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Updated: June 20, 2025
He demanded that he be given another title, whereupon the local chief solemnly dubbed him Kiboko. The official was immediately appeased. He noticed that a broad smile invariably illumined the countenance of the person who addressed him in this way. On investigation he discovered that the word meant hippopotamus. The Congo native delights in argument.
"This is another of your what you call traps!" she cried. "You never intended to kill this man with the kiboko! You intended to make me speak as I did!" "That's as may be," he rejoined. "At least I should have tried how far he would have been faithful to you before telling what he knew if you had not spoken." "He is faithful to the death," she asseverated with passion.
The tiny porter's tents had completed their circle, and in front of each new smoke was beginning to rise. Cazi Moto glided up and handed him the kiboko, the rhinoceros-hide whip, the symbol of authority. Everything was in order. The white man rose a little stiffly and walked over to the pile of meat.
For a moment he examined it contemplatively, aroused himself with an apparent effort, and began to separate it into four piles. He did not handle the meat himself, but silently indicated each portion with his kiboko, and Simba or Cazi Moto swiftly laid it aside.
Their glances crossed like rapiers for the flash of an instant. She turned to the hammock bearers. "Lie down!" she commanded. Then to the impassive Nubian, "The kiboko! I suppose," she observed politely to Kingozi, "that you will admit these men should be punished, and that you will permit me to do so?" "Surely they should be punished; that goes without saying."
It is comparatively easy to ascend a thorn tree with the fear of death snapping at your heels: to descend in cold blood is another matter. "Why don't you do your work!" he addressed the soldiers. "Do you want to catch kiboko?" The startled askaris scuttled away about their business, which was, at this moment, to herd and hustle the reluctant porters back to their job.
Kingozi was everywhere, urging, encouraging, shaming, joking, threatening, occasionally using the kiboko he had taken from one of the askaris. At last all were under way. The Leopard Woman sat still on the load, the Nubian crouched at her back. The long, straggling, staggering file of men crawled up the dry bank and disappeared one by one over the top.
In fact, so unusual was my performance that at first I had fairly to clear myself a way with my kiboko. After a few experiences they concluded me a particularly crazy person and let me alone. Rickshaws, however, are very efficient and very cheap.
A mild wonder appeared in Kingozi's gray eyes. "Do you kiboko your askaris?" he asked. She jerked her head in his direction. "Do you presume to question my actions?" "By no means; I am interested in methods." She paid him no more attention. Kingozi waited patiently until this second bout of punishment was over.
There is not doubt that he was a fearful man, a man that was dreaded still for his personal force when his arm was no longer able to lift the kiboko, when all his men knew he was dying, and to this day though he is dead.
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