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Cover art: Irving Freeman
Blurb: “They felt little fear, only sadness, as they were drawn up to witness the relaxation of effigies. Pasteboard representations of their comrades who had cheated the Inquisition in the stinking cells of Beira and Inhambane, borne forth here by the servants of Propaganda Fide and bent and twisted and stuffed into the tiny cages.
Still, the cry was for "flesh." Cardboard was one-dimensional. Cardboard did not scream or bleed.
And at a sign from the purple gentry, a line of troops moved into place behind the liberators and prodded them on bayonets toward the stakes....
A few of the tourists left their stomach contents and ice-cold Coke in a nice mixture on the steppe. The tougher individuals went back to the beach wondering why they felt vaguely cheated. They had stared death in the face, with the advantage that it was not their own. Few hit on the reason - it took a special brand of honesty to admit that the blacks had died like white men.
The traders counted their cash, the clerics counted the victims and withdrew for a day of benediction.
The Mozambique vultures counted their blessings. At autos-da-fé up and down the coast they were developing quite a fancy for cooked meat....”