IN AFRICAN FOREST AND JUNGLE 



the trees were untouched, for the elephants and the 

 big apes, the " men of the woods," had not found 

 the plantation. 



Some time before we had reached the place Rogala's 

 face had become uneasy. He took to the opposite 

 bank of the river. I could see fear on his counte- 

 nance. He paddled faster than ever, and his mind 

 seemed quite relieved when we had left the spot 

 far behind us. Then he stopped, tied the canoe 

 to a tree to rest a while, and said : " Two dry sea- 

 sons ago there lived on the plantation we have passed 

 a man by the name of Igala. His wife was called 

 Yienoo. Both were sorcerers, and had been so for 

 a long time, though the people did not know it. 

 Near them was a village. One day one of the men of 

 the village was trampled to death by a bull elephant, 

 and there was great sorrow among the people. The 

 day after a leopard came into the village at night and 

 carried away a woman. The people began to think 

 it was strange that those two deaths should occur 

 one immediately after the other, and they became 

 much alarmed, and believed that witchcraft was the 

 cause of the trouble, but no one suspected who the 

 sorcerers were. Some time afterwards a man disap- 

 peared and never came back. After this the people 

 were so much excited that they sent a messenger to a 



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