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Jose-Antonio
Alvez
,
Coimbra
,
Negoro
,
the
Arab
traders
and
their
overseers
had
increased
the
ranks
of
Kazounde
's
people
.
No
one
had
yet
left
the
great
lakoni
.
Queen
Moini
would
not
permit
it
,
and
it
would
not
be
prudent
to
disobey
the
orders
of
one
who
was
trying
the
trade
of
sovereign
.
The
body
of
the
king
,
laid
in
a
palanquin
,
was
carried
in
the
last
ranks
of
the
cortège
.
It
was
surrounded
by
his
wives
of
the
second
order
,
some
of
whom
were
going
to
accompany
him
beyond
this
life
.
Queen
Moini
,
in
great
state
,
marched
behind
what
might
be
called
the
catafalque
.
It
was
positively
night
when
all
the
people
arrived
on
the
banks
of
the
brook
;
but
the
resin
torches
,
shaken
by
the
porters
,
threw
great
bursts
of
light
over
the
crowd
.
The
ditch
was
seen
distinctly
.
It
was
carpeted
with
black
,
living
bodies
,
for
they
moved
under
the
chains
that
bound
them
to
the
ground
.
Fifty
slaves
were
waiting
there
till
the
torrent
should
close
over
them
.
The
majority
were
young
natives
,
some
resigned
and
mute
,
others
giving
a
few
groans
.
The
wives
all
dressed
as
for
a
fête
,
and
who
must
perish
,
had
been
chosen
by
the
queen
.
One
of
these
victims
,
she
who
bore
the
title
of
second
wife
,
was
bent
on
her
hands
and
knees
,
to
serve
as
a
royal
footstool
,
as
she
had
done
in
the
king
's
lifetime
.
The
third
wife
came
to
hold
up
the
manikin
,
while
the
fourth
lay
at
its
feet
,
in
the
guise
of
a
cushion
.
Before
the
manikin
,
at
the
end
of
the
ditch
,
a
post
,
painted
red
,
rose
from
the
earth
.
To
this
post
was
fastened
a
white
man
,
who
was
going
to
be
counted
also
among
the
victims
of
these
bloody
obsequies
.
That
white
man
was
Dick
Sand
.
His
body
,
half
naked
,
bore
the
marks
of
the
tortures
he
had
already
suffered
by
Negoro
's
orders
.
Tied
to
this
post
,
he
waited
for
death
like
a
man
who
has
no
hope
except
in
another
life
.
However
,
the
moment
had
not
yet
arrived
when
the
barricade
would
be
broken
.
On
a
signal
from
the
queen
,
the
fourth
wife
,
she
who
was
placed
at
the
king
's
feet
,
was
beheaded
by
Kazounde
's
executioner
,
and
her
blood
flowed
into
the
ditch
.
It
was
the
beginning
of
a
frightful
scene
of
butchery
.
Fifty
slaves
fell
under
the
executioner
's
knife
.
The
bed
of
the
river
ran
waves
of
blood
.
During
half
an
hour
the
victims
'
cries
mingled
with
the
assistants
'
vociferations
,
and
one
would
seek
in
vain
in
that
crowd
for
a
sentiment
of
repugnance
or
of
pity
.
