"Yes," exclaimed one of the hunters with a note of anxiety in his
voice, "but your Snake mentioned six of us to you, O doctor!"
"It did," replied Mavovo, drawing a pinch of snuff up his uninjured
nostril, "and our brother there was the first of the six. Be not
afraid, the other five will certainly join him in due course, for my
Snake must speak the truth. Still, if anyone is in a hurry," and he
glared round the little circle, "let him stop and talk with me alone.
Perhaps I could arrange that his turn----" here he stopped, for they
were all gone.
"Glad /I/ didn't pay a shilling to have my fortune told by Mavovo,"
said Stephen, when we were back in the /boma/, "but why did they bury
his pots and spears with him?"
"To be used by the spirit on its journey," I answered. "Although they
do not quite know it, these Zulus believe, like all the rest of the
world, that man lives on elsewhere."
CHAPTER VIII
THE MAGIC MIRROR
I did not sleep very well that night, for now that the danger was over
I found that the long strain of it had told upon my nerves.
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