A voice from the Congo : comprising stories, anecdotes, and descriptive notes . ?? ££ 8. NGANGA NKISSI 57 ognise, by the flickering light of a wood fire, the faceand form of Lubaki. He was running, with half-crouching body, from a cloud of smoke. Filled with a conviction that some fresh villainy hadbeen enacted, I pursued him; but he eluded me bydoubling among the bushes and the intricate of excited natives rushed about in everydirection, all eagerly inquiring the meaning of thegun-shot in the night. I returned to the place whereI had heard the shot fired, and as I drew near myea
A voice from the Congo : comprising stories, anecdotes, and descriptive notes . ?? ££ 8. NGANGA NKISSI 57 ognise, by the flickering light of a wood fire, the faceand form of Lubaki. He was running, with half-crouching body, from a cloud of smoke. Filled with a conviction that some fresh villainy hadbeen enacted, I pursued him; but he eluded me bydoubling among the bushes and the intricate of excited natives rushed about in everydirection, all eagerly inquiring the meaning of thegun-shot in the night. I returned to the place whereI had heard the shot fired, and as I drew near myear was smitten by sounds of wailing and woe. Mypresentiment of evil was fully endorsed by my sub-sequent discovery. Mavonda Nzau had been mur-dered ! Under cover of darkness Lubaki had evidentlycrept close to the hut in which Mavonda Nzau laystricken with fever, and inserting the barrel of hisflint-lock gun through the plaited grass wall, he hadfired a deadly charge of iron slugs into the body ofhis victim. The following day I visited the native chief, whoresided in an adjoining villa
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