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Updated: June 22, 2025
There on the Hill of Death stood the Tree of Death; and that in its dank shade, or piled upon the ground beneath it, hung and lay the pitiful remnants of the multitudes who for generations had been led thither to their doom. Now, in Owen's vision a man was seen approaching by the little pathway that ran up the side of the mount the Road of Lost Footsteps it was called. It was Hokosa the wizard.
Kneel down now, that I may absolve you from your sins before I pass away; for I tell you, Hokosa, I believe that ere many days are over you must walk on the same path which I travel to-night." "Is it so?" Hokosa answered. "Well, I am glad, for I have no longer any lust of life." Then he knelt down and received the absolution.
"Well, then, what of the wizard's wife?" "You were my wife before I became Christian; if the Messenger permits it, you can still abide with me." "If the Messenger permits it! So you have come to this, Hokosa, that you must ask the leave of another man as to whether or no you should keep your own wife!
"At the least there goes a man," said Nodwengo, as he watched him depart. "Of whom do you speak, King?" asked Owen, who at that moment entered the royal house. "Of him whom you must have touched in the door-way, Messenger, Hokosa the wizard," answered the king, and he told him of what had passed between them.
That afternoon Owen heard a great hubbub outside his kraal, and going to see what was the matter, he found a party of the witch-doctors dragging John towards the place of judgment, which was by the king's house. Thither he followed to discover that the case was already in course of being opened before the king, his council, and a vast audience of the people. Hokosa was the accuser.
Now, for the fourth time the attacking regiment came forward grimly, on this occasion led by the prince himself. As they drew near, Hokosa leapt upon the wall, and standing there in the bright moonlight where all could see him, he called to them to halt. Instinctively they obeyed him. "Is it Hafela whom I see yonder?" he asked. "Ah! it is I," answered the prince.
"I see the body of the king; but were it not for his royal ornaments none would know him now." "Return," said Hokosa, "and let the eyes of your spirit be open. Look around you and tell me what you see."
"What of it, O King?" "This, girl: the prince who was pleased to honour you is now pleased to dishonour you. Here, in the presence of the council and army, he prays of me to annul his sealing to you, and to send you back to the house of your guardian, Hokosa the wizard." Noma started, and her face grew hard. "Is it so?" she said.
He gave her the basket, and with it, wrapped in a piece of kidskin, some of the same powder with which he had doctored the fruits. "What shall I do with this?" she asked. "You must find means to sprinkle it upon your sister's food, and thereafter your husband shall come to hate even the sight of her." "But will he come to love me again?" Hokosa shrugged his shoulders.
Your spies must be good, White Man." "My spirit is my only spy, Hokosa. My spirit watched you, and from your own lips he learned the secret of the bane and of the antidote. Hafela mixed the poison as you taught him; I gave the remedy, and saved the king alive." Now the knees of Hokosa grew weak beneath him, and he leaned against the fence of the kraal for support.
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