The Washington times., 1920-01-04

which they had driven away WIN
them.
Hans showed us everything that
had happened; where the chair In
which Inex was carried was set
down. where she and Janee had
been allowed to walk that she.
might stretch her stin limbs. the.
dress Of some coffee that Janse had
evidently made In q saucepan, and
30 forth. He even told US the
exact number Of the Amahagger,
which he said was forty-one. In.
cluding the man whom hez had
wounded.
The next two days were repetf.
tions Of the first. but on the fourth
we passed out Of the bushveld into
the swamp country that bordered
the great river. Here our task was
still easy. since the Amahagger
had followed one of the paths made
by the river-dwellers. %
On our second day in the reeds
we came upon a sad sight. To our
Left stood one Of the mound viz.
lagos, II a village It could be called.
since 1t consisted only OF four or
ive huts inhabited perhaps by
twenty people. We went up to IL
to obtain information and stumbled
across the body of an old man lying
In the pathway. A few yards fur
ther on we found the ashes OF big
fire, and by It such remains as we
had seen at Strathmuir Here
there had been another cannibal
feast. The miserable nuts were
empty, but as at Strathmuir. had
not been burnt.
We were going away when the
acute ears Of Hans caught tho
sound OF groans. We searched.
about and in clump Of reeds near
the foot of the mound found an old
woman with great spear wound :
piercing deep into the vitals, but
Of nature which is not imme.,
diateiy mortal. ,@'
She said that the Amahagger he'd
attacked the village and killed all
who could not escape. They had
eaten a young woman and three
children. She had been wounded
and fed away into the place where
we found her, where none of them
took the trouble to follow her, as
she was not worth eating" "
The Amahagger, she said, were
fierce people who lived far up north
across the Great River. the rem.
nants OF a race that had once
"ruled the world" Her grand,
father used to say that they were
not always cannibals, but hal be-.
come so long before because Of a.
lack Of food and now had acquired
the taste. 1t was fo1 this purpose
that they still raided to get other
people to eat, since their ruler
could not allow them to eat one an
other. According to her grand
father they were a very evil people
and full OF magic. ),
Her information, as is common
with the aged. dwelt entirely with
the far past; of the history of the
Amahagger since the days Of her
grandfather she knew nothing, nor
had she seen anything of Inez.
While Robertson and I we're won-
dering what we should do with tire
poor old creature whom it seemed
cruel to leave here to perish, she
cleared up the question by sudden-
ly expiring before our ewes. -.
NeAt uhy we CduiS 10 tHc cuSS VI
the Great River. Perceiving quite
a big village on our left, we went
to 1t and made inquiries, to find
that 1t had not been attacked by
the cannibals, probably because 1t
was too powerful, but that three
nights before some of their canoes
had been stolen.
AS the people Of this village had
traded with Robertson at Strath;'
muir we had no difficulty In obtain
ing other canoes from them in
which to cross the Zambesi in re-
turn for one OF our oxen that was
already sickening from tsetse bite.
These canoes were large enough to-
take the donkeys, but the cattle we
could not get into them for fear Of
an upset So we killed the two
driven beasts that were left to us
and took them with us for food,
while the three remaining pack
oxen We tried to swim across, drag.