t II. xiv] AT NIMULE 429 



ally dismembered him, tearing his arms from his body. 

 In the African wilderness, when a man dies, his com- 

 panion usually brings in something to show that he is 

 dead, or some remnant of whatever it is that has de- 

 stroyed him. The sailors whose companion was killed 

 by falling out of the tree near oin* I.ado camp, for 

 instance, brought in the dead branch which had broken 

 luulcr his weight ; and Stoney's gun-bearer marched 

 back to Niniule carrying an arm of his dead master, 

 and deposited his gruesome burden in the office of the 

 District Commissioner. 



