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beautifully clean hut, and the stools, wooden bowls, etc, were finely

carved out of red ivory wood, this work, Saduko infor done

by Zikali's own hand Just as ere finishing our er

came to tell us that Zikali waited our presence We followed him across

an open space to a kind of door in the tall reed fence, passing which I

set eyes for the first time upon the famous old witch-doctor of whoht in those strange surroundings, for they

were very strange, and I think their complete simplicity added to the

effect In front of us was a kind of courtyard with a black floor , two-thirds of which at least

was practically roofed in by the huge over-hangingabove at a height of not less than

sixty or seventy feet froreat, precipice-backed

cavity poured the fierce light of the setting sun, turning it and all

within it, even the large straw hut in the background, to the deep hue

of blood Seeing the wonderful effect of the sunset in that dark and

forbidding place, it occurred to me at once that the old wizard must

have chosen this moment to receive us because of its impressiveness