‘Don’t go—not all of you! Don’t leave me with these devils!’
‘We must, poor boy—to arrange. But we shall return.’
Boville remained among a group of fetich men, who sang and capered round, making gruesome pantomime of tortures. Meanwhile, others were busy at a shed with spades and bundles of reed. Dusk was settling down when they had finished. The head priests returning took their stations, surrounded by men with torches still unlit. All the population was gathered round the holy area.
Mr. Blank came back with others. ‘Listen,’ he said. ‘They are going to put you—unbound—in a hole, cover you with reeds, and set them alight. You must spring up and run to the nearest water, all these brutes after you. But I have arranged with many of them, and they will intercept the others. Now mark, for your life may depend on it! The law is that one who kills a snake shall be cut and hacked till he reaches water! They expect you to make for the river, but there is a pond on the very edge of the fetich wood yonder! See? You make for that! You can’t miss it if you go straight between the torches and the temple. You understand? Now summon your courage, man, and run for your life.’
He wrung Boville’s hand. The executioners seized their victim and hurried him to the shed, amidst a furious tumult—roaring, singing, beating of drums, and blaring of cow-horns—thrust him into the hole, and heaped combustibles over him. The instant he was free Boville sprang up, but the reeds flared as quick as gunpowder. All ablaze he ran—the savage crew pursuing. But they mostly expected him on the river side. With but little hurt, save burns, he reached the pool and leapt in.
It is satisfactory to add that Boville did not suffer in health or fortune by this dread experience. He became the richest trader in Whydah, a special favourite with the natives. But he collected no more orchids.
INDEX
Angraecum sesquipedale, [97]
Anguloa, [162]
Anthurium × Albanense, [68]
" × aurantiacum, [69]
" × Goliath, [68]
" × Lady Godiva, [68]
" × Lawrenceae, [68]
" × niveum, [69]
" × Salmoniae, [68]
" × Saumon, [69]
" × The Queen, [69]
Brassavola Digbyana—Story, [151]
Bulbophyllum barbigerum—Story, [253]
Calanthe × bella, [129]
" × Clive, [130]
" × Florence, [130]
" × Sandhurstiana, [129]
" × Veitchii alba, [130]
" × Victoria Regina, [130]
" × William Murray, [130]
Cattleya × Atalanta, [91]
" aurea, [26]
" " R. H. Measures, [26]
" bicolor Measuresiana, [26]
" Bowringiana, [31]
" " —Story, [37]
" × Browniae, [90]
" × Cecilia, [94]
" × Chloris, [89]
" chrysotoxa, [27]
" Extermination of, [28], [144-148]
" × Fowleri, [92]
" Gaskelliana, [33]
" " Dellensis, [33]
" " Duke of Marlborough, [33]
" " Godseffiana, [33]
" " Herbertiana, [34]
" " Measuresiana, [33]
" " Miss Clara Measures, [33]
" " Sanderiana, [34]
" " Woodlandsensis, [34]
" gigas, [25]
" " Imschootiana, [25]
" " Sanderae, [26]
" guttata Leopoldii—Hybrids, [8]
" Harrisoniae R. H. Measures, [35]
" intermedia Louryana, [97]
" " Parthenia, [96]
" × Kienastiana, [91]
" labiata Adelina, [147]
" " alba, [146]
" " Archduchess, [147]
" " Baroness Schröder, [146]
" " bella, [147]
" " Her Majesty, [147]
" " imperatrix, [145]
" " Juno, [147]
" " Macfarlanei, [146]
" " Measuresiana, [146]
" " Mrs. R. H. Measures, [146]
" " nobilis, [145]
" " Princesse de Croix, [146]
" " Princess May, [147]
" " Princess of Wales, [147]
" " Robin Measures, [147]
" " Sanderae, [146]
" Lawrenceana, [148]
" " Extermination of, [148]
" × Louis Chaton, [94]
" × Mantinii inversa, [89]
" × " nobilior, [89]
" × Mariottiana, [91]
" × Mary Measures, [149]
" Mendelii, [29]
" " Duke of Marlborough, [30]
" " Lily Measures, [30]
" " Monica Measures, [30]
" " Mrs. R. H. Measures, [30]
" " R. H. Measures, [30]
" " William Lloyd, [30]
" × Miss Measures, [92]
" Mossiae, [32]
" " excelsior, [32]
" " gigantea, [32]
" " Gilbert Measures, [32]
" " grandiflora, [32]
" " Mrs. R. H. Measures, [32]
" " —Story, [45]
" " Wageneri, [32]
" Mrs. Fred Hardy, [27]
" × Mrs. Mahler, [13]
" O’Brieniana, [94]
" × Our Queen, [93]
" × Portia, [89]
" × Prince of Wales, [91]
" Sanderiana, [26]
" " A Collector’s report upon, [28]
" Schroderae, [30]
" " Miss Mary Measures, [30]
" Skinneri alba—Story, [59]
" speciosissima alba, [31]
" " Dawsonii, [31]
" Trianae, [34]
" " Macfarlanei, [34]
" " Measuresiana, [35]
" " Robert Measures, [35]
" " Tyrianthina, [35]
" " Woodlandsensis, [35]
" Trismegistris, [27]
" × Wendlandiana, [94]
" × William Murray, [92]
Cœlogyne speciosa—Story, [135]
Cymbidium × Lowiano-eburneum, [132]
" × eburneo-Lowianum, [132]
Cypripediums, [170]
" × A de Lairesse, [191]
" × Adrastus, [196]
" × Alfred, [181]
" × Amphion, [181]
" × Annie Measures, [196]
" × Antigone, [179]
" × Aphrodite superbum, [179]
" × Arnoldiae, [180]
" × Arnoldianum, [180]
" × Arthurianum pulchellum, [196]
" × Astraea, [196]
" × Athos, [196]
" × aurantiacum, [197]
" × Aylingii, [180]
" × Baconis, [177]
" × barbato-bellatulum, [178]
" × Beeckmanii, [178]
" bellatulum album, [177]
" × "egregium, [178]
" " eximium, [176]
" Boissierianum—vide reticulatum.
" × Brownii, [179]
" × Brysa, [200]
" × calloso-niveum, [181]
" × callosum Sanderae, [180]
" × Cardinale, [178]
" × Charles Richmond, [202]
" × chrysocomes, [178]
" × Claudii, [178]
" × Cleopatra, [197]
" × conco-callosum, [181]
" ×" Curtisii, [181]
" ×" Lawre, [181]
" Cowleyanum, [181]
" Curtisii—Story, [183]
" " (Woodlands variety), [182]
" Cyanides, [180]
" × Cydonia, [200]
" × cymatodes, [191]
" Dauthierii albino, [192]
" " marmoratum, [192]
" × Edwardii, [193]
" × Engelhardtiae, [193]
" × Evenor, [192]
" × excelsior, [192]
" Fairieanum, [193]
" × Frau Ida Brandt, [196]
" × Georges Truffaut, [194]
" × Gertrude, [194]
" × Gertrude Hollington, [177]
" Godefroyae, [69]
" × H. Ballantine, [177]
" × H. Hannington, [179]
" × Hector, [179]
" × hirsuto-Sallierii, [199]
" × Holidayanum, [199]
" insigne, [53]
" "Amesiae, [54]
" "Bohnhoffianum, [54]
" "clarissimum, [54]
" "corrugatum, [55]
" "Dimmockianum, [54]
" "Dorothy, [55]
" "Drewett’s variety, [56]
" "eximium, [56]
" "Frederico, [55]
" "Harefield Hall, [55]
" "Hector, [56]
" "Laura Kimball, [54]
" "longisepalum, [54]
" "Macfarlanei, [54]
" "majesticum, [55]
" "Measuresiae, [55]
" "punctatum, [56]
" "R. H. Measures, [55]
" "Rona, [55]
" "Sanderae, [56]
" "Statterianum, [54]
" × J. Coles, [200]
" Javanicum, [199]
" × Juno, [191]
" × La France, [197]
" × Lavinia, [200]
" × Lawrebel, [197]
" × " (Woodlands variety), [197]
" × Lawrenceanum-Hyeanum, [198]
" " Sir Trevor, [198]
" leucochilum, [69]
" × " giganteum, [199]
" × Leysenianum, [199]
" × Lily Measures, [197]
" × Lord Derby, [192]
" × M. Finet, [177]
" × macropterum, [177]
" × Marchioness of Salisbury, [199]
" × Marshallianum, [199]
" × Massaianum, [203]
" × Measuresiae, [203]
" × Measuresianum, [199]
" × Miss Clara Measures, [203]
" × Mrs. E. Cohen, [178]
" × Mrs. E. G. Uihlein, [195]
" × Mrs. Fred Hardy, [199]
" × Mrs. Herbert Measures, [199]
" × Mrs. W. A. Roebling, [202]
" × Muriel Hollington, [200]
" × Myra, [179]
" × nitidum, [204]
" × Olivia, [176]
" × Paris, [201]
" × Phoebe, [201]
" platytaenium—Story, [205]
" × Princess May, [201]
" × Pylaeus, [201]
" reticulatum, [202]
" × Rowena, [201]
" × Sade Lloyd, [191]
" × Schofieldianum, [202]
" × Sir Redvers Buller, [204]
" × Southgatense, [203]
" × " superbum, [203]
" Spicerianum—Story, [213]
" × Symonsianum, [200]
" × Tautzianum lepidum, [194]
" × Telemachus, [194]
" × tesselatum porphyreum, [194]
" venustum (Measures variety), [195]
" × Watsonianum, [195]
" × William Lloyd, [191]
" × Winifred Hollington, [204]
" × Woodlandsense, [195]
" × Zeus, [196]
Dendrobium × Ainsworthii, [110]
" × Leechianum, [110]
" Lowii—Story, [121]
" nobile album, [110]
" " Cooksoni, [110]
" " murrhinianum, [110]
" " Ruckerianum, [110]
" " splendens grandiflorum, [110]
" " virginale, [110]
" phalaenopsis Schröderianum—Story, [113]
" × Schneiderianum, [110]
Epidendrum radicans, [110]
" × radico-vitellinum, [111]
Hybridisation—Remarks, [172]
" Mr. Mead’s experiments, [173]
Laelia × Beatrice, [13]
" × Claptonensis, [88]
" elegans, [7]
" " Adonis, [10]
" " Amphion, [13]
" " bella, [15]
" " Blenheimensis, [13]
" "