. Land and peoples of the Kasai; being a narrative of a two years' journey among the cannibals of the equatorial forest and other savage tribes of the south-western Congo . An old-fashioned Batetela jADl IND SOME OI III- wives. IN THE BATETELA COUNTRY 63 changed in a moment to fury. Apparently Jadi had madesome slight mistake with regard to an incident which,though it had occurred in the dark ages, was still freshin the memory of old Enungu. This error filled the oldman with indignation. Seizing a spear which lay at hand,and hurling insults at the head of Jadi and at the phono-graph, he
. Land and peoples of the Kasai; being a narrative of a two years' journey among the cannibals of the equatorial forest and other savage tribes of the south-western Congo . An old-fashioned Batetela jADl IND SOME OI III- wives. IN THE BATETELA COUNTRY 63 changed in a moment to fury. Apparently Jadi had madesome slight mistake with regard to an incident which,though it had occurred in the dark ages, was still freshin the memory of old Enungu. This error filled the oldman with indignation. Seizing a spear which lay at hand,and hurling insults at the head of Jadi and at the phono-graph, he strove frantically to rise, expressing his intentionof smashing up a machine which could tell such lies. For-tunately his age prevented his getting to his feet to carryout his threats, and we quickly put a stop to the playingof the offending record. The old fellow was then con-ducted to a shady spot where he could sit down quietlyand recover his composure. For some time he sat insilence, making signs about his person with some magicseeds produced from the cats-skin bag containing hismedicine, without which he never moved, and finallyhe departed evidently still much disturbed in mind. Hedid condesc
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