Capitolo 55
and unknown to some other tribe.
"My curiosity woke up rather, and I questioned him, and then him
I dictate me that the medicine, while being tasteless, you/he/she was given in food or he/she drinks, and
what the victim was grabbed with a terrible and incommensurable sadness and
depth of desperation in which life appeared too much horrible to bear, and
what the unlucky ones ended always grabbing a weapon of some kind and
killing himself/herself/itself; and the head, while being of an inquiring mind, you/he/she had caused
the poison for to be administered to a man that you/he/she was attentively protected and
not permission weapon.
"'And did thing do?' I consulted, for the head it assured me that the medicine
it didn't produce death, but only it provoked an irresistible desire for
it.
"The head didn't respond in words, but with a smile of meaning, it sharpened to
a vein on his/her black wrist, and it put his/her acute teeth, pointed against him,
in a way that was a replica.
"I was anxious to see for me, naturally suspecting some
predicaments, so I ventured me to respectfully be equivocal.
"The head was in an agreeable humor; he offered me you visit his/her curtain with mine
servant to I moon-increase her/it, and he would try that this was not lie but the
truth.
"When we went out, it was approximately eleven and the outskirts
jungle was full of the horrible noises of an African night; the moan of
the small lemur that plays as the death-complaint of a child; the more
roared distant of the lion in the black depths of the forest, too often
for the clear one of moon for never to penetrate; the giant trees of the bombax
around the camp, it garlanded with llianes and parasitical poison
grapevines that have thrown fantastic shades on the earth, white with the
perfectly clear of moon white of the tropics of which you/they remember to one the
electric light in his/her purity of ray and the blackness of the shades
that contrast with him.
"Silently my black servant and me I proceeded to the enclosure of the head.
His/her slaves allowed us to pass, from his/her orders and we found us to us