IN AFRICAN FOREST AND JUNGLE 



from ascending the trees, and we spread hot ashes 

 wherever they appeared. 



After this I said to Rogala : " We must take 

 Akenda-Mbani out of the nchogo. I do not care 

 whether he runs away or not. I do not want his 

 death on my head or on yours. The Oguizi wishes 

 nobody to die. Just think what a narrow escape he 

 had ! If he had been eaten up by the bashlkouays, 



t would have been our fault. It will never do to 

 keep a man In nchogo unless some one is near 

 to watch him." 



"You are right, Oguizi. It is so; it is so," 



le repeated half a dozen times. Then he added 



houghtfully : " Yes, when people have been dis- 

 covered to be wizards, they are tied to a tree when 

 the bashlkouays are in the neighborhood, and in a 

 '^.hort time nothing is left of them but their bones." 

 So Rogala and I took Akenda-Mbani out of his 



ichogos, first freeing his hands, and then his feet. 

 I felt now quite happy, for Akenda-Mbani was free, 



md if we had been sure of him at first he would not 

 have been placed in nchogo at all. He was now one 

 of us. The next day we all went again into the forest 

 in search of firewood, and without being told to do so, 

 Akenda took a heavy load on his back, and carried it 

 to the camp. The day following, he went into the 



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