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CHAPTER XII. A ROYAL BURIAL.
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The next day, May 29th, the city of Kazounde presented a strange aspect. The natives, terrified, kept themselves shut up in their huts. They had never seen a king, who said he was of divine essence, nor a simple minister, die of this horrible death. They had already burned some of their fellow-beings, and the oldest could not forget certain culinary preparations relating to cannibalism1.
They knew then how the incineration of a human body takes place with difficulty, and behold2 their king and his minister had burnt all alone! That seemed to them, and indeed ought to seem to them, inexplicable3.
Jose-Antonio Alvez kept still in his house. He might fear that he would be held responsible for the accident. Negoro had informed him of what had passed, warning him to take care of himself. To charge him with Moini Loungga's death might be a bad affair, from which he might not be able to extricate4 himself without damage.
But Negoro had a good idea. By his means Alvez spread the report that the death of Kazounde's sovereign was supernatural; that the great Manitou only reserved it for his elect. The natives, so inclined to superstition5, accepted this lie. The fire that came out of the bodies of the king and his minister became a sacred fire. They had nothing to do but honor Moini Loungga by obsequies worthy6 of a man elevated to the rank of the gods.
These obsequies, with all the ceremonial connected with them among the African tribes, was an occasion offered to Negoro to make Dick Sand play a part. What this death of Moini Loungga was going to cost in blood, would be believed with difficulty, if the Central Africa travelers, Lieutenant7 Cameron among others, had not related facts that cannot be doubted.
The King of Kazounde's natural heir was the Queen Moini. In
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1 cannibalism | |
n.同类相食;吃人肉 | |
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2 behold | |
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3 inexplicable | |
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4 extricate | |
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5 superstition | |
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6 worthy | |
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7 lieutenant | |
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9 ferocious | |
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11 defunct | |
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14 tableau | |
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17 novice | |
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18 irresistible | |
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19 jack | |
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20 rascal | |
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21 accomplice | |
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22 miserable | |
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23 wretches | |
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24 entirely | |
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25 misery | |
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27 instinctive | |
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29 salute | |
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30 brutally | |
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31 Portuguese | |
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32 traitor | |
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33 avowal | |
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34 seaman | |
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36 avenger | |
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37 supreme | |
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38 fatigue | |
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39 forestalled | |
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40 vengeance | |
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41 exasperated | |
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42 survivors | |
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44 standing | |
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45 regained | |
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47 invaluable | |
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48 succor | |
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49 aspired | |
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50 succumbed | |
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51 folly | |
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52 penetrate | |
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53 glimmer | |
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54 penetrated | |
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55 thatch | |
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56 frightful | |
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57 uproar | |
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58 reposed | |
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59 savage | |
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60 helping | |
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61 fixed | |
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62 plaintive | |
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63 scented | |
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64 detonations | |
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65 forth | |
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66 briskness | |
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67 brook | |
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68 miraculous | |
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69 costly | |
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70 willow | |
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71 sufficiently | |
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72 remains | |
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73 combustion | |
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74 ornament | |
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75 descended | |
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76 muskets | |
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77 prudent | |
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78 positively | |
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79 resin | |
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81 bent | |
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83 bloody | |
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84 mingled | |
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85 repugnance | |
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86 refinement | |
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87 precipitated | |
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