The other is that flower you
see there. Whether the flower with the monkey's head on it was the
first god and suggested the worship of the beast itself, or /vice
versa/, I don't know. Indeed I know very little, just what I was told
by the Mazitu and a man who called himself a Pongo chief, no more."
"What did they say?"
"The Mazitu said that the Pongo people are devils who came by the
secret channels through the reeds in canoes and stole their children
and women, whom they sacrificed to their gods. Sometimes, too, they
made raids upon them at night, 'howling like hyenas.' The men they
killed and the women and children they took away. The Mazitu want to
attack them but cannot do so, because they are not water people and
have no canoes, and therefore are unable to reach the island, if it is
an island. Also they told me about the wonderful flower which grows in
the place where the ape-god lives, and is worshipped like the god.
They had the story of it from some of their people who had been
enslaved and escaped.
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