Or rather," he went on, "they have two gods.

The other is that flower you see there.
Whether the flower with the monkey's head on it was the first god and suggested the worship of the beast itself, or _vice versa_, I don't know.

Indeed I know very little, just what I was told by the Mazitu and a man who called himself a Pongo chief, no more." "What did they say ?" "The Mazitu said that the Pongo people are devils who came by the secret channels through the reeds in canoes and stole their children and women, whom they sacrificed to their gods.

Sometimes, too, they made raids upon them at night, 'howling like hyenas.' The men they killed and the women and children they took away.

The Mazitu want to attack them but cannot do so, because they are not water people and have no canoes, and therefore are unable to reach the island, if it is an island.