"the huge land of hunting and adventure adored by entire generations of children has disappeared forever. we have said farewell." "the massacres which we assisted belong to a new Africa... one which if it emerges from its ruins more conscious will be unrecognizable." "the world is racing toward better times." "all the redskins and the bones of millions of buffalo." "carved up Africa will rise again and upon those immense graveyards that were once its game reserves." "The endeavor is so modern and recent that there is no room to discuss it at the moral level." "The purpose of this film is only to bid farewell to the old Africa that is dying and entrust to history the documentation of its agony." "The age of compromise has begun." "the gardens of the Ocean Road Palace are open to the new African bourgeoisie for the grand farewell party." "Old and new masters search in the lanes for imitation and symbiosis in the eagerness to find something in common." "And that's how two centuries of history draw to a close." "The last representative of Her British Majesty leaves the scene graciously in that climate of festive cordiality that always accompanies the departure of a guest who has overstayed his welcome." "the wail of sirens and firing of cannons make no more din than a child's birthday party." "Europe is in a hurry to leave and on tiptoe it has given far more than it has taken." "can no longer manage this big black baby keeps bad company hates it because of its white skin. just at the moment when it needs Europe the most." "Africa comes out of its long Middle Age and exchanges the spear for the gun." "The soldiers of the most famous African regiment formed by white men who've lived in the country for three generations and trust the defense of their homes and families to new hands." "The first spontaneous demonstrations take place controlled by the new African police force." "Products imported from African countries that aren't yet independent are destroyed." "First to go are colonialist Portuguese eggs." "Next it's the turn of oranges from South Africa." "And South African beer." "the new police must prepare to contain it." "The first elections in the history of the Dark Continent are imminent." "The crowd presses impatiently toward the polling places." "They're all afraid of arriving too late and ending up empty-handed." "every party has promised its voters houses and cars of the whites that remained." "the property of the white colonists green plateau that for 100 years the Uhuru is late to arrive." "the ancient African landscape is transformed into the Scottish countryside." "even if there are no foxes here." "All that's needed is for a black man to drag a piece behind him in order to leave the scent for the dogs." "The fox is a harmful animal that does not exist in Africa. they have to teach someone to act like one." "But the fox is a treacherous prey and should never be underestimated." "in force of Articles 7 and 19a 1953" "I ask that Jeroke Camau attempted murder and aggravated murder be given the maximum penalty." "made by him and his accomplices were used to carry out the crimes to which he confessed in full during the investigation." "Rashidi Singhida entered the farm at Aberdare Point" "John Fletcher" "Josephi Nathaeli." "The defendant's second victim was Miss Elizabeth Reagan the farmer's sister-in-law killed by a gunshot fired by Singhida through the window of her room." "Mr. Fletcher ran down the outside stairs where he was hit by several gunshots that shattered his legs." "He dragged himself inside the house" "Mrs. Jane who had looked for shelter under the table." "The corpses of the three women were found headless and without limbs. was found stabbed 72 times with a panga. do you confirm the inquiry transcript already signed by you?" "We take the liberty of pointing out to your honor that the defendant knows English and doesn't need an interpreter." "I will reveal to you the facts that emerged from the investigation." "you were the nanny of Memsa Fosset's three children:" "nine." "You knew them from birth." "You watched them play." "You ate and slept with them." "you opened a window to let Kimathi and his gang into the house." "Juana Fosset was grabbed and his throat slit on the big green table." "The mother and the children ran toward the door." "Kimathi caught them and cut them into pieces right in the doorway in your presence." "The trial of Jomo Kanari self-styled general of the "Land Freedom Army escapee from the Voy prison where he was spending 30 years assault and triple murder." "The inquiry determined that took place." "along with his accomplices severed the tendons of more than 400 cattle that then had to be destroyed by the farmers." "Irrefutable evidence of the defendant's guilt was provided who along with his son followed the accused's trail for 72 days and 72 nights." "Kanari was captured and turned over to the Magadi police." "I consequently ask that the accused be found guilty and sentenced to the maximum penalty provided for by the special law." "Land for the brave Mau Mau!" "Amnesty for all Mau Mau!" "Kenyatta proclaims them national heroes." "they killed 27 whites and 5000 blacks." "Kenyatta announces that in addition to the undying gratitude of the nation the Mau Mau will be granted the lands and houses of the white colonists in which they carried out their deeds." "The whites are itching to get out." "The windows of real estate agencies are covered with sale offers." "Easy payment terms seem absurd to anyone who doesn't know how to savor the bitter irony." "Installments for up to 99 years." "desperate irony in the text of the ads." "Everything that belongs to the white colonists is for sale." "Those with time turn to Indian merchants to hold an auction in the garden of everything accumulated by three generations that cannot be carried away." "The Indians do a good business." "The new black bourgeoisie spare no expense." "The ancient home is quickly emptied." "The family watches on the sidelines." "await their new owners." "In the entire immense East African territory" "English colonial law permitted whites to build a house and acquire property here and only here." "the new colonists transformed it into an oasis of green." "and finally to claim it." "the Plated Age begins." "where 150 whites lived yesterday 000 blacks subsist today." "The agrarian reform ignores the arid immensity of the Lowlands to express the new spirit of Uhuru only here on these freshly seized fertile estates." "it can distribute just one acre per family." "So this land that earlier was perhaps too much for too few becomes too little for too many." "Uhuru has nothing more to conquer." "Only the dead have remained to occupy a little land." "have to clear out." "too." "J. B. Johnson was the most famous breeder of racehorses in the highlands." "He was killed by Kimathi's Mau Mau on the steps of his farm." "These were his stables. his sons chased out the horses and set them free in the savanna." "all the "old land" horses are living in freedom. they're trapped inside by the sound of shouts and old gas cans." "the horse is the symbol of the white man." "it refuses contact with other species surrounding itself by an emptiness that runs from itself to the horizon." "the horse is physically racist." "It fears the black and refuses to be ridden by him." "its back is bare." "like an equestrian monument from which the hero was toppled by a sudden act of violence." "the horse is noble." "It has delicate skin." "It's sophisticated in its choice of food." "it is timid." "Just a little noise will frighten it away." "the horse is useless." "All that it's good for is to be eaten." "The Boers are returning to South Africa." "They have revived the wagons on which they arrived 400 years ago in search of a homeland." "They could have chosen boats or airplanes as the English did to return to Europe. they loaded their families and possessions on old wagons from their wobbly epic and now move back across 1000 miles of history. just like the entire destiny of the Boer people." "Its meaning is tragic and precise." "The long African adventure is not over." "It starts here." "The old laws are no longer valid." "The new ones are yet to be written." "There's no one to protect the savanna from vandals or hunters seeking meat. the right moment has arrived. now they enter the savanna with impunity and wildly weave back and forth divide them and separate the mothers from the babies." "Here's the quickest way to get your hands on a little elephant today." "You exasperate the mother little by little." "You provoke her reaction." "Then you draw out her pursuit as long as possible giving the illusion of letting her reach you and when the poor beast can't go on any longer she'll be too far from her baby to be able to defend it." "The price of a baby elephant is around $3000... that it arrives safe and sound to the ordering zoo." "The average is one out of ten." "The others don't survive without their mother's milk." "Africa is an infinite reserve." "you go by jeep you go by helicopter." "Of all the types of safaris that a hunter can choose from today this is the quickest." "It's called "elephant safari in a quarter hour." "The helicopter leaves from the hotel terrace and drops the hunter here." "Then it goes to find the elephant and chases it toward him." "but with a caliber big enough to bag a dinosaur." "Then he finishes it off at point-blank range." "and then he's off. the Africans make do with numbers." "000 of them gather together and surround an area as large as a big city." "Then they squeeze the vice." "Across the great line traced by the Zambezi the Wildlife Society has established its headquarters in an old abandoned farm." "It's a large organization supported mostly by private Anglo-Saxon capital and does what it can to save what it can in the midst of so much disorder. every motion of the rake on the large table in the operations room" "corresponds to a massive displacement of animals in some remote area." "The goal of so much feverish activity is to collect at least some of the animals from the areas most infested with poachers and transport them to territories that are safer and better controlled. plane and even balloon." "Operation Crocodile calls for the transfer of all the reptiles in the park away from the mouth of the Rovuma that is infested with poachers." "The traps are set during low tide and marked with colored balloons." "It's estimated that in these waters 000 crocodiles have been killed in the last six months." "The operation in progress saves 82 of them." "They will reach more peaceful waters after having slept for 300 miles." "Animals injured by poachers are cared for by the Wildlife Society's blood bank. and keep them happy with several pounds of tranquilizers." "a Wildlife Society helicopter surveying an area on the coast of Kenya and the Tanarive area found the carcasses of a full 750 elephants." "The poachers were surprised by the helicopter while they were still cutting out the tusks." "They ran and hid among clumps of grass." "It was the first inspection operation after more than a year of total anarchy." "Tanganyika and Uganda following serious disorder and the rebellion of the Armed Forces urgently requested the return of English troops." "The old laws that had lapsed came back into force." "The former Anglo-Saxon administration retook control of the game reserves." "A brief interlude of order was opened up would be closed again after only one month." "But the level of damage suffered by the fauna is shocking." "the police capture 410 poachers." "The great massacre comes to a standstill." "The police discover hundreds of caches of ivory and furs hidden in the underbrush and dry stream beds." "The gangs of poachers have used grenades to kill over 300 young elephants without tusks just to get the tails to make bracelets and necklaces to sell to tourists for a few coins." "Large tents set up by police house 82 tons of confiscated tusks." "An even more frightening number if one considers only one-fifth of slaughtered animals are usually found by the game warden patrols. lion and cheetah that the poachers left to dry in the sun." "The underbrush is strewn with carcasses that foul the air which the alarmed vandals did not have time to skin." "In the ancient breeding grounds that are the richest in the world columns of acrid smoke now rise and flames crackle at the pyres." "other patrols comb the savanna to aid the injured animals." "clearly based upon good intentions is certainly not adequate for the amount of damage and butchery." "Africa is afflicted by a hundred evils and no one vigorously combats their causes." "do their best to heal the effects." "There's nothing to do." "They won't give us permission to land." "We decide to try it anyway on an old landing strip further north." "rented by three German journalists." "We've flown here together from Tanganyika." "Neither they nor we want to turn back without first having done everything possible to document the worst genocide in the history of Africa." "It all started last night backed by Russia overthrew the thousand year old government of the Sultan ordered the massacre of the entire Arab population of Zanzibar." "All communications have been broken off." "The radio is silent and the airports are closed." "The only way to know anything about what's happening in Zanzibar as did we and our German colleagues whom we glimpse for a moment as they are hauled away by the insurgents." "it's better to skip it." "That cloud of smoke down there rising from the runway is the Germans' airplane that's burning." "At least we know there's no one on board." "with a helicopter." "We waive a red flag to confuse the rebels. 5000 Arabs were killed." "Okello has distributed 850 guns that mysteriously arrived on the island which the Africans do not yet know how to use." "It's open hunting season for Arabs." "The propaganda tells the new generations the Arabs are cursed slave traders who sell Africans to slave merchants along the coast." "omitted that this all happened ten centuries ago." "This footage is the only existing documentation 1964. testimony that's uncomfortable and embarrassing for all... fomenting a new African racism and for those hastily abandoning Africa to itself in the false modesty of antique colonialism authorizing a new Africa flooded with misery and blood." "Look at these images." "Look at them with pity." "look at them with shame." "Endless lines of prisoners marching toward the site of the massacre." "waiting for death already more similar to ghosts than men." "Muslim cemeteries transformed into fields of imminent extermination." "Women and children trembling under the threat of guns." "Enormous common graves already half-filled with corpses." "Perhaps the most pitiless mass shooting in the entire macabre anthology of death." "The exodus toward the sea of entire villages." "The desperate boarding of boats stuck in the sand at low tide." "The hopeless run toward an impossible salvation." "the day after." "These were the national parks that the mystical Anglo-Saxon love for animals and regulations written with the fervor of an inquisitor had transformed into real-life sanctuaries of nature." "who in the text of the English law protecting national parks was classified among the harmful animals did not even have the right to set one foot on this land." "He could walk around the edges in absolute silence under the watchful eyes of the game warden and in full respect of a code that did not tolerate ignorance. is awaking from a sleep of four centuries." "At the fortresses sown by Vasco de Gama along the coast of Mozambique nothing has passed except for time." "The glory of past centuries puts up a decrepit resistance against new times:" "bastions eaten away by centuries silent bronze cannons and an act of faith in humility and resignation." "in the invisible guerrilla camps is the new reality still draped with the morning fog where the soldiers move hesitantly like ghosts of the past." "nature is silent." "The silence of the animals and birds is the unequivocal sign of a human presence." "The rebels in Angola avoid forests that are too quiet." "lying in wait." "go!" "The cleverness almost always works." "Animals and guerrillas rush to the call of the magnetic tape the forest is filled with life and death." "This is the destiny of a people who wanted to ignore the color of skin." "Aqui es Portugal." "This is Portugal." "we're all Portuguese." "But the rebels of Angola don't agree." "This is Africa." "Only blacks are Africans." "blanches et noires universal that is more and more being colored red." "1964." "pursued by the Bantu in revolt flee toward the Ugandan border carrying their wounded." "The war of the Bantu against the Watusi is nothing more than racial persecution fomented for political purposes by the presence and propaganda of China in the state of Rwanda Burundi." "000 Watusi." "The underbrush hides the still-fresh proof of a ferocious horror." "54 amputated hands were found used as a chopping block." "The border police caught them in the act and arrested 25 Bantu guerrillas." "black or white has lifted a finger to stop the bloodbath." "the waters of the Kagera send thousands of corpses downstream." "the fishing is macabre and abundant carried out with lazy diligence by the residents along the river." "The feeling of compassion doesn't exist here." "What exists is a good source of drinking water that has to be kept clean." "not death." "Ten days and nights of exodus along the roads of Uganda." "The Watusi were a people with a thousand year history as herders." "A people of survivors who continue to flee toward the unknown failing to understand and in shock." "It is a people that no longer exists." "This is more or less how Noah's terrestrial paradise must have been." "he set about constructing the great ark. the same divine balance that man still has not managed to upset." "Image and likeness of that terrestrial paradise destroyed with that same divinity by the sudden wrath of a vindictive God." "1964. the English troops have left again. the African governments decide to open up even the national parks to hunting. white and black game wardens now employed by the African authorities have no choice but to obey and organize the details of the "cropping" operation" "or "harvesting the animals. the harvest operation will resupply local markets with fresh meat. in the inviolate sanctuaries of nature men are entering armed with guns." "The take from one day of hippopotamus harvest amounts to 160." "The park authorities sell them to butchers for 300 shillings each or about $45." "The number of animals to kill is established each time but not one more nor one less so as not to disrupt the prices. up until yesterday tourists came to photograph them." "Killing them is child's play." "like the targets at a shooting gallery." "females and pregnant females... up to the day when there aren't any more." "The request for 45 elephants has also been fulfilled without difficulty." "Now they're butchered on the spot to simplify the transport of prime and choice cuts." "not even one injury." "which hunters described as the most ferocious animals in Africa in reality allow themselves to be slaughtered like goats whether it's those miserable males suffering from toothaches or the legendary pregnant females." "The truth is that in all of Africa there is only one truly ferocious animal:" "Man." "Wounded animals that go to die at the edge of the parks must be destroyed much more quickly than the vultures normally would do." "must not see. the richest storehouse of hippopotamus meat in the world." "in the water." "A few have remained for next Friday." "And here's another." "especially since today is Friday any Friday in any season." "It's the most recent souvenir photo in our journey through what were the safe refuges of African fauna the inviolable sanctuaries of nature where it was considered sacrilege even to speak loudly." "swear and even curse without the fear of disturbing anyone or anything." "has passed by here." "You can follow his tracks for miles and miles always winding along scenes of nothing but desolation and death." "We just left behind an Africa that's disappearing and immediately we enter an Africa that's already disappeared." "The division is a clean crack." "confusion and indiscriminate death." "order and discriminating life. the country today with the most enemies in the world. "This is not Africa." "is true. an ignored and distant landscape that seems to have wriggled away from the network of parallels and meridians." "it also isn't Europe or America." "There's nothing that can give sense to a geographic expression." "It's not an African mirage because it exists in time and space." "It's not a Promised Land because it lacks the biblical requirements." "All that's left is to define it as a miracle... a weighty miracle carried out over three centuries by a persecuted people wanting to prove that only its God is the true one. wrapping men and objects in a soft blanket of bliss" "in a delicate balance between the transient and the eternal. of swollen breasts offered to the glory of nature survives only on movie sets. the proud African tribe that made things so difficult for the Boers. and receive union wages" "for putting on nylon underwear and dancing the dance of their grandmothers." "the ancient rhythm of the tom-tom gives them a few variations on the theme." "The African female has discovered she is a woman and is beginning to behave as such." "She wants to be modern because she feels the past is against her." "she had two mammary glands." "she has two breasts." "She does not wants to display herself." "She wants to be looked at to make you guess what's under her alluring clothes." "but to be flirtatious." "She undresses to surrender and dresses to attack." "like a black female." "like a white woman." "Africa covers itself consciously" "Africa disappears." "the authorities encourage or even impose modesty. all one size are distributed to the tribes in the interior by the "Legion of Decency"." "The unconquerable warriors entrusted with them must maintain them with the care owed by every good citizen to everything that is state property." "underwear covers what's most urgent." "That's enough to decently begin to march toward the conquest of further dignity." "Never before has a warrior put on pants." "Never before has a lion climbed a tree." "and in the new republics the ancient kings have fallen into disgrace." "Let's take the poor ex-king of the animals with the stiff muscles." "his roar doesn't scare anyone. ex-hunter of noble prey climbs trees and hunts lizards." "Poor king of the jungle!" "making his humiliation public." "only him." "Where's the lion?" "There's the lion." "let's see what the lion's doing. and they don't even leave him a moment of intimacy. seeing as how the park rangers do the hunting for him. to the areas most accessible to tourists where the park administration has a great interest that he stays." "independent king of the jungle has become a stingy retiree with middle-class habits forced to defend his steak against those who up until yesterday would not have dared to come close." "A new rebellion has broken out in Tanganyika." "including women and children." "The mortuaries are full." "The corpses have to be lined up outside." "The vultures wait patiently for the operation to finish so they can start their own." "Dar es Salaam is in the grips of anarchy. which has mutinied." "President Nyerere has disappeared." "No one knows who's in charge. going out on the streets in search of footage is a nearly suicidal endeavor." "they chase us away." "They insult us." "They threaten us." "We try to get to the outskirts." "a crowd hides the victims of the massacre from us." "a Muslim tries to flee from a lynch mob." "He jumps off a seawall." "The mob reaches him and drowns him." "They destroy the houses and shops of businessmen accused of having taken over from the whites in exploiting the people." "we push through the crowd in Uhuru Square." "Someone has killed three African soldiers. dragging all the Muslims out of their homes and lining them up against the wall." "they threaten us with guns." "while the camera continues to roll." "One of us is injured." "They open the doors and drag us out." "They arrest us." "They put us up against the wall." "We are saved by a miracle which the newspapers would later report. and special envoy of the UN." "Three quarters of Congo is in the hands of rebels and communists." "Tshombe promises to clean house in three months. has been conquered by Belgian paratroopers and mercenaries." "The city is a cemetery without graves. 000 Africans." "regular Congolese troops force the Simba prisoners to carry out this gruesome cleaning." "80 schoolchildren were burned alive." "Four nurses were raped and killed." "Indians and Pakistanis." "Many bodies have a long gash in the belly where the Simba cut out the liver and ate it." "seven missionaries and four white children were tied up with wire and shot by the rebels in the mouth." "The heat is unbearable." "The air is thick with the stench of corpses." "There's fear of pestilence." "American C-130s land with the survivors of the Stanleyville massacre." "they had been massed together for execution." "The machine guns had already started cutting them down when 320 Belgian paratroopers dropped from the sky managed to pull them out of the hands of 7000 rebels." "22 are missing." "The injured were pulled out from under a pile of 40 corpses among which were identified Americans Carlson and Rain" "Masqueau and De Smitter. were to die soon after in a Danish hospital in Leopoldville. was carried out in a few hours by the US Air Force with 40 planes." "the governments of the new African states demanded that Washington make a broad official apology for the abusive interference by the USA in private Congolese affairs." "on the northern border of Congo with Sudan an attempt is made at the aerial resupply with food and medicine of a mission occupied by rebels." "nuns and over 100 children is in danger." "The 6000 rebels of the Kirlis army who rule the area have threatened to wipe out all of the besieged if even one paratrooper or helicopter tries to land." "the planes of the ANC take turns in the sky above the mission making drops that end up in the hands of the rebels." "planes and helicopters take off and we're with them." "there's no one to await us." "We got to know them one at a time." "They are the white mercenaries of Tshombe's army." "They're the last surviving soldiers of fortune from another century." "They're former citizens of a world that kicked them out or that they're running from." "all of them are or were ex-something. lost faith. come to pursue with a macabre academic spirit the idea of glory and adventure." "15 of them plucked 400 rebels from Kisala." "40 of them will attempt an endeavor 000 UN soldiers could not manage:" "The conquest of Boende." "The attack plan for Boende calls for the use of massive aerial forces." "The "massive" aerial forces are these two 20-year-old P6s held together as well as possible with bolts and wire." "They're the personal property of Tom O'Keefe and Somerset Wilson former Rhodesian pilots whose families were massacred by rebels from Angola." "They've hired out themselves and the planes for $500 a month which no one has paid for six months and a life insurance policy that up to now no insurance company has underwritten." "before leaving they've filled out the forms at the airport in the usual manner." "Destination:" "Hell." "Reason for flight:" "Personal matters." "The Simba fled without having time to slaughter the missionaries who've lived for three months under the daily nightmare of the massacre. a white-skinned God responsible for the centuries-long arrogance of his faithful." "the skeletons of the Simba are rotting in the puddles without glory and without burial. the magic spell that was supposed to transform the lead of bullets into water." "incredulous and amazed." "They died for nothing and for no one." "Africa has no fallen soldiers on either side." "It has only corpses." "Boende has fallen." "The last Simba come out of the forest with their hands up." "but tomorrow they'll be on the other side of the gun." "It's an absurd and tragic ballad that's been going on for five years now." "Whites against blacks and blacks against whites." "like a cruel children's game." "once and for all." "No condition is definitive except for white and black deaths into absolute biological equality." "The ethics of the Congolese guerrilla are that to the victor belong the spoils." "The mercenaries have aimed right at the safe of the revolutionary government and have blown it open with a bazooka." "Inside was 50 million Congolese francs." "These were the funds destined for the famous "OK Plan at the head of his 3000 Mulelist warriors was to invade the United States." "America has been saved." "the soldiers divide up the small change. just like all of their naive delusions of grandeur." "they go into raptures sharing in a miserable little celebration from which they get only the crumbs." "For centuries they were poor out of necessity. even if they will never be able to carry it away. robbing only their own misery from themselves." "The right to plunder is valid only for 24 hours." "Time ran out 10 minutes ago." "and now you can't?" "A good Congolese soldier who fought for the homeland will never understand." "Nor will he ever understand why the whites make such a fuss to find out who ate this peasant's liver." "Or why there has to be a trial to condemn to death this Mulelist who burned 27 children alive." "Or why they're arresting the soldiers who raped those Mulelist bitch prisoners in jail." "And why you need so many guns to kill one single little disarmed Mulelist." "you only need one shot." "Africa continues to be an uncontainable sea of life. five come into the world with black skin." "which is called "apartheid" here provisional dam." "It is the hysterical reaction to the hysterical situation that threatens to darken the smile of the new generations into hatred." "Soweto is one of the largest black cities in South Africa." "The apartheid laws prohibit whites from entering." "then it's a strange prison where the doors lock on the inside and open out." "there's another big prison... that of the whites." "It's called Johannesburg." "Apartheid prohibits blacks from entering." "This is another strange prison where the doors lock on the inside and open out." "Apartheid has locked up two races in two different prisons whose locks work the wrong way." "Two gilded cages in the richest country in the world." "The Boers discovered gold a hundred years ago when they had been working this land as farmers for hundreds of years." "There's no question that the Boers also have a right to this wealth even if they're white Africans." "But it's also true that to extract just one of these gold bars requires one day of labor from 1000 black Africans and the technical assistance of 100 white Africans." "Because this is a country of 3 million white Africans and 11 million black Africans. they live in suspicion of the numerical disproportion and in the misunderstanding of certain slogans arriving from Europe:" "a racist affirmation." "another racist affirmation. the gilded prisons continue to close and open to the wail of the sirens that call white Africans and black Africans to work together." "it was an uninhabited land." "when the Boers opened the mines the Bantu came down from the mountains in search of work." "They spread the word and new crowds crossed the uncontrollable borders." "Angola." "Today there are 11 million and still growing." "They come in waves to the entrance of the mines" "They flood through the labyrinth of tunnels that run under the big city. the ceiling that separates 3 million whites from 11 million blacks peppered with holes like a huge Swiss cheese. muffled grinding." "the roof creaks menacingly." "The miners run for cover." "the big city vibrates and trembles but no one moves." "No one has paid attention for years." "The stock market goes up continuously." "Share prices are steadily high." "Buy orders for mining shares arrive" "Geneva and Paris." "Moscow bought 2 million carats of diamonds." "Peking requested 50 tons of gold." "the great vein of gold climbs from low to high just like the stock chart." "Millions of picks and shovels follow it solid march toward the surface." "The great floor separating the two worlds is growing thinner and crumbling." "The growing clamor of the Stock Exchange mixes with the ever closer and louder boom of the explosions. bless and protect our lives." "Bless and protect our forces as it is written that the hyena shall prevail over the lion when the lion has no more claws with which to rule." "Grant that this sea whence we came shall always lie before us and never at our backs." "our last refuge which you led us to find unspoiled on the day we came and in which we have resisted hatred and violence. that the fury of two oceans united shall not wrest us away forever from these final shores." "Amen." "a warm current broke this little colony of penguins off of the glaciers of the south and carried them here on huge rafts of ice that then melted in the sun. they have for centuries been strangers in a strange land" "that is becoming more and more heated and hostile toward them surrounded by a sea that grows higher and more and more filled with rage. before a wave stronger than the others tears them away forever from this last rock that forms the geographic end of the Dark Continent." "we would like to apologize to our families for having been away from home for three years. does not attempt and has never attempted to create new ones." "It has only tried to document the reality of how blood spilled anywhere represents a loss of wealth for the entire world."