Reception
The Adelaide Advertiser book critic felt the story was "mostly concerned with intertribal fights and massacres, murders and attempted murders, and Wongai's struggles against the wiles of the jealous witch doctors." They argued that at first "the book carries the interest and stirs the imagination, but the powers of the author then seem to falter and the end (there really is no end) is limping, inconclusive, and disappointing to a degree." The reviewer stated "the book is an adventure yarn founded on rather slim facts, of almost bloodcurdling intensity." The Sun thought "Idriess over-writes at times but it does not prevent this book being an exciting adventure." The Newcastle Morning Herald wrote "Wongai is founded on fact and, with the assistance of Ion Idriess's powerful imagination, he makes a fascinating story. At the end of the book, the white chief, shorn of all his glory, is still alive, and the author gives warning, or hope, depending on the readers' point of view, that there is ample scope for sequel." ==References==