Even his
spine was dislocated.
I have often wondered why the gorilla ran down the line without
touching me or the others, to vent his rage upon Jerry. I can only
suggest that it was because the unlucky Mazitu had sat next to the
Kalubi on the previous night, which may have caused the brute to
identify him by smell with the priest whom he had learned to hate and
killed. It is true that Hans had sat on the other side of the Kalubi,
but perhaps the odour of the Pongo had not clung to him so much, or
perhaps it meant to deal with him after it had done with Jerry.
When we knew that the Mazitu was past human help and had discovered to
our joy that, save for a few bruises, no one else was really hurt,
although Stephen's clothes were half-torn off him, we made an
examination of the dead god. Truly it was a fearful creature.
What its exact weight or size may have been we had no means of
ascertaining, but I never saw or heard of such an enormous ape, if a
gorilla is really an ape. It needed the united strength of the five of
us to lift the carcase with a great effort off the fainting Hans and
even to roll it from side to side when subsequently we removed the
skin.
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