Sul Campo Del Mare - Vilenica

V2-2010.PM5576/13/100, 12:13 PMMax Blaeulichphotography; apart from the possibilities the near-scholarly use of thephotographs would offer. He hated blurry-skull photographs, as he wouldsay. If then somebody moved, he was punished with the hippopotamuswhip across the back. Kilimanjaro had to give him the whip, and the smallStackler climbed on his stool. After biting on his lips, turning up his eyesto the skies like St. Stephan, he drew a breath and – only afterwards – hestruck. Two, three times, and during that, he uttered curses on the inferiorsickly Negroes: “You simple blockhead, lice-ridden Zulu Kaffir, sucha desert hog on tits! You Hottentot dog, Bimbo ape”, and so on and so on.Naturally none of the porters were sickly or inferior, as every one of thetwo hundred porters was taller by a head than these jittery white men,who became even whiter as they approached the territory of the Banish.These devoured everybody apart from their own relatives, even alreadydecomposing bodies, when they were short on a supply of people toslaughter.“Up to here” Kilimanjaro said laughing bitterly and pointed at his penissheath. Like he wanted to say, the whites in their khakis came nearlyup to his hips. The Africans then had to stiffen their cocks, so the doctorcould measure them. Stackler shouted: “Stiffen up, stiff, stiff! “And hewaved the whip, as if his conducting would do the trick.Kranich mollified Stackler and offered him to help him in “his way”. “Ibet, they’ll get hot immediately when they have had a glance at my‘nudities’.” Kranich showed them his nudes; unfortunately these causedjust the opposite effect. They were flabbergasted, poked with their fingersunbelieveably at one or the other photo, trying to figure out if thenudes were real. Puzzled they shook their heads afterwards and completelylost any hold of their concentration… Stackler cursed a blue streak: “Milksops,slackers, riff-raff, chicken heads.” Only later he realized that “to stiffenup” in Swahili also meant, “to die” or in a broader sense “to kill somebody”,similar to our “to silence somebody”.During the whole expedition the practice to gain sperm, the measurements,the photographs and the handling of the slide gauge for the erectionbecame tediously long. The reluctance of the Negroes became a noticeableaversion and in many an eye flashed hate, because this had neverbeen mentioned before. They had been enlisted as porters and nothingelse but that. Stackler paid no attention to that whatsoever.So Stackler used the two hundred porters as guinea pigs for his measurementsand photos. As some of them marched chained together, heavyiron shackles around their neck bound to the next with a long chain, nonecould escape. Often twenty to thirty porters have been shackled togetherlike that. The explorers especially Stackler, were suspicious of their deserting,of fear of the Bagishu, or because the loads became too heavy or – asKranich casually mentioned – “of pure sloth”. “That happened once to usin Sudan. These Sudanese, they are really lazy pigs. There the Askaris simply…”and he lost himself in some muttering, of which some “hitting here”and “beating” and “flourishing” were heard. Would the twenty Askaris,whom they had hired for protection, have been enough against theBagishu?57