CHAPTER XXVIII. «42 
HOW WE WERE RECEIVED AT CAMP.—THREATENED WITH 
STARVATION.—A NIGHT IN CAMP. TES 
WE left the gorilla scene I have just described to you = 
in the preceding chapter, and made for our camp. » As 
we came in sight of it Querlaouen gave the peculiar whis- 
tle agreed upon to announce our arrival, and soon after 
we saw the head of Gambo and Malaouen peeping out 
above the fence, also the heads of the two boys Nyalt 
and Nola. 
The,ladder was handed down to us; soon we were 
inside, and, before I knew it, Malaouen was hugging me 
as hard as he could; when he had done, and before I 
had time to breathe and free myself from his embrace en- 
tirely, I was hugged by friend Gambo. The boys jump- 
_ ed around, and there was tremendous excitement in the 
camp. The poor fellows had been very anxious, and did 
not know what had become of us. When night came 
they became very uneasy; perhaps we had been killed 
by the Ashankolo Bakalai, or by some wild beasts. 
Gambo, looking with pride into Malaouen’s face, said, 
“Did I not tell you that they would come back all safe?” — 
They were washed with the chalk of the Alumbi, cover- 
ed with their fetiches, and had gone through all sorts of 
heathen ceremonies to find out whether we were safe. 
The little wooden idol of Gambo had also been consult- 
