DEATH OF FRANK POCOCK. 
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Ivapata, and tall, good-natured Itumba, and a few of the 
principal men, were alone admitted. 
After hearing the facts, Ndala informed me there was 
no doubt that it was the “ bad fetish ” of Massassa 
people, and he proposed that the four kings of Zinga 
and the three kings of Mbelo should unite and completely 
destroy the Massassa people for their diabolical act. 
Said they, “It is not the first time an accident has 
happened at 
Massassa; 
for, about two 
months ago, 
one of our 
men, while 
standing on 
the rock, sud- 
denly fell into 
the river, and 
PASSING THE FALLS. 
again ; and one of Mowa’s people has also been lost 
there in the same way.” 
The suggestion that it was the fetish of Massassa 
which had caused this sudden and sharp calamity was 
natural to the superstitious and awed natives ; but in a 
few words I informed them that I blamed no man for it. 
“ Say, Mundele,” asked Ndala suddenly, “ where has 
your white brother gone to ? ” 
“Home.” 
