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It would have interested you one froet you to sleep Macuht, come and sit with s All this business of the stones is

nothing more than a Kafir trick, is it, Macumazahn? When you meet the

buffalo with the split horn in the pool of a dried river, re trick, and now come into my hut and drink a kas "

So he took hted by

a fire in its centre, and gave ratefully, for h it had been

scraped

"Who are you, Father?" I asked point-blank when I had taken ainst the wall of the hut, and lit

head fro

and peered at me across the fire

"My name is Zikali, which means 'Weapons,' White Man You know as much

as that, don't you?" he answered "My father 'went down' so long ago

that his does not ,

as we of the Black House understand it, and very old Is there anything

else you would like to learn?"