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It was extraordinary to see the heads of the combatants moving among the reeds as they stabbed at each other with the great spears, till one went down. There were few wounded in that fray, for those who fell sank in the mud and water and were drowned. On the whole the Pongo, who were operating in what was almost their native element, were getting the best of it, and driving the Mazitu back.
They are a class apart, they talk their own language, cherish their own secret traditions, live in a world to which no stranger ever penetrates. You could pass as a naval officer more easily than you could as a Pongo. It is sheer madness, Dawson." He gave a short laugh. "Much you know about it. I have served in the Red Corps myself.
DOÑA MATILDE. ¿Pues por qué no me decías que D. Eduardo estaba ya esperándome? BRUNO. Porque ... porque ... bueno estoy yo ahora para decir el porqué de nada, y si me sangraran.... DOÑA MATILDE. En suma, ¿quieres o no quieres abrir la reja? DOÑA MATILDE. Pon luego una silla. BRUNO. Pongo una silla. DOÑA MATILDE. ¿Y está ya D. Eduardo? BRUNO. Le estoy tocando con la mano la copa del sombrero.
Then we dined, and for the rest of that afternoon slept, for all of us, including Brother John, needed rest badly. In the evening Babemba came, and we three white men saw him alone. "Tell us about the Pongo and this white devil they worship," I said. "Macumazana," he answered, "fifty years have gone by since I was in that land and I see things that happened to me there as through a mist.
"Sorry, sir," said "Pongo," "I thought as 'ow this was my dug-out. Wet, sir? Gawd! Yes, I should think I was wet," and he doubled up to show me, while a thin stream of muddy water trickled from his hair on to my letter. "'Owever, it ain't no good to grumble, an' it's better to fall in a shell hole than to 'ave a shell fall on me. I've got some 'ot tea in me own dug-out, too."
If you two are going, I shall come also, if I have to do so mother-naked. But let me tell you once and for all in the most emphatic language I can command, that I consider you a brace of confounded lunatics, and that if the Pongo don't eat you, it will be more than you deserve.
They seemed to have forgotten all their sufferings and miseries, and would sing and dance and tell stories, and laugh all day long. I still continued to take Peter Pongo in hand, and began to teach him not only to speak but to read and write English. Snookes used to laugh at me at first, but when he saw the progress Peter made he wanted to teach him likewise.
And now," he went on, "you will understand why I wish to visit these Pongo the Pongo who worship a white goddess!" "I understand," I said and left him, for having learned all there was to know, I thought it best not to prolong a painful conversation. To me it seemed incredible that this lady should still live, and I feared the effect upon him of the discovery that she was no more.
"The young Pongo hangeth on his mother's belly with his hands fast clasped about her, so that when the countrie people kill any of the females they take the young one, which hangeth fast upon his mother. He told me in conference with him, that one of these pongoes tooke a negro boy of his which lived a moneth with them.
I could see at a glance that the schooner had been turned into a man-of-war. She had been bought, as I afterwards found, into the service. I was in plain clothes, and Peter Pongo who accompanied me, was very nicely dressed, and no one would have recognised him as the little slave boy he had before appeared. Dickey Snookes looked over the side. I sprang up the side. "What do you want?" he asked.
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