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So ht in a drealoas left The only light re fires, which just sufficed to illu on his side, his squat shape looking like that of a dead

hippopotarew heartily sick

of the whole affair; I was tired of being so eth the dwarf stirred He sat up, yawned, sneezed, shook hi embers of my fire with his naked

hand Presently he found the white stone, which was now red-hot--at any

rate it glowed as though it were--and after exa it for a moment

finally popped it into his mouth! Then he hunted in the other fire for

the black stone, which he treated in a si I

reme, were

burning very brightly again, I suppose because so

"Come here, O Macumazana and O Son of Matiwane," he said, "and I will

repeat to you what your spirits have been telling ht of the fires, which for some reason or other

was extremely vivid Then he spat the white stone fro hand, and I saw that noas covered with lines and patches

like a bird's egg

"You cannot read the signs?" he said, holding it towards me; and when I