IN AFRICAN FOREST AND JUNGLE 



chill on the way. His skin was very hot, and he had 

 a very violent headache. I made him lie down, and 

 lighted several fires round him to act as blankets. I 

 was afraid he had an attack of malignant fever, which 

 carries off people very quickly, sometimes in less 

 than twelve hours. I gave him a very large dose of 

 quinine, and bathed his burning head with cool water 

 from the spring. I watched over him all night. 



He was better the next day, and said to me : 

 " Oguizi, some persons have bewitched me ; they 

 are jealous, for you are my friend, and you love me, a 

 poor slave, and they say, ' Why should the great 

 Oguizi love Rogala ? ' and they want me to die." 



I replied, " Rogala, nobody wants you to die." 



" Yes," he replied very earnestly, " somebody wants 

 me to die, but fortunately I have a powerful mondah 

 which is stronger against witchcraft than the machina- 

 tions and incantations of the sorcerers or witches." 



While he was talking, I said to myself: " I suppose 

 that if Rogala should die while with me, the people 

 would say that I had caused his death ; that I wanted 

 his spirit to follow me when I left the country because 

 I loved him." I remembered that a man had died 

 the day after I had left a village, and the people there 

 to this day believe that I caused his death for this 

 reason. 



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