Asiki

So in the end the Ogula said that they would go, and when Alan woke up on the following morning, he was informed that they and the Asiki porters had already departed upon their journey.

A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Henry Rider Haggard 1890

They said that I had come back to them safe and that they fear the Asiki, who are devils, not men, and who will bring the curse of Bonsa on us if we go on fighting with them.

A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Henry Rider Haggard 1890

On the further side of the water the entire Asiki people seemed to be gathered, at least there were thousands of them seated upon a rising rocky slope as in an amphitheatre, clad only in the ordinary costume of the Western African native, and in some instances in linen cloaks.

A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Little Bonsa, and of all the other eyes set in the masks of those departed men who once had been the husbands of the bloodstained priestess of the Asiki, till one by one, as she wearied of them, they were bewitched to madness and to doom.

A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Henry Rider Haggard 1890

If that were added to my magic, then the Asiki would grow great again, seeing that they have in such plenty the gold which you have shown me the white man loves.

A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Indeed it appeared that all this jungle was supposed to be haunted, and no Asiki would enter it at night, or unless he were very bold and protected by many charms, by day either.

A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Send on messengers to the Asiki saying that Little Bonsa comes home again from across the

A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Henry Rider Haggard 1890

It was not a large craft, barely big enough to hold them all indeed, but they found room, and then at a sign from Fahni the oarsmen gave way so heartily that within half an hour they had lost sight of the accursed shores of Asiki-land, although presently its mountains showed up clearly beneath the moon.

A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Henry Rider Haggard 1890

You see you want to come Asiki-land, though I tell you it rum place, and, "he added with certitude and a circular sweep of his hand," by

A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Henry Rider Haggard 1890

This challenge Jeekie resolutely declined, saying that already there were plenty of ways to die in Asiki-land without adding another to them.

A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Henry Rider Haggard 1890