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TABOO

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, -- SEPTEMBE

DEEP

IN THE JUNGLE the drums

brand me as

By TOM

an OUTCAST

STACEY

who has taken a Journey to the: Unknown - Into the heart of Africa. Stacey is 24; an Old Elonian; hae » wite and two daughters in London. With him on the African adventure is a' friend, Erisa Kironde, son of a Uganda chief.

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H, Saint Barbara, thank you very much. We were lost in the bush, bewitched, bothered, bewildered, and you have brought peace at Just to my companion Erisa and me,

How did this como about? Gather round, children, gather round....

FREMEN

EQUATORIAL

CAMEROONS

FLAMBARINI

Forubland

visit

BELGIAN CONSO

to

RECE QUENDIE PERSPELENKLE,

(as this We had set off into the "bush"

be African landscape is called). It was to

11 Kasengl, the home village of our servant boy Albert.

Albert, whom we had picked up jobless in Brazzaville, the capital town of this far-flung, undeveloped, under-

French Equatorial Africa, sald populated colony. village

Jay some 100 miles north-westwards. it Thy roughly on our route towards the area where we intend to make

investigations. our first anthropologieni

I

blo

told young Albert that we would break our Journey

for a few days at his place. He could speak French (unlike most of the "bush" villagers), and he would give us our THE Arst introduction to tribal and village life in this part of the world.

Albert, urbanised and a bit of a smoothiec, had not been home for some years, since his mid-teens. He sold his village was difficult to reach.

Albert was right about the It was rough, it was Journey. tough. And on the way we hud to leave Erise, whose foot was giving trouble, at one of the villages we passed through.

I'm anxious

LBERT did not

appear

LD

Abe looking forward to see- ing again his slufer, uncle, and aunt, who he had told me were still living at his village.

reasons

He spoke only about turning back, giving a number of peml plausible

why Wo should do this, For one thing. the rivers, he saki, were too big to ford.

dark.

with.

STACEY

Today's ROUTE. comes [rum somewhere north of Lambarene.

despatch

had

As our arrival became more widely known the dance falter ed and came to a halt, I could vee that Albert's arrival been a great shock.

I made my way asked for to the largest Lut. It whà empty. the chief. No one was prepared to understand me.

I went back to the whisper- ing remnant of the dance Kroup. The pack Albert had been carrying was ать the ground.

I asked where Albert was, "He has gone," said a young

man.

Will ho come back?" I got no answer.

I made one further attempt to converse. But I failed. These villagers had wish to speak

to me.

The situation was tricky. surmlard that Albert had com- mitted some crime,

that and

I was anxions about Albert.

that was why he had originally Wo approached

Albert's left this village. He had hoped vilinge of Kasengi just after that, returning with a European,

still he would be accepted. Albert mysteriously hanging behind. But he has found he was Everyone was gathered in the taboo-so he had fleck And I, middle of the huts, engaged in because of my association with a song and dance,

him, was taboo too, and could be received by no one.

He was sur-

I drew a young mun aside from the group. prised enough at seeing ine. Then I faced him with Albert, "Banza!" he exclaimed in an alarmed whisper. (Banza ta Albert's African name.) The man drow the attention of

I clear

THERE

out

THERE was nothing for it but

to clear out.

But by morning the ton-ioms two of his companions. They had sounded the news of what looked al Albert,

recognised art happened. AL the first

stood village came to was care

him immediately, and

Coventry" because of what bad happened to me. The tom-toms had sent the nowe.

come

And Alberi? Poor, terrorised Albert--where was he in his Teddy-boy sulf and oli?

It

Erisa was impossible for

Εναη and me to remain.

the old chief did not me out to meet me. We had no wish to perpetuate the alarm by camp

bush. ing in the neighbouring

we set off immediately on a 12-mille trudgo to the nearest mission station at Mindouli a gallant effort for lame Erisa, carrying extra weight.

T

Golden

halo

the mission the

Hrey- bdarde French abbe echoed for a second 1

the reception I received at Albert's village. But at least i was able to explain He soon found things to him. 14 a little empty room,

As I turned to blow out the lamp I caught some words on the newspaper which covered the bedstead: *

the degree

of profundity of the soul, if it varied at all, is not relevant.

"

And there, looking down from her framed portrait on the wall, beneath her spiky golden halo, were the wide gentle eyes Saint Barbara.

of

S

LORD MELBOURNI

met the beautiful Mrs. Horton.

198

HONOUR or STAKE

No 3

THE TRAP that CAUGHT MR FLOOK

by

at

"You have not been living in his house I presume?"

“No. At a public-house."

"Who paid for you there?"

Into the box stepped, a man called Flook. It the ́fury mezopted his sworn word, the cano ́" against the premier. Lord Melbourne, was

An RE

ond

O violent was the expectant onlookers, he added, presumptive to Lord Grantley-

"Lord Grantley Ilves Wonersh,"

replies Flook. waiting throng's "If silence be not kept, 1 shall some nine years before, in 1827,

ndjourn."

when he was nearly 30; and eruption into court

His income Thus upon a note of tension, she about nineteen. that it seemed as if in

with his an atmosphere of fever,-did-not correspond the doors must have sud- against a background that sug- noble rank, 80 Mrs Norton denly given way. Only a gested a fashionable prize-fight, wrote to the Home Secretary fraction of them could be there began the long-anticipated Lord Melbourne-whom she did accommodated, and barris- hearing of the action brought by not know, but who had known

the Honourable George Norton her father-psking ters in the case

that against William Lamb, Viscount. secure her, husband some pro-

ferment. constituted such a magnet Melbourne. had to force a passage for Such conditions, while unwel- could occusion no themselves through those come,

surprise. Because history seldom whose hopes were dashed. furnishes

instance of a Inside the ushers shouted magistrate

Primo for injury

10

suing.

if he could

Edgar Lustgarten

In response Lord Melbourne called at their small house in adulterous intercourse; buy one Storey's Gate, and from this would not like to assert the same first visit nowed substantial con of 1638. the pores an appointment to in vain for order, and when Minister in office

-police court bench for the Lord Chief Justice Tindal sustained through the seduckin' Honourable George, and for his

wife the honour took his seat the utmost of his wife. confusion and uproar still prevailed.

Counsel, addressing His Lordship, signified a doubt whether it would be possible for the trial to proceed.

The Lord Chief Justice gazed sternly

the unaccustomed

On

scene,

"Let the

of Lord Mel- bourne's friendship a friend-

Whispers began -

ship which

Storey's

..brought Gato

MRS

doors be shut, and let them be kept shut," he said.

gain admission fully and "Let no unless he is subpoenaed." Then, tinction.

Norton with minatory glance at the

one

him to almost every afternoon (during the hours when Norton Wos engaged on TRS CAROLINE his new duties) and that suffered NORTON was no Interruption (but rather grew

beautiful

ful more intimate) when Melbourne and brilliant; a became the first Minister of the

both

granddaughter

of Crown.

There

He didn't knock

דיי

I paid for myself."

"Who gavek looks down at "Well."

you the mancy?" :-

the floor.

The

solicitor gave

me money for my fare."

"How much?"

"Well" Flock looks up at the

roof. "Well, about £107

"Has he given you any money since?"

"No. Oh, no,” /

"Have you carried business at Wontrah?"

"No. Oh no."

1

on any

"But you have gone on living there ever since, right up till since-40- row?" cording to the

'ND

Flook assents. Next he agrees

rules prevailing with Mr Attorney that when then-Melbourne,

(1

those

CX-

as defendant, could working for the Nortons he was not give evidence, often drunit, and was actually and Mrs Norton, discharged for drunkenness.

wife of

the

“Did you think it unjust that Sheridan, bo

plaintiff, could not do so either, you were turned off?!!~ tr dramatist, she her

abnormal the credibility of is nothing

Hoh self wrote plenti- about mutions attraction between servants became a vital issue.

says Flook, grinning, with genuine dis-

à mature man on the floodtide

"when Mra Norton, told Master This issue She

married of success hod

and a lovely young Immediate decision when a man

had ripened, for to do something, he must do it.” brother and heir woman with

Imaginative named Flook Mrs Norton would doubt- mind.

stepped up into the box. les be captivated by Melbourne's

CONQUERING A

NEW WORLD

sgatan t

By Friedl Orlando

Bless you, Saint Barbara, My,ITH "The Sixth Con- it was good to be sleeping in W

tinent" Italy has made

your room. I do not know why you were 'Arst canonised. But please may I now humbly put

hood?

aghast Albert was mosi un^* fully avoided by the villagers, you up for a bar to your saint-

easy. Then a few rapid words Yes, I was still taboo. were exchanged.

I asked Alburi, now highly agitated, to take me to his family house. He said he could nol.

I went

I

And everywhere carried a superstitious stigma.

When I reached the village where Erisa had been living, I found he was already in

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a triumphant entry into the International Film Festival at Venice.

It is a full length documentary of subaquaean exploration.

+42.

・

torted under water, vivid and Electric arcllights were exact.

cd under water. despite the cbylous danger.

The expedition, composed of a hydrobiologist, amphibious cine and

sportsmen technicians (among the two women) spent Six months in the Danink In the southern archipelagos, "documentary" The Wordi

waters of the Red Sea. Although evekes, for many cinema fans, memories of schooldays, arid of much knowledge from the world pilgrimages to the cinerea for beneath has emerged during the the all too obvious purpose of

of last few years, the expedition's "education,"

of a certain claim to have discovered a new. amount of boredom, willingly continent seems no exaggeration, endured in the knowledge that after all, there would be no class *

and

assured charm, and flattered by Ho had formerly been a

attention from a statesman of general factotum at

; "It was her fault, then?

"More her than his."

"Yes," say “Mr attorney: "And the haven't you been around saying

his standing; Melbourne would Nortons'; driving the carriage, that it was that damned bitch, doubticas be captivated by her helping in the house. One day, Mrs Norton, that got you out youthful vorve, and flattered by he told the court, he had gone of your job?". attention from a beauty of her into the drawing-room-gone-in, fame.

.

クな

for Borno

A÷look of venom momentarily reason, without knock; and there contorts Flook's cunning face, They would have

much to preliminary enjoy in bucharest to the found Lord Malbouma, bend-

"I may have done," he says. trid the Halationship that Wal Mrs Norton, who you may

lying on the bearth-rug with Have been chtirely Innocent. But her dress disarranged. for long Society, gossips had whispered otherwise, and now There could hardly be any George Norton's counsel con- misconstruction about that, tended they were right.

Blinds drawn

Others had only spoken to a series of circumstances from which adultery might or might not be inferred. This was entirely different proposition; it

an

IJE founded Nor- the jury accepted Flook's sworn

son's claim for word, the case was at an end.

"Finishing stroké

M Attomey has got what he wants. Thero is only the finish-

ing stroke.

"You expect to

good

molco... a

thing out of this,

domares

.against

The Attorney-Gentral, Sir dort you, if you win?" Melbourne - in James Campbell, appearing for "I don't know, Ficok says, those days 2. Lard Melbourne-Law Officers "whether we are to win or not Fecessary

Initial could then engage in private proceeding when

"But if all goes well? *** seeking to estabe Practice-rises to begin Flook's cross-examination well aware fish adultery by a wife-upon that the trial is at its turning! series of allegations about the point. couple's conduct, which, take

work that morning. But docu»/ If they have not discovered it, mentaries have very much im they certainly have made a combination, bo submitted, proved during the last few large step forward in opening it could only be consistent with years and the line between up. Many a queer fish

was their gulli. "education" and. "entertain- brought to the surface for which ment! has bebomo pretty no name exists as yet in Melbourne always entered the RULE abundant vegetation entrante. In a courtyard at the vocabularies. There are Nortons house by a secluded

blurred.

the

Flook reflects

"It. I were to work," says Flook elliptically, should like to be paid for what I've done." Cicarly both a purchased and a vindictive witness. Not only is Flook destroyed, but he drage

TLOOK admits the rest down with him. Thoro

that, until very have already been suggestions recently, he has in regard to other witnesses of been living with, subsidies from or through Lord his w if o children

and'

L

Grantley, and of grievance.or

"The Sixth Continent" is an

of the front door. outstanding example at that. Is beneath the waters, which in side instead

the The Servants were told to let no would not be surprising if it the long run may deride drew long queues at the agriculturiste gloomy prophecies one into the house while he was

Petrol

in there and themselves not to cinemas. No death: battle be of a famished world.

cellar, that he had of spite. Now disbelief covalops tween police and gangster could fountains bubble up, through the enter the drawing-room unless

exclung bo more

than the duel, waters,

curried.“ on a all of them like a cloud, and Hes on uranium

the ring for.ENAC

business in old clothes; that ho without leaving their box, the in the depth of the sea, bettreen bottom of the sea.

uncannily masked and arm-

During his visits, the drawing was in debt, and could not pay jury find for the defendant.... Whether or not man will be od woman diver and a gigantic ablo to turn all thía wealth om binds were often drawn all that he owed. Monta fish;

my

picture more into benefit depends on whether Mrs Norton made na

preparation "When Idyllic than the shoal of little or not he can transform him to receive him

him by doing her hat fish which, in the dusk of the self back

into an amphibious and making up afresh. Mrs as witness in this case? water, emerge from the coral animal.

Norton had been alone to Mel reefs to feed out of the hard of The Italian ploneers

say

he bourne's

When she was house. Man, the unexpected visitor from can. Having spent 10,000 hours, Melbourne: had stayed for far off continents,

under water within six months, hours.olone with her in her bed- arty were all found to be in room. Notes though practically excellent health. It

can be man

nome survived-often passed be- Will, in time, the underwater a a bird, why should he not be a tween the parties. Despite world accept man's superiority fish? It's all a matter of precautions, they had been seen Already i pilot fish; his master equipment.

Jo kiss and to hold hands. shark having been killed by an

lesson G

which,

in the underwater

Witnesses mostly, ex-servants. hunter,

Italians We see the changes

on to the Temenite pearfishers of the Nortons broken house- allegiance and pilots the man through the

for centuries

bean | bold=testified in full support of

:

•

thulhu w water wring to conquer the depths outsoles statement.

ware you discovered

Flook reflects a utile. "About six weeks ago." "Have you continued to live in the cellar?" asks Mr Attomey. "No, · I have bren to the country," answers Flook

· "Where - to?"

"Wonersh."

Immense ovátións nwalted: Mr. Attorney and Lord Melbourne when they returned triumphant from, the court to Paillarnent. Many thought Norton's: petion was politically. Inspired, and its a vindication of the dismissal Whigs whom Melbourne led.

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Others may prefer the leas sophisticated judgment reported- Jy pronounced by una of Melbourne's female' relatives, "Fancy," she said to a friend, "Willle has go away with' '}"

COPYRIGHT ––– REJERVED

If those witnesses were to be

"Have you been living Wonersk?" yes."

WORLD

All this the camera records unarmed, and unequipped. And with a

have been con- perfection which maker each time they ong marvel at the speed with quegod, blinded by the cor- believed, then, by any standards, which colour Alma have rosion of salt water and deafen the behaviour of Mrs Norton and "Oh," Mr. Attorney, sounds developed.. Before the Italian ed by pressure. Now they Lord Melbourne had been most interested, "How far from expedition set - out, prolonged have been introduced to, the highly, mispicious and extremely Wonersh does Lord Grantley live studios were mado so as to comfort of goggles and a “re- | Indiscroot. It might not now Lord Granuley. Mr Norton's

beheld sufficient proof of elder brother?" render the colours, tisunily dis- apiratory apparatus.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN-

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BARTAVIA AND COCKAIGNE~- REIGHBORS AND FRIENDS FOR, CENTURIESS?

Next Saturday The men who crossed à frontier. with guns

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

180TH OF OUR PEOPLES.

MEAR-S

WOULD BE OVERJOYED

IF WE MADE A UNIO

"MEAN A TRAD)

OH GEAR--THANK YOU 50 VERY MUCH, BUT

I'M AFRAID

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