Q. Do you persist in accusing Kelengo of having cut off your left hand?
A. No. I told a lie.
Q. State, then, how and when you lost your hand.
A. I was a slave of Monkekola’s at Malele, in the Bangala district. One day I went out boar-hunting with him. He wounded one with a spear, and thereupon the animal, enraged, turned on me. I tried to run off with the others, but falling down, the boar was on me in a moment and tore off my left hand and (wounded me) in the stomach and left thigh.
The witness exhibits the scars he carries at the places mentioned, and lying down of his own accord shows the position he was in when the boar attacked and wounded him.
Q. How long ago did this accident happen?
A. I don’t remember. It was a long time ago.
Q. Why did you accuse Kelengo?
A. Because Momaketa, one of the Bossunguma Chiefs, told me to, and afterwards all the inhabitants of my village did so too.
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