I could not turn from their revel in derision.

Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, |More deliberate. Solemnly chanted|

Cutting through the jungle with a golden track.

Then along that riverbank

A thousand miles

Tattooed cannibals danced in files;

Then I heard the boom of the blood-lust song

And a thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong.

And “Blood!” screamed the whistles and the fifes of the warriors, |A rapidly piling climax of speed and racket|

“Blood!” screamed the skull-faced, lean witch-doctors;