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At
length
the
signal
came
--
a
sharp
rattle
of
musketry
,
and
like
one
man
,
an
answering
volley
tore
from
the
jungle
to
the
west
and
to
the
south
.
The
natives
in
the
field
dropped
their
implements
and
broke
madly
for
the
palisade
.
The
French
bullets
mowed
them
down
,
and
the
French
sailors
bounded
over
their
prostrate
bodies
straight
for
the
village
gate
.
So
sudden
and
unexpected
the
assault
had
been
that
the
whites
reached
the
gates
before
the
frightened
natives
could
bar
them
,
and
in
another
minute
the
village
street
was
filled
with
armed
men
fighting
hand
to
hand
in
an
inextricable
tangle
.
For
a
few
moments
the
blacks
held
their
ground
within
the
entrance
to
the
street
,
but
the
revolvers
,
rifles
and
cutlasses
of
the
Frenchmen
crumpled
the
native
spearmen
and
struck
down
the
black
archers
with
their
bows
halfdrawn
.
Soon
the
battle
turned
to
a
wild
rout
,
and
then
to
a
grim
massacre
;
for
the
French
sailors
had
seen
bits
of
D'Arnot
's
uniform
upon
several
of
the
black
warriors
who
opposed
them
.
They
spared
the
children
and
those
of
the
women
whom
they
were
not
forced
to
kill
in
self-defense
,
but
when
at
length
they
stopped
,
parting
,
blood
covered
and
sweating
,
it
was
because
there
lived
to
oppose
them
no
single
warrior
of
all
the
savage
village
of
Mbonga
.
Carefully
they
ransacked
every
hut
and
corner
of
the
village
,
but
no
sign
of
D'Arnot
could
they
find
.
They
questioned
the
prisoners
by
signs
,
and
finally
one
of
the
sailors
who
had
served
in
the
French
Congo
found
that
he
could
make
them
understand
the
bastard
tongue
that
passes
for
language
between
the
whites
and
the
more
degraded
tribes
of
the
coast
,
but
even
then
they
could
learn
nothing
definite
regarding
the
fate
of
D'Arnot
.
Only
excited
gestures
and
expressions
of
fear
could
they
obtain
in
response
to
their
inquiries
concerning
their
fellow
;
and
at
last
they
became
convinced
that
these
were
but
evidences
of
the
guilt
of
these
demons
who
had
slaughtered
and
eaten
their
comrade
two
nights
before
.
At
length
all
hope
left
them
,
and
they
prepared
to
camp
for
the
night
within
the
village
.
The
prisoners
were
herded
into
three
huts
where
they
were
heavily
guarded
.
Sentries
were
posted
at
the
barred
gates
,
and
finally
the
village
was
wrapped
in
the
silence
of
slumber
,
except
for
the
wailing
of
the
native
women
for
their
dead
.
