Stanley Among the Voodoo Worshipers (1915)

Roy Watson

Stephen Batty

Edward Roberts

Jack, Ada, Tietze, Nina, the old Hag, and Andrea, estranged from the Stanley party, and having escaped the Slave Traders, into whose hands they were thrown by the treachery of Andrea, proceed through the jungles. Ada forgives the ...

Jack Bonavita

Frank Montgomery

Stanley Among the Voodoo Worshipers

Jack, Ada, Tietze, Nina, the old Hag, and Andrea, estranged from the Stanley party, and having escaped the Slave Traders, into whose hands they were thrown by the treachery of Andrea, proceed through the jungles. Ada forgives the White King, but Jack shows his contempt for him by making him burden bearer. Andrea sulks and indicates that he will await his chance to get even by stealing the party's supplies and carrying away Ada. They pass on while Stanley prepares to take up the march in search of them. As they wander through the jungle a great leopard, hanging from the limb of a tree, drops down upon Ada. Her screams attract Jack and Tietze, and after a fight they spear it. Further ahead in the jungle is the village of the Bungangetas, who are called Voo Doo worshipers. They set up for their king a horrible idol and offer it young native girls as sacrifices. The party is ambushed by scouts of the Voo Doo worshipers and taken before the shrine. Andrea alone escapes by hiding in the bushes. The Witch Doctor, of the Voo Doos, decrees that Ada shall be the sacrifice to their god. She is placed upon the sacrificial stone and preparations for the rites begun. In the meantime Stanley, Batty and their party hurry through the jungles. They meet the Voo Doo Worshippers, but being outnumbered, they lose the fight which follows, and retreat to await more favorable time for action. In the skirmish Batty, who has been riding his elephant, falls into a pit set by the Voo Doos to trap animals. Discovering his predicament, the witch doctor, in high glee at the sport of the venture, drops a lion into the pit. Being unarmed, Batty is compelled to meet the lion with his bare hands. After a furious battle Batty conquers the lion, to the astonishment of the natives, who carry Batty back to camp as an extra fine sacrifice to their idol. While the witch doctor has been gone Andrea, seeing his opportunity to avenge the fancied wrongs of Jack, blackens his body with berry juice and, posing as one of the natives, slips into the hollow idol, usurping the place of the witch doctor, who, upon his return, is deposed. Andrea, as the witch doctor, orders the death of Jack and Batty. The preliminary ceremony lasts long into the night, and at last natives and captives fall asleep. Andrea then silently releases Ada and takes her with him into the jungles. At dawn Nina, who has been taken to a hut, slips, unobserved, to the stakes where Jack and Batty are chained and cuts their bonds. They immediately start a search for Ada and Andrea but discover they have gone. Enraged at Andrea's perfidy, Jack and Batty prepare to go into the jungles after the White King, but before they have advanced any material distance the deposed Witch Doctor discovers their departure, and rousing the natives, sets out and recaptures them. Jack and Batty are again chained to stakes and the sacrificial fires lighted when Stanley and his followers, mounted on Elephants, and leading Ada's pony, attack the camp. The horse dashes into the camp, kicks the embers away from about Jack's and Batty's feet, grabs a native by the breechclout, shakes him, while an elephant twists his trunk about the Witch Doctor, dashes his head against a tree and tosses the body over his back. The natives are scattered, Stanley, Jack, Nina and the hag are restored to the party, while Andrea drags Ada through the jungle and gloats over her misery.

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