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Title: A voice from the Congo : comprising stories, anecdotes, and descriptive notes
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Ward, Herbert, 1863-1919
Subjects: Ward, Herbert, 1863-1919 Africa, Central -- Description and travel Africa, Central -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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canHoussa irregulars were duly paraded. Corporal Alakai! Yessir. Sapristi! Corporal, where are your trousers? The natives, sir! Last night I sleep, they donetief em, sir. Quel malheur! Ali Bussi! Tete Clever! Fallin! The three negroes of incongruous height and ap-pearance, attired in tattered garments of gaudy col-ours, stepped from the ranks and saluted. Attention! Corporal Alakai, I am going to leaveyou here with Bussi and Clever. In a few monthsI will return. Clean your guns every day. Hereare cartridges. Do not fight. Here are glass beadsto buy food. The chief, he promises me to be yourfriend. Sacre bleu! Ali Bussi! stand up! Do notcatch flies while I give you orders. CorporalAlakai, here is your flag. The captain, who made this speech in brokenEnglish, then handed the corporal a faded flag—blue, with a golden star, the emblem of the newlyformed Congo State. And it was thus that threenegro soldiers from the Niger were left to upholdthe dignity of the State alone among cannibals.
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Idols, Manyema In the collect ion of the Author THE MONKEY PEOPLE 37 When all was ready for departure, the mooringsof the steam launch were cast off, and the littlevessel drifted into mid-stream. The husky voicesof the three Houssas, who were standing up to theirwaists in water, shouting guttural words of fare-well to their comrades, were altogether drowned bythe yells of the savages, who danced bravely upon thebank. The little puff of steam which rose from thelaunch, followed instantly by a shrill whistle, causeda complete panic among the yelling warriors. A few moments later the little vessel, now travellingswiftly with the current, disappeared behind a forest-clad promontory on its journey of a thousand milesdown the Congo. That same evening the three Houssas, with trueAfrican improvidence, celebrated the occasion by aprodigious feast of smoked fish, sugar-cane, andother expensive trifles, the purchase of which madean extravagant inroad into their scanty stock ofglass beads. But af

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