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people, male and female, and as I was conducted to the side of it which

was nearest to the gate of the town, I observed a them Saduko,

Masapo, Mameena and others, and mixed up with them a number of soldiers,

ere evidently on duty

Scarcely had I seated myself on a caate of the kraal issued Panda and certain

of his Council, whose appearance the reeted with the royal

salute of "Bayéte", that came from them in a deep and simultaneous roar

of sound When its echoes died away, in theforth the Nyanga [doctor] Let the uin!"

There was a long pause, and then in the open gateway appeared a solitary

figure that at first sight seeantic head, fro, white hair, plaited

into locks It was Zikali, no other!

Quite unattended, and naked save for his moocha, for he had on him none

of the ordinary paraphernalia of the witch-doctor, he waddled forward

with a curious toad-like gait till he had passed through the Councillors

and stood in the open space of the ring Halting there, he looked about

hi as he looked, till at length

his glance fell upon the King