gesture with the ever ready rifle of the
+corporal signified that he would not be given a chance. Humiliated, he
+obeyed. But just beyond the last hut, waiting by the path, was a group of
+women loaded with the soldiers' gear; and beside them were some carriers
+bearing his green tent and apparently all his equipment. The sight cheered
+him a little. He attempted to find immediate consolation in the idea that
+the savagery of the corporal might possibly abate when they were away from
+the neighbourhood of the inciting agent, whom he was sure was zu Pfeiffer.
+
+Leading the caravan was a soldier; next to him came Birnier and behind him
+was another soldier, after whom walked Mungongo and the four other
+prisoners, with a soldier between each; and then the corporal, strutting
+portentously important within easy shooting distance of the white man. The
+carriers and women brought up the rear.
+
+The path led for some miles through the dreary swamp following the course
+of the small bayou, crossing and recrossing small streams swollen with the
+rains, through which the white man was forced to wade to his hips. For the
+first mile Birnier was so angry and humiliated that he dared not catch the
+troubled eyes of Mungongo. But by force of will he attained a reasonable
+plane of philosophic resignation, temporary at least, and smiled at the
+boy, who grinned back like a tickled child. At any rate, soliloquised
+Birnier, he had at least one man upon whom he could rely.
+
+At the head of the bayou they reached higher ground and the path zigzagged
+through dense jungle thick with fan palms. The longer Birnier pondered
+upon the situation the nearer he came towards the conclusion that he had
+better make his escape as soon as possible, or he would never have the
+chance. Rather by the uneasy glances of Mungongo, who dared not speak, did
+he guess that they had left the regular trail to the coast. What their
+destination was he could not imagine. Probably, he thought grimly, to make
+an end of the whole party and return to the camp. Yet why trouble to
+travel so far? And another good reason to hasten an escape was that,
+although for the moment he was in good health, a few days of exposure
+would subject him to fever and consequent weakness.
+
+Now and again the theme "a toi" would return like the refrain of a song to
+which he found himself keeping step; but the words sometimes became
+meaningless; for in the merciful way that nature has, the impulse of
+self-preservation so occupied his mind that he had scarcely leisure to
+worry over marital troubles.
+
+At the end of about two hours, when the heat of the sun was beginning to
+be felt severely, the corporal called a halt in the shade of a great
+baobab. Birnier sat down with his back against the bole. Alongside him
+squatted the corporal deliberately and called to the women for a gourd of
+juwala. There is a certain acid odour which native beer has that is
+particularly irritating to a dry palate. The corporal drank deep, sighed
+with satisfaction and set the gourd beside him almost touching the feet of
+the white. Involuntarily Birnier swallowed. The corporal saw and grinned.
+Birnier understood and turned his back to the man. Immediately the
+corporal arose and lowering his bayonet until it pricked the sleeve of
+Birnier's coat, ordered him to get up. In the knowledge that he would be
+instantly shot by the others if he attempted to resist, he had perforce to
+obey.
+
+Outside the shade of the great tree, in the full glare of the sun, was the
+white man compelled to sit while the black corporal, with the rifle ready
+across his knee, drank deep and handed the gourd to his fellows. Again
+Birnier turned his back to him. But he began to realise faintly what
+treatment he would receive before the end came and an intimate knowledge
+of native ingenuity made him feel physically sick.
+
+Half an hour later they were on the march again. The path became rugged
+and difficult, passing through thorny ground, following burbling
+watercourses of rough stones. To make the going more trying Birnier wore
+light moccasins intended for camp use instead of his high field boots.
+Once when a long thorn penetrated the flank of his shoe he stopped to
+extract it. The corporal shouted at him; the soldier behind called him
+unmentionable names in the dialect and pushed him with his foot. The
+insult and the heat of the sun maddened him. He leaped to his feet. The
+corporal raised his gun promptly and jeered. For a moment Birnier stood
+trembling with passion; then he closed his eyes as if to shut out sight
+and sound and limped forward, fighting with himself.
+
+With natives had Birnier always been able to negotiate, to live, and to
+quarrel when necessary, on terms of amity; but this black "swine," as he
+termed him in his wrath, prinked out in a masquerade of a white man's
+clothes.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} He jammed his heel down savagely upon the thorn to divert the
+southern passion. After all it was not the man's fault but zu Pfeiffer's.
+Put a white man in a uniform and he becomes a beast; put a nigger in a
+uniform and he becomes a devil, Birnier forced himself to reflect.
+
+The sun grew incandescent. The heat and the flies quickened his thirst. He
+plodded on, stumbling over the stones, sagging heavily in sandy patches.
+They had left the comparative shelter of the jungle and were crossing a
+flat plain approaching, he judged, to a river bed. The carriers, he noted,
+had lagged behind. Soon they must halt. Even the fiend of a corporal would
+not fatigue himself too much for the sake of tormenting a white man.
+
+Then a new idea was added to the plagues. He had tasted nothing save the
+coffee, canned beef, and native bread which had been given him for dinner
+on the previous evening. The corporal had manifested his conception of
+humour by refusing him beer and water on the march; was he going to
+torment him by starvation as well as by thirst? And if torture were
+reserved for him by that grinning black brute, then he knew what would be
+the end that awaited him.
+
+Within an hour they came to a river about forty yards broad, a swollen
+rushing torrent. There was no village as he had expected. The corporal
+halted. Birnier slid down the bank and thrust his muzzle into the flood.
+There was torture in the restraint not to drink too much. He clambered up
+the slope to find the corporal grinning at him. He turned his back and lay
+down. There was no shade; only short scrub and grass. Small sand flies
+buzzed and stung. He heard the gurgle of the corporal's military
+water-bottle. But this time the sting was extracted; his belly was moist.
+
+Birnier stretched out, shielding from the glare the little that he could
+with his hands. Faint echoes of "a toi" strolled across his field of
+consciousness. He observed the apparently stoical indifference of Mungongo
+squatted a few feet from him, a soldier sprawling between them; but he
+cursed because investigations had taught him that that "stoical" should
+usually be read as "bovinity," as he had termed it; and he smiled dismally
+at the ancient story that so well illustrated the point, of the peasant
+who expressed his occupation through the long winter hours as "sometimes
+we sits and thinks but mostly we just sits."
+
+Mungongo "just sits," he repeated, and envied him. Yet in that heat and
+hunger, waiting for his savage captor to wreak some new fancy upon him, so
+saturated with philosophic interest in life was Birnier, that he wandered
+off into a meditation upon the mechanical fatuity of human conduct;
+illustrating his reflections by his own actions when stirred by emotion.
+"The loaded gun may be as wise as Solomon was reputed to be," he remarked
+beneath his hands, "but all the same when some one pulls the trigger the
+damn thing goes off," and sat up to confront the muzzle of the corporal's
+rifle, who was ordering him to get up. Birnier rose. But to the savage's
+amazement, he smiled.
+
+The corporal backed away.
+
+"Ah, my friend," remarked Birnier blandly in English. "You've lost, for I
+have found that which was lost!"
+
+The corporal scowled and bade him to follow. Birnier obeyed but he felt
+that he was obliging the man. The carriers had arrived and the green tent
+was pitched, invitingly cool against the grey flood of the river. He
+followed the corporal gladly, but at ten feet from his tent, beside a
+thorn bush four feet tall which spread in a fan shape, he was bidden to
+sit. For the moment, newly arrived from his philosophic dreams, he did not
+comprehend.
+
+"But that is my tent!" he said in Kiswahili.
+
+"Sit down!" commanded the corporal, grinning. "The white seller of slaves
+sits in the place of the slave, but his owner dwells in the place of the
+blessed."
+
+"O God!" remarked Birnier as he bumped his head against black reality.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 8
+
+
+Bakuma sat in the shade of the reed fence preparing the evening meal of
+boiled bananas. From her slender neck swung the precious amulet at which,
+as if to reassure herself of its safety, she clutched occasionally. Her
+half-sister, who had not yet passed through the initiation at maturity,
+sprawled upon her belly in the dwindling rays of the sun, scratching her
+woolly head. Beyond her were two slaves tending a fire beneath two large
+calabashes, preparatory to the brewing of banana beer, which had of course
+to be done by the chief widow, Bakuma's half-sister's mother.
+
+The mind of Bakuma was occupied by percepts of the charms of Zalu Zako;
+particularly as memorised on that afternoon by the river when the effect
+of the love charm had begun to work. These memories, as sweet as they
+would have been to any maid, were shot with gay colours by the words of
+the wizard; for he had assured her that with the toe-nail and hair to work
+magic upon, Zalu Zako would be bewitched by her charms for all time. And
+she had obtained them! She could have gotten the goat, not a skinny goat
+as described under the inhibiting influence of a wild hope that the wizard
+would relent. Her cousin, smarting under the reproaches of her husband,
+had such a goat, fat as goats in Wongolo go, and she was eager to exchange
+it or anything for an infallible charm against sterility. Bakuma feared to
+part with the charm, yet the matter was pressing; immediately she was the
+wife of Zalu Zako she would be in a position to purchase all the charms in
+the village.
+
+But difficult to obtain as they were, for as everybody knows no man leaves
+portions of himself around that may fall into the hands of an enemy to
+work magic upon, least of all a rich man, "half divine," she had obtained
+some nail parings and one hair. With that charm against sterility, the
+only thing of value Bakuma possessed, had she bribed a concubine of Zalu
+Zako's household to steal the ingredients required from the hut thatch
+where they had been hidden after the official shaving and paring following
+the ceremony of his father, pending their removal to the sacred precincts
+of the temple.
+
+Above her passion for Zalu Zako was her natural feminine appreciation of a
+good match. The Son of the Snake was far better from a woman's point of
+view than union with a successful wizard. In the event of the death of the
+King-God, Kawa Kendi, the wives of his son and successor, although denied
+to him, were accorded special privileges; and upon his demise these royal
+wives retained their home upon the hill which had become his tomb.
+Moreover, as Bakuma knew well, now that Zalu Zako was heir-apparent, he
+must choose the principal wife who would for her life remain paramount in
+the household, avoiding the dread of every ageing woman that her husband
+would take unto him another wife younger and more supple.
+
+The one mosquito in paradise was the fear that as soon as her uncle, her
+father's brother to whom she belonged by inheritance, learned the august
+personage who desired her, he would raise the price to a prohibitive
+figure; for he was mean as well as stupid and lazy, wherefore he had few
+goods, and although Zalu Zako was a rich man she knew that any man save a
+fool loves to drive a good bargain if only to prove his astuteness.
+Therefore was another imperative necessity to procure every means of magic
+and charm to fan the flame of her lover's desires.
+
+Yet always flashed a bright-hued lizard in the sun of her joy when she
+imagined herself installed as the chief wife in the household of Zalu
+Zako, an unassailable position as long as she had one male child; the
+practical mistress of his first two wives as well as the retinue of
+slaves.
+
+Bazila, the younger wife, Bakuma knew well; the favourite and haughty,
+covered with the most expensive amulets against every ill and black magic,
+she was overfond of sneering at young girls of the hut thatch whose charms
+had not yet netted a victim.
+
+"Ehh!" gasped Bakuma and flashed her teeth as she rolled the warm leaves
+around the sticky mess, "then will the scent of my body be more bitter
+than the flower of the fish-faced cactus!"
+
+And so through the night did Bakuma nibble at anticipatory joys as she lay
+upon her reed mat on the slightly raised dais of the floor which was her
+bed, watching the smoke of the fire in the middle of the hut lose itself
+in the shadows of the roof, and listening in the hope of hearing some
+voice of the spirits whom Marufa was to invoke on her behalf. Save for the
+occasional bleating of a goat and once the harsh scream of the Baroto
+bird, which made her heart contract, for it is a bad omen, the night was
+still. However, at the hour of the monkey Bakuma arose to replenish the
+fire. As the western star was melting in the warm green she left the
+compound. On the outskirts of the village the tall figure of MYalu
+appeared from the shadows of the plantation.
+
+"Greeting, daughter of Bakala," said he, his eyes greedily devouring her.
+
+"Greeting, O Chief!" returned Bakuma, as she politely stepped to one side
+to avoid standing on the vague shadow of the chief.
+
+"The fawn seeks the pastures early," remarked MYalu.
+
+"Before the breath of the sun the grass is sweeter," retorted Bakuma,
+edging away.
+
+"Aye," remarked MYalu, with a hungry glint in his eyes, "thou art eager to
+slake thy thirst? But in the valley will no buck walk this day!"
+
+"Ehh!" gasped Bakuma, recollecting instantly the omen of the Baroto bird
+heard that night. "What meanest thou?"
+
+"Maybe the soul of him hath wandered and been caught in a trap or maybe----"
+He paused to watch her closely--"maybe an enemy hath made magic upon the
+parts of him."
+
+"Ehh!" Bakuma started nervously.
+
+MYalu smiled and touched her upon the shoulder.
+
+"Thy flesh is cooler than the dew."
+
+"Nay, nay, O Chief, thou hast not tied my girdle," she protested, as she
+backed away from him, her eyes wide like a terrified deer's.
+
+"Nay, but will I untie it soon," he retorted.
+
+But as he stepped towards her she turned and fled. As MYalu watched her
+running as swiftly as a pookoo into the plantation he grinned and called
+out: "Even now is the cooling draught steaming in the breath of the
+Unmentionable One! But the goblet shall hold a sweeter draught for me!"
+
+"Aie! Aie-e!" wailed Bakuma, her heart beating furiously, "what devil hath
+bewitched me! O, that father of many goats hath betrayed me! Aie! Aie-e!
+O, the cry of the Baroto bird! Aie! Aie-e!"
+
+And when Bakuma, distraught with terror by the menace that she had only
+procured the nail paring and hair to give her lover into the hands of the
+false magician who, of course, had been bought by MYalu, arrived at the
+"pastures" by the river, as MYalu had foretold, no buck walked there.
+
+The sun spilled blue shadows on the village from the sacred hill where
+another scene was being enacted, and it was not as imagined by the amorous
+MYalu.
+
+In the council house, which was within the outer fence and before the
+sacred enclosure, was in progress a meeting of the doctors. In the door of
+the enclosure squatted Kawa Kendi, with Kingata Mata in attendance tending
+the royal fires. Before him, in front of their fellows, were seated
+Bakahenzie and Marufa in full dress of green feathers and the scarlet
+plume. The left side of the idol, which was so set that the shadow never
+fell upon the entrance to the compound, was gilded by the sun; the mouth
+grinned in one corner, one eye was closed in shadow, seemingly like a
+prodigious wink.
+
+To the thrumming of the sacred band Bakahenzie was rocking himself to and
+fro mumbling incantations. Kawa Kendi squatted immobile, but the others
+swayed and grunted softly in rhythm. Then on a sudden did Bakahenzie lift
+up his head and cry in a great voice. The drums ceased and the body of
+witch-doctors remained motionless, expectant. Bakahenzie dropped his head
+and began to chant:
+
+  "Behold! I have heard the voice of the trees
+  Crying softly by night!
+  Lo! the soul of the plant is in labour!
+  As a woman with child!
+  Behold! is she not to break forth?
+  For she crieth for aid.
+  Unless she be heard the infant will slip!
+  The fruit will not be!
+  The plants will not break!
+  The milk will be sour!
+  The beer will be green!
+  Women will not bear!
+  Our spears will be blunt!
+  Our magic will wane!
+  And He will be wroth!"
+
+"Eh! Ah! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Eh! Ah! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Eh! Ah! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Eh! Ah! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Eh! Ah! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}"
+grunted the chorus of the doctors. Then chanted Marufa:
+
+  "Lo! I have slept and been that which I must!
+  Preying swiftly by night!
+  Behold! I have bloodied my fangs in the throat
+  Of a mighty bull eland!
+  Blood succoured the earth and upsprang a plant!
+  Which panted for blood!
+  The sap of the plant is the soul of the tree!
+  Take heed to the thirst
+  Of Him who first was!
+  Who lusts for a maid!
+  Full breasted, soft thighed!
+  Supple, bow arched!
+  Clean blooded and strong!
+  Whose name is forbid!
+  Whose name is a sin!"
+
+"Who hath stolen the name?" screamed Bakahenzie, leaping to his feet. "Who
+is she that hath stolen the name?"
+
+"Eh! Ahh! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Eh! Ahh! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Eh! Ahh! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Eh! Ahh! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Eh! Ahh! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}"
+
+As the drums throbbed swifter Bakahenzie began to shuffle in a stooping
+posture as if he were snuffing a trail. To the continuous grunting he
+continued this dance for fully a quarter of an hour. Then stopping
+abruptly in front of the king he screamed:
+
+  "Let her be bidden
+  To come to the feast!
+  Let her be oiled!
+  Let her be shaved!
+  Let her come dancing!
+  Let her be joyful!
+  Let her be decked!
+  Let her be glad!
+  Lips of the groom
+  Thirst for her mouth!
+  Let her be drunken
+  To bear his sweet weight!
+  That the crops will be full!
+  That the cattle grow fat
+  Wives will throw men!
+  Spears will slice foes!"
+
+He sank suddenly upon his haunches. The drums ceased. A slave appeared
+bearing a pure white kid. Kingata Mata took the animal and held it before
+Kawa Kendi, who muttered a long incantation over it and cut the throat
+with a spear head. Then to Marufa was the bleeding carcass carried and
+while still alive he slit open the belly, smeared the liquid over his
+chest and right arm, and tore out the guts. The corpse was removed.
+Marufa, working only with the enchanted arm, turned the entrails over and
+about, peering closely.
+
+There was silence. The shadows grew in depth. From the village came an
+occasional bleat and the voice of a distant girl chanting.
+
+After a prolonged and studious search, Marufa caught up and wrapt round
+his neck an intestine. As he rose, the group of witch-doctors broke out
+into a mighty groaning. Marufa speeded across the small clearing and
+kneeled before Kawa Kendi. Through the bloody necklet he whispered two
+syllables: "kuma."
+
+The groaning ceased as suddenly as it had commenced. Kawa Kendi cried out
+in a loud voice:
+
+"The bride is found!"
+
+Instantly the drums began a furious beat. A mighty shout rose from all
+assembled and they fell to the chest and belly grunting: "Eh! Ahh! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Eh!
+Ahh! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}" as Bakahenzie and Marufa began to dance the dance of thanksgiving.
+
+Ba_kuma_ had been doomed to be the victim for the Feast of the Harvest
+Festival, to be sacrificed in the orgy as the Bride of the Spirit of the
+Banana, because Marufa had discovered by divination that two syllables of
+her name were those of the secret name which only the King-God knew, of
+the Unmentionable One, the Usa_kuma_.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 9
+
+
+Before the green tent strutted a sentry as pompously as if he were on duty
+before the Kommandant's bungalow. Inside, sprawling in a camp chair, was
+the corporal, in blue striped pyjamas, smoking a cigarette. Upon the floor
+crouched one of his women with a safety razor stuck in her woolly thatch,
+opening a can of beef. On the camp table were a bottle of brandy which had
+had its neck knocked off, a shaving mirror and an open tin of cigarettes.
+Squatting on the bed was another woman in field boots, cleaning up a can
+of salmon with one finger. The rest of the tent was a litter of broken
+cases, bottles, cans and papers.
+
+Ten yards away under the thorn shrub, lay Birnier, and near to him were
+Mungongo and the others. Mungongo's regard shuttled between this scene in
+the tent and the white man with a mingled expression of terror and
+amazement: terror at the temerity of the corporal in treating a white in
+such a manner and incredulous bewilderment that the white did not
+immediately strike them all dead. But the others, more sophisticated to
+the white man's ways, were solely occupied in envying the corporal's
+debauch.
+
+The mauve shadows turned to blue as they lengthened. The clouds of small
+flies thinned and their ranks began to be refilled by the mosquitoes.
+Birnier lay with his back to the tent with a fly switch of grass, but he
+watched the doings of the corporal covertly. The corporal and his women
+had been drinking a good deal of the brandy and now he was supplying
+generous quantities to his men. Once he had come out to jeer. Birnier had
+taken no notice, nor even of the kick implanted by one of his own field
+boots on the foot of the woman. Already there was a bloodshot glint in the
+corporal's yellow eyes and a pronounced uncertainty in his movements.
+Whether the man had had any particular instructions regarding the manner
+of his death Birnier did not know until he became loquacious and took to
+shouting insults at his white prisoner. The great white chief had given
+the white man to him as a slave, he yelled, and now he was going to take
+him home with him. This idea seemed to tickle him vastly and also his
+women, who giggled and applauded as the corporal began to describe what
+obscene acts they would make their white dog perform every day, what they
+would give him to eat, how he should be made to dance.
+
+They grew noisier and the women began to sing lewd songs. The soldiers too
+revealed signs of their frequent potations. Soon the whole crowd would go
+mad, Birnier knew, and sooner or later collapse, which would give him a
+chance to escape, unless they chained him, or, what was far more probable,
+they decided to bait him to death during an orgy. What they would probably
+do to him was unthinkable. Somehow he must find a way out by
+self-destruction. Even should he escape, he would be unarmed and without
+food, and there was every possibility that they would trail and overtake
+him in the morning. He was lame and footsore; also he was weak from want
+of food. Once, when despoiling his chop boxes, the corporal had
+contemptuously thrown him a half eaten tin of sardines and a cigarette. He
+let the cigarette lie. Nourishment he must have; and so after an inward
+struggle he had eaten it, having to claw out the fish like a monkey, while
+the big black and his women sprawled and laughed.
+
+The soldiers, except the one on sentry who still paced a trifle
+erratically, were grouped on their haunches around the fire in front of
+the tent on the threshold of which the corporal presided with as much
+pomposity as if he were the great Mogul, all drinking and smoking and
+eating. Now and again the women would screech insults over their heads at
+the white; and once the corporal threw an empty bottle at him, evoking a
+gale of applause. The women began the belly dance, crooning while the men
+accompanied with the rhythmic grunt, which ever leads to hysterical
+exaltation.
+
+The sun was dipping. They might come for him at any moment. He watched the
+sentry and contemplated making a rush, taking a venture on the man's bad
+aim and unsteady hand. They would not follow him far in the dark for dread
+of the spirits that walk by night. The only alternative to suicide was the
+river, in flood and full of crocodiles, a slender chance. He determined to
+try it. He considered making the attempt then. But the darker the better;
+they would more easily miss. At any risk he must never let them get their
+hands upon him. He drew himself together, flexing his limbs for a leap and
+a rush, anxiously observing the chanting crowd around the fire in the
+sunset glow.
+
+The leashes of discipline were fraying. The sentry still plodded up and
+down, but with a rolling eye for his companions. The working of his mind
+was revealed when he walked round tying knots in the long grass which, as
+every Munyamwezi knows, is a sure method to prevent a prisoner's escape;
+then he halted in front of Birnier, grinned, and pointed to the fire;
+evidently he knew or had heard that an orgy was coming. The man stood and
+watched him. Fearful that the fellow was about to drag him over or suggest
+that the victim be seized, if only in order to release him from his
+irksome duty, Birnier snatched up the cigarette lying in the grass and
+asked for a light to distract the man's attention. The sentry shook his
+head and pointed to the fire. Hastily Birnier searched his pockets for a
+match; recollected that he had used the last, and took out a small tin box
+of wax vestas wrapped in oiled silk which he kept as a reserve in a
+special pouch of his belt. In the very act of striking the match Birnier
+ejaculated: "God!"
+
+"Nini?" demanded the sentry.
+
+"I burned myself," returned Birnier.
+
+"Nothing to what you will soon!" retorted the nigger, grinning, made an
+obscene suggestion and swaggered across to the fire.
+
+Birnier cursed his own stupidity as he thought swiftly. If Mungongo and
+the others ran at the same time the numbers would confuse the soldiers the
+more. He spoke across to Mungongo in the Wongolo dialect, hoping that the
+Munyamwezi would not understand.
+
+"Let thy heart be like unto the bullet of my big gun, and obey me! When I
+throw up in the air this cigarette, thou shalt run and plunge into the
+river, but not into the depth; lie hidden in the reeds of the bank until
+thou shalt hear a frog croak thrice and then once. Come out and go to the
+frog, and be not afraid, for thou shalt see me in the spirit form. Dost
+understand?"
+
+"Truly, my master!"
+
+"Tell the washenzie that they also obey or shall my spirit eat them up as
+it shall these children of dung!"
+
+"Truly, master!"
+
+Birnier glanced at the horizon. The shadows had melted into the violet
+twilight, which in equatorial Africa is almost as short as the snuffing of
+a candle. The stars were popping out. Dusky forms were circling round the
+yellow of the fire which threw pale flickers on the figure of Corporal
+Inyira, revealing the beginning of the hysterical gleam in the yellows of
+his eyes as, reverting to habit, he squatted on his haunches in the chair.
+They might make a rush for the victims at any moment. The sentry,
+excitement overcoming discipline, was, rifle still in hand, dancing round
+the outskirts of the throng.
+
+Birnier threw the cigarette towards Mungongo. As he dived round the thorn
+bush he heard the rustle of movement and the "boy's" gasped exclamation to
+the others. The bank of the river was not fifteen yards away. On the brink
+Birnier crouched and listened. He heard a splash a little to the right,
+which was Mungongo or one of the others literally obeying his
+instructions.
+
+The mosquitoes buzzed and stung in clouds. A cricket shrilled persistently
+above the chorus of the frogs and the throb of the hand-drum and the
+chanting. The sentry had not yet discovered the flight; he was probably
+drunker than Birnier had guessed. By raising himself on his hands he could
+see the gleam of the fire and the inverted V of the tent through the
+scrub. He hesitated whether to begin operations immediately or wait until
+after they had discovered the flight and were further intoxicated. Yet the
+excitement of the loss of the prisoner might sober them a little, Birnier
+reflected. No, it did not matter even if they were completely sober. The
+spirits of the night would be perhaps more real to them then than when
+they were drugged by alcohol. Yet he would wait. They might come as far as
+the river with lanterns and should he be compelled to take to the water he
+would have to take the risk of crocodiles seizing him. Almost had he begun
+to curse the askaris for being so slow, when a rifle cracked and a bullet
+hummed over his head.
+
+He scrambled hastily down the bank, thinking for a moment that he had been
+spotted. But it must have been a random shot. The chanting ceased. A
+hoarse shout from the sentry was echoed by uproar from the others.
+
+Birnier crawled up the bank cautiously and peered. He could not see well,
+for one eye was nearly closed by mosquito bites, but he could make out
+vague forms passing and repassing across the glow of the fire. Lights
+glimmered. Amid shouts and yells, figures began to advance towards the
+river. Whether the water was deep or shallow he could not know; only could
+he make out in the sheen of the stars a dark patch of reed or bushes for
+some yards. He slid down the slope as noiselessly as possible, although
+the pursuers were making noise enough to scare all the spirits in Africa.
+He sank to his chest, standing on stones. He waded out a little, buried
+his head and shoulders behind a half-submerged bush, and remained still.
+
+For some time he could only hear the shouts and yells. He kept the water
+up to his chin and continuously splashed his face in the endeavour to
+slacken the efforts of the mosquitoes. The cries approached. He saw men
+outlined against the stars and then some gleams of lanterns. Something
+stirred ponderously near to him. It might be a crocodile, but he dared not
+move. The figures seemed to stay on the top of the bank for hours. He
+remained rigid, expecting a swirl of water and teeth.
+
+Suddenly a spurt of flame shot out above him and was followed by a
+fusillade of shots in the direction of up river. Had they spotted Mungongo
+or were they merely letting drive at a bush or the spirits in general? The
+latter was most probable. The water swirled near to him. All his will
+power was required not to leap frantically for the bank. Yet a crocodile
+would be far more merciful than those black devils. Again a swirl and
+something passed close to him at high speed. Probably an otter scared by
+the firing; at any rate it was not a crocodile. The lights and figures on
+the bank disappeared.
+
+Shots rang out again, and were followed by a wild outburst of yelling.
+Birnier began to wade for the bank, continually splashing water at the
+mosquitoes which were so thick that they reminded him of the bayou
+Lafourche in far-off Louisiana. Crouching, he waited on the edge of the
+bank to listen. The corporal might have had enough sense to post men in
+the grass. Yet he might be too fuddled to think of that, and no native
+would willingly stay there in the dark, unless under white discipline.
+Voices still muttered, but they sounded as if from the camp. Had they
+given him up for the night, relying on the chance that if he had not been
+taken by a crocodile they could trail him in the morning? Probably.
+
+Birnier squatted in the water, ready to plunge back, until he was sure
+they were in camp. Then as cautiously he crawled up the bank. Through the
+scrub with his uninjured eye he could make out the figures around the
+yellow of the fire which had gone down considerably. Now what would they
+do? He could hear the mumble of the corporal's voice. Would they be
+sufficiently sobered to be ready for the chase in the morning? Birnier did
+not think so with that case of brandy there; the corporal would not, at
+all events. There was a scream of pain and the chatter of women's voices.
+
+Was the corporal punishing the sentry for having let the prisoners escape,
+or were they beginning to fight among themselves? The latter was
+improbable, as non-commissioned officers are usually chosen from petty
+chiefs and the men under them, as far as possible, from their own village.
+Had they captured Mungongo or one of the others? Birnier listened again.
+Another scream was stoppered to a groan.
+
+"Devils!" muttered Birnier. Lying flat to watch the grass and shrub tops
+against the stars, he gave the frog croaks arranged, at intervals of ten
+seconds. About five minutes later he saw some grass tops quiver
+unnaturally. He croaked again. Came a whisper:
+
+"Is it thee, Infunyana?" (a name given in reference to Birnier's gold
+fillings).
+
+"Aye." A dark form glided towards him. "Where are the other men?"
+
+"I know not. I told them as thou hadst told me to do. When thou didst give
+the sign, I fled and plunged into the river."
+
+"Thou wast not frightened of the crocodiles?"
+
+"Nay; for I have a mighty charm against all river beasts, enchanted by
+Bakahenzie, the greatest of magicians."
+
+"Ehh!" commented Birnier, contorting his swollen lips in the dark, "would
+that I had such an one! Thinkest thou that the men did as they were
+bidden?"
+
+"Who knows what is in the heart of a goat?" returned Mungongo
+contemptuously, for they were of another tribe.
+
+"Ah, listen!"
+
+The mutter of the hand-drum grew swifter as a high tenor chanted to the
+accompaniment of the abdominal grunting and the laryngeal shrilling:
+
+ "We have come from afar from the Place of the waters!
+ From the place where dwells the mighty Eater-of-Men!
+ Hard was the road as the hills of Kilimanjaro!
+ Hot was the sun as the wrath of Inyira the bold!
+                The son of Banyala!
+                Ough! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Ough!
+                E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!
+
+ But strong are we still as the trunk of an elephant!
+ For have we not walked in the shade of a great chief!
+ Blacker and fiercer than the male rhinoceros!
+ Swifter and more terrible than the mother of whelps?
+                The son of Banyala!
+                Ough! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Ough!
+                E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!
+
+ What hath he given us to tickle our spears?
+ A dainty white dog whose meat is so tender!
+ Fattened and groomed by the Eater-of-Men!
+ A gift from the great Chief to his ally and friend.
+                The son of Banyala!
+                Ough! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Ough!
+                E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!
+
+ We will tickle his white flesh with the tongue of our spears!
+ Our women shall pluck out his hair and his manhood!
+ He shall dance to our liking in the midst of the fire!
+ His girl screams for mercy shall lave hungry ears of ----!
+                The son of Banyala!
+                Ough! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Ough!
+                E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!
+
+ Great was the gift of the great Eater-of-Men!
+ A white slave so sleek to dance the dance of the ants!
+ Eh! We'll slit up his nostrils and pull out his hairs!
+ A white slave and four black ones to wait on one great chief!
+                The son of Banyala!
+                Ough! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Ough!
+                E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h!
+
+"Those children of folly have not obeyed," whispered Birnier. "The time is
+come.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Wait here for me, O Mungongo. I go to take my spirit form. When I
+return be not afraid!"
+
+"Truly," answered Mungongo, as Birnier crawled away and down the bank. By
+the water's edge he swiftly stripped himself to his moccasins and taking
+out the wax vestas, damped each precious one and carefully rubbed lines
+over his face and body, endeavouring to get the most distinctive
+phosphorescent effect around the eyes. Leaving his clothes he crawled back
+to Mungongo.
+
+"Ehh!" exclaimed Mungongo in a muffled scream when he saw the glowing
+apparition. Birnier heard the rustle of grass. As the boy stood up to run
+he leaped and pulled him down savagely.
+
+"Be quiet, thou fool!" he whispered. "It is I. Be silent!"
+
+"Eh! Eh!" gasped Mungongo, who was trembling violently.
+
+"If thou dost not be quiet will I tie up thy heart," threatened Birnier.
+
+Mungongo continued to quiver, but he remained passive.
+
+"Eh! Eh!" he gasped, "truly thou art a more mighty magician than
+Bakahenzie."
+
+"Be quiet!"
+
+The drums and the song were still going and the chant had become more
+obscene.
+
+"Follow me!" whispered Birnier, when Mungongo was more reassured.
+
+They made a detour. As they drew near they could hear muffled screams and
+groans beneath the howl of the chorus and song. The mighty son of Banyala
+and his merry men were so engrossed in the orgy that Birnier could have
+walked right up to the fire before anyone would have seen him. But he
+would not take any unnecessary risk. Leaving Mungongo outside he crawled
+under the back flap of the tent. Crouched there he paused. The tent was
+empty; for all were engaged in the dance. His two shot-guns and two light
+rifles were stacked in the corner and the big express which the corporal
+had appropriated, leaned against the tent door behind the chair. He
+glanced hurriedly around for ammunition, but he could not see any open,
+and he had left his belt of cartridges with his clothes. Outside the men
+and women were circling in contrary directions, each with a spear, a knife
+or a firebrand in hand, around the fire beside which, trussed like bundles
+of faggots, were the four servants, their feet singeing on the outside hot
+ashes.
+
+For a second Birnier hesitated. He could not know whether any of the guns
+was loaded. The fire was of glowing embers which did not throw much light
+into the tent. Swiftly Birnier rose and glided into his own chair in the
+deep shadow of the tent flap. Then summoning all his nerve he uttered a
+yell and began to shout the first song which he could recollect:
+
+  "Hurrah! Hurrahhhhhhh! It is the Jubileeeee!
+  Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that set you free!"
+
+The native minstrel stopped in the middle of his chant; the whole
+shuffling, grunting crowd was petrified in as many different poses.
+Birnier leaped to his feet waving his arms wildly, yelling:
+
+  "Thus we sang the chor-uss from Atlanta to the Sea-aa!
+  As we {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}"
+
+But before he had gotten to "Georgia," only the prostrate forms around the
+fire had not fled.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 10
+
+
+On the morning of Birnier's departure there was much movement in Ingonya
+station. Every sign of preparation for the expedition had been carefully
+concealed while a stranger was in the vicinity. Trumpets blared
+importantly. On the great parade ground companies were formed, long lines
+of rigid, ebon figures, down which strolled zu Pfeiffer inspecting
+personally kits and rifles. Afterwards they were drawn up before the
+flag-pole. In an address zu Pfeiffer informed them that they served under
+a greater Bwana than he, the greatest Bwana in the countries of the white
+or the black, who was the son of Ngai (an uncertain term meaning "son of
+God" or the "son of nobody"); that the flag they bore, the brother of the
+big one upon the pole, was so powerful in magic that none could withstand
+it, the Totem of the Bwana Mkubwa Kuba. No wives were allowed for black or
+white, and he himself set them the example; for they were embarking on a
+war expedition to take a country which they knew was full of ivory, cattle
+and women.
+
+The row upon row of eyes in black faces bulged, as from the mass came the
+long grunt of assent and allegiance. The three white sergeants barked at
+their various companies, which wheeled into column formation and marched
+past zu Pfeiffer beneath the flag in review order, their alignment and
+precision a credit to their drill masters. Down below the fort on the
+mouth of the bayou Sergeant Ludwig superintended the overhauling of the
+steam-launch, and a native sergeant and a file of men overseered lines of
+carriers bearing white men's provisions, the bulk of which was zu
+Pfeiffer's personal supplies. Around the launch was a flotilla of native
+canoes in charge of a small crowd of nude Kavirondo paddlers, jabbering at
+the prospect of a war expedition.
+
+Most of the day zu Pfeiffer spent in the orderly room going over documents
+and giving detailed instructions to the grizzled Sergeant Schneider, who
+was to take over the station with fifty of the least competent men,
+pending the arrival of an officer, which again would depend upon the
+success of the expedition. In zu Pfeiffer's manner was evident the
+controlled excitement of a boy on the eve of a house match, and indeed for
+him it was the game for which he was bred and lived, "das Kriegspiel."
+Perpetually his long fingers caressed the sentry moustaches; an unusual
+glitter was in his blue eyes.
+
+The personality of Birnier had been apparently wiped from his mind as a
+spoor in the sand by rain; indeed in addition to the competing excitement
+of the expedition, the previous night's alcoholic and sentimental debauch
+had served to exhaust the emotions stimulated by jealousy. To him had
+appeared an obstruction in his emotional life in the shape of the husband
+of the woman whom he adored; therefore, according to his nature and
+training, he had endeavoured to remove that obstacle as swiftly and as
+efficiently as possible. Superlative confidence in himself, reflected in
+his pride of family and nationality, the apotheosis of which was the
+Kaiser, enabled him to devote all his energies to the business in hand,
+never doubting that his interpretation of native psychology would ensure
+the extinction of his adversary.
+
+Beyond the mere joy of the game of war was present the fundamental impulse
+to win the approval of the All Highest by gaining another place in the sun
+as well as the half-suppressed conviction that such a distinction would
+naturally further his suit in love. In the orbit of these two poles
+revolved the life actions of zu Pfeiffer.
+
+That evening zu Pfeiffer dined as leisurely and as sumptuously as usual;
+drank his port and smoked his cigar while his servants packed the last of
+his kitchen battery. Then at the first green of the moon he gave the order
+to march.
+
+The three companies of askaris fell in, marched down to the bayou and
+embarked without fuss or confusion, each group under a non-commissioned
+officer to the appointed canoe.
+
+The launch laboured busily out of the bayou past misty reed-girt islands
+into the indolent waters of the great lake, dragging after her the fleet
+of forty odd canoes. A cigar under the awning of the tiny poop suggested a
+great firefly in the blue shadows, where lounged zu Pfeiffer with his
+favourite brandy and seltzer at his elbow.
+
+Resembling an enormous water-fowl leading a strange black brood, the
+launch towed the flotilla through the night. A war chant pulsed like a
+fevered heart as the moon upon her back lazily chased the stars into the
+dawn upon her way to her home in the Mountains of the Moon, to be in turn
+extinguished by a furious sun. And all that day, while incandescent heat
+tried to boil illimitable waters, the strange fowl waddled on with her
+noxious brood. Huddled in the cramped canoes the soldiers slept and
+snuffed and sang, to which zu Pfeiffer contentedly listened beneath the
+awning. Three times grey walls of falling water enveloped them, sending
+frantic black hands to bailing. Once more the moon made the skies to
+laugh. When the sun had played his part of a flaming Nemesis, a fringe
+grew upon the horizon like the stubble upon a white man's chin.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer had calculated to arrive at the village of Timballa just
+within the river at sundown. The headman came down to the strand to meet
+them. Immediately he was seized, and the soldiers, as joyous and as
+mischievous as children released from school, surrounded the village.
+
+Sitting in full uniform upon the poop of the launch, together with the two
+sergeants, zu Pfeiffer held a shauri and demanded sufficient paddlers to
+man his forty canoes. The headman, to whom all white men were alike,
+thought they were British and hastened to proffer his services, promising
+that the Bwana should have the men within two days. Zu Pfeiffer curtly
+ordered him to procure them before the sun was overhead on the next day;
+and to insure that he was obeyed, detained him as hostage and forbade any
+man to pass his line of pickets around the village. The old man protested
+that they had not sufficient men in the village, but zu Pfeiffer's spies
+had afforded him practically correct information. He gave the headman the
+right to send a number of messengers, each accompanied by a soldier, to
+the neighbouring villages and promised him fifty lashes and to rase his
+village, if the paddlers were not forthcoming.
+
+Solely because he wished to give his men time to recover from their
+stiffness did he not insist upon starting that night upon the river trip.
+As a good commander he considered his men from every point of view of
+efficiency. They loved him. He was a warrior chief as they understood such
+to be; carefully he fostered their warrior pride; never were they ordered
+to work at menial offices, to fetch or to carry; only to drill and to
+fight; his punishments were ferocious, but he gave them liberty in pillage
+and rape. Eh! but the Eater-of-Men was a mighty chief! and of his name
+they boasted to every man.
+
+With foresight he had demanded twice as many men as he needed, knowing
+that the panic-stricken chief would round up the halt, the blind, and the
+sick. By an hour after the stipulated time they were assembled in the
+village, a motley crew. Those of the most powerful physique he selected to
+man the soldiers' canoes, and the next in competency he allotted to the
+baggage canoes.
+
+They started immediately. They made about two and a half miles an hour,
+for although the river was swollen it was sluggish and slow streamed,
+tortuous. Each canoe load of soldiers was made responsible for the
+paddlers and the speed was set by zu Pfeiffer in a large canoe with
+Sakamata as guide. Never had those paddlers driven canoes so speedily and
+persistently. At sundown they halted in a convenient bend where there was
+no village near; pickets were set on the bank and no other man allowed to
+land, no lights and no talking. They were ordered to rest.
+
+At the first glint of the moon they started again. The canoes were hauled
+by the aid of the soldiers over the slight rapids which divided the river
+into pools in the dry season. Throughout the night the misty forest and
+swamp slipped by to the perpetual rhythm of the paddles. About the hour of
+the monkey a hippopotamus charged the flotilla and upset two boats. Zu
+Pfeiffer forbade any shooting, nor would he permit the expedition a
+moment's delay to pick up the occupants. Just as they heard the distant
+crowing of cocks from the village for which they were bound, four paddlers
+collapsed. The soldiers, acting on their own initiative, threw them
+overboard to swim if they could, and took the paddles themselves.
+Afterwards they were thrashed for disobedience to orders in having given a
+possible chance for one of the men to escape to warn the Wongolo. At an
+hour after sunrise they arrived at the village. The majority of the
+paddlers were so exhausted that they dropped in the canoes and had to be
+thrown ashore, where they lay inert, their backs, bloody with the urgent
+bayonet pricks, caking in the sun.
+
+Beyond this point the river was not navigable, but the village was upon
+the Wongolo border and within two days or fifteen hours' continuous march
+of MFunya MPopo's (as zu Pfeiffer knew it). Zu Pfeiffer adopted the same
+tactics to procure porters. But to the chief, in case he should require
+his services again, he gave an extravagant present and left bales of cloth
+for the carriers upon their return. Zu Pfeiffer and Sergeant Ludwig
+travelled in machilas (hammocks) each with a crew of six; the soldiers
+carried nothing save their rifles, double cartridge belts, a day's
+rations; the pick of the carriers bore ammunition and the two Nordenfeldts
+and two pom-poms slung upon poles, and the chop boxes; the men's blankets
+and the heavy stuff were to follow more slowly under Sergeant Schultz and
+fifty men. The country between this village and MFunya MPopo's was mostly
+forest and very sparsely inhabited, which afforded some shade and
+concealment, and lessened the risk of a warning being given.
+
+The expedition started at noon. The carriers were kept on the native
+shuffling lope by the aid of attentions from the askaris. Two unfortunate
+small villages which lay on the line of march were surrounded and the
+inhabitants massacred. Twenty porters collapsed; they were bayoneted to
+prevent any chance of a successful ruse in escaping to give the alarm, and
+their loads given to relay men brought for that purpose. The column halted
+at sundown. The men ate their rations, but the carriers were too exhausted
+to eat; they drank water and lay prostrate. According to Sakamata they
+were within two hands' breadth of the moon of Kawa Kendi's.
+
+In full uniform of white, girded with sword and revolver, zu Pfeiffer ate,
+drank, and smoked cigars until the forest roof was patterned against the
+cold pallor of the moon. Then, after giving final instructions to Sergeant
+Ludwig and the various native non-commissioned officers, he ordered the
+jabbering men to march, with the carriers staggering on at the point of
+the bayonet.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 11
+
+
+The doom pronounced by the Council of Witch-Doctors was to Bakuma and all
+concerned as a Bull of Excommunication in mediaeval Europe. MYalu was the
+one who exhibited the most emotion. Had he not paid seven tusks of good
+ivory to have the object of his passion placed under the most terrible
+tabu? Against Marufa, who had seemingly betrayed him, was his anger
+directed. But the rage of MYalu was tempered with fear. A man had not
+merely to kill an enemy: he had also to appease his justly wrathful ghost;
+and who knew what the disembodied spirit of the most powerful magician in
+the land, save Bakahenzie, could do! Moreover, no other wizard would give
+him absolution in the form of the magic of purification. A chief though he
+be; he dared not slay a magician. He sought Marufa and found him as usual
+squatting on his threshold contemplating infinity in a mud wall. He
+saluted Marufa politely, choking back words of bitter recrimination, for
+if he even offended him, the wizard might cast a spell upon him instantly.
+Marufa returned the greeting as courteously as ever. When at length MYalu
+reproachfully reminded him of the seven tusks which he had paid apparently
+to secure his love's terrible fate, Marufa replied uninterestedly:
+
+"I have done that for which thou hast paid."
+
+"What man buyeth a bride for another?" retorted MYalu.
+
+"When I did make magic upon 'the things' did I place in the power of the
+spirits the owner. Behold, hath not the owner of 'the things' been
+accursed?"
+
+"Ehh!" gasped MYalu. "But how may that be? Didst thou not thyself take the
+paring and the hair?"
+
+"I bade the One who is tabu to bring them that he might be bewitched to
+her girdle. She thought to deceive me by bringing that which was of
+herself."
+
+"E--eh!" muttered MYalu, impressed at the awful effect of deceiving a
+wizard. Marufa continued to stare. MYalu meditated ruefully.
+
+"But the tusks," murmured MYalu at length dismally.
+
+"It is not I who have two tongues," responded Marufa indifferently.
+
+And with that MYalu had to rest content. Marufa indeed had no interest at
+all in the passions of Zalu Zako, MYalu and Bakuma. Merely the time had
+come for the witch-doctors to choose the victim for the Harvest Festival:
+Bakuma was young and good looking, a dainty morsel that should please the
+taste of the officiating doctors, and her owner and uncle was a man of no
+importance: so accordingly he had made known the sin of her name through
+the divination.
+
+In the solitude of his own hut upon the hill Zalu Zako sat and pondered
+sulkily. His young and fierce temper was stimulated and the seed of
+rebellion against the domination of the priesthood was quickened by the
+fate of his new love; although the masonic secrets of the craft were
+denied to him, he, as son of the royal house, was suspicious of the powers
+of the Unmentionable One and the priesthood, as many an one had been
+before him; yet in spite of that the verdict was absolute, for he was too
+crushed by terror of the consequences to permit of any hope of annulling
+it.
+
+The fiat not only doomed Bakuma to a terrible death at the third blooming
+of the moon, but from that very instant the tabu came into force; for
+being thus accursed by the possession of two sounds of the sacred name,
+she was deemed unholy. Her half-sisters and their mother, with whom Bakuma
+shared the hut, fled to another and were exorcised by the wizard, which,
+as everybody knows, is an expensive ceremony; gourds and pots, spoons and
+utensils of all sorts, were left to the sole use of the unclean one and
+would be burned upon her demise. A magic line was drawn around the hut out
+of which the soul of the girl as she slept could not escape to bewitch
+anybody. Neither her name nor anything that had been hers would be ever
+mentioned again; any word of a household article or any thing or beast
+which had one syllable of the name "Bakuma" was changed, lest the user be
+accursed and bewitched.
+
+For the whole day, in this isolation, sat the girl Bakuma, Marufa's
+useless love charm clutched in her hand, as bewildered as if the earth had
+suddenly turned inside out under this fact so stupendous and stupefying.
+She did not weep. She squatted in the door, her eyes staring with the
+glazed inquiring expression of a dying gazelle, a bronze question to Fate.
+At the feeding time her mother threw her bananas into the circle. Bakuma
+looked at them as they flopped near to her as if she did not realize what
+they were. She made no stir to cook or prepare them. The cool twilight
+came and passed like a blue breath. Above the insectile chorus of the
+night beneath the crystal stars came the faint thrumming of a drum from
+MKoffo's hill. The sound of music and dancing reminded Bakuma of her
+ambitious dreams. She could neither weep nor wail; she merely emitted a
+faint gasping sound. But her mind began to work jerkily, yet more
+fluently. Visions of the form of Zalu Zako were weaved and spun in the
+darkness: the lithe walk of him, the haughty carriage of the head. Slowly
+greened the sky until the banana fronds were etched in sepia against the
+swollen moon. The dismal croak of the Baroto bird shattered the black
+cocoon of Bakuma's mind.
+
+"Aie-eee! the foul bird of my despair!" she wailed, and at last wept. Then
+she rose and flitted like some green ghost into the plantation and across
+to the place of water where her lover had first spoken her sweet, recking
+naught in her mist of despair of spirits of the night nor of the breaking
+of the magic circle. The moon spattered the squatted form with blue
+spangles and turned the falling tears to quivering opals. Bakuma broke
+into wild lament.
+
+  "The black Goat hath cried three times in my hut!
+  My soul hath wandered and been caught in a trap!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  A wizard hath stolen a hair from my head!
+  The beak of Baroto pecketh my gall!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  A rival hath lain in wait for my love!
+  She hath slain my bird in the nest of his breast!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  A porcupine dwells in the place of my heart!
+  The bird of my soul is fluttering faint!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  An ember of fire hath entered my mouth!
+  The milk of my breasts is curdled to-night!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  The strings of my bosom are tied with fine knots!
+  My belly is void! My nipples are dead!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  A monkey hath bitten the back of my tongue!
+  Hath stolen my breath to make magic by night!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  The blood in my veins hath turned to sour porridge!
+  My throat is choked up by the sudd of the Lake!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  A grey forest rat hath swallowed my heart!
+  My thighs have been scratched by a poisonous thorn!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeee!"
+
+As the last quiver of the wail blended with the anthem of the forest came
+from a figure squatted above the ford of the river, his spear a blue flame
+in the moonlight, an answer:
+
+  "My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her flesh will be tasted by a hungrier mouth!
+  Her flesh which is sweeter than honey and wine!
+  Her flesh which is softer than a newly born kid!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!
+
+  My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her breasts will be pillowed by a much broader chest!
+  Her breasts which do swell like a tender young gourd!
+  Her breasts which are as firm as the meat of the plum!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!"
+
+And answered Bakuma's wail:
+
+                 "Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
+
+  "My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her chines will be gripped by a far fiercer hand!
+  Her chines which are smoother than elephants' tusks!
+  Her chines which are as plump as the breast of a fowl!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her eyes will be touched by longer fingers than mine!
+  Her eyes which are like unto moons veiled by rain!
+  Her eyes which are like the starlit river at dawn!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her scent will be drunk by nostrils broader than mine!
+  Her scent which is pungent and sweet like the smoke!
+  Her scent which slakes thirst more than driest of beer!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her breath will be sipped by a thirstier throat!
+  Her breath which is hotter than the flame of a fire!
+  Her breath which makes more drunken than enemies' blood!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
+
+  My love hath been taken by a greater than I!
+  Her voice will be heard by ears mightier than mine!
+  Her voice which is like unto burbling beer!
+  Her voice which is gentler than the rustle of fronds!
+                 Ough! My spear is bent!
+                 Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
+
+A slight breeze stirred gently the trees. The crickets shrilled their
+perpetual chorus. A crocodile flopped in the river. Dogs yapped from a
+village down the river. Again Bakuma lifted up her voice:
+
+  "Mightier than elephants was the tread of my man!
+  Keener than a leopard was the flash of his eye!
+  Stronger than an oak tree was the strength of his arm!
+  Swifter than lightning was the stroke of his spear!
+                 Enemies died!
+
+  Taller than the wine palm was the height of my man!
+  Broader than the temple was the span of his chest!
+  More graceful than antelope was the carriage of him!
+  More slender than saplings was the build of his legs!
+                 Women lamented!
+
+  Sweeter than warm honey was the scent of my man!
+  Whiter than a spear flash was the gleam of his teeth!
+  Fiercer than scorpions was the grip of his hand!
+  Smooth and like stone was----"
+
+A gale of yells and shots destroyed the song of Bakuma like a foot
+crushing a flower.
+
+Zalu Zako leaped to his feet and stood for a moment listening intently.
+Across the river some strange beast spat spears of red flames. A little
+farther down another beast coughed violently like a hippopotamus. The sky
+seemed falling. Such volumes of sound he had never heard before.
+
+As he raced with the speed of a koodoo through the plantation he saw the
+glow of fire ahead and heard the moan of some terrible monster near him.
+He leaped five feet in the air as the world appeared to crack in half
+beside him. He felt a sting like a brand of fire in his shoulder, but he
+ran on towards the village from whence fled dim figures on all sides amid
+shouts and screams and wailing.
+
+Several huts were already blazing. The leviathan coughed and moaned again
+and once more the earth seemed to crash to pieces near him. Appalled and
+bewildered, choking with rage, he reached the outer enclosure where his
+fellow warriors were shouting and yelling that the white gods were
+attacking. Bakahenzie, gun in hand, was bidding them charge they knew not
+what. Then out of the clutter of the village broke line upon line of
+yelling figures clothed in uniform. Screaming the battle-cry, the warriors
+charged, led by Zalu Zako, Bakahenzie, and Kawa Kendi, who in the
+excitement had dashed from the enclosure. Howls and yells were drowned in
+the spiteful crackle and cough. Warriors were mown like weeds under a
+sickle. Scarce a hundred scrambled inside the enclosure at the rallying
+call from Bakahenzie.
+
+Again came a short rush of those uniformed figures; again scarlet spears
+pierced the green moonlight like a hailstorm; small red flames rippled in
+a line resembling a forest fire as the soldiers charged through and over
+the palisade. Hand to hand was the fighting, spear and sword against
+bayonet and rifle around the idol, the askaris outyelling the warriors.
+The temple was on fire. In the light of the flames they saw a tall figure
+in white with a glow of fire in his mouth and magic eyes upon his hands,
+eyes which flashed rays of scarlet and blue as he cut and hacked at the
+base of the idol.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+"Tarum hath come!" screamed some one, and as the cry was taken up, the
+Unmentionable One tottered and crashed to the ground.
+
+They fled, Zalu Zako, Bakahenzie and those that were left.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 12
+
+
+The village of Yagonyana, the son of Zahilazaan, was situated some five
+days' march to the north-west of Kawa Kendi's, in open cattle country near
+the fringe of the forest. Here were gathered nearly every witch-doctor and
+warrior of the tribe. Most of the women, children, and slaves had been
+sent still farther to the west, driving the cattle before them.
+
+Bakahenzie, Zalu Zako, Marufa, and all those warriors who had escaped from
+the massacre by zu Pfeiffer were distinguished from their brethren by
+circles of yellow earth around each left eye, and each right breast and
+arm was smeared with red, which is part of the ceremony of magic
+purification for those who have slain, lest, as is well known, the ghost
+of the dead wreak their wrath upon their slayers.
+
+The affairs of the tribe were in a parlous state. The netting of the tabu
+had been tangled by the death of the King-God, Kawa Kendi, and the
+unprecedented act of the overthrow of the idol. Kawa Kendi's body, which
+had not been recovered so that the doctors could release his unhappy soul,
+might be used to make more magic against the tribe.
+
+For three weeks there had been much discussion among the doctors, the
+chiefs, and the people. Opinions were at variance; no two men could agree.
+Lesser wizards, who before had been content with the perquisites of the
+smaller offices, were now made drunken by the insecurity of Bakahenzie's
+position. Each of the doctors, seeing a chance to prove his superior merit
+and win Bakahenzie's post as chief doctor, had busily made magic to
+destroy the usurper, and each and every one provided a different reason
+for the failure thereof. Every day came news of the doings of the white
+god with eyes upon his hands, of shootings and floggings, of the burning
+of the village including the idol, the temple, and the sacred tombs of
+MFunya MPopo, of MKoffo, of MZrakombinyana, and other kings before them.
+
+The council of the craft could not even decide whether Zalu Zako was to be
+King-God or not. Bakahenzie, whose interest lay in supporting the dynasty
+of the present royal family, maintained that he should be anointed
+forthwith. But with the downfall of the idol and his own impotence to make
+successful magic, Bakahenzie's prestige had been badly shaken; no longer
+dared he issue dicta autocratically. As ever, political ambition tore
+patriotism to shreds.
+
+Marufa, former close ally of Bakahenzie, but lacking his active principle,
+continued to mutter incantations most impressively by himself, waiting
+cautiously to see which side of the river the arrow fell. Bakahenzie
+became seriously alarmed at the growth of Yabolo's faction and the
+indifference of Marufa. He knew well that submission would entail the loss
+of his post as well as his worldly goods; and he was aware that all men
+knew that his most potent and strenuous magic had failed as utterly as
+that of the youngest novice in the craft. His only chance to retrieve a
+portion of his lost reputation was to invent a more plausible excuse for
+failure than any other doctor had done. He did.
+
+Although he did not know that Bakuma had broken the magic circle of her
+own volition, he had the shrewd imagination to suggest that she had either
+fled with the other women during the attack or that, even if she had
+stayed, the askaris would have taken her from the hut. Therefore did he
+demand an assembly of the craft and chiefs. One of the reasons, if not the
+reason, of Bakahenzie's success, as of other witch-doctors before, such as
+Savonarola, had been a faculty, inspired by, or derived from, hysterical
+epilepsy, of working himself up at will into a state of convulsion without
+actual loss of consciousness and the spectacular exhibition of foam, which
+no other sorcerer had been able to simulate so successfully. Therefore
+Bakahenzie invoked the great Tarum (apotheosis of ancestors' spirits) who,
+through the convulsed body, did proclaim that the disaster had been caused
+by the breaking of the magic circle by one whose name was accursed; and
+that only could the magic of Bakahenzie be made potent, and the consequent
+overthrow of the Eyes-in-the-hands be assured, by the sacrifice of the
+victim to her destiny as the Bride of the Banana.
+
+Marufa, appreciating the shrewdness of this move, immediately abandoned
+his incantations to reassume his allegiance to the cause of Bakahenzie.
+The prophecy was hailed by nearly every one as a most timely excuse for
+the failure of magic in general. The miraculous recall of the
+Unmentionable One now seemed so easy of accomplishment through the person
+of Bakuma that many of those who had sided with Yabolo deserted him,
+foreseeing the renewed ascendancy of Bakahenzie and fearing his wrath.
+
+Yabolo, however, made an attempt to recover the lost adherents by
+protesting that the Moon of the Harvest Festival had not yet come, and
+that therefore victory could not be obtained until two more moons had
+waned. But MYalu saw that by submitting to the new god he might be able to
+have removed the tabu upon Bakuma--all things were possible to one who had
+overthrown the Unmentionable One--and thus obtain her by the price of
+submission; also he might possibly recover his wealth of ivory abandoned
+after the massacre. Therefore did he with his people go over to the Yabolo
+faction.
+
+Uproar and confusion ensued. Bakahenzie recovered from his trance with
+unprecedented rapidity and even did not require to be told what the spirit
+of Tarum had said through his lips. The tribe was split into fiercer
+factions than ever. They argued and screamed and cursed. Bakahenzie had
+lost the hold over them; for as the god, of which he was the sponsor, was
+dead, his credit had gone too. He dared no longer to remove a troublesome
+brother or chief by magic. His only hope was to restore the god: so to
+that end he declared that Zalu Zako must be anointed King-God. Uproar
+arose once more. But Bakahenzie's purpose had been served; he had diverted
+their attention from the subject of submission.
+
+From time to time came terrified runners with horrific stories of the
+burning of villages, of massacre and rapine. Bakahenzie, determined not to
+yield, secretly dispatched a slave to Eyes-in-the-hands with an arrow
+which is a sign of war; Yabolo, whose mind ran in the same tracts, sent a
+banana which is a sign of peace. In the meantime factions grew and
+multiplied. One chief counselled his followers to take their cattle and
+women and seek to conquer another tribe to the south-west; another wished
+to go west. But each and every follower began to bargain with his chief
+for disproportionate rewards for service. Two chiefs and five hundred men
+started to the south-west, but they returned because they had met in their
+path the skeleton of a slain elephant, which is, as everybody knows, a
+sure sign of disaster.
+
+Bakahenzie sent runners far and wide to discover Bakuma. As she could not
+be found he concluded that she had been killed or taken as a slave and
+urged the warriors to fight. Zalu Zako immediately desired the anointing
+to be delayed in order that he should not be debarred from fighting.
+Bakahenzie, none too sure of his authority, was compelled to acquiesce.
+Marufa, observing that the arrow was still in the air, took to his
+non-committal incantations again. Bakahenzie strove to keep the warriors
+and chiefs occupied by dissension until the result of his challenge to
+battle should mature. Yabolo, equally perturbed for his influence, did
+exactly the same with the banana in view.
+
+Yabolo and MYalu contemplated going in to make submission, but the former
+wished to negotiate through Sakamata for the best terms, although he tried
+to persuade MYalu to go; but MYalu was suspicious and would not do so
+without Yabolo. But at the hour of the monkey one morning came a terrified
+goatherd crying news that cut the tangled threads of their intrigues as a
+sword cuts a goat's throat. The white god, Eyes-in-the-hands, was within
+an arrow's flight of the village of Yagonyana.
+
+Consternation ensued. The village and the temporary camp of grass huts
+buzzed and hummed. Zalu Zako dashed out, sword and spear in hand, and in
+the glow of the awakened fires harangued the warriors, urged that they
+should make a swift detour through the forest and attack the white man as
+he entered the village. Bakahenzie supported this plan of campaign. MYalu,
+stung by the recollection of the loss of many tusks to the invader,
+incontinently abandoned Yabolo and pressed for a frontal attack. Yabolo
+contended that they send an envoy to make terms, but not very insistently.
+In spite of the assurance of Sakamata, he was suspicious of the new god's
+gentle ways. Marufa, the wise, collected those of his household who had
+remained with him, and quietly made his way to the forest.
+
+But Zalu Zako's martial spirit was overcome by the clamour of those who
+would flee before worse befell, crying that the white god,
+Eyes-in-the-hands, would eat them all up with the terrible monsters who
+coughed flames and death; others screeched that the uniformed devils were
+spirits of the night and therefore invincible; for always they came in the
+dark. So they hesitated, shouted and argued. Then came a scout screaming
+that the enemy was upon them, corroborated by a vicious cough.
+
+A pom-pom shell landed in the midst of the crowded village. Zalu Zako,
+Bakahenzie and their small following were nearly swept away in the rush of
+five thousand odd warriors in flight. From the forest they watched with
+awestruck eyes the burning of the village.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 13
+
+
+On the morning on which zu Pfeiffer burned the village of Yagonyana,
+Birnier was encamped upon the southern boundary of Wongolo. By his "coup
+de superstition" had he recovered all his equipment except several bottles
+of brandy, some canned goods and two and a half pairs of pyjamas; also the
+field boots. The noble Inyira, son of Banyala, and his merry men never
+attempted to recapture their prisoners; no one save the Eater-of-Men in
+person could have persuaded them to return to that camp even had they had
+their rifles.
+
+After Birnier had dressed his own foot and the charred feet of his men,
+had had a good drink and a better meal, he had sought to address the
+balance of his mind through a medium designed for the cure of melancholy,
+but efficacious for many other ills, _The Anatomy of Melancholy_. He
+opened the one big volume which had been his companion throughout his
+travels at a page marked at haphazard by an ivory paper knife with the
+American flag upon the flat hilt, an early gift from Lucille, and began to
+read the remarks of Robert Burton of quaintly glorious memory upon the
+source of his late adventure.
+
+"Those which are jealous, most part, if they be not otherwise relieved,
+proceed from suspicion to hatred, from hatred to frenzy, madness, injury,
+murder and despair {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Amestris, Xerxes's wife, because she found her
+husband's cloak in Masista's house, cut off Masista's wife's paps and gave
+them to the dogs, flayed her besides and cut off her ears, lips, tongue,
+and slit the nose of Artaynta, her daughter."
+
+
+
+"Cheerful lady! She ought to have been zu Pfeiffer's wife," commented
+Birnier and went to sleep.
+
+Birnier arose feeling rational enough to reconsider his position. The
+recollection of the signature on the photograph now failed to stimulate
+the emotional reaction as once it had done. The experience through which
+he had passed had had a beneficial effect in breaking or disconnecting the
+train of suggestive images. At first in the recess of his mind had lurked
+the desire to abandon everything, to rush straight to Lucille to demand an
+explanation. Now the rising sun of reason cast quite different shadows
+upon the incident. The high light was the fact that should he do so he
+would be sacrificing his mission for what might prove to be ridiculous. As
+his mind contemplated the subject the echo of "a toi, Lucille" tended to
+carry a high note, but this he vented by writing a long letter to Lucille
+recounting the facts and frankly admitting that he had been sufficiently
+insane with jealousy to "go up in the air." Once or twice he ceased to
+write and gazed anxiously into the glare as his imagination suggested the
+long period of waiting for an answer, wondering whether the echo of that
+cursed "a toi" might not become unbearably shrill. He became a little more
+sentimental towards the end of the letter, remarking that perhaps he had
+been wrong in deserting her for so long and emphasising the rather
+ridiculous point that he was aware that he was not a young man. However,
+he let it remain, and at the first opportunity sent off the letter by
+runner to the nearest station in Uganda, together with an order for
+certain goods to be sent to a village on the Wongolo border.
+
+Although still inclined to be emotional over the photograph, Birnier did
+not waste any energy over vindictive thoughts upon zu Pfeiffer, whom he
+philosophically regarded as irresponsible for his actions, inasmuch as he
+had been made that way just as any savage. He had gotten out of the toils
+set for him, so why should he spend time and trouble in seeking revenge
+which would merely consist in reporting the incident through a British
+station to Washington, who would open up interminable polite
+correspondence with the German Embassy, who would again write prodigious
+letters to the Colonial Minister in Berlin, who would{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Ludicrous! No; he
+would not permit zu Pfeiffer to interfere with his plans. He would
+continue straight to Wongolo instead of investigating the Kivu country,
+where zu Pfeiffer might perhaps have another opportunity to cause more
+trouble. Accordingly he negotiated with the nearest village for carriers
+and set out, striking due west, thus approaching the Wongolo territory
+towards the southern boundary.
+
+The people to the south of the Wongolo country was an inferior race, whom
+the Wongolo periodically raided to replenish their slaves. These Wamongo
+were split up into several petty chiefdoms, usually at war with one
+another. They had no defined theology. For they had not progressed beyond
+the stage of magic as far as any concept of religion, that is of praying
+for intercession to any power greater than themselves; whereas the mental
+state of the Wongolo was half-way between magic and religion, mixing and
+confusing the two as exemplified in the Rain-making ceremony of employing
+magic and alternately invoking the god and threatening him with dire
+penalties if he did not behave. There seemed to be no royal family or clan
+of the Wamongo; chiefs changed constantly as one more powerful for the
+moment arose; the wizards did not appear to have any political power,
+acting as general physicians and confining their efforts apparently to
+simple magic for the growing of corn, the curing of the evil eye and
+wounds. They were terrified of the Wongolo, much to Mungongo's pride, who
+never let slip an opportunity of swaggering and bruiting abroad the fame
+of his master as the greatest of magicians the world had ever seen. Never
+was he tired of relating to a grunting audience the terrible sight and
+effect of his master's transposition into a spirit. The yarn lost nothing
+in the telling.
+
+Progress was slow. Every afternoon, as regular as the sun set, clouds of
+sepia sailed up from the west to clothe the world in a grey deluge of
+falling water. Fortunately they were travelling up a watershed so that
+there were no large rivers to cross. As they approached the Wongolo border
+rumours began of a white god with eyes upon his hands and live fire in his
+mouth who, so said the delighted Wamongo, had entirely eaten up the hated
+Wongolo. They seemed prepared to accept Birnier, when suggesting that he
+should make magic for them to conquer the Wongolo, as another terrible
+white god, and were accordingly polite. But Mungongo, vastly indignant,
+denied the story; according to him, no power on earth could have subdued
+his race, except perhaps the mighty Moonspirit (the name he had bestowed
+upon Birnier).
+
+But when Birnier arrived at the first village of the Wongolo the absence
+of warriors corroborated the wild tales they had heard. The inhabitants of
+old men, boys and women surrounded the camp to gaze in awestruck curiosity
+at the white whom they believed to be the brother of the
+Eyes-in-the-hands. This calumny Mungongo strenuously gainsaid, and anew
+recounted the marvellous feats of magic of Moonspirit who could, he
+assured his compatriots, eat up Eyes-in-the-hands as easily as a crocodile
+would swallow a goat. Yet in spite of their terror they insisted that
+Birnier must go through the ceremony of purification incumbent upon all
+strangers in order to exorcise the evil influence of their eyes and souls;
+also the customary present must be sent to the king and his august
+permission to enter awaited, although no man knew where he was since the
+capital had been burned. Mungongo waxed furious. He informed them that
+Moonspirit was a friend of the Son-of-the-Snake, and moreover had before
+been in the country; that if they vexed Moonspirit he would enchant the
+whole village so that no man could move hand or foot. No matter, said
+they, that was the rule and must be done. They were impressed but
+obstinate.
+
+From the description of this destroying god, who was the colour of a
+stripped banana and tall as a palm tree, had fire in his mouth and eyes
+upon his hands--it was some time before he could recognise the "eyes"--and
+whose companions were devils strangely clothed, dragging horrific monsters
+who spat earthquakes, Birnier had no difficulty in recognising zu
+Pfeiffer, and recollected the significant pumping at dinner regarding the
+Wongolo country. However he had renounced any idea of revenge, but the
+discovery of friend zu Pfeiffer as the terrifying god amused him:
+quickened a desire to overset the gentleman's plans. He smiled with a
+slight hardening of the line about his mouth as he began to consider what
+might be done.
+
+As far as he could estimate by recalling the size of the native barracks
+at Fort Ingonya, he reckoned that zu Pfeiffer could not possibly have more
+than three hundred men, unless he had been reinforced from the east.
+Roughly he calculated that the Wongolo ought to be able to put about ten
+thousand warriors in the field. That number under any sort of leadership,
+even though they were only armed with spears and swords, should wipe out
+the three hundred, in spite of the discipline and two or three
+machine-guns, by sheer weight of numbers. But, from what he had already
+heard, zu Pfeiffer had evidently caught them unprepared, wiped out a mass
+and secured a supernatural effect by destroying the idol. He remembered
+his talk on das Volkliches and his comment that zu Pfeiffer was unusually
+well informed upon the psychology of the native mind.
+
+During two days disputing in the native manner news came in of fresh
+massacres, adding to the general terror. He sent for the headman and with
+him held a long shauri. The result was that the old fellow conceived the
+wonderful idea, already suggested by his lesser brethren, of enlisting the
+services of this white man, reputed to be a most marvellous magician, in
+their protection.
+
+Then having had his wits sharpened by his own originality and a sheath
+knife, the headman promptly discovered that the ceremony of exorcism could
+not be performed because the local wizard had departed with every ounce of
+magic for the front. Still there were obstinate and fearful persons who
+wished that Birnier should send a message to the king and wait until he
+had the permission. Another two days were lost until this objection was
+overcome by certain presents of "bafta," destined for the king, being
+handed over to the village.
+
+On the week's march across Wongolo, Mungongo triumphantly held spellbound
+audiences at every village through which they passed. As they neared the
+site of the City of the Snake, where they heard zu Pfeiffer was encamped,
+they encountered deserted villages. When they came upon the smouldering
+embers of one Birnier consented to turn aside from the regular trail in
+order to pass to the west of Kawa Kendi's where, so the natives said, were
+Zalu Zako and Bakahenzie.
+
+Beyond a belt of forest was open rolling country. They came to a village
+of five huts where dwelt some herdsmen, although most of the cattle had
+been driven westwards. Mungongo, seeking at Birnier's suggestion for some
+one who had actually been present at the village when zu Pfeiffer
+attacked, discovered a young girl who had escaped. He brought the daughter
+of Bakala into the presence of Moonspirit still pathetically clutching the
+amulet which Marufa had sold her. But from Bakuma, who had fled to the
+forest at the first assault and afterwards to this herdsmen's village
+where the fact of the tabu would not yet have penetrated, Birnier could
+interpret little of value. Of the whereabouts of Zalu Zako she knew no
+more than the peasants. She remembered Infunyana, as he had been called on
+his previous visit to the City of the Snake, and to her it seemed that a
+god had descended from the blue sky personally to aid her. So utterly
+incomprehensible and terrifying had the attack appeared that unconsciously
+the inevitability of her doom was shaken; if such things could happen, she
+felt rather than thought, then who could say what else was possible? She
+asked permission to travel with Moonspirit. Birnier, who knew from her
+dress, or lack of it, that she was unmarried, smiled as he wondered
+whether she was seeking her lover.
+
+Throughout their journey they had not met a single warrior; but as they
+neared the place of the king they began to meet groups of them. At the
+sight of the first headdress Bakuma bolted into the grass, nor did she
+reappear until after they had gone. Later she came to Birnier and asked
+permission to hide within his tent when the warriors appeared, and to his
+question began to explain the fate to which she had been doomed. Naturally
+this account of the Marriage of the Bride of the Banana at the Harvest
+Festival was of value as well as of interest to Birnier, from whom it had
+been concealed when in the country before. He cross-questioned her and
+made notes; but Bakuma could give him practically no details of what
+actually happened, a secret well guarded by the craft.
+
+They looked downcast, these warriors, and were doubtful what to do on
+meeting another white. Many had never before seen a white man and were
+inclined to bestow upon Moonspirit all the attributes which they had given
+to Eyes-in-the-hands. Eh! said they, Eyes-in-the-hands is a more powerful
+god than the Unmentionable One, for has he not eaten him up?
+Eyes-in-the-hands has imprisoned the thunder and the lightning in a bag
+which he looses at will. Who could withstand him? Had they better not
+submit before his wrath had eaten them all up? E-eh! man cannot fight with
+a god, as any fool knows.
+
+They were returning to their homes to make pilgrimage to the new god, to
+propitiate him with oxen and with ivory lest worse befall. However they
+knew where Zalu Zako was hidden, also the wizards whose magic was as a
+drop of water in a fire. Mungongo did not fail to relate the marvels of
+Moonspirit which he had seen with his own eyes, he and those with him. The
+warriors listened without being in the least impressed. That, said they,
+was merely woman's magic to what Eyes-in-the-hands could do! Aie-e! had
+not they fallen dead in masses at the cough of one of his monster spirits!
+Aie-e! had not the look of him burned up the Unmentionable One as a straw
+in a fire! Therefore was he not greater than the god? Aie-e! was he not
+burning their villages at will! Aie-e, brothers, they must hasten to
+appease the wrath of so terrible a god!
+
+Birnier saw that it was useless to attempt to argue with them. Zu
+Pfeiffer, with his shrewd stroke at the kernel of their faith in the
+symbol of the idol, had established a kind of godhead; and by his
+ferocious massacres had thoroughly cowed them. However Birnier secured one
+man to guide him to where Zalu Zako, the witch-doctors and those who
+remained with him, were in hiding.
+
+On the fringe of the dense forest they camped. The warrior guide went to
+acquaint Zalu Zako of their approach, else otherwise the sight of a white
+might provoke an attempt at massacre or flight. On the third day the man
+returned bearing greetings from Zalu Zako personally who remembered well
+Infunyana, the only white man whom he had ever met.
+
+For two days, on a faint trail, in a steamy heat pulsing with chromatic
+birds and lizards, they journeyed through the forest, the skirts of the
+vast Ituri whose deepest recess is the home of the pygmy. One early
+forenoon they were halted by the warrior in apparently trackless jungle
+and bidden to camp. Mungongo was indignant, but protest was useless as the
+man refused to conduct them any farther, saying that Zalu Zako would come
+to them. So the carriers cut a circle and built a zareba and the messenger
+was swallowed by the green wall bearing presents of two rifles.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 14
+
+
+About a mile from Birnier's camp, through forest so dense that even the
+progress of a native clambering from trunk to trunk and over undergrowth
+ten feet deep was slow and tortuous, was the temporary village of Zalu
+Zako; some six or seven hundred huts of branches and creepers straggling
+over a wide area of ground which had been roughly cleared from undergrowth
+by a few slaves and women.
+
+The hut of Zalu Zako, as those of most of the bigger chiefs and wizards,
+was furnished with reeds upon the floor to avoid squatting actually in the
+green slime, and boasted a palisade run from tree to tree enclosing the
+huts of his two wives, women and slaves. Every morning the leader of a
+long line of slaves bringing supplies from the villages in the open,
+chanting softly the song of the march, entered the village through a mass
+of creepers which hung like a curtain of humid green. Many hundreds of
+warriors with their chiefs had deserted their king after the flight from
+Yagonyana's village.
+
+In the mind of Zalu Zako was doubt and perplexity as in those of his
+people. All the accepted "laws" and "facts" of his world had been set at
+naught; it was as if buck lived in the rivers and fish ran roaring through
+the forests. Fear, curiosity, and resentment filled him. Sometimes it
+appeared that Eyes-in-the-hands had indeed proved to be a more powerful
+god than the Unmentionable One, of whom he was, or should have been, high
+priest and king; that he had eaten him up as they said; so perhaps the
+better course was to submit to this being invincible. Yet this very
+anarchy of his beliefs had released once more the passion for Bakuma whom
+he had renounced, the desire for whom had been inhibited by the sense of
+the inevitability of the mandate of the witch-doctors. Hereditary custom,
+which made him feel that it was incumbent upon him--a primitive sense of
+duty--to be king-god warred with this longing for Bakuma. The fact that he
+was not yet bound to celibacy quickened the seed of rebellion against the
+domination of the wizards. If he could escape the godhood then Bakuma was
+alive again. For to his mind a ban upon the personal ego was far stronger
+than any ban upon a second person.
+
+Chewing the cud of this sweet grass of hope squatted Zalu Zako one morning
+in the dignified solitude of his compound on the threshold of his hut.
+Opposite him sat the brother conspirator of Bakahenzie, Marufa, a brown
+shadow in comparison to the gleaming of the royal insignia of the ivory
+bangles. They sat silent, motionless, save for the occasional sparse
+movement of snuff taking. In the steamy heat a continual mutter and rustle
+persisted, punctuated by the harsh scream of a green parrot or the squawks
+of a troop of monkeys. In the faintly spattered sunlight percolating
+through the bowered roof vivid lizards rivalled in colour the rare finger
+of an orchid clinging to the great tree beside the hut. Through the humid
+air came the faint chant of carriers at the end of a journey; swelled
+louder and ceased. At the mutter of greeting near by Marufa grunted.
+
+"The beaten dog returns to nose in the garbage," he mumbled.
+
+"Maybe he hath news of the doings," commented Zalu Zako after a pause.
+
+"The young dog starts a buck in every tree stump," returned Marufa.
+
+The mumble of voices in the hut of Yabolo near to Zalu Zako's continued.
+Neither Zalu Zako nor Marufa knew other than that, after his downfall,
+Sakamata had retired to his native village on the southern boundary where
+the people, being laymen, had believed the excuse for his absence given by
+Sakamata that he had retired to the forest for one moon in the guise of
+his totem, the wart hog, which animal became accordingly tabu to their
+killing for that period. At length came a young slave from Yabolo who,
+after saluting, delivered a message from Yabolo requesting that Zalu Zako
+receive him and his relative, Sakamata, who had weighty news for him.
+
+Presently entered the recusant bearing signs of prosperity in the flowered
+print about his loins, the ancient cartridge pouch slung around his waist
+and a huge revolver of the pin-fire model dangling from a neck which
+appeared more tortoise-like than ever. Before Zalu Zako he squatted and
+after they had exchanged the usual hostages to hostility, Sakamata
+inquired most politely after the health of the Son-of-the-Snake, of his
+cattle and of his fortune, and last of all of his women. Sakamata, aware
+of the loss of prestige suffered by his old enemy, Bakahenzie, presented
+Zalu Zako with a duplicate of the pin-fire revolver. Followed an equally
+extensive greeting to Marufa. Only when these ceremonies had been
+punctiliously performed did they begin to discuss the news.
+
+At first Sakamata proceeded to repeat the popular saying regarding the
+doings of Eyes-in-the-hands. Various chiefs had visited the fort of the
+white man bringing presents in their hands, terrified of what might
+happen, yet, according to Sakamata, their fears had been dispelled
+immediately; for the wise new god had received them as brothers and had
+made offerings to them as was the custom for strangers to do. It was true,
+he admitted in cross-examination, that whole villages had been put to the
+sword and burned; but, he demanded, was not that the way of a mighty
+warrior to those who resisted him?
+
+Moreover, continued Sakamata, to fight him was death. His magic was such
+that no man could prevail against him. Had any doctor yet succeeded in
+making successful magic against the Invincible One? His magic was terrible
+to behold. Spirits which were imprisoned in houses of trees (boxes) spoke
+and sang according to their tribe.
+
+"Clk!" commented Zalu Zako incredulously.
+
+"These words are as the wind in the trees at night speaking to girls,"
+commented Marufa slowly. "What man hath beheld those things with his own
+eyes?"
+
+Deliberately Sakamata tapped snuff, inhaled it with relish, meticulously,
+that not one grain was lost upon his white caterpillar moustache, and said
+indifferently:
+
+"Even he who sits before you."
+
+"Eh!"
+
+Another point was scored. But both Zalu Zako and Marufa regarded him as
+one who, having had dealings with the devil and yet had emerged safely,
+was to be suspected of some ghastly pact. After a calculated pause
+Sakamata continued nonchalantly:
+
+"There is no magic like unto Eyes-in-the-hands, the Mighty One. A great
+fort hath he made upon the hill of thy grandfather (MFunya MPopo), O Zalu
+Zako, girded with a great palisade, around which walk ever the red devils
+in uniform, each one of whom hath a gun with seven voices. And peering
+through that palisade, like a terrible black leopard from his lair, are
+the monster coughing devils. Eh! who are they who can withstand them?"
+
+"Eh!" echoed his audience with lively memories of the "coughing devils."
+
+"And he hath a mighty hut made from the white man's cloth of colour like
+to the forest full of things to make magic. Seated upon his chair like
+unto a man plucking bananas, the eyes upon his hands and in his head gleam
+so fiercely that water is made within a man. He who dares to look sees not
+only Eyes-in-the-hands, but his two souls, even as thou seest thine own
+two souls staring at thee with the frightened eyes that are thine!"
+
+"Ehh!"
+
+This time a genuine belly grunt was elicited, and even Marufa moved
+uneasily.
+
+"Thou hast been bewitched," he added to mask his astonishment. "For a man
+may see his own soul in any pool, but never two souls!"
+
+"Even is it as I have told thee, O son of MTungo," asserted Sakamata.
+
+Sakamata discovered the use of snuff again to be necessary. He watched
+covertly the repressed excitement in the eyes of Zalu Zako.
+
+"And what said the great magician unto thee?" Marufa demanded to cover his
+discomfort.
+
+"He spoke white words as a warrior should," said Sakamata. "He gave words
+which told me that he was but a small wizard. He made my eyes to see the
+soul of a greater god than he, who was there and yet was not there; for at
+the touch of his magic hand with many eyes, behold! there were two more
+souls of the god which returned even as I looked."
+
+"Ehh! A greater god than he?" demanded Zalu Zako, with a flicker of the
+white of his eyes.
+
+"Even as I have said, a greater god who is king of all the white man's
+countries in the sea, who eats up those whom he pleases. Yet, even though
+he may bewitch with one of his eyes, did he speak softly to Yagombi, the
+son of Bagazaan, and Zalayan, the son of Kilmanyana, who were with me,
+bidding us to tell our brethren that if they would not acknowledge the
+true king that then he would eat us up, even as he ate up the
+Unmentionable One. But to those who would submit and make due tribute,
+would he protect in peace from the white men who, fleeing from the wrath
+of the great god, would soon come to eat up our country like the locusts."
+
+"Eh! ehh! white men as the locusts!"
+
+"Thus he spoke and bade us to go forth and tell our brethren."
+
+This was a wholly new notion and proportionally serious if true. But
+Marufa, recovering from the first shock, wrapped himself in his
+professional cloak of omniscient indifference as he recollected that
+Sakamata was an unfrocked priest of the craft. The group took snuff
+sternly until Sakamata, having accomplished his mission, deemed it wise to
+retire to allow the suggestive ideas to germinate. So gravely he arose and
+departed from the hut of Zalu Zako and went under the patronage of Yabolo
+to another compound where, to a group of the most disaffected chiefs,
+including MYalu, he repeated nearly word for word the same harangue.
+
+In the minds of Zalu Zako and Marufa the report of Sakamata had been
+exceedingly disquieting. Marufa began to wonder whether he had not better
+make terms with the new god before worse came to the worst in the form of
+white men like locusts, a menace fraught with dire possibilities which
+were based upon the rumours which every native had heard of the ways of
+white men in bulk: to the Wongolo merely vague stories from the north of
+the conquest of the Sudan by the British. Marufa's ambitions in the craft
+were almost submerged in the dread that, wizard though he was, he would
+have small chance of distinction and power among a race of wizards. To
+Zalu Zako, although the prospect of unlimited white men swooping upon them
+was terrifying, his semi-conscious mind was rather occupied with Bakuma
+than with affairs of state which seemed merely to exist to torment lovers.
+However he, too, was sufficiently impressed to consider seriously the
+advisability of submitting before it was too late; the motivating
+principle of the scheme was an idea which suggested that, in some
+indefinable way, such action might lead to the avoidance of the ban of
+godhood and thus to the reinstatement of Bakuma in the realm of
+possibilities.
+
+To Bakahenzie the report was more alarming than to the others, inasmuch as
+it appeared to portend the irretrievable loss of his power. He saw the
+effect upon their minds, the inclination to yield to the new conqueror,
+which, of course, would mean the last of his followers being swept away in
+the crowd like dry leaves in the wind. But more than the others he
+suspected the motives of Sakamata, the man whom he had unfrocked. Arguing
+in terms of his own mental processes he saw correctly enough that Sakamata
+was surely playing for himself, and guessed equally truly that Sakamata
+would get, or imagined that he would get, many rewards, political as well
+as in kind, for his services as jackal to the white man. But he listened
+and said no word for, or against, him. He was astute enough never to make
+a move until he had, or thought that he had, all the moves of the game
+worked out. Marufa was just as wily; he related the news given by Sakamata
+in a voice which gave no hint by tone or word what any of his opinions
+might be. Then, as they sat like graven images, supremely indifferent to
+the doings of Sakamata or aught else, entered the warrior bearing
+greetings from Birnier to Zalu Zako.
+
+Immediately Zalu Zako, to whose less skilled mind in intrigue this
+succession of world-shaking events was bewildering, feared that already
+the plague of white men like locusts had commenced. But when he learned
+that the white man was alone and was Infunyana, the only white man whom he
+had ever met, he perceived vaguely some remote prospect of achieving his
+desires. Almost eagerly, for a native, he commanded the messenger to
+summon the white man to his presence.
+
+To Bakahenzie the unexpected arrival of another white was an unforeseen
+potentiality of force which might be utilized to his own benefit; so
+thought Marufa, which was in effect exactly the same reaction as Zalu
+Zako's. Therefore Bakahenzie immediately protested upon the ground that no
+stranger could be allowed to approach the Son-of-the-Snake, or even the
+village, who had not been purified according to custom. When Zalu Zako
+demurred he retorted:
+
+"Hath not one white man who was permitted to enter our country without the
+demon being exorcised wreaked disaster upon us? Wouldst thou then destroy
+us utterly?"
+
+Zalu Zako was silent. Much as he would have desired to browbeat
+Bakahenzie, much as his confidence in the powers of the chief witch-doctor
+had waned in his estimation, yet there remained sufficient to overawe him
+when the matter was put to a crucial test. Bakahenzie would, so he stated,
+go himself to see the new white man, thus unselfishly taking upon his
+person the whole risk of the lasting magic of a stranger unpurified. But
+Marufa had no intention of allowing Bakahenzie to obtain a monopoly of
+this possible new ally. Unlike Zalu Zako he was not burdened with awe and
+had confidence in his own magic to overcome any evil that Bakahenzie might
+seek to work against him. So when he announced that he would accompany
+Bakahenzie, that distressed wizard was too conscious of his dwindling
+prestige to object.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 15
+
+
+Just after sun-up next morning as Birnier was seated at the door of his
+tent reading his _Melancholy_ and drinking his coffee, a startled "clk"
+caused him to glance round. He saw Bakuma rise suddenly from the fire and
+disappear. The next moment materialized out of the miasma of the morning
+the figures of Bakahenzie and Marufa, followed by a file of warriors.
+
+Portentously Bakahenzie stalked to the fire and squatted down without even
+a murmur to Mungongo busy with the breakfast. Bakahenzie remembered
+Infunyana very well, but nevertheless designedly Birnier ignored him in
+return. So they sat, the two wizards taking snuff with grave concern
+almost at the feet of the white who continued to smoke and to read.
+
+The sign boded ill, for the insistence upon the punctilious etiquette
+inferred that Bakahenzie was disposed to be suspicious, if not directly
+hostile. And indeed the warriors' description of the magic of Moonspirit,
+vide Mungongo, had made Bakahenzie uneasy.
+
+After a full half-hour Bakahenzie, as if beaten in this solemn game,
+turned gravely and saluted the white. Birnier looked down from his chair
+with the affectation of just having noticed that some one was there. After
+a pause he returned the greeting, a little point which Bakahenzie
+thoroughly appreciated. Birnier had learned that according to Mungongo and
+the warrior, Zalu Zako had not yet been anointed king-god; therefore that
+Bakahenzie evidently intended to keep the young man in the background.
+
+After preliminaries, Birnier inquired after Zalu Zako and informed
+Bakahenzie that he had journeyed expressly to see him. Bakahenzie ignored
+the question and began to talk about Eyes-in-the-hands, demanding to know
+whether Birnier was his brother.
+
+"Nay," said Birnier, "Eyes-in-the-hands is not of the same tribe as
+Moonspirit," for he sedulously followed up the title which Mungongo had
+given him. "Eyes-in-the-hands comes from a country twelve moons distant
+from my country."
+
+Marufa squatting beside him grunted; Bakahenzie took snuff nonchalantly as
+if he did not believe a word.
+
+"Eyes-in-the-hands is a mighty magician in his own country," said
+Bakahenzie in the form of an assertion.
+
+"The magic of Eyes-in-the-hands to the magic of Moonspirit," stated
+Birnier, "is as water to the beer of the banana."
+
+"Eyes-in-the-hands," remarked Bakahenzie indifferently, "hath magic to
+make the souls of man to be seen by all."
+
+"Those are but the souls of the belly and body, but Moonspirit can enchant
+so that the spirit of the head of man be seen at night," boasted Birnier,
+wondering what trick of zu Pfeiffer's had produced the effect.
+
+"Eyes-in-the-hands," insisted Bakahenzie, "hath a spirit in a piece of a
+tree which cries or laughs, sings or talks to his magic."
+
+"Moonspirit," retorted Birnier (thinking "Gramophone, but I can go one
+better, my friend"), "hath also a spirit in a piece of tree who will speak
+words of wisdom unto thee in thine own tongue, who will repeat that which
+is said unto him in thy tongue or in my tongue, who will speak words of
+wisdom even unto thee."
+
+Bakahenzie seemed outmatched in the boasting tournament. He tapped snuff
+woodenly. Marufa scratched his skinny ribs thoughtfully. Then Bakahenzie
+remarked:
+
+"He that hath not been cleansed may not look upon the Son-of-the-Snake."
+
+"He that hath not been anointed need have no fear of the evil eye."
+
+"Hath not one who was not cleansed entered and cast evil upon the tribe?"
+demanded Bakahenzie.
+
+"If the fence is not strong the leopard will enter."
+
+"If the leopard be not strong and swift indeed may he not be killed in the
+hut?" inquired Bakahenzie.
+
+"If a leopard and a wild-cat break in, then wilt thou not kill the leopard
+first?"
+
+"Even so," retorted Bakahenzie; "then is water stronger than beer, even as
+the beer does reveal?"
+
+Birnier nearly smiled in recognition of the hit.
+
+"Nay, does not beer make the fool to talk foolishness? Dost thou then cast
+away the banana? Does not one talk foolishness also who is sick and yet
+discardeth good medicine, because he feareth to poison his belly?"
+
+"Even so," said Bakahenzie obstinately, "does the sick man exorcise the
+good medicine lest an enemy hath made magic thereupon?"
+
+"Then," said Birnier, whose only objection to the ceremony was the delay
+and the messiness, "let the good medicine be purified."
+
+Bakahenzie grunted and covertly took stock of the tent and equipment
+visible. Upon the pile of cases stacked just inside the tent his eyes
+rested some time, but he would not make any inquiry. Marufa, too, was
+occupied in the same manner. Bakahenzie was recalling the previous meeting
+with Birnier in the village of MFunya MPopo--of that day when Birnier had
+not made any attempt to impress the native mind with "magic" other than
+the ordinary "miracles" in the routine of a white man's life.
+
+"When the Son-of-the-Snake," inquired Birnier, who had learned as much of
+the hagiocracy as Mungongo knew, "hath taken up the Burden, wilt thou then
+drive Eyes-in-the-hands from the country?"
+
+Bakahenzie slowly withdrew his eyes from the fascinating case as far as
+Birnier's booted foot.
+
+"Hast thou, white man, the magic twig that makes fire?" he demanded.
+
+"Even so."
+
+Birnier took a box of matches from his pocket and struck one. Bakahenzie
+and Marufa watched him solemnly. Then a lean bronze hand was outstretched.
+Birnier gave him the box. Slowly and gravely Bakahenzie, the chief
+witch-doctor, extracted a match, turned it over and over, smelt it, tasted
+it, regarded it, and struck it on the top of the box. It was a safety
+match, so nothing happened. Birnier, without a vestige of a smile,
+instructed him to strike it only upon the black piece at the side. That
+impressed Bakahenzie and Marufa. The former tried again as directed and
+succeeded. Holding the match too near the head he burned the quick of the
+nail, but not a muscle quivered. He would not even admit that the white
+man's devil stick had bitten him. But he was still more impressed.
+
+At a sign from Birnier, Mungongo brought from the tent a nickel-plated
+revolver and cartridges, which he placed at the feet of Bakahenzie without
+comment. Apparently Bakahenzie did not notice the action or the gift. He
+held out the matches to return to the white man. Birnier requested him to
+keep them. He wrapped up the box in his loin-cloth and fell to further
+contemplation of the cases. He was cogitating. The value of this white had
+suddenly increased. Evidently he could make small magic. Perhaps he could
+make as much big magic as Eyes-in-the-hands. Who knew? But then if that
+was so he could make greater magic than he, Bakahenzie, could. Bakahenzie
+saw that if Moonspirit were such a great magician he would be difficult or
+impossible to control. Naturally Bakahenzie could only understand his own
+motives in others. His problem now was to discover some means by which he
+could control Moonspirit, make of him a familiar to work to his own ends.
+Why was he so insistent upon seeing Zalu Zako? Bakahenzie became more and
+more suspicious. He saw another reason why the white man must be kept away
+from Zalu Zako. To refuse to purify him would give a valid excuse that he
+may not look upon the Son-of-the-Snake. But he did not wish to displease
+him; also Marufa could perform the purification.
+
+Again Birnier repeated the question regarding the overthrow of
+Eyes-in-the-hands. Bakahenzie took snuff, regarded the revolver lying at
+his feet idly, and deigned to reply.
+
+"When that which must be hath come to pass, then shall the children of the
+Snake eat up their enemies as a lizard eats flies."
+
+"And what is that which must come to pass?"
+
+Bakahenzie sat silent awhile, slightly shocked at the directness of the
+question; then as if to humour the white man, he replied:
+
+"When the Bridegroom hath taken the Bride."
+
+The ceremony of purification could not take place until the following day,
+because such things may not be hurried; and moreover, various potent
+charms had to be sent for to the native village. Meanwhile Bakahenzie
+squatted by the fire, contemplating the nickel-plated revolver and affairs
+of policy, and opposite him sat the meditative Marufa.
+
+From the hour of the monkey, Bakahenzie, unconscious of the small face and
+anxious eyes watching the camp from the tangle of green, was busy
+muttering spells over a calabash containing a magic concoction composed of
+the entrails of a white goat, certain herbs and the eyes of a black
+wild-cat. When the roof of the forest was a patterned ceiling against an
+incandescent glow, Birnier stripped to the waist, and submitted himself to
+the hands of the wizard who, after scattering the feathers of a scarlet
+parrot into the calabash, smeared the left breast, the forehead and the
+right arm of the white man, to the accompaniment of an incantation. These
+insignia and specifics he must not remove for three suns; nor could he be
+permitted to look upon the semi-divine Zalu Zako until whatever evil
+influence his foreign body might possess should have been exorcised by
+this powerful medicine.
+
+To sit around half nude in such heat was no arduous undertaking, but to
+sleep without rubbing off the concoction was another matter; also the
+odour thereof was not pleasing to the nostrils of a white man. But Birnier
+accomplished the feat by smoking excessively and by marking with a pencil
+the various nostrums recommended by the amiable Burton, many of which were
+hardly less disagreeable than Doctor Bakahenzie's prescription.
+
+That worthy's slaves had erected a hut for him nigh to the tent in the
+door of which he squatted, usually with Marufa beside him, throughout the
+day, with ever a contemplative eye upon his victim, an eye which Birnier
+was sure was eagerly seeking some excuse to plead that he had
+inadvertently rendered the magic impotent, and must accordingly have the
+ceremony repeated.
+
+Amused by the ridiculous sight he presented, plastered over with this
+filth, Birnier made Mungongo, whom he had taught to operate a camera, take
+a photograph of him, which would entertain Lucille, as well as be of
+scientific interest. Bakahenzie and Marufa watched this performance from
+the fire with amazement, for they imagined that the camera was some kind
+of gun. When they heard the click, they grunted as if expecting the white
+man to fall dead. Birnier of course knew the universal native belief in
+the picture being the soul, or one of the souls. He summoned Bakahenzie
+and Marufa and showed them a photograph which, after some difficulty, they
+recognised as Mungongo.
+
+"Eh," grunted a warrior, "indeed is Mungongo the slave of the white man,
+for hath he not imprisoned his soul?"
+
+Mungongo laughed, yet he believed in the superstition as implicitly as any
+of his compatriots, for said he:
+
+"It is a wise man who hath that which is his always within his hand, even
+as Moonspirit hath the soul of his favourite wife with him always, so that
+she may not be unfaithful unto him."
+
+"Eh, he is wiser than the Banana Eater!" grunted the warrior in
+admiration.
+
+Birnier's training to control his features was strained in the effort not
+to express surprise. He could not imagine from what Mungongo had derived
+this astonishing statement, until he recollected that the boy had seen a
+photograph of Lucille among his papers.
+
+After this successful demonstration of his sophistication, Mungongo was
+anxious that Moonspirit give an exhibition of his magic to dumbfound the
+chief witch-doctor, desiring most ardently to work the gramophone, to
+operate which he had also learned. But on reflection, Birnier decided that
+it was not his policy to make his thunder too cheap.
+
+Each evening as the last subtle violet quivered in the trees had Bakuma
+glided from the shelter of the undergrowth under the flap of Birnier's
+tent, where she had lain until the first tint of dawn on the foliage of
+the forest. Birnier had wished her to leave for some village until
+Bakahenzie had left the camp, but Bakuma had frantically pleaded to
+remain, knowing that the craft was seeking her throughout the country
+since Bakahenzie's latest interview with mighty Tarum.
+
+But upon the third day as Birnier was seated reading philosophically at
+his tent door, the inevitable happened. A loud outcry arose and from the
+tangle of creepers started the lithe figure of Bakuma, who darted past him
+into the tent. For a moment there was silence. But Birnier guessed what
+the matter was. Bakahenzie emerged from the wall of green and cried out in
+a loud voice. Instantly the warriors around leaped to their feet, and
+broke out into great clamour.
+
+Mungongo, busy with the cooking pots, rushed to Birnier's side,
+gesticulating wildly. Inside the tent crouched Bakuma. Towards Birnier
+advanced Bakahenzie and the warriors, whose dilated eyes and spears in
+their hands betokened that Bakahenzie had stirred their deepest feelings
+of terror and murder. Birnier smoked placidly, neither stirring nor
+permitting a sign of their presence to cross his features.
+
+Mungongo, startled out of his confidence in Moonspirit, excitedly bade
+Bakuma go forth as Bakahenzie, stopping in front of the white man, broke
+into a harangue, bidding him to give up Bakuma whose sacrilege in breaking
+the magic circle, as he had said, had brought the terrible
+Eyes-in-the-hands upon them; that the welfare of the tribe depended upon
+her sacrifice to the angered Unmentionable One even as she had been
+doomed; and threatening that they would take the insolent white man, whose
+magic was as water, and sacrifice him as well, as was desired by the
+spirit of Tarum.
+
+The longer he spoke the more excited he grew. Motivated by the sudden
+conviction that the sacrifice of Bakuma, whose action he had foretold so
+successfully, and the slaughter of the white would really restore to him
+his repute and remove at the same time the problem of controlling a
+superior magician who threatened to become his rival, Bakahenzie began to
+work himself up into the necessary state of prophetic hysteria. Cowering
+against the camp-bed Bakuma whimpered with terror; Mungongo incoherently
+begged Moonspirit to give up the girl.
+
+Not a muscle moved upon Birnier's face; nor even did his eyes turn in the
+direction of the menacing crowd who with uplifted spears joggled each
+other around Bakahenzie. Birnier knew that it was a supreme test of nerve;
+knew that any attempt to snatch a rifle or a movement of any sort, would
+precipitate action on their side. He had no intention of surrendering the
+girl to a hideous fate, and also he saw beyond the incident that if
+Bakahenzie were to triumph over him now, not only would his prestige with
+the natives be gone for ever, but that his fate would be surely sealed.
+Slowly, exaggeratedly, as if he were alone, he killed a mosquito upon his
+bare right breast and lighted his pipe anew.
+
+Bakahenzie advanced a step followed by the warriors. His voice had reached
+the falsetto timbre. Mungongo lost his head entirely and seizing Bakuma,
+began to drag her out of the tent. Birnier turned his head leisurely
+towards him. Said he very loudly:
+
+"It is not seemly to rape a woman in my presence, O Mungongo. Let her be,
+for I will buy thee one."
+
+Mungongo ceased to pull at Bakuma's arms and stared as if paralysed.
+Birnier saw the eyes switch in a terrified glance at the warriors behind
+him and heard Bakahenzie's yell to kill.
+
+For one moment he thought that indeed the end had come. Before he could
+reach the rifle a dozen spears would be in his back. He sat motionless,
+the _Anatomy of Melancholy_ still in his hand, and watched the gauge of
+Mungongo's eyes. Bakahenzie's voice rose to a screech. Suddenly Birnier
+wheeled round in his chair, snatched up the pencil and staring hard at
+them, began to sketch faces on the open page of the book.
+
+At the sight the warriors ceased their shuffling dance, were arrested with
+the spears in their hands in as many poses. Bakahenzie's scream was
+stoppered as if by a hand upon his mouth. In the silence their heavy
+breathing rivalled the twitter and hum of the forest. Birnier sketched
+furiously, glaring portentously from the group to the paper. Bakahenzie
+took a step forward, a nervous step, and yelled, "Kill!" but his voice
+released those of the warriors. In one loud shout they cried:
+
+"He bewitches us! He bewitches us!"
+
+As Birnier bent his head to make another magic mark upon the magic book he
+heard the rush of feet.
+
+"They have fled!" squealed Mungongo, still clutching Bakuma.
+
+Birnier sighed and dropped his pencil as he glanced up. Bakahenzie and the
+warriors had disappeared, but by the fire squatted Marufa unconcernedly
+scratching his skinny ribs.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 16
+
+
+Changed was the City of the Snake, the place of kings. Upon the site where
+had been the hive of huts wrapped in the green arms of the banana
+plantation, laboured under the incandescent sun gangs of prisoners under
+armed guards upon the building of larger huts laid out in streets, broad
+and geometrical, lined with correct ditches for drainage. Around the
+outskirts here and there remained charred posts.
+
+Upon the hill of MKoffo was a palisade enclosing the barracks of two
+companies of the askaris and two guns. No brown cones peeped like
+candle-snuffers above the sea of green fronds upon the hills of the tombs
+of kings, but from the sacred hill of Kawa Kendi commanding the approach
+to the valley rose, black against the sky, the triangle of the roof frame
+of a large bungalow; around the crown of the hill was a stout palisade
+through which grinned in the sun the muzzles of a Nordenfeldt and a
+pom-pom; and outside upon a levee strutted rigidly four sentries night and
+day, a perpetual reminder to the passer-by below of efficient vigilance.
+
+Within was a methodical formation of round huts dominated by a square one;
+at the far end, and in solitary grandeur beneath the Imperial flag upon a
+roughly-hewn flag-pole, was a green marquee tent, the temporary quarters
+of the Kommandant.
+
+Under the tent verandah at the rear where were his private quarters sat zu
+Pfeiffer with a towel tucked around his neck upon which was scattered
+inch-lengths of hair. Sergeant Schultz sheared deftly with clippers like a
+reaper in a field of corn. When he had completed the final trimming behind
+the ears, he stood aside with the air of an artist viewing his work.
+
+"Is that pleasing to your Excellence?"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer ran a hand around his skull.
+
+"Ya, that is better and cooler, sergeant."
+
+With a professional air Schultz whisked around the Kommandant's neck with
+a light brush, untucked the towel and brushed him down. As zu Pfeiffer
+rose Bakunjala appeared with a broom of small branches and a pan and
+proceeded to sweep the earthen floor. Schultz neatly folded up the towel,
+placed it on the chair, and stood at attention.
+
+"Is that all, Excellence?"
+
+"Ya, sergeant. Take a cigar."
+
+"Thank you, Excellence!"
+
+The sergeant selected one, saluted and departed. Zu Pfeiffer lounged in a
+basket chair. The usual water bag and syphon were suspended at his elbow
+above sparklet and brandy bottles, and a box of cigars. Around him on the
+floor was a litter of papers, envelopes and documents. On his wrist
+sparkled the jewelled bracelet and between fingers, one of which bore the
+large diamond which had earned him his native name, was an official
+document bearing the Imperial Eagles.
+
+As he read he smiled and patted his left moustache approvingly. Officially
+the authorities would not comply with his request made before leaving
+Ingonya for two more companies of askaris with white non-commissioned
+officers and two more guns; but unofficially he was informed that they
+would be supplied later and that the authorities were pleased. He picked
+up a private letter and re-read it. Then he smiled again, a sneering twist
+remaining at the corner of the mouth. Always he was informed by
+sympathetic friends and an agency of the whereabouts and doings of
+Lucille. On the 1st of August she had been due at Wiesbaden.
+
+He threw the letter on the table with an irritable gesture and scowled as
+he drank. The arrival of the mail always brought vivid regrets for the
+glories and comforts he was missing by being condemned to war with "dirty
+swines of niggers." That was part of the penalty he had had to pay for
+being a gentleman in a land of dollar grubbers, yet a matter to be written
+up against the account of Lucille, the entzueckend Lucille. He must have
+been verrueckt, he reflected savagely. The delicate lips softened in
+ludicrous contrast to the brutal outline of a cropped skull. The blare of
+a trumpet disturbed his reveries, reveries which were apt to rankle until
+among his satellites went the word that the Eater-of-men was possessed by
+the demon once more.
+
+After he had elegantly finished a small cup of cafe cognac and a
+cigarette, Sergeant Schultz strutted up, saluted, and at a nod from zu
+Pfeiffer handed a document to the Kommandant, a roster of the chiefs who
+had submitted with the approximate number of their followers. Officially
+there were five chiefs with some six thousand men who had nominally
+accepted the new ruler, each one of whom had to leave as hostage for his
+fidelity a son, who lived under guard in the village beneath the guns.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer needed the extra companies and white men to establish stations
+at various points with the object of gradually extending the sphere of
+military occupation. Zu Pfeiffer left nothing, as far as he could foresee,
+to chance; his maxim was to conserve his force to the utmost, to attain
+his objective at the least possible cost in men and material. The policy
+of terrorisation was based on the reasoning that eventually
+schrecklichkeit saved both the conqueror and the conquered bloodshed and
+trouble; for if the enemy were not so impressed with the fact that all
+resistance was utterly useless, he would resort to the sporadic risings
+which would entail more slaughter on both sides. Zu Pfeiffer, acting on
+the teachings of the German masters, sought to make war psychologically as
+well as militarily, economically as well as geographically. Hence his
+dramatic step in the overthrow of the idol in person, and the care with
+which he planned to impress each chief and native with his omnipotence and
+magic. This system of the application of political science as well as of
+military science, of course, was sound, save for a temperamental error:
+the lack of sufficient imagination to realize the unknown quantity of
+chance, the inevitable mistake of military scientists who are loath to
+admit the artist to their counsels, exemplified by men of genius, such as
+Napoleon and Leonardo da Vinci, who were both mathematicians and artists.
+
+In zu Pfeiffer's case, as in others of his type, the motivating principle
+was not bourgeois greed of material gain for himself; gain he could afford
+to despise in his wealth; such would have been contrary to the code of a
+gentleman. While he had not hesitated for a moment to destroy his rival,
+Birnier, he would not touch with one finger any of his goods; for that
+reason had he given permission to the corporal to take Birnier's
+equipment, so that he would not even be contaminated by the possession of
+them, a temperamental error again which had led to Birnier's escape.
+
+The driving power in his caste and tribe was love of power to an excess
+masked with portentous solemnity under the cloak of benefiting this people
+and the peoples of the world; forcing them to have broad streets and
+sanitary arrangements, compelling them to laugh, to sing, and to be happy
+whether they would or no: an urge which is the curse of the world, the
+impulse to interfere in other folk's affairs, to teach them, to make them
+to know the true God, the right way of living, the right way of doing
+everything from the rising of the first sun of consciousness to that happy
+crack of doom when our planet tries to enforce its orbit upon some other
+planet.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer pinched a cigar tip, lighted it meticulously and considered
+the roster.
+
+"Sergeant, this man--what's the animal's name? Kalomato--has his son
+surrendered himself?"
+
+"No, Excellence. The man says that he has fled the country."
+
+"Where does he come from?"
+
+"The neighbourhood, Excellence."
+
+"That means that his son is with the rebels?"
+
+"Probably not, Excellence. He is very young, they say."
+
+"That does not matter. Sequester all the chief's property. If he won't
+give it up let the askaris deal with him. If that doesn't work, have him
+shot."
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+For such obstinate cases zu Pfeiffer had fallen upon the custom of serving
+two purposes by handing over the victim to the mercies of his askaris
+which whetted their sadistic appetites and usually secured the desired
+revelation of the whereabouts of the hidden ivory or other goods under the
+torture of the burning feet, and divers other ingenious methods. Of late
+this practice had proved so satisfactory that the mere threat was usually
+sufficient.
+
+"This man," continued zu Pfeiffer tapping the roster with his long nail,
+"his son is here?"
+
+"Ja, Excellence."
+
+"Has he paid the tithe due?"
+
+"No, Excellence. He refuses."
+
+"Have the son shot."
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+"Any report this morning?"
+
+"Ja, Excellence. A Wamungo spy brings news that a white man entered the
+country from the south."
+
+"Description?"
+
+"They say he is a trader, Excellence, coming from the Kivu direction, but
+the savage cannot give any satisfactory description. It is the first white
+he has seen, he says."
+
+"He won't be the last!" snapped zu Pfeiffer with a twitch of the left
+sentry moustache. "Saunders, possibly. If so he should be here shortly to
+report. Well?"
+
+"The King and the few men left with him are in hiding, Excellence, in
+dense forest. They are demoralized and quarrel among themselves. Many are
+coming to surrender, for they say that you, Excellence, have eaten their
+god."
+
+"Ach!" said zu Pfeiffer with satisfaction. "What did I tell you,
+sergeant?"
+
+"Your Excellence was correct in every respect."
+
+"Um! Pity I can't spare a company. That would settle them before they have
+a chance to reorganize. Ach, but they haven't the sense, the animals, to
+do that.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Parade, sergeant."
+
+Schultz saluted.
+
+"Ready, Excellence."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer rose, took up his gold-mounted sjambok, and the two walked
+around the big marquee to the front where between the orderly lines of
+huts those askaris not on duty were drawn up for inspection. The sergeant
+barked. Bayonets flashed as they presented arms. Another bark and they
+ported arms. Zu Pfeiffer walked down the line inspecting buttons, bolts,
+and rifles as meticulously as he had lighted his cigar. The fifteenth
+barrel he thrust away petulantly and flicked the askari's face with his
+sjambok. The muscles of the man's face twitched as the blow came and the
+eyes bulged, but he did not flinch.
+
+"Twenty-five, sergeant!"
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer passed on. When the inspection was finished he stood rigidly
+smoking, coldly watching Schultz dismiss the men. Then he stalked down the
+hill with Schultz slightly in the rear, followed by a big black Munyamwezi
+sergeant-major, towards the opposite hill, of MKoffo. But at the bottom of
+where there were some half-constructed huts he paused.
+
+"The women, sergeant?"
+
+"The large hut, Excellence. Two hundred as ordered."
+
+"No women of chiefs?"
+
+"No, Excellence. Those attending on the hostages are housed apart."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer strode towards the hut indicated which stood near to the edge
+of a rased banana plantation. Two sentries without the fence presented
+arms stiffly and remained immobile. Within the compound were some sixty or
+more young girls, mostly having the black complexion of the slave type.
+The chattering and giggling ceased as the tall form of the dreaded
+Eyes-in-the-hands stood in the gate. A slight smile flirted his lips.
+
+From the deep violet of the hut interior darted a young girl into the
+sunlight. At the sight of the white men she poised on her toes, one foot
+forward and hands extended as if about to whirl into a dance, staring with
+the curiosity of a fawn.
+
+Tall for a native maid, the light bronze of her immature breasts revealed
+that she was of the Wongolo ruling caste. Around her slender neck was a
+circlet of bright blue beads. As zu Pfeiffer stiffened and stared she
+wheeled and fled into the hut.
+
+"Gott im Himmel!" he muttered. "The body of Lucille in Carmen!"
+
+"Who is that woman?" he demanded of Schultz.
+
+"I don't know, Excellence," replied the sergeant and spoke to the black
+sergeant-major. "She is the daughter of the chief Bamana, Excellence,
+visiting these other women. I will have her removed."
+
+"I will not have the sense of caste abused," said zu Pfeiffer, gazing into
+the hut. "That is not policy. Have her sent to the fort, sergeant, and
+placed under guard."
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer swung on his heels and strode out and up the hill of MKoffo.
+The inspection was more hurried than usual that day. Then he returned to
+the hill of Kawa Kendi to hold court in the big marquee tent. After a
+lunch and a long siesta in the heat of the noonday he strolled around the
+village superintending the rasing of huts and the staking out of the new
+village which was to rise upon the ashes of the old one, a concrete
+example of the wisdom and power of the new lord, Eyes-in-the-hands.
+
+Under squads of askaris gangs of prisoners, criminal and political, bound
+by a light chain about each neck, laboured at clearing away charred stumps
+and debris, while other natives portered in saplings and loads of grass,
+each village which had submitted sending its allotted quota.
+
+Trumpets blared. The keepers of the coughing monsters made magical dances
+with their fire sticks up on the hill of Kawa Kendi. The black, white and
+red totem of the conqueror fluttered to earth like a wounded bird. Night
+closed like a black lid placed upon the steaming cauldron of the sun.
+
+After dinner zu Pfeiffer sat in his private tent at the rear of the
+marquee drinking brandy. Upon a camp table covered by a violet cloth was
+the portrait in the ivory frame at which he gazed as he smoked. The blue
+eyes and the feminine lips softened as sentimentally as any sex-starved
+Puritan virgin; perhaps not in spite of, but because of, a mediaeval code
+as senseless as the native system of tabu, for natural emotions suppressed
+find an outlet in some form.
+
+From outside came the twitter and hum of the forest, the rhythm of frogs,
+the dim bleating of a goat and the distant wailing of the women's death
+lament. Zu Pfeiffer drank and smoked and stared at the portrait in the
+ivory frame. Once he slapped irritably at a mosquito which had escaped the
+double net over the tent door. A wave of emotion seemed to well within
+him. He looked as if he were about to blubber as leaning over the table he
+peered intently at the pictured face and whispered:
+
+     "Nur einmal noch moecht ich dich sehen,
+     Und sinken vor dir aufs Knie
+     Und sterbend zu dir sprechen:
+     'Madam, ich liebe Sie!' {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+"Lucille! {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Ach, Lucille!"
+
+He drew himself back with a jerk, drank his brandy at a gulp and called
+angrily:
+
+"Bakunjala!"
+
+The flutter of sand preceded a gasped:
+
+"Bwana!"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer gave him an irritable command. Four minutes elapsed during
+which he gazed steadily at the portrait. He turned at the slither of feet.
+Bright blue beads glittered in the lamplight as the daughter of Bamana
+sank upon her heels.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 17
+
+
+In his favourite seat by the door of his hut sat Zalu Zako waiting as
+patiently as only a native can to see the white man, symbol of a
+subconscious hope. The fact that Bakuma had not been found by the
+emissaries of the bloodthirsty Bakahenzie evoked a sensation of pleasure
+which was expressed merely in a feeling of well-being. Of her in person he
+thought consciously little; his attitude was much as a white lover who
+might discover his loved one to be a sister, and hence, by consanguinity,
+barred from him for ever, a terrible fact of fate; but, lacking the
+sentimental inhibition, Zalu Zako did not disguise the death wish because
+she was denied him. Desires are simpler in the savage, yet the driving
+motives are the same as in the "cultured" ex-animal overlaid with
+generations of inhibitions--tabus--which form complex strata making the
+truth more and more difficult to recognise. From that very obfuscation of
+motives arises civilisation.
+
+Then from the blue depths of the humid green came a great outcry, answered
+by the ululation of the women in warning.
+
+"Eyes-in-the-hands!" grunted Zalu Zako, voicing the perpetual fear of the
+camp, as he leaped for his gun which Moonspirit had sent him.
+
+Above the medley of sounds arose an articulate shout:
+
+"He has bewitched our souls! He has bewitched our souls!"
+
+Zalu Zako paused and listened; replaced the gun and squatted, resuming his
+pose of dignity before the first man made entrance. For a few moments the
+shrilling of the women and the wild jabber continued. Then entered a slave
+followed by a warrior who, excitedly falling upon his knees, gasped out:
+
+"He hath bewitched our souls! He hath bewitched our souls! Our spears were
+blunted by his magic! Our swords were turned by the wall of his soul! He
+is a mighty magician!"
+
+"Of whom speakest thou, fool?"
+
+As Zalu Zako put the question the tall figure of Bakahenzie stalked slowly
+into the courtyard. The warrior rose and fled at a command from Zalu Zako.
+Bakahenzie greeted him gravely and very elaborately took snuff in order to
+show how casual the matter was. When he had meticulously restored the cork
+of twisted leaves, he announced slowly:
+
+"As I have prophesied the breaking of the sacred circle has delivered us
+into the hands of the false magician, Eyes-in-the-hands. The daughter of
+Bakala is even now at the camp of the white man, whom they call
+Moonspirit."
+
+"Ehh!" commented Zalu Zako.
+
+"The brother of Eyes-in-the-hands hath taken her in concubinage,"
+continued Bakahenzie.
+
+Zalu Zako made no response. Grimly approached Marufa and squatted beside
+them.
+
+"Even as I have prophesied," commented Marufa, who never failed to seize
+an opportunity of suggestion.
+
+"I bade him render up the Bride of the Banana; but she hath bitten his
+soul in his sleep. He held her in his arms. He breathed upon her so that
+she would not obey. The magic of this brother of Eyes-in-the-hands hath
+indeed rotted the livers of our people, for they fled like young jackals."
+
+"Eh!"
+
+Zalu Zako stared cautiously at the compound fence; Marufa regarded
+Bakahenzie's left knee with interest. For fully five minutes no word was
+said. Then Bakahenzie portentously:
+
+"Tarum demands the brother of Eyes-in-the-hands, this Moonspirit, for if
+one be taken then will the other, Eyes-in-the-hands, wither away and the
+Unmentionable One will be revealed."
+
+"Thou hast spoken!" assented Marufa.
+
+But Zalu Zako continued to stare blankly at the fence. His mind was aflame
+for Bakuma. Bakahenzie had no suspicion of his passion, yet the fear of
+his enmity acted like a douche of water in spite of the fact that the
+implicit faith in the doctors had been weakened. But disbelief was not
+positive enough to stimulate action. However, from the news of Bakuma's
+proximity, he had gotten strength to doubt the efficacy of Bakuma's
+sacrifice to restore the kingdom, a strength which prompted him to say:
+
+"Who is he that has said that Moonspirit be the twin of Eyes-in-the-hands?
+Enemies there are even among whites. If he be an enemy of
+Eyes-in-the-hands and he be a great magician, as they say, then through
+his magic may not Eyes-in-the-hands be slain?"
+
+"He hath but young words," asserted Bakahenzie stonily.
+
+"But Mungongo, the son of Marula, saith that----"
+
+"Dost thou ask an infant to teach thee to hunt?" retorted Bakahenzie.
+
+"Doth a warrior ask his women to mend his wounds?" added Marufa, putting
+in a gentle reminder that Zalu Zako was merely a chief and not of the
+craft.
+
+"He hath been exorcised, let him be brought and put to the test before
+me," persisted Zalu Zako.
+
+"That may not be," objected Bakahenzie, "for thou art not yet anointed."
+
+"But that which is necessary has not yet been done," objected Zalu Zako
+obstinately. "If he have no magic and his heart be not white, then let him
+be doomed for the Feast of the Moon." And gaining courage, added the royal
+phrase: "I have spoken."
+
+The three sat motionless. The silence twittered and hummed. The shadows
+swelled. Bakahenzie rose slowly and stalked away through the compound.
+Zalu Zako watched his departure without remark or expression. After an
+interval, Marufa also went.
+
+Another person upon whom the news of the discovery had had a similar
+reaction was MYalu. Her proximity released the primitive desire to go
+forth and seize her. But such action was arrested by fear of the
+consequences from his fellows to whom the tabu was still real, and of the
+white man, Moonspirit. MYalu could never overcome the fiat of the
+witch-doctors while he remained with them. Yonder--his decision to go with
+Yabolo and Sakamata was clinched, but--he would take Bakuma with him.
+
+Straight to the hut of Bakahenzie, who seemed to be expecting him, stalked
+Marufa. Marufa squatted solemnly near to him. These catastrophic events
+had caused a general unrest which had weakened the discipline of
+superstition.
+
+There are two types of magicians: those who are partially conscious
+hypocrites, and those who are gulled by their own fakes; for he who makes
+magic must be ever ready with an explanation of failure and very ingenious
+in the making. The fool, believing in his own medicine, is as much
+astounded at failure as the victim is angry. Bakahenzie and Marufa
+belonged to the first class; yet being of their particular mental
+development they were possessed of beliefs just as deeply as the most
+credulous layman. That the wizard, personally, of his own individual power
+could slay an enemy by incantation they did not believe; but that the
+spirit of the Banana or of other inanimate objects could do so, they
+believed most profoundly. Their creed was a form of pure animism; the
+storms, the winds, the lightning, trees, rocks, rivers had separate and
+conscious souls; other inanimate objects not included in an arbitrary
+list, had unconscious souls, each and every one capable of doing mischief
+or of good; hence the essence of religion in the act of imploring the good
+offices of the most powerful spirits, or in moments of exasperation of
+threatening them with dire punishments. Their hypocrisy lay not in
+disbelief but in pretending to the people that their intercession with the
+gods was infallible; they knew only too well that the said gods would
+seldom incline an ear to the magician.
+
+Of course nearly every doctor had a slightly different dogma, usually
+based upon an incorrect deduction from a false premise. One doctor would
+place all his confidence in the spirit of the Banana--the most popular
+spirit; and another in the spirit of the river, because out of a dozen
+times that he had implored aid, five "miracles" at least had been
+vouchsafed, therefore, argued he, the spirit of the river is the true and
+most powerful god. The arguments of others were equally unsound as they
+were dominated by some hidden desire, much as reputable scientists, while
+rejecting phenomena accepted by the populace, cling fatuously to a belief
+in spooks in order to satisfy a subconscious desire for immortality, fear
+of death.
+
+Hence the confusion in the heart of Bakahenzie. To him it appeared that
+the spirits had deserted him entirely; to him it seemed that perhaps these
+white men had indeed the true "magic," the art of controlling the spirits
+to their will. This terror had urged him to the destruction of the white
+man, Moonspirit. Now Zalu Zako had mutinied, and being unaware of the
+powerful impulse from which Zalu Zako had gotten this sudden strength,
+Bakahenzie attributed it to the magic influence of Moonspirit. At any
+cost, he argued, must Zalu Zako and the white man be kept apart.
+
+But other pressing points were how to accomplish the slaughter of the
+white man, and what he should do now after the attempt to kill him had
+failed. Either Moonspirit would flee, which would be most happy proof to
+Bakahenzie that he was an impostor and no magician, or he would seek
+revenge immediately. No other action was conceivable to Bakahenzie.
+Therefore in such a case the obvious act was to strike the quicker. He
+contemplated his colleague without looking at him. What was his attitude?
+Bakahenzie, on general principles, was suspicious. If Marufa thought that
+by supporting the white man he might be able to attain Bakahenzie's
+overthrow and gain the position of chief witch-doctor, he would do it,
+even as he, Bakahenzie, would have done in his place. Therefore upon these
+matters did he talk very guardedly with Marufa, who was unusually
+reticent. However, after communing with himself in sphinx-like gravity,
+Marufa assented to the proposal that Zalu Zako be isolated in the godhood
+immediately.
+
+So the slow rhythmic beat, which was the summons to the craft to assemble,
+throbbed in the clammy air. Before the humid shadows had lengthened a
+hand's breadth, were some twenty wizards, greater and lesser, fully
+dressed in the green feathers of the order, collected within the compound
+of Bakahenzie. Silently and woodenly they squatted in a half circle before
+the chief witch-doctor, each and every one excited by the marvellous
+stories circulated by the warriors returned from the camp of Moonspirit,
+stories which amply corroborated the tales of Mungongo. Those who
+supported Bakahenzie's party believed implicitly, because they wished so
+to do, the "reason" for the impotence of their united magic to be the
+breaking of the magic circle by Bakuma. But others who cherished personal
+ambitions for the head witch-doctorship were suspicious of each other and
+of Bakahenzie, each one according to his grade and consequent knowledge in
+the craft.
+
+When the drum had ceased and they sat in impressive silence, Bakahenzie,
+squatting motionless on the threshold of his hut, began to mutter
+incantations and to rock from side to side. Now every one of the inner
+cult knew well enough that this performance was merely a ceremony
+prescribed by tradition and expediency; yet for that very reason and
+particularly for the benefit of the lesser wizards, they solemnly accepted
+it, grunting in chorus as heartily as the others to the chant of
+Bakahenzie. As suddenly as dramatically, Bakahenzie stopped with eyes
+staring upon another world and fell upon his back, to scream and to writhe
+realistically as practice assured him. Then when the mouth was flecked
+with foam, the spirit of Tarum spake through the rigid body which lay as
+in catalepsy with eyes inverted:
+
+  "Aie! Aie! I am the spirit of Kintu!
+  Aie! Aie! I am he who first was!
+  Aie! Aie! I am the banana from whom I was made!
+  Aie! Aie! The time of the nuptial draweth nigh!
+  Aie! Aie! But where is the bride of my bed?
+  Aie! Aie! Let her be found and prepared!
+  Aie! Aie! For my lips are athirst for her blood!
+  Aie! Aie! Let the son of the Snake be anointed!
+  Aie! Aie! Let him be ready to assist at my feast!
+  Aie! Aie! I have spoken, I, the father of Men!
+  Aie! Aie! I, Tarum, the soul of your ancestors!"
+
+From the assembly came the low belly grunt of acceptance, for they were,
+by suggestion, infected with the induced hysteria almost as much as the
+superb actor himself; they believed; even the members of the inner cult
+were convinced for the moment that indeed the mighty spirit of their
+ancestors was speaking.
+
+Slowly, with many prodigious grunts and twists, did Bakahenzie's soul
+return to his body. He sat up and after a long pause said impressively:
+
+"What hath He said unto you?"
+
+And Marufa, as solemnly, related all that He had said.
+
+"Eh!" said Bakahenzie tonelessly, "it is even as I have prophesied. These
+indeed are the words of wisdom. Is it not so, O my brethren?" Again came
+the low grunt of assent. "Let us obey, that these foul spirits may pass
+and the Unmentionable One return unto his children!"
+
+Then, according to custom, all save those of the inner cult arose and went
+forth silently. In the heart of Yabolo, as he squatted as expressionless
+as the others, was satisfaction, for he saw, or thought he saw, that
+Eyes-in-the-hands would be pleased with the destruction of a man who might
+possibly become his rival; and on that principle imagined himself
+introduced by his relative, Sakamata, to Eyes-in-the-hands as the slayer,
+or initiator of the slaying, of his rival, Moonspirit. That Zalu Zako
+should be anointed King-God suited him as well as the other wizards and
+for the same reason. Therefore Yabolo for once raised no objection to the
+behests of Bakahenzie.
+
+Already from the encampment rose the excited voices of the warriors who
+had been informed of the decision of the assembly of wizards. But the
+shadows were long. The forest was even more thickly peopled with spirits
+than their own park-like country. One of the inner cult of five suggested
+that the attack be made at dawn; but Bakahenzie, still baited by
+uncertainty regarding the reality of the magic of Moonspirit and the
+possible influence of Zalu Zako now that he had apparently developed a
+will of his own before they could shut him up in the godhead, was for
+immediate action, and insisted that they call together the warriors and
+make special magic to protect them from the forest demons. Yabolo, as
+anxious as Bakahenzie, became his ally in urging that this be done. But
+Marufa was not at all of this way of thinking. While the fate of Zalu Zako
+was quite immaterial, his attitude to Moonspirit was much the same as the
+young man's, but prompted by a different motive; a power possible to
+utilize for his benefit. But he said no word, listening indifferently
+apparently to the throbbing of the drums summoning the warriors. When the
+inner circle broke up he stalked solemnly to his own hut, but when he was
+within he took from a gourd a special amulet, slipped through a hole in
+the palisade behind the hut, and disappeared into the forest.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 18
+
+
+Meanwhile the object of Bakahenzie's political perplexities was also
+holding a council of war. Mungongo and Bakuma were divided in opinion. The
+former had recovered his complete confidence in Moonspirit. After the
+repulse of the greatest magician and his warriors he became filled with a
+martial ardour and strongly advocated advancing upon the village
+immediately. Birnier smiled and considered. As a matter of fact the plan
+was not so utterly insane as it appeared. Did he follow up swiftly upon
+the heels of the terror-stricken warriors the probability was that the
+whole camp would be infected by the spirit of panic and bolt. However, he
+could not see any object to be attained by stampeding the village.
+Mungongo, ever eager for a miracle, urged that Moonspirit should take upon
+him the spirit form and descend upon them at night. To his disgust
+Moonspirit refused, so Mungongo retired to the fire and consoled himself
+by another vivid description of the powers of his master--growing every
+day!--to Bakuma, who sat and listened dully with ever an anxious eye and
+ear upon the forest trail.
+
+Bakuma was obsessed by terror inspired by the fact that Bakahenzie had
+discovered her presence; the inherent awe of the witch-doctor which had
+been temporarily allayed by the presence of the white, was revived, as
+well as the inevitability of her doom. Only the strict injunctions of
+Moonspirit prevented her fleeing through the jungle to take refuge in some
+distant goatherd village. She was convinced the wizard would soon find out
+where she had gone; for she was persuaded that Bakahenzie had discovered
+her former hiding place by magic divination, maintaining as proof that
+although she had been as usual completely hidden in the undergrowth,
+Bakahenzie had walked directly to her.
+
+Birnier foresaw that the situation might become serious. Bakahenzie's
+attitude was one of suspicion based, he guessed correctly, on professional
+jealousy. The finding of Bakuma had probably been more of an excuse to
+assail the possible rival and thus to satisfy this subconscious death
+wish. Now, reckoned Birnier, Bakahenzie would probably be more exasperated
+than ever at the triumph of the said rival's magic. He would therefore,
+knowing the strength of the driving force of religious conviction,
+endeavour to play upon the emotions of the tribe by advocation of the
+efficacy of appeasing their fallen god by the sacrifice of the girl, and
+so work them up to an exalted state of fanaticism to attack in force; an
+additional stimulant to such action on their part would be the unconscious
+satisfaction in slaying the "brother" of the one who had invaded their
+country, Eyes-in-the-hands.
+
+Another point was that the more a person is scared the less easy it is for
+him to forgive, hence the greater resistance to the overtures of amity.
+Beyond the partially formed idea to overset zu Pfeiffer's petty
+sovereignty was the strictly professional one of studying from the most
+intimate view-point possible a system of primitive theology of a most
+complex and illuminating kind. The main object to be attained therefore
+was resolved by the best method calculated to win the friendship and
+confidence of all concerned, particularly of Bakahenzie. To Birnier, who
+was not as yet conversant with the system, Bakahenzie seemed of less
+importance than Zalu Zako, the King-God, or potential King-God. Yet
+apparently he could not hope to approach Zalu Zako without overcoming the
+opposition offered by Bakahenzie. To give up little Bakuma to the
+sacrificial orgy was unthinkable; such an act would have appeared to him
+tantamount to sacrificing the girl to attain his own ends.
+
+For precaution he placed two of his men as pickets in the jungle to give
+warning of any surprise, although he did not consider that they would be
+likely to renew the attack that day; then, as usual when in difficulties,
+he retired to his tent for a smoke. As he browsed upon his estimable
+friend Burton, his eyes caught a paragraph upon cures for love melancholy
+recommended by the amiable doctor.
+
+
+
+"Lemnius, imstit. cap 58. admires rue and commends it to have excellent
+virtues, to expel vain imaginations, devils and to {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Other things are much
+magnified by writers, as an old cock, a ram's head, a wolf's heart borne
+or eaten, which Mercurialis approves: Prosper Altinus, the water of the
+Nile; Gomesius, all sea water, and at seasonable times to be sick {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} the
+bone in a stag's heart, a monocerot's horn {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}"
+
+
+
+He glanced up to see Bakuma squatting disconsolately by the fire listening
+to the hundredth repetition of his wonder working according to Mungongo.
+The outline of her rounded back and hunched shoulders, the bronze hands
+clasped beneath the chin and the misty brown eyes apprehensively regarding
+the trail was a sculpture of melancholy. He smiled as he reflected that
+the devils and witches of Chrysostom and Paracelsus were as real to them
+as the forest spirits and the magic of Bakahenzie to this girl. After all
+some of these concoctions sounded as if they should most certainly appeal
+to Bakahenzie and his brethren of the craft. He wandered off into a
+reverie, wondering why it was that superstition is so hard to eradicate
+from the human mind. In Birnier was a strain of humorous melancholy which
+appreciated the comedy of human marionettes made to dance to the legion of
+devils and bugaboos invented by themselves, and as a stimulant to the
+dominant scientific absorption was the knowledge that upon him and his
+fellows depended their only hope of release--which was the greater reason
+that Bakahenzie should slay him, he added whimsically, did he but know it!
+
+Moved by the ever-present curiosity to know what was going on inside other
+people's minds, he called Bakuma and Mungongo to him, observing the
+sprightly action of the boy moved by his faith in him for his good in
+contrast to the dull movements of the girl in her lack of confidence to
+make for her good. And when they were come to him and were seated on the
+ground at his feet he said to Bakuma:
+
+"Wherefore hast thou the black bird within thy breast, O Bakuma?"
+
+She gazed up at him with the pathetic pleading of a gazelle.
+
+"Do not birds seek the broken twigs for the building of nests, O
+Moonspirit?"
+
+"Truly, but why are the branches of thy tree rotted and broken?"
+
+"When the axe of the peasant pecks at the roots of the tree dost thou
+think then that the sap runs the more swiftly, knowing?"
+
+"A devil hast told thee this thing, O Bakuma. When the sun was but a man's
+height did not a jackal break out of the forest seeking to devour, and yet
+the chicken was neither hurt nor taken. Are these not white words?"
+
+"Truly, O Moonspirit," acknowledged Bakuma reluctantly.
+
+"Was not then the magic of Moonspirit more potent than that of thy
+wizards?"
+
+"Thy words are white," she admitted.
+
+"Wherefore then hast thou ashes in thy mouth?"
+
+Bakuma dismally contemplated Birnier's booted leg.
+
+"Eh!" grunted the sophisticated Mungongo, "to those who live on the
+mountain the crocodile is not!"
+
+"Open thy breasts unto me, O Bakuma," said Birnier.
+
+"Clk!" she gasped, making a little gesture of hopelessness. "When the sun
+shines are not the flowers open? But when the night hath come where are
+the flowers? The deer feed on sweet pastures, but when the shadow of the
+lion falleth upon the grass hath not a great cloud come over the world?"
+
+"But thy lion hath fled, O Bakuma!"
+
+She gazed at the white man with curious wonderment at the stupidity of one
+failing to comprehend the simplest problem. She sighed and then as if with
+much patience for another's shortcomings:
+
+"Thou hast strong magic, O white man," said she, "magic that makes the
+magic of Bakahenzie to fall as water. Yet was the daughter of Bakala not
+found by divination? Was the daughter of Bakala not revealed to be the
+bride of the Banana by divination? There shall be made magic that the
+voice of the one shall be obeyed. Eh! Aiee! Aie!"
+
+The brown eyes welled opals which splashed upon a bronze breast. As
+Birnier watched her, pity stimulated a desire to relieve this symbol of
+self-torture, and he thought of a favourite passage in the "Anatomy":
+
+
+
+"Ay, but we are more miserable than others, what shall we do? Beside
+private miseries, we live in perpetual fear and danger; for epithalamiums,
+for pleasant music, that fearful noise of ordnance, drums, and warlike
+trumpets still sounding in our ears; instead of nuptial torches, we have
+the firing of towns and cities; for triumph, lamentations; for joy,
+tears."
+
+
+
+"Well, Bakuma," said he in English, smiling covertly, "we'll see if we
+can't get you the nuptial torches!"
+
+Bakuma gazed at him perplexedly with big eyes.
+
+"Already Moonspirit begins the incantation of mighty magic," explained
+Mungongo solemnly.
+
+"Eh!" murmured Bakuma expectantly.
+
+Birnier smoked and pondered. The walls of the forest were growing closer
+in the beginning of twilight. The soul of fear, reflected Birnier, dwells
+in the unknown. Reveal the god in the machine and the mystery dies. To
+Bakuma he said:
+
+"Listen, O Bakuma, I would speak heavy words to thee. When thou puttest
+the seed of the gourd into the ground then within half a moon there
+appears the plant of the gourd; is it not so?"
+
+"Truly," answered Bakuma disinterestedly.
+
+"Is that then magic?"
+
+"Eh!" commented Bakuma, as in astonishment. "Nay, how could that be? Does
+not the soul of the plant grow even as a child grows?"
+
+"Good. Turn thine eyes to me." Bakuma watched the operation of striking
+and lighting a match with indifference. "Then is this fire which I make
+done by magic?"
+
+"Truly."
+
+"And thou, Mungongo, what thinkest thou?"
+
+"Moonspirit tickles the souls of my feet!"
+
+"H'm." Birnier repressed a smile. "Thou knowest that my words are white?"
+
+"Truly."
+
+"Then I tell thee that this is not done by magic."
+
+"Ehh! Ehh!" chorused the twain.
+
+"This thing on the end of this thing which you call a magic fire twig is
+made of--of--is made of several kinds of--of earth found in the--earth, and
+when--and when----" He sought frantically for native words which were not,
+"the two are brought together--as one strikes a spear----" Birnier hesitated,
+finding himself as perplexed as a psychologist endeavouring to explain the
+abstract working of consciousness in concrete words. "When one strikes a
+spear upon a rock there is an eye of fire, is it not so?"
+
+Mungongo's eyes dimly reflected a growing horror. Bakuma stared.
+
+"The magic of Bakahenzie," murmured Mungongo.
+
+"Already is his soul bewitched," muttered Bakuma.
+
+"Is it not so?" persisted Birnier.
+
+"Aye," admitted Mungongo, moving uneasily and speaking as if humouring a
+dangerous lunatic. "It is the eye of the angry spirit of the rock."
+
+Birnier saw his danger and made another effort.
+
+"Even so. Also thou knowest that thou canst make fire by the rubbing
+together of two sticks. Is that then magic also?"
+
+"Truly," continued Mungongo in the same tone. "Can the spirits of the
+souls of the twigs be summoned without the incantations by the Keeper of
+Fires?"
+
+"O my God!" groaned Birnier, sotto voce, and he abandoned the effort to
+explain combustion. "Thus is it then with these that ye call the magic
+fire twigs."
+
+"Even as we have said," asserted Mungongo triumphantly.
+
+Birnier lapsed into silent defeat. Bakuma began to edge away. As Mungongo
+rose came a stifled scream from Bakuma who sprang to her feet and dashed
+towards the tent; then as if recollecting that her saviour had been
+bewitched by Bakahenzie, fled into the gloom beyond. Mungongo had seized a
+spear stuck in the earth near to him. As appeared the wizened figure of
+Marufa, who saluted as he squatted in the native manner, Birnier
+recollected that he had been with Bakahenzie and wondered what he wanted.
+Mungongo replaced his spear and came to the tent.
+
+"Greeting, O son of MTungo!"
+
+Marufa mumbled the orthodox return.
+
+"Thou hast need of Moonspirit?" demanded Mungongo, some of his officious
+confidence in Birnier returning.
+
+"Doth the leopard go to the goat pen to seek nuts?" grumbled the old man.
+He tapped out snuff slowly and grunted.
+
+Presently said Marufa:
+
+"Moonspirit is the brother of Eyes-in-the-hands?"
+
+"Nay," answered Birnier, wondering at the persistency of this idea.
+"Eyes-in-the-hands is of another tribe ten moons distant from Moonspirit."
+
+Marufa grunted. Another long pause. Then:
+
+"The magic of Moonspirit hath blunted the spears of Bakahenzie?"
+
+"Even so," said Birnier modestly.
+
+"The son of Maliko maketh much magic that the bride of the Banana be taken
+from the white stranger."
+
+"The monkey makes many faces and much noise, but does he eat up the
+leopard?"
+
+"The bite of the spear is more deadly than the bleat of a goat," retorted
+Marufa.
+
+"Doth the wise man eat the heart of a goat to gain courage?"
+
+"The louder the lion roars the less teeth has he!"
+
+"But only the fool opens his mouth to see how many he has!"
+
+"The wise father examines the grain of the tusks before he sells his
+daughter."
+
+"But the wise man sees the daughter before he offers the tusks!"
+
+"Ugm!"
+
+Marufa took more snuff and contemplated the interior of the tent where a
+native was lighting a lamp. Birnier reflected. Evidently Marufa had come
+with an object and had inferred that he had something to bargain about.
+What was it? Also he wanted to be sure that he was setting his trap at the
+right pool. Birnier decided that he was probably acting on his own
+initiative and willing to conspire against Bakahenzie. An impulse to
+experiment upon him as he had upon Mungongo and Bakuma was repressed, for
+from the previous effort he had cemented the conclusion that it was
+impossible to explain rational phenomena to irrational minds; that as ever
+the adventurous champion of reason would be either regarded as insane or
+inspired; that which is not comprehended is divine or ridiculous. However,
+through Marufa might come a suggestion for the tactics of campaign to gain
+the good-will of Bakahenzie or Zalu Zako and the attainment of his
+scientific object--as well as to give Bakuma the torches he had promised
+her. Whether I will or no, he reflected smiling in the dark, must I be
+either a magician or a fool. Fools get nowhere; witch-doctors do here as
+elsewhere. He saw that in order to influence these peoples or any others,
+he had perforce to work in terms of their own understanding, as the early
+Christian missionaries practised in their conversion of the Teutons, the
+Scandinavians and the Britons. A nucleus of a plan had been given by
+Mungongo's impetuous suggestion. He decided to develop it. But through
+Marufa, who first of all must be impressed with the fact that Moonspirit
+was the greatest magician the world had ever seen. So therefore he called
+to the native within: "O Bakombi, put out the light." And to Marufa: "O
+wise man, thunder has not always lightning. Behold! I am part of that
+which is and is not!"
+
+"Clk!"
+
+A click of astonishment was squeezed from Marufa by the chance mystic
+phrase which was interpreted by him as referring to the Unmentionable One.
+
+Then taking out his metal box of vestas Birnier moistened one. As he
+rubbed around his eyes Marufa, who was expecting a miracle, observed the
+growing phosphorescence in stoical calm, while Mungongo, delighted at the
+long deferred proof of his boasts, grunted admiringly.
+
+But when a glowing skeleton hand, which Birnier had prepared behind his
+back, hovered over the old wizard's head, he grunted and made a slight
+convulsive movement.
+
+"Have no fear, O my friend," came Birnier's voice, "the spirit loves my
+friends and destroys my enemies."
+
+That belly grunt had registered the degree of impression that Birnier
+sought. So he lighted the lamp, bade the excited Mungongo to bring out the
+phonograph, a machine adjusted with the recording cylinders as well as the
+reproduction, and after a successful demonstration of magic, discussed
+with Marufa a certain scheme to which the old wizard, quick to see the
+possibilities, afforded many invaluable suggestions.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 19
+
+
+When Zalu Zako was notified of the verdict of the Council and the words of
+Tarum the sense of the inevitable returned, extinguishing the spark of
+rebellion that had been kindled by his passion for Bakuma. To Bakahenzie,
+or to the wizards separately, or collectively, he had had the strength to
+voice his own desires, but to the veritable voice of Tarum was no
+resistance dared. He was bidden to preside by right and precedent at the
+anointing of the warriors. He did not make any feint at refusal, for his
+will was crushed, as it had been weeks before by the doom of godhood and
+celibacy.
+
+Beyond the fact that Bakuma would soon be forbidden to him for ever, he
+did not think; desire was strangled. Even the recollection that Bakahenzie
+had stated that Moonspirit had taken her gave him no reaction. To him as
+to his brethren, while in physical love is bound up the control of the
+universe, because it is vaguely apprehended as a creative force, it is of
+no importance to the individual lover unless he be guilty of breaking the
+sexual tabu: if the girl is not a consenting party to the illicit union
+then she is free; if she is, then it is death to both of them, for as
+every one knows, such criminal action endangers the balance of the burden
+of the world upon the shoulders of the King-God. Thus it was that the
+words of Bakahenzie had produced no reaction against Moonspirit in the
+mind of Zalu Zako; indeed, if the words were true and he could yet obtain
+Bakuma, she might have a son by the white which would obviously bring the
+marvellous power of white magic to his successor, the next King-God; and
+possibly, had mused Zalu Zako, dimly straining at such a radical thought
+against the influence of the priesthood, make the king more powerful a
+magician than the witch-doctors themselves.
+
+But he obeyed the mandate and took his place as bidden. Bakahenzie had
+caused preparation to be begun immediately for the ceremony of making
+enchantment against the spirits of the night. In the circle of cleared
+ground, where sat the temporary Council of Elders, big fires were lighted
+as the dark wall of the forest drew in upon them. Bakahenzie squatted
+before a big calabash, specially reserved and enchanted for the making of
+magic, in which a mess of certain herbs whose spirits were violent haters
+of the demons of all trees, rocks and streams, were to be released from
+the vegetable bondage by stewing that they might be distributed among the
+warriors for the night assault. These warriors, some fifty chosen from the
+followers of Bakahenzie and Marufa, sat on their hams within the circle of
+fires, uneasily casting glances behind them at the deepening sepia, from
+whence arose the nocturnal chant of the spirits of the forest. In order to
+insure no interference from malign animals, Bakahenzie caused to be
+brought a pure white goat whose throat was cut and bled into the cauldron;
+for as any one knows, that soul which is white must necessarily fight well
+against anything that be black. Yet in spite of this potent magic the
+warriors grew unquiet; they felt, rather than thought, that if the magic
+of their witch-doctors had failed against one white why should it succeed
+against another like unto him? And their faith thus weakened, doubts
+regarding the efficacy of the same magic against spirits of the forest
+bred as mosquitoes after rain.
+
+Bakahenzie remarked the uneasiness, but the stronger grew his need to
+restore the waning confidence in his powers by removing the white; the
+blood desire had now been transferred from Bakuma to Moonspirit as the
+most effective demonstration possible to him.
+
+The fires smouldered and flickered yellow tongues upon the greens of the
+warriors' bodies and the blues of the wizards' head-dresses. Faint blue
+vapour swirled around the scarlet feather above Bakahenzie's graven face
+as he muttered incantations and stirred the cauldron. Then as the drums
+throbbed and the warriors grunted rhythmically to Bakahenzie's song of
+enchantment came a squawk as of a parrot. The chant ceased. Branches
+rustled. Every head quirked automatically towards the sound. Came a low
+belly grunt of terror as if an invisible hand had punched them in their
+solar plexus.
+
+Just in the shadow line where the glow of the fires faintly tinted and
+greened the curves of his bronze body against the sepia of his feathers,
+appeared the figure of Marufa, his spear lifted on high as he cried out in
+a loud voice:
+
+"Greetings, O people of the Banana, I bring you tidings of him who is and
+is not, of him who was lost and yet is come. 'Behold, I show you a sign!'"
+
+Against the gloom his left arm and hand glowed with a strange light. An
+unanimous "Ehh!" rose from the assembled warriors and wizards alike.
+
+"Raise your ears!" continued Marufa, "that the Voice may speak unto you!"
+
+In the silence came a subdued click and commenced a high-pitched voice in
+the dialect:
+
+  "Aie! Aie! I am the spirit of Kintu!
+  Aie! Aie! I am he who first was!
+  Aie! Aie! I am the Banana from whom I was made!"
+
+Whites of eyes glimmered like butterflies in starlight. Nothing was
+visible. The voice appeared to rise from every direction. The new miracle
+petrified the limbs of all.
+
+  "Aie! Aie! My soul is defiled and my children enslaved!
+  Aie! Aie! My face hath been scratched by an alien claw!
+  Aie! Aie! I send you the revenge which is white!
+  Aie! Aie! I send you the One who is bidden!
+  Aie! Aie! Let that One arise who is I!
+  Aie! Aie! The mighty One who will blot out the curse!
+  Aie! Aie! I have spoken, I, the Father of Men!
+  Aie! Aie! I, Tarum; the soul of your Ancestors!"
+
+A faint whirr as of wings was drowned in the automatic grunt of acceptance
+squeezed from all the warriors and the wizards by the sacred chant, except
+those of the inner circle. In dread sat the warriors of the terrible magic
+of their doctors which they had once doubted. But the minds of Bakahenzie,
+Yabolo, and the other two master craftsmen were stunned. The phenomenon of
+the glowing hand had they never seen before, but they recollected the
+stones of Mungongo. Even was Sakamata, sophisticated to the wonders of
+Eyes-in-the-hands, impressed and bewildered. Dormant awe for the
+Unmentionable One was awakened in every one of them. Zalu Zako felt that
+his doom was upon him; that the Unmentionable One was about to call him to
+his duty, which invoked fear for the sacrilege he had committed in
+entertaining such radical thoughts in the immediate past. But in
+Bakahenzie was a streak of suspicion; how was it that Marufa was thus
+chosen as the divine messenger? Yet perhaps the veritable god was, or gods
+were, speaking! Doubt held him silent.
+
+"O my brethren, would ye that we seek the voice of the Unmentionable One?"
+cried Marufa.
+
+"Ough! Ough!" grunted the wizards.
+
+Marufa stalked slowly to the nearest fire, muttering a spell. From his
+loin cloth he took the three digital bones of an enemy and proceeded to
+discover the whereabouts by geomancy. And behold! the fingers pointed in
+one direction which all could see. Oblivious to the tight indifference of
+Bakahenzie the old man rose and began to gyrate, mumbling incantations,
+towards a thicket of grass on the fringe of the undergrowth, holding aloft
+the magic bones in the glowing hand. Anxiously the assembly watched the
+skinny figure, half bent, glide out from the glow of the fires into the
+blue shadows. A small log collapsed, throwing a red gleam upon the form
+poised upright before the clump of grass as Marufa cried out:
+
+"Let him who-may-not-be-mentioned speak that his children may hear!"
+
+Immediately commenced a high voice chanting:
+
+"Take up, O Marufa, the wise, the pod of my soul!"
+
+Then in the sight of every man Marufa bent upon his knees, muttering, and
+arose unharmed. Save for the slow turn of each head the better to follow
+the progress of the magician no limb nor muscle moved as in silence Marufa
+bore the like of which had never before been seen; a thing like unto a
+stone, having an ear almost as large and as erect as an angry elephant,
+the colour of a lion yet hairless. "The pod of the soul" Marufa placed
+within the circle of the fires so that all should see. More incantations
+did Marufa make, sitting fearlessly; he caressed it as a young man
+caresses a maid and came forth again the voice of Tarum:
+
+  "Rejoice, O my children, for he that is bidden shall come!
+  Rejoice, O ye warriors, for he that shall lead you shall come!
+  Rejoice, O ye wizards, for he that is greater than ye shall come!
+  Rejoice, O ye women, for he that fertilizes shall come!
+  He shall eat up your enemies as a lion eateth buck.
+  He shall make your dead to be seen and your phantoms to talk!
+  He shall give to your women to have sons of your breed!
+  He shall give you that which was slain on the hill!
+  He that walks in a flame in the night!
+  He that is whiter than the flesh of the baobab!
+  He shall come forth bearing that which ye seek!
+  He shall come forth bearing that which is yours!
+  Hear me, my people, and give voice to my word!"
+
+"Ough! Ough!" came the chorus of assent.
+
+Not a limb nor a hand moved among the concourse of warriors and wizards
+until a new voice, deep, as one who commands, cried out:
+
+"Let the son of Kawa Kendi, the son of MFunya MPopo, the son of MKoffo,
+move not; neither he nor Marufa, the son of MTungo! Unto ye others we say
+unto you, depart that we speak in peace with this our son and priest!"
+
+And simultaneously appeared in the gloom of the undergrowth three pairs of
+eyes as luminous as the glowworm, vaster than any human; and beside the
+souls of the dead King-Gods were terrible hands. Warriors and wizards, all
+save Bakahenzie and Zalu Zako, literally leaped for the forest and village
+in one convulsive bound and grunt. Zalu Zako had remained upon the ground,
+green with terror. Bakahenzie stood upright, his scarlet feather
+fluorescent in the fire-glow. The anthem of the forest was only broken by
+the rustle of branches and the breathing of Zalu Zako and Bakahenzie. A
+harsh voice cried:
+
+"Begone, Bakahenzie, son of a dog! Lest we take thy soul to be with us!"
+
+The eyes appeared to float nearer; hands pointed menacingly. Bakahenzie
+boggled; hesitated; then the dignity of his pose melted into the graceful
+bounds of a fleeing leopard. Even for the professional ghost manipulator,
+such a phenomenon of the spirits, with whom he was supposed to be on
+familiar terms, was demoralizing. But half-way through a thicket of
+undergrowth, where he could no longer see the horrific eyes, his courage
+began to return.
+
+To his ears came a new voice chanting:
+
+  "Sweeter than warm honey is the scent of my man!
+  Fiercer than scorpions is the grip of his hand!
+  Whiter than a spear flash is the gleam of his teeth!
+  Smoother than river stone is the feel of his chest!
+                 Bakuma rejoices!"
+
+Peering through the interstices Bakahenzie could see the gleam of the fire
+upon the bangles of the Son-of-the-Snake and the blue flash upon his spear
+as he melted into the forest wall.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 20
+
+
+The actual sight of spirits from ghostland, of which hitherto they had
+only heard, had been too much for the nerves of the tribe already
+overstrung by the overthrow of the idol and the magic and slaughter of zu
+Pfeiffer; the warriors had fled like scared poultry to the jungle, up
+trees, in the undergrowth and in their huts, where they cowered among
+their women and slaves, reading awful omens and portents in every sound of
+the forest.
+
+The phenomenon had been just as startling and awe-inspiring to Bakahenzie
+as it had been to his most ignorant dupe. His belief in ghostland was
+implicit, but now he had seen what, professionally, he was supposed to see
+and converse with on familiar terms. As Zalu Zako disappeared he continued
+to listen intently. Above the slight rustle of the bushes as the
+Son-of-the-Snake moved through the undergrowth rose a feminine laugh.
+Bakahenzie's liver was squeezed by that sardonic chuckle; for, as is well
+known, female demons are much more malignant than the male. For the space
+of a chant he remained crouching there, curiosity and the dread of
+revealing his terror to his fellows tugging at his feet and fear of the
+demons clutching him around the waist. Save the anthem of the forest no
+further sound of the ghosts was audible.
+
+Cautiously rose Bakahenzie, wriggled out of his nest and with as much
+dignity as maybe, strode back to the fire. From the village came a slight
+whimpering. With satisfaction Bakahenzie noted that no one else was in
+sight. For another space he sat with unquiet eyes and ears upon the
+forest. Then gathering courage as nothing happened, he pondered upon what
+attitude he should assume.
+
+Yabolo stalked from round a hut and squatting calmly beside Bakahenzie,
+nonchalantly proceeded to tap out snuff and offered some to Bakahenzie,
+who grunted acceptance and sniffed with even greater indifference.
+Motionless they continued to sit and silently. Bakahenzie wondered whether
+Yabolo knew that he, too, had fled, and Yabolo, who did know, waited for
+the first move on Bakahenzie's part to retort.
+
+Yabolo, indeed, who had been as panic-stricken as Bakahenzie, was more
+suspicious in view of the accounts he had heard of the magic of
+Eyes-in-the-hands. Who knew but this vision might not be another
+manifestation of Eyes-in-the-hands? And more slowly a similar idea began
+to occur to Bakahenzie, save that he had in mind the incident of
+Moonspirit's magic in the face of his bravest warriors. The calmer he
+became the more was he inclined to accept this explanation of the
+apparitions; such was infinitely more comforting to him than the
+conception that they had been in truth spirits from ghostland. As the
+doubt grew the wisdom of propitiating this powerful Moonspirit became
+apparent; yet was present the dread of loosing what remained of his
+autocratic power. The problem now was to enlist the white and discover
+some means of controlling him and his magic.
+
+But to both men the vital question was, what had become of Zalu Zako?
+There were two alternatives: if the visions had been genuine ghosts, then
+undoubtedly Zalu Zako was dead; but if they had been produced through the
+magic of a white man, then, Bakahenzie argued, Zalu Zako and Marufa must
+be in league with Moonspirit, and Yabolo opined that Zalu Zako had been
+captured by Eyes-in-the-hands. To the latter the effect was to strengthen
+the determination to go over to Eyes-in-the-hands. If the first
+possibility was correct the greater need had he of strong magic if real
+ghosts were taking to walking abroad visibly, and the other case merely
+proved beyond question the invincible magic of Eyes-in-the-hands. But to
+Bakahenzie the reaction was slightly different, for his elemental reason
+took him a little farther than Yabolo by pointing out that in all his wide
+experience never had spirits taken demons' shape, so that the suspicion
+that they had been due to Moonspirit became more plausible, and was
+supported by the recollection of Marufa's unexplained absence and sudden
+reappearance on familiar terms with the spirits.
+
+The longer he pondered on the strange actions of Marufa the more he was
+persuaded that that wily colleague was acting upon sound information, and
+the tangle of his affairs made him so desperate that he decided to gamble
+upon that assumption: for magician Bakahenzie began to realize that Marufa
+had somehow scored a point and that now was approaching the crux which
+would determine whether he won back or lost for ever that which was the
+essence of life to him.
+
+Meanwhile the two puzzled plotters sat motionless and silent as if
+mutually agreeing that no question regarding each other's late movements
+had better be asked.
+
+Accordingly to the depth of his superstition returned each witch-doctor.
+When they were come, without one word of explanation, Bakahenzie lifted
+his voice in a high falsetto, bidding the lay warriors to return to hear
+the voice of the elders. Reassured by this command which carried far on
+the still air, they began to emerge from hut and undergrowth. The first to
+arrive was MYalu, angry to find the whole assembly of wizards apparently
+sitting as if they had never moved, engaged in mystic incantations. MYalu
+had not fled far and from his cranny had seen the flight of Bakahenzie and
+the departure of Zalu Zako, but he dared not betray the doctors. He
+squatted sullenly and waited while the remainder of the warriors, of whom
+many had also seen the general stampede, filed to their places.
+
+When all were assembled Bakahenzie looked up from his spell and bade them
+to listen to what message the faculty--for obvious policy's sake he
+included the whole of the ghosts--had received from ghostland by the three
+spirits, emphasising the vision of the magicians as proof positive of the
+terrible power of the craft. By reason of the sin committed by one who had
+broken the magic circle, as they all knew, said Bakahenzie, had this wrath
+of the Unmentionable One come upon them, permitting the incarnation of a
+demon, Eyes-in-the-hands, to work his will upon them and to make them
+slaves, as were their dogs the Wamungo; and so in the depth of their
+tribulation he, Bakahenzie, whose magic had been rendered impotent by the
+betrayal of the Bride of the Banana, had invoked the spirits of the three,
+as they all had witnessed.
+
+"Ough! Ough!" grunted the warriors in assent, although many of them were
+sorely puzzled to know why the doctors themselves had fled. Yabolo began
+to grow restless in his mind. To allow Bakahenzie to steal all the thunder
+and condemn the possible source of political power to the level of an evil
+demon was contrary to his policy, but he gave no physical sign save to
+become engrossed in his snuff box.
+
+Then Bakahenzie continued with a long harangue maintaining the necessity
+of the consummation of the Marriage of the Banana and announced that Zalu
+Zako had been taken by the spirit of his forefathers in order to prepare
+magic for the eating up of the terrible Eyes-in-the-hands; that as the
+voice of Tarum had said, Zalu Zako would return with "That which was slain
+on the hill--that which ye seek, that which is yours." Although Bakahenzie
+was not sure to what these words had referred, yet he was sagacious enough
+to know that if Marufa had engineered that scene, then there must be some
+plan at the back of it, and in any case knew, as any white medicine man,
+that words in mystic phrasing are always soul-satisfying to the credulous
+who interpret them in terms of their subconscious desires. Then with
+political prudence he avoided any reference to uncomfortable topics, by
+dismissing the assembly before any pertinent questions could be asked.
+
+But when Bakahenzie had retired to his hut, presumably for the night, as
+Marufa had done before him, he girded himself with an amulet containing
+the gall of an enemy killed in battle and a short stabbing spear and
+sallied forth through a hole in the fence to brave the spirits of the
+forests in his need.
+
+In the village generally sleep was not entertained with enthusiasm by any
+save those women and slaves who knew not of the great happenings. In the
+hut of Yabolo were MYalu and Sakamata. From the old men MYalu received
+much consolation and advice, but no information as to why the wizards had
+bolted as fast as the laymen from ghosts invoked by their own magic.
+Sakamata confirmed authoritatively Yabolo's suspicion that the phenomena
+had been produced through the magic of Eyes-in-the-hands, urging that they
+lose no time in going to him to make submission. Yabolo had already
+decided on that course, but MYalu refused to give a definite decision as
+to when he would go. He sat sullenly, saying no word, and eventually
+departed to his own hut where he dismissed his wives and continued to
+brood.
+
+The fear and rage aroused by the anointing of the warriors for the capture
+of Bakuma had been dissipated by the general panic produced by the ghosts.
+Afterwards MYalu had unconsciously hoped, because he so desired it, that
+the pursuit of the Bride would be abandoned; hence Bakahenzie's renewal of
+the chase had angered and frightened him anew. As all the rest of them, he
+wondered and pondered upon the fate of Zalu Zako and Marufa. Marufa, as he
+well knew, had a black heart and two tongues; therefore was he suspicious
+of any manifestation with which the son of MTungo could be connected. Zalu
+Zako was wealthy; perhaps he had bribed Marufa to make magic in order to
+enable him to escape the doom of the king-godship and to flee to another
+country with Bakuma under the protection of Moonspirit. A lover's jealousy
+is as powerful a driving force as ambition. In this case it drove even
+MYalu to defy the spirits of the night, for at the hour of the monkey he
+too stole away into the gloom.
+
+So it was that as the patterned roof of the forest was etched in the timid
+green of dawn peeped MYalu through the gate of the zareba of Moonspirit to
+discover the gaunt form of Bakahenzie squatted by the embers of a fire
+within a deserted compound. Bakahenzie's quick eyes, on the alert for
+ghosts or any moving thing, saw him; so coldly MYalu advanced and sat
+beside him, grunting the formal greeting.
+
+MYalu noted the age of the spoor about the compound, the tent peg holes
+newly pulled. Now was he sure that Marufa and Zalu Zako were in league
+with Moonspirit. Wrath smouldered in his broad chest. At length spoke
+Bakahenzie casually:
+
+"The Bride of the Banana hath been taken away." Bakahenzie paused as if
+weighing his words, and added: "But the feet of spirits are heavy on the
+land." MYalu grunted. Bakahenzie had an idea and to MYalu was born another
+about the same instant. Said Bakahenzie, who wished to know the
+whereabouts of Marufa, Moonspirit and company: "If the Marriage of the
+Bride be not consummated then will the power of Eyes-in-the-hands
+prevail." And after a long pause: "Who will seek the Bride?"
+
+MYalu remained silent, revolving his own notion in his mind. There
+remained with him still many traces of the awe and belief in the power and
+knowledge of Bakahenzie, and so his words threatening the triumph of
+Eyes-in-the-hands assured and strengthened his purpose; for he thought
+that if he could accomplish his plan then would Eyes-in-the-hands surely
+triumph as Bakahenzie predicted. Thus it was that he said:
+
+"O master of Wisdom, give unto me a mighty charm against the evil eye of
+traitors and will I and those that follow me seek the Bride and bring her
+so that which is bidden may be, that the children of the Banana may
+triumph."
+
+MYalu rose. The two started on the return to the village. On the road
+Bakahenzie sought to flatter MYalu by pretending to take him into his
+confidence, adjuring him to secrecy and informing him that he would cause
+it to be known that MYalu, the son of MBusa, would bring back the Bride of
+the Banana. MYalu assented gravely. Just before reaching the village his
+keen eyes noticed a slight trail from the regular path. Broken, twisted
+and crushed leaves and strained branches indicated the recent passage of
+two or three people through the undergrowth.
+
+With difficulty, for the Wongolo are not forest people, he followed the
+spoor in a semi-circle towards the village and a footprint in the slime
+revealed the track of Zalu Zako or Marufa coming from the fires. MYalu
+grunted, but he said nothing to Bakahenzie or anybody else. That the
+vision had been caused by Moonspirit's magic he had now no doubt, and his
+estimation of Moonspirit's power increased to the point of terror; yet the
+smouldering jealousy and desire for Bakuma drove him dreadfully on.
+
+Before the sun was two spans high MYalu left the village with some two
+hundred of his followers anointed against magic and spirits. The track
+from Moonspirit's camp was like an elephant's path. Through the steamy
+heat they followed all day until they came out upon a river near to a
+village upon the border of the forest. The headman of the village was away
+with his chief; but women, children and slaves remained. Zalu Zako, in the
+company of a white man called Moonspirit, Marufa, the wizard, and a girl
+had arrived, had taken three canoes and had left up-stream within a hand's
+breadth of a shadow. MYalu took all the canoes available and started in
+pursuit, leaving the rest of his men to follow as soon as they had
+procured other canoes from the nearest village.
+
+The river was small but deep and flowed swiftly between the vast curtains
+of the overhanging trees. When the dungeon of the forest was glooming to
+night they saw the gleam of a fire. Swiftly and silently they landed,
+surrounded the camp and uttering the war yell, rushed.
+
+But Moonspirit, Zalu Zako or Marufa they found not--only Bakuma with some
+dozen Wamungo carriers. Even the dismal squawk of a Baroto bird could not
+damp the relief and joy of MYalu. Next morning he despatched a secret
+messenger to Yabolo, making a rendezvous at a certain village and with a
+weeping Bakuma in his train set out to seek the rest of his fortune at the
+camp of Eyes-in-the-hands.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 21
+
+
+In the village of Bakahenzie was discontent.
+
+The desertion of Sakamata, Yabolo, and three chiefs, had corroborated his
+suspicions of the unfrocked priest. That Sakamata had been preaching open
+sedition he had known, yet Bakahenzie was in the situation of many a
+president or prime minister; he had feared to put his own position in
+jeopardy by having the offender removed expeditiously. This treachery,
+which synchronised with the time when MYalu should have either returned or
+sent a messenger, implied another grave error. All the information he
+could gather was that MYalu had returned through the village by the river
+with the girl Bakuma, some prisoners and some of the white man's
+equipment, on his way to the north-east; but no one apparently had seen
+Zalu Zako, Marufa nor the white man.
+
+Bakahenzie was at a loss to discover a plausible theory to account for
+MYalu having kidnapped Bakuma, who could not be of any political
+importance to him in going over to Eyes-in-the-hands, but would rather
+prejudice him seriously with the rest of the tribe for the sin of
+sacrilege in taking the Bride of the Banana. Shrewd judge of his
+compatriots though he was, the possibility of a love motive never occurred
+to Bakahenzie. A dominating passion in an individual for any particular
+female was rare in the native world; attractive wives or concubines were
+chosen and bought as one buys a goat or an ox. Bakuma, in her capacity as
+a sacrificial victim, was to him merely a good-looking girl, well selected
+by Marufa for the orgy of the Harvest Festival.
+
+Bakahenzie was distraught. He feared that he had not the authority to
+prevent further desertions; he did not know how far Sakamata's propaganda
+had permeated; he could not guess what Zalu Zako, Marufa and the white man
+were going to do. As many a wise statesman before and after him he adopted
+a policy of "wait and see." To provide an exciting distraction to keep his
+constituents amused and from thinking too much, he borrowed another
+political tactic of abusing some one vigorously. He called a meeting of
+the faculty and the warriors. There he solemnly denounced MYalu as a
+traitor and accused him of the crime of having abducted the Bride of the
+Banana, and consequently as the cause of the continuance of the
+misfortunes of the tribe.
+
+The move was successful, inasmuch that it afforded discussion and absorbed
+wrath for two whole days. Various chiefs proposed as many plans. But none
+was taken. Everybody was discontented and quarrelsome, as fearful of
+Eyes-in-the-hands as he was of his tribal god; many were impressed by the
+propaganda of Sakamata and Yabolo and the impunity with which Yabolo and
+Sakamata and company had quietly gone over to the enemy. Meanwhile
+Bakahenzie squatted in oracular silence, murmuring incantations that were
+prayers to the Unmentionable One interlarded with promises of the things
+he would accomplish for the said Deity, with solemnity and sincerity, for
+he felt that the result of Marufa's intrigue with the magician Moonspirit
+would mature very shortly. What that would be he had no notion; only he
+strained every nerve to be alert when the crisis came to snatch from
+Marufa the advantage that wily old man had gained.
+
+On the third day two more chiefs followed in the wake of Yabolo.
+Bakahenzie made no comment, but he realised that before long, unless the
+unknown happened, he would be unable to retain any of his followers;
+realised that his one chance lay in procrastination. In his despair he
+began to contemplate an alliance with Marufa, even if he had to take a
+subordinate role--which would at any rate give him his only ally, time, to
+help checkmate his colleague.
+
+On the next day yet another chief and his men departed. Bakahenzie knew
+that they were like a herd of goats and that to stop the stampede he must
+adopt desperate measures. To quell the restlessness which murmured
+ominously throughout the camp he called another meeting as soon as the
+news had come of the last desertion. While the drum tapped out the summons
+Bakahenzie sat muttering his most impressive spells alone, endeavouring to
+discover a plausible excuse for some sort of excitement to distract the
+public mind.
+
+Slowly and sulkily the remainder of the brethren of the craft and those
+lay chiefs that were left, assembled within the circle of fires. Squatted
+in the prescribed order they eyed the figure of Bakahenzie in his red and
+green feathers mumbling incantations with doubt and disfavour. Indeed
+Bakahenzie seemed to them the symbol of the fallen god and a past regime;
+impotent and as mistaken as they were. In each and every one of them were
+suspicions and fears growing like weeds in tropic rain that he had made an
+error in not propitiating the new god in time, an impulse which required
+but a few hours' growth to propel them out to the north-east after
+Sakamata and the others.
+
+As they watched in silence Bakahenzie was aware of the state of their
+minds towards him and grew the more perplexed in his search for an
+entertainment sufficiently stimulating to postpone the effects of their
+discontent. Sapiently he decided that any more messages from Tarum would
+be unwise in the present atmosphere. An idea of a revelation by divination
+to appoint a substitute for Bakuma as the Bride of the Banana and thus
+thrust forward a reason for a feast, as there was now no Yabolo to object,
+was abandoned because such an orgy was exclusive to the craft and would
+serve to exasperate the lay chiefs.
+
+His resource suggested a method. Suddenly he uttered a piercing yell and
+fell sideways as in the manner of one about to receive a communication
+from Tarum; but instead of the habitual seizure and cries and groans he
+lay rigid and silent. The divergence from the usual distracted the doubts
+of the audience.
+
+The fires flickered and danced to the insectile anthem as for twenty
+minutes or more he lay there as one dead. But at the first flutter of
+inattention among the doctors he sat up with closed eyes and called out in
+a loud voice:
+
+"That which is and must be, shall be!"
+
+Intuitively he had followed the precept of witch-doctors the world over of
+saying nothing at all in such a way that as many interpretations may be
+deduced as there are listeners. Each and every doctor and chief
+accordingly saw in these mystic words, as Marufa had done in the chance
+phrase of Moonspirit, that which he was most urged to do. Bakahenzie had
+accomplished his temporary object. Once more he cried out:
+
+"Let the children of the Banana be as the wild-cat at the fishpool that
+that which I have prophesied may come to pass!"
+
+The charging of the air with the familiar suggestion of magical doings
+gripped the audience and forced from them the conventional grunt of
+assent. Bakahenzie began again to mutter incantations. He had, he knew,
+averted the immediate danger for at least another sun, or perhaps two. Now
+was there only to wait and see. But Bakahenzie, as all great men, had the
+distinct vein of luck that follows the bold. Even as they squatted there,
+thoroughly worked up for the reception of a miracle, came a rustle among
+the leaves. Every head turned as one to see once more the mystic gleam of
+eyes in the gloom as the voice of Marufa cried:
+
+"Let there be a new fire!"
+
+From the cavern of the undergrowth emerged a white man bearing upon his
+shoulders a burden which, as he staggered into the gleam of the fires, was
+seen to be in form and in shape that of the burned idol. Then did
+Bakahenzie leap to his feet and in one stroke recover his lead and fetter
+his most dangerous enemy by proclaiming in a loud voice:
+
+"Behold! The bearer of the Burden of the World even as Bakahenzie hath
+prophesied!"
+
+And as Birnier set down the idol, from warrior and wizard, with the chief
+witch-doctor's declaration, "That which is and must be, shall be," echoing
+in their ears, came the deep grunt of acceptance of the new King-God of
+the lost Usakuma, the Incarnation of the Unmentionable One.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 22
+
+
+In the humid heat of the forenoon the small hills of Fort Eitel, as zu
+Pfeiffer had renamed the Place of Kings, in the centre of the rased banana
+plantations, resembled scabby pimples upon a shaven patch of a green head
+seething with a verminous activity.
+
+Across the ford of the river came a puckered-faced Bakuma in the train of
+carriers and slaves of MYalu, who with Yabolo was coming to make obeisance
+to Eyes-in-the-hands, under the protection of Sakamata. To Bakuma there
+was no joy in the prospect of the sight of her old home; the bitter taste
+of the oleander was in her mouth as she trudged despondently with downcast
+head.
+
+But the breast of MYalu was filled with the song of the cricket. The
+terrors that had haunted him throughout the journey, of being overtaken by
+the magic of Bakahenzie or his emissaries, for the sacrilege of stealing
+the Bride of the Banana, began to evaporate at the approach to his village
+where now dwelt a new god more powerful than any, from whom he was about
+to gain protection, honours, and incidentally the ivory, which his anxious
+eyes pictured still within his hut. But when they broke from the outer
+banana plantation a mighty grunt was punched from the chests of Yabolo and
+MYalu at the vision of the half-completed street of large huts in the
+midst of desolation.
+
+"Eh!" quoth Sakamata, "is not the way of the mighty one more wonderful
+than he who is gone? Behold, he maketh a city like unto that of his
+people, a city of gods!"
+
+But MYalu had no admiration to spare, for to him the alleged beauty
+thereof was fogged by the fact that his own huts were but blackened ruins.
+The next moment MYalu, in spite of his native dignity, started as one of
+those uniformed keepers of the coughing monsters barked at them magic
+words.
+
+Sakamata replied. Yabolo and MYalu stiffened as they observed the cringe
+of the shoulders as he fumbled hastily within his loin-cloth and presented
+a piece of hard substance, the colour of blue clay with magic marks upon
+it. The demon grunted at them to proceed as if talking to a slave.
+Followed in file the rest of the caravan. As Bakuma passed the uniformed
+demon standing with the sword and gun with seven voices upon his shoulder,
+leered, and grunting in a strange tongue, stepped forward and spun her
+round by the shoulders. Bakuma cried out in terror and the carriers gasped
+fearfully. MYalu and Yabolo wheeled. MYalu's facial scar twitched with
+rage as he raised his spear. But Sakamata clung to his arm as the soldier,
+grinning, raised his rifle in their direction. Bakuma ran on. The man
+laughed and turned his back to them, calling out something that the
+Wongolo could not understand.
+
+"Eh!" commented Sakamata indignantly, "the dog hath eaten poison grass! We
+will tell his words to Eyes-in-the-hands and he will be beaten until he
+stales."
+
+MYalu, slightly mollified by this promise of revenge, strode on in
+silence, bewildered and resentful, wondering at these strange things in
+the camp of the new god. In a large open space resembling a public square,
+was a big unfinished hut: the guest house, Sakamata informed them, for
+those who sought an audience with the Invincible One. As they squatted on
+the floor waiting patiently until the sun was two hand's-breadth above the
+hill for the appointed time, food and beer were brought to them by a
+Wamungo slave. Zu Pfeiffer was careful to foster the class distinction.
+Sakamata duly held forth upon the generosity of Eyes-in-the-hands, the
+wonder of his works and presence; but his words were received in
+unsympathetic silence, for the incident on the road had wounded the
+dignity of both chief and witch-doctor; raised dim fears and forebodings.
+
+At length a strange sound rang out on the still hot air. The signal,
+Sakamata explained, that Eyes-in-the-hands would receive his guests.
+Leaving Bakuma squatted in the lethargy which appeared to be habitual to
+her now, the three slowly mounted the sacred hill, marvelling greatly at
+the black triangle of the roof of the new temple, gazing with veiled
+suspicion at the gleaming brass fittings of the coughing monster in the
+great gate, and eyeing uneasily the double lines of uniformed devils,
+their bayonets flaming in the sun, who were drawn up outside the green
+palace of Eyes-in-the-hands.
+
+On each side of the tent door stood the two tallest men in the companies,
+coal-black forms which towered above the slighter build of the Wongolo, as
+rigid and as silent as trees. Through this terrifying guard walked
+Sakamata leading his two compatriots, already startled and impressed.
+Immediately within Sakamata fell upon his knees. Before them at the end of
+the tent sat zu Pfeiffer in the full dress of his regiment, plumed helmet,
+blazoned uniform and sword; and beside him, erect, the two sergeants
+Schultz and Ludwig in full parade uniform. Above them was a blaze of red,
+white and black and in the midst another splash of colour. But before this
+vision had penetrated their brains, had risen the voice of Sakamata
+bidding them to kneel likewise. Bewildered and awed they obeyed. Then came
+a voice saying:
+
+"Rise, approach, O chiefs!"
+
+Accordingly they arose and following Sakamata, advanced and squatted,
+their eyes dominated and held by those myriad gleams of magic "eyes" on
+hands and wrists. Then the interpreter, standing at attention, spoke this
+harangue tonelessly:
+
+"Greeting and welcome, children of the Banana! Eyes-in-the-hands who is
+known to the people where the sun rises as the Eater-of-Men, hath come
+from afar, the messenger of a greater than he, the Lord of the World, the
+Earthquake, the World Trembler, who eats up what he pleases, whose eyes
+see all things, whose sword slays all things, whose breath is the rain,
+whose voice is the thunder, whose teeth are the lightning, whose frown is
+the earthquake, whose smile is the sun, whose ear is the moon, whose eyes
+are the stars, whose body is the world! Look upon one soul of him which he
+hath sent that ye may worship and know him!"
+
+Zu Pfeiffer raised the jewelled hand above his shoulder as the man ceased.
+From out the medley of colours to the unaccustomed native eyes grew slowly
+the form and face of a white man as strangely clothed as
+Eyes-in-the-hands, covered with amulets and charms upon his breast. For
+four minutes by his wrist-watch, zu Pfeiffer sat silent and as frozen as
+his sergeants; then secretly he pulled a string.
+
+"Ehh!" grunted Yabolo and MYalu involuntarily, for before them appeared
+even, as Sakamata had related, the two souls of every person present.
+Stunned at such a manifestation of magic, they slowly turned from one to
+the other. As silently as they had appeared did the visions vanish.
+
+"O son of MYana, tell the tale of the possession of these thy friends and
+allies," commanded zu Pfeiffer.
+
+Sakamata obeyed. But as he recited the approximate number of MYalu's
+followers, the number of his oxen and goats, the number of fine tusks and
+small, the number of wives, concubines, and children, and slaves, the eyes
+of MYalu grew unquiet. Had he known that he would be required to render an
+account he would have computed at half the actual amount, whereas, in
+order to impress Sakamata with his importance, he had exaggerated to
+almost double what he had ever possessed. Then as Sakamata proceeded to
+perform the same service for Yabolo, relating, by arrangement with his
+relative, about one-third of his possession, MYalu observed in a corner a
+man making magic upon a table, a native clerk keeping tally; for zu
+Pfeiffer kept an exact record of every chief's alleged possessions, as
+given by Sakamata and corroborated--by silent consent--by the said chief, so
+that when afterwards any discrepancy with the said list was discovered,
+the chief was proven a liar and subject to the punishment of further
+confiscation as such, and served as well to enhance the reputation for
+omniscience of Eyes-in-the-hands.
+
+At the end of the recitals of property, MYalu was told, not asked, to bow
+his head to the ground in token of allegiance. He obeyed in bewilderment
+which changed to rage when he was informed that the third of his property
+must be rendered to the august being before one sun's delay; that he was
+to be ready at a summons to produce a given number of warriors; and that
+his small and only son was immediately to be placed in the "village of
+sons of chiefs" as guaranty of obedience and good behaviour.
+
+In a mist of fright, anger and awe, he sat motionless. Sakamata proceeded
+to relate the doings of Zalu Zako and those who had remained faithful to
+him. Zu Pfeiffer had fairly precise information from spies of the
+movements of the Wongolo since the return of Sergeant Ludwig, who had
+burned the village of Yagonyana, but shortage of men and the serious
+disadvantage of traversing and fighting in the forest had prevented him
+from sending another punitive expedition. Also had he heard of a white man
+who had passed through the country. Sakamata, native-like, eager to
+placate, asserted that he had actually seen the white man who was called
+Moonspirit, and from the same motive, ever wishing to flatter, announced
+positively that he had no magic at all, was dark and small and a trader,
+the only kind of white man other than the military at Ingonya of whom
+Sakamata had ever seen.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer stroked his left moustache and reflected. He had at first
+thought that the man might possibly be Saunders, a trader who was in his
+pay, but now decided that he was probably some new trader or hunter from
+the Tanganyika district. He instructed Sakamata that he was to send a
+messenger to this white man and command him to come to him immediately.
+Then waving the imperious jewelled hand, he dismissed them. But noticing
+the sullen countenance of MYalu, he drew Sergeant Schultz's attention,
+ordering him to mark the man and if the tax was not forthcoming quickly,
+to have him given fifty lashes. Silently Schultz saluted.
+
+So it was that MYalu, sulky, smouldering with anger against Sakamata, for
+he felt that he had been betrayed into a trap, followed Yabolo out into
+the sun. Not only had he not gotten back his ivory left in the village,
+but he was ordered to pay much more than he actually possessed.
+
+But when he had descended the hill to the guest house he came to the
+weeping and wailing of his people, who informed him that Bakuma had been
+taken away by three of the demon keepers of the coughing monsters.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 23
+
+
+Upon the site of Birnier's old camp in the forest was a high palisade
+built from tree to tree. Inside of the gate beside a small conical hut
+burned the sacred fires tended by Mungongo; before a green canvas tent
+stood the new idol, which differed from the original in having a better
+perspective and proportion of features and body, yet lacked the master
+touch of expression given by the subconscious fingers of the native
+artist.
+
+Against the wall were stacked uniform cases to make a table, upon which
+were a hand-mirror and toilet articles; above a photograph of Lucille was
+pinned upon the canvas. Upon the camp bed, screened by a mosquito net, lay
+the new King-God, Moonspirit, the magic book in his hands.
+
+
+
+"Kings, princes, monarchs, and magistrates seem to be most happy, but look
+into their estate; you shall find them to be most cumbered with cares, in
+perpetual fear, agony, suspicion, jealousy: that as he (Valer. i. 7, c. 3)
+saith of a crown, if they but knew the discontents that accompany it, they
+would not stoop to pick it up. Quem mihi regem dabis (saith Chrysostom)
+non curis plenum?"
+
+
+
+The Incarnation of the Unmentionable One smiled, put down the book and
+glanced across at the photograph.
+
+"And yet they still talk of the advantages of a monarchy!" he commented.
+
+The original plan concocted with Marufa and Zalu Zako in the forest when
+making the new idol was that Birnier should become chief witch-doctor and
+Zalu Zako be anointed King-God, with Marufa as the power behind the
+throne. Although Zalu Zako desired to escape the yoke, his protest was
+enfeebled by the sense of fatality, and had been utterly squashed by the
+promise of Marufa, at Birnier's suggestion, that the sex tabu would be
+lifted from the godhead. But the negligence of Marufa in allowing the
+white man to carry the idol, arranged with the idea of investing
+Moonspirit with greater prestige according to the prophecies already
+announced by Tarum, had permitted Bakahenzie to make his _coup
+d'etat_--thrust the godhood upon the white and recover his own position.
+
+Birnier in truth had little option of refusal as well as little time for
+reflection upon a situation the possibility of which had not occurred to
+him; for Marufa was completely out-manoeuvred by his rival, and the
+certainty of escape from his doom offered by Bakahenzie revived the image
+of Bakuma in Zalu Zako and bought his partisanship instantly.
+
+With Napoleonic swiftness to grasp the advantages gained Bakahenzie drove
+the lay chiefs from the sacred presence, which he surrounded by a
+bodyguard of the awed brethren; expelled the household from Zalu Zako's
+compound and hustled the incarnation, bearing the new god, into holy
+isolation.
+
+Bewildered by the rapidity of the moves Marufa and Zalu Zako were
+separated from Moonspirit. In the general confusion, not knowing exactly
+what was happening, Birnier complied with what he believed to be the
+regulations regarding gods. But when he perceived that he was about to be
+left alone he clutched Mungongo and refused to part with him. Bakahenzie,
+compelled to avoid any delay before consolidating his position, instantly
+shut up Mungongo in the same web by declaring him the Keeper of the Sacred
+Fires and so disposed of any agent outside the tabu or craft. As soon as
+this was accomplished and a dance to celebrate the lighting of the new
+fires commanded, the wily chief witch-doctor approached Marufa who,
+realizing that he was hopelessly outwitted, was only too eager to make the
+best terms possible.
+
+Birnier had known that the King-God was never allowed to be seen by the
+populace except at the Harvest Festival, yet he accepted his isolation
+philosophically, lured by the expectation of the secrets he was about to
+learn, although his curiosity led sometimes to the vision of a god peeping
+through a fence.
+
+While the drums summoning the council of chiefs and wizards were muttering
+through the moist air, to Birnier, squatting on the floor of Zalu Zako's
+hut with Mungongo beside him, came Bakahenzie to instruct him in his role.
+To whet his curiosity still more he learned that from the moment of
+appearance in the gate of the sacred enclosure for the ceremony of the
+lighting of the royal fires, every movement of body and speech was
+regulated as rigidly as the etiquette of the Court of Spain. At a signal
+from the chief witch-doctor was the King-God to leave the hut and appear
+from behind the idol; with arms in a certain position was he to approach
+and squat at an exact spot. To Mungongo was given charge of the two fire
+sticks, newly consecrated.
+
+As the chief witch-doctor retired the chanting began. Interested to know
+what was about to happen Birnier obeyed in the spirit of a game. So in the
+warm darkness they squatted, these two, listening to the chanting, cries
+and groans to the accompaniment of the drums and lyres and the perpetual
+twitter of the forest. At last came a violent howl from Bakahenzie which
+Mungongo declared was their cue.
+
+Around the circle of the fence to avoid the eyes of the audience ran
+Mungongo to the temporary Place of Fires. Feeling as if he were once more
+playing in an amateur dramatic club, Birnier stalked with portentous
+dignity from the hut, past the idol, and took his seat upon the enchanted
+place. Without the palisade and within another squatted in correct order
+the lines of wizards and chiefs, Zalu Zako retaining, rather by prestige
+of his former holiness and indecision as to what his status really was,
+his position at their head.
+
+Upon his haunches before a large calabash upon a fire Bakahenzie finished
+the mumbling of incantations over the sacred ingredients, and leaping to
+his feet began a wild dance to the throb of the drums and the
+diaphragmatic chorus of the assembled cult.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Swifter and swifter spun the
+chief witch-doctor. The glow of the fire tinted his whirling bronze body
+with flecks of green and red as he gyrated in and out of the shadows.
+Suddenly he threw a handful of herbs upon the fire which was immediately
+enveloped in a cloud of smoke, into which with a screech Bakahenzie
+disappeared.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} The drums and grunting ceased. Then in the swirling column
+of blue appeared his figure holding something in his hands. To the wild
+outburst of drums and groans he sprang towards the King-God elect and
+anointed his breast and shoulders with a pungent compound, and leaped away
+into another dance, while Mungongo plied the two fire sticks. When the
+spark was blown upon the dry tinder and the first flame flickered
+Bakahenzie dropped flat before the gate as from the wizards went up the
+great shout:
+
+"The fire is lighted!"
+
+And from the mass of warriors and folk confined to their huts behind the
+outer palisade the phrase was echoed in a mighty wail, startling monkeys
+and parrots into as wild an acclamation of the new King-God.
+
+Bakahenzie, rising to his haunches, began a chant in honour of the new
+King, a chant based upon the song composed by Marufa and repeated on the
+phonograph, but developing even stranger merits and attributes. Until the
+first glimmer of dawn through the forest roof squatted Birnier, as
+motionless as etiquette demanded, listening to the strange psalm of praise
+with avid interest and observation.
+
+Suddenly, amid a furious clamour of the drums, Bakahenzie, Marufa, and one
+other of the inner cult of the five who had not deserted, led the body of
+the doctors in a rush into the sacred enclosure, seized upon the startled
+King and hustled him to the base of the idol where, yielding to the
+whispered instructions of Marufa, he took the idol once more upon his
+shoulders and guided by Bakahenzie, walked out of the gate and through the
+village to the yelling and screaming of the wizards, some of whom,
+according to precedent, ran about screeching and rattling hut doors,
+pulling thatches and howling ferociously in search of any sacrilegious
+peeper.
+
+As he tramped on with his load Marufa yelled in his ear that he must carry
+the Burden of the World no matter what happened to him, for if he let the
+idol fall then would he be killed upon the spot to save the sky from
+falling too. Wondering what this meant and where he was going, the cut of
+thongs upon his legs surprised him into a halt. Immediately a terrific cry
+went up:
+
+"The Bearer of the World stumbles! Aie! Aieeeeeeeee!"
+
+Despite the furious flogging the intellectual interest in this strange
+conception distracted his mind from the pain of the blows; also his bare
+back was protected by the idol and his leggings and trousers deadened the
+lashes. A moment more he hesitated. But he was unarmed and had voluntarily
+taken on the adventure, so he would see it through. As he broke into a
+shuffling run, for the idol fortunately was lighter than the previous one
+and he was a more powerful man than Kawa Kendi, another howl of joy and
+relief echoed throughout the village.
+
+So along the old forest trail he travelled as fast as he could, assisted
+slightly by wizards' hands as he crawled over clumps of undergrowth. The
+intensity of the whipping had decreased as soon as they were out of the
+village but throughout an occasional vicious whack testified to the
+presence of some devout doctor. Thus it was that the white King-God came
+to his throne and sat in state upon his bed to smile at the reflections of
+a melancholic philosopher.
+
+So far so good, reflected Birnier, although the enforced isolation and
+strict curtailment of his actions had already begun to be irksome; yet to
+attain so difficult a goal sacrifice must be borne, he argued
+philosophically.
+
+The royal larder, he noticed with thankfulness, was kept well stocked.
+Every day appeared a slave who left just within the entrance chickens,
+bananas, milk and fresh water, and sometimes a young goat. All such
+provisions which he had happened to take into the forest with him and so
+had escaped MYalu's marauding hands had been placed in his tent with other
+cases, as containing no man knew what mighty magic.
+
+For three days he had been left utterly alone. Sounds of drums and
+chanting from the distant village had reached them on the still air, but
+what they were doing he could not discover. No layman was allowed to come
+near the sacred enclosure. While he strolled, taking a smoke and
+constitutional around and around his "pen," as he put it, several of the
+lesser wizards appeared and stood at a distance from the gate to stare at
+him. When addressed they made no reply. On the second occasion he began to
+be irritated, but he kept his temper and went to cover in his tent,
+muttering: "Why the devil don't they bring me some buns?"
+
+On the fourth day patience began to fray. He had no notion of knowing how
+long this quarantine was going to last. He was on the point of going to
+find out, but Mungongo pleaded so earnestly that they would instantly be
+killed if they did, that he desisted. So Birnier retired to the tent to
+seek consolation from a record of Lucille's voice.
+
+Birnier attempted to cross-examine Mungongo to find out what was the
+object of this isolation, but beyond the fact that strangers were never
+permitted to behold the King-God, even lay natives, without special magic,
+which was only made once a year at the Harvest Festival, lest evil be made
+upon his person and so endanger the world, Mungongo did not know; merely,
+that so it was. What power over the head witch-doctor the King really had,
+Mungongo had no notion. The King-God was the most powerful magician known,
+asserted Mungongo. Did he not make rain and bear the world upon his
+shoulders? When Birnier unwisely denied this feat, Mungongo looked pained
+and began a remark, but balked before the name Moonspirit to ask the name
+of Birnier's father.
+
+At the mental image conjured up of a handsome white-haired planter and
+ex-owner of many slaves Birnier smiled, but he knew the tabu regarding the
+ban upon the names of the dead and that he, presumably, having ascended
+into the divine plane, was therefore classed with the departed. He
+recollected that the old man, who belonged to a cadet branch of a royalist
+family, had been called "le Marquis," of which he was excessively proud.
+Birnier translated into the dialect the nearest possible rendition of the
+title: The Lord-of-many-Lands.
+
+"The son of the Lord-of-many-Lands," continued Mungongo satisfied, "doth
+but tickle the feet of his slave."
+
+On the fifth afternoon, while the god was engrossed in a cure for love
+madness which, he reflected, might be of service to zu Pfeiffer, came a
+voice without crying:
+
+"The son of Maliko would speak with the Lord, the Bearer of the World!"
+
+Birnier glanced across at the photograph of Lucille.
+
+"Some job I've gotten!" he remarked as he rose. In the gate sat
+Bakahenzie. Birnier was conscious of an idiotic impulse to rush forward to
+greet him as an old and long lost friend. But remembering the dignity of
+his godhood he remained in the tent doorway, bidding the chief
+witch-doctor to advance.
+
+Birnier retired backwards and sat beneath the net, for the mosquitoes were
+as thick as they are on the bayou Barataria. Mungongo, possibly to prove
+his erudition, sat upon one of the cases containing much magic, at which
+Bakahenzie from the floor in the doorway looked askance. Birnier was
+keenly anxious to know what was happening regarding the fortunes of the
+tribe, hoping that with the restoration of the Unmentionable One that they
+would return to their allegiance. According to etiquette he remained
+silent, waiting for Bakahenzie to open the conversation, until, realizing
+that he was a god and that the chief witch-doctor was doing the same
+thing, reflected swiftly and desiring to make an impression, repeated
+Bakahenzie's mystic phrase which he had overheard whilst hiding in the
+jungle previous to the denouement:
+
+"That which is and must be, shall be!" Bakahenzie grunted his
+acknowledgment of the profundity of the statement. "He who would trap the
+leopard must needs dig the pit!" Another uncompromising silence urged
+Birnier to force the pace a little: "O son of Maliko, what say the omens
+and the signs of the evil one, Eyes-in-the-hands?"
+
+"When shall the Unmentionable One return unto the Place of Kings?"
+demanded Bakahenzie.
+
+"The Holy One returneth not unto the place appointed until that which
+defileth is removed," retorted Birnier.
+
+Bakahenzie took snuff and appeared to consider. Then he glanced around the
+tent as if in search of something.
+
+"When will the voice of Tarum speak through the pod of the soul?"
+
+Mungongo looked expectant and stood up. But Birnier ignored him.
+
+"The fruit doth not fall until it be ripe. He would know what hath been
+done by his slaves for the baiting of the pit for the unclean one."
+
+"Would the magician that cometh from the sea make pretence that an
+elephant is a mouse?" inquired Bakahenzie.
+
+For a moment Birnier was perplexed; then he realized that the chief
+witch-doctor inferred that he, as King-God, mocked his priest by
+pretending that he did not know all things.
+
+"Doth the chief witch-doctor make magic for the curing of the scratch of a
+girl of the hut thatch?" he retorted. "Lest thy heart wither like unto a
+fallen leaf, know then that the soul of Tarum hath made words for the
+return of the Unmentionable One to the Place of Kings, but that his
+children may not be as the dogs of the village who are driven, he wills
+that you prepare the pit for the trapping of the defiled one."
+Bakahenzie's eyes stolidly regarded the tent wall. "O son of Maliko, hast
+thou sent forth the sound of the drum throughout the land that the
+children may know of the Coming?"
+
+"When will the voice of Tarum speak through the pod of the soul?" demanded
+Bakahenzie insistently.
+
+Birnier sat motionless in the native manner. Irritated by this childish
+tenacity to apparently a fixed idea, he yielded to an impulse which was
+almost a weakness.
+
+"O son of Maliko," said he, "thou art a mighty magician!" Bakahenzie
+grunted modest assent. "Even as I am." Another grunt. "Give unto me thine
+ears and thine eyes that I may reveal unto thee that which is known to the
+mightiest of magicians." Commanding the delighted Mungongo to bring out
+the phonograph, he continued: "Thou hast heard of the mighty doings of the
+unclean devourer of men, Eyes-in-the-hands. I have magic the like of which
+man hath never seen. Is it not so?"
+
+"Ough!"
+
+"Yet will the son of the Lord-of-many-Lands make thee to see that which
+is, is not!"
+
+"That which is, is not," repeated Bakahenzie, whose professional mind was
+pleased with the phrase.
+
+In the desire to explain rationally the mystery of a phonograph and
+despairing of any attempt to describe the laws of vibration, Birnier
+sought for a likely simile. Encouraged by the almost imperceptible fact
+that he had awakened Bakahenzie's visible interest, he plunged on: "Within
+this piece of tree is there nought but many pieces of iron such as thy
+spears are made of. Thou knowest that there are places by the river and in
+the rocks where a man may speak and that his words will be returned to
+him. Is it not so?"
+
+"They are white words, O son of the Lord-of-many-Lands!" returned
+Bakahenzie. "For the spirits of the river and the rocks mock the voices of
+those who have not eaten of the Sacred Banana" (the uninitiated).
+
+"But they mock thy voice as well," protested Birnier.
+
+"Are there not goats in ghostland who bleat at the wizard and the
+peasant?"
+
+"By the Lord!" murmured Birnier, although the mask of his face did not
+change. "Ghostland is full of goats if one were to credit some of the most
+modern witch-doctors! Still demonstration {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+"Thou seest, fellow magician," he continued, "the pod of the soul of
+mighty Tarum, his ear like unto an elephant, his colour like unto a lion!"
+Birnier got out of the mosquito net and knelt beside the phonograph in
+front of Bakahenzie. Taking off the trumpet and cylinder carrier he opened
+up the inside, revealing the clockwork motor, wound it up, stopped it and
+released it. "Thine eyes see that my words are white. These things are but
+as pieces of metal of thy spears. Is it not so?"
+
+"Ough!"
+
+Birnier closed the machine, adjusted the trumpet and put on the cylinder
+of Marufa's record.
+
+  "Aie! Aiee! I am the spirit of Kintu!
+  Aie! Aiee! I am he who first was!"
+
+chanted the machine.
+
+Birnier, noticing that the desired astonishment was registered by an
+almost impalpable start, stopped the machine and changed the record.
+
+  "Rejoice, O my children, for he that is bidden shall come!
+  Rejoice, O ye warriors, for he that shall lead you shall come!
+  Rejoice, O ye wizards, for he that is greater than ye shall come!
+  Rejoice, O ye women, for he that fertilizes shall come!"
+
+Birnier allowed the machine to run through the chant until the end:
+
+  "He shall come forth bearing that which ye seek!
+  Hear ye, my people, and give voice to my word!"
+
+The machine whirred and stopped. Birnier turned to Bakahenzie.
+
+"Thou hast seen, O my brother magician, that my words are white?"
+
+"Ough!" assented Bakahenzie.
+
+"Thou hast seen, O my brother magician, that at the will of my finger upon
+that which is made but of spear-heads that the voice of Tarum hath spoken,
+the voice which is but the mocking voice of Marufa amid the trees of the
+forest?"
+
+"Ough!"
+
+"Dost thou not know that he who knows the ways of rocks, who can make
+pieces of spear into that which will say and do that which he wills, is a
+greater magician than he who must needs go unto the rocks to be mocked?"
+
+"Thou art the greatest of magicians, O son of the Lord-of-many-Lands,"
+responded Bakahenzie in a burst of eloquence. "For thou hast entrapped the
+spirits of rocks and spears to do thy bidding."
+
+"O God!" sighed the professor, "what is the use of language?"
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 24
+
+
+A favourite panacea for the results of a stupid action is the sentiment of
+martyrdom. When MYalu persisted in bitter reproaches to Yabolo and
+Sakamata the first retorted that the punishment was the result of having
+committed the sacrilege of kidnapping the sacred Bride of the Banana. Then
+MYalu considered that not only had he been trapped by one of his own
+people whom he had deserted, but to add insult to injury he felt he was
+not understood. Neither Yabolo nor Sakamata, as Bakahenzie, could
+comprehend a chief and a warrior making such a fuss over a girl. That the
+confiscation of MYalu's property was an insult they both agreed, but
+biassed by both fear of Eyes-in-the-hands and their own interests, they
+were disposed to pretend that after all such a small matter as the
+abduction of a girl could be overlooked when committed by the follower of
+such a powerful god and magician, as expedience is so often the father of
+a dispensation. Yet nevertheless in Yabolo, if not in Sakamata, whose
+hatred of the tribal craft was deep in ratio to the degeneracy of his
+native code, the outrage upon Bakuma as the Bride of the Banana, while an
+act of dangerous sacrilege when performed by a Wongolo, violated the half
+suppressed traditions and kindled a spark of bitter resentment ready to
+flare up against Eyes-in-the-hands or Sakamata; but being a diplomatist,
+he concealed that anger, even from himself to a certain degree.
+
+Upon MYalu's arrival in the guest-house to find that Bakuma had been
+taken, his passion had nearly led to his instant destruction, for he had
+desired to run amok among the grinning askaris. Afterwards, when the
+efforts of his friends and the hungry points of bayonets had cooled his
+ardour, he had wanted to rush straight to Eyes-in-the-hands who, according
+to Sakamata employed as master of ceremony at the daily audiences, would
+instantly restore Bakuma to him and visit a terrible punishment upon the
+evil-doer. But the august presence could not be approached so casually:
+petition must be made in orthodox form and the royal pleasure awaited
+meekly.
+
+According to the words of the Son-of-the-Earthquake, as zu Pfeiffer was
+officially designated by his men, who placed the actual name under the
+tabu in token of the acceptance of the magic purple, came a guard to take
+away MYalu's first-born as hostage to the village of the sons of chiefs.
+Seething with red rage MYalu mutely followed Yabolo to the place appointed
+for their housing. Then on the following afternoon at the time of audience
+MYalu waited in the broiling heat for three hand's-spans of the sun
+without being summoned to the green temple. And thus it was for three
+days.
+
+But upon the fourth, when MYalu squatted in the general hut in company
+with Yabolo, Sakamata, and other renegade chiefs, smouldering with bitter
+resentment, came the pulse of a distant drum, the furious tattoo and long
+pause, tattoo and long pause, which accompanies the mighty shout at the
+coronation of a new King-God, "The Fire is lighted!" news that had
+throbbed from that point within the forest from village to village to the
+slopes of the Gamballagalla and to the Wamungo country. The perceptible
+effect upon that circle of bronze figures was a scarcely audible grunt,
+yet nevertheless the message was like unto a live ember dropped in the dry
+grass of the cattle country.
+
+That morning one of the renegade chiefs had brought in two others to make
+their allegiance and received as reward for his fidelity a remittance of
+one-third of the tax levy upon his property, a policy adopted by zu
+Pfeiffer calculated to encourage the recruiting of his followers by
+establishing a reputation for lavish generosity to those who obeyed him,
+in contrast to his merciless severity to the recalcitrant ones.
+
+An hour later MYalu was summoned from the sweating throng squatted before
+the line of demon keepers through the giant ebon guards to audience with
+the Son-of-the-Earthquake. At the entrance as bidden he knelt, for he knew
+that he would be compelled did he refuse. A white flame was in his heart,
+but yet the magnificence of the son of the World Trembler and his
+satellites, the terrible ghosts of the distant white god, with amulets and
+charms upon his breast, had awed and subdued MYalu. Then came the voice of
+Sakamata relating that the chief MYalu, son of MBusa, made complaint to
+the Son-of-the-Earthquake that his slaves, the keepers of the coughing
+demons, had taken a girl named Bakuma, daughter of Bakala, and that he
+craved restitution of his property. While this was being translated by the
+corporal interpreter, MYalu watched the magic flame in the mouth of
+Eyes-in-the-hands, marvelling greatly at the smoke which emerged. Then
+said the interpreter:
+
+"The son of the Lord-of-the-World, the Earthquake, the World Trembler who
+eats up whom he pleases, whose eyes see all things, whose sword slays all
+things, whose breath is the rain, whose voice is the thunder, whose teeth
+are the lightning, whose frown is the earthquake, whose smile is the sun,
+whose ear is the moon, whose eyes are the stars, whose body is the world,
+saith that when the son of MBusa (MYalu) bringeth three chiefs of the same
+rank to sit at the Feet then shall the daughter of Bakala return unto him,
+but in the meantime shall her girdle remain untied. He hath spoken!"
+
+As he finished zu Pfeiffer made the signal of dismissal with his jewelled
+hand, but MYalu with the throb of that distant drum in his ears, cried out
+in protest, saying:
+
+"The words of the Son-of-the-Earthquake are like unto spears made of
+grass!"
+
+The interpreter boggled at the translation of the sentence. Zu Pfeiffer
+saw a ripple of insubordination. He rapped out an order to have the man
+taken away and given fifty lashes. Instantly the guards surrounded MYalu,
+who submitted in sudden misgiving, and led him away to receive the
+punishment.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer gave orders that the girl Bakuma should be found and called
+the next case, Kalomato the elderly chief who had had all his property
+sequestered until he should deliver his eldest son as hostage. He was a
+slight withered old man with a white tuft of beard and at the hands of the
+askaris, after considerable endurance, had screamed his submission. Now he
+hobbled into zu Pfeiffer's presence with the aid of a stick. Pompously the
+interpreter recited the list of the titles of the august one, and then
+dwelt upon the wondrous benefits to be obtained at the magic jewelled
+hands, and demanded that the old chief "eat the dust" and obey the royal
+mandate.
+
+But the sharp eyes gazed steadily from their wrinkled sockets with a
+curious gleam in them as he mumbled that "his soul had wandered" (he had
+dreamed) "and had met the spirit of Tarum, who had forbidden him to obey
+the white god."
+
+"The shenzie" (savage--used contemptuously) "longs for more fire for his
+paws, O Bwana," translated the interpreter into Kiswahili.
+
+"What does he say?" demanded zu Pfeiffer.
+
+"He says, Bwana, that he hath dreamed that his god hath told him that he
+must not obey you. Indio, Bwana."
+
+"Tell him that I slew his god, as every man knows."
+
+"The Son-of-the-Earthquake bids thee to know that he hath eaten up thy god
+as he eateth up thy warriors when his wrath is aroused. Eat dust that thy
+beard grow yet longer; stretch thy tongue and thou shalt be eaten entirely
+and all that is thine!"
+
+"The Fire is lighted," mumbled the old man.
+
+"What does he say?" demanded zu Pfeiffer sharply.
+
+"He attempts to make magic against thee, Bwana," replied the interpreter
+who knew not the meaning of the phrase.
+
+"Take away the animal," commanded zu Pfeiffer.
+
+The old man was accordingly led out to the further attentions of the
+soldiery. But during that afternoon zu Pfeiffer became conscious of a
+subtle air of defiance, a restlessness and exchanging of glances, so that
+the demon which Bakunjala had once seen so vividly came back to roost
+somewhere beneath the immaculate uniform.
+
+Neither he nor his sergeants nor their men could speak the Wongolo tongue
+fluently, so that for interpreter he was compelled to employ one of the
+corporals. To employ any newly subjected race or tribe as soldiers or in
+any responsible capacity is unwise, for ties of blood are liable to lead
+to treachery; to trust to the idiosyncrasies and personal values of any
+native interpreter is equally impolitic. Zu Pfeiffer and his party were as
+unaware of the meaning of the phrases exchanged as they were of the
+message in the throbbing of that distant drum. Between the conqueror and
+the subjected tribe was a wall denser than any steel; the same wall of
+tabu of the craft that Birnier was finding so difficult to penetrate.
+
+Every attempt to persuade any of the witch-doctors to disclose the secrets
+of their craft through the interpreter was doomed to failure; even had zu
+Pfeiffer been able to speak the dialect as well as Birnier he would never
+have accomplished it. Yet he tried the impossible. The answer was
+invariably a mask of ox-like stupidity or the retort that he, being a
+mighty magician, must needs know that he did but "tickle their feet"! At
+length, irritated by this persistence, he had Sakamata put to the torture
+and had for his pains a story in which the idol as the first man was the
+father of the tribe whom the people believed to have been eaten up
+literally, so that the conqueror had become the father of the people,
+having the idol inside him, and the chance that the tale had a faint
+resemblance to an account by a Frenchman of the superstitions of a West
+African tribe, convinced him. Implicitly he believed the ingenious yarn
+invented by a wily witch-doctor to save his hide and the perquisites of
+his job by placating the white man, the trap into which most white
+chroniclers have fallen. This conviction, which flattered his sagacity and
+lulled any suspicions, strengthened his arm in the delivering of
+punishment and reward.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 25
+
+
+In the camp of Bakahenzie was the low mutter of the drums by day and
+night. The village had straggled farther through the forest in each
+direction save that of the sacred enclosure. Already were some five
+hundred warriors there and more were pouring in every day. Busy were
+Bakahenzie and wizards, great and small, in the preparing of amulets of
+the hearts of lions, livers of leopards and galls of birds, and the
+brewing of potent decoctions to be smeared with parrot feathers upon the
+warriors old and young against the evil eye and the spirits of the night.
+And dispensed by Bakahenzie and Marufa, from whom had come the original
+idea, was a special and rather expensive charm against the coughing
+monsters, which was made by, and invested with, the magic of the King-God
+himself, a can key. That morning had there been a special meeting of the
+craft and the chiefs before the sacred enclosure, where they had looked
+upon the sacred form of the King-God and heard the magic elephant's ear
+give them instructions and a prophecy. Around and about a hundred fires,
+flickering mystically in the moist cavern of the forest, shuffled and
+chanted the warriors invoking the aid of Tarum, the spirit of their
+ancestors.
+
+On the threshold of his hut squatted a sullen Zalu Zako. He had discovered
+that he had escaped from the river bearing him to the pool of celibacy to
+find that the bird had been captured by another. Although he had known
+that before attaining his desire he would have had to extricate Bakuma
+from the net of the tabu, yet, lover-like and human, that task
+unconsidered had seemed as easy as stalking a buck in a wood. But the joy
+of his own release had been dissipated as a cloud of dust by a shower by
+the news of MYalu's abduction of the girl and his desertion. Zalu Zako was
+so obsessed by chagrin at this wholly unexpected appearance of a rival
+that he was inclined to regret that he had ever thought of the move by
+which he could escape his late doom and rescue Bakuma at the same time.
+The illusion of nearness to the desired object had served naturally to
+whet his appetite; the balked love motive dominated him almost to the
+exclusion of political affairs. What his official status was now that all
+precedent had been broken Bakahenzie did not know and had not decided, and
+Zalu Zako cared less.
+
+Though his faith in most of the tribal theology was unshaken, he did not
+believe in the sanctity, or the necessity, of the marriage of the Bride of
+the Banana, because he had a defensive complex of desire for her that
+inhibited that belief. Towards MYalu, Zalu Zako's natural reaction was
+revenge. The matter was how to accomplish that end. To reveal to
+Bakahenzie that he was the lover of Bakuma would be tantamount to
+admitting sacrilege in having a passion for the Bride of the Banana.
+
+As Zalu Zako was unable to get at the person of his rival the most logical
+method to his mind was by witchcraft. To obtain some relics of the body of
+MYalu proved easy, as his wives and slaves being forced to flee, had been
+unable to burn the deserted hut, thus leaving in the customary place in
+the thatch some of the hair and nail clippings. Also to find an excuse for
+the cursing of MYalu was still easier. So at a meeting of the chiefs he
+rivalled Bakahenzie in denunciation of the absconding chief, insisted that
+a mighty magic be made against him and produced the necessary corporeal
+parts upon which to work. So it was that Bakahenzie and Marufa, a quiet
+watchful Marufa, brewed the magic brew and condemned MYalu by the proxy of
+his nail clippings to die, a process that took root in a very firm
+conviction in the mind of Zalu Zako and the others that die MYalu would.
+
+After this satisfaction of the first fierce instinct Zalu Zako was more at
+liberty to consider other matters, which resulted in an effort to quicken
+the collective will to recover the tribe's country and possessions,
+symbolised in Zalu Zako's mind by the delicate figure of Bakuma.
+
+The ceremony of the lighting of the new fires he had attended
+perfunctorily. To have regret or pity for the white man, Moonspirit who
+had taken over his doom, never occurred to Zalu Zako, for to him as to
+Bakahenzie Moonspirit was a mighty magician who, if competent to effect
+the magic he had already displayed, was capable of looking after himself;
+moreover, as he had recalled the Unmentionable One, he stood as the
+incarnation of the tribe, the god, therefore beyond human consideration.
+
+Bakahenzie's chief regard was, of course, to unify the tribe once more and
+to rouse those who had submitted to Eyes-in-the-hands to rebellion, which
+was but a projection of his desire, as that of all patriots, to
+consolidate his own position and to regain his lost prestige. He had had
+no need to command that the news be sent abroad. At the ceremony of the
+Lighting of the Fires the drum notes had been picked up by the nearest
+village and sent ricocheting across the length and breadth of the country,
+rippling through the Court of the Son-of-the-Earthquake.
+
+Bakahenzie's confidence had increased tenfold since, by his clever coup,
+he had locked up the white magician in the godhead. He believed that
+Moonspirit was the mightiest magician the world had ever seen, a demi-god;
+for had he, Bakahenzie, not seen these wondrous miracles with his own
+eyes? Had not he, Bakahenzie, captured and tamed this marvellous power to
+his own ends?
+
+So absolute was this confidence in the powers of the white that Bakahenzie
+was perfectly sincere, as Mungongo and Bakuma had been, in asserting that
+the "son of the Lord-of-many-Lands" was pleased to pretend that "an
+elephant was a mouse," that he "tickled their feet." The only doubt raised
+in his mind at that interview was whether he could persuade this powerful
+being to destroy the usurper "out of hand," as it were, or even whether
+Moonspirit could do so; for it was quite reasonable to him to suppose that
+even a god, in fighting another god, might have to do battle for the
+victory.
+
+Not in spite of, but because of, this firm faith Bakahenzie took more
+precautions than ever before to surround the captured god with the
+toughest fibres of the tabu to keep him in isolation. Obviously such a
+valuable prize demanded special precautions. He promulgated an ordinance,
+in the amplitude of his regained power, that no lay man nor any wizard
+save the inner cult, whom he dared not forbid, were to approach within
+sight of the sacred enclosure. In the jungle of his mind lurked the fear
+that the new god might be seen to leave the sacred ground and thus render
+the penalty of death imperative according to the laws of the tabu upon a
+god who jeopardised the tribal welfare as MFunya MPopo had done by his
+failure to bring rain. The belief that he could control a force which he
+admitted was infinitely greater than he, and of punishing it if it did not
+behave, was not at all inconsistent to the native mind, nor more illogical
+than many theological ideas of whites.
+
+At the last interview Bakahenzie had tried to persuade Birnier to permit
+him to speak into the mighty ear of the magic box; in effect an attempt to
+gain complete control. But Birnier, when he at length had realised that
+Bakahenzie's mental development was little greater than Mungongo's, and
+keenly aware of the isolation to which he was to be subjected, as well as
+the purpose in the witch-doctor's mind, had resolutely refused. Bakahenzie
+had accepted the intimation that the god would not work miracles through
+any other mouth than that of his incarnation, and after a long cogitative
+silence had departed without further comment.
+
+But of course he came back again next day, as Birnier had known that he
+would. Birnier hinted at the expected initiation into the "mysteries" of
+the craft, particularly of the Festival of the Banana and the other
+ceremonies connected with his role as King-God. But Bakahenzie's gaze,
+fixed upon an object on the toilet table, did not quiver. Birnier repeated
+the inquiry more bluntly. Said Bakahenzie:
+
+"The fingers of the son of Maliko are hungry to touch the magic knife of
+the son of the Lord-of-many-Lands."
+
+"Damn it," muttered Birnier. "That's my favourite!" But he handed the
+razor to Bakahenzie, saying: "Is not the porridge pot free to all
+brothers?" Gravely Bakahenzie slipped the safety razor into his loin
+cloth, mumbled the orthodox adieu and departed.
+
+Although devoted to Birnier as much as ever, Mungongo was bound just as
+much by the articles of the tabu as any other native; in fact, since his
+appointment to the high office of Keeper of the Fires, he was if possible
+more terrified by the bogies of their theology than before. Put one foot
+out of the sacred ground he would not, for he was convinced that
+immediately he did so, the ghosts of the dead kings would instantly
+strangle him. Birnier attempted to persuade him to get into communication
+with Marufa, but that wily gentleman, grieving over the failure of the
+coup he had aided Birnier to make, and for the moment completely under the
+domination of Bakahenzie, who, he knew, had him watched every moment of
+the day and night, would never approach the Place of the Unmentionable
+One. Nor dared Zalu Zako break the tabu placed by Bakahenzie. To
+Bakahenzie and not to Birnier he owed his escape from the dreaded godhood.
+One who had released him might quite reasonably have him back again if
+annoyed. The few wizards who came to gaze at the imprisoned god like
+children at the Zoo, as Birnier had commented, were deaf to any remark,
+instruction, or plea of the Holy One. So it was that Birnier began to
+realise that the functions of a god were so very purely divine that he
+would never be allowed to interfere in human affairs at all except by
+grace of the high priest, and possibly he was not the first god who had
+found that out.
+
+This jungle of secrecy and the denial of any active part in the organising
+of the tribe began to irritate Birnier. Yet he perceived clearly enough
+from his knowledge of the native mind that a premature effort to force
+either confidence or action would end in disaster. Patience and
+perseverance alone would bring success; and the moulding of the material
+through forces which already controlled it. He must play the witch-doctor
+to the full. Working upon this hypothesis he determined to control
+Bakahenzie through "messages" from the spirit of Tarum. The trouble was to
+find out whether Bakahenzie would obey him or not and to what extent.
+
+So in the early hours of one morning Bakahenzie's watchers in the forest
+shuddered as they heard more of the mysterious voices of the Unmentionable
+One making wondrous magic within the temple as Mungongo chanted, at
+Birnier's prompting, the god's instructions to his high priest and people.
+The form of the chant was not correct as Mungongo's memory was very
+unreliable, but as Birnier remarked to the portrait of Lucille, "I don't
+suppose Maestro Bakahenzie is such a stylist as he would have the public
+suppose." Afterwards, to Mungongo's delight, who was never tired of any
+manifestation of Moonspirit's magic, he put out the light and lay upon his
+bed within the temple listening to the voice of Lucille pouring out the
+passion of "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix," in _Samson et Delilah_, to the
+sleepy ears of the monkeys above the figure of the idol limned against the
+moon-patterned roof of the forest.
+
+But scarcely had the moist ultramarine shadows turned to mauve than the
+voice of Bakahenzie hailed the god most punctiliously from without.
+However Birnier happened to be sleepy, and the chance of the early hour
+presented such an opportunity to gain prestige that he sent the Keeper of
+the Fires to inform the High Priest that the god was not yet up and that
+he must needs wait. And wait did Bakahenzie, like unto a graven image at
+the gate until the sun was four hand's-spans above the trees. When Birnier
+had breakfasted upon broiled kid, eggs, banana and weak tea, Bakahenzie
+was summoned to the august presence.
+
+Wondering what new idea Bakahenzie had gotten into his head Birnier
+solemnly talked the usual preliminaries, intending to announce in the best
+manner that Tarum had a message for the son of Maliko; but to his
+astonishment Bakahenzie forestalled him by demanding to know when the god
+would speak again.
+
+When Mungongo had gravely placed the machine at his feet Birnier set the
+record. The chant bade the son of Maliko to summon the wizards and the
+warriors of the tribe to the abode of the Unmentionable One; to send to
+those who had fallen into the power of Eyes-in-the-hands instructions that
+they were not to reveal by word or deed that the Unmentionable One had
+been pleased to return, but to wait like a wild cat at a fish pool until a
+signal was given through the drums, when they were to smite swiftly at
+every keeper of the demons and to flee immediately to their brethren in
+the forest; that they were on no account to kill or wound
+Eyes-in-the-hands nor any white man that was his, lest their powerful
+ghosts exact a terrible penalty and refuse to be propitiated; that when
+these things had been done would the spirit of Tarum issue further
+instructions.
+
+In composing this message Bernier had sought to gain the advantage of a
+surprise attack and to secure the massacre of as many of the askaris as
+possible; to save zu Pfeiffer and his white sergeants from the fate which
+would await them should they fall into the hands of the Wongolo; to
+minimise the loss of men which would occur were the tribe to attempt to
+face the guns; afterwards to lure zu Pfeiffer away from his fortifications
+and the open country, in order to compel him to fight in the forest where
+he could not ascertain what force was against him; and in the meantime to
+slip round and establish the idol in the Place of Kings, which act would
+consolidate the moral of the tribe as well as cut the line of zu
+Pfeiffer's communications with Ingonya.
+
+As Bakahenzie listened gravely and attentively, Birnier keenly watched his
+face. Although the mask did not quiver, a half suppressed grunt at the end
+persuaded him that Bakahenzie was duly impressed, but he made no comment.
+After regarding Mungongo solemnly putting away the machine Bakahenzie
+remarked casually:
+
+"In the village is a messenger from Eyes-in-the-hands who sends thee
+greetings."
+
+This was the first news that Birnier had received since his ascent to the
+godhood. He had expected that sooner or later zu Pfeiffer would hear of
+the presence of a white man, but he was rather startled at the inference
+that zu Pfeiffer knew who he was. He made no visible sign as he waited.
+Bakahenzie took snuff interestedly and continued:
+
+"Eyes-in-the-hands bids thee to go unto the Place of Kings to eat the dust
+before him."
+
+Bakahenzie regarded him with keen eyes. Birnier considered swiftly. From
+the latter part of the message he gathered that zu Pfeiffer was not aware
+of his identity. His opinion of zu Pfeiffer's character suggested certain
+psychological possibilities. His policy was to lure him away from his
+fort; to destroy his military judgment. Therefore to cause him at this
+juncture to be violently disturbed by a personal emotion might tend to
+confuse his mind. Enmity--fear--might equally serve as the lure required. In
+spite of committing a breach of native etiquette Birnier could not resist
+smiling. He reached for the "Anatomy" and as he scribbled two words he
+said to Bakahenzie solemnly:
+
+"O son of Maliko, say unto this man of many tongues as well as many eyes,
+'that the jackal follows the lion that he may feed upon his leavings; that
+the voice of the hyena is loudest when he eateth offal.' And shall the
+slave take unto him that which is mighty magic, such magic that when
+Eyes-in-the-hands doth but touch it shall he trumpet like unto a wounded
+cow elephant. Bid him to mark that my words be white!"
+
+And when Bakahenzie had gone Birnier turned to the portrait on the wall
+and remarked as he indulged in the luxury of a grin: "Say, honey, but if
+that doesn't make him mad, I'll--I'll eat my own manuscripts!"
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 26
+
+
+In a corner of one of the half-completed huts in a half-completed street
+of the new village of the Place of Kings squatted Yabolo and other chiefs.
+As Sakamata was up in the fort serving Eyes-in-the-hands they could talk
+freely, yet in low tones and with wary eyes for the interstices of the
+unfinished wall. More than one chief had been thrashed but none as high in
+rank as MYalu; moreover, those that had been severely punished had been
+taken in fair fight or had attempted to escape, whereas MYalu had done
+nothing that they considered to merit punishment. The growing detestation
+and hatred smouldering within all of them against the new ruler had burst
+into flame at the first hint of the news vibrating upon the moist air.
+Later had come another drum message bidding them await new words of Tarum,
+and forty-eight hours afterwards the messenger sent by zu Pfeiffer to
+summon Moonspirit, who squatted in the group, whispered word for word
+Birnier's message on the phonograph, adding further instructions from
+Bakahenzie that the signal should be another message upon the drums: "The
+Fire is lighted."
+
+Warm banana wrapped in leaves, which a slave had brought in, was placed
+before the chiefs while the messenger related the gossip of the village in
+the forest. Later, while lolling through the mid-day heat waiting for the
+time of audience, he produced from his loin cloth the magic charm which
+the son of the Lord-of-many-Lands, the King-God, had sent to
+Eyes-in-the-hands and repeated the prophecy that he should trumpet like
+unto a wounded cow elephant, eliciting many grunts of admiration and awe.
+Then he inquired for Sakamata and MYalu, and upon hearing the account,
+reported that they were both traitors and had been condemned to die by the
+magic of Bakahenzie and Marufa.
+
+Each and every chief felt that he had been betrayed by Sakamata. Even
+Yabolo, his relative, particularly because his visionary schemes had come
+to nought, was against Sakamata. Sakamata had heard the message of the
+drums, "The Fire is lighted." But of the details of the return of the
+Unmentionable One and of the new King-God he knew nothing, although every
+other Wongolo man, woman, and child, knew it. The terror of the tabu, of
+the power of the Unmentionable One, was more overwhelming than his fear of
+Eyes-in-the-hands, wizard and ex-member of the inner cult though he be.
+The Unmentionable One had returned, a miracle! In a thousand signs of
+birds and beasts, twigs and shadows, Sakamata saw omens of evil. He knew
+that he was an outcast, that his fellows were plotting; that they knew
+something that he did not; yet he dared not tell Eyes-in-the-hands lest he
+be killed on the instant, not by Eyes-in-the-hands but by the mystic power
+of the Unmentionable One.
+
+Farther down the line, in a small hut, lay MYalu motionless. His mind was
+a whirling red spot of rage and pain, obliterating the image of Bakuma,
+his ivory, and everything. From the base of the spine to his neck he was
+criss-crossed with bloody weals administered with a kiboko (whip of
+hippopotamus hide) by one of the black giants who formed the door guard at
+the tent of Eyes-in-the-hands. More stimulating to his anger even than the
+excessive pain was the indignity, that he, MYalu, son of MBusa, a chief,
+had been flogged like a slave before all men! Could he have gotten free he
+would have leaped upon zu Pfeiffer, god or no, and torn him to pieces with
+hands and teeth. But he could scarcely move. Never had such an act been
+conceived by MYalu. The native dignity and reserve was shattered. He lay
+upon his belly and glared with the eyes of a maddened and tortured animal.
+
+The yellow glare in the open doorway was darkened, but MYalu did not stir.
+The figure of Yabolo, a short throwing sword in hand, moved towards him
+and squatted down, muttering greetings. MYalu made no response. Yabolo
+repeated the message from the spirit of Tarum.
+
+"Let thy spear be made sharp, O son of MBusa, that we may make the jackal
+who would command the lion to eat offal!" MYalu grunted. "The son of
+Bayakala saith that it will be soon, so that thou mayest yet eat of thy
+defiler ere thou art gone to ghostland." MYalu turned his head. "The son
+of MTungo and the son of Maliko," explained the old man, "have made magic
+upon the parts which thou didst foolishly leave within thy hut."
+
+Again MYalu merely grunted and turned away his head. But that dread news
+had quenched the white flame of anger. The spirits were wroth; even had
+they caused him to eat the dust before all men. Conviction in the efficacy
+of the magic for which he would have bought Marufa to make against Zalu
+Zako was as absolute as his faith in the death magic made against him by
+the two powerful witch-doctors, and intensified by the miraculous return
+of the Unmentionable One against whom he had committed sacrilege. He
+recollected the cry of the Baroto bird on the night on which he had
+kidnapped the Bride of the Banana. The spirit of Tarum was wroth. The
+mighty new King-God of the Unmentionable One was about to eat up all the
+enemies of the land. MYalu was convinced that he was doomed; certain that
+Yabolo knew that he was doomed; that every man knew that he was doomed.
+
+For ten minutes the figures, squatting and lying, remained as motionless
+as bronzes. Then MYalu rose to his knees and said calmly: "Give me thy
+sword, O son of Zingala."
+
+Silently Yabolo handed him the sword which MYalu placed beneath him and
+laid down again. So quietly he died.
+
+From the sacred hill blared the harsh cry of the yellow bird, as the
+natives called the trumpet, announcing that the august presence was in
+audience. But instead of the usual crowd of immobile figures squatted
+almost under the shadow of the pom-pom within the gate of the fort, sat
+only the messenger. Sakamata, knowing that something portended and yet not
+exactly what, was so scared that his skinny limbs quivered as if with an
+ague. Although he desired to warn Eyes-in-the-hands in order to save
+himself, he dared not attempt to do so lest the august one visit his anger
+upon his person; vague ideas of redeeming his treachery by delivering
+Eyes-in-the-hands over to his countrymen were stoppered by terror of the
+wrath of the Unmentionable One.
+
+So it was that the pomp of the Son-of-the-Earthquake and the glory of the
+soul of the World-Trembler with many charms upon his breast was reserved
+for the humble messenger who entered escorted by Sakamata. After bowing in
+the prescribed manner the messenger squatted at zu Pfeiffer's feet and
+addressed himself to the corporal interpreter.
+
+"The son of the Lord-of-many-lands, that is the King-God of the
+One-not-to-be-mentioned, sends greeting to the son of the World-Trembler,
+called Eyes-in-the-hands, and this message: 'Say unto the man of many
+tongues as well as many eyes that the jackal follows the lion that he may
+feed on the leavings; the voice of the hyena is loudest when he eateth
+offal!'"
+
+"What does the animal say?" demanded zu Pfeiffer, impatient of the native
+preamble.
+
+"He says, Bwana," said the interpreter, "that the white man is sick and
+cannot move, but that he will come as soon as he is well."
+
+From the folds of his loin cloth the messenger was dutifully extracting
+something wrapped up in a banana leaf, which he handed to the interpreter
+as he finished the message:
+
+"And by his slave he sendeth that which is mighty magic; such magic that
+he who toucheth it shall trumpet like unto a wounded cow elephant."
+
+"He says, Bwana," continued the interpreter glibly, "that he sends to the
+mighty Eater-of-Men a small present," and with the words the corporal
+guilelessly proffered the small package. Zu Pfeiffer took it and tore off
+the covering.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+Then was the magic of the new King-god of the Unmentionable One made
+manifest to all men, and particularly a group of chiefs hiding in a small
+thicket beneath the hill, for indeed did the Son-of-the-Earthquake trumpet
+like unto a wounded cow elephant at the sight of an ivory disc on which
+was written:
+
+"Amantes--Amentes!"
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 27
+
+
+All day at Fort Eitel had been stir and bustle, the blare of trumpets and
+the barking of sergeants, white and black. Long lines of women and slaves
+streamed in from the surrounding countryside bearing loads of corn and
+bananas. In the half-made parade ground at the foot of the hill of Kawa
+Kendi, half a company of Wongolo whom zu Pfeiffer had conscripted from the
+chiefs, stumbled and ran in awkward squads. In the hut of the Wongolo
+chiefs squatted Yabolo among the rest, silently observing the preparations
+for the punitive expedition which Sakamata had informed them was being
+prepared in response to the insolent challenge of the white man who had
+allied himself with the "rebels." But over them, as well as every Wongolo
+in and about the place, was a sullen air not of defiance but of expectant
+listening.
+
+In the mess hut a nervous Bakunjala prepared the table for dinner, the
+whites of his eyes rolling at every sound of zu Pfeiffer's voice from the
+marquee adjoining. Never in his experience, nor in that of other servants
+or soldiers, had the demon so utterly possessed the dread Eater-of-Men as
+since the receipt of some terrible magic sent to him by the white man.
+Opinion was divided as to whether this white man was the one who had been
+arrested and sent to the coast with Corporal Inyira or whether he was a
+brother; some said that the magic leaf which the messenger had brought was
+the soul of the white man, others maintained that it was the incarnation
+of Bakra, which explained why the Eater-of-Men was so entirely possessed.
+Had he not screamed? they demanded, which clearly proved, as everybody
+knew, the dreadful agony as the ghost entered into the body.
+
+Even the white sergeants were frightened of their chief. They had been
+seen talking together secretly, doubtless discussing what medicine they
+could give him to exorcise the demon. Had he not been commanded by this
+demon to leave the safety of the fort where they had the guns on the
+hills, and to go into the forest where, as anybody knew, their eyes would
+be taken from them so that they could not see to kill the dogs of Wongolo?
+They were all conscious, native-like, that something was brewing among the
+Wongolo, but what it was exactly they did not know. Two men had had fifty
+lashes that morning because they had not saluted the totem--flag--correctly;
+and a Wongolo chief had been shot because he had not brought in the amount
+of ivory commanded. None dared to warn the Eater-of-Men. Some one had said
+that the "leaf" was the soul of the idol come to lead the Eater-of-Men to
+destruction. This idea took deep root among the Wunyamwezi soldiers, for
+although they had delighted in the slaughter and rapine under the
+leadership of the Eater-of-Men, yet always had there been an uneasy
+feeling of sacrilege in destroying an idol.
+
+In the half of the marquee reserved for the Kommandant's private quarters
+sat zu Pfeiffer in his camp chair with the inevitable stinger at his
+elbow. Erect by the door stood Sergeant Schultz taking details for the
+disposition of stores and troops during the absence of the punitive
+expedition. Never had he in four years' service seen the lieutenant as he
+was now. Although Schultz could speak Kiswahili fluently he knew no word
+of Munyamwezi, else he might have been disposed to agree with Bakunjala
+and his friends. As it was he thought that the Herr Lieutenant had gotten
+a touch of the sun or was drinking too heavily or perhaps a bit of both;
+for to his mind the act of dividing up their scanty forces and leaving
+their fortified positions to enter the forest, with no chance of keeping
+open the line of communication, appeared to be military suicide.
+
+He deemed it his duty to bring this point of view to his Kommandant's
+notice, but he was uncomfortably aware of zu Pfeiffer's headstrong
+character.
+
+"What time does the moon set, sergeant?" demanded zu Pfeiffer.
+
+"About three, Excellence."
+
+"Good. Then at five precisely the column will move. Warn Sergeant
+Schneider."
+
+"Ya, Excellence."
+
+"You will transfer the remainder of your men and the Nordenfeldt as soon
+as we have gone."
+
+"Ya, Excellence."
+
+"That is all, sergeant."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer dropped his head wearily on to his hand. Schultz remained
+rigidly by the door. Zu Pfeiffer glanced up peevishly.
+
+"I said that was all, sergeant," he exclaimed tetchily.
+
+"Ya, Excellence."
+
+"Herr Gott, what are you standing there for like a stuffed pig?"
+
+Schultz saluted.
+
+"Excellence, it is my duty to remind your Excellence that according to
+regulation 47 of {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}"
+
+"To hell with you and your regulations, damn you.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Will you leave me
+alone!" The last was almost a plea.
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+Schultz saluted briskly and went. Again zu Pfeiffer's head dropped on to
+the cupped hand and he gazed at the portrait in the ivory frame.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Against
+the blue twilight of the door appeared a tall figure in white.
+
+"What in the name of----" began zu Pfeiffer.
+
+"Chakula tayari, Bwana," announced Bakunjala timidly.
+
+"I don't want any chakula," said zu Pfeiffer. "Wait. Bring some here."
+
+"Bwana!"
+
+Bakunjala fled, to reappear almost instantly with a covered plate, which
+he placed on the table as bidden and vanished. Zu Pfeiffer regarded
+distastefully his favourite dish of curried eggs. Then he bawled
+irritably:
+
+"Lights, animal!"
+
+"Bwana!" gasped Bakunjala appearing in the doorway with the lamp.
+
+But zu Pfeiffer pushed the plate away to stare at the photograph of
+Lucille. The stare turned to a glare, and then as if mutinying against his
+god, as Kawa Kendi had done when summoning rain, he suddenly snatched at
+the frame and flung it upon the floor with an oath, grabbed up a fountain
+pen and began to write.
+
+Indeed zu Pfeiffer was half insane with anger which he was disposed to
+vent upon Lucille by proxy as the source of yet another trouble and
+possibly official disgrace. He had not had a notion that Birnier could
+have survived the gentle hands of the corporal until without warning came
+that ivory disc with "Amantes--Amentes!" scribbled upon it, which not only
+inferred that Birnier had escaped, but that he was near to him and
+intended to champion these native dogs against the Imperial Government in
+the person of himself.
+
+The message had been made the more insulting by the note of exclamation at
+the end implying derisive laughter. It had, as Birnier had calculated that
+it would, struck zu Pfeiffer upon the most tender spot in his mental
+anatomy, evoking a homicidal mania which dominated his consciousness. To
+be cheated, to be swindled, to be sworn at, cursed, even to be beaten was
+sufferable to a degree, but to be laughed at--zu Pfeiffer's haughty soul
+exploded like a bomb at an impact. For a time he had been absolutely
+incoherent with rage. His one impulse had been to rush out and tear
+Birnier limb from limb. Well might the listening natives believe in the
+mighty magic of the new King-God, that it should make the
+Son-of-the-Earthquake to trumpet like a wounded cow elephant!
+
+Then out of the dissolving acrid smoke of wounded pride begin to loom
+arbitrary points. First, that Birnier would have complained, as he once
+had threatened to do, to Washington, which would infuriate the authorities
+in Berlin; and secondly, that he would have written to Lucille revealing
+the attempt he had made upon the life of her husband as well as the things
+he had said. How Birnier had escaped was immaterial, but the particular
+fate that awaited Corporal Inyira was decided but futilely; for the bold
+son of Banyala and his merry men were footing it to the south of lake
+Tanganika, scared by day lest the long arm of the Eater-of-Men should
+overtake them and haunted by the terror of seeing another illuminated
+ghost by night.
+
+As the jewelled hand glittered in the lamp-light came the mutter of a
+distant drum on the moist darkness; zu Pfeiffer, abnormally irritable,
+raised his head, scowled, and muttering that he would have to issue an
+order to have the drums stopped, bent again to the uncongenial task of
+finishing the report due for headquarters before he left. The drum ceased;
+began again and was answered by another drum seemingly nearer at hand.
+
+Five or ten minutes elapsed. As zu Pfeiffer took up a fresh sheet of paper
+a shot rang out followed instantly by yells. Zu Pfeiffer with an oath
+sprang to his feet, snatched at the revolver hanging above his camp bed
+and rushed out as a fusillade of shots mingled with wilder cries. The
+gruff coughs of the corporal in charge of the guard competed with the
+sharp barks of Sergeant Schultz. Zu Pfeiffer, bawling for a sergeant, ran
+to the great gate where the pom-pom was stationed. On the opposite hill
+red flashes of rifle fire darted downwards. Came another outburst of
+yelling. Forms of askaris scurrying to their places round the fence
+brushed by him on every side.
+
+"Sergeant Schultz!" shouted zu Pfeiffer.
+
+A figure in white appeared beside him in the darkness.
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+"Put the gun on them! Quick!"
+
+At the bark of the sergeant the gun crew, already at their post, deftly
+manipulated the machine which coughed angry red bursts of flame into the
+darkness. The cries and howls ceased as suddenly as they had begun.
+
+"Cease fire!" commanded zu Pfeiffer.
+
+In the resulting stillness muttered shouts and cries from somewhere in the
+village below were punctuated by odd shots from the other hill.
+
+"Sergeant Ludwig!" yelled zu Pfeiffer.
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+"Report!" snapped zu Pfeiffer.
+
+"An unknown body of natives attacked and killed the sentry on the eastern
+gate, Excellence," came Sergeant Ludwig's voice from the gloom. "They
+entered and were repulsed according to instructions. That is all,
+Excellence."
+
+"Losses?"
+
+"None other, Excellence."
+
+"What about the lower guards?"
+
+"I do not know, Excellence."
+
+"Take a platoon and investigate. We will cover you with the gun."
+
+"Excellence."
+
+The mutter of his orders was drowned in the excited jabber of the askaris.
+
+"Didimalla!" came the dreaded voice of the Eater-of-Men. Instantly there
+was silence. "Report!" commanded zu Pfeiffer to Sergeant Schultz.
+
+"A body of natives attacked upon the western gate, Excellence. They were
+repulsed."
+
+"Losses?"
+
+"Two men killed and three wounded."
+
+"Ugm! Where's the interpreter?"
+
+"Bwana!"
+
+Cloth creaked as the man saluted in the dark.
+
+"Where is Sakamata?" demanded zu Pfeiffer in Kiswahili.
+
+"Here, Excellence," replied Sergeant Schultz. "He was running away. I had
+him arrested."
+
+"Good. Bring the animal to my quarters."
+
+"Excellence."
+
+The sergeant and the interpreter, with a trembling Sakamata between them,
+followed zu Pfeiffer to the tent. As he entered he picked up the portrait
+in the ivory frame and replaced it carefully on the table and sat down.
+
+"Ask the shenzie why he has not informed us of this attack?"
+
+The interpreter put the question to the terrified old man who mumbled that
+he had not known anything about it.
+
+"Ugm!" grunted zu Pfeiffer. "Send for a file of men, sergeant, and---- No!"
+Zu Pfeiffer rose. "I'll get the truth out of him. Stand aside, corporal!"
+
+The corporal obeyed with alacrity as jerking his revolver downwards zu
+Pfeiffer pulled the trigger. The shot took off two of Sakamata's smaller
+toes. The corporal grinned in appreciation. Zu Pfeiffer experienced a
+shadow of the pleasure he would have had in mutilating Birnier.
+
+"Pull him up!" commanded zu Pfeiffer. "Now ask him again!"
+
+For a moment or two Sakamata, scarcely conscious of any pain in his
+fright, could not comprehend what was said; at length he mumbled and
+muttered. The interpreter lowered his head to listen.
+
+"Well?"
+
+"He says, Bwana, that he does not know anything; that they will not tell
+him, but that he has heard that the god has come back."
+
+"The god! What god?"
+
+"The god which these shenzie (savages) had here before the Bwana came."
+
+"The idol!" Zu Pfeiffer ripped out an oath. Then glaring questioningly at
+the shrunken figure on the floor considered.
+
+"Tell him he lies. How does he know that the idol has come back if they
+will not tell him anything?"
+
+Again the interpreter jabbered at Sakamata who mumbled back.
+
+"He says, Bwana, that his words are white. That they have not told him,
+but that he has heard the message of the drums. 'The Fire is lighted!'"
+
+"What is that?"
+
+"I don't know, Bwana."
+
+"Ask him, you swine pig!"
+
+"He says that whenever there is a new king that they call out those words,
+meaning that he is come."
+
+"Ugm!" Zu Pfeiffer took out a cigar and lighted it as he considered. I
+believe the animal is right, he reflected. That swinehund American has
+done this! He turned sharply to Sergeant Schultz: "Post double guards;
+bring me Ludwig's report and take this thing away and have it shot."
+
+"Excellence!"
+
+The party went out. Zu Pfeiffer sat smoking fiercely. A single shot rang
+out. Presently came Sergeant Ludwig in person.
+
+"I have to report, Excellence, that the investigation infers that the
+attack was only made with the purpose of freeing the sons of chiefs, for
+the picket has been slain but all the others are unhurt save three
+wounded."
+
+Zu Pfeiffer swore mightily, but he dismissed the sergeant with an
+admonition to have his troops ready for inspection at four-thirty. He
+drank a brandy neat and sat on, staring at the darkness. Then suddenly he
+exclaimed and wheeled to the abandoned report.
+
+"This is an undeniable overt act," he muttered, seeing what he considered
+an opportunity to neutralise the suppositious complaint which Birnier had
+sent to Washington; and taking up his pen began a formal accusation
+against Birnier, as an American subject, for having violated the
+international laws of the Geneva Convention by aiding and abetting rebels
+of his Imperial Majesty.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 28
+
+
+Sergeant Schultz's gloomy foreboding of the inevitable result attending
+the refusal to follow the teachings of his national preceptors was
+justified.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer, crazed with wounded pride or magic, according to the white or
+black point of view, had held rigidly to his schedule; precisely at
+four-thirty he had inspected the expedition and marched at the first
+streak of dawn. Schultz removed to the other hill, leaving twenty-five men
+and a gun under a black sergeant. Afterwards he visited the village. The
+bodies of five of the picket were lying in the sun mutilated. Not a native
+of any sort was to be seen or heard. He sent out scouts. A village a
+couple of miles away was deserted too. He wished to burn the huts and
+plantation to clear the ground around the fort but he dared not do so
+without orders. Muttering to himself he returned and posted double
+sentries.
+
+Throughout the day and the moonlight not a sound of a drum or the voice of
+a native disturbed the moist heat. He slept for a while and then took to
+pacing upon the levee outside the fort. He was aware of a restlessness
+among the men. About midnight a nervous sentry fired at a moving shadow in
+the village. Erratic shots followed; flickered and ceased at the
+sergeant's angry order. The trees seemed to whisper mockingly. The
+sergeant decided that it must have been a prowling jackal or hyena; but
+the incident made him irritable.
+
+In ordinary circumstances he would have posted picket sentries as provided
+by the regulations, but he could not spare any of his fifty men, for in
+the case of an attack they would never regain the fort. The moon sank as
+if reluctantly, seeming to hesitate upon the fringe of banana fronds at
+something that she alone could see. But the night creaked slowly on.
+Schultz knew that the favourite hour for an attack was just at the first
+glimmer of dawn when the spirits are making for their homes and the light
+is deceptive.
+
+He was standing in front of the Nordenfeldt when a sentry's keener ears
+caught a peculiar whispering rustle. As Schultz turned his head to listen,
+the whisper grew in volume to the sound of a hail-storm--the patter of bare
+feet on sand. Faint light on spears rippled round the base of the hills.
+Schultz sprang inside the barrier barking at his men to open fire. He
+deflected the muzzle of his gun and began pumping nickel into the
+advancing mass of yelling figures.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+
+The rush carried the fort; for the defenders were out-numbered by fifty to
+one. Schultz fell under a dozen spear thrusts. The askaris were massacred
+to a man before the sun rose inquiringly beyond the sacred hill of Kawa
+Kendi.
+
+When all the bloody acts of war were done and the triumphant yelling
+quietened, there came from across the river a pulsing trickle of sound in
+the sizzling heat, which was answered by a thundering crash of spear
+against shield and the "Ough! Ough!" of three thousand warriors gathered
+upon the hill to do homage to the Unmentionable One.
+
+Across the river, at the ford where Bakuma had sung her swan song, came
+the procession led by the craft in full panoply. In the van stalked
+Bakahenzie, grave and solemn as befitted the high priest. Around him
+capered with untiring energy a group of lesser wizards whose duties were
+as those of professional dancers, having dried bladders and magic beads
+fastened to their ankles and wrists. Then behind Marufa a litter was borne
+by sacred slaves doomed to perish after performing their holy office, in
+which, swathed entirely from the public gaze, was Usakuma, the Incarnation
+of the Unmentionable One. In another litter, as securely screened, was the
+son of the Lord-of-many-Lands, endeavouring to endure a perpetual bath of
+sweat in the sacred cause, peeking professorial eyes through the
+interstices, scribbling in a notebook. Behind again marched Mungongo
+bearing a smouldering brand of the Sacred Fire; then Yabolo, reinstated in
+office for a reason that any politician will understand. After him came
+more litters bearing the magic "things" of the Incarnation of an
+Incarnation, the King-God.
+
+As they splashed across the river, like troops of bronze gazelle, women
+and girls dashed eager to gather of fertility from the water enchanted by
+the passage of the Bearer of the World.
+
+So they came through the banana plantation and up the wide street which
+the Son-of-the-Earthquake had planned. The chant quavered like a dragonfly
+in the sun and the chorus of the warriors replied with the rhythm and the
+profundity of gargantuan frogs. Then as Bakahenzie stepped upon the
+incline of the hill, burst from the women the cricket song which is made
+tremolo by the rapid beating of the fingers upon the lips, as from the
+drums went out the message over the land that the Unmentionable One had
+indeed returned to the Place of Kings, the City of the Snake.
+
+Ten minutes later a half-stewed god, as exhausted as any emperor after a
+state parade, was permitted to emerge from the litter and to recuperate
+within the cool of the unfinished house that was to have been the bungalow
+of the Kommandant. No one else save the Keeper of the Fires, Bakahenzie
+and Marufa, were within the stockade which ringed the fort. Outside rose
+the mutter and rumble of the warriors and the cries of the women. The
+huddled lines of huts which had been barracks were already in process of
+demolition at the hands of the slaves, and the square within the fort was
+cleared of the slain askaris by the simple process of heaving the bodies
+over the palisade. The idol remained within the litter until the
+consecrating of the defiled ground should be performed by Bakahenzie and
+the craft.
+
+No Wongolo nor any wizard, not even Bakahenzie, would touch the enchanted
+coughing monsters; but as the holy slaves were already doomed they were
+set to pull and to push the Nordenfeldt from the embrasure beside the
+entrance across the levee until it toppled over and rolled half-way down
+the hill, where it was allowed to stay, surrounded from morning to night
+by a crowd of women and children and idle warriors.
+
+The thirst which afflicted Birnier rendered him oblivious of his godhood
+and of the sacred office of Mungongo who was dutifully busy upon his knees
+blowing up the sacred fires from the ember which he had carried; so that
+at a summons to bring water he was both embarrassed and awed, for the
+presence of the High Priest intensified his natural terror of breaking any
+of the meshes of the tabu. At the second imperative demand Bakahenzie
+soothed the angry god by commanding a slave to run to fetch water from
+without. But even then Birnier had the parched felicity of waiting while
+the High Priest solemnly exorcised the gourd of water which, as all food,
+could not be permitted to pass the lips of the King-God without the
+prescribed incantations.
+
+However, within quite a reasonable time the sacred prisoner was
+accommodated with the possession of his goods, magic and culinary. The
+bungalow of the Kommandant, Birnier gathered, was to be converted into the
+temple after the ceremony of purification, and the idol was to stand in
+front in the place occupied by its predecessor at the coronation of the
+late Kawa Kendi.
+
+All that day were Bakahenzie and Marufa and the wizards working hard at
+the various ceremonies of purification of those who had slain, the
+consecration of the Holy Hill, and the exorcising of the evil spirits
+attached thereto by the residence of the Son-of-the-Earthquake. Meanwhile
+Birnier and Mungongo were left to themselves within the enclosure to
+listen to the chanting and thrumming of the drums. Birnier had much to do
+in compiling his notes and reflections; Mungongo nothing save to prepare
+their meals and attend the Sacred Fires.
+
+Exactly what had happened Birnier did not know and could not extract from
+Bakahenzie, who adopted his usual effective method of ignoring every
+direct question. Before they had left the place in the forest he had
+informed Birnier that the commands of the spirit of Tarum through the
+magic ear had been performed, but with what restrictions, modifications,
+or embroideries, Birnier had no means of ascertaining. His definite
+knowledge was that Zalu Zako, together with other chiefs and a vast crowd
+of warriors, were to remain in the forest where zu Pfeiffer was to be led
+into ambush by the power of the magic which he had sent, the American
+flag, an idea which certainly tickled Birnier's sense of humour
+considerably, particularly as it appealed to him, if successful, as an
+ideal case of poetic justice.
+
+That zu Pfeiffer's fort had fallen was obvious, although what the
+disposition of his forces had been and of how the assault had been
+carried, Birnier had no idea. But of one thing he was reasonably sure, and
+that was that his analysis of zu Pfeiffer's reactions and the
+psychological effect upon the natives of having the idol reinstated in the
+Place of Kings, had been entirely correct. After all, as he admitted with
+a smile, zu Pfeiffer's system of native psychology had been based on the
+same fundamental principles as his own except that he had not reckoned
+with the unknown quantity, the equal intelligence working against him and
+able to discount his moves, plus heavier artillery in the form of an
+emotional broadside, the possibility of which rather naturally had never
+occurred to him.
+
+An item which worried Birnier was that he had no means, and could hope for
+none apparently, of discovering whether and to what extent his orders
+through the phonograph had been carried out regarding the treatment of the
+white men. Their fate at the hands of the Wongolo, particularly after the
+merciless massacres inflicted by zu Pfeiffer, would scarcely bear
+imagining. From the fact of the instant and apparently easy success of the
+assault on the forts, he did not doubt that zu Pfeiffer, who had been
+foolish enough to be lured into dividing his forces, was doomed to defeat.
+In this instance he would not have any of the advantages of his triumphal
+entry into the country; would not be able to accomplish a surprise attack,
+and the weakening of the native moral by massacre and the downfall of the
+idol; in fact he had these very forces against him: for the success of
+their first venture, their overwhelming numbers in the forest, the
+exaltation of fanaticism excited by the restoration of their tribal god,
+practically tacked a label of suicide upon his military actions.
+
+During that day Bakahenzie, evidently too busy with the duties of his
+office, did not come near to him. But that evening, in order to ensure as
+far as possible obedience to his orders through the mouth of the oracle,
+Birnier caused Mungongo to chant further instructions into the phonograph
+commanding that the Son-of-the-Earthquake was to be brought alive to
+receive judgment from the Unmentionable One through the Incarnation, the
+son of the Lord-of-many-Lands. Whether this would work or not Birnier of
+course could not know. Already had he discovered that nobody could control
+the complicated machinery of the native tabu any more than any one
+statesman could manage always any vast political machine; indeed he, as
+many others, might more than conceivably be ground up by the gargantuan
+engine with whose starting lever he had played. All he could do had been
+done; nothing remained but to adopt Marufa's favourite maxim: "wait and
+see."
+
+In the evening Mungongo, who had at length been persuaded to project his
+eyes beyond the sacred ground even if he would not his feet, reported that
+much chanting and drumming indicated that the warriors, or a great number
+of them, had departed, evidently to reinforce the troops of Zalu Zako or
+with the object of taking zu Pfeiffer in the rear: a fact which made
+Birnier a little uneasy lest the news of the fall of the station might
+bring zu Pfeiffer to his senses and cause him to return, in which case the
+position might prove to be somewhat uncomfortable.
+
+However, the night passed to the soft thrumming of the drums. At dawn
+appeared Bakahenzie as solemnly as usual. He began by demanding that the
+"pod of the soul" of Tarum should be prepared to listen to him. Birnier
+observed a slight increase in the domineering manner and realized more
+keenly that unless he checked that tendency the worthy High Priest would
+become altogether unmanageable.
+
+Birnier commanded Mungongo to bring forth the instrument and reproduced
+for Bakahenzie's benefit the oration of the previous night. Bakahenzie
+listened solemnly, grunted acquiescence, and again made his request.
+Birnier refused abruptly. Again Bakahenzie grunted acceptance which caused
+Birnier to speculate upon what move the wily doctor had in mind. However,
+after the usual starting of false trails, he announced that the
+consecration of the idol would take place that day and began to instruct
+the new god in his divine duties. That there was something unusual in the
+form, either exaggerated or curtailed, Birnier gathered from Bakahenzie's
+method of expounding the rites; and the solution came in the announcement,
+just before leaving, that as soon as the Son-of-the-Earthquake had been
+"eaten up," that he, Bakahenzie, would summon the craft and the people to
+the Harvest Festival.
+
+The form of the statement again drew Birnier's attention to the fact that
+Bakahenzie was assuming the reins of power far too fast for his
+satisfaction; that unless he contrived to put on the curb he would never
+attain the goal of a beneficent agent nor be able to satisfy his
+professional curiosity.
+
+However, when he had gone, Birnier began anew to question Mungongo
+regarding the reputed ceremonies of the festival, but beyond the fact that
+it was an occasion allied to the Christian-Pagan festival of a kind of
+thanksgiving for the harvest and sacrifice to the god which involved the
+ceremony of the marriage of the Bride of the Banana, Mungongo knew
+nothing.
+
+In the afternoon Birnier was required to preside at the consecrating of
+the ground and the setting up of the idol. But all he had to do was to
+squat silently in front of the new temple and before Bakahenzie and the
+group of the cult, while the concourse of the other wizards and the few
+chiefs that were not away grunted a belly chorus upon the levee without.
+The ceremony was disappointing as ceremonies go, for beyond the stewing in
+the great calabash of a magic concoction with which to anoint the hole for
+the feet of the idol, the doorposts of the temple and the House of Fires,
+to the accompaniment of the usual chanting and drumming, it was ended by a
+dance, with Bakahenzie as the premier danseur.
+
+After his evening meal of boiled chicken, goat flesh and milk, Birnier
+squatted in the doorway of his new quarters smoking. He had no lights as
+his store of carbide was finished. Before leaving for the forest to carve
+the Incarnation of the new Unmentionable One, he had had the forethought
+to despatch a messenger to a certain village on the great lake to
+intercept his carriers with goods and the mail for which he had sent after
+escaping from the noble son of Banyala; he had already informed Bakahenzie
+of the coming of a fresh stock of magic and impressed upon him that great
+precaution must be taken to ensure that it came directly to him, lest
+contact with strangers should offend the spirits. Bakahenzie had assented
+in his usual non-committal manner, a manner that was beginning to get upon
+Birnier's nerves.
+
+As he smoked, staring up at the great moon over the sinister head of the
+idol framed in the green light, he observed that the day after the next
+would be the full moon, the Harvest Moon, the time of the yearly festival.
+Then, by a coincidence which sometimes seems to have a telepathic basis as
+explanation, he heard a curious soft sound from apparently behind the hut.
+Mungongo, squatting near his Sacred Fires in the immobile manner of the
+native, heard the sound too. Again a sibilant whisper, almost like the
+hiss of a snake, brought a "Clk" of astonishment to Mungongo's lips. He
+rose swiftly and disappeared behind the hut. Another muffled exclamation
+of astonishment aroused Birnier's curiosity. He followed, to find Mungongo
+leaning over the palisade as if speaking to some one.
+
+"Ehh!" murmured a familiar voice. "'Tis Moonspirit!"
+
+With a grunt of horror Mungongo turned upon Birnier and began to push him
+away, gasping: "She is accursed! If the evil of her eyes rest upon thee
+thou art sick unto death!"
+
+"The devil take you!" muttered Birnier, angry at the touch of force; then
+recollecting that the tabu forbade alien eyes to gaze on his sacred body
+upon which the world depended, he realized that Mungongo was trying to
+save him. He held him off by the arms, saying: "Be quiet, thou fool! Hath
+not my magic shown thee that I am above all magic?"
+
+Mungongo appeared to consider that there was some truth in the statement
+and at any rate it gave him something to think about. He stood passively
+but as if momentarily expecting Birnier, magic or no, to melt before his
+eyes. Bending over the fence Birnier saw the slender form of Bakuma
+crouched against the earth.
+
+"What dost thou here, O little one?" he whispered, for of course he knew
+nothing of her fate after the abduction by MYalu.
+
+So horror-struck at her own temerity in approaching the person of the
+King-God was she that she dared not raise her eyes as she stuttered:
+
+"A demon hath driven the bird of my soul into the net of thy wrath."
+
+"Still the black wings in thy breast, O Bakuma," said Birnier, trying to
+soothe the child. "Come thou within and show thy father thy bosom."
+
+"Ehh! Ehh!" gasped Bakuma, quivering in greater panic than ever.
+
+Aware of the danger Birnier stooped, took her by the arms and lifted her
+over the palisade, remarking the violent trembling of the frail little
+body whose limbs seemed like candles.
+
+"Come thou," said Birnier, moving towards the hut.
+
+But she cowered where he had dumped her, covering her eyes with her hands
+so that she gazed not upon the sacred body. Mungongo stood like a tree,
+the whites of terrified eyes glimmering in the moonlight. Birnier picked
+up the girl and carried her into the hut, followed by a quaking Keeper of
+the Sacred Fires.
+
+"Go, thou fool," commanded Birnier, "and watch that none approaches!"
+Mungongo gasped. But he obeyed. "Now, little one," continued Birnier,
+"bare thy bosom that I may know how to make the magic of healing."
+
+Squatting on the threshold, her emaciated arms still covering her eyes,
+Bakuma strove to obey. At length she faltered out the story of her double
+abduction. The capture by the askaris had made but little difference to
+her, for, as she phrased it, the beak of her soul was like unto the mouth
+of the crocodile. Her captor had thrust her into a hut in the village
+together with some other female captives, but as the man had had to
+continue his military duties, night had fallen before he returned, by
+which time she had bribed some of the women, whose captivity was not as
+loathsome to them as the pride of their race should have made it, with a
+powerful charm which Birnier had given her, a nickel-plated razor-strop.
+She had escaped. But more fearful of her doom as the Bride of the Banana
+than she was of MYalu or the askaris, she had hidden in the forest, living
+upon wild fruit and roots. Then had she heard the drums announcing the
+return of the Unmentionable One, and aware that Moonspirit had gone into
+the forest to seek Him, had guessed that he was triumphant. Away in the
+jungle she had heard the sound of the rejoicing at the homecoming of the
+King-God; had hesitated, and at last she had come to Moonspirit, in spite
+of his divinity, in the fluttering hope of aid, driven by a demon to break
+another tabu, the same demon which urges so many to break magic
+circles--the subconscious love motive.
+
+Poor kid! commented Birnier to himself as he regarded the pitiful cowering
+form. We haven't gotten the nuptial torches for you yet, but we will, by
+God!{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Give me thine ear, O little one.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} But as he talked to her, soothing
+the terror by promises of mightier magic, came Mungongo crying in a
+terrified whisper that Bakahenzie was claiming audience. At the back of
+the next room of the bungalow, built upon a plan of the one in Ingonya,
+was a bathroom, and into that was Bakuma hurried and bidden to lie as
+quiet as a crocodile.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 29
+
+
+Bakahenzie had come to announce that the certain magic "things," which a
+messenger had brought from the white man's country, had arrived. Although
+he could not expect an answer to his letter to Lucille in Europe, there
+might be others; and such an event as the receipt of a mail once in six
+months is apt to be exciting. Birnier forgot his role for the moment,
+leaped to his feet preparatory to rushing out to meet the runner, but a
+grunt from Bakahenzie and an alarmed cry from Mungongo were just in time
+to prevent him from jeopardizing the stability of the world and all that
+he had won by violating the tabu by stepping beyond the sacred ground.
+Other gods and emperors have indeed wrecked empires through a lesser
+aberration. Even realization of the penalty was scarcely enough to hobble
+his impatient legs, for the very suggestion of what the mail represented
+melted the fetters of this native world as wax in the sun.
+
+Indeed more effort of will was required to return to his god-like throne
+upon the camp-bed, and to amble through the etiquette which discussion of
+such an important matter demanded, than to carry the idol on his back
+through the forest and bear the sound thrashing to boot. Then as a further
+test, Bakahenzie slowly developed a dictum that the magic things could not
+be permitted to enter the sacred enclosure until they had been disinfected
+from the multitude of evil eyes through which they must have passed. At
+that the god came near to swearing or weeping, he did not know which.
+
+But as he fumed inwardly he recollected that at any moment Zalu Zako and
+his troops might return; or if the battle had gone the other way, then zu
+Pfeiffer; in the former case the excitement would still further delay the
+goods and mail, and the latter event might entail the complete loss. As
+well as the growing irritation caused by Bakahenzie's interminable list of
+tabus was the necessity of proclaiming, or rather gaining, his authority
+before he could be of any assistance either to Bakuma, the white men or
+himself. Indeed he had been waiting the arrival of these goods to secure
+the subjection of Bakahenzie to his will. He determined that the trial
+should be now. Merely to demand would, he felt, arouse the obstinacy of
+the chief witch-doctor, who would never, unless compelled by force or
+cunning, give up the reins of power which to him was the _raison d'etre_
+of his life. Birnier must attack through the line of least resistance.
+With the carriers bearing the mail was a case of "imprisoned stars"
+(rockets) and a special cinema outfit, so that Birnier felt that he could
+afford to explode the last manifestation of magic which remained to him.
+After a judicious interval, he said to Bakahenzie:
+
+"O son of Maliko, is not my tongue the tongue of the Unmentionable One?"
+
+"He who knoweth all things knoweth that which is white," retorted
+Bakahenzie.
+
+"Verily. Therefore do thou cause to be brought that which is come, that
+which the fingers of the Unmentionable One are hungry to touch. Thou
+knowest his power of magic. Therefore are the evil eyes of the multitude
+but dry leaves in the wind of his breath."
+
+"Indeed thy words are white, O son of the Lord-of-many-Lands."
+
+"Depart then that the hunger of His fingers may be appeased."
+
+"The drums speak not yet of the eating up of Eyes-in-the-hands. Hath not
+the ear of the spirit of Tarum spoken upon these matters?" inquired
+Bakahenzie in his favourite dialectical manner.
+
+"The spirit of Tarum hath naught to say to thee," replied Birnier, "but
+the fingers of Tarum will to make thee to itch even as his fingers."
+
+Birnier called to Mungongo who brought and placed at his feet a fairly
+powerful electric battery. Bakahenzie eyed the box; curiosity was keenly
+awakened. He stared interestedly when Birnier raised the lid. Taking the
+handles he said:
+
+"These, O son of Maliko, are the hands of Tarum made manifest. He wishes
+that thou shouldst feel the itch of his desire!" and with the words he
+clapped one handle to the belly and the other at the base of the spine of
+the chief witch-doctor. Bakahenzie convulsed as he was compelled to do.
+Swiftly Birnier applied the shock to the shoulders, holding the handles
+there as he remarked to a violently trembling Bakahenzie: "Behold! the
+itch of the fingers of Tarum!"
+
+But as he lowered his hands towards the spine again, Bakahenzie moved
+rapidly and with no dignity.
+
+Solemnly Birnier replaced the handles and closed the lid, and said
+quietly:
+
+"Thou hast felt, O brother magician, that the fingers of Tarum do itch
+indeed?"
+
+"Truly!" responded Bakahenzie with a celerity as unusual as the quaver in
+his voice. "Indeed thy words are white, O mightiest of magicians. What are
+indeed the evil eyes of savages against the power of thy magic, O son of
+the Lord-of-many-Lands!"
+
+And contrary to all precedent Bakahenzie rose and left. Within a quarter
+of an hour his voice announced that slaves with the magic "things" were
+without the palisade, and called upon Mungongo to go to the gate to fetch
+them as strangers were forbidden even to look upon the King-God. Birnier,
+by the light of a torch, opened the mail, sent a wad of letters and a
+sheaf of telegraph slips on to the floor, and snatched a long green
+envelope scrawled in French characters:
+
+Monsieur le Curateur du Jardin des Plantes.
+
+For a moment he stared at it perplexedly, for there was no stamp or
+cancellation.
+
+"What in the name----" he muttered as he slit it open.
+
+                                                     Entebbe,
+                                                           Aout 13, 19--
+
+Mon petit loup, what have you been doing? Ou est tu? Comment et pourquoi?
+Oh, I am cross with you, with Monsieur le Professeur! Why do you write me
+so ridiculous a letter? I laugh, but always I laugh, so what good is that
+to you? I will not reply to your letter, mon vieux--jamais. But I will tell
+you so that you may know why I am here. Yes, parmi les animaux!
+
+Birnier winced at the phrase which seemed to come back at him like a
+boomerang from the lips of zu Pfeiffer.
+
+I am to go for vacation to Wiesbaden with some very terrible peoples. Oh,
+on me degoute! I have an engagement for the winter in Berlin as before. I
+have engagement for Paris--eh! but--pouf! Figure me on the charming
+_Mauretania_ and I am sitting on the deck where you once made yourself so
+ridiculous. Rappelle toi? I am sick--No, mon vieux, pas du mal de mer! I
+should not be for everybody to look at. Oh, no! I am sick, I tell you. Je
+reve de mon petit coco parmi les sales animaux! Je me dis: Zut! il est
+fou! il est tape! Mais en moi meme je l'adore! Tout de suite I tell a
+creature who brings me my books, my fan, un espece de tapette, je m'en
+vais la, moi! He ask me where? I tell him I go to look for mon amant in
+Afrique Centrale! Mais oui! He thinks I am mad! I tell him so and I laugh!
+How I laugh. But he is right, yes, je suis folle--de toi!
+
+Alors I come to Marseilles and I catch a boat to Mombassa. Ouf! Je vais
+mourir a cause de mon petit loup! La mer rouge! Quel cauchemar! Enfin I
+still arrive what of Lucille is left and I ask for you, for Monsieur le
+Professeur Americain, but no one knows you. On the boat I have attached to
+myself trois mousquetaires Anglais. Tous les trois sont droles! They bring
+me on the ever so funny little train to here. Entebbe. Les Anglais sont
+tres polis, tu sais! Monsieur le Gouverneur stop drinking whisky politely
+to tell me that Monsieur has been and has gone! Quelle horreur! You have
+gone but three days! Pense tu! I ask myself what have I done that the bon
+Dieu should be so unkind. Then quel malheur! I remember to myself that I
+commence to come to you on _Friday!_ You laugh! Yes, I laugh too but--Quien
+sabe? I commence to come to you on a Friday and you are gone three little
+days!
+
+Then my good friends, les trois mousquetaires, send for me a what they
+call a runner--the red peas--C'est drole! but the little pea black he did
+not find you. He brings a message that you had gone to some place with a
+terrible name.
+
+Then come the two most ridiculous letters. I will _not_ reply to any such
+ridiculous letters--jamais!
+
+Birnier scowled. Two letters? he muttered. What letters?
+
+You must come now. Immediately. I want you. I will wait here for you. You
+must leave your ridiculous animals as I have left mes affaires for you.
+Come to me. I wait for you.
+
+Lower down on the same page, but written with a thick pen, the letter
+continued:
+
+Again I have read your absurd letter. Tu es fou! You make such a noise
+because this foolish young man is jealous of mon mari and make you to go
+round the detestable country, which you like so much, instead of straight
+through to the ridiculous place you say you want to go.
+
+Birnier smiled grimly.
+
+Peuh! Ecoute, mon cher, it is true I have met the young man in Washington.
+Mon Dieu, are there not plenty of young men in Washington, Paris, Berlin?
+He fell in love with me. Mon Dieu, they are as thick as the blackberries!
+Perhaps I tease him pour faire la blague! Pourquoi pas? I give him a
+photograph and I sign it, just as I sign plenty for amusing friends. But
+then he become too ridiculous. He has no sense of humour comme tous les
+Allemands. He wishes to fight all my friends, tes compatriotes si sombres
+et graves! Figure toi! Then he make a challenge and naturellement it is
+not the custom in thy country. Mon pauvre petit Dorsay refuse and this
+person become crazy wild, as you say, and he strike him with his cane in
+the street. Quelle horreur! Quel scandale! He run away of course. The
+Embassy help him. Qui sait? That is the last I hear until I receive this
+ridiculous letter, together with thy ridiculous letter. I send him to you.
+How drole that you two should meet all among les animaux. It is so funny
+that he did not kill you, this monstre allemand! Tu es en cross encore
+avec moi? Zut! mon vieux it is not my fault that everybody goes mad after
+me except mon petit mari! Leave the ridiculous garcon where he is. But why
+do I talk so much about a cochon? Because you are ridiculous! Tant pis
+pour toi! Now sois gentil and come to me _immediately_--unless you love
+your sales animaux plus que moi! If you do not come I will never never,
+jamais de ma vie, give you one single baiser again! No! Mille baisers!
+Mais comme je te deteste!
+
+                                                               LUCILLE.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 30
+
+
+Forty-eight hours later, the furious drumming, chanting and screaming
+heralded the return of the victorious troops of Zalu Zako. Birnier from
+his gaol on the hill watched the bronze flood pour like a stream of lava
+out of the plantation and flood the village, spears flashing silver points
+in the slanting rays of the sun. But what had happened to zu Pfeiffer and
+the white sergeants? No sign of them could he see. Waves of sound lapped
+continuously around the temple.
+
+The long mauve shadow of the hill ate up the village. Fires began to
+flicker amid the huts and away in the recesses of the plantation. The
+lowing of cattle added to the general clamour. As the western sky was
+still ablaze with incandescent colour stole the cold green of the
+advancing moon in the east.
+
+"Mungongo, what are thy brethren about to do?"
+
+"It is the Festival of the Harvest, as I have told thee, O son of the
+Lord-of-many-Lands."
+
+"But they have not the Bride?"
+
+"Nay." Mungongo glanced apprehensively towards the temple where in what
+was to have been a bathroom, was Bakuma hidden.
+"He-who-may-not-be-mentioned demands but blood. The Bride is the food of
+the wizards. But to each warrior is every woman his bride this night."
+
+"Why didst thou not tell me this thing before?" demanded Birnier, who knew
+that such was one of the customs of primitive tribes in all parts of the
+world and in all ages.
+
+"Thou didst not ask me," retorted Mungongo, to whom the affair was such a
+matter of course that it was not worth mentioning.
+
+"Do they make sacrifice?"
+
+"The Bride is married to the Banana, but of the manner of her nuptial know
+I not. Am I a wizard?"
+
+The divine king grimly watched his subjects. In the growing light flitted
+gnomes around the huts in and out the sepia caverns of the plantation. As
+a banana front was etched in sepia against the great moon, the ocean of
+clamour was cleft by the high treble of the tribal troubadour. At the
+bottom of the wide street appeared dancing figures. As they approached,
+Birnier could distinguish Bakahenzie, Marufa and Yabolo in the van,
+dressed in full panoply, whirling and leaping with untiring energy. Behind
+them shuffled and pranced a vast mass of warriors, behind whom again
+several hundred women shrilled and wriggled in the mighty chorus. The
+rhythm of the drums increased to the maddening action impulse of the two
+short--long beat:
+
+Pm-pm--Pommmmm! Pm-pm--Pommmmm! Pm-pm--Pommmmm!
+
+The treble solo of the chant darted above that throb and grunt like a mad
+bird skimming the turbulent tops of a dark forest.
+
+Pm-pm--Pommmmm! Pm-pm--Pommmmm! Pm-pm--Pommmmm!
+
+The rhythm seemed like a febrile pulse within Birnier's brain, dominating
+him with hypnotic suggestion to action. An urge to scream and to yell, to
+dance and to leap, plucked at his limbs. Resurgent desires from he knew
+not what subconscious catacombs, wriggled and struggled furiously within
+him. The great moon scattered blue stars upon the spears as if upon the
+green scales of some leviathan squirming in delirious torment.
+
+Control the twitching of his muscles to that rhythm Birnier could not. He
+had to fight to resist the waves of hysteria permeating the air. He
+glanced at Mungongo. The whites of his eyes were rolling. Birnier cursed
+the insistency of the drums and the orgiastical grunts. Forcibly he kept
+up a running fire of psychological explanations: "Annihilation of
+inhibitions {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} dissociation of personality {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} triumph of the subconscious
+animal," as a wizard muttering incantations against evil spirits. He felt
+dizzy. "God, I'm drunk with rhythm!" he exclaimed.
+
+The priests were entering the large gate of the outer enclosure. In the
+village and on the opposite hill the people resembled a swarm of black
+locusts. The drums ceased. Bakahenzie and Marufa and Yabolo ran straight
+towards him screeching. This was the cue.
+
+Birnier walked back slowly. In awful silence they began to push the idol.
+The wood creaked protestingly. Slowly the mass slid on to Birnier's back.
+He gripped it and began to walk to the entrance. As he passed Mungongo the
+Sacred Fires shot up yellow tongues. A sound like a moan rose dripping
+with screams and grew into a continuous thunder of noise. The drums
+rippled a furious tattoo. The three wizards dashed before him, leaping
+high in the air. Birnier shuffled a dozen yards to the left and turned. He
+stopped.
+
+Upon the ground, just within the outer gate in view of the multitude
+beyond, green ivory in the moonlight, was the naked figure of a white man.
+Above him pranced Bakahenzie in whose hand gleamed a knife.
+
+The training of his life enabled Birnier to throw upon the screen of his
+mind the essential points more rapidly than conscious thought. Bakahenzie,
+as well as the others, was in an abnormal state of excitement. There was
+no time to employ "magic" rockets or anything else. He swung the idol upon
+one shoulder and ran forward. He saw the blue eyes move and the bracelet
+wink in the moonlight as he stepped over the bound form. He bent,
+balancing the image upon his shoulders, and seized zu Pfeiffer by the arm.
+
+The throb of the drums and the roar of the people who knew not but that
+this act was in accordance with the rules, continued. The priests remained
+motionless: expectant. Bakahenzie stood rigid as if paralysed by the
+unexpected: the knife was a blue snake in his hand.
+
+Half blinded with sweat, with his muscles cracking, Birnier staggered on
+with the heavy burden, dragging the nude body after him. Hours seemed to
+pass, each second of which might bring a spear in his back before he
+reached the place before the temple. He slid the idol into the hole and
+turned.
+
+From the tumult of sound the screech of Bakahenzie shot up like a snipe
+from a rice field. The other wizards sprang with him. The moonlight kissed
+a spearhead beside the stone figure of Mungongo by the Sacred Fires.
+Birnier leaped, plucked the spear, caught zu Pfeiffer in his arms and
+raised him shoulder high that all might see.
+
+At the entrance of the enclosure Bakahenzie and the other two were
+arrested by astonishment. Lowering the body to the base of the idol which
+leaned sideways in a drunken leer, Birnier lifted the spear and brought it
+down accurately between zu Pfeiffer's left arm and breast, and dropping
+swiftly upon his knees to cover his actions, slashed his own left forearm.
+Then he jumped to his feet and held the blooded spear aloft as he cried
+aloud:
+
+"The god hath taken his own!"
+
+Bakahenzie was the first to see that the white breast of the victim was
+indeed deluged in blood; perhaps the veneration engendered by "the fingers
+of Tarum" moved beneath the blood lust.
+
+"The god hath taken his own!" he repeated in a piercing scream. Marufa
+echoed the shout. As they turned the cry was ricocheted beyond the
+farthest hill.
+
+"The god hath taken his own!"
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER 31
+
+
+The reflection of a shaft of moonlight through the half-completed thatch
+upon zu Pfeiffer's "magic" mirror, which the natives had not dared to
+remove, set afire the sapphires upon his bracelet as he sat rigidly in a
+camp chair in a suit of pyjamas. Upon the bed lay Birnier, nursing his
+bandaged left arm. Now and again the thrumming, chanting and the shrilling
+of the saturnalia without rose into discordant yells like a gust of wind
+whipping tree-tops into fury.
+
+Zu Pfeiffer appeared taciturn and suspicious. Perhaps the slackening of
+his will, tautened to meet death as his caste demanded that he should, and
+the confrontation of the object of his violent hate, had completely
+unnerved him. When Birnier had dragged him within and cut his bonds, he
+had grunted curt, official thanks for the rescue. As sullenly he had
+hesitated at the offer of the pyjamas, but as if deciding that he could
+not retain any dignity in his own bloodied skin, had accepted them, as
+well as a sorely needed drink of water.
+
+The reaction after the crisis, and possibly the influence of the general
+hysteria in the air, had distorted Birnier's vision of things. He was very
+conscious of a neurotic desire to laugh unrestrainedly. Thus it was that
+for nearly half an hour the two men remained in the gloom in silence.
+Birnier had a psychological comprehension of the highly nervous tension of
+his guest. For he had long ago realized that the only solution of zu
+Pfeiffer's crazy statement that he was engaged to the wife of a man to
+whom he was speaking, indicated a form of insanity.
+
+A psychological law is that natural emotions must have an outlet; if they
+are repressed they are apt to cause a state of mental disease which in an
+aggravated form may lead the patient to the asylum, but in the incipient
+stage are as common as jackals in Africa. Zu Pfeiffer was suffering from
+such a case of mild psychosis. Brought up under an iron code which did not
+permit his instincts to react, the repressed emotions bubbled out in the
+form of a deification of his Kaiser and the adoration of Lucille, both
+states being absolutely apart from all reason, indeed approached to a
+state of dissociation of consciousness. The desired unattainable is
+projected into the dream plane, the realm of myth. Such a case is the
+historical one of the man who, keenly intelligent upon every subject
+mentioned, startles the visitor by the demand for a piece of toast,
+gravely explaining that he is a poached egg and that he wishes to sit
+down; or as Pascal, who ever had beside him the great black dog. To
+attempt to rationalise with such an one was merely to excite the insane
+part of him. So it was that Birnier determined to ignore the subject
+entirely, perfectly aware that the sullenness of the man sitting in the
+camp chair opposite to him was caused by an exaggerated terror that he
+would insist upon speaking of the one subject which should be tabu.
+
+The associative suggestion of Lucille diverted his mind until he became
+immersed in thoughts of her. A queer vision of a well-fed tiger playing
+with a kid entered his mind. More conscious than ever of her attraction by
+reason of the intensified sense of her wrought by her letter, he glanced
+surreptitiously at the rigid form in the chair and a wave of pity mixed
+with a half conscious pride that she belonged to him, rose within him.
+Then Birnier started as he was brought back to a realization of the
+passing of time by a harsh voice that told of creaking nerves:
+
+"Herr Professor, what is your pleasure to do with me, if you please?"
+
+"I beg your pardon!" Birnier sat up. "Er--naturally I shall endeavour to
+get you away as early as possible. It would be as well if you took
+advantage of the present--er--saturnalia to escape. I cannot do much. I can
+provide you with a gun and food. As you are not injured you should be able
+to get a reasonable distance from here by morning; for the rest I am
+afraid you must fend for yourself. I wish that I could do more, but I'm
+afraid that my power is not yet sufficient to ensure any help from the
+natives."
+
+An inarticulate sound emerged from zu Pfeiffer's mouth. Birnier's eyes
+caught the sheen of the photograph upon the wall. Escape! Lucille! Almost
+involuntarily he stretched out a hand and took Lucille's letter from the
+table. Again came zu Pfeiffer's voice:
+
+"I thank you, Herr Professor, but I cannot accept--for myself." Birnier
+stared at him. "I wish you to understand that for myself that is
+impossible." The tall figure seemed to straighten in the chair. "But as I
+have the honour to serve his Imperial Majesty I am bound to preserve to
+the best of my ability my body in order to answer for my culpable
+negligence which has resulted in the loss of my two companies. Most
+distinctly, Herr Professor, I wish you to know that I accept your offer in
+order to place myself before the Court Martial that awaits me."
+
+Birnier almost gasped. That this anomaly of a man, who was capable of
+cold-blooded murder at the prompting of an hallucination, and who now
+appeared equally capable of the utter annihilation of self at the service
+of his Imperial Master, meant what he said, Birnier did not doubt. Yet it
+was not anomalous. Logical in fact; the capability of supreme sacrifice
+for either of his idols.
+
+"I understand you, Lieutenant," said he courteously. "I----" The two letters
+in his hand crackled. Before he could master the mean desire he had handed
+the second letter to zu Pfeiffer with the words:
+
+"Forgive me, I have here a letter which it is my duty to return to you."
+
+The sapphires winked as zu Pfeiffer held up the letter in the shaft of
+moonlight. There was a suppressed grunt as of pain. Zu Pfeiffer rose
+stiffly and walked to the door. His tall figure was silhouetted in profile
+against the green sky and as Birnier watched he saw a gleam as of crystal
+upon an eyelash. Birnier, ashamed of his sole vengeance, turned away.
+
+But as if revenge were recoiling upon him came in the wake of that
+satisfied primitive instinct a surge of longing for Lucille. Lucille!
+Lucille! God! how he desired to see those eyes again! Feel those lips and
+hear the gurgle of her laughter! Sense the perfume of her hair as she
+murmured: "_Mon petit loup!_" Birnier sat holding the letter. He fought
+with an impulse to abandon everything to go to her--if he could get out!
+How stale and monotonous the adventure and the scientific interest
+suddenly seemed! After all, what had he accomplished? What could he
+accomplish? Even yet he had learned but little of the secrets of the
+witch-doctor's craft. Perhaps there was little or nothing to learn? And zu
+Pfeiffer? He stared across at the portrait of Lucille. And as he gazed a
+wave of pity rose within him for this boy made mad by the witchery of
+those eyes and the music of that voice. A sentence in Lucille's letter
+appeared to stand out from the context: "_Mon Dieu, they are as thick as
+the blackberries!_"
+
+And yet--and yet---- Why the devil had she taken it into her head to come out
+to Uganda above all places? he asked himself. She was so damnably near to
+him. He smiled satirically as he recollected her phrase about those fools
+who made of love a nuisance, and yet now what was she doing? After all the
+suspicion in his mind that love is everything to a woman seemed proven
+true.
+
+But how adorable she was! He fingered the letter as if it were part of
+her. Well, she was young; success and adulation from one capital to
+another had interested and amused her for a few years, but when Milady had
+suddenly discovered that the Career bored her she had thrown up everything
+and logically--to her mind--expected her mate to do likewise! With what
+insouciance had she treated the affair of zu Pfeiffer and the youngster
+whom he had struck. When Birnier had met her she had had a story of a
+young fool count in Paris who had shot himself, merely because she would
+not listen to his suit; and she had protested with one of those wonderful
+shrugs and a moue, saying that she could not marry all the men in the
+world! That apparently bloodthirsty indifference had of course tended to
+make more men "crazy wild," as she put it, about her. And that reputation
+had added to her numerous attractions even to Birnier.
+
+He could escape if he wished--with zu Pfeiffer. He could take Mungongo with
+him. Yet would Mungongo dare the tabu at his bidding? Birnier doubted it.
+Would Mungongo even consent to let him, Birnier, who was now in his eyes
+the King-God, go and so imperil the foundations of the native world?
+Birnier was certain that he would not. They were all dominated by this
+confounded idol of wood, he reflected. Bakahenzie, or even Mungongo, would
+cheerfully sacrifice him if either imagined that the damned Unmentionable
+One desired it, at the suppositious bidding of something which was
+nothing.
+
+Through the sweet scent of her in the air like a compelling aura about
+him, came suddenly zu Pfeiffer's voice speaking in the accents of agony;
+yet all he said was:
+
+"Herr Professor Birnier--I am compelled--to--to apologise for {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}"
+
+The voice failed and the haughty blond head turned away, unable to
+complete to the uttermost the greatest sacrifice he had ever attempted.
+
+"Please don't," said Birnier comprehendingly. "I understand."
+
+And Birnier did comprehend; realised the small hell in zu Pfeiffer as a
+higher developed tabu did a childish tabu unto death. Zu Pfeiffer, white
+man, had been just as guilty of an attempt to commit murder at the
+suppositious inversion of a thumb of an idol as Bakahenzie; not an idol of
+wood but the projection of his subconscious desires. Zu Pfeiffer would
+sacrifice a million at the bidding of his Kaiser, whose divinity was the
+same myth, the projection of himself. Yet what had been Birnier's object
+in undertaking all these pains and penalties but to study mankind in the
+making, the black microcosm of a white macrocosm; to aid them to a better
+understanding of themselves and each other? Was not Bakahenzie an
+embryonic zu Pfeiffer? How could one aid a zu Pfeiffer if one did not know
+a Bakahenzie?
+
+From the saturnalia in progress outside came another swirl of sound
+seeming to lap mockingly against the motionless figure of zu Pfeiffer
+silhouetted against a green sky; and above him towered the idol leaning
+sideways.
+
+As if in drunken laughter of the follies of black and white humanity!
+mused Birnier. Yet what am I doing? At the crook of a dainty finger am I,
+too, to bow to an idol? Am I to pity zu Pfeiffer and these children?{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
+Savages! Good God, what am I?
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                               EXTRA PAGES
+
+
+
+
+                                                             Witch-Doctors
+
+
+
+
+        _L'homme est bien insense! il_
+        _ne scauroit forger un ciron, et_
+        _forge des dieux a douzaine!_
+
+                        MONTAIGNE
+
+
+
+
+
+                                  ERRATA
+
+
+      CHARACTERS
+      Changed: Ludwig    *do. do.*
+      To: Ludwig    *German sergeant*
+
+      CHARACTERS
+      Changed: Schneider    *do. do.*
+      To: Schneider    *German sergeant*
+
+      Chapter 1
+      Changed: "This Saka--Saka"--*Zu* Pfeiffer glanced at
+      To: "This Saka--Saka"--*zu* Pfeiffer glanced at
+
+      Chapter 1
+      Changed: retreat. At *MFunga* MPopo's is the
+      To: retreat. At *MFunya* MPopo's is the
+
+      Chapter 1
+      Changed: As *Zu* Pfeiffer nodded languidly
+      To: As *zu* Pfeiffer nodded languidly
+
+      Chapter 1
+      Changed: seemed to escape *Zu* Pfeiffer. He gave
+      To: seemed to escape *zu* Pfeiffer. He gave
+
+      Chapter 1
+      Changed: man's arrival?" demanded *Zu* Pfeiffer harshly.
+      To: man's arrival?" demanded *zu* Pfeiffer harshly.
+
+      Chapter 1
+      Changed: Zu *Peiffer* finished the report leisurely
+      To: Zu *Pfeiffer* finished the report leisurely
+
+      Chapter 3
+      Changed: I thank you*,* And if---- Were
+      To: I thank you*.* And if---- Were
+
+      Chapter 6
+      Changed: as balanced as a dancer's* *
+      To: as balanced as a dancer's*.*
+
+      Chapter 6
+      Changed: to matters of more importance.*"*
+      To: to matters of more importance.* *
+
+      Chapter 9
+      Changed: shall lave hungry ears of* *
+      To: shall lave hungry ears of *----!*
+
+      Chapter 9
+      Changed: *E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h*!
+      To: *E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-h*!
+
+      Chapter 9
+      Changed: As we {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}* *
+      To: As we {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}*"*
+
+      Chapter 9
+      Changed: The personality of *Bernier* had been apparently
+      To: The personality of *Birnier* had been apparently
+
+      Chapter 9
+      Changed: and the two *Nordenfelts* and two pom-poms
+      To: and the two *Nordenfeldts* and two pom-poms
+
+      Chapter 11
+      Changed: "*Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*!"
+      To: "*Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*!"
+
+      Chapter 11
+      Changed: *Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*!
+      To: *Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*!
+
+      Chapter 13
+      Changed: in of fresh *masssacres* adding to the
+      To: in of fresh *massacres* adding to the
+
+      Chapter 14
+      Changed: Yabolo near to *Zaku* Zako's continued. Neither
+      To: Yabolo near to *Zalu* Zako's continued. Neither
+
+      Chapter 14
+      Changed: enemy, Bakahenzie, presented *Zaku* Zako with a
+      To: enemy, Bakahenzie, presented *Zalu* Zako with a
+
+      Chapter 14
+      Changed: which walk ever *the the* red devils in
+      To: which walk ever *the* red devils in
+
+      Chapter 14
+      Changed: the minds of *Zako Zalu* and Marufa the
+      To: the minds of *Zalu Zako* and Marufa the
+
+      Chapter 15
+      Changed: village of MFunya *MPope* --of that day
+      To: village of MFunya *MPopo* --of that day
+
+      Chapter 15
+      Changed: not his policy *tomake* his thunder too
+      To: not his policy *to make* his thunder too
+
+      Chapter 17
+      Changed: position of chief *witch doctor*, he would do
+      To: position of chief *witch-doctor*, he would do
+
+      Chapter 18
+      Changed: earth, and when*----* and when----" He
+      To: earth, and when*--* and when----" He
+
+      Chapter 19
+      Changed: in their solar *plexes*.
+      To: in their solar *plexus*.
+
+      Chapter 22
+      Changed: the village of *Yangonyama*, but shortage of
+      To: the village of *Yagonyana*, but shortage of
+
+      Chapter 24
+      Changed: the white god.* *
+      To: the white god.*"*
+
+      Chapter 29
+      Changed: Peuh! *Ecoute*, mon cher, it
+      To: Peuh! *Ecoute*, mon cher, it
+
+      Chapter 30
+      Changed: Pm-pm--*Pommmm*!
+      To: Pm-pm--*Pommmmm*!
+
+
+
+
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