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Updated: May 16, 2025
It is a thing I cannot understand; it occurs to me every night." "The mind is independent of the body; the actual body can be fettered, but the mind is uncontrollable; the body will die and will become dust, or be eaten by vultures, but the spirit will exist for ever." Commoro. "Where will the spirit live?" "Where does fire live?
"Do you see no difference in good and bad actions?" Commoro. "Yes, there are good and bad in men and beasts." "Do you think that a good man and a bad must share the same fate, and alike die, and end?" Commoro. "Yes; what else can they do? How can they help dying? Good and bad all die." "Their bodies perish, but their spirits remain; the good in happiness, the bad in misery.
The rattle of the Turks' drum repeatedly sounded in reply to the nogara, and the intended attack seemed destined to relapse into a noisy but empty battle of the drums. A few hours passed in uncertainty, when, at about midnight, the chief Commoro came fearlessly to the patrol, and was admitted to the quadrangle.
He was one of the finest men I ever saw, and he gave me much information concerning his country, and begged me to pay him a visit. He detested the Turks, but he was obliged to serve them, as he had received orders from the great chief "Commoro" to collect porters, and to transport their ivory from Latooka to Gondokoro.
It is a thing I cannot understand; it occurs to me every night." "The mind is independent of the body. The actual body can be fettered, but the mind is uncontrollable. The body will die and will become dust or be eaten by vultures; but the spirit will exist forever." Commoro "Where will the spirit live?" "Where does fire live? Cannot you produce a fire* by rubbing two sticks together?
This was rather an unsatisfactory state of things. Commoro departed, frankly admitting that the natives were much excited and wished to attack, but that he would do his best with them. These rascally TRADERS set every country in a blaze by their brutal conduct, and rendered exploring, not only most dangerous but next to impossible, without an exceedingly powerful force.
Commoro. "I am afraid of elephants and other animals when in the jungle at night, but of nothing else." "Then you believe in nothing; neither in a good nor evil spirit! And you believe that when you die it will be the end of body and spirit; that you are like other animals; and that there is no distinction between man and beast; both disappear, and end at death?" Commoro. "Of course they do."
I recalled to recollection the practical question of Commoro, the chief of Latooka, "Suppose you get to the great lake, what will you do with it? What will be the good of it? If you find that the large river does flow from it, what then?"
Has not that fire, that lies harmless and unseen in the sticks, the power to consume the whole country? Which is the stronger, the small stick that first PRODUCES the fire, or the fire itself? So is the spirit the element within the body, as the element of fire exists in the stick; the element being superior to the substance." Commoro. "Ha!
Commoro departed, and about 2 A.M. the dense crowds of armed men that had accumulated outside the town began to disperse. The morning broke and saw the men still under arms, but the excitement had passed.
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