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Updated: May 1, 2025
With the return of Lobelalatutu from his gruesome task, and while the bodies of M'Bongwele and M'Pusa still swung from the tree, the professor turned to his friends and said "Having disposed of one king, the onus now rests upon us of appointing another. The question consequently arises: What is to govern us in the somewhat delicate task of choosing a suitable man?"
It was a dazzling dream that he brought before our eyes, and for a time it blinded me to the evils that lay behind it, and it is only now, when it is too late, that I perceive that evil, and understand that Sekosini befooled and bewitched me to the end that he might be raised to such power as M'Pusa enjoyed during the reign of M'Bongwele, when he and not M'Bongwele actually ruled the Makolo people.
The professor looked at them intently for a full minute, they returning his look with an insolent glare of defiance. Then he said "Which of you is the chief of the witch-doctors?" "I, even I, M'Pusa, am the chief witch-doctor.
In a word, hang them, even as M'Bongwele and M'Pusa, his chief witch doctor, were hanged. That surely ought to suffice for all practical purposes, should it not?" "Possibly," assented the king unwillingly. "The death by hanging and the disgrace of it are greatly feared, and it may be that " "Yes," interrupted Dick soothingly, "of course it will. Then that is settled, eh?
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