. Red, yellow and black : tales of Indians, Chinese and Africans . 51 RED, YELLOW, AND BLACK monkeys in the thick woods. Sometimesthey played in beautiful glens, where theydiscovered springs of clear, cool they came upon banana groves,and gardens beside the little straw hutsof the black men. The missionaries were not the only whitemen living in this wonderland of theblack man. Pungo Andongo was a militarypost, and the military bugle each morningand evening awoke the echoes among therocks. Portuguese traders had built forthemselves a row of comfortable whitehouses beside the wel
. Red, yellow and black : tales of Indians, Chinese and Africans . 51 RED, YELLOW, AND BLACK monkeys in the thick woods. Sometimesthey played in beautiful glens, where theydiscovered springs of clear, cool they came upon banana groves,and gardens beside the little straw hutsof the black men. The missionaries were not the only whitemen living in this wonderland of theblack man. Pungo Andongo was a militarypost, and the military bugle each morningand evening awoke the echoes among therocks. Portuguese traders had built forthemselves a row of comfortable whitehouses beside the well-beaten path. Theyknew that caravans of black carriers fromthe forest many miles inland passed dailyalong this path bringing on their shouldersbundles of rubber, ivory, beeswax or coffeeto sell to the white men. About some ofthe houses the Portuguese traders hadmade large clearings and around thesethey had built walls to keep away thewild beasts. In these caravansaries, asthey called them, the traders invited thecaravans to rest, and hundreds of black 152 *^T». t ~~ LAND OF GREAT ADVENTURE feet beat hard the ground inside thosewalls. One morning a long line of black menwalked single file up the path from theforest. Each man carried on his shouldera sort of basket filled with rubber. Theystopped before one of the houses of thewhite merchants and laid down their white men stepped to the door andhanded them several big round bottles ofrum or :<ualende -burning water, asthe black men called it. Servants gave theleaders of the caravan some dried fish andmanioc flour to be cooked into fungi,and well content the black men passedinto the caravansary. There they started a camp fire, andcooked the dried fish and flour and drankof the burning water. Then they begandancing. Long after the suns red ballhad sunk behind the hills, these blackmen from the forest continued to dance,clapping their hands and shouting , the noise of their yelling kept upfar into the nig
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