Captain Montgomery

Montgomery recalls Erica Carlyle  kicking up a fuss, which led to search parties being sent out. He directs one of his men to conduct a (lengthy) search through the records, which reveal that only one man who saw the massacre site now remains in Kenya: Sergeant Leonard Bumption, who was then a boyish message-rider. Sergeant
Bumption is at the local barracks. Captain Montgomery has him brought to his office. Bumption says that there were several search parties in the area. His party searched for days before finding the ghastly clearing. According to him, there was solid evidence that Carlyle, Sir Aubrey, and the other expedition members, were present and indubitably dead. He even claims to have seen the cloven head of Hypatia Masters . He believes that a local and secretive cult was responsible for the deaths—his comments are provided at Sgt Bumptions account of finding the Bodies.