This excerpt was taken from an interrogation by a British Army officer of a captured Gikuyu rebel during the Mau Mau uprising (all answers come secondhand through a translator): Q:How many did you see? A:Five. Q:Describe them. A:White men, their skin gray and cracked. Some had wounds, bite marks on parts of their bodies. All had bullet holes in their chests. They stumbled, they groaned. Their eyes had no sight. Their teeth were stained with blood. The smell of carrion announced them. The animals fled. Q:What happened? Q:You buried the heads? A:Yes.Q:Why? A:Because a fire would have given us away.