But the discordant7 concert which suddenly broke upon the ear was the signal for business to be at once suspended. The crowd might cease its uproar8, and recover its breath. The King of Kazonndé, Moené Loonga, was about to honour the lakoni with a visit.
Attended by a large retinue9 of wives, officers, soldiers, and slaves, the monarch10 was conveyed to the middle of the market-place in an old palanquin, from which he was obliged to have five or six people to help him to descend11. Alvez and the other traders advanced to meet him with the most exaggerated gestures of reverence12, all of which he received as his rightful homage13.
He was a man of fifty years of age, but might easily have passed for eighty. He looked like an old, decrepit14 monkey. On his head was a kind of tiara, adorned15 with leopards16' claws dyed red, and tufts of greyish-white hair;
this was the usual crown of the sovereigns of Kazonndé. From his waist hung two skirts of coodoo-hide, stiff as blacksmiths' aprons18, and embroidered19 with pearls. The tattooings on his breast were so numerous that his pedigree, which they declared, might seem to reach back to time immemorial. His wrists and arms were encased in copper20 bracelets21, thickly encrusted with beads22; he wore a pair of top-boots, a present from Alvez some twenty years ago; in his left hand he carried a great stick surmounted23 by a silver knob; in his right a fly-flapper with a handle studded with pearls; over his head was carried an old umbrella with as many patches as a Harlequin's coat, whilst from his neck hung Cousin Benedict's magnifying-glass, and on his nose were the spectacles which had been stolen from Bat's pocket.
Such was the appearance of the potentate beneath whose sway the country trembled for a hundred miles round.
By virtue24 of his sovereignty Moené Loonga claimed to be of celestial25 origin; and any subject who should have the audacity26 to raise a question on this point would have been despatched forthwith to another world. All his actions, his eating and drinking, were supposed to be performed by divine impulse. He certainly drank like no other mortal; his officers and ministers, confirmed tipplers as they were, appeared sober men in comparison with himself, and he seemed never to be doing anything but imbibing27 strong pombé, and over-proof spirit with which Alvez kept him liberally supplied.
In his harem Moené Loonga had wives of all ages from forty to fourteen, most of whom accompanied him on his visit to the lakoni. Moena, the chief wife, who was called the queen, was the eldest28 of them all, and, like the rest, was of royal blood. She was a vixenish-looking woman, very gaily29 attired30; she wore a kind of bright tartan over a skirt of woven grass, embroidered with pearls; round her throat was a profusion31 of necklaces, and her hair was mounted up in tiers that toppled high above her head, making her resemble some hideous32 monster. The younger wives, all of them sisters or cousins of the king, were less elaborately dressed. They walked behind her, ready at the slightest sign to perform the most menial services. Did his Majesty33 wish to sit down, two of them would immediately stoop to the ground and form a seat with their bodies, whilst others would have to lie down and support his feet upon their backs: a throne and footstool of living ebony.
Amidst the staggering, half-tipsy crowd of ministers, officers, and magicians that composed Moené Loonga's suite34, there was hardly a man to be seen who had not lost either an eye, an ear, or hand, or nose. Death and mutilation were the only two punishments practised in Kazonndé, and the slightest offence involved the instant amputation35 of some member of the body. The loss of the ear was considered the severest penalty, as it prevented the possibility of wearing earrings36!
The governors of districts, or kilolos, whether hereditary37 or appointed for four years, were distinguished38 by red waistcoats and zebra-skin caps; in their hands they brandished39 long rattans, coated at one extremity40 with a varnish41 of magic drugs.
The weapons carried by the soldiers consisted of wooden bows adorned with fringes and provided with a spare bowstring, knives filed into the shape of serpents' tongues, long, broad lances, and shields of palm wood, ornamented42 with arabesques43. In the matter of uniform, the royal army had no demands to make upon the royal treasury44.
Amongst the attendants of the king there was a considerable number of sorcerers and musicians. The sorcerers, or mganga, were practically the physicians of the court, the savages45 having the most implicit47 faith in divinations and incantations of every kind, and employing fetishes, clay or wooden figures, representing sometimes ordinary human beings and sometimes fantastic animals. Like the rest of the retinue, these magicians were, for the most part, more or less mutilated, an indication that some of their prescriptions48 on behalf of the king had failed of success.
The musicians were of both sexes, some performing on
[Illustration: Alvez advanced and presented the king with some fresh tobacco.]
shrill49 rattles50, some on huge drums, whilst others played on instruments called marimbas, a kind of dulcimer made of two rows of different-sized gourds51 fastened in a frame, and struck by sticks with india-rubber balls at the end. To any but native ears the music was perfectly52 deafening53.
Several flags and banners were carried m the procession, and amongst these was mixed up a number of long pikes, upon which were stuck the skulls54 of the various chiefs that Moené Loonga had conquered in battle.
As the king as helped out of his palanquin, the acclamations rose higher and higher from every quarter of the market place The soldiers attached to the caravans55 fired off their old guns, though the reports were almost too feeble to be heard above the noisy vociferations of the crowd; and the havildars rubbed their black noses with cinnabar powder, which they carried in bags, and prostrated56 themselves. Alvez advanced and presented the king with some fresh tobacco, "the appeasing58 herb," as it is called in the native dialect; and certainly Moené Loonga seemed to require some appeasing, as, for some unknown reason, he was in a thoroughly59 bad temper.
Coïmbra, Ibn Hamish and the dealers all came forward to pay their court to the monarch, the Arabs greeting him with the cry of marhaba, or welcome; others clapped their hands and bowed to the very ground; while some even smeared60 themselves with mud, in token of their most servile subjection.
But Moené Loonga scarcely took notice of any of them; he went staggering along, rolling like a ship upon a stormy sea, and made his way past the crowds of slaves, each of whom, no less than their masters, trembled lest he should think fit to claim them for his own.
Negoro, who kept close at Alvez' side, did not fail to render his homage along with the rest. Alvez and the king were carrying on a conversation in the native language, if that could be called a conversation in which Moené Loonga merely jerked out a few monosyllables from his inflamed61 and swollen62 lips. He was asking Alvez to replenish63 his stock of brandy.
"We are proud to welcome your majesty at the market of Kazonndé," Alvez was saying.
"Get me brandy," was all the drunken king's reply.
"Will it please your majesty to take part in the business of the lakoni?" Alvez tried to ask.
Alvez continued,-
"My friend Negoro here is anxious to greet your majesty after his long absence."
"Drink!" roared the monarch again.
"Brandy! give me fire-water!" yelled the king, in a fury. "For every drop you shall have ..."
"A drop of a white man's blood!" suggested Negoro, glancing at Alvez.
"Yes, yes; kill a white man," assented66 Moené Loonga, his ferocious67 instincts all aroused by the proposition.
"There is a white man here," said Alvez, "who has killed my agent. He must be punished for his act."
"Send him to King Masongo!" cried the king; "Masongo and the Assuas will cut him up and eat him alive."
Only too true it is that cannibalism68 is still openly practised in certain provinces of Central Africa. Livingstone records that the Manyuemas not only eat men killed in war, but even buy slaves for that purpose; it is said to be the avowal69 of these Manyuemas that "human flesh is slightly salt, and requires no seasoning70." Cameron relates how in the dominions71 of Moené Booga dead bodies were soaked for a few days in running water as a preparation for their being devoured72; and Stanley found traces of a widely-spread cannibalism amongst the inhabitants of Ukusu.
But however horrible might be the manner of death proposed by Moené Loonga, it did not at all suit Negoro's purpose to let Dick Sands out of his clutches.
"The white man is here," he said to the king; "it is here he has committed his offence, and here he should be punished."
"If you will," replied Moené Loonga; "only I must have fire-water; a drop of fire-water for every drop of the white man's blood."
"Yes, you shall have the fire-water," assented Alvez, "and what is more, you shall have it all alight. We will give your majesty a bowl of blazing punch."
The thought had struck Alvez, and he was himself delighted with the idea, that he would set the spirit in flames. Moené Loonga had complained that the "fire-water" did not justify73 its name as it ought, and Alvez hoped that perhaps, administered in this new form, it might revivify the deadened membranes74 of the palate of the king.
Moené Loonga did not conceal75 his satisfaction. Wives and courtiers alike were full of anticipation76. They had all drunk brandy, but they had not drunk brandy alight. And not only was their thirst for alcohol to be satisfied; their thirst for blood was likewise to be indulged; and when it is remembered how, even amongst the civilized77, drunkenness reduces a man below the level of a brute78, it may be imagined to what barbarous cruelties Dick Sands was likely to be exposed. The idea of torturing a white man was not altogether repugnant to the coloured blood of either Alvez or Coïmbra, while with Negoro the spirit of vengeance79 had completely overpowered all feeling of compunction.
Night, without any intervening twilight80, was soon drawing on, and the contemplated81 display could hardly fail to be effective. The programme for the evening consisted of two parts; first, the blazing punch-bowl; then the torture, culminating in an execution.
The destined82 victim was still closely confined in his dark and dreary83 dungeon84; all the slaves, whether sold or not, had been driven back to the barracks, and the chitoka was cleared of every one except the slave-dealers, the havildars, and the soldiers, who hoped, by favour of the king, to have a share of the flaming punch.
Alvez did not long delay the proceedings85. He ordered a huge caldron, capable of containing more than twenty gallons, to be placed in the centre of the market-place. Into this were emptied several casks of highly-rectified spirit, of a very inferior quality, to which was added a supply of cinnamon and other spices, no ingredient being omitted which was likely to give a pungency86 to suit the savage46 palate.
The whole royal retinue formed a circle round the king. Fascinated by the sight of the spirit, Moené Loonga came reeling up to the edge of the punch-bowl, and seemed ready to plunge87 himself head foremost into it. Alvez held him back, at the same time placing a lucifer in his hand.
The king applied89 the match to the surface of the spirit. The effect was instantaneous. High above the edge of the bowl the blue flame rose and curled. To give intensity90 to the process Alvez had added a sprinkling of salt to the mixture, and this caused the fire to cast upon the faces of all around that lurid91 glare which is generally associated with apparitions92 of ghosts and phantoms93. Half intoxicated94 already, the negroes yelled and gesticulated; and joining hands, they performed a fiendish dance around their monarch. Alvez stood and stirred the spirit with an enormous metal ladle, attached to a pole, and as the flames rose yet higher and higher they seemed to throw a more and more unearthly glamour95 over the ape-like forms that circled in their wild career.
Moené Loonga, in his eagerness, soon seized the ladle from the slave-dealer's hands, plunged96 it deep into the bowl, and bringing it up again full of the blazing punch, raised it to his lips.
A horrible shriek97 brought the dancers to a sudden standstill. By a kind of spontaneous combustion98, the king had taken fire internally; though it was a fire that emitted little heat, it was none the less intense and consuming. In an instant one of the ministers in attendance ran to the king's assistance, but he, almost as much alcoholized as his master, caught fire as well, and soon both monarch and minister lay writhing99 on the ground in unutterable agony. Not a soul was able to lend a helping100 hand. Alvez and Negoro were at a loss what to do; the courtiers dared not expose themselves to so terrible a fate; the women had all
[Illustration: The king had taken fire internally.]
fled in alarm, and Coïmbra, awakened101 to the conviction of the inflammability of his own condition, had rapidly decamped.
To say the truth, it was impossible to do anything; water would have proved unavailing to quench102 the pale blue flame that hovered103 over the prostrate57 forms, every tissue of which was so thoroughly impregnated with spirit, that combustion, though outwardly extinguished, would continue its work internally.
In a few minutes life was extinct, but the bodies continued long afterwards to burn; until, upon the spot where they had fallen, a few light ashes, some fragments of the spinal104 column, some fingers and some toes, covered with a thin layer of stinking105 soot106, were all that remained of the King of Kazonndé and his ill fated minister.
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