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A
remarkable
thing
about
these
savages
,
who
staggered
like
their
master
,
was
that
each
lacked
a
part
of
his
body
--
one
an
ear
,
another
an
eye
,
this
one
the
nose
,
that
one
the
hand
.
Not
one
was
whole
.
That
is
because
they
apply
only
two
kinds
of
punishment
in
Kazounde
--
mutilation
or
death
--
all
at
the
caprice
of
the
king
.
For
the
least
fault
,
some
amputation
,
and
the
most
cruelly
punished
are
those
whose
ears
are
cut
off
,
because
they
can
no
longer
wear
rings
in
their
ears
.
The
captains
of
the
kilolos
,
governors
of
districts
,
hereditary
or
named
for
four
years
,
wore
hats
of
zebra
skin
and
red
vests
for
their
whole
uniform
.
Their
hands
brandished
long
palm
canes
,
steeped
at
one
end
with
charmed
drugs
.
As
to
the
soldiers
,
they
had
for
offensive
and
defensive
weapons
,
bows
,
of
which
the
wood
,
twined
with
the
cord
,
was
ornamented
with
fringes
;
knives
,
whetted
with
a
serpent
's
tongue
;
broad
and
long
lances
;
shields
of
palm
wood
,
decorated
in
arabesque
style
.
For
what
there
was
of
uniform
,
properly
so
called
,
it
cost
his
majesty
's
treasury
absolutely
nothing
.
Finally
,
the
kind
's
cortege
comprised
,
in
the
last
place
,
the
court
magicians
and
the
instrumentalists
.
The
sorcerers
,
the
"
mganngas
,
"
are
the
doctors
of
the
country
.
These
savages
attach
an
absolute
faith
to
divinatory
services
,
to
incantations
,
to
the
fetiches
,
clay
figures
stained
with
white
and
red
,
representing
fantastic
animals
or
figures
of
men
and
women
cut
out
of
whole
wood
.
For
the
rest
,
those
magicians
were
not
less
mutilated
than
the
other
courtiers
,
and
doubtless
the
monarch
paid
them
in
this
way
for
the
cures
that
did
not
succeed
.
The
instrumentalists
,
men
or
women
,
made
sharp
rattles
whizz
,
noisy
drums
sound
or
shudder
under
small
sticks
terminated
by
a
caoutchouc
ball
,
"
marimehas
,
"
kinds
of
dulcimers
formed
of
two
rows
of
gourds
of
various
dimensions
--
the
whole
very
deafening
for
any
one
who
does
not
possess
a
pair
of
African
ears
.
Above
this
crowd
,
which
composed
the
royal
cortege
,
waved
some
flags
and
standards
,
then
at
the
ends
of
spears
the
bleached
skulls
of
the
rival
chiefs
whom
Moini
Loungga
had
vanquished
.
When
the
king
had
quitted
his
palanquin
,
acclamations
burst
forth
from
all
sides
.
The
soldiers
of
the
caravan
discharged
their
old
guns
,
the
low
detonations
of
which
were
but
little
louder
than
the
vociferations
of
the
crowd
.
The
overseers
,
after
rubbing
their
black
noses
with
cinnabar
powder
,
which
they
carried
in
a
sack
,
bowed
to
the
ground
.
Then
Alvez
,
advancing
in
his
turn
,
handed
the
king
a
supply
of
fresh
tobacco
--
"
soothing
herb
,
"
as
they
call
it
in
the
country
.
Moini
Loungga
had
great
need
of
being
soothed
,
for
he
was
,
they
did
not
know
why
,
in
a
very
bad
humor
.
At
the
same
time
Alvez
,
Coimbra
,
Ibn
Hamis
,
and
the
Arab
traders
,
or
mongrels
,
came
to
pay
their
court
to
the
powerful
sovereign
of
Kazounde
.
"
Marhaba
,
"
said
the
Arabs
,
which
is
their
word
of
welcome
in
the
language
of
Central
Africa
.
Others
clapped
their
hands
and
bowed
to
the
ground
.
Some
daubed
themselves
with
mud
,
and
gave
signs
of
the
greatest
servility
to
this
hideous
majesty
.
