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":'' THE NIAM-NIAM
;; . CHAPTER XX
- tTE 'chose path at random.
He walked on for a while,
. found it crazily, sardonically zig-
ugglng and know, all at once,
, that he wai lost
Hii horror grew. Despair came.
then, gradually, it faded into a
' dull indifference, something like
decay of his senses, his heart,
his soul.
He shrugged his shoulders.
' Listlessly he sat down. He was
. grimly amused as he realized that
his own death did not even strike
him as dramatic. It seemed to be
somebody else who was dying;
' somebody whom he liked in a
' curiously impersonal manner.
This somebody else thought of
his former life: America, Paris,
Africa. Thought of politics. Hit
ler, RooseveK, de Gaulle, Eisen
hower, Churchill. Thought of auc
tion bridge and golf and salmon
; fishing and women.
Thought of a girl whom he had
met just the other day.
Nice little American girl. What
was her name? Nancy something-or-other
...
Dldnt matter.
But how lovely she had been,
with her wheat-colored hair, her
red lips, her frank, boyish eyes!
He loved those eyes. Loved the
whole girl . . .
"Oh!" He gave a cry of pain
as a horned beetle bit him on the
wrist
"Damn the double- damned
luck!" he yelled.
Then he laughed, a little hyster
ically: "Ho, ho!" .
And it seemed to him that the
wilderness was echoing the
sounds:
"Ho, ho. ho, ho . .
THERE was, quite suddenly, si
lence; and, as suddenly, he
knew that the echo of his laugh'
ter was real, was coming up from
the ground, from the waist-high
Crass.
At the same fraction of a sec
ond, he saw a flash of color glid
ing away. Still at the same frac
tion of a second, his hand, an
swering the hurry call from eye
and ear to brain, shot down and
clutched something that wriggled
and twisted.
His hand came out of the grass,
and in its grip appeared a tiny
figure, fantastically hideous, but
human, and still, on its broad,
toothy mouth, a physical indica
tion of the merriment which Lin
coln had heard.
. Lincoln held the captive at
arm's length. He knew at once
what he was: one of the Niam
Niams, the tribe of pygmies, who,
. despised as well as feared by the
other Negroes, live in the depths
of the jungle.
The man bad smeared his small,
muscular, naked body with a thick
, layer of ochre and orange in an
extravagant pattern. His face,
flat-nosed, the ears pulled out of
shape by great pieces of bone in-
- serted into the lobes, was daubed
with white. From a string around
his neck depended a mass of
flanking barbarous juju amulets.
By all this the American knew
that the other was a medicineman,
thus a big man; indeed, a very
big man, perhaps more important
to his own people than Lincoln
was to the United Nations.
The Niam-Niam continued twist-
ing and wriggling. He chattered
furiously and a notion came to
Lincoln: these pygmies were fa
miliar with all the wilderness
trails. Therefore, if he could
make the little man understand
and obey ... but first he'd have
to keep still and listen.
So Lincoln yelled at him in a
mixture of Negro dialects he had
picked up here and there.
"Moyekorol Uoyekorot Hey "
angrily "don't you understand
your own bloody lingo? Oh for
cryin out loud! N'jvmah n'kwna.'
"Salaam aleykoom!' suddenly
shrieked the Niam-Niam.
"Oh you know Arabic?" the
American rejoined in the same
language.
"Yes, yes!"
Years earlier the small savage
explained he had beea. captured
by Moroccan raiders; Taad been
exhibited in circuses in Tangiers
and Fez; had finally escaped, and,
somehow, found his way back to
his native jungle.
. .
TlNCOLN's grip tightened. He
felt sorry; felt ashamed of
himself. But . he knew these
dwarf aborigines; knew that, since
every hand was against them.
rUNNY BUSINESS
"George always makes circular garden beds so he can
' ' . work in the shade!"
Abdullah'
their hands were against everyone;
knew, therefore, better than to
employ kindness Just then. Kind
ness would be interpreted as
weakness.
He shook the man until the
juju amulets rattled and danced
and clacked.
"I shall kill you, O pig - and
father of piglings," he announced
almost casually, "unless you . . ."
He paused; and at the word
"unless" an expression of hope
eddied up in the medicineman's
eyes. There was, evidently, a
chance of bargaining for his life.
"What do you wish?" he de-
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"This must be some of that'
loose talk we were warned'
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iww.ammt,..,.
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manded. "Tell me and It Is done!"
"Very well. I shall grant you
life. On one condition."
"Name it!"
"Show me the quickest way to
Lake Tchad and the Meeting of
the Elephants."
The the Meeting of the Ele
phants Lake Tchad . . .?" cam
the pygmy's stammering echo.
There was no fear in the words
such as the American had heard
on the lips of the Yorubas, back
at Ycbba. There was only aston
ishment; a rather amused aston
ishment. It was clear that the
Niam-Niam knew notliing about
the hytemoot ameei or, at least,
was not in awe of him.
Then the medicineman laughed
shrilly, as he had before.
"Come!" he said.
"No tricks!" warned Lincoln,
releasing him and drawing his re
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12 Music drama
14 Negative
15 Dispatched
16 Passage
17 Road (abbr.)
19 Avenue -
(abbr.)
21 Electrical
term
22 Fish
23 Lease
25 Presently'
26 Doctor of
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27 Within
29 Convent
worker
31 Of the thing
32 Spain (abbr.)
34 Morindin dye
35 Dry, as wine
37 Chaos
39 Tidy
41 Vault
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chamber
46 Charged atom
47 Woody plant
48 Bone
Answer to
50 Limit (comb,
form)
51 Promissory .
note (abbr.)
52 Bound
53 Scheme
55 Vermont
(abbr.)
56 12 months
(pi.)
58 Introduction
60 Writer of
poems
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doom. The time limit of his ut
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years. Generalissimo Chiang
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Indian
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34 He is now
living
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Switzerland
35 Pilfered
36 Symbol for
cobalt
37 Audacity
(slang)
38 Single thing .
40 Any
41 Crown
42 Color
43 Biblical
pronoun
'45 Verso (abbr.)
47 Weary
49 Shoe part
52 Philippine
peasant .
53 Before
(prefix)
54 Small boat'
57 Epistle
(abbr.).
58 Pair (abbr.),
59 From
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writer
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