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Nan
was
not
better
treated
.
She
made
part
of
a
group
of
women
who
occupied
the
middle
of
the
convoy
.
They
had
chained
her
with
a
young
mother
of
two
children
,
one
at
the
breast
,
the
other
aged
three
years
,
who
walked
with
difficulty
.
Nan
,
moved
with
pity
,
had
burdened
herself
with
the
little
creature
,
and
the
poor
slave
had
thanked
her
by
a
tear
.
Nan
then
carried
the
infant
,
at
the
same
time
,
sparing
her
the
fatigue
,
to
which
she
would
have
yielded
,
and
the
blows
the
overseer
would
have
given
her
.
But
it
was
a
heavy
burden
for
old
Nan
.
She
felt
that
her
strength
would
soon
fail
her
,
and
then
she
thought
of
little
Jack
.
She
pictured
him
to
herself
in
his
mother
's
arms
.
Sickness
had
wasted
him
very
much
,
but
he
must
be
still
heavy
for
Mrs.
Weldon
's
weakened
arms
.
Where
was
she
?
What
would
become
of
her
?
Would
her
old
servant
ever
see
her
again
?
Dick
Sand
had
been
placed
almost
in
the
rear
of
the
convoy
.
He
could
neither
perceive
Tom
,
nor
his
companions
,
nor
Nan
.
The
head
of
the
long
caravan
was
only
visible
to
him
when
it
was
crossing
some
plain
.
He
walked
,
a
prey
,
to
the
saddest
thoughts
,
from
which
the
agents
'
cries
hardly
drew
his
attention
.
He
neither
thought
of
himself
,
nor
the
fatigues
he
must
still
support
,
nor
of
the
tortures
probably
reserved
for
him
by
Negoro
.
He
only
thought
of
Mrs.
Weldon
.
In
rain
he
sought
on
the
ground
,
on
the
brambles
by
the
paths
,
on
the
lower
branches
of
the
trees
,
to
find
some
trace
of
her
passage
.
She
could
not
have
taken
another
road
,
if
,
as
everything
indicated
,
they
were
leading
her
to
Kazounde
.
What
would
he
not
give
to
find
some
indication
of
her
march
to
the
destination
where
they
themselves
were
being
led
!
Such
was
the
situation
of
the
young
novice
and
his
companions
in
body
and
mind
.
But
whatever
they
might
have
to
fear
for
themselves
,
great
as
was
their
own
sufferings
,
pity
took
possession
of
them
on
seeing
the
frightful
misery
of
that
sad
troop
of
captives
,
and
the
revolting
brutality
of
their
masters
.
Alas
!
they
could
do
nothing
to
succor
the
afflicted
,
nothing
to
resist
the
others
.
All
the
country
situated
east
of
the
Coanza
was
only
a
forest
for
over
an
extent
of
twenty
miles
.
The
trees
,
however
,
whether
they
perish
under
the
biting
of
the
numerous
insects
of
these
countries
,
or
whether
troops
of
elephants
beat
them
down
while
they
are
still
young
,
are
less
crowded
here
than
in
the
country
next
to
the
seacoast
.
The
march
,
then
,
under
the
trees
,
would
not
present
obstacles
.
The
shrubs
might
be
more
troublesome
than
the
trees
.
There
was
,
in
fact
,
an
abundance
of
those
cotton-trees
,
seven
to
eight
feet
high
,
the
cotton
of
which
serves
to
manufacture
the
black
and
white
striped
stuffs
used
in
the
interior
of
the
province
.
In
certain
places
,
the
soil
transformed
itself
into
thick
jungles
,
in
which
the
convoy
disappeared
.
Of
all
the
animals
of
the
country
,
the
elephants
and
giraffes
alone
were
taller
than
those
reeds
which
resemble
bamboos
,
those
herbs
,
the
stalks
of
which
measure
an
inch
in
diameter
.
The
agents
must
know
the
country
marvelously
well
,
not
to
be
lost
in
these
jungles
.
Each
day
the
caravan
set
out
at
daybreak
,
and
only
halted
at
midday
for
an
hour
.
Some
packs
containing
tapioca
were
then
opened
,
and
this
food
was
parsimoniously
distributed
to
the
slaves
.
To
this
potatoes
were
added
,
or
goat
's
meat
and
veal
,
when
the
soldiers
had
pillaged
some
village
in
passing
.
But
the
fatigue
had
been
such
,
the
repose
so
insufficient
,
so
impossible
even
during
these
rainy
nights
,
that
when
the
hour
for
the
distribution
of
food
arrived
the
prisoners
could
hardly
eat
.
So
,
eight
days
after
the
departure
from
the
Coanza
,
twenty
had
fallen
by
the
way
,
at
the
mercy
of
the
beasts
that
prowled
behind
the
convoy
.
Lions
,
panthers
and
leopards
waited
for
the
victims
which
could
not
fail
them
,
and
each
evening
after
sunset
their
roaring
sounded
at
such
a
short
distance
that
one
might
fear
a
direct
attack
.
On
hearing
those
roars
,
rendered
more
formidable
by
the
darkness
,
Dick
Sand
thought
with
terror
of
the
obstacles
such
encounters
would
present
against
Hercules
's
enterprise
,
of
the
perils
that
menaced
each
of
his
steps
.
And
meanwhile
if
he
himself
should
find
an
opportunity
to
flee
,
he
would
not
hesitate
.
Here
are
some
notes
taken
by
Dick
Sand
during
this
journey
from
the
Coanza
to
Kazounde
.
