CHAPTER XXI. 
WITCHCRAFT, — ACCUSATION OF PENDE. — RESULT OF HIS 
TRIAL. 
W rz is looming on the banks of the Ovenga. Witch- 
craft is at the bottom of the trouble. The Bakalais have 
met from every vale and from every hill, and chiefs and 
elders and warriors have come to ask for the head of Pen- 
_ dé. Iam alone of all my race in this turmoil. 
Pendé was a younger brother of King Obindji, and was 
himself the chief of a village. Pendé was disliked by 
every body. The fearful accusation which the Bakalais 
brought against him was this. Pendé was said to have 
stolen the bones of dead persons in the forest and to have 
made a fetich with them, which fetich was to keep trade 
_~ away from a particular village. Pendé was an aniemba 
(a wizard) ; for who ever heard of men who went and stole 
human bones and kept them, that were not sorcerers? 
Pendé’s ways were strange and mysterious. Peoplecould 
not understand them, and he must be killed. Obindji 
being the eldest brother, they called on him to issue an 
order for the killing of Pendé. | 
Obindji must give up his brother. Quengueza be- 
ing in the country, the discussion took place before him. 
I and Quengueza stood on two stools in the midst of the 
two opposite camps. One camp demanded Pendé’s life, 
