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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 our Lado camp, for 
instance, brought in the dead branch which had broken 
under his weight; and Stoney’s gun-bearer marched 
back to Nimule carrying an arm of his dead master, 
and deposited his gruesome burden in the office of the 
District Commissioner. 
